HikCentral Professional

HikCentral Professional is an integrated security software designed to

meet versatile security challenges in one intuitive platform: from
managing individual systems such as video security, access control,
intrusion alarm, etc., to collaborating multiple systems under a unified
architecture. While protecting people and property, it makes daily
operations more efficient, and helps various kinds of users make
smarter decisions.

Key Feature
Home Page
● Providing three predefined Home page modes on Web Client, including system installation and management mode,
security control and management mode, and attendance management mode
● Supports customizing Home page mode on Web Client
● Supports customizing control panel on Control Client
● Supports switching Home page mode for visualization and non-visualization management
● Providing different report dashboards for resource status, intelligent analysis results, access records, vacant parking
spaces, alarms, etc., on the Home page of Web Client
Wizard
● Providing wizards for video management, access control, vehicle management, alarm detection, and digital signage
management on Web Client
Live View and Playback
● Up to 256 channels live view simultaneously
● Custom window division configurable
● Viewing maps and real-time events during live view and playback
● Stream type self-adaptive, transcoded playback, and frame- extracting playback
● Fisheye dewarping of multi-channel
● Controlling PTZ in visualization way
● Supports decoding stream from cameras with high-definition, such as PanoVu series camera
Visual Tracking
Recording and Storage
● Recording schedule for continuous recording, event recording and command recording
● Storing videos on encoding devices, Hybrid SANs, cloud storage servers, pStors
● Providing main storage and auxiliary storage
● Providing video copy-back
● Storing alarm pictures on NVRs, Hybrid SANs, cloud storage servers, pStors, or HikCentral server
● Supports search of VCA event related videos, video footages, and event triggered video footages.
Event and Alarm Management
● Camera linkage, alarm pop-up window and multiple linkage actions
● Multiple events for video security, access control, resource group, resource maintenance, etc.
● Supports adding combined alarms in a visualization way
Access Control, Elevator Control, and Video Intercom
● Setting schedules for free access status and access forbidden status of doors or floors
● Supports multiple access modes for both card reader authentication and person authentication
● Supports assigning an access level to persons, assigning access levels to persons, assigning access levels to person groups,
and assigning access levels to an access group
● Supports advanced functions such as multi-factor authentication, anti-passback, and multi-door interlocking
● Controlling door or floor status in real-time
● Calling indoor station by the Control Client
● Calling the platform by door station and indoor station, and answering the call by the Control Client
Person and Visitor Management
● Getting person information from added devices
● Provides multiple types of credentials, including card number, face, and fingerprint, for composite authentications
● Visitor registration and check-out
Security Control
● Real-time alarm management for added security control panels
● Adding zone as hot spot on E-map and viewing the video of the linked camera
● Event and alarm linkage with added cameras, including pop-up live view, captured picture
● Subscribing the events that the Control Client can display in real-time
● Acknowledging the received alarm on the Control Client
Time and Attendance
● Setting different attendance rules for various scenarios, such as normal shift and man-hour shift
● Customizing overtime levels and setting corresponding work hour rate
● Supports assigning shift schedule to person group or person(s), or adding temporary schedule
● Supports multiple types of reports according to different needs and sending reports to specified emails regularly
Entrance and Exit Control
● Managing parking lot, entrances and exits, and lanes.
● Supports linking a LED screen with lane for information display
● Setting entry & exit rules for vehicles in the vehicle lists as well as vehicles not in any vehicle lists
● Entrance and exit control based on license plate recognition, card, or video intercom
● Viewing real-time and history vehicle information and controlling barrier gate manually on the Control Client
Temperature Screening
● Displaying the skin-temperature and whether wearing a mask or not about the recognized persons in real time
● Triggering events and alarms when detects abnormal temperature and no mask worn
● Viewing reports about skin-surface temperature and mask-wearing
Face and Body Recognition
● Displaying the information of the recognized persons in real-time
● Searching history records of recognized persons, including searching in captured pictures, searching matched persons,
searching by features of persons, and searching frequently appeared persons
Intelligent Analysis
● Supports setting resource groups and analyzing data by different groups
● Supports intelligent analysis reports including people counting, people density analysis, queue analysis, heat analysis,
pathway analysis, person feature analysis, temperature analysis, and vehicle analysis
● Displaying the number of people in specified regions in real-time
Digital Signage
● Supports static materials, including picture, video, audio, TXT file, document, static web page, Android APP, etc.
● Supports dynamic materials, including Streaming Server, network camera, URL, etc.
● Supports uploading up to 10,000 material file. Each file size cannot exceed 4 GB
● Creating normal program, attendance program, and people counting & temperature screening program
● Managing up to 2,000 programs. Program’s resolution cannot exceed 4K
● Supports creating a loop schedule, customizing a schedule, or creating schedule by day, by week, or by default
● Managing up to 1,000 schedules
● Supports cut-in program, and cut-in message
Third-Party Integration
● Sending the original attendance data to a third-party database (Microsoft® SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle),
thus the client can access third-party T&A and payment system
Network Management
● Managing network transmission devices such as switches, displaying the network connection and hierarchical relationship
of the managed resources by a topology
● Viewing the network details between the device nodes in the topology, such as downstream and upstream rate, port
information, etc. and checking the connection path
● Exporting the topology and abnormal data to check the device connection status and health status
Software Specification
The following table shows the maximum performance of the HikCentral Professional server. For other detailed data and
performance, refer to Software Requirements & Hardware Performance.

