MultiFusion vs Avigilon Unity and Avigilon Alta

Live View

Watch many cameras at once in layouts you choose, with the lowest delay the network allows.

• Layouts of 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36 and 64 tiles; saved views per user
• WebRTC first, with automatic fallback to HLS; main and sub streams chosen per tile size
• Off-screen tiles pause; a stalled stream reconnects behind the last frame
• PTZ control, presets and PTZ patrol
• Snapshots, full screen and single-camera focus
• Live events beside the video, and the camera's position on the map

Playback

Review recorded video from the server, recording nodes or the camera's own storage.

• Multi-camera synchronised playback on one timeline
• Speeds from 0.25× to 16×; jump to the previous or next event
• Playback from camera storage (ONVIF Profile G)
• Region motion search: draw an area and find when something moved there
• H.264 and H.265, served as HLS or MP4 with byte-range seeking
• Time-limited, signed share links for a clip or a live view

Evidence export

Export clips that can be shown to be unaltered.

• Range export from one or several cameras
• SHA-256 manifest of every file and an ECDSA signature by this server — verifiable with standard tools
• Optional visible watermark burned into the exported video
• A standalone player included in the export
• Evidence lock: protected recordings are kept beyond normal retention
• Every export written to the hash-chained audit log

Recording and storage

Record every camera once, onto the storage you already have.

• Continuous, scheduled, motion and event recording with pre-record
• Recording plans per camera or camera group
• Destinations: local and attached disks, SAN volumes, NAS (SMB), S3-compatible object storage, FTP/SFTP
• Retention by days and by free space, with automatic purge
• Recording nodes keep video at remote sites; playback through the server
• Motion from the server's own analysis or the camera's ONVIF events

Maps and sites

See where every camera and every event is.

• Site tree: region → site → building → floor
• GIS map and floor plans with camera positions and field of view
• Cameras flash on the map when an alarm fires
• Map search by coordinates or address
• Map tiles from MultiFusion's own map service; an outline map on air-gapped sites

Events, alarms and rules

Turn what cameras and devices report into alarms that reach the right people.

• Events from camera motion, ONVIF events, analytics detections, access control and devices
• Rules with conditions (camera, time, type, zone) and chained actions
• Actions: start recording, snapshot, PTZ preset, relay or boom barrier, webhook, e-mail, SMS and WhatsApp
• Alarm storm suppression: repeated alarms are grouped
• Alarm centre with acknowledge, notes and history

Search and investigation

MultiFusion Intelligence finds people and vehicles across cameras and time.

• Search people and vehicles by attributes (clothing colours, vehicle type and colour)
• Face search by image
• Number-plate search, full or partial
• Plain-language queries
• Results with snapshot, camera, time and a jump to the recording
• Saved searches and exports; what each role may search is enforced by the server

AI analytics

All 17 MultiFusion AI agents run on your own hardware, and their results drive live view, rules and search.

• 17 AI agents: people and vehicles, number plates, faces and watch lists, tracking, line counts, queues, heatmaps and the same person across cameras
• Safety helmets, fire and smoke, riders without helmets, triple riding and drivers without seat belts
• Falls and fights, dense crowds, and gunshots and breaking glass on the camera's microphone
• Video synopsis: a camera's hours shown as minutes, every object at its real time
• Every model in the installer, signed; each agent's overlay and model card on the live view
• Analytics Workers on Apple silicon (GPU and Neural Engine), NVIDIA GPUs (CUDA and TensorRT, Windows and Linux), Intel graphics (OpenVINO) and x86-64 CPUs from Intel and AMD

ANPR and vehicles

Read number plates from camera streams and act on them.

• Plate reads from ordinary camera streams
• Hotlists with alerts
• Plate search with partial matches
• Gate relays and boom barriers driven by rules
• Weighbridge and parking integrations through the server API

Access control and visitors

MultiFusion Access controls doors on the same platform as the cameras.

• People, credentials (cards, PIN, QR) and face verification at the door
• Schedules, zones, entry points and policies
• Anti-passback and two-person rules
• Visitors: pre-registration, QR pass, host approval, check-in and check-out
• Directory and HR synchronisation (LDAP / Active Directory)
• Live access events with the camera view of the door

Health and maintenance

Know the state of every camera, server and disk before someone complains.

• Dashboard of cameras, recording, storage and open issues
• Server load: per-core CPU, memory, disks, network and GPUs every 2 s, kept for 30 days
• Network view: interfaces, VLANs, addresses and neighbours; topology of servers, nodes and workers
• Camera firmware updates through ONVIF
• Scheduled backups of configuration and database; checked restore
• Signed offline updates (.mfupdate, Ed25519)

Security

• Four roles — administrator, operator, viewer, auditor — and per-user camera scope by site and camera group
• Two-factor sign-in (TOTP authenticator apps)
• Password policy (12 characters by default, character classes, no reuse of the last passwords) and lockout after repeated failures
• Single sign-on with OpenID Connect and SAML; LDAP / Active Directory
• HTTPS on the LAN with no internet; TLS 1.3-only mode; certificate pinning by the apps
• Tamper-evident, hash-chained audit log of sign-ins, configuration changes and operator actions
• Secrets kept out of logs; signed sign-out revokes a token everywhere
• Camera passwords never appear in process lists; recorders read the server's restream

Integration

• REST API (/api/v1) for cameras, recordings, events, users and configuration
• Server-sent event stream for live events
• Webhooks from the rules engine
• WebRTC (WHEP) and HLS for live and recorded video in third-party web apps
• ONVIF Profile S (live, PTZ, imaging, events) and Profile G (edge playback)
• Modbus TCP and HTTP for relays and barriers; MQTT and Modbus for IoT devices
• E-mail (your SMTP server), SMS and WhatsApp through an HTTP gateway