Surveillance Video Management (VMS) Systems

Surveillance Video Management

What is Surveillance Video Management Systems?

Surveillance Video Management Systems (VMS) provide solutions to maintain a secure environment.​ Using advanced camera optics and sensors, they are network-attached devices that are accessible via operations centers and on mobile devices.

Common Features

  • Secure System
  • Camera Control
  • Video Storage and Retention
  • Device Access
  • Video Extraction and Export
  • Chain of Custody
  • Video Enhancement
  • Video Analytics
  • Dispatching
  • Video Review
  • Systems Integration

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Top Surveillance Video Management Systems 2025

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Security Eye Software

Security Eye

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

Installed on your PC, Security Eye uses IP cameras and webcams to perform unbeatable video monitoring. Motion detector is one of the main tools available in Security Eye. It is based on the video frame analyzing algorithm. The software uses xVid encoding engine for quality video recording. You can record the events in your home, office or shop while you are away. The easy-to-use, integrated video player allows you to playback recorded video anytime, on any speed.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Axis Communications Inc.

AXIS Camera Station

Composite Score
6.7 /10
CX Score
6.8 /10

AXIS Camera Station, video management software, is the ideal solution to meet the needs for efficient surveillance of small- and midsized installations, such as retail shops, hotels, schools and manufacturing sites. It is designed to perfectly match Axis' wide range of network video products and product features to optimize system reliability.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Inspires Innovation
Panasonic Security Solutions

Video Insight

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The New Video Insight is redesigned from the ground up to provide enhanced performance and stability, maximize scalability and offer new premium functionality for key vertical markets. VI 7 is aimed at making the entire video management suite more intuitive, more powerful and easier to use.

QNAP, Inc.

QVR Elite

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QVR Elite is a NAS NVR application in the QNAP surveillance app family. It is a subscription-based smart NVR application ( starting with Only US $1.99/month). Inherited from QVR Pro advantages, QVR Elite allows users to easily build a surveillance system with low monthly fee and high performance. It also integrates multiple QNAP AI-based video analytics solutions, such as face recognition by QVR Face, recording AI search by QVR Smart Search and people counting by QVR Human.

Avigilon Corporation

Avigilon Control Center

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Avigilon Control Center (ACC) video management software gives you control over your workstation with a simplified screen layout, intuitive controls, and customizable features that improve multi-person interactions. ACC leverages advanced artificial intelligence and video analytics, including Appearance Search™ technology and Unusual Motion Detection technology, to help you quickly detect, verify and act on events.

QNAP, Inc.

QVR Pro

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QVR Pro, QNAP’s NAS NVR application, comes with QVR Pro Client. It brings the surveillance users to a whole new intuitive user interface experience, offering to view the live and playback in the same dynamic layout on the same screen. QVR Pro provides 8 embedded camera channels, allowing home users to quickly build a powerful surveillance environment hosted on your QNAP NAS. QVR Pro is also supported by QVR Center which is the QNAP central surveillance management application and supports up to 256 QVR Pro servers management.

Bosch Security Systems Inc

BVMS Professional 9.0

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BVMS Professional is a unique IP video security solution that provides seamless management of digital video, audio, and data across any IP network. It provides the best video management system to go with Bosch video surveillance devices, leveraging the unique capabilities of Bosch cameras and recording solutions. It nevertheless offers interfaces and standards to integrate other systems and manufacturers. The system is equipped with a unique embedded resilience. It keeps operations up and running even when both the management server and recording server(s) fail.

Milestone

XProtect

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Milestone designs, develops and produces world-leading IP-based video management solutions for organizations of all shapes and sizes.

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Flexible, scalable and easy to use, our Command VMS platforms will save you time and simplify your video surveillance system management.

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VideoXpert is a video management solution designed to fit surveillance operations of any size. Whether your operation has 100 cameras or 25,000, VideoXpert presents a solution to display, record, and manage your video resources. But VideoXpert Enterprise is more than a VMS, it is an enterprise video-centric data management solution, designed to bring in data from any source and reference it to other data, to provide predictive capability to every customer.