System Design
Honeywell Vindicator® can design CCTV systems to suit virtually any site. Vindicator has access to the most extensive portfolio of CCTV products available, enabling us to design solutions for the most demanding applications while retaining much of a customer’s existing equipment and infrastructure. Our experience ranges from simple installations of eight cameras with a single recorder to IP-digital solutions with hundreds of cameras streaming onto the site LAN. Our expertise also includes advanced assessment technologies such as integrated radar, video analytics, and long range optical and thermal imaging systems.

Embedded Control of CCTV Subsystems
Many CCTV systems today integrate a broad solution for security, surveillance or assessment. Assessment solutions built around Vindicator’s V^{5 Network Security Appliance can be interfaced directly to the CCTV subsystem. The V5 can control the CCTV system directly via serial commands or high-level Internet Protocol. In advanced systems, information such as analytic alarm events can be routed to the V5 server for higher level decision-making and control.}

Broad Device Compatibility - Support for many different CCTV interfaces has been implemented in the V^{5 server. Additional interfaces can be easily added if necessary. Currently supported video devices and manufacturers include: Honeywell, American Dynamics, Bosch, Cohu, Javelin, Kylmar, Vicon, Pelco, Broadware, Vistascape and Flir Systems.}

Advanced Control Capability - Managing a CCTV subsystem via the V^{5 server allows console monitors to be grouped into “banks” on which a customer can establish and enforce assessment policies. A user can reserve some monitors for high priority alarms and set aside others for manual operations. The V5 server allows a user to assign cameras to specific alarm points so that an operator need not worry about which cameras cover which alarm zones.}

Dynamic Prioritization - Each application is unique as it pertains to what assessment views are seen by operators under varying conditions. The V^{5 server implements specific assessment policies based on how the system should react under manual control (e.g., operator dictates proactive view) or automatic control (e.g., alarm point conditions prioritize assessment views). This configuration can be set for each bank of monitors and determines whether views can be manually replaced by the operator. It also controls whether views are replaced automatically and under what conditions. A unique feature of Vindicator-integrated CCTV solutions is using a condition’s priority to determine whether a view is displayed; i.e., the V5 server may be configured to send a camera preset only when the alarm priority is greater than five, or only when the live view of that camera has already been sent to a monitor.}