01 · Operate
Operate
The incident queue, the live map and the incident in hand, on one screen.
Platform · Video management
EdgeTrack VMS
Every camera, every incident, one screen
EdgeTrack VMS brings a corridor of Recon cameras onto one operator screen. Live video, instant playback, court-ready evidence and semantic search work side by side. The camera sees at the edge, and the VMS makes every second usable.
1080pLive at 25 fps from a Recon camera
4x4Largest live grid
64xTop playback speed
< 1 sFrom a typed description to ranked results
What it does
Eight areas, in the order a control room uses them
An operator starts with the incident queue, watches live video, investigates in playback and exports evidence. Supervisors manage alarms, walls, maps and system health from the same product.
02 · Live
Live and PTZ
Grids, single view, digital zoom, presets and tours.
03 · Investigate
Investigate
Synced playback, a timeline, bookmarks and evidence holds.
04 · Evidence
Evidence and cases
Signed export packages and cases that record the purpose of every view.
05 · Search
Semantic search
Describe a vehicle in words, find it, and follow its trail.
06 · Alarms
Alarms and incidents
Rules, schedules, escalation and guided handling.
07 · Wall
Wall and map
Video walls with an alarm tile, and a street map with chainage.
08 · Health
Health and administration
Fleet health, onboarding, roles, an audit chain and three languages.
Operate
The operator home
The incident queue is on the left, the corridor map is in the centre and the selected incident is on the right. The operator does not switch between screens.
- Incident markers use priority colours P1 to P4 and pulse until an operator acknowledges them.
- The selected incident shows the event clip, a live tile, the road, chainage and carriageway, and the nearest cameras.
- A live violation feed lists the latest events with time, camera, plate, vehicle type and violation.
- Wrong-way, stopped-vehicle and hotlist incidents select themselves and sound a chime. The first operator to act owns the incident.
- The queue shows the 200 most urgent open incidents, worst first. Every action works from the keyboard.
Live and PTZ
Live view at full resolution
Operators watch grids of 1, 2x2, 3x3 or 4x4 cameras. A double-click opens one camera in single view on the 1080p main stream.
- Grid tiles use the light stream or the main stream of each camera. Scroll to zoom and drag to pan.
- A tile replays the last 30 seconds or 5 minutes, takes a snapshot, or goes to a video wall.
- Saved views are private or shared with a role. Carousel tiles rotate cameras, and pop-out windows serve a second monitor.
- The PTZ pad has presets, click-to-centre and tours. A tour stops when the operator takes control.
- The VMS pulls one stream from each camera and serves every viewer from its own recorder.
Investigate
Playback that keeps up with the operator
Up to four cameras play on one clock. The timeline zooms from seven days to one minute, and every tool follows the tile in focus.
Timeline
Recordings, gaps and events in one view
The timeline marks recordings, gaps, holds, the selection and vehicle events. A calendar shows the days with footage.
Controls
From 1/16x to 64x
Scrub thumbnails, reverse play and frame steps in both directions. The clock always matches the picture on screen.
Bookmarks and holds
Footage that retention never deletes
Bookmarks have notes and search. An evidence hold keeps footage until a second person releases it.
Evidence and cases
Court-ready evidence
Every export is a sealed package: the original video, a signed manifest and a verifier page that works offline.
Original video
Copied as recorded
Video is exported as MP4 or AVI and is never re-encoded. A multi-camera export gives one package per camera.
Signed manifest
SHA-256 per file, Ed25519 signature
The manifest carries the SHA-256 hash of every file. A draft certificate under BSA section 63(4)(c) is included.
Holds and expiry
A reason for every export
Every export needs a reason and places an evidence hold on its time range. Packages expire on a schedule that the site sets.
Cases
Every view has a purpose on record
A case states its purpose. While it is active, every live view, playback, search and export is logged against it.
Semantic search
Search video in words
Type “white car” and every white car on the corridor comes back in under a second, ranked by match strength. The operator needs no plate number and writes no rules.
- Narrow the results by time window, camera, vehicle class or a partial plate.
- One click on a result opens the recording at that moment.
- Follow a vehicle: pick one sighting and the VMS finds the same vehicle on the other cameras, then draws its route on the map.
