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• Provide user interface on the same software in the context of different security equipment subsystems.
• Configure cause-and-effect connection between different subsystems (video surveillance, FSA, ACS, audio registration, etc.).
• Use network capability of the software.
• Joint marketing promotion of integrated solution by software and hardware manufacturers.

Integration technology:

Technologically integration is a synchronization of information streams between software and FSA/ACS hardware. There are four main information streams between software and FSA/ACS hardware.

• Hardware events.
• Software control.
• Software configuration. Send configuration from Hardware (auto configuration).
• Request-response of current hardware state.

Ways of integration:

1. Low-level protocol. The system developer presented events, reactions and equipment connection commands as the byte set, so the equipment can be directly connected to Intellect.

2. SDK – Software Development Kit. The system developer presented SDK, so the equipment can be directly connected to Intellect.

3. Communication server (Program-driver). The system developer presented own driver (program layer between ITV|AxxonSoft software and hardware in which events, reactions, configuration commands and state request are built in) in order to connect the equipment. Install the third-party software and configure its interaction with Intellect in order to connect the equipment to Intellect. COM-server and OPC-server are examples of such programs.
4. SOFT-SOFT. The system developer enabled using its commands in Intellect and vice versa in order to connect the equipment. Install the full version of third-party software and configure its interaction with Intellect in order to connect the equipment to Intellect. Database synchronization is a way of SOFT-SOFT integration on the level of joint using of one database by two software packages, e.g. to access the event log.

5. Universal protocol integration: OPC, SNMP and BACnet. OPC and BACnet are industry standards. The system developer makes OPS-server and BACnet-server implementation for its devices and sends data over OPC or BACnet protocols. Intellect is the client for such servers and it gets data (events, reactions, configuration commands, etc.). SNMP is a network protocol used to monitor some devices. The list of some hardware connected to Intellect over universal protocols is specified in the Systems connected by universal protocols section.

6. Drivers Pack. An equipment was integrated using one of the above methods via Axxon Drivers Pack. When this method is employed, the Drivers Pack is to be installed together with ACFA-Intellect to work with the equipment.

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