Release notes: Sagitech VMS 2.2

We are pleased to present the new version of Sagitech VMS 2.2. We have added new analytics modules and an updated, highly optimized Web interface. Our system has become more reliable, stable, functional, and user-friendly. A significant part of the changes has been implemented taking your feedback into account.

Major changes:

• Updated set of user permissions and updated permission editing.
• Ability to configure access rights to: the alarm log, alarm monitor, archive search, interactive maps, synchronous archive playback, screenshot export, and modules.
• Ability to edit camera settings without administrator rights.
• Ability to limit the maximum archive playback speed for a user.
• Ability to restrict a user’s connection to the system by the mobile/Web client identifier.
• Updated, highly optimized Web interface.
• A unique capability to play video on the Web in H.264 format, significantly reducing the load on the server and the communication channel.
• Improved playback smoothness and image clarity.
• Display of extended event descriptions and highlighting of objects in the frame.
• Video export with audio.
• Automatic configuration backups to the distributed archive, helping protect against data loss and accidental changes.
• New analytics modules.
• New neural-network fire and smoke detection module with increased detection speed and accuracy.
• New neural-network people counting module with improved counting accuracy.
• New QR/Bar code detection module.
• Updated personal protective equipment detection module: improved object detection and tracking accuracy, and more flexible configuration.
• Updated POS transaction monitoring module: expanded output in scenarios, updated text overlay on the video stream, bug fixes.
• Updated archive timeline: display of camera names, preservation of on-screen position when zooming in and out, and scrubbing capability.
• Ability to flexibly configure Onvif, Hikvision, and 360+1 camera parameters from the program interface.
• New HTTP API functions: event generation by third-party systems, ability to download video archive in the original format, face search by photo sample, and event upload from the archive.
• Updated and improved scenario actions.
• New action: “Play audio file”.
• Upload file to FTP: automatic directory creation added, support for scenario variables.
• Ability to send an image with the highlighted object and control zone for a number of actions (sending a message to Telegram, sending by email, saving a file to FTP, saving a file to a directory).
• Ability to attach frames from multiple cameras when sending a message to Telegram.
• Setting the %FrameFilePath% variable when saving a frame to FTP.

Minor changes:

• Server performance optimization.
• Integration of new equipment: BAS-IP, Dahua, Satvision, Geovision, Hikvision, 360+1, ESVI, Sigrand.
• Ability to display profile names in monitoring mode.
• Support for displaying a large number of viewing profiles.
• Event log: ability to export to Excel with an attached image.
• Camera search: display of extended information announced by cameras.
• Updated Linux build: increased performance, improved Onvif integration, AAC support.
• Ability to monitor cameras for light filter errors.
• Improved time synchronization during synchronous archive playback of multiple cameras.
• RTSP server: ability to connect without authorization.
• RTSP server: improved protection against password brute-force attempts.
• Ability to hide disabled cameras in camera/cameras selection windows.
• Display of the number of cameras and license data in the server information in the “Configuration” section.
• HTTPS: automatically remove extra certificate fingerprint characters (solution to the problem of searching for the installed certificate).
• Use of maximum quality when exporting the current frame through scenarios.
• When saving the current frame through a scenario action, use the frame from the secondary stream if the frame from the primary stream is unavailable.
• Analytics: automatic switching to another stream during analysis if the selected stream is unavailable.
• Optimized frame caching for the alarm log and license plate and face recognition modules.
• Extended logging in debug mode.
• Improved tracking algorithm for the neural-network object detection module.
• Ability to increase the number of license plates displayed in real time.
• Optimization of data loading speed from Active Directory, elimination of errors and limitations on the number of records during search.
• Ability to scroll the list of profiles in monitoring mode with the mouse wheel.

Fixes:

• Error when editing shared viewing profiles from a secondary server.
• Incorrect binding of frame time to the vehicle license plate recognition result.
• Face recognition module: charts are not generated in the “Recognition and Analytics” mode.
• Focus and iris control buttons do not work in the client.
• Bug: sometimes a continuous camera video stream is split into blocks when displayed in the archive.
• NullReferenceException when connecting an external audio source from a file to a camera.
• Connection error from versions below 1.9.8.
• Neural-network object detection module: when the module is enabled by a flag without editing settings, the default zone is not created and the module does not generate events.
• Rare error accessing a destroyed object during archive playback with a small recording depth.
• The zoomed image cannot be scrolled in an archive cell opened in “Monitoring” mode.
• RTSP: camera connection errors under Turkish localization.
• Scenarios attempt to use previously deleted groups of license plate and face recognition modules, which prevents correct triggering.
• Memory leak in the alarm log when there is a large number of events.
• Event search: slow client-server interaction speed, resources are not always released.
• The number of frames per second is calculated incorrectly when the connection is unstable.
• Camera/disk disable flags do not work in the configurator.
• Error when trying to select a model in the camera set editing window.
• Periodic ArgumentOutOfRangeException errors in the interface of face and license plate recognition modules.
• RTSP server: for some clients the session may time out.
• RTSP server: automatically terminate sessions on timeout or when an incorrect URL is requested.