SIMPLE, PRACTICAL TECHNOLOGY

Hand-sized covert cameras are easily installed to cover strategic areas of interest (e.g., the front entrance, the back entrance, the outhouse, the safety deposit box, the server room, the supply room).  As they look like any alarm sensor, they don’t draw attention.

When there is movement in the areas of interest, recording is activated and the high-quality video clips are automatically sent to the remote video server of your service provider (alarm monitoring station), where they are stored.  You can access them over the Internet, anywhere, anytime.

Every time recording has been activated, you are automatically sent an alert by E-mail/SMS with image attachment, so that you can keep up with events at your premises whenever you would like.

You don’t need to know anything about cameras, digital video recorders, special lenses, or how to retrieve the recorded images.  There is no need to acquire special software or large storage capacities.  You don’t need to bother with maintenance of equipment.  You need to know just one thing: how to use the Internet.

THE OVS SYSTEM

During regular hours, you can use OVS for managing your premises.  You can access your video clilps to see: Who is at your front entrance?  Did your child come home from school on time?  Who is entering the server room?  Did the babysitter make sure that your child wore a helmet when riding on the bicycle?

After office hours or when you’re not at home, and your alarm system is switched on, you can use OVS for verification of alarms.   If there is movement in the area of interest, you are immediately informed by E-mail/SMS with image attachment, and you can see what is happening and take the necessary action.

At the same time, your alarm monitoring station is automatically alerted and they can immediately verify your alarm and send a response team and/or alert the police.  This is significant because in most states police do not respond to intruder alarms before they have been verified, and video verification is the most reliable form of alarm verification, not to mention that it is instantaneous, and precious time is not wasted.  And last but not least -- your false alarm fines will be significantly reduced.

At any time, the OVS system can be used to carry out virtual guard tours of your premises, either by you or by your alarm monitoring station.  Do you want to check up on your premises from time to time?  Do you want your monitoring station to check up on you once an hour?

Because the cameras onsite are hidden in standard sensor casing, they are not recognizable and therefore they will neither be susceptible to tampering by anyone infiltrating the system, nor will they be destroyed by anyone who doesn’t want to leave evidence.

The video clips offsite are secure and tamperproof as they are automatically stored at the secured premises of the service provider (alarm monitoring station) and can only be accessed by password.

The OVS system utilizes technology that has won awards from prestigious security bodies including SIA -- Security Industry of America -- for excellence and innovation: Video Domain’s dual-technology detection, combining Video Motion Detection and Passive InfraRed for maximum efficiency, meets the strict criteria for Government agencies, and is a favorite with law enforcement agencies in the U.S.A. and the U.K.

All the features mentioned above seem so obvious, but in fact they mark a breakthrough in the field of remote security management, that until now was unavailable within one system, if at all. 

• Until now there was no system that combined digital video recording with video alarm verification and virtual guard tours, with automatic distribution of recorded images.
• Until now there was no system that requires so little involvement in the daily use and maintenance of the technology.
• Until now there was no system that is matched up with the cost of the alarm system on an affordable monthly basis.
• Until now there was no system that was so impervious to security breaches.
• Until now there was no system that gave the user as much flexibility to suit the system to fit individual needs.
• Until now there was no system that was so affordable.

Here are a few success stories of how the breakthrough in remote security management helps to secure secure small to medium businesses and residences.

 

CASE STUDY NO. 1 KEEPING A VALUABLE COLLECTION SAFE     S, a businessman, lives in a farmhouse in the country.  He collects rifles, both antique and contemporary, and he keeps his collection in a special room in his basement.  He needs to travel often on business trips, and he wanted a surveillance system whereby he could remotely see who enters and exits the room, without having to look through hours of video footage.  OVS has been a great solution for him.  A camera was installed covering the entrance to the room, among other places.  Whenever someone enters and exits the room, he automatically receives an e-mail, with attached images.  In this way he can keep an eye on his valuable and potentially lethal collection, no matter where he is.

CASE STUDY NO. 2 FIGHTING FALSE ALARMS     A owns a wholesale appliances business.  He had a service contract with an alarm monitoring station but he was plagued by a large number of false alarms which not only translated into fines, but also disturbed nights when he had to get up in the middle of the night and rush to his business, only to find out that it was all for nothing.  Then his alarm monitoring station offered him the OVS system. By installing an OVS system he has killed two birds with one stone: A is able to use it for security as well as for management purposes: ·On a day that he needed to be away from the office, he saw that one of the workers was smuggling some items out of the back door.  He demanded that the worker return the items, and fired him. ·There are no more false alarms.  When there is an alarm, the monitoring station immediately verifies it by checking the recorded images.

CASE STUDY NO. 3 MONITORING HOME REMOTELY     When R was offered an OVS system by her alarm monitoring station for a small additional monthly fee, she was eager to install the system at home, so that she could manage her home from work without the need to spend hours watching video footage.  She basically wanted to know when her children came home from school, and who came with them.  A  camera covering the front door was installed in her home.  She receives an SMS message as well as an e-mail with image attachments as soon as anyone enters.  In this way, she is able to see what time her children come home after school, that they don’t bring too many friends at once (as they have been instructed), and even that they are suitably dressed. When R needs to go out at night, she arms the alarm system so that images of front-door “events” can be automatically sent to her alarm monitoring station, simultaneously with her receiving SMS messages.  R feels far more in control of her children and her home, even though she’s away at work every day.

CASE STUDY NO. 4  COMBATING ESPIONAGE     Y is  the IP-computer manager for a high-tech manufacturing company.  He installed all the necessary software security devices, but was still concerned about the possibility of physical espionage/sabotage. Y’s company installed an OVS system, with one of the cameras facing the Server Room, and he is now able to verify that only authorized personnel enter the server room -- it only takes him a few minutes to check over the Internet every evening, from his home.  (Because recording is activated only when there is activity, there aren’t too many recorded images.)

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