Product updates

VMS+

• 24-Hour Archives — Significantly surpassing our previous 10-minute archive limit, you can now upload and store up to 24 hours of continuous video and archive directly to the cloud. This feature enables users to archive long-form footage for incidents, compliance purposes, or future investigations.
• Archive Playback Controls — Users can now easily review archive footage with variable playback speed (up to 10x) to make viewing historical footage more efficient than ever.
• Enhanced Reports with Alert and Container Details — Reports now include entries for Alert and Container activity, including key details and exact timestamps in .csv format.
• Localization Support (Beta) — Localization options let you change your platform language from English to Hebrew or Spanish.
• Automated Alert Group Changes — Administrators can now choose to arm or disarm alert groups as part of an alert action.
• Receive Alerts While Offline — By utilizing Webhooks, Lumana can now trigger alerts and include images even if the system is temporarily offline to ensure no events go unnoticed.

Mobile 

• Multi-Camera Historical Playback — Users can now select multiple cameras to view synchronized historical playback on mobile, making it easier to investigate multiple cameras while on the go.
• Full Archive Support — Create, review, and share full video archives directly from the mobile app. 

AI ‍

• Animal Detection Model Update — Lumana now supports the detection of mules, cows, and sheep to better serve agriculture and outdoor environments.

AI

• Suspect Alerts — Expanding on our facial recognition capabilities, suspect alerts increase the rate of comparison for people within a scene. When Lumana detects a person with high similarities to someone on your suspect list, even if it’s not an exact match, the system will trigger an alert. This higher-sensitivity mode is ideal for catching lookalikes or people trying to disguise themselves.

VMS+

• Faster Camera Playback — Review footage faster with support for playback speeds up to 10x.
• Additional Camera Investigation Options — Get more context at a glance. Users can now select alerts and door access events in the thumbnail dropdown under camera metadata.
• Bulk Camera Configuration — Save time and simplify deployment by configuring multiple cameras simultaneously with our new bulk update tool.

Mobile

• New Side Menu — Users can now use the side menu for faster navigation to the Camera, Search, Alerts, and Wall pages.
• Search and Filter Cameras — Users can quickly find and filter cameras by typing device name, selecting location, or status.
• Grid View — Easily view all cameras in a grid view, exactly like the Lumana web app.
• Additional Camera Thumbnail Options — View alerts and door access Events directly on the camera page.‍
• Object and Clip Toggle — Users can tailor how to view Search and Alert results by adjusting the object and clip toggle at the top of their respective pages.

Optimization

• Partner Monitoring Portal — A new diagnostics portal provides Lumana partners with real-time insights into camera, core, and analytics performance across their customer accounts. Partners can proactively monitor system health and optimize deployments with data-driven insights.
• Bulk License Plate Upload — Users can now upload a CSV file with multiple vehicle entries to streamline security alert creation or exclusions.
• Mobile App Enhancements — New functionality allows users to lock/unlock doors remotely and view detailed security insights directly in the camera feed, including faces, vehicles, and license plates.
• Add New or Existing Faces from Camera View — When new faces are captured on a camera, users can create a new face record or add to an existing profile with a click of a button.

AI

• Space Occupancy Analytics — Lumana now provides real-time and historical occupancy tracking, delivering insights into space utilization and helping businesses prevent overcrowding, optimize layouts, and improve staffing decisions.
• Violence Detection — Lumana can now detect acts of violence, such as people fighting, to improve safety and incident response.
• Door Tailgating Detection — Leveraging our access control integrations with Kisi and Genea, Lumana can now detect tailgating activity. 

VMS+

• Space Occupancy Dashboards — Users can configure occupancy tracking dashboards, set virtual count lines, and analyze movement patterns in real-time or over time. Data can be exported for audits, compliance, and strategic planning.
• PTZ Controls on Web and Mobile App — When viewing a PTZ camera, users can control the camera view to focus on objects of interest.
• Custom Reports — Users can build one-time or recurring reports for specific cameras based on alerts, attendance, and license plates and view data in a CSV file.
• Sensor Integrations — Organizations can now add third-party sensors to the Lumana platform to connect real-time environmental readings to specific cameras.

Cameras

• PTZ Camera — Provides dynamic pan-tilt-zoom control for active surveillance.
• Fisheye Camera — Offers 360° wide-area coverage, ideal for large spaces.
• Zoom Turret Camera — Delivers enhanced zoom capabilities for detailed monitoring of critical areas.

Optimization

• Enhanced Dashboard Flexibility — Users can now view event clips and counts within dashboards and dynamically update the data based on specific cameras, locations, and objects.
• Back from Offline Alerts — In organization settings, customize alert behavior and timing when systems restore from offline mode. 

AI

• New PPE Detection - Safety Vest — Building on our safety helmet detection, Lumana now detects safety vests, allowing users to create alerts or investigate PPE compliance.
• Direct Camera Search — Users can filter camera footage directly on the camera page for people, faces, vehicles, and license plates.

Cameras

• Camera Shortcuts — Users can quickly navigate to nearby cameras directly from the live view page, making it intuitive to follow subjects or get different viewpoints with a single click.
• Playback Speed Control — Added flexible playback speed adjustment on camera live view pages for more precise scene analysis.

VMS+

• Alert Group Scheduling — Users can create alert groups with customizable arm/disarm schedules, streamlining alert management based on organizational needs.
• Time Schedules — Administrators can now add alert time schedules to the organization database for easy assignment and tracking.
• Kisi & Genea Integration — New out-of-the-box integrations bring AI video security to access control, enabling automatic event indexing for access events, accelerated investigations, and real-time tailgating detection.

