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Tough Love for Open-Platform VMS Video management software (VMS) is exactly that — a software that manages a video surveillance system. While this used to mean monitoring the video streams from various cameras, open-platform VMS is gaining momentum, riding on the coattails of the IP revolution and catering to the needs of increasingly complicated and interconnected security systems.
62 Verticalization: VMS Reaches For End Users 68 Mapping VMS Uptake in Different Regions 70 Product Showcase
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Seamless Data Streaming for Effective Security Response 82 Physical security information management (PSIM) software collects sensor data and correlates alarmed events. Aggregating information from a multitude of subsystems and suggesting the best course of action are no easy tasks.
88 PSIM Orchestrates a Coordinated Response
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