PSI PRODUCT REVIEW 2018 Milestone Milestone Systems XProtect®: Creating an intelligent world with video Milestone’s new XProtect products for small and medium sized enterprises allow installers to deliver tailor-made solutions, thanks to the flexibility of open platform solutions. Users meanwhile, gain all the benefits of third-party, add-on solutions and high-end features – with the security of a seamless upgrade path as and when their video requirement grows 2017 saw the global industry leader in open platform IP video management software, Milestone Systems, release XProtect Essential+ alongside its Express+ and Professional+ offerings. Between them, these products cover all installations from those with only a handful of cameras, to multi-site installations with thousands of cameras. Uniquely, Essential+ is a free ‘entry’ product into the company’s portfolio, and provides a simple route into Milestone’s XProtect platform. “XProtect Essential+ is a game changer for our open platform community, as it allows anyone to gain the benefits of powerful, add-on solutions from our partners,” says Neil Killick, Country Manager for UK and Ireland, Milestone Systems. Tailor-made standard solutions It may sound contradictory, but XProtect’s easyto-use programming facilities allows installers or advanced users to adapt the software to fit a wide assortment of needs, thus providing tailor-made solutions with standard software. For example, these could include automatically changing the recording rate and camera behaviour according to alarms, so certain cameras can provide better evidence when incidents occur. All these products support hardware acceleration, where system performance is boosted with the addition of a dedicated graphics card that handles the ‘heavy lifting’ in decoding video, leaving room for the system to handle other tasks. By passing decoding to the graphics card in this way, systems can save up to 80% in processing power, with lower energy usage as a result. Wide compatibility Thanks to bi-monthly updates, Milestone software supports more than 6,000 certified devices, allowing installers to freely pick and mix the perfect camera models and brands according to their customers’ needs. Naturally, all the new products are fully supported by XProtect Smart Client, XProtect Web Client and Milestone Mobile, so users have multiple means of accessing their system. Start the right way with a free download It is easy to experience all the benefits of true open platform software, simply by downloading XProtect Essential+ from www.milestonesys.com/support. What’s more, XProtect Essential+ can easily be upgraded to XProtect Express+ or other advanced XProtect products if the need arises for extra functionality for interconnecting systems, encrypting video recordings or simply more advanced features. The benefits of a truly open platform For developers, free access to XProtect is an invitation to develop new and innovative video solutions, and provides an opportunity to push video into whole new business areas. By including the Milestone open platform programming environment in its free Essential+ product, Milestone is handing over the keys to future innovation to developers. All the tools needed to get started XProtect Essential+ and the SDK can be downloaded at no cost from the Milestone website. Documentation, eLearning courses, and an online developer forum are just some of the resources which Milestone also makes available to developers. XProtect VMS products are built on Microsoft and other industry standards, so any Microsoft-certified developer can start developing value-adding business video solutions right away. It is easy to imagine installers drifting easily into development, given the ease of development made possible by Milestone. Promoting your solutions Milestone also offers marketing support for developers through its online Milestone Solution Finder, which showcases integrations to a global audience. The Milestone alliance partner team also provides certification of solutions with testing and full documentation. “Developing tomorrow’s add-on solutions for this rapidly growing business segment is simple: Install Essential+, get our Software Development Kit for free, and add cameras. What could be easier!” Neil Killick, Country Manager for UK and Ireland, Milestone Systems. 14 www.psimagazine.co.uk
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