Enhancing Security with Intrusion Detection and Access Control Integrations

Essential security tools, such as intrusion alarms and access control, play pivotal roles in preventing suspicious, prohibited, or criminal activities within your building.   

Access control provides additional security coverage by using approved ID cards to open otherwise locked doors. Combining cloud-supported access control and video security platforms creates a complete solution that integrates key card access with visual verification capabilities, enabling you to accurately identify individuals entering specific areas and ensure access is not being given to unauthorized persons. Intrusion integrations provide video verification at alarm panels, significantly reducing false alarms and allowing you to take appropriate action in critical incidents. 

Below, this article will cover how video surveillance platforms can integrate with access control and alarm systems for a complete, end-to-end solution. 

Integrate Video Security with Access Control Systems 

When combined with video security, access control systems receive an additional layer of surveillance that can significantly upgrade your existing security measures. 

By integrating the two platforms, you can visually verify who’s entering and exiting access-controlled doorways, which can significantly reduce the number of false alarms your access control systems send out. By being able to check video associated with access events, you can determine if someone unauthorized is truly trying to break into your property, or if it’s nothing to be concerned about. Additionally, if someone’s card has been stolen or employees are letting outside parties use their key cards, you can quickly identify what’s going on at these points of entrance. “Tailgating” and “piggybacking” are two other methods unauthorized persons employ to gain entrance to a property, which include slipping past an entrance that’s been opened quickly, or someone holding the door for an unauthorized person without knowing they don’t have access. Once these security weaknesses are identified, you can work to fix those areas to create a more fortified business environment. 

Being able to combine access control events and video creates a multi-layered security system that can provide insight into security blind spots. OpenEye integrates with Alarm.com, Brivo, Feenics, PDK, and DMP to create a complete security solution, taking access control events from these systems and pairing them with video in the OpenEye Web Services (OWS) platform. 

Integrating Video Security with Intrusion Detection 

Intrusion integrations with your video surveillance system can significantly increase the security of your business and the accuracy of any alarm events you receive through your system. 

This integration allows for visual verification of intrusion events to confirm what’s happening at points of entry to your building. Alarm panel data is tied to video surveillance, giving you greater visibility in areas where an alarm event is detected. By having eyes on areas where intrusion has been detected, you can quickly determine if it’s a false alarm or a critical incident that requires security or law enforcement. 

OpenEye Web Services users can get the most out of their video system by integrating with Alarm.com, DMP, and Bosch to take advantage of AI-powered intrusion detection. Server-side intrusion detection in OWS can also be leveraged in areas where alarm panels aren’t as easily configurable, or a specific area of a camera’s view needs to be monitored for intrusion. 

Search and Alert on Access Control and Intrusion Events 

A cloud platform that’s equipped with a proactive alert system, as well as the ability to search for surveillance footage based on unique parameters, can help fast-track investigations into any incidents that may occur. Video verification tied to the access control and intrusion events you’re receiving makes search and alert features that much more complete by bringing you insight into what’s happening at these points of entry. Not only that, but it can speed up response times in situations where someone is intruding on your property or has accessed an area they do not have permission to. 

A complete security solution should allow you to create sophisticated alert rules based on access and alarm events to send push notifications to either your mobile device or computer. It should also offer the ability to apply those same rules to search so that you can streamline incident investigation. 

Establish Peace of Mind with OpenEye’s Access Control and Intrusion Solutions 

OpenEye’s complete cloud video solution integrates with access control and intrusion detection systems to create a thorough, end-to-end solution. Video verification in OpenEye Web Services (OWS), the cloud-managed video security platform, provides a way to monitor the alerts you’re receiving from your access control platform by visually identifying what’s happening at your business’ entrances and exits. From there, you can confirm if there’s a situation you need to act on. 

In addition, several access control and alarm partners leverage OWS’s Web Connect technology to retrieve video for remote viewing in their application, creating a more seamless experience for those users. This includes Keep by Feenics, DMP Virtual Keypad, and Alarm.com’s security solutions, providing a more complete end-to-end security solution for your business. 

OpenEye also offers server-side AI-powered intrusion, line crossing, and loitering detection in OWS for greater visibility into activity outside gates, doors, and entrances, and beyond. Video-based intrusion detection works by visually analyzing whether someone has crossed a line, has entered a pre-defined area, or is loitering in said area for a set amount of time. 

To learn more about how OpenEye equips businesses with access control and intrusion detection solutions, book a demo with us now.