- April 25, 2008
- Longwatch, Inc
Norwood, MA – April 25, 2008 – Longwatch released version 4.0 of its Surveillance System. Release 4.0 greatly expands the Longwatch family of products by providing customers with more flexible and cost-effective options essential to fast deployment of video within any SCADA or distributed control system, from local installations to the most remote and demanding locations. With the expanded offering, industrial manufacturing, process, transportation and utility sector clients can now monitor their most extreme remote or centralized locations using existing communication networks eliminating significant installation and networking costs of traditional approaches. Longwatch’s distributed architecture combined “recording at the edge” and HMI integration to make video a new “sensed variable” for process and manufacturing operations. The benefits delivered include faster and more effective response to plant events, better decision-making and improved leverage of manpower and assets. The Longwatch system also provides traditional security surveillance and access control capabilities to meet the growing need for safety, security and liability protection. “The Version 4 release delivers the most-wanted capabilities for operational and security video for process control and manufacturing operations. The networking flexibility, distributed architecture, eventbased video editing and alarming – along with HMI integration raise the standard of value for these applications,” stated Steve Rubin, CEO of Longwatch. Two new products are included in this release. The Micro Remote Video Engine manages cameras and video recording for demanding field applications, especially those requiring low power or high temperature specifications. The Longwatch Video Engine is a software-only solution that can convert a user’s computer or OEM unit into a highly-functional video concentrator, video recorder and alarm manager. Several performance improvements are included in the flagship Remote Video Engine, along with a special configuration that is attractive to system integrators. About Longwatch Longwatch, Inc. was founded by industrial automation and software veterans with the goal of simplifying video delivery over existing SCADA, HMI and distributed control networks. The result is the Longwatch Surveillance System™, a portfolio of products that enables SCADA system operators the ability to view events and easily verify alarms at local and remote sites within legacy and new networking infrastructures. The system integrates video and system alarms on the same display for fast, reliable operation and decision-making.
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