Why Choose Avigilon Alta?
If you want a smart modern CCTV system then look no further than Avigilon Alta, formerly Ava Security. Avigilon Alta aims to empower organisations to protect people, businesses, and reputation with proactive, cloud-native video security.
- Add new surveillance cameras and integrate your CCTV system quickly
- Respond quickly to incidents on your site or among staff
- Manage your security system more easily with easy remote access to camera feeds
- Help security teams be more proactive with always-on analytics
Avigilon Alta: simple, smart security
The security solution is based around its Alta Aware Cloud video management system and the Avigilon Ava CCTV cameras that come with built-in AI video and audio analytics. To provide added flexibility when you undertake a CCTV upgrade we offer the Avigilon Ava cloud connector which means you can easily connect your third-party cameras and sensors to the Alta Aware cloud-based platform.
Key Features of Avigilon Alta Cloud Video Security
Smart security cameras
A range of AI-enabled cameras all with video and audio analytics and a 10-year warranty.
Aviglon Alta Aware
This video management system provides scalable, intelligent, cloud-based security. This will help you gain real-time visibility and insights from anywhere.
Cloud Connector
This provides a hub for local integrations to connect your existing third-party cameras and other sensors to the Avigilon Alta Aware video management system.
Why Avigilon Ava Cameras
All Avigilon Ava cameras are designed in the UK and Norway and manufactured in Taiwan. The cameras feature:
Built-in AI video and audio analytics: the cameras integrate advanced intelligence via image recognition, machine learning, and acoustics. The cameras detect abnormal behaviour and alert operators in real-time. The cameras also identify specific sound patterns, like screaming, gunshots, breaking glass, or loud noises, to determine the type of sound.- Quick cloud-based deployment: Ava’s plug-and-play configuration removes the need for usernames and passwords, pre-configuration set-up, or default settings. You can also scan the unique QR codes on the cameras to onboard them to the Aware Cloud VMS
- Built-in infrared LED illumination: This enables night, or low-light vision; Ava Cameras are therefore optimised for daytime, and for low-light video capture.
- Option of built-in storage: Each model of Ava Camera includes variants that either include onboard storage, or that are designed to hand off the storage tasks. Ava Cloud Cameras have onboard storage designed specifically for video surveillance use. Ava Cloud Cameras include options for 30, 60 or 120 days of data retention. Ava Cloud Cameras require only a PoE connection to your internet-connected network to be able to communicate with your Aware Cloud deployment. Ava Cameras without onboard storage work alongside the Ava Cloud Connectors, which handles the video and metadata storage, as well as retrieval tasks.. This provides you with more options for storage retention, and includes greater resiliency for your data.
- 10 year warranty
You can choose a camera to suit your needs:
- 5MP Compact Dome: Ideal for discreet indoor setups, it captures every detail in demanding light conditions, making the series an ideal solution for retailers, hotels, schools, offices, gyms, and more
- 4k Dome: Robust enough for both the harshest outdoor installations and discreet indoor environments, it captures every detail day and night, in all light conditions.
- Ava 360 (Fisheye camera): AI-powered 360 panoramic security camera is ideal for locations that require coverage in all directions. Installed either indoors or outdoors, our panoramic camera captures wide scenes in high resolution in even the harshest of environments and with low light.
- 4k Bullet: the camera seizes critical details from any outdoor or indoor location. With two powerful wide and tele lenses, a 4K image sensor, IR illumination, and optical zoom, it helps you capture clear and sharp images in challenging light conditions.
- Ava Quad: the camera’s adjustable sensors and zoom lenses deliver complete coverage to up to four different areas over wide outdoor or indoor areas, such as large crossroads, car parks, campuses, and stadiums. The Quad security camera features four independent 5MP sensors that allow it to deliver excellent image quality in areas with high contrast lighting.
Video Management System: Alta Aware, formerly Ava Aware
Aware is available as a powerful cloud-based AI video management system (VMS) or the on-premise Aware VMS that can be run on the Avigilon Ava Cloud Connectors. Aware is suitable for both large, distributed enterprise installations and small deployments and analyses all the video feeds from all your Ava Security and third-party cameras all the time and in real-time. It identifies objects and events, sending instant alarms based on rules and unusual activity detection helping security teams do their job more effectively. With Aware, you can also quickly search by event, object, and similarity to find a specific person, vehicle, or event of interest through countless hours of video within seconds or minutes.
The Alta Aware cloud-based platform is open, scalable, secure, and easy to use. You can leverage Alta Aware Cloud’s open API and connect it to your existing sensors, access control systems, dashboards, external viewers, or communication systems to get a 360-degree overview of your environment. What’s more, Aware helps you manage all your devices and security across sites with a simple web-based interface and Android and iOS apps accessible from anywhere without additional plugins or configurations.
Avigilon Alta takes cyber-security seriously by providing full compliance and security by default with Alta Aware Cloud, delivering complete peace of mind to your IT team. With automatic updates of the software from the cloud, end-to-end encrypted data and metadata, and secure remote access from anywhere in the world, it’s never been easier to prevent cybersecurity threats. All the Ava product licenses are managed through the cloud, enabling a controlled, proactive process for ensuring your system is always up-to-date.
