VideoXpert Enterprise v 3.1 Software Scalable Video Management and Surveillance Software

Pelco's VideoXpert is a video management solution designed to fit surveillance operations of any size. Whether your operation has 100 cameras or 10,000, VideoXpert presents a solution to display, record, and manage your video resources. But VideoXpert Enterprise is more than a VMS, it is an enterprise video-centric data management solution, designed to bring in data from any source and reference it to other data, to provide predictive capability to every customer.

VideoXpert Enterprise products are available as software distributions that you can install on your own hardware, even existing video management hardware. This allows you to repurpose your own hardware and bring existing systems forward into VideoXpert Enterprise.

VideoXpert servers can be clustered to provide redundancy and scalability within a single environment, enabling the system to grow in tune with your surveillance needs. As you add cameras, users, or recording devices, you can add servers and storage, enabling the system to support the additional resources and perform to your expectations. VideoXpert Enterprise can even aggregate other VideoXpert systems, tying multiple VideoXpert systems into a single interface. Through aggregation, administrators can build and maintain a concerted video management system containing multiple sites.

Designed for Windows platforms, VideoXpert is easy to install, quick to setup, and should be familiar to most users. The system supports unicast and multicast transmission modes, making it easy to adapt to your current network scheme. Simplified interfaces ensure that users can adopt and use the system with relative ease. From the VxToolbox utility, you can configure the system, manage the database of devices, configure users and permissions, and assign cameras to recording devices. Through the Ops Center software, operators gain access to high quality video and powerful investigative tools.

VideoXpert can integrate with physical security systems and other building systems to deliver situational awareness and control. Built around open standards, VideoXpert includes a complete application programing interface (API), software development kits (SDKs), and dedicated technical support, allowing other systems’ manufacturers to develop interfaces leveraging VideoXpert’s capabilities. VideoXpert also supports third-party IP cameras, allowing users to choose across hundreds of camera options from Pelco and third-party partners when configuring a system.

VideoXpert consists of four major components: Core, Media Gateway, VxOpsCenter, and Storage Server. The Core performs central management operations, maintaining the system database, administering user rights and permissions, routing traffic, and other central operations. The Media Gateway handles all requests for video, ensuring that users at all levels of network access, LAN, WAN and even cellular, receive the right type of video for their application. VxOpsCenter Client is the operator console, providing an intuitive, but powerful interface from which users can access and investigate video throughout the system. The Storage Server (VXS) records video and delivers recorded video to users.

Core

The Core is the heart of the VideoXpert system, it maintains the database of cameras and recording devices. The Core works with VxToolbox, from which you can configure and manage the system. Through VxToolbox, you can administer user accounts and permissions, determining the system functions and devices users can access. You can create and assign “tags” to quickly organize cameras and devices within the system. You can also configure and respond to events within the system.

VxPortal provides basic access to video streaming resources, ensuring that users with appropriate permissions can view video from the system even without a hard client, using just a standard web browser.

Media Gateway

The Media Gateway routes video traffic to appropriate users as requested. When a user requests a video stream, the Media Gateway fields the request and determines whether the user possesses the appropriate permissions to view the video stream. If the user can view the stream, the Media Gateway connects the user with the appropriate device — camera, encoder, or recorder as necessary.

Like Core servers, Media Gateways can be added to VideoXpert modularly, allowing a system with 1000 cameras to support 20 users, or a system with 100 cameras to support 200 users. You can add Media Gateways to the system in tune with media delivery needs.

Core/Media Gateway Combination

While you can leverage separate Core and Media Gateway servers for systems of sufficient scale, most systems can easily support a single server acting as a combined Core/Media Gateway for your VideoXpert server. The double-duty Core/Media Gateway server provides the complete range of VideoXpert functionality that you would expect for systems with fewer than 2000 cameras and 100 simultaneous users.

VxOpsCenter

The VxOpsCenter is a Windows-based application, providing an optimal environment from which users can watch live and recorded video. With the support of Enhanced Decoders, the VxOpsCenter supports up to six monitors, each capable of displaying up to 25 video streams simultaneously. Through the VxOpsCenter, users can configure and recall complete workspaces, enabling operators to quickly log in and get to work.

The application provides mechanisms to sort cameras by tags and other criteria, making it easy for users to find the cameras they need. Users can switch between live and recorded video on the fly, ensuring a seamless viewing experience. With appropriate permissions, users can also share workspaces and even use the same tabs simultaneously, enabling collaboration within your surveillance operations.

