SpyderGuard™

 

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SpyderGuard™ is our state-of-the-art monitoring, investigative and administrative tool; designed to seamlessly access multiple FSM-IP servers over an enterprise-wide network or the Internet.  SpyderGuard™ provides an unparallel degree of situational awareness offering live on-event and on-demand video feeds, voice annunciation of alarms with a precise location, real-time access to building plans with visual aids of areas and location under alarm conditions. SpyderGuard™ also has an easy search and playback of events stored in video archives for forensic analysis of the events leading up to the fire. Emergency Awareness Each time a fire, smoke and/or motion event is detected by one of the SigniFire IP™ cameras, SpyderGuard™ will automatically switch to the video playback of the event showing real-time footage from the camera with a synthesized voice describing the alarm and location. The situational awareness provided by SpyderGuard™ means that on-site personnel do not have to constantly monitor the video to know when a fire happens and provides them instantly with all the pertinent information to determine the appropriate course of action. Geographic awareness

Timeline awareness It is known that 23% of all non-residential fires are arsons which call for serious forensic investigations of all fire events.  Traditionally, fire investigators recreate the events that led to a fire by  painstakingly collecting the evidence at the scene.   SpyderGuard™ can speed up this process from weeks to a few hours by simply reviewing all video recordings prior to the event.  Depending on the size of storage used, SpyderGuard™ will let the investigators see events hours, days and even weeks before the event.

Security - peace of mind SpyderGuard™ is the ultimate tool that combines two aspects of the safety: physical security and early warning fire and smoke detection.  This convergence creates added value of expanding the functionality of a video security system to protect the assets from accidental as well as intentional fires. Requires Window XP/Vista operating system workstation.

SigniFire IP™ combines the enhanced resolution and picture clarity of a standard network camera with built-in fire, smoke and motion detector capabilities.  It operates autonomously by utilizing a powerful Texas Instruments DSP media processor running axonX’s proprietary software. The detection events are instantly reported to the Digital Video Management (DVM) system over a standard network connection and/or communicated to a Fire Alarm Control Panel through a configurable dry contact relay mounted onto the backplane of the camera. 

Algorithms Sensitivity Levels

Each detection algorithm runs independently on the camera. This allows the end user to adjust the sensitivity settings (low, medium, high, and ultra (smoke only) or turn off an algorithm altogether.  The built in flexibility allows the customer a wide range of options in setting up a SigniFire™ system to meet their needs.

Detection /Exclusion Zones

Each SigniFire IP™ camera can be configured with multiple detection and/or exclusion zones within the field of view.  These zones are the areas in the picture set up to either detect specific events (fire, smoke and motion) within the zone, or detect events everywhere except the zone.  The activation of each zone can be also linked to a time schedules so the zone will be active only at certain times.  For example the motion detection zone in the hallway can be active only at night or on the weekends.  Similarly, if the area is known for steam release occurring at certain periods of time, smoke detection exclusion zone can be defined and linked to a schedule when such release is expected to avoid nuisance. 

The zones, combined with algorithm sensitivities allow the end-user endless configuration options to match their requirements and provide optimal system performance.

Network-Friendly

SigniFire IP™ communicates with the outside world by using HTTP protocol and supports variable frame rate mode for bandwidth conservation.  Video is streamed in open standard MJPEG format so no proprietary codec is required by the client software.  A web server is built-in in every SigniFire IP™ camera to allow easy configuration using any type of popular browser.

Fire Control Panel interface

SigniFire IP™ camera can connect directly to a Fire Alarm Control Panel as a regular smoke and fire detector via three built-in dry-contact relays mounted on the backplane of each camera.  These relays are configurable to signal alarms such as flames, smoke, motion and fault conditions which include no picture, camera out of focus, lo-light situations.  The dry contacts can also be programmed by the end-user to include a delay of the relay closure on specific events to allow video verification before the Panel is notified. This delay can help to eliminate or reduce the possibility of nuisance alarms.

FSM-IP NVR

FSM-IP is our Network Video Recorder with video management software designed to support SigniFire IP™ cameras.  Each FSM-IP can support up to 32 SigniFire IP™ network cameras and provides the following functions:

• Constantly records video streams from the cameras onto internal hard disk

• Monitors up to 32 video cameras

• Up to 5 terabytes of circular storage space (60 days for 32 channels)

• Automatically recycles storage

• Provides a video relay function for monitoring stations to view live videos

• Maintains an event log for all the alarms conditions

• Dispatches the alarms and videos to remote guards

• Provides on-demand playback of stored videos

• Provides a network management interface for configuration and maintenance

FSM-IP is designed with scalability in mind, multiple servers can be configured to handle a large number of cameras.  This provides the ability to build an enterprise-level surveillance system that can be monitored and configured from one single workstation.