From its foundation in 1974 to 2024: This year, Elkron has reached the significant milestone of its (first) fifty years of activity in the Italian security market.
In modern security architectures, integration between different systems is an increasingly important element.
The ability to easily integrate intrusion detection and video surveillance solutions with other security and home/building automation platforms, even from different suppliers, makes it possible to build more comprehensive and effective architectures overall.
With this view, Elkron has placed integration capability at the heart of the technological development strategy for its intrusion detection systems.
PSIM AND VMS PLATFORMS
Elkron solutions can first be integrated with PSIM (Physical Security Information Management) platforms.
A PSIM platform is an articulated and versatile software environment that interfaces with several security systems that are not directly connected to each other and allows them to be monitored and controlled via a single user interface. In addition, modern PSIM platforms can connect and integrate with other building management, automation and communication systems.
Elkron systems are also designed to integrate directly with VMS (Video Management System) solutions.
In the field of video surveillance, VMSs are capable of managing a large number of networked IP cameras, accessing their recordings and monitoring video streams in real time. VMS platforms then act as a centralised control point that – primarily, but not exclusively – manages the proper operation and configuration of the cameras, receives real-time video and notifications, and stores and protects video and other information collected from the cameras. A VMS is therefore essential in mission-critical and large-scale video surveillance installations.
THE INTEGRATION OF ELKRON SYSTEMS
Elkron intrusion detection systems, therefore, in line with this vision of technological development, can be integrated with the most important PSIM and VMS platforms on the market, in particular with Milestone’s X Protect, Prysm’s App Tech and Prassel’s ViMS Suite
From these platforms it is therefore possible to manage multiple Elkron installations, both locally and remotely. This allows centralised management of alarms and security in general: an operator can, for example, view events reported by control systems directly in a graphical map of the protected site, as well as issuing targeted commands to Elkron devices or activating more complex home and building automation scenarios.
However, the integration of Elkron systems with VMS and PSIM platforms has a value that goes far beyond individual monitoring and management functions. In fact, integrating different security platforms makes it possible to make the most of their complementary functionalities, thanks to the fact that the various security systems communicate and cooperate with each other in real time, which enables faster and more targeted responses to critical events. And, thus, overall arrive at a more effective security system.
Elkron’s strategy goes explicitly towards the interoperability of its main solutions with those of other manufacturers. In a policy of technological development that, on the one hand, brings immediate concrete benefits (more architectural flexibility, less complexity and management costs, openness to future customer needs and to evolutions in technology) and, on the other hand, makes it possible in general to address today’s security challenges in a more comprehensive and coordinated manner, guaranteeing optimal protection for an organisation’s people and resources.
