Ocularis Client

We set out to rethink the way surveillance video is accessed, monitored and investigated. The result was the Ocularis Client, providing efficient user access by a unified client across the entire Ocularis platform. The Ocularis Client delivers a completely unique level of user experience and functionality.

Ocularis’ intuitive client interface intelligently reacts to the user’s actions at any given moment, elegantly presenting only the controls and tools indicated by the current mode of operation, enabling enhanced user navigation, and facilitating immediate investigation of events.

While not required, Ocularis is designed to leverage touch-screen technology. Its simplicity and advanced human engineering enable operators to reach proficiency within minutes of training. Touch, drag, slice and send. It’s that easy.

Scalable, linkable maps allow easy navigation to cameras and sites, with no need for camera, monitor or location codes. Simply by dragging its icon to the monitor panel, any camera or camera group in the system can be instantly sent to any local or remote display monitor or video wall (optional). Video sent to any display can be fully controlled remotely by the Ocularis Client operator.

With the Ocularis Client, we have extended the concept of live video monitoring. There is no need to transition to a different operating mode in order to simply review video.
Playback controls, as well as controls for optical (when available) and digital PTZ, will, upon interaction, pop up within any camera view, including carousels. When an incident is identified, it can be pushed directly to a video wall or another user’s Ocularis Client, and further reviewed using a variety of tools.

Ocularis Client’s multiple investigation tools allow even non-experienced operators to immediately identify when key events occurred. Access, review, bookmark and export video of incidents quickly and efficiently. Following is a synopsis of key investigative functionality:

• Scalable Kinetic Timeline

  Clearly indicating zones of detected motion, the timeline can be scaled to any desired time interval and ‘flicked’ to quickly review multiple cameras over an extended period.

• Time Slicing

  Time-interval thumbnails allow drilling down through time to identify the exact moment an event occurred. Archive searches are shortened from hours to seconds, even in high traffic areas where motion detection or video content analytics might not be able to detect events.

• Motion Slicing

  The Motion Slicing tool automatically generates thumbnails of motion detection events, configured by sensitivity and the object’s size and speed.

• Click-Drag Digital PTZ

  Digital PTZ can be applied to live and recorded video in any mode of operation, including carousel viewing and time-slice thumbnails.

• Alerts and Sequences

  Allow access to alerts and video sequences of incidents generated by content analytics, access control, physical security and POS systems.

• Shared Event Handling

  The Ocularis Client enables shared event handling among multiple controllers and locations. All operator locations, from desktop-based to command center, are connected to a common dynamically-updated alerts database. From within the alerts list operators are able to access and investigate video of alerts generated throughout the system, enter event classification and comments, bookmark a segment of video, and export video evidence.

• Bookmarking and Export of Evidence

  Users are able to easily bookmark segments of video through a simple graphical interface, along with event classification, case number, time and location, camera ID and operator comments. Once created, bookmarks can be shared among multiple operators. Bookmarked video can then be exported, including audio, as an AVI with a preamble, including all event details and comments, or as a multiple-camera secure database for court evidence.