The latest version of Surveillance Station is now out of beta in official release. Read on for details!
The latest version of Surveillance Station is now out of beta in official release. Here are the differences between the beta and final release:
Central Management System (CMS) has been redesigned for large-scale and high level enterprise surveillance projects:
- A Synology NVR can act as a “CMS host,” providing a single entry point to manage your entire surveillance system.
- Multiple Synology NVR can be designated as “Recording servers” to provide recording storage and resources for IP camera installation.
- The camera list can now be quickly filtered by different criteria such as server, camera group, brand, model and more.
- Recordings can now be filtered by server, camera, start time and more.
- Customised CMS access privileges can be assigned to different users and groups.
- Notifications can be managed on the CMS host to provide a CMS level notification centre.
- Camera licenses on all recording servers are centralised on the CMS host to simplify management.
- Logs from recordings servers are centralized on the CMS host to offer easy access and smart filtering.
- Advanced filtering options are now available throughout the CMS user interface, offering a quick and unified search experience.
Tunnelling is now available to stream MPEG4, H264 via RTSP over HTTP.
Digital zoom is now available when live view is paused.
Image quality has been improved when adjusting digital zoom in/out.
Live view performance has been improved.
Notifications can now be sent to VS240HD.
76 new camera models have been added from Axis, ACTi, D-Link, and Edimax, and now supports 1478 camera models in total. Please refer to here for the complete list.
Other minor bug fixes.
And the full press release:
Synology officially release the latest Surveillance Station
More flexibility and interoperability
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom – 23rd May 2013 – Synology UK Ltd today released the latest edition of their surveillance package: Surveillance Station. The Central Management System (CMS) will be deployed to provide scalable and convenient administration for massive projects.
“This version has been released after 50 days of beta period; it has generated a lot of enthusiasm from our users. Almost 20000 downloads have been recorded. This has helped us to fine-tune our Surveillance Station in order to meet our user’s high standards.” declared Vic Hsu, CEO of Synology Inc.
Watching over a building, a mall, a train station etc. requires a tremendous amount of cameras and recording servers. It’s critical for IT managers to have a reliable, scalable and unified point of control for their architecture. CMS has been designed to specifically answer those needs.
Watching live feeds and playback recordings, intelligent video analysis, user’s privileges, cameras settings and licenses, notifications, e-maps: everything is centralised within the CMS host for efficient management. This unified administration brings many benefits. For instance, cameras can be filtered out by different criteria, offering a quick search experience. They can also be moved seamlessly from server to server.
This latest version of Surveillance Station will be compatible with cloud cameras and other IP cameras. Thanks to the newly acquired ONVIF Profile S certification, a broader range of devices can interoperate with Surveillance Station. The Mobotix MxPEG codec, which enables high quality recording while using less computing power, is also now supported. The compatibility list of Surveillance Station has been extended and now includes over 1,400 IP cameras from 58 brands.
Please check http://www.synology.com/surveillance/index.php?lang=uk for more details.
Availability
Surveillance Station is free to download. It is now available in the Package Centre for DiskStation Manager. Supported models are:
- 13-series: DS213j, DS213+, DS413, DS213, DS413j, DS213air, DS2413+, DS1513+, DS713+, RS10613xs+, RS3413xs+
- 12-series: DS712+, DS212, DS212+, DS212j, RS212, RS812, DS1512+, DS1812+, DS3612xs, RS3412xs, RS3412RPxs, DS112j, DS112, DS412+, RS812+, RS812RP+, RS2212+, RS2212RP+, DS112+
- 11-series: RS3411xs, RS3411RPxs, RS2211+, RS2211RP+, RS411, DS3611xs, DS2411+, DS1511+, DS411+II, DS411+, DS411, DS411j, DS411slim, DS211+, DS211, DS211j, DS111
- 10-series: RS810+, RS810RP+, DS1010+, DS410, DS410j, DS710+, DS210+, DS210j, DS110+, DS110j
- 9-series: RS409+, RS409RP+, RS409, DS509+, DS409+, DS409, DS209+II, DS209+, DS209, DS209j, DS109+, DS109, DS409slim
- 8-series: RS408, RS408RP, DS508, DS408
This looks like a nice, comprehensive release so you should check it out if you are running a Synology with Surveillance Station.
