In the meantime, SecurityStation has at its core a rock-solid live view system which is indeed full-featured, cross-browser compatible, capable of supporting multiple resolutions, and able to display up to 16 different video feeds simultaneously. These feeds can be from plug-and-play cameras or manually configured cameras from several supported brands, all in different locations, all displayed at the same time. The remote monitoring viewer intelligently adapts to the number of live-capable cameras in your account at any time (inaccessible cameras are also supported) so no blank spots take up valuable real estate on your monitor. If you want to, you can even go full screen (with both the multiple view and single-camera view) for that welcome touch of traditional VMS.

Remote monitoring is a core part of every security system and SecurityStation eliminates the need for local installation of additional software. SecurityStation operates in real-time to ensure you won’t miss a thing, no matter where you are. Without a fully integrated web-based service like ours, the time delay between receiving an alert and logging on to view what’s happening is often too long. SecurityStation ties together alerts and immediate visual monitoring with a single click, providing rapid access to the information you need.

Turning off remote recording does not affect live monitoring, so SecurityStation can be used solely as a remote monitoring platform. That’s just what some of our customers choose to do, eschewing complicated local setup and dynamic DNS in favour of a quick to setup plug-and-play solution. The system’s heartbeat facility (designed to alert you if the camera drops offline, and again when it comes back online) coupled with its remote monitoring capability results in a robust live monitoring tool for a wide variety of requirements.

SecurityStation makes the process of web-based monitoring and recording intuitive and simple. We’ll be radically updating SecurityStation’s remote monitoring system in the coming months, but our focus will always be on that quick, intuitive core usability that our users know and love.

We think these settings are ‘just right’ in that they won’t trigger too often, but won’t miss too much in low-movement scenarios.

However, these average settings are not right for all cameras. Video motion detection (VMD) is the most common way of detecting whether activity should be recorded and getting the settings right is a trial and error process (see screenshot). Our Goldilocks settings only go so far, so we encourage you to tailor your VMD settings to suit your situation. SecurityStation’s default settings are designed to work best when there is supposed to be no movement occurring, so that when there is movement this is detected and events are generated. If you’re putting a camera in a high-movement area then these settings will result in the camera frequently triggering recordings, making it very difficult to filter out what you want to see from what you don’t.

So, after adding your camera(s) to SecurityStation, take the time to get your video motion detection settings right in relation to the view the camera has and for the kind of movement you expect to capture. Consider the size of the object involved, the sensitivity of the trigger and the area you want to cover.

Once you’ve set up VMD for your camera, make regular checks to ensure that everything still works as you expect and that you don’t mentally background your security system. This is good practice with any security system and SecurityStation is no different.

The multi-view brings at-a-glance monitoring and surveillance to VSaaS for the first time. Now, just a quick log in can tell you what’s happening in the areas being monitored. Joined with SecurityStation’s alerting system this provides a powerful surveillance mechanism giving you further control over your security system.

With SecurityStation cameras can be in different geographical locations, and with the multi-camera view you can see them all at once through a single interface, which is ideal for businesses with multiple locations.