Forcefield 7

Challenger overview

Over 90,000 installations across Australia & New Zealand

For Commercial Alarms & Access Control

Retail

Mines Banking

Corporate Utilities

Education

Health Prisons

Rail Petrol/Convenience

What is Forcefield

Forcefield is software designed to allow

operators to easily control large, integrated

security systems

System Architecture

Forcefield integrated management features

• Advanced Alarm Monitoring

• Advanced Access Control

• Integrated Video

• Integrated 3rd Party Intercom, paging and duress (option)

• Database Partitioning (multi-tenancy)

• Guard Tour

• Photo ID & Card Programming

• Real-Time Graphics

• Triggering

• Redundancy

• Reports

• “Watch house” mode using Windows clients

• Custom colours for map icon, speed bar and notification bar states

New in Forcefield 7

• Challenger10 support

• Windows 8 compatibility

• New “User Link” protocol for managing user rights in 3rd party systems

• Improved user download

• Improved performance with faster event handling

• Various fixes and enhancements based on customer feedback

Challenger10

Forcefield now includes full support for the powerful new Challenger10

controller

Support includes:

• Full upload and download of panel configuration

• Automated Challenger V8 to Challenger10 migration tool

• Simultaneous operation with Challenger V8 panels

The Forcefield difference

Seamless

Forcefield seamlessly combines access control, intrusion detection and

video surveillance into a single unified system — on the one operator

screen.

Supported

Forcefield has hundreds of trained and assessed security professionals

across Australia and New Zealand. This provides you with a wide

choice of contractors for support, maintenance and installation.

Reliable

Building on the reliability of the Challenger system, Forcefield is

designed for mission critical applications. It boasts a highly stable real-

time OS (operating system), distributed processing and backup

redundancy.

Flexible, adaptable, efficient

Modular Expansion

• No need to replace existing hardware

• Just keep adding nodes to expand Challenger panel and NVR/DVR connections

Scalable

• New “User Link Single site to multi-site

• Single user to multi-user

• Scale up to thousands of panels

• Scale up to hundreds of thousands of doors and alarm points.

• Connect to thousands of cameras

Wide area network server failover

• Server redundancy provided between two distant locations,

supporting higher latency and lower bandwidth connections

• Disaster recovery and Hot Standby allows continuous access to your

network server

Forcefield integrated video

Better Security • Quicker response in an

emergency

• Reliable evidence for legal

prosecution

• Easy forensic investigation of

events

Better Efficiency • Streamlined management of

your security

• Easier control for operators

• Greater staff productivity

• Reduced training requirements

Better investment • Full integration, all in one

system

• Leverage existing IP

infrastructure

• Leverage existing Challenger

investment

• Industry leading NVR/DVR

performance

Incorporated Video Functionality

Initial setup / maintenance

• Add new NVR/DVRs, analogue and IP cameras

• Fully configure NVR/DVR settings (frame rate, resolution, etc)

• Live device status and diagnostics

Incident response

• Quickly view tagged video footage from alarm screen

• Pop up video streams on alarm

• Dynamically adjust Multiview layouts on alarm

• Display footage from graphic maps

Post incident / forensic activities

• View footage based on historical events in Forcefield database

• View footage by time search

• Easily export footage for authorities from video playback screen

Forcefield Multiview

• Shows pre arranged camera views in up to 8

monitors per Forcefield client. Great for setting

up video walls at very low cost.

• Cameras in each Multiview can be added to a

sequence to automatically scroll through

camera views for the operator.

• Multiviews can be dynamically changed based

on any event in Forcefield (eg: preferred

operator layout appears upon login, site wide

view of cameras appears on alarm, etc)

• An operator or event can open Multiviews

across multiple clients.

