AETEK GPI (Genetec Plugin Integration) seamlessly connects AETEK NTS-supported IP-managed devices with Genetec Security Center, delivering a unified management platform for enhanced security operations. This integration empowers security teams to monitor, control, and troubleshoot their surveillance network infrastructure directly within Security Center's familiar interface, eliminating the need to switch between multiple platforms. Through event-driven alarms, visual network topology, remote diagnostics and troubleshooting capabilities, AETEK GPI transforms how operators manage IP PoE devices—ensuring maximum uptime, operational efficiency, and rapid response to critical IP surveillance network events.
Main Features:
- Unified Device Management – Consolidate all AETEK IP-managed device operations into a single interface for streamlined control and monitoring
- Event-Driven Alarm Integration – Automatically trigger and manage alarms based on device events with instant notifications
- Visual Network Topology (NTS) – Access real-time network structure with interactive visualization including floor maps and Google Map integration
- Real-Time Status Monitoring – View live device health, throughput, comprehensive device information, and power consumption through health indicators and device dashboards
- Advanced Cable Diagnostics – Execute remote cable testing to pinpoint connectivity faults, breaks or distance-to-fault locations instantly
- Intelligent Device Recovery – Execute remote reboots of unresponsive IP cameras or PDs, significantly reducing the need for on-site maintenance
- Remote Power Control – Perform PoE and DC ports, scheduling parameters, and power cycling to manage devices at the edge
- Integrated Device Discovery – Seamlessly detect AETEK devices across network segments with direct-access Web UI links
Jump to
Industry
- Airports
- Banking
- Cannabis
- Cities
- Corporate Campuses
- Data Centers
- Education
- Energy Utilities
- Financial Institutions
- Food Cosmetics Chemicals Pharma
- Gaming
- Government
- Healthcare
- Manufacturing Wholesale
- Parking Enforcement
- Property Management
- Public Safety
- Retail
- Seaports
- Sports Entertainment
- Traffic
- Transit
Availability
- Asia Pacific
- Americas
- Australia And New Zealand
- Europe
- Middle East And Africa
Product line
- Security Center
Key Market Applications
Education (Schools & K-12)
Educational facilities face the challenge of securing expansive campuses with limited technical staff while maintaining tight budgets and ensuring student safety across multiple buildings. Network failures can leave blind spots in critical areas, creating security vulnerabilities. AETEK’s integration addresses these by providing centralized monitoring and management, allowing security teams to receive instant alerts, identify and remotely restore unresponsive IP PoE devices. This ensures continuous surveillance coverage across multiple buildings while drastically reducing operational costs and response times without requiring extensive on-site technical support.
Smart Cities
Smart city deployments involve thousands of cameras spread across vast geographic areas monitoring streets, parks, and critical infrastructure, traditionally requiring extensive truck rolls that result in high operational costs and prolonged downtime. AETEK transforms these by bringing full network visibility into the Genetec Security Center via interactive e-Maps. Operators can proactively monitor the entire urban infrastructure, receive instant alerts for device anomalies, and perform diagnostics from a centralized command center, maximizing surveillance uptime, reducing maintenance costs and response times, and ensuring reliable public safety monitoring.
Transportation
In environments like airports and transit hubs, there is low tolerance for downtime, yet traditional maintenance requires on-site technician visits that result in extended downtime and security vulnerabilities. AETEK’s integration enables security teams to maintain continuous surveillance coverage through real-time monitoring and instant & remote device recovery. When issues occur, operators receive immediate alerts and can remotely diagnose problems, reboot devices, and restore operations within minutes while the visual network topology provides visibility across terminals, platforms, and parking facilities, ensuring uninterrupted surveillance coverage, minimizing security vulnerabilities, and significantly reducing operational costs.
Features & Benefits
- Monitor and control all AETEK IP-managed devices from a single interface, improving operational efficiency and eliminating the need to switch between multiple platforms
- Trigger integrated alarms based on specific device events with instant navigation to Genetec's Alarm monitoring task, ensuring no critical event goes unnoticed
- View real-time network topology, device status with health indicators, interactive map views, and detailed device information in real-time
- Remotely test network cables, identify connection breaks, and measure cable length to fault locations with built-in diagnostic capabilities, saving time and resources
- Perform reboots of unresponsive IP cameras or IP PoE devices remotely without on-site visits, dramatically reducing mean time to repair
Solution Architecture
The AETEK IP-managed devices communicate seamlessly with Genetec Security Center (Security Desk and Config Tool) using HTTPS and SNMP protocols.
