CHeKT Proactive Visual Security Solution Overview

by David Erickson

December 12, 2025

Key Takeaways

Converts Reactive to Proactive Security: CHeKT provides a turnkey method for transforming traditional, reactive video surveillance into a proactive visual security solution, addressing the expense and difficulty of creating client-focused video monitoring systems.
Centralized Solution: The CHeKT Video Control Panel is the core component. It allows AI-based cameras to function as instant alarm detection zones, streamlines networking and alarm reporting, and delivers notifications to a customer mobile app and 24/7 video command centers.
Comprehensive Portal Support: The solution includes two critical cloud portals:
- CHeKT Dealer Portal for integrators to remotely manage all connected devices, AI rules, and customer access without port-forwarding.
- CHeKT Monitoring Portal for central station operators, providing a consistent interface across all camera brands and instant access (under three seconds) to live video, pre/post-alarm events, and tools like audio broadcasts and web relays.
Enhanced Operator Response: The system is designed to provide monitoring agents with clear visual awareness of the alarm cause, full situational awareness across all cameras, and the ability to instantly engage with the customer via an SMS verification feature, ensuring a consistent and accurate response.

CHeKT Proactive Visual Security Solution Overview

For years, security companies have installed alarm systems & surveillance systems in the same location. However, creating a video monitoring solution for the client is often expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to maintain. This post explores how the CHeKT Proactive Visual Security solution changes all that.

CHeKT provides a turnkey method of turning a reactive video surveillance system into a proactive visual security solution. With the CHEKT Video Control Panel, your AI-based cameras become instant alarm detection zones with notifications to a simple-to-use customer mobile app and alarm signals to 24/7 video command centers.

At the heart of the CHeKT Proactive Visual Security solution is the Video Control Panel. It eliminates cumbersome networking and alarm reporting challenges and gives the central station operator a rich proactive video monitoring portal and customers a powerful video security solution.

Features of the CHeKT Video Control Panel

Acts as a Universal Video Communicator for most camera brands.
Creates video notifications and alarms only when armed.
Generates video notifications and alarms from camera analytics, AI servers, analog sensors, or API calls.
Provides customers and alarm monitoring centers with live video and alarm video.
Supports automated and manual live audio broadcasts for mass notification and criminal deterrence.
Allows automated and controllable web relays from the customer app and alarm monitoring center.
Requires No Port-Forwarding.
Expands up to 100+ video channels for remote monitoring.
Offers remote programming and management to ensure a low cost of ownership.
Allows remote access to IP cameras and recorders through the CHeKT dealer portal.
Encrypts video and data transmission to and from the site.
Uses an Alarm communication protocol for communication into any alarm-receiving software platform.
Supervises device connectivity and video stream health.

CHeKT Dealer Portal

The CHeKT Dealer Portal gives security integrators a cloud platform to manage all their connected devices. Integrators can securely manage all IP devices on a connection site through the CHeKT Video Control Panel, without port-forwarding. Furthermore, integrators manage automated actions, AI filtering rules, audio messages, and customer access directly through the CHeKT dealer portal.

CHeKT Monitoring Portal

An alarm monitoring center’s most critical responsibility is a consistent and accurate response to an alarm signal. Therefore, when video monitoring is introduced into the central station, that responsibility can not be negatively impacted. This is where CHeKT’s video alarm communication protocol and the operator’s video monitoring experience surpass other video monitoring solutions.

The CHeKT cloud sends all alarm signals following standard alarm center protocols. This ensures operators maintain standard processing and response practices. However, because CHeKT delivers a video-centric alarm signal, it instantly presents the operator with the CHeKT video monitoring portal. Once the portal opens, the operator gains clear visual awareness of the alarm’s cause and live access to the protected site’s cameras. Ultimately, the CHeKT Monitoring Portal gives operators a consistent video response across all video camera brands and all sites.

Features of the CHeKT Monitoring Portal

Response agents access live video and video alarm events within less than three seconds of processing the alarm.
Agents gain live situational awareness of all cameras from the protected property.
Agents access pre and post-alarm video events of all triggered cameras.
An intuitive Site Map of camera locations guides operators during the response.
Supports automated and on-demand audio broadcasts for mass notification and criminal deterrence.
Allows Web relays for controlling lights, sirens, gates, doors, and more.
Maintains a consistent video monitoring interface for all camera brands across all accounts.
Agents instantly engage the customer with CHeKT’s SMS verification feature.
The system audits all activities on the customer account record.

Conclusion

Transforms to Proactive Security: The CHeKT solution transforms reactive video surveillance into a proactive visual security system, allowing AI-based cameras to function as instant alarm detection zones for 24/7 video command centers.
Eliminates Networking Complexity: The Video Control Panel eliminates cumbersome networking challenges, such as port-forwarding, while ensuring encrypted video and data transmission to and from the site, supporting a low cost of ownership through remote management.
Empowers Monitoring Agents: The CHeKT Monitoring Portal gives alarm center operators instant, consistent access (under three seconds) to live video and pre/post-alarm events, enabling clear visual awareness and the ability to use tools like automated audio broadcasts and web relays for immediate response.
Centralized Management for Integrators: The CHeKT Dealer Portal provides security integrators with a secure cloud platform for managing all connected devices, AI filtering rules, and customer access remotely, streamlining device administration and configuration.

FAQ

Q: What is the main function of the CHeKT Video Control Panel?

A: The CHeKT Video Control Panel’s main function is to transform a reactive video surveillance system into a proactive visual security solution. It allows AI-based cameras to become instant alarm detection zones, handles alarm signals to 24/7 video command centers, and manages notifications to the customer mobile app, all while eliminating cumbersome networking challenges like port-forwarding.

Q: What capabilities does the CHeKT Monitoring Portal provide to a central station operator?

A: The CHeKT Monitoring Portal provides operators with:

Access to live video and video alarm events within less than three seconds.
Live situational awareness of all cameras on the protected property.
Access to pre and post-alarm video events.
Automated and on-demand audio broadcasts for criminal deterrence.
Web relays for controlling site hardware (lights, sirens, gates, etc.).

Q: What is the primary benefit of the CHeKT Dealer Portal for security integrators?

A: The primary benefit of the CHeKT Dealer Portal is that it gives security integrators a cloud platform for securely managing all their connected devices remotely. This includes managing automated actions, AI filtering rules, audio messages, and customer access, all without requiring port-forwarding on the customer’s network.

David Erickson

Vice President of Operations and Innovation – Problem solver, operator, and technology leader with deep experience building and scaling B2B platforms in the security and video monitoring industry. As VP of Operations and one of the inventors behind the CHeKT Proactive Visual Security Platform, has helped lead the company from early stage growth to multi million dollar revenue, national adoption, and acquisition.