Supported Video Recorders

• True hybrid: 16 IP, 8 analogue channels • H.264 compression • Real time storage • Up to 12TB hard drive • Redundant hard disk storage • H.264 megapixel IP camera support

TVN20

TVR60

• 16 Channels full IP • H.264 compression • Real time storage • Up to 16TB hard drive • Redundant hard disk storage • H.264 megapixel IP camera support • 3rd party IP camera support

*Note –TVR10, TVR40 also supported

Legacy Sym and DVMRe units also supported

Supports the TruVision range of NVR/DVRs including:

Operator Interface Example

Footage Playback

Relevant footage can be loaded instantly from the alarm screen.

Footage can be exported for the authorities within seconds.

Live

footage

PTZ

Controls

Recorded

footage

Playback

controls

Footage

export

Third Party Integration

3rd party Integration Features

Forcefield offers integration to a number of 3rd party platforms allowing

your business to combine its operational and security systems in one,

seamless platform.

Some benefits include:

• Ability to automatically export/import cardholders with images with

normal CSV data

• SQL reporting feature

• Energy saving interface

• HR platform interface

Talk to your Regional Sales Manager about 3rd party integration today.

Video integration through SDK

Forcefield has now been enhanced to allow 3rd party systems* to

integrate using the same SDK as Interlogix branded products.

This means that all functionality available to Interlogix video products is

available to other video system vendors.

• Cross platform XML based protocol

• Cost effective per camera licensing model

• Flexible levels of integration

• Design video interface to exact customer specifications

Talk to your Regional Sales Manager about 3rd party integration today.

Commend IP Intercom

• With Commend IP all intercoms can be managed by Forcefield

• Make & answer calls through maps and call queue screen

• Assign doors & cameras to intercom

• Control intercom point settings from Forcefield

• Receive alarms from Commend intercom

• Integrates PABX systems via standard SIP interface

Image courtesy of Commend

Forcefield hardware & options

System Capacity System Capacity

• Up to 128 Challenger Panels per node

• Up to 20 Forcefield nodes

• Up to 20 Forcefield Clients per node

• 2,560 Challenger panels

• 1,310,720 alarm points

• 81,920 separate alarm areas

• 245,760 intelligent doors or lift access

points.

• 999 DVR Units

• 200 clients per Forcefield system

• 1 Million users

Build a system to meet your requirements

• Up to 32 Challenger Panels per node

• Up to 8 nodes

• Up to 5 Forcefield Clients per node

• 256 Challenger systems

• 65,536 alarm points

• 4,096 separate alarm areas

• 12,288 intelligent doors or lift access

points.

• 999 DVR Units

• 40 clients per Forcefield system

• 1 Million users

Standard

• Suitable for medium sized systems

• Supplied as pre-loaded appliance

• No additional server hardware required

Enterprise

• Suitable for medium to very large systems

• Supplied as pre-loaded appliance

• No additional server hardware required

• Dual redundant power supplies

• RAID 1 configuration hard drives

IMPORTANT:

A Forcefield Client workstation can be used to display multiple video streams from DVR

units.

The number of video streams per workstation and per monitor depend on the client’s

computer specifications such as CPU, video cards, operating system and memory.

• Support for Windows 7, XP (both 32 or

64 BIT)

• 512 MB RAM

• 10/100 network card

• Standard keyboard

• Mouse

Workstation PC requirements

• TS9110 Additional Client License

• TS9111 Video Switcher License

• TS9112 Pager/Duress License

• TS9113 Intercom License

• TS9115 Multi Node License

• TS9116 Third Party Integration License

• TS9117 Interlogix DVR Integration License

• TS9118 Hot Standby License

(Requires TS9115 Multi Node license)

• TS9119 Auto User Import/Export License

• TS9170 Commend Intercom License

integration

• TS9171 3rd Party Camera integration

License Options

• TS9100 Forcefield hardware

• TS9120 Forcefield Enterprise hardware

• TS9073 Rocket Port Card

Hardware Options

Forcefield options

Forcefield training requirement

• Forcefield will only be licensed to

trained and assessed Forcefield

installers

• The Forcefield Trained and Assessed

card is issued once training has been

successfully completed. This card has

a unique 9 digit number that must be

quoted to obtain licences once a

Forcefield unit is installed

• Accreditation details will be checked at

time of licence issue

• System will not operate without a valid

license