The VxOpsCenter also provides an Investigation Mode, through which users can create playlists from multiple video clips encompassing important scenes from an investigation. Users can export and encrypt their investigations, storing clips relevant to their investigation independent of the system’s network video storage for evidentiary safe-keeping and quick access. The VxOpsCenter supports modular plugins, exposing additional functionality for operators as required by your surveillance operations. The Mapping plugin enables operators to arrange and find cameras on maps. Through mapping, operators can find the camera providing the view they need, when they need it. Access Control support in VxMaps allows users to view the status of doors in the building, and allows them to control the door locks. The PlateSmart plugin exposes license plate numbers, to track vehicles as they come and go. The eConnect plugin displays realtime gaming information as a video overlay.

Storage

VideoXpert Storage (VXS) is a high-performance software application. Through the use of camera drivers, the VXS can support many camera models from almost all camera vendors. VXS supports warm-standby or hot-standby failover configurations so that it can be configured for high-availability, ensuring that your data is always retained and accessible. To make the most of your available disk space, VXS has a flexible scheduling engine which allows you to extend the retention of data on your system without sacrificing the quality of the video that matters most to you.

VideoXpert Storage natively supports third-party IP cameras via ONVIF S and driver packages, so you can bring your cameras into VideoXpert without expensive translation interfaces. You can configure Storage through VxToolbox, making it easy to set recording schedules and assign cameras to your storage servers. Storage supports motion, alarm, and bump-on-alarm style recording, so you can always capture events relevant to your environment at high quality. Storage also supports redundant recording, ensuring that VideoXpert continues recording video even if a single Storage server falls offline.

System Topology

VideoXpert Enterprise with Aggregation allows for expansion at any level of your security environment. Your system begins with a single server running Core and Media Gateway software. Your system can use dedicated VxOpsCenter Clients to view live and recorded video, or it can use VxPortal, which fully utilizes HTML5 browser technology to deliver a similarly rich experience with no client software required. As your surveillance needs grow, you can add servers to expand modularly within a single environment, or you can aggregate multiple VideoXpert Enterprise systems to provide a single point of access for distributed video management networks.

VideoXpert Accessory Server

You can install the VideoXpert Accessory Server to provide NTP, basic DHCP, active failover, and load balancing services for smaller networks. The Accessory Server offers a native, multipurpose solution to control your time and addressing services from within VideoXpert.

When acting as a load balancer, the Accessory Server bridges multiple Core/Media Gateway (CMG) servers, optimizing performance and providing redundancy for your VideoXpert network. With the Accessory Server, you can easily increase your VideoXpert network’s capacity and ensure the system’s uptime so that users always have access to video.

Advanced Operator Controls

In addition to the standard keyboard and mouse, VxOpsCenter workstations support an Enhanced Keyboard, and Enhanced Mouse, and the KBD5000. The Enhanced keyboard includes programmable keys to which operators can map shortcuts to their favorite tabs and workspaces. The new Enhanced Mouse or your existing KBD5000 are mapped to the full range of VxOpsCenter controls. An operator can perform any and all operations using either control.

Software Licenses, Servers, and Workstation Models

Use the following table to create a model number for your VideoXpert Enterprise software package.Your model number consists of the distribution you want to choose and the model/software product you want to install. For example, an Enterprise Core license is modeled “E1-COR-SW”. For VideoXpert Storage and Aggregation features, you must use camera licenses; each camera utilizing Storage or Aggregation will consume a single license (available in single or 32-count packages).

Note: VxOpsCenter software does not require a license.You can install the software on any workstation meeting the system requirements.

Due to the complexity of network and system design for larger distributions, VideoXpert Aggregation requires either training certification, or that the installation be performed by Pelco Professional Services.While not required for Enterprise distributions, it is strongly recommended that system installers and administrators be Pelco-certified.

