SDK 3.5 package. While Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0 supports all the integration options known

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1 The Open Platform Company February 8, 2011 Release Notes Milestone Integration Platform Software Development Kit 1.0 It is with great pleasure that Milestone Systems today announces the release of: Milestone Integration Platform Software Development Kit 1.0 The Milestone Integration Platform (MIP) is a universal platform for easy and flexible integration of various types of security and business systems, and video analytics applications with Milestone XProtect video management software. Its powerful multi-layered integration architecture enables integration on different abstraction levels, where a unique plug-in architecture enables seamless integration of third party applications in Milestone s management interface and in the XProtect Smart Client. The MIP Software Development Kit provides Milestone s partners with a comprehensive development framework with an array of development resources that makes development of video enabled solutions based on Millstone XProtect video management software natively easy, ensuring short time-to-market. Milestone Integration Platform Main Futures and Capabilities in Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0 The Milestone Integration Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.0 is the successor to the Milestone SDK 3.5 package. While Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0 supports all the integration options known from Milestone SDK 3.5, the new Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0 offers a wide set of capabilities as a part of its easy to use development framework: Supports a multitude of integration methods To meet the needs of the end customer in best possible way and to facilitate integrationn towards the widest range of applications and systems, MIP SDK offers multiple integration layers with different levels of abstraction that supports three basic types of integration (any solution can use one, or a combination of these integration methods): o MSP application as plug-in to Milestone applications via the MIP environment This enables you to develop plug-ins to both the Milestone XProtect Smart Client, the Milestone XProtect management applications and to the new Milestone XProtect Event Server. o Component based integration via.net library in to own application Enables you to use standard components (both UI and not UI components) to video enable an already existing application or to build new alternative clients to the Milestone VMS. kind of warranty. Milestone Systems A/S reserve the right to make adjustments without prior notification. All names of peoplee and organizations used in this document s examples are fictitious. Any resemblance to any actual organization or person, living or dead, is purely coincidental and unintended.

2 o Basic protocol integration Network interfaces enabling you to interface with the Milestone VMS software from any environment that enables you to create TCP socket connections and process the logic required. The various integration methods allows for fast integration of external systems and applications, such as access control systems, building management systems, alarm systems, POS and ERP systems, and an array of video content analytics applications, etc. Powerful integration capabilities The Milestone Integration Platform SDK offers a rich set of integration possibilities that enables development of innovative solutions that allows Milestone partners to meet the customers needs and ultimately build market differentiation: Video & Audio Retrieve and display live/recorded video Retrieve and play live/recorded audio Retrieve and display single frame JPEG images Video and Audio export in both AVI and Milestone Video database format Place overlay information on live/recorded video in component based implementation as well as Smart Client plug-in Event & Alarm Trigger internal or external events and alarms Retrieve list of triggered events Security Manage user rights on plug-in functionality Framework for system access and security token handling Configuration Retrieve VMS configuration including Camera, User and alarm information Save and retrieve MIP Plug-in configuration Control Send PTZ commands to devices Retrieve PTZ position from absolute PTZ cameras Send a start or stop recording event from a specific device Activate external output Control Smart Wall functionality Send camera to a Matrix monitor Send command messages to MIP SDK plugins System Status Receive all status messages from the VMS system including server disk and CPU usage and all triggered events New MIP plug-in environment - ultimate user experience Milestone Integration Platform provides a unique capability to plug in customer or MSP solutions in to XProtect management interface and into the XProtect Smart Client. The MIP environment enables seamless integration of partner and customer applications that provides users with an intuitive user interface with logical work flows. The Smart Client plug-ins will amongst other enable you to develop your own view items displaying your own data and interacting with the Smart Client functionality, develop side panel layers to control navigation and other. The Corporate Management client plug-ins will amongst other enable you to administer your application and configuration from within the Milestone XProtect management applications. The Event Server plug-in will enable you to develop server side functionality that runs as a plug-in in the Event Server service. Thereby you will be able to execute event based (based on either Milestone Events, other MIP plug-ins, or external information that you listen for) logic without having to have a user interface open. Server side MIP plug-in environment In addition to the plug-in environment on the client side, MIP also offers the possibility for server side application integration via the MIP environment. This means that MSP and customer solutions can be hosted on an XProtect server and be executed continuously independently of Smart Clients. Unique intra MIP plug-in communication The new MIP environment also enables a unique (patent pending) capability that enables one MIP plug-in to draw upon and make use of functions that are provided by another MIP plug-in. This enables both a modular design with the ability to reuse already made integrations, and the ability to create synergy effects between two or more MIP plug-ins.

