Hirsch Electronics is pleased to offer Velocity 3.0, the newest version of Hirsch's award-winning access control and security management software.  For more information, please click on a link below or contact your Hirsch representative (click here for options). 

Velocity Main Page
Summary of New Features (.pdf)
PowerPoint Presentation (.ppt; right mouse click then choose "Save Target As")
Frequently Asked Questions (.pdf)
Release Notes
Velocity Versions


Highlights of What's New in Velocity 3.0

The following is a summary of the new and enhanced features offered by Velocity version 3.0 versus the previous version.  For a more complete listing of new features, please refer to the complete Release Notes.

Overview

• New Security & Management Tools:  Partitioning of database and devices; Advanced alarm/event routing and escalation; Additional encryption
• New IT-Centric Technologies:  Support of newest operating systems and databases;
  Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• New Installation/Hardware Configuration Tools:  Split servers; Quick hardware typology set-up; Device-level customization
• New Software Configuration Features:  Operator Roles; Person templates; Multi-credential editing; Multi-person editing of UDFs; Quick-search functions; ID scanner support for enrollment

Installation & Configuration

• For Velocity Server:  Windows Server 2003 SP1 or Windows Server 2003 R2
• For Single-user Velocity Workstation:  Windows XP Pro SP2
• For Velocity Client:  Windows XP Pro SP2
• MS SQL Server 2005 Express (included)
• MS SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express (included)
• MS SQL Server 2005 (optional)
• Server-to-client SQL data encryption
• SQL Server application roles
• SQL Server Named Instances
• Split database & application server support during installation

Operator Roles

• Consolidation of Operator Rights and Permissions
• Operator Roles defined by workstation
• Operator may be assigned one or more Roles
• Operator Role now also includes application permissions, cameras, Event Viewer filters, Person Templates, Person Groups, DIGI*TRAC (hardware), Video Explorer groups

Enrollment Manager

• User Partitioning using Person Groups
• Person Templates for ease of adding new People
• Linked Credential Templates for easy group editing of Credentials
• Multi-person edit of user defined data
• New User Defined Field (UDF) types
• Additional enrollment device support:  License, business card, passport scanners; PIV smart card reader; field mapping
• New Search Options:  “Find Person” new query search builder, Quick Find, etc.

Device Configuration

• Up to 1,024 communication ports
• Export (in XML format) & import controller configuration from/to other Velocity systems/sites
• Drag, drop or duplicate controller(s) within hardware tree (no Door Group or other reprogramming required)

Alarms & Events

• Alarm & Event routing by Role
• Device point-level customization
• Alarm escalation
• Photo Call-up in Alarm and Event Viewer using Badge Templates

Miscellaneous Items

• Device Partitioning limits what devices an Operator can see for Alarm and Event monitoring and when running reports
• Interfaces for additional DVRs and central station receivers
• Company Name can be added to report and Velocity Logo suppressed
• Holidays are editable
• RSS feed
• Microsoft Message Queue
• Status Viewer shows Threat Level and relay details
• Automatically e-mail reports
• Relative Date/Time parameters in reports, including: Last Hour, Last Day, Last Week
• Who’s Inside display
• Velocity Scheduling Agent – Schedule SQL database back-ups