Advanced Reporting

Generation and Consolidation of Multi-System Reports

Security administrators and operators need the ability to easily retrieve information from their security and safety systems. This is especially true during critical activities such as the investigation of an incident. Towards this end, the Security Center’s Advanced Reporting functionality enables operators to quickly collect, consolidate, and generate activity and configuration reports for Omnicast video, Synergis access control, and AutoVu license plate recognition (LPR). Scheduled reports further simplify the operator’s job by automating the reporting process.

Accessible through Genetec’s next-generation user interface, the Security Desk, the Reporting feature affords security departments many key benefits including report variety with standard and user-defined custom reports, unified video, access control, and LPR reports, an intuitive interface that allows you to quickly generate and view reports, fully integrated functionality (no external reporting tools required), among more.

Report Variety

A comprehensive list of standard reports, both configuration and activity-based reports, will provide operators with the means to quickly revisit the system’s activity.

Omnicast video reports include, among others:

• Bookmark search
• Motion search
• Archived video search

Synergis access control activity reports include, among others:

• Card, cardholder, and cardholder group activity
• Door, area, elevator, and zone activity
• Visitor activity
• Alarm activity

A comprehensive list of reports are accessible within the Security Center menu

AutoVu LPR reports include, among others:

• License plate reads
• Hits per day or per zone
• Route playback
• Route playback

Configuration reports include, among others:

• List of hardware units and selected configuration options
• List of credentials, cardholders, and visitors
• List of cardholders with access to an area, or elevator, or door
• Troubleshooting reports

Special reports include, among others:

• Area presence (list of cardholders present in an area)
• Audit trails
• Time and attendance
• Incidents
• System health

Intuitive Interface

The Security Desk's interface makes it easy to create and customize reports

The Security Desk makes report generation simple and easy to use. An operator has several options for creating a report, including manually through the surveillance interface (single-click or right-click) or via scheduled tasks. Synergis access control reports can also be generated through the Security Center Web Client, thereby avoiding any software installation for reporting activities. Additionally, all report columns are user-selectable. You have the freedom to create a virtually unlimited number of the same type of report and display or hide columns depending on the recipient(s) of the report.

The reporting interface within the client application is actually live. Not only can it can be used to generate reports, but also to play back events. Simply drag-and-drop an event from the events list into one or more display tiles to view the event and playback any video attached to it. Synergis’ report preview functionality also ensures that you export and print in exactly the format that you require.

Integrated Reporting Functionality

The Security Center reporting engine is fully integrated; operators are not dependent on any external reporting tool, thus avoiding the need to export and re-import when developing new custom reports with third-party reporting tools. Since all the configuration and viewing of reports is integrated, operator efficiency is improved.

Advanced Filtering Options

Report filtering in the Security Desk is highly flexible and granular which enables security personnel to retrieve the right data at the right time; this greatly improves the security department’s productivity. Operators also have the flexibility to run reports on groups of entities, such as areas or cardholder groups, or individual components such as a camera, an LPR Sharp unit, a card or a specific door. Furthermore, each type of report has its own filtering options based on the context. For example, in a cardholder activity report, you can filter based on specific doors, areas, elevators, credentials, cardholders, custom fields, events, and event timestamps.

Flexible filtering options enable operators to run a report by selecting:

• A specific camera, door, area, elevator, zone, cardholder, or card
• A specific fixed or mobile LPR device
• A specific time of day or time interval
• One or more custom fields
• One or more events on which to run a report

Flexible Report Customization

A comprehensive list of reports are accessible within the Security Center menu

All standard reports can be easily customized and saved as report templates. Report templates essentially give you the potential to create company-specific reports that are customized to your exact needs. These templates can then be re-used for scheduling automated tasks.

Scheduled Reports

Scheduled tasks further facilitate reporting; security and/or safety departments have the freedom to automate reporting to ensure data is consolidated and ready for viewing in a timely manner without necessitating operator intervention. This essentially eliminates the possibility that a report does not get sent out on time.

Multiple Output Options (print, save, or export)

Security Center reports can be either sent to a printer or saved (exported) as PDF or Microsoft Excel files. The latter allows security departments to export Synergis activity and configuration reports to third-party systems such as a time and attendance or payroll system. Simply put, the reporting function can be used to share information between the access control system and other customer applications.