Arxys in McAllen, TX
Information Certainty: Speculative
Deployment Purpose: Surveillance
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Products and Institutions:
| Product Deployed | Milestone XProtect VMS Arxys VideoX (Video analysis) |
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| Institutions ⠉ | Milestone Arxys |
| Datasets | Milestone VMS (Dataset) Arxys (Dataset) Unknown Dataset 0086 |
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Status and Events:
| Status | Ongoing |
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| Events | Start (2 January 2018, Speculative, , new cameras 2018 model) |
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Users:
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| Managed by | City of McAllen TX |
| Used by | City of McAllen TX McAllen Police Department |
Location:
| City | McAllen TX |
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| Country ⠉ | USA |
Description[ ]
McAllen upgraded its Milestone system to an open platform built with Arxys network recorders. Both Milestone and Arxys can have features such as facial recognition plugged in easily.
Ability to respond quickly to active alarms, Open platform makes it possible to integrate add-on products and third-party applications such as video analytics, face recognition and license plate recognition. Capability to always access video recordings of critical situations. Easy to navigate between cameras spread across a large geographical area 1
They wanted a video surveillance optimized, MIlestone Verified NVR that was purpose -built to run MIlestone VMS and could handle all of their cameras at higher resolutions and frame rates.Mcallen also needed a way to scale up their cameras on a scalable network platform since they will be growing their camera count dramatically in many new buildings across the city. They also wanted to integrate and upgrade their MIlestone XProtect Corporate license to the new 2018 R3 version to take advantage of the raft of new features 1
The city of Mcallen started their search for a solution by talking with Milestone Systems to find Certified Solution Partners that had Verified and Certified solutions. Milestone recommended that city of Mcallen look at the Verified System Builder partners. Arxys is a Verified System Builder and has several Certified systems for Milestone XProtect 1
The city of Mcallen installed a total of 5 Shield | Key NVR’s with pre-loaded MIlestone XProtect Corporate to run their video surveillance system. With interconnected and scaled up network of Shield | Key NVR’s they were able to dramatically increase the resolution and fps on most of the cameras, and add video analytics and video motion detection as well. They were able to upgrade to a modern version of Milestone XProtect Corporate and get a host of new features. They were also able to implement new network resiliency and failover scenarios to improve overall system uptime. And finally the city was able to centralize all video surveillance systems into two distributed data centers to improve uptime 1