Features Maximum Performance

General Performance: 3,000①

Cameras High Performance: 10,000②
High Performance (RSM): 100,000②
Managed Device IP Addresses
*Including Encoding Devices, Access Control Devices, General Performance: 1,024①
Elevator Control Devices, Security Control Devices, Digital High Performance: 2,048②
Signage Terminals, and Remote Sites
Video Intercom Devices 2,048
Alarm Inputs (Including Zones of Security Control Devices) 3,000
Alarm Outputs 3,000
Dock Stations 1,500
Security Radars and Radar PTZ Cameras 30
Alarm Inputs of Security Control Devices 2,048
Devices and DS-5600 Series Face Recognition Terminals When Applied
32
Resources with Hikvision Turnstiles
Recording Servers 64
Streaming Servers 64
Security Audit Server 8
DeepinMind Server 64
ANPR Cameras 3,000
People Counting Cameras Recommended: 300
Heat Map Cameras Recommended: 70
Thermal Cameras Recommended: 20③
Queue Management Cameras Recommended: 300
Digital Signage Terminals 1,024
Areas 3,000
Cameras per Area 256
Alarm Inputs per Area 256
Alarm Outputs per Area 256
General Performance: 3,000①
Recording Schedule
Recording High Performance: 10,000②
Recording Schedule Template 200
General Performance: 3,000①
Event and Alarm Rules
High Performance: 10,000②
General Performance: 100/s①
Event & Alarm Storage of Events or Alarms without Pictures
High Performance: 1,000/s②
Events or Alarms Sent to Clients 120/s
*The clients include Control Clients and Mobile Clients. 100 Clients/s
Picture Storage
20/s (Stored in SYS Server)
Picture *Including event/alarm pictures, face pictures, and vehicle
80/s (Stored in Recording Server)
pictures.
Regular Report Rules 100
Event or Alarm Rules in One Event/Alarm Report Rule 32
Records in One Sent Report 10,000 or 10 MB
Reports
Resources Selected in One Report
*With this limitation, you can generate a neat and clear 20
report via the Control Client and it costs less time.
Data Retention Period Stored for 3 Years
Data Storage
People Counting 5 million
 Heat Map 0.25 million
ANPR 60 million
Events 60 million
Alarms 60 million
Access Records 1.4 billion
Attendance Records 55 million
Visitor Records 10 million
Operation Logs 5 million
Service Information Logs 5 million
Service Error Logs 5 million
Recording Tags 60 million
Concurrent Accesses via Web Clients, Control Clients, and
100
OpenAPI Clients
Users and Roles Concurrent Accesses via Mobile Clients and OpenAPI Clients 100
Users 3,000
Roles 3,000
Vehicle Lists 100
Vehicles per Vehicle List 5,000
Vehicle (ANPR)
Under Vehicle Surveillance Systems 4
Vehicle Undercarriage Pictures 3,000
Lanes 8
Entrance & Exit Cards Linked with Vehicles 250,000
Vehicle Passing Frequency in Each Lane 1 Vehicle/s
Persons with Profiles for Face Comparison 1,000,000
Face Comparison Face Comparison Groups 64
Persons in One Face Comparison Group 1,000,000
Person Group 3,000
Person
Person Group Hierarchies 10
Persons with Credentials for Access Control 50,000
Visitors 10,000
Total Credentials (Card + Fingerprint) 250,000
Cards 250,000
Access Control Fingerprints 200,000
Profiles 50,000
Access Points (Doors + Floors) 1,024
Access Levels 512
Access Schedules 32
Persons for Time and Attendance 10,000
Time and Shift Schedules 128
Attendance Major Leave Types 64
Minor Leave Types of One Major Type 128
Decoding Devices 32
Smart Walls 32
Views 1,000
Smart Wall View Groups 100
Views in One View Group 10
Cameras in One View 150
Views Auto-Switched Simultaneously 32
Intelligent Resource Groups for Intelligent Recognition 1,000
Recognition Resources in One Group 64
Materials 10,000
Programs 2,000
Digital Signage
Schedules 1,000
Release Records 1,000
 Streaming Server’s Maximum Performance

Video Input Bandwidth per Streaming Server 300 × 2 Mbps

Video Output Bandwidth per Streaming Server 300 × 2 Mbps

①: The general performance requires Intel® Xeon® E3-1220 or higher.