3 Comprehensive development framework MIP SDK offering a comprehensive development framework with an array of development resources that ease the development of video enabled solutions, and makes integration towards MIP natively easy. The development framework not only reduces the effort and time needed to develop a solution, but it also helps assure the solution quality. The development framework includes: o Extensive documentation with application and code samples o Tool box with open access to proven Milestone libraries and code components for common tasks such as: system logon, video decoding and rendering, configuration distribution, authorization verification, etc o Visual Studio project templates o Development tool (traces, program logs, etc.) Unified interface to all Milestone XProtect VMS products MIP provides a unified forward compatible interface and capability set across XProtect Corporate, XProtect Enterprise and XProtect Professional. This ensures full solution portability across the XProtect VMS family, and between different versions of the same product. Compatibility with Milestone SDK 3.5 Although Milestone has strived to maintain full backwards compatibility between the Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0 and the Milestone SDK 3.5, there is a couple of areas related to component and plug-in integration where the MIP SDK 1.0 is not compatibility with Milestone SDK 3.5. Plug-In compatibility Smart Client plug-ins developed using the Milestone SDK 3.5 are not compatible with MIP SDK 1.0. Component integrations: The ImageViewer active is now capable of displaying overlays on top of live and recorded video, in the SetOverlay() method. The DirectShow filter has been updated with following new features: o Height and Width can now be specified o All frames can now be received for H.264 o Token renewal is automatic o Privacy masking is supported o Decoding and transcoding has been updated to new version - increasing speed The current SDK implementation using the SDK.net dll s (VideoOS.SDK.dll) will be set in maintenance mode, and new features will not be made. The MIP SDK 1.0 has the following new set of dll s to use instead: o VideoOS.Platform.SDK.dll for base configuration, MIP Environment and event and messaging handling o VideoOS.Platform.SDK.Export.dll for database and AVI export and retrieving snap-shots as JPEGs o VideoOS.Platform.SDK.UI.dll for abstraction layer on top of the ImageViewer active, LoginForm and a few other UI related controls Protocol integrations: All protocols have maintained backwards compatibility. It should though be noted that the token timeout is now enforced on existing TCP/IP sessions and could result in black screens for MSP solutions where the developer forgot to implement this. The new features around privacy masking cannot be used in combinations with MSP solutions without changes. If you connect to a camera where privacy masking has been configured, you will need to add code perform this overlay and instruct the server that you actually do this task. Two new build-in User-Defined Events make it easier to control recording of video. On the ServerCommand SOAP protocol the TriggerEventWithMetadata can now be issued with one or more camera GUIDs to: o Start Recording

4 o Stop Recording Support for these commands are available for XProtect Enterprise 7.0d, and XProtect Corporate 4.0a Recommendations with regards to Current Solution Implementations Given the changes described above, Milestone recommended its partners with existing solution to review their implementations. Dependent on the type of integration used, Milestone recommends the following actions: Current SDK solutions working as plug-ins in the XProtect Smart Client: The Smart Client internal classes and structures have changed in some areas. Current Smart Client solutions will need to be validated with new version of the Smart Client 5.5 It is highly recommended to port existing code to the MIP SDK framework for the Smart Client, to avoid references to internal Smart Client Classes and ActiveX components Current SDK solutions based on component integrations: (ImageViewer, EngineManager, AudioPlayer, DirectShow components) All components are backwards compatible, except that version numbers have been updated If your customer plan to use privacy masking (new feature in XProtect Corporate 4.0, which also will become available in XProtect Enterprise during 2011), you should use the latest ImageViewer active and rebuild your solution Current SDK solutions based on VideoOS.SDK.dll component: This component has been replaced with the MIP SDK version: VideoOS.Platform.SDK.dll (and 2 more) Compiled and installed solution will most likely work with XProtect Corporate 4.0 (and the new planned versions of XProtect Enterprise and XProtect Professional planned for 2011), but it is highly recommended to port the solution to the MIP SDK.Net Library version as soon as possible Current SDK solutions based on protocol integrations: (ImageServer, ServerCommand, RecorderCommand, Status, Central protocols) All protocols are backwards compatible, and solutions should work without changes For ImageServer protocol will now enforce timeout of the Tokens, e.g. after the default 1 hour time span of a token live time, sessions that have not renewed the token will be terminated Analytics Integration The MIP SDK 1.0 also supports integration of Video Content Analytics applications using Milestone Analytics Data (MAD) format for event reporting. This capability was previously available via the Generic Video Analytics Plug-In in the XProtect Analytics Framework, but is now ported to the Milestone Integration Platform. Apart from providing a unified interface for all types of integration, the enabling of analytics application via the MIP SDK offers substantial savings on licenses, compared to the XProtect Analytics Framework. To enable this capability in XProtect Corporate 4.0, an additional Analytics Events plug-in to the Event Server is needed. This plug-in can be downloaded free of charge from the download area on Milestone s web site. System Requirements MIP SDK 1.0 is using Microsoft.Net 4.0 MIP SDK 1.0 samples are provided for Visual Studio 2010 (Except DirectShow sample is using Visual Studio 2008) Compatibility with Milestone XProtect IP Video Management Software Initially Milestone Integration Platform SDK will only be available on XProtect Corporate 4.0 and XProtect Smart Client 5.5. Milestone will during 2011 make the Milestone Integration Platform SDK available for the XProtect Professional and the XProtect Enterprise products.

5 End-of-Development of Milestone SDK In conjunction with the release of the Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0, Milestone also announces End-of- Development of the Milestone SDK. This means that no further development will be made on the Milestone SDK. Milestone is however committed to support the Milestone SDK until December 31, 2012, where the present Milestone SDK will reach End-of-Support. End-of-Development of Generic VA Plug-In for XProtect Analytics Framework In conjunction with the release of the Milestone Integration Platform SDK 1.0, Milestone also announces End-of- Development of the Generic VA Plug-In for XProtect Analytics Framework. This means that no further development will be made on the Generic VA Plug-In. Milestone is however committed to support the Generic VA Plug-In until December 31, 2012, where the present Generic VA Plug-In will reach End-of-Support. Licensing The Milestone Integration Platform SDK is available free of charge to Milestone partners who signed a Non Disclosure Agreement with Milestone. There are no runtime licenses for solutions developed using the MIP SDK, apart from the normal system and camera/device licenses for the respective XProtect VMS product. For details about the licensing, please refer to the End-User License Agreement for the respective products. Additional Information Please refer to the ReadMe file for additional technical information. Best regards, The Milestone Team