3xLOGIC, a provider of integrated security solutions, has announced the launch of VIGIL 13.5, an updated version of its VIGIL Video Management System (VMS).
This new release includes the introduction of AI Bridge and Face Recognition technology, enabling advanced AI-powered video analytics and security features without the need to replace existing camera systems.
Aimed at improving operational awareness and automating security processes, VIGIL 13.5 seeks to modernise surveillance capabilities while leveraging current investments in camera infrastructure.
AI Bridge enhances legacy systems
AI Bridge is a hardware innovation that equips existing IP cameras with deep-learning analytics. By applying edge-based intelligence to pre-existing camera systems, it allows these standard devices to offer smart detection and provide real-time alerts, eliminating the need for extensive and costly hardware overhauls. This development provides dealers and integrators the ability to upgrade existing client environments with AI functionality, promoting a seamless transition to AI-powered solutions without high expenditures.
Compatible with various AI-powered analytics such as person, vehicle, and object detection, AI Bridge serves sectors like retail, education, healthcare, and more. For instance, object detection can be utilised to monitor unfamiliar vehicles in academic settings, while fall detection in healthcare enables quick responses, ensuring safety. In retail, features like people-counting can enhance customer service by improving queue times and managing store resources efficiently.
Flexible, vendor-neutral platform
AI Bridge can be integrated with 3xLOGIC's Edge-Based Deep Learning camerasThis latest offering is vendor-neutral, which allows it to support diverse camera environments that can all be centrally managed through the VIGIL Server Management Utility (VSMU).
The system's flexibility is further highlighted as AI Bridge can be integrated with 3xLOGIC's Edge-Based Deep Learning cameras. This adaptability allows for a targeted modernisation approach across mixed technological settings.
Proactive security with facial recognition
Additionally, VIGIL 13.5 introduces Face Recognition to enhance the platform's utility. By utilising edge-based AI processing, the system helps move security operations from passive to proactive, allowing for the creation of secure watchlists and real-time alerts upon the identification of persons of interest.
This feature enhances investigation capabilities while protecting sensitive data through edge-based processing, optimising procedural workflows, and enhancing overall situational awareness.
Integration with broader ecosystem
Seamlessly integrating with the wider 3xLOGIC environment, including VIGIL CLOUD, PACOM VIGIL CORE, and SONITROL CORE, this release offers users the ability to deploy AI analytics across various environments, whether on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid. AI Bridge is accessible either as a perpetual on-premise licence or a cloud subscription through VIGIL CLOUD, offering operational and financial flexibility for customers.
Mike Poe, Director of Product Management at 3xLOGIC, commented, "AI is helping organisations unlock more value from the infrastructure they already own. Now, with VIGIL 13.5, customers can add powerful AI analytics and facial recognition to existing camera deployments without the cost and disruption of replacing their entire surveillance estate. Whether they're looking to improve security, increase efficiency or begin their AI journey, VIGIL 13.5 provides a practical and scalable path forward."
3xLOGIC, the foremost provider of integrated and intelligent security solutions, has launched VIGIL 13.5, the latest update to its VIGIL Video Management System (VMS).
The new release introduces AI Bridge and Face Recognition, allowing organisations to deploy advanced AI-powered video analytics and security intelligence without replacing existing camera infrastructure.
VIGIL 13.5 has been designed to support users who wish to improve operational awareness, automate security workflows, and modernise surveillance capabilities while maximising their existing investment.
AI Bridge brings AI analytics to legacy ecosystems
AI Bridge is a hardware layer that runs deep learning analytics on video from existing IP cameras. It applies edge-based deep learning analytics to existing IP camera deployments, enabling standard cameras to deliver intelligent detection and real-time alerts without the cost and disruption of a complete hardware refresh.
For dealers and integrators, AI Bridge creates new opportunities to bring AI capabilities into existing customer environments while reducing barriers to adoption. Organisations can extend the life of their current camera infrastructure, accelerate AI adoption, and build a future-ready surveillance strategy without undertaking costly rip-and-replace projects.
AI Bridge supports a broad range of AI-powered analytics, including person, vehicle, object, perimeter and loitering detection, dwell time, people counting, and fall detection. This makes it particularly attractive to retailers, educational institutions, healthcare, hospitality and entertainment, warehouses, and smart city leaders. Object detection, for example, can help operators track unexpected vehicles on an academic campus or warehouse yard.
Fall detection ensures a quick response if a person in a clinic or resident in a care home falls, while entry and exit detection will alert to possible absconding. This ensures individuals remain safe while staff can continue their duties with peace of mind that the system will alert them to any unusual behaviour or emergencies.
In retail settings, people-counting can improve wait times and queue management in a store, ensuring a good customer experience. Intrusion detection can secure back offices and stockrooms, and dwell times can tell leaders what areas of a store are most popular.
Vendor-neutral offers greater flexibility
The platform is vendor-neutral, supports mixed camera environments, and can be centrally configured through the VIGIL Server Management Utility (VSMU).
Customers can also combine AI Bridge along with 3xLOGIC's Edge-Based Deep Learning cameras within a single VIGIL deployment, providing a flexible approach to modernisation across hybrid environments.
Supporting proactive security
VIGIL 13.5 also introduces Face Recognition capabilities to the VIGIL platform, helping security teams move beyond passive video monitoring to responsible, proactive awareness. Using edge-based AI processing, the feature allows organisations to create secure local watchlists, receive real-time alerts when persons of interest are detected, rapidly search recorded footage, and automate workflows based on facial recognition events.
Designed with privacy in mind, facial recognition processing takes place at the edge, helping organisations maintain control of sensitive data while improving investigation speed, situational awareness, and employee efficiency.
Part of the wider ecosystem
The latest release integrates seamlessly with the wider 3xLOGIC ecosystem, including VIGIL CLOUD, PACOM VIGIL CORE and SONITROL CORE, inviting users to deploy AI analytics across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. AI Bridge is available as either a perpetual license for on-premise deployment or as a subscription through VIGIL CLOUD, giving customers the flexibility to align deployment with operation and budget requirements.
Mike Poe, Director of Product Management at 3xLOGIC said: "AI is helping organisations unlock more value from the infrastructure they already own. Now, with VIGIL 13.5, customers can add powerful AI analytics and facial recognition to existing camera deployments without the cost and disruption of replacing their entire surveillance estate. Whether they're looking to improve security, increase efficiency or begin their AI journey, VIGIL 13.5 provides a practical and scalable path forward."
