Niles, Illinois – August 30, 2012 – Talk-A-Phone announces integration of the VOIP-500 Series emergency phone with OnSSI’s Ocularis open-architecture, intelligent IP video surveillance platform to provide users immediate camera views of telephone distress calls using the Ocularis platform.
In the event of a distress call, the Talk A Phone VOIP-500 Series emergency phone sends a generic event via standard ASCII output over the network to OnSSI’s Ocularis system. Based on the event, Ocularis can link to a nearby camera or lock a pan-tilt-zoom camera to a preset to view real-time video of the event. An event list also logs the event and allows it to be viewed later, including related archived video.
“Integration of Ocularis with Talk A Phone enables customers to put video ‘eyes’ on emergency calls using the Ocularis platform,” said Gadi Piran, President and Chief Technology Officer of OnSSI. “The open architecture of Ocularis expands IP functionality based on intelligent management of standardized inputs, and our integration with Talk A Phone and similar communication systems demonstrates real benefits to customers.”
“We are very pleased to add OnSSI to our growing list of technology partners”, said Samuel Shanes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Talk-A-Phone Co. “Talk-A-Phone and OnSSI offer complementary products in the same market verticals. This partnership is a natural fit for both companies and will offer tangible benefits to our shared client base.”
Ocularis solutions by OnSSI include video management software and physical security information management (VMS/PSIM) systems for server-based and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to increase security and lower operational costs. During its 10 years in business, OnSSI has been a technology leader with innovations such as fusion, push video, client/video wall, event monitoring and video delivery.
For more information please visit www.talkaphone.com or www.onssi.com.
About Talk-A-Phone Co.
Talk-A-Phone is the industry leader in emergency communications, area of refuge, and mass notification systems, providing the best quality, technology, and support. With over 75 years of experience creating communications solutions, Talk-A-Phone designs attractive, robust, reliable products, focuses on continuous technology advancement and pledges a total commitment to customer and partner success. For more information visit www.talkaphone.com.
About OnSSI
Celebrating 10 years of innovation, OnSSI is creating a new era of video surveillance in which intuitive software is an active partner in the security process at thousands of installations globally, in public safety, government, enterprise, industrial, and educational settings. The company’s flagship Ocularis IP video security and surveillance software platform delivers open architecture, scalability and automation of the security process at reduced operating costs. OnSSI’s Ocularis-X, a winner in the 2012 SIA ‘New Product Showcase,’ provides web and mobile clients access to multiple live and playback HD video streams at full frame rate (30 fps) for superior detection and identification.