Optimization

• No Live View Buffering via LAN — When users access Lumana locally, camera feeds load in less than a second, providing a smoother viewing experience.
• Optimized Remote Playback and Live View — When users access Lumana remotely, camera feeds load in less than two seconds, providing a better viewing experience while on the go.
• Direct, High-resolution Camera Streams — When viewing cameras locally, users receive the full-camera, native resolution with no upload bandwidth consumption.
• Enhanced Wall Streaming — Lumana can now stream up to 30 feeds on a single page by automatically optimizing and adjusting tile resolution.

VMS+

• New Walls Interface — Users can create walls via drag-and-drop, add YouTube videos, rotate walls based on specified intervals, and view walls in full-screen mode.
• Smarter Alert Wall Experience — Users can monitor alerts and live camera feeds from a single page to help streamline security operations.
• Customizable Alert Tile Sounds — Administrators can select custom sounds when alerts trigger on a Wall.
• Two-Way Push-to-Talk Support — Connect a speaker to Lumana and communicate with subjects within a scene with the press of a button (additional license required).

AI

• Face Search Improvements — When searching for specific faces, a new adaptive algorithm refines search results by dynamically building profiles and analyzing face vectors in real time, improving search accuracy by over 50%.
• Container Detection — Lumana can now detect, alert, and search for shipping containers and attributes, including serial number, size code, and owner code.
• Missing object alerts — Users can monitor specific objects and trigger real-time alerts when objects immediately go missing.

Core

• ‍External NAS storage — In addition to storing footage locally on Core devices and in the cloud, organizations now have the option to store footage on external NAS devices for added redundancy (additional license required).

VMS+

• Map view — Users can now position and access external camera feeds from a Google map view for added viewing flexibility.
• Event Tag alerts — Organizations can now create alerts based on activity from third-party systems.

Optimizations

• ‍Browser compatibility — Lumana is no longer Chrome-exclusive. We’ve extended support to Edge web browsers, ensuring a seamless experience across platforms.

Optimization

• HIPAA certification — Lumana is now HIPAA compliant, ensuring healthcare customers can protect patient data and privacy with confidence.
• Enhanced live view experience — Unlimited users can now access camera streams simultaneously without impacting bandwidth or stream quality.

VMS+

• Floor plans — Users can now upload building floor plans and position cameras for seamless navigation between views.
• Lumana Camera Finder — Lumana now features a camera finder tool, enabling bulk configuration of Lumana-branded cameras.

AI

• Real-time alerts for occupancy duration — Create alerts based on object count and duration within a scene.

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Artificial Intelligence

• Identify new objects — Users can now search, create alerts, and build dashboards based on shopping carts, animals, and new vehicle classifications (boats, motorcycles, and bicycles).

Optimizations

• Add people of interest to the organization database — System administrators can now find people of interest and easily add their faces to the organization database for search and alert capabilities.
• Daily or weekly dashboard comparisons — Users can now monitor trends and see daily or weekly comparisons of their data and event activity.
• Wall filtering — Users can filter walls by location or camera for faster wall retrieval.
• Zoom on Walls — Users can now zoom directly on individual wall tiles for more detailed monitoring.

VMS+

• Slack integration — Users can now integrate Slack with Lumana to receive alerts and notifications directly on specified Slack channels.
• Webhooks integration — Users can now integrate Lumana with other products, such as external speakers.

Mobile

• Create walls — Users can now create video walls directly from the mobile app.
• Alert sharing — When alerts trigger, users can now view and share alert footage for faster incident response. 
• Search for cameras — Users can now quickly find cameras to view by inputting camera name. ‍
• Wall playback — When interesting events happen, users can now tap on a specific camera feed and view playback from the last 5 minutes.

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Artificial Intelligence

• Search for unusual activity — Customers can now filter and find footage of unusual activity across all cameras from the Smart Search interface.

VMS+

• New sign-in page — The sign-in page has a refreshed design and a link to the product updates page.
• Help center — Users can access our help center and knowledge base to expand their knowledge of the Lumana platform.
• Camera VPN — System administrators can now access their third-party IP camera homepage to configure and adjust settings remotely.
• Additional speaker support — Customers can integrate with Uniview SIP-S21M UNV Outdoor IP Horn for automated response and alarms when a specific activity is detected.

Mobile

• Share live camera feeds — VMS+ mobile app users can securely share live camera feeds with employees, outside parties, and first responders.
• Alert view filters — To accelerate incident response and investigations, users can filter alerts by camera, alert type, name, and time.‍
• Create video walls — Customers can now create video walls from their mobile devices and have them appear on both mobile and desktop applications.

Artificial Intelligence

• Motion search — Lumana currently features best-in-class detection and video search capabilities (100+ objects and counting). Today, AI search functionality expands even further to include motion.
• Multiple face search — Customers can better refine their video investigations by searching for any face from a list or a group of faces within the same frame.

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VMS+

• Custom alert notification messages — Customers can now build their own alert messages using out-of-the-box query parameters or HTTPs/RESTful API content. This feature enables administrators to add contextual information to streamline incident response.

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Optimization

• ‍Local mode — If users are streaming cameras via a Local Area Network (LAN), Lumana will consume zero upload bandwidth and bypass the cloud, allowing users to view camera feeds in native resolution and FPS.