Verkada launches new product line, Verkada Intercom, as well as expansive new updates across its entire platform

Verkada, a pioneer in cloud-managed enterprise building security and management, announces the newest addition to its product line, Verkada Intercom, and a range of updates that expand the reach of the Verkada platform.

• Verkada Intercom, a reimagined building entry and communication experience that gives front desk staff the ability to manage access and answer calls from anywhere.
• Verkada's next-generation of bullet cameras, built for harsh conditions and distant scenes with even better image quality, improved analytics and an easier installation experience.
• Verkada Helix, a powerful new enterprise video search and integration engine.
• Even more powerful license plate recognition (LPR) capabilities, now supporting up to three lanes of traffic at speeds up to 80mph.
• Verkada's new horn speaker, giving customers the ability to respond in real time to deter intruders.
• An enhanced Command interface, making it even easier to navigate the platform and giving customers even more features for visibility and control.
• New Guest integrations, making it easier for front desk staff to streamline security screens with Checkr.

Smart receiver methods

"Each of our products is intuitive and powerful in its own right – but connected together on the Command platform, they provide best-in-class capabilities to protect people and places," said Brandon Davito, VP of Product. "All of the new products and features we're introducing today – from Verkada Intercom and our new talkdown speaker to our enhanced Command interface – work together to empower our customers to not only keep their organisations safer, but also to transform the way they operate."

With the new video intercom, customers can answer calls from anywhere with sharp video

Verkada Intercom, the newest addition to Verkada's product portfolio, empowers front desk staff to make smarter entry decisions. With the new video intercom, customers can answer calls from anywhere with sharp video, clear audio, four smart receiver methods and intuitive management and security tools in Verkada Command.

Easier installation experience

Every button press and intercom call is recorded on-device for easy retrieval and historical review for up to 30 days, and comes with the full suite of Verkada features that Verkada customers already use, including people analytics, motion algorithms and cloud archiving.

The second generation of Verkada's bullet cameras deliver better image quality, improved analytics and an easier installation experience. The bullet cameras are designed to capture video in harsh conditions and for distant scenes. With two wide-angle models and two telephoto models, the refreshed bullet cameras have up to 3x optical zoom and enhanced processing power.

Enterprise video search

Verkada also introduced:

• Enhanced License Plate Recognition (LPR) capabilities:

• Verkada can now support LPR across three lanes of traffic with a single camera at speeds up to 80mph.

• Verkada also introduced a completely new cross-camera LPR search experience where customers can see all plates that have been detected, assign names to a license plate for easier searches and review historical footage, conduct motion searches and create archives.
• Helix, the powerful new enterprise video search and integration engine: Helix allows customers to provide context to their video security footage by indexing Verkada camera footage with data from third-party applications. When customers import their own enterprise data into Command – such as transactions from a point-of-sale system – they can use it as a filter to quickly search through events on video. Helix is compatible with all camera models and can be easily set up via Verkada's public API endpoint.

Pre-recorded message

This is why Verkada introduced the new Horn Speaker that allows organisations to talk down to intruders

Law enforcement resources are stretched thin, so it's not always possible for police to arrive in time when an alarm is triggered – making deterrence measures critical to stopping intruders before they can do damage.

This is why Verkada introduced the new Horn Speaker that allows organisations to talk down to intruders directly from a camera feed in Verkada's Command dashboard or mobile app. With the addition of an Alarms License, organisations can also have professional monitoring agents talk down to intruders, or configure a pre-recorded message to play as an automated response.

Integrated security products

Verkada updated its user interface to make it even easier to manage all users, devices and alerts across the Command platform.

This new look and feel will better accommodate its growing portfolio of integrated security products, and ensure our platform continues to be intuitive and easy for customers to navigate. Further, new language options – French, Spanish and Japanese – were added to meet the needs of its growing global customer base.

Physical security technologies

Additionally, several new features have been introduced to give customers more visibility and control:

• Live Viewers: For more visibility into how Verkada is being used across organisations, Live Viewers displays each person currently viewing a camera in the top right hand corner of the Camera page. The clickable Live Viewer icons will show additional context like the viewer's name, email and IP address, and length of the stream session.
• Customisable privacy & security disclosures: Customisable QR codes and associated webpages have been created so visitors can easily understand what physical security technologies are being deployed at an organisation – and how they are being used. Once the disclosure is generated, it can be shared in the form of a link embedded in an email or printed as a QR code and posted on the premises. This allows individuals entering a Verkada building to scan the QR code and quickly learn, for example, if video is being captured by cameras on the premises.

By integrating with Checkr, Verkada Guest customers can now more quickly, accurately, and securely manage visitor access with background checks, as well as registered sex offender checks, during check-in. Potential matches are returned for front desk staff to review before making entry decisions. Individuals who do not pass the screening can be immediately added to an auto-deny list.