The video surveillance system supports many of the entities in Security Center.
Icon | Entity | Description |
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Archiver (role) | Controls the video units and manages the video archive. | |
Auxiliary Archiver (role) | Supplements the video archive produced by the Archiver. It can archive any camera on the system. | |
Media Router (role) | Manages the routing of all audio and video streams on the network. | |
Media Gateway (role) | Transcodes Security Center video for Genetec™ Mobile and Web Client, and supports the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), which external applications can use to request raw video streams from Security Center. | |
Unit Assistant (role) | Manages system-wide operations on video units. | |
Wearable Camera Manager (role) | Manages manage body-worn camera (BWC) devices in Security Center. | |
Network | Network (with specific streaming capabilities) that the Media Router takes into account while making routing decisions. | |
Server | Server on your network. Used to host the roles needed on your system. | |
Area | Logical grouping of cameras and camera sequences. | |
Analog monitor | Represents a physical analog monitor connected to a video decoder. | |
Body-worn camera | Video recording system that is typically used by law enforcement to record their interactions with the public or gather video evidence at crime scenes. | |
Camera | Single video source on the system. Might support audio. | |
Camera (PTZ enabled) | PTZ camera (dome camera). | |
Camera sequence | Prearranged order for the display of video sequences in a rotating fashion within a single tile in Security Desk. | |
Monitor group | Group of analog monitors sharing common characteristics. | |
Schedule | Date and time range, might support daytime and nighttime. | |
Video unit | IP unit incorporating one or more video encoders. | |
Partition | Group of entities on the system visible only to a group of users. | |
User | Individual who uses Security Center applications. | |
User group | Group of users sharing common characteristics. |