VideoXpert Accessory Server

VX-A3-ACC VideoXpert Accessory Server with US, Europe, and United Kingdom power cords

VxOpsCenter Client Optional Accessories

VX-A3-SDD Shared Display Decoder with US, Europe, and United Kingdom power cords

3DX-600-3DMOUSE Enhanced 3D Mouse and Joystick

Y-U0023-G910KBD Enhanced Keyboard

A1-KBD-3D-KIT2 Enhanced Keyboard and 3D Mouse Combination Kit

Enterprise Grade Surveillance Management System that combines multiple threat assessment systems into a single, easy-to-use interface for assessing, investigating, and responding to incidents

Intuitive controls relate to the new or casual user, while more powerful keyboard shortcuts allow the security expert the ability to rapidly navigate through video and other information effortlessly

Enterprise Monitor Wall functionality is built-in, and allows any video to be pushed to any monitor connected to the system, manually or as part of a powerful and easy-to-use Rules Engine UI

Independent scalability and redundancy of each system component ensures VideoXpert Enterprise is always the right size, and always fault tolerant

Delivers the fastest video call ups and smoothest video experience in the market today

Offers beautiful and fast dewarping navigation with Pelco’s Optera® and Evo® cameras

Support for Pelco Camera Link tracking tracks PTZs to panoramic Optera views in an instant

Provides seamless transition from VideoXpertTM Professional

Provides migration paths for Endura® and Digital Sentry® systems

Microsoft® Windows®-based for easy setup and maintenance

VxPortal web based client allows viewing and exporting video without installing any software

VxToolbox provides a simple interface for all configuration, from adding a new camera to the system to managing licenses, configuring the system, and peforming backups

Extensible architecture brings native and third-party information systems into a centralized and interactive user experience for everything from Access control to License Plate Recognition

Organize your cameras and other devices however you want – with a traditional folder device tree, or with tags and tag sets, and seamlessly switch between both for amazingly fast device searches

Supports ONVIF S-compliant cameras and devices

Supports IPv4 and IPv6 cameras

Supports DNS hostnames for ONVIF-compliant cameras and Pelco cameras

Enables and supports Risk Management Framework (RMF)

Use the powerful VxOpsCenter Client to interact with your surveillance system, or check remotely on any computer using the available web browser client

All-new, optional GIS mapping engine provides lightning-fast interaction between global maps, site maps, and different floors within a map, while providing instant access to every camera on the map, alarm information, and much more

Available in software-only distribution, for measured performance or convenient migration of customer-owned hardware

See real-time motion and Pelco camera analytics alarm as an overlay on cameras in real-time, playbacks, and exports; and search recorded video based on alarm type and severity

¹Software-only distributions tested without antivirus software installed.   ²Although server OS is supported, VxOpsCenter is not supported in the server OS.  ³VxS models are designed to be configured remotely through a web UI.

Hardware Requirements

¹For the Enhanced Decoder only, maximum resolution is1920 x 1080 at 60 Hz.

¹Power consumption is based upon maximum capacity.

Note: The temperature at the unit air intake can be significantly higher than room temperature. Temperature is affected by rack configuration, floor layout, air conditioning strategy, and other issues. To prevent performance failure and unit damage, make sure the temperature at the unit is continuously within the operating temperature range.

Hardware Requirements

• Dual Core i5 2.67 GHZ
• 4 GB RAM l 200+ GB of free HDD space or more
• GPU that supports OpenGL 3.0 or higher
• 1024 x 768 or higher screen resolution
• 100/1000 Ethernet Network Interface Card
• Sound Card

 Software Requirements

• Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate 64 bit or higher
• .NET 4.6.1 or higher
• OpenGL 3.0 or higher
• Direct3D 9 or higher

 Security

VideoXpert includes the following security features:

Client authentication

Passwords stored in encrypted format only

Configurable roles and permissions

User action reports

TLS-based encryption over HTTPS

Support running with antivirus

Ability to encrypt exports

Synchronized system clocks using NTP

Incorporates FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules

FISMA/NIST Configuration Guidance – This guide will help organizations documenting the system through their RMF process with information about:

• How to categorize the system
• Which NIST-based security controls are applicable
• How VX implements NIST-based security controls

FISMA/NIST Compliance Testing – VideoXpert is installed on a FISMA representative system with applicable DISA STIGs (Defense Information Systems Agency, Secure Technical Implementation Guidelines) and tested for functionality. Applicable STIGS include:

• Microsoft Windows 10 for VxOpsCenter and VxToolbox
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 for VxCore and VxMedia Gateway
• Microsoft .Net Framework 4
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
• Microsoft Windows Firewall and Advanced Security
• Postgres Database 9.x for VxOpsCenter and VxToolbox

Supported Languages

The VxOpsCenter and VxToolbox interfaces is are available in the following languages:

• Arabic
• Brazilian Portuguese
• German
• French
• Italian
• Korean
• Russian
• Simplified Chinese
• Spanish for Latin America
• Turkish