Introduction

For years security companies have installed alarm systems & surveillance systems in the same location, but creating a video monitoring solution for the client has been expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to maintain. CHeKT has created a turnkey method of turning a reactive video surveillance system into a proactive video 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.  The Video Control Panel 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

• Universal Video Communicator for most camera brands.
• Only creates video notifications and alarms when armed.
• Create 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.
• Automated and controllable web relays from the customer app and alarm monitoring center.
• No Port-Forwarding is required.
• Expandable up to 100+ video channels for remote monitoring.
• Remote programming and management to ensure a low cost of ownership.
• Remotely access IP cameras and recorders through the CHeKT dealer portal.
• Encrypted video and data transmission to and from the site.
• Alarm communication protocol for communication into any alarm-receiving software platform.
• Supervised device connectivity and video stream health.

The CHeKT Dealer Portal gives security integrators a cloud platform for managing all their connected devices. All IP devices on a connection site can be securely managed through the CHeKT Video Control Panel, without port-forwarding.  Additionally, managing automated actions, AI filtering rules, audio messages, and customer access is done through the CHeKT dealer portal.

An alarm monitoring center’s most critical responsibility is a consistent and accurate response to an alarm signal. And 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 separate from other video monitoring solutions. All alarm signals sent from the CHeKT cloud follow standard alarm center protocols, ensuring that standard processing and response practices do not change for trained operators.  However, because CHeKT is delivering a video-centric alarm signal, the operator is instantly presented with the CHeKT video monitoring portal.  Once presented the operator has clear visual awareness of what caused the alarm and live access to the cameras on the protected site. The CHeKT video monitoring portal gives operators a consistent video response across all video camera brands and all sites.

Features of the CHeKT Monitoring Portal

• Response agents have access to live video and video alarm events within less than three seconds of processing the alarm.
• Agents have live situational awareness of all cameras from the protected property.
• Agents have access to pre and post-alarm video events of all triggered cameras.
• An intuitive Site Map of camera locations is available to operators during the response.
• Automated and on-demand audio broadcasts for mass notification and criminal deterrence.
• Web relays for controlling lights, sirens, gates, doors, and more.
• Consistent video monitoring interface for all camera brands across all accounts.
• Agents can instantly engage the customer with CHeKT’s SMS verification feature.
• All activities are audited on the customer account record.