Avigilon Opens Up Analytics And Cameras

It will be very interesting to see how quickly (or not) other VMSes add support for the Avigilon cameras. I can see a lot of the smaller or emerging VMSes like ISS, Salient, IndigoVision, NxWitness, etc. using this as an opportunity to pair their products with Avigilon cameras. 

The challenge will be convincing Avigilon dealers, who effectively control the camera supply, to consider alternate VMSes. They are likely going to need to drive demand via end users vs. expecting Avigilon dealers to actively promote other software (and you have to admit, Avigilon's VMS is pretty damn good and not overly expensive for what it offers).

This will more likely open new channels for Avigilon hardware with staunch users of the larger VMSes (Milestone, Genetec primarily) who like Avigilons cameras and analytics, but were "forced" to use other products. I imagine this could put a bit of a damper on Hanwha's growth, and probably has Axis a bit restless.

Whatever the outcome, good move by Avigilon to fight against the "closed system" claims competitors often make against them, even if nobody winds up really embracing their cameras.

You can do appearance search with their new analytic appliance that ties in with 3rd party cameras...but the stuff still costs as much as a car. Time to tone down the pricing as I think there’s gonna be a race to the bottom with analytics... ie deep sentinel that is coming out soon should raise question as to how they can do analytics so cheap and supposedly good for around $300 for 3 cameras when companies like avigilon are charging $300+ per single camera...why not just throw up some cheap deep sentinel cams?

“Privilege” of selling avigilon 😂😂😂

they are the next pelco if they don’t figure out how to adapt to the market fully. I wouldn’t even give them the “privilege” of being compared to pelco as pelco was on every street, in every mall.

Good product, yes...but they can kiss my arse if they think Anyone should bend over backwards to sell their product. I personally am not going to lock myself to selling one manufacturer.

why else do you think they’d start “playing nice” with others.

Have they provided a POC for VMS partners to contact?

Good move. Kudos to Motorola!

BTW, we don’t know any hardware vendor who supports ONVIF Profile T, so really great to have now Avigilon!

We are Avigilon dealer and have been an Avigilon dealer for about 6 or 7 years now. We were also a RedCloud access control dealer when Avigilon acquired them. We also sell and service ExacqVision and Hanwha Wave. As a dealer I personally prefer products that are through limited distribution but we provide products that will fit the customers needs. If I walk into a school and they only use macs the Exacq will be the VMS chosen because they have a true Mac client. If a customer is looking for analytics or access control integration or intrusion integration the Avigilon model is competitive because there is no charge for ACC and ACM integration. The ACM and Bosch integration is also cost effective.

If Avigilon plays well with other VMS systems it a smart move on their part especially with the made in North America (Canada) or America. 

I see no benefit of their product offering being offered through ADI or Anixter. This would not be a solution sitting on the shelf that some trunk slammer is going to pick up and sell. 

However they may not be the chosen VMS used but if their cameras are tightly integrated getting some part of the business is better then 0%.

Wave looks very cool, we're going to give it a try.  I've always liked the look of NX Witness VMS, but disliked the name "Digital Watchdog".  Almost as bad as HIKvision!  

Also, my two cents on Avigilon : I wish IPVM wouldn't spend so much time covering Avigilon when only the top 1% of the population (the super rich and exclusive dealers) can use it.  It's like having a car blog but devoting 30% of the coverage to Maserati.

Can these camera running analytics send an email based on the analytics?  

So from a intrusion detection, someone walks in from of the camera and the camera sends a snapshot via email?

In my opinion Motorola was the one that made this big push, mainly because Motorola has a strong relationship with Genetec and by opening up their cameras they can lead with Avigilon cameras on projects in NYC and Chicago where the municipalities are loyal to Genetec Software but have no real camera preference.

For the record I am a relatively small business and I am an Avigilon dealer and I know of 2 other relatively small business owners in the NY metro area that are Avigilon dealers as well.

I use Avigilon cameras with ACC as well as with SecurOS and Video Insight and they perform equally great on all of them with some minor differences mainly the lack of HDSM support on 3rd party vms's I am hoping this will change as well.

Kudos to Avigilon for opening up their analytics.

Having one of the best analytics on the market, this could be a very good thing for people using Genetec, Milestone or any other higher end VMS's.  Let's hope this happens sooner then later.

Avigilon sent out a newsletter today announcing the Pro series cameras are now Profile S conformant (and Multisensor/fisheye models are Profile T).

This is confirmed on the ONVIF conformant product list: