July 2023

AI Controller Alpha/Beta Release:

We are thrilled to be Beta releasing the AI Controller.  Our cutting-edge all-in-one controller that goes beyond traditional access control. With advanced features such as Controller, NVR, Analytics, Alarms/Intrusion, Intercom, Destination Dispatch Elevator, Visitor Management, Power Management, AI, and IoT. The AI Controller is the next generation - Security 5.0 

Basic Access Control Logic for Portals:

• Ability to secure and unsecure doors

• Support card access to open secure portals

• Monitors and reports door position switch change of state
   

REX: Support for Request to Exit to open a secure door configuration:

• Ability to configure cards for People

• Ability to configure reader 

• Ability to configure Inputs for door position switches and REX inputs

• Ability to configure Outputs to control door locks

• Ability to configure People

• Ability to configure Access Levels 

• Ability to configure Portals

Portal Control Commands:

• Ability to set Portals to the following modes

• Portal Secure  Door is locked. Requires valid card or REX to access portal

•  Portal Locked REX Enabled – Door is locked. No card access. Requires REX to access portal

• Portal Unlocked – Door is unlocked

• Portal Locked REX disabled. Door is not locked. No access

• Ability to Unlock/Release Portals for a period of time

LED/Buzzer Behavior:

• Control the LED/Buzzer states of a reader in a Portal state (Ex: Portal Secure, Portal Unsecured)

• Control the LED/Buzzer states of a reader during an access request (Ex: Access Granted, Access Denied)

• Buzzer support for AIC-4

Firmwear: Ability to update AIC firmware from AIC web portal  

SDK: Ability to configure AIC through SDK service

• Door Held Open Logic: Support for Door Held Open and Pre-Alarm Held Open events when a portal door is held open

Intelligence - Analytics Dashboard: 

1. Who's In Analytics Incremental by Occupancy

2. Who's in Analytics Incremental by Floor

Reports:

1. "Recorder Details" Report

2. Interactive Maps Details 

Multi-Factor Authentication:

• Two-Factor Authentication is now enabled. A user can update from the homepage under Preferences. 

Beacons Page:

• Added a new Beacons page to configure  BluPOINT Nanos as beacons and appoint associations when they are not used as a reader

Person Reader:

• Elevator Directions- implemented the feature to show the elevator direction along with its name. However, The direction will not be displayed if we don't receive a response from DDE. Additionally, we play audio for the direction. This feature can be enabled through the settings. 

• Introduced a new setting that allows to use only local data when cloud biometrics is enabled. We will still send centroids to the cloud to update the global state.

Analytics:

• Addressed issue where  search text field in the Analytics search screen stopped working

• Analytics Dashboard: Addressed the clear button for search text in the analytics dashboard is not working if something is selected for view and then the search is completed

Active directory:

• Resolved the issue where Active Directory integration was creating duplicate accounts in BluSKY 

Camera Page:

• User can now update the display camera name and date/time from camera configuration page 

• User can now update the camera name from the camera mapping page

• User can now update the cameras through the configuration page in BluSKY (Milestone VMS only) 

VMS:

• Avigilon Support for Version 7 - Motion events now work with version 7.2+

• When changing recording server type, the default port number is automatically set 

• Recorder page now warns when a port is not provided or port is not default value 

Various Modules:

• Improved search fields to handle different lengths in hyphens in text 

Destination Dispatch - Diagnostics Screen:

• Applicable to OTIS DDE - Diagnostics will now show floor stops that people have access to

Interactive Maps:

• Added the ability to zoom in/out in the events timeline using a vertical scroll bar

• Moved 'Jump to Current Time' icon above right arrow on timeline

• Added option to show/hide event numbers in event timeline 

• Added ability to 'Select all/Un-select all' event categories 

• Added 'Event Category' as title and added close (X) button to the right of the box 

• Added title to time block and 'X' to close out as well as a '+' to add a time period 
  
  

• Numbering has been eliminated from time blocks drop up menu window 

• Added ability to show drop up menu above the icons in events timeline

• A '#' icon was added on Events timeline to show/hide events count 

• Added ability to display all the devices under a facility that are not associated to any interactive map

• Added the ability to display the complete name of system or facility for events filter on events timeline 

• Added the ability to change the value of zoom based time block that is selected 

Intercom: 

• Added directory info in the Intercom Configuration page 

 

• The master station now has its own SIP extension 

• Added ability to add SIP Extensions to SIP Groups created by default under 'Other Contact' and 'Speed Dial'