The connectivity with Barix devices enables communications with an unlimited amount of audio surveillance, intercom and access control points from a central location.
Immix is an open architecture software platform that provides monitoring stations and other centralised security businesses with a single point of control to send, receive and respond to alarm events for their customers.
The IP-based Immix platform and Barix Annuncicom devices offer seamless integration, minimizing cost and simplifying audio communications and supervision, the company says. New or existing Barix devices can be added to the Immix infrastructure without modification.
Immix operators can communicate with Annuncicom-enabled locations at any remote facility with a click of the mouse in response to live queries, intrusions and other critical or non-critical events.
Clear and precise communication
A simple IP connection transports high-quality voice and audio one way or bi-directionally from a microphone to the Barix Annuncicom receiver at either side, allowing for clear, precise communication between locations.
The Annuncicom devices also provide relay and contact closure inputs for access control, allowing Immix operators to facilitate door strikes for permission to enter or exclusion from the monitored location.
Galeco Communications, based in the UK, is an example of a CCTV monitoring centre using the integrated Sureview/Barix solution for centralised remote control and monitoring.
Operators at the monitoring centre use a single Immix GUI to access multiple Annuncicom stations over IP for voice communication and remote access control. Galeco has taken the integration one step further by incorporating video cameras into the same system.
The Immix platform integration ensures that Galeco operators can talk to the same person the camera is focused on over the same IP link.
Single platform
“Galeco has essentially built a video and intercom system based on the Barix Annuncicom solution, and incorporated all that functionality into a single Immix platform,” said Chris Eckersley, director of European sales for Sureview Systems.
“They have taken the Annuncicom, which offers outstanding audio quality, and added video and access control functionality through its various inputs and outputs. They have also added LEDs so that if a visitor comes to a door late at night and is not well-illuminated, Galeco operators can clearly see the individual through the video camera, and speak to them through the Barix intercom technology.”
Craig Evans, director of Sureview Systems, said that customers such as Galeco can sharply reduce system costs based on this model of adding new functionality to an existing Immix software platform – including the specification of audio into an existing video system.
“Many commercially monitored facilities today use some kind of CCTV solution, and Barix offers an ideal way of specifying audio into a video system that doesn’t itself provide audio capabilities,” said Evans.
“There are enormous cost advantages to augmenting your current system without having to replace the current infrastructure. And the combined platform opens new business opportunities for companies that can monitor facilities around the world and control multiple hardware components from a single Immix station.”
