Add-on products

Milestone has developed add-on products that fully integrate with XProtect to give you extra functionality. Access to add-on products are controlled by your software license code (SLC).

XProtect Smart Wall (explained)

XProtect Smart Wall is an advanced add-on tool that enables organizations to create video walls that meet their specific security demands. XProtect Smart Wall provides an overview of all the video data in the XProtectVMSShort for "Video Management Software". system and supports any amount or combination of monitors.

XProtect Smart Wall allows operators to view static video walls as defined by their system administrator with a fixed set of cameras and monitor layout. However, the video wall is also operator-driven in the sense that operators can control what is being displayed. This includes:

Pushing cameras and other types of content to the video wall, for example images, text, alarms, and smart map
Sending entire views to the monitors
In the course of certain events, applying alternate presetsA predefined layout for one or more Smart Wall monitors in XProtect Smart Client. Presets determine which cameras are displayed, and how content is structured on each monitor on the video wall.

Finally, display changes can be controlled by rules that automatically change the presets based on specific events or time schedules.

XProtect Incident Manager (explained)

XProtect Incident Manager is a Milestone add-on that enables organizations to document incidents and combine them with sequence evidence (video and, potentially, audio) from their XProtect VMS.

Users of XProtect Incident Manager can save all the incident information in incident projects. From the incident projects, they can track the status and activities of each incident. In this way, the users can manage incidents effectively and easily share strong incident evidence, both internally with colleagues and externally with authorities.

XProtect Incident Manager helps organizations gain an overview and understanding of the incidents happening in the areas they survey. This knowledge enables the organizations to implement steps to minimize the chance that similar incidents happen in the future.

In XProtect Management Client, the administrators of an organization’s XProtect VMS can define the available incident properties in XProtect Incident Manager to the organizations’ needs. The operators of XProtect Smart Client start, save, and manage incident projects and add various information to the incident projects. This includes free text, incident properties that the administrators have defined, and sequences from the XProtect VMS. For full traceability, the XProtect VMS logs when administrators define and edit incident properties and when operators create and update the incident projects.

The XProtect Incident Manager add-on is compatible with XProtect Corporate version 2022 R2 and later and with XProtect Smart Client version 2022 R2 and later.

See also the manual for XProtect Incident Manager (https://doc.milestonesys.com/2022r2/en-US/portal/portal/htm/chapter-page-incman.htm).

XProtect Access (explained)

You can use XProtect Access with access control systems from vendors where a vendor-specific plug-in for XProtect Access exists.

XProtect Access integrates events from one or more access control systems with the features of the XProtect video management software. The incidents from an access control system generates events in the XProtect system.

On the Live tab, you can monitor access control events in real time from the cameras associated with a door. In setup mode, you can customize your Access monitor view items with overlay buttons. In a map view item you can drag access control units onto the map
On the Access control tab, you can view and investigate events, door states, or cardholders. You can search or filter on events and review any related footage. You can create a report of the events for exporting
When a person requests access and if your system is configured for it, a separate notification pops up with a list of related information next to the camera feed. You can trigger access control commands, such as locking and unlocking of doors. Available commands depend on your system configuration

XProtect LPR (explained)

On the LPR tab, you can investigate LPRShort for "license plate recognition". events from all your LPR cameras and view the associated video recordings and license plate recognition data. Keep match lists updated and create reports.

The tab includes an LPR event list and an LPR camera preview. In the preview, you can view video associated with LPR event details. Below the preview, information about the license plate appears together with details from the match list and the license plate style that it is associated with.

You can filter the event list according to the period, country module, LPR camera, match list, or license plate style. Use the Search registration number field to search for a particular license plate registration number. By default, this list shows LPR events from the last hour. See also LPR event list (explained).

You can specify and export a report of relevant events as PDF.

You can make updates to the existing match lists by using the Match List function.

XProtect Transact (explained)

XProtect Transact is an add-on to Milestone's IP video surveillance solutions that lets you observe ongoing transactions and investigating transactions in the past. The transactions are linked with the digital surveillance video monitoring the transactions, for example to help you prove fraud or provide evidence against a perpetrator. There is a 1-to-1 relationship between the transaction lines and video images.

The transaction data may originate from different types of transaction sources, typically point of sales (PoS) systems or automated teller machines (ATM). When selecting a transaction line, a video still frame from each of the associated cameras is displayed in a preview area that allows you to review the recordings. Below the preview area, the transaction associated with the selected line is displayed as a receipt.