3xLOGIC has released VIGIL 13.5, the latest update to its VIGIL Video Management System (VMS), introducing AI Bridge and Face Recognition features.
This upgrade empowers organizations to integrate advanced AI-driven video analytics with their current video infrastructure, eliminating the need to replace existing camera setups.
Designed to enhance operational awareness, automate security processes, and update surveillance without extensive financial outlay, VIGIL 13.5 supports users in optimizing their existing investments.
AI Bridge: Enhancing Legacy Systems with AI
AI Bridge serves as a hardware solution that applies deep learning analytics to video feeds from existing IP cameras. This technology allows standard cameras to provide intelligent detection and generate real-time alerts without necessitating an extensive hardware overhaul. For dealers and integrators, AI Bridge opens the door to integrating AI functionality within current customer installations, reducing the cost barrier to AI adoption and extending the lifespan of existing camera infrastructure.
The AI Bridge is compatible with a range of AI-powered analytics such as person, vehicle, and object detection, perimeter monitoring, loitering detection, and more. These features are particularly beneficial across sectors like retail, education, healthcare, hospitality, and smart cities. For instance, object detection can monitor unusual vehicle activity on school campuses or warehouses, while fall detection ensures timely response in healthcare and residential settings.
Retail, Security, and Operational Applications
In retail environments, the ability to count people can optimize queue management and improve customer service, while monitoring dwell times identifies high-traffic areas within a store.
Intrusion detection secures sensitive areas like back offices and stockrooms. This multifaceted approach provides businesses the tools to enhance both customer experience and security.
Vendor-Neutral Flexibility
VIGIL 13.5 adds Face Recognition, enabling proactive security managementThe vendor-neutral nature of the VIGIL 13.5 platform supports integration within mixed camera setups and central management via the VIGIL Server Management Utility (VSMU).
Customers can merge AI Bridge with 3xLOGIC's Edge-Based Deep Learning cameras for a flexible and comprehensive upgrade path suitable for various environments.
Proactive Security with Face Recognition
VIGIL 13.5 introduces Face Recognition, enabling security teams to shift from passive monitoring to active management. By leveraging edge-based AI processing, this tool allows the creation of secure watchlists, sends alerts for detected persons of interest, facilitates rapid video search, and automates responses based on facial recognition events.
Designed with privacy considerations, face recognition processing occurs locally, maintaining data security while enhancing investigative operations.
Integration and Deployment Options
This update seamlessly integrates with the larger 3xLOGIC ecosystem, incorporating platforms like VIGIL CLOUD, PACOM VIGIL CORE, and SONITROL CORE, and supporting AI analytics capabilities across various deployments, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. AI Bridge is available as a perpetual on-premises license or a VIGIL CLOUD subscription, providing versatile deployment aligned with users' operational needs and budgets.
Mike Poe, 3xLOGIC's Director of Product Management, commented on the release, stating, "AI is helping organizations unlock more value from the infrastructure they already own. Now, with VIGIL 13.5, customers can add powerful AI analytics and facial recognition to existing camera deployments without the cost and disruption of replacing their entire surveillance estate. Whether they're looking to improve security, increase efficiency or begin their AI journey, VIGIL 13.5 provides a practical and scalable path forward."
3xLOGIC, the foremost provider of integrated and intelligent security solutions, has launched VIGIL 13.5, the latest update to its VIGIL Video Management System (VMS).
The new release introduces AI Bridge and Face Recognition, allowing organizations to deploy advanced AI-powered video analytics and security intelligence without replacing existing camera infrastructure.
VIGIL 13.5 has been designed to support users who wish to improve operational awareness, automate security workflows, and modernise surveillance capabilities while maximising their existing investment.
AI Bridge brings AI analytics to legacy ecosystems
AI Bridge is a hardware layer that runs deep learning analytics on video from existing IP cameras. It applies edge-based deep learning analytics to existing IP camera deployments, enabling standard cameras to deliver intelligent detection and real-time alerts without the cost and disruption of a complete hardware refresh.
For dealers and integrators, AI Bridge creates new opportunities to bring AI capabilities into existing customer environments while reducing barriers to adoption. Organizations can extend the life of their current camera infrastructure, accelerate AI adoption, and build a future-ready surveillance strategy without undertaking costly rip-and-replace projects.
AI Bridge supports a broad range of AI-powered analytics, including person, vehicle, object, perimeter and loitering detection, dwell time, people counting, and fall detection. This makes it particularly attractive to retailers, educational institutions, healthcare, hospitality and entertainment, warehouses, and smart city leaders. Object detection, for example, can help operators track unexpected vehicles on an academic campus or warehouse yard.
Fall detection ensures a quick response if a person in a clinic or resident in a care home falls, while entry and exit detection will alert to possible absconding. This ensures individuals remain safe while staff can continue their duties with peace of mind that the system will alert them to any unusual behavior or emergencies.
In retail settings, people-counting can improve wait times and queue management in a store, ensuring a good customer experience. Intrusion detection can secure back offices and stockrooms, and dwell times can tell leaders what areas of a store are most popular.
Vendor-neutral offers greater flexibility
The platform is vendor-neutral, supports mixed camera environments, and can be centrally configured through the VIGIL Server Management Utility (VSMU).
Customers can also combine AI Bridge along with 3xLOGIC's Edge-Based Deep Learning cameras within a single VIGIL deployment, providing a flexible approach to modernisation across hybrid environments.
Supporting proactive security
VIGIL 13.5 also introduces Face Recognition capabilities to the VIGIL platform, helping security teams move beyond passive video monitoring to responsible, proactive awareness. Using edge-based AI processing, the feature allows organizations to create secure local watchlists, receive real-time alerts when persons of interest are detected, rapidly search recorded footage, and automate workflows based on facial recognition events.
Designed with privacy in mind, facial recognition processing takes place at the edge, helping organizations maintain control of sensitive data while improving investigation speed, situational awareness, and employee efficiency.
Part of the wider ecosystem
The latest release integrates seamlessly with the wider 3xLOGIC ecosystem, including VIGIL CLOUD, PACOM VIGIL CORE and SONITROL CORE, inviting users to deploy AI analytics across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. AI Bridge is available as either a perpetual license for on-premise deployment or as a subscription through VIGIL CLOUD, giving customers the flexibility to align deployment with operation and budget requirements.
Mike Poe, Director of Product Management at 3xLOGIC said: "AI is helping organizations unlock more value from the infrastructure they already own. Now, with VIGIL 13.5, customers can add powerful AI analytics and facial recognition to existing camera deployments without the cost and disruption of replacing their entire surveillance estate. Whether they're looking to improve security, increase efficiency or begin their AI journey, VIGIL 13.5 provides a practical and scalable path forward."
