We have spent 3 months testing a new version of Video Management System from our video surveillance technology supplier ACTI in Taipei and we believe to have mastered all its new features over the previous version.  The previous version is 2.3 and the new version is 3.0.0.1.24 as tested.  The new server application has 30MB of footprint and we tested it under Windows 7 Professional 64bit. The Workstation Client requires 89MB minimum storage area.  Web Client for live views does not require anything other than IE9 browser. 

We have installed v2.3 for all projects up to Q4 2012 and we will continue to maintain v2.3 for them.  We will start installing v3.0 for projects acquired from now on.   The new version supports all models of ACTI cameras whereas v2.3 may not support camera models released later than v3.0. 

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Apart from a new graphical user interface which is more efficient and nice to look at (see Slide 1) and being faster in responding to user requests, the new version introduces these new capabilities:

o Display the live views of 64 cameras on one screen obviously with smaller window size for each (see Slide 2 for 16 cameras)

o Play back any one of the cameras that is on live view when prompted by the user (see Slide 3)

o Play back up to 64 cameras simultaneously

o Record with low frame rate for no events and higher frame rate when event is detected as an option to motion detection recording

o Support Microsoft Active Directory® service to provide a more convenient choice for user management

Limitations

o Does not support multicast
o Web client live view is not always stable- version 3.1 will fix this issue

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