- Every plate read is searchable. A watchlisted plate raises a P1 incident on its next read on any camera.
- Search runs on the VMS server on the premises, with no cloud service. Every search is in the audit trail.
Alarms and incidents
Rules decide what becomes an incident
Each rule sets a priority for an event type and a camera, on a schedule. Its actions reach the queue, the wall, a webhook or a PTZ preset.
Rules
Armed on a schedule
An ignored event stays searchable and raises nothing. Tamper, fallen-object and fire alerts from the camera enter the same queue.
Escalation
Supervisors on a timer
Unacknowledged P1 and P2 incidents escalate to supervisors after a time that an administrator sets.
Procedures
Guided handling
Each incident type has a list of steps. An operator can close an incident as resolved only when every step is ticked.
Shared state
Every operator sees each action
Acknowledge, assign, comment, link duplicates, close or reopen. Each action reaches the other operators in under a second.
Wall and map
The wall reacts, and the corridor is on one map
A wall has 1 to 16 tiles. Each tile is a camera or a carousel, and an alarm tile jumps to the camera of every new P1 or P2 incident.
- Operators push a camera to the wall from Live or from an incident with one click.
- Each wall screen runs in a kiosk browser with a wall-only role. Changes appear within a second.
- Every camera is on a street map at its road, chainage and carriageway, with a view cone along its heading.
- Locations read as “NH-48 km 117.9 LHS” in the queue, on tooltips and in incident facts.
- On a closed network, the map is served from the site.
Health and administration
Fleet health and control of access
One page shows recorder, storage and camera state. Storage, recorder, host and camera faults raise system incidents in the operator queue.
- Per camera: bitrate, share of the last 24 hours recorded, outages, retention and clock offset.
- Roles control access per camera. A site can require multi-factor sign-in for chosen roles.
- The audit log records the user, time and IP address of every transaction.
- The recorder chains the hash of every segment and signs checkpoints, so the whole recording can be verified.
- The interface is in English, Hindi and Marathi, chosen per user, with three themes for a dim control room, a bright desk and a video wall.
ITMS requirements
Functions that ITMS tenders ask of a VMS
State ITMS tenders list the functions a video management system must have. EdgeTrack VMS covers the functions below.
Live, recording and wall
- Live view with simultaneous recording
- 24x7 recording with retention per camera
- Dual streaming per camera
- Digital zoom and snapshot
- Camera carousel
- PTZ presets and tours
- 3x3 video wall with alerts
Playback and evidence
- Play, rewind, pause and jump to a time
- Concurrent playback and search by time
- Bookmarks and alarm replay
- Recordings that cannot be altered
- Hash-sealed, tamper-evident export
- AVI and MP4 formats
- Evidence that retention never deletes
Analytics and alarms
- Vehicle metadata store
- ANPR and edge analytics ingest
- Retrieval by time, place and plate
- Alarm on a stalled vehicle
- Guided operator flow
- Rules that push video to the wall
- Event clip with pre and post roll
Operations and security
- Map overlay with click-to-view
- Camera selection from a map or a list
- ONVIF devices
- Per-camera roles
- System-wide audit
- Signed webhooks to other systems
- Marathi, Hindi and English
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
What is EdgeTrack VMS?
EdgeTrack VMS is a video management system for highway control rooms. It gives operators live video, synced playback, signed evidence export, semantic search, alarms, video walls and a corridor map for Recon cameras.
Which cameras does EdgeTrack VMS work with?
EdgeTrack VMS is built around the Recon edge camera. It reads the plate, vehicle and violation events that the camera produces, and it controls PTZ cameras through ONVIF.
How does EdgeTrack VMS protect evidence?
Every export is a sealed package with the original video, a manifest signed with Ed25519 and the SHA-256 hash of every file. A verifier page checks the package offline. The export also places a hold on the footage, so retention does not delete it.
How does semantic search work for an operator?
The operator types a description such as white car. The VMS returns matching vehicles from every camera in under a second, ranked by match strength. One click opens the recording at that moment.
Does EdgeTrack VMS need a cloud service?
No. Recording, playback and search run on the VMS server on the premises. On a closed network, the map is also served from the site.
Which languages does the interface support?
English, Hindi and Marathi. Each user chooses a language and a time zone. Codes, plates and camera names stay as they are.