②: The high performance requires Intel® Xeon® E5-2620 or higher.
③: This recommended value refers to the number of thermal cameras connected to the system directly. It depends on the
maximum performance (data processing and storage) in the situation when the managed thermal cameras uploading
temperature data to the system. For thermal cameras connected to the system via NVR, there is no such limitation.
Hardware Specification

Processor Intel® Xeon® E-2124

16G DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports UDIMM, up to 2666 MT/s, 64GB Max.
Memory
Supports registered ECC
Internal Controllers: SAS_H330
Software RAID: PERC S140
Storage Controllers External HBAs: 12Gbps SAS HBA (non-RAID)
Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem: 2x M.2 240GB (RAID 1 or No RAID), 1x M.2 240GB (No
RAID Only)
Drive Bays 1T 7.2K SATA×2
Power Supplies Single 250W (Bronze) power supply
Form Factor: Rack (1U)
Chassis Width: 434.00mm (17.08 in)
Dimensions
Chassis Depth: 595.63mm (23.45 in) (3.5”HHD)
Note: These dimensions do not include: bezel, redundant PSU
Dimensions with Package 750 mm × 614 mm × 259 mm
(W × D × H) (29.53" × 24.17" × 10.2")
Net Weight 12.2 kg
Weight with Package 18.5 kg
Embedded NIC 2 x 1GbE LOM Network Interface Controller (NIC) ports
Front Ports: 1x USB 2.0, 1 x IDRAC micro USB 2.0 management port
Device Access
Rear Ports: 2 x USB 3.0, VGA, serial connector
iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller
Embedded Management iDRAC Direct
DRAC RESTful API with Redfish
Integrations:
Connections:
Microsoft® System Center
Nagios Core & Nagios XI
Integrations and Connections VMware® vCenter™
Micro Focus Operations Manager i (OMi)
BMC Truesight (available from BMC)
IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
Red Hat Ansible
Certify XenServer
Citrix® XenServer®
Microsoft Windows Server® with Hyper-V
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
Operating Systems
Ubuntu Server VMware® ESXi
This model is installed with Microsoft
Windows Server® 2016 multilingual
operating system.
System Requirement
* For high stability and good performance, the following system requirements must be met.
Feature Description
Microsoft® Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit)
Microsoft® Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Microsoft® Windows 10 (64-bit)
Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (64-bit)
OS for HikCentral Professional Microsoft® Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
Server Microsoft® Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
Microsoft® Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)
Microsoft® Windows Server 2019 (64-bit)
*For Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, make sure it is installed with the rollup (KB2919355)
updated in April, 2014.
Microsoft® Windows 7 SP1 (32/64-bit)
Microsoft® Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit)
Microsoft® Windows 10 (64-bit)
Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (64-bit)
Microsoft® Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
OS for Control Client
Microsoft® Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
Microsoft® Windows Server 2016 (64-bit)
Microsoft® Windows Server 2019 (64-bit)
*For Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, make sure it is installed with the rollup (KB2919355)
updated in April, 2014.
OS for Visitor Terminal Android 7.1 and later
Internet Explorer 11 and above
Chrome 61 and above
Browser Version
Firefox 57 and above
Safari 11 and above (running on Mac OS X 10.3/10.4)
Database PostgreSQL V11.8
iOS 10.0 and later
OS for Smartphone Android phone OS version 5.0 or later, and dual-core CPU with 1.5 GHz or above, and at least 2G
RAM
iOS 10.0 and later
OS for Tablet
Android tablet with Android OS version 5.0 and later
VMware® ESXi™ 6.x
Microsoft® Hyper-V with Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2016 (64-bit)
Virtual Machine
*The Streaming Server and Control Client cannot run on the virtual machine.
*Virtual server migration is not supported.
Typical Application

Facial Recognition pStor RSM Decoder

Server Smart Wall

Hybrid SAN Keyboard

Cluster Storage Server
HikCentral

Dock Station
Security Control Panic Alarm Radar
Panel Station

Analog Camera DVR

Under-Vehicle
Surveillance Systems

IP Camera Switch NVR

Mobile Client Web Client Remote Client Access Controller Card Reader Elevator
Controller

Digital Signage Wall-Mounted Access Control

Player Digital Signage Vertical Digital Signage Terminal Video Intercom