Dallmeier has expanded the functionality of its Hemisphere® Enterprise VMS by integrating barox switch-monitoring, a move that highlights the strong technical partnership between the two companies.
This integration, initially proposed by Dallmeier’s CEO, Thomas Dallmeier, allows the inclusion of barox's industrial PoE video switches and media converters into the Hemisphere platform’s Event and Alarm Inbox, or for smaller applications, within the SeMSy® Event Manager.
Users can also access barox DMS directly through a web browser within the Hemisphere system.
Integration and Control Platform
The Hemisphere platform, deployed worldwide, has proven effective for various applications, including in sectors such as casinos, airports, logistics sites, and sports stadiums.
"Ultimately, we can integrate anything, and we aim to provide a flexible and open integration approach for our customers," says Kai Gronauer, Dallmeier Alliance Manager. The integration offers a unified platform combining the quality of Dallmeier and barox products, benefiting integrators and end-users alike.
Features and Benefits
barox switches improve operations with real-time network status updatesThe integration of barox Ethernet switches enhances system operations and diagnostics, providing live status updates across the network. Known for its superior diagnostic data, barox allows for precise identification of issues via a graphical chart, enabling remote diagnostics of faults or outages.
With the automatic reboot capability, barox switches can revive unresponsive network cameras without requiring engineer intervention. In security breaches, devices can be disabled at the user level, maintaining operational integrity while allowing full remote control of PoE ports.
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"We are delighted that the integration of the Hemisphere® Enterprise VMS and barox switches is now available from Dallmeier," states Rudolf Rohr, Co-founder and Managing Partner of barox. This partnership offers Hemisphere operators unrivaled control over barox Ethernet switches, significantly enhancing professional video security systems.
Thomas Dallmeier adds that the integration reflects the longstanding collaboration between Dallmeier and barox, meeting the evolving needs of the Enterprise security sector by intelligently connecting data with video images and processes.
Underlining the deep technical partnership between barox and Dallmeier, Dallmeier has developed a barox switch-monitoring for its Hemisphere® Enterprise VMS open software platform.
Integration
With the idea being initiated by Dallmeier’s CEO, Thomas Dallmeier, the new development enables the barox range of industrial PoE video switches and media converter products to be integrated and displayed on Hemisphere®’s Event and Alarm Inbox, or for smaller applications, in the SeMSy® Event Manager. A direct access via web browser within Hemisphere to the barox DMS is also available.
The Hemisphere control platform is installed in locations across the world and is proven to be the ideal choice for small to medium (SME) and large scale enterprise class applications, such as within casinos, airports, logistics sites and sports stadiums, to name but a few.
Integrated control platform
“Ultimately, we can integrate anything, and we aim to provide a flexible and open integration approach for our customers,” says Kai Gronauer, Dallmeier Alliance Manager. “With the new barox functionalities, we’re offering integrators and end-user customers, a route to combining the high quality product performance of the Dallmeier and barox brands within one, seamlessly integrated control platform."
“Another advantage of the new integration is that barox match their product quality and performance with a high-level of technical support. Our experience is that if we have an issue to solve, barox are always readily available and respond very quickly with a practical solution.”
Features and benefits
An invaluable system operations and diagnostics tool, the barox Ethernet switch integration provides Hemisphere® users with live status updates of the customers entire network and connected devices. One of the many reasons why barox Ethernet switches are fast becoming the integration solution of choice is their enhanced diagnostic data, showing the status of cameras and switches on a graphical chart – this enables the fast pinpointing of network or device issues, where faults or outages can be diagnosed remotely.
Saving on invaluable device downtime, if a network camera fails to respond, barox switches can be used to autonomously send a re-boot command. In many cases, this functionality can bring a device back online to resolve the issue without the need for engineer involvement. In the case of a security breach, devices can be disabled at user level to maintain system operation, while full remote control of PoE on ports allows users to re-set or switch them off if required.
This advanced capability stands barox apart from other network equipment manufacturers and has proven to be an invaluable asset and quite literally, ‘game-changing’ in the management of high security video surveillance networks.
The new barox solution is joining a family of Hemisphere® in-depth integration and control options that enable the control of IP surveillance cameras, casino dealing shoes, intrusion detection, fire detection, access control and Point-of-sale systems via the Hemisphere® software platform.
Expert insights
"We are delighted that the integration of the Hemisphere® Enterprise VMS open software platform and barox switches is now available from Dallmeier," says Rudolf Rohr, Co-founder and Managing Partner of barox. "This integration allows Hemisphere® operators the ultimate user control of our Ethernet switches directly from the VMS. The advanced switch functionality of barox provides significant added value for operators of professional video security systems."
Dallmeier’s CEO, Thomas Dallmeier added: "The integration of barox networking products to the Hemisphere® Enterprise VMS open software platform underlines the long-standing technical collaboration between Dallmeier and barox. This cooperation aligns with the growing demands of the Enterprise class security sector and the goals of Dallmeier users, intelligently linking data from various sources with video images and processes.”
