IP Surveillance Camera Software Features. If you opt to use VMS instead of an NVR, then it’s important to know the features that come with your security camera software. The majority of IP security camera software platforms have built-in video analytics to optimize the performance of your IP security cameras.

Features

Software that finds your cameras automatically. You can go from install to running in under two minutes. Learn More

Computer vision in the software determines what’s happening so you don’t get hundreds of false alerts.

Search through weeks of footage in seconds. Find only the moments that matter. Learn More

With the Rule Editor, customize the video source, what gets analyzed, zones, and the types of alerts you'll receive. Learn More

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ONVIF support for easy detection and configuration of compatible cameras. Learn More

iPhone and Android apps to monitor a live view of your home, show you clips of events, and provide you with alerts.

Set rules that trigger mobile alerts, e-mails or custom scripts. Click the alert to see what happened. Learn More

Match your video clips to any resolution your camera supports.

Sighthound supports almost every brand of IP camera and webcam out there. Don’t get locked into one brand.

Draw boxes around doorways to capture people entering a room, create thresholds on driveways to trigger people who cross, and mask areas of the scene to ignore.

Have upstairs cameras go off at night, yard cameras off on weekends and delay recording until you’ve left the house.

Avoid cloud storage fees. Automatically upload only clips you care about to the free storage available at Google Drive, Dropbox or your preferred cloud service. Insert tab greyed out excel.