The Client Station application is designed to accomplish the main functions of Live View, Real-time Alerts, Remote Playback, and Backup. In a basic installation, the Client Station can be used as a user client where the end-user opens the application on demand. In a monitored installation, the Client Station can be used as an alarm monitoring client where the end-user keeps the application open to receive real-time alerts.

The powerful automation techniques of the Taichen Client Station helps the operator to quickly and efficiently respond to the situation instead of fumbling around in cumbersome software GUIs.

The Client Station can perform user management, server configuration and group planning locally. It can also support the centralized management mode of Data Center and get configuration information directly from Data Center, thus greatly simplifying the maintenance workload of the whole system.

1. Smart View

Customizable Node Tree: The Node Tree breaks down into Servers and Groups. You have total control of each node - you can organize your video devices by creating nodes and subnodes, like Country/State/City.

Multi-View Zoom: With up to 3 zoom zones you can keep a close watch on individual areas while maintaining your overall view of the entire video.

Automatic Stream Selection: While in a single view you'll automatically be viewing the main-stream, while in a multi-view you'll automatically be viewing the sub-stream. With a more powerful CPU, you can see the main-stream video in a 4-views, 16-views, and even 36-views.

Interactive E-map: You can navigate via a graphical map. With camera groups, server locations, alarm I/O, and sub-maps you'll get a sense of locational awareness for any event.

Toggle On-Video Data: Server name, channel name, recording status, alarm status, etc. all make a surveillance technician's job easier during regular maintenance, audits, and change/configurations requests.

Node Search: You can input what you want to see and then click to view – it's that fast. Instead of scrolling through camera lists or panning over digital maps you can tell the Node Search what to find. There are even thumbnail previews just in case you have similar channel names.

2. Intelligently Connect

Visual Zone Group Connections: A single camera view can only cover so much, why not use multiple angles to see the whole visual zone. With group connections, you can see more with less effort.

Joystick Control - no mouse/keyboard required: Use specialized surveillance control devices to expedite user interaction making PTZ control and live view as fast as possible for true guard operations.

Smart Group Rotation: Automatically switch between ordered camera groups to monitor entire visual zones. You can rotate from zone to zone to maximize site visibility while reducing the amount of input needed by operators.

Multi Navigation-Node Tree & E-map: The Node Tree provides a text-based structured layout of your video feeds while the E-map provides a graphical representation of the same structure. Use the Node Tree to easily navigate to the desired video feeds you want to view and use the E-map to increase the locational awareness of where the video feeds are physically positioned.

3. Text to Speech Alerts

Text to Speech Alerts: Not only does our Messenger Service display a rolling queue of alerts, it can also read them out loud. Your operators won't miss a single alert, even if they are focused on something else.

Auto Connect on Alert: Alarms are the most crucial events for operators, the Taichen Client Station can connect to the linked video feeds on any alert all by itself. This frees up the operators to respond to the situation instead of fumbling around with software GUIs.

Individual Audio Alert Files: Each alert can represent a unique alarm, so can the audio alerts.You can record custom audio alert files to not only explain the situation to the operator but also instruct them on how to react to a specific situation.

1) per Channel - Are you detecting motion on a camera after hours? You can record an audio alert that instructs the operator to dispatch a guard to examine the area.

2) per I/O - Did a glass break sensor trigger at night? You can record an audio alert that instructs the operator to call the police and notify their supervisor.

3) per Alert - Do you have a unique situation? You can record an audio alert that contains any instructions you want.

Easy to Understand Color Cues: Color cues are unified across the Taichen VMS platform so they represent the same information whether you are using the Client, CMS, Storage Center or Hybrid Server.

Instant Playback Clipping: Without even accessing the regular Playback, a user can clip a video file mere seconds after it occurred in real time.

4. Targeted Playback

Playback HD/SD Transcoding: Instead of recording the main-stream & sub-stream, the Taichen VMS records a single stream, thus maximizing storage, and transcodes the video to an on-demand sub-stream for playback.

Group Playback: Any camera from any device from any location can be in a group and can be played back synchronized or not. You can even play the same camera multiple times at different time indexes.

* Multi-server playback - Create a camera group from multiple servers and view playback from each server all at the same time.

Easy Clipping: The quickest video extraction method in the industry.

* Single File Clip - Simply set a start & stop time and save your clip. Clipping creates a single file that includes the Player + codecs, the original watermarked raw video, and an optional Incident Report.

* Clip to AVI - You can convert your clips to an AVI file, playable on any PC for easy viewing.

Smart Search: With Smart Search, you can search for movement on recorded files to intelligently pinpoint specific incidents. This lets you record continuously to guarantee you don't miss recordings but still have the capability to filter out static video recordings on playback.

Full Backup for Video Archive: This Backup Manager allows you to make mass video archives for later review.

* includes virtual playback server - The Backup Manager creates a virtual playback server so your recorded video is not at risk of being overwritten.