Brownyard can also assist clients with contract review, guard training, and speakers for seminars and meetings. The system can be tailored to facilities of any size, where it communicates with a host computer and peripheral devices to perform access control functions. The system can be connected to WANs and LANs without third-party protocol converters and used in single buildings or multisite applications. As many as 256 controllers can be connected via Ethernet to a Simplex NT 3400 security management information system capable of supporting more than 3,000 controlled-access doors. A recording capacity of up to 30GB is available with a built-in removable hard disk drive, and 100GB with an external hard disk drive, which will also enable simultaneous recording and playback.
Operators can determine any combination of compression ratio, pixel count, and recording time.
Using a LAN or Internet connection, video information can be remotely searched, played back, downloaded, or printed out. Slotted models for horn units have less than 2 dB sound loss, while models without slots for strobes feature minimal signal light loss. One picture is a long exposure to capture dark areas in a scene, and the other is a short exposure to capture bright areas in the same scene. The two images are then combined into a composite analog image. Using standard telephone lines, digital telephone lines, or networks, Fast Scan systems provide remote sites with centralized surveillance and video alarm verification with immediate control of equipment such as gates, lights, and cameras.