Avigilon Alta Cloud Connector
Instead of ripping out your security and monitoring system you can use the Cloud Connector to integrate 3rd party cameras and other monitoring devices, like the HALO Smart Sensor, to the Alta Aware video management system. This means you will extend the same real-time event detection, proactive notifications, and search capabilities across your entire deployment with one interface for direct cloud-connected Ava devices and existing on-premises cameras. The Connector also provides the video storage if you opt for an Avigilon Ava camera without onboard storage.
The benefits of the Avigilon Alta Cloud Connector:
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Hub for local integrations: Bring cloud benefits to your existing cameras
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Real-time AI for all cameras: Make your cameras smart with scalable and advanced real-time AI
- Single interface for all camera feedss: Monitor and manage your entire deployment from anywhere, through a simple web interface or app
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Local video access: Gain direct access to live and stored video footage from your camera feeds and keep complete resilience to network and service outage.
- Enhanced security: The hardened Linux kernel and encrypted data provide strong security of your data and recordings. Equipped with a dedicated Trusted Platform Module, the Cloud Connector minimizes the risks of cyberthreats.
- Cost-effective storage: Long retention storage is available on the Cloud Connector.
The Ava Security Story
Ava began in 2018, and four years later, was delivering cloud-native video security to enterprises around the world. The company started with a small core group of engineers who got together to find an industry where they could merge innovation, passion, and simplicity to help people reach their greatest potential. Their attention was drawn towards the world of security—indispensable to modern work, yet often overlooked and taken for granted. Organisations needed the tools to understand if something was happening in real-time to keep their people safe, their premises protected and help security professionals be more effective at their job.
Ava was acquired by Motorola Solutions in March 2022. In March 2023 Motorola Solutions brought together Ava Security’s video portfolio and Openpath’s access control solutions into an integrated cloud-native security suite, Avigilon Alta.
Avigilon Alta has teams in the UK, US, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, and Poland. The cameras are manufactured in Taiwan.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do you need CCTV?
When you need CCTV you will realise that you really need it because there is likely to have been an incident on your site that needs to be investigated either by security professionals or health and safety staff, It is a great way of providing part of your safeguarding portfolio at any site. Ecl-ips installs CCTV due to Health & Safety requirements as often as to solve security issues which is the usual use for CCTV. However, don’t forget that, as advised by the Surveillance Camera Commissioner, you must consider whether CCTV is the only option to meet your security or safeguarding needs. You should also make sure that you are working with a qualified supplier, preferably an NSI Gold installer.
Who were Ava Security?
Ava Security began in 2018 and was then bought by Motorola Solutions in March 2022. In March 2023 Motorola Solutions brought together Ava Security’s video portfolio and Openpath’s access control solutions into an integrated cloud-native security suite, Avigilon Alta. However, the Ava name has been retained for its range of cameras under the Avigilon Ava brand. The cameras are designed in the UK and Norway, then manufactured in Taiwan.
Where are Avigilon Ava cameras manufactured?
Avigilon Ava cameras are manufactured in Taiwan.
Why should I choose an Avigilon Ava camera?
- Built-in AI video and audio analytics: the cameras integrate advanced intelligence via image recognition, machine learning, and acoustics. The cameras detect abnormal behaviour and alert operators in real-time. The cameras also identify specific sound patterns, like screaming, gunshots, breaking glass, or loud noises, to determine the type of sound.
- Quick cloud-based deployment: Avigilon Ava’s plug-and-play configuration removes the need for usernames and passwords, pre-configuration set-up, or default settings. You can also scan the unique QR codes on the cameras to onboard them to the Alta Aware Cloud VMS
- Built-in infrared LED illumination: This enables night, or low-light vision; Ava Cameras are therefore optimised for daytime, and for low-light video capture.
- Built-in storage: They are intelligent video security cameras that use analytics to determine what video to record. It allows users to configure different resolutions to be used when our machine learning analytics consider the video to be either interesting or not. Also, the camera can dynamically vary the bitrate within a stream based on object detection. This allows it to show the areas of interest more clearly. Together, these mean you need less storage and less bandwidth on playback while keeping the quality where and when you need it.
- 10 year warranty
What video management system do I need for Avigilon Alta cloud-based CCTV?
Ava Aware is the video management system at the heart of the Avigilon Alta (formerly Ava Security) CCTV solution. The platform is open, scalable, secure, and easy to use. Aware is available as a powerful cloud-based AI video management system (VMS) or the on-premise Aware VMS that can be run on the Ava Cloud Connectors. Aware is suitable for both large, distributed enterprise installations and small deployments and analyses all the video feeds from all your Ava and third-party cameras all the time and in real-time. It identifies objects and events, sending instant alarms based on rules and unusual activity detection. With Aware, you can also quickly search by event, object, and similarity to find a specific person, vehicle, or event of interest through countless hours of video within seconds or minutes.
What are the benefits of the Avigilon Alta Cloud Connector?
The benefits of the Cloud Connector are:
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Hub for local integrations: Bring cloud benefits to your existing cameras
-
Real-time AI for all cameras: Make your cameras smart with scalable and advanced real-time AI
- Single interface for all cameras: Monitor and manage your entire deployment from anywhere, through a simple web interface or app
-
Local video access: Gain direct access to live and stored video footage and keep complete resilience to network and service outage.
- Enhanced security: The hardened Linux kernel and encrypted data provide strong security of your data and recordings. Equipped with a dedicated Trusted Platform Module, the Cloud Connector minimizes the risks of cyberthreats.
- Cost-effective storage: Long retention storage is available on the Cloud Connector.