In our February release, the following products and features will become available to all Verkada customers. Updates will be released on February 22nd.
Connectivity
The GC31 and GC31-E Cellular Gateways allow customers to deploy Verkada products anywhere with power and cell signal, including hard-to-wire locations like parking lots, construction sites, and streetlight poles. Learn more.
Cameras
Four new models of FIPS-validated cameras are designed for government-grade deployments. Learn more.
The CM22 Mini Dome Camera provides core video security features in a compact form factor. Learn more.
Shortcuts are a new navigation tool that allows Command users to instantly jump between neighboring cameras to track moving subjects during live investigations. Learn more.
Line-crossing alerts allow customers to detect people and vehicles that cross a digital line in a pre-specified direction. Learn more.
Loitering alerts allow customers to detect people and vehicles that remain in a pre-selected region beyond a certain time threshold. Learn More.
Person of Interest alerts now include linked License Plates of Interest to provide additional context, and vice versa. Learn more.
Person of Interest alerts now appear in real time on the live feed when users are viewing a single camera page. Learn More.
Verkada cameras now use variable bitrates for both SQ and HQ video, which allows for higher video quality during complex scenes without compromising overall storage. Learn more.
Customers can now share incidents with external stakeholders that are not users in their Command organization. Learn more.
Sentry Mode can now patrol multiple scenes, allowing customers to monitor more locations with their PTZ cameras when a live operator is not available. Learn more.
Vehicle Analytics now includes the ability to estimate the number of vehicles that enter or exit a space. Learn more.
Command
The redesigned Command mobile app makes it easy to navigate across different products and large deployments. In addition, Verkada Alarms is now fully supported in the mobile app. Learn more.
U.S. government customers can choose to use Command hosted in AWS GovCloud. Learn more.
The new alert creation flow allows Command users to configure notifications faster through a workflow that is consistent across products. Users can also set up device actions to automatically respond to alerts. Learn more.
Users can now log into Command on both web and mobile with a fingerprint, a face scan, or security key. Learn more.
Customers can now create temporary users in Command, which can be assigned any role for a predetermined time period. Learn more.
Customers can set more granular session policies such as maximum session duration, idle timeout, and maximum concurrent sessions. Learn more.
Access Control
Anti-passback enables admins to enforce badge-in and badge-out policies for defined areas. Learn more.
Double badge allows access control users to change a door's schedule simply by tapping their card against a reader twice. Learn more.
Through cross-device connections, Verkada controllers can now control output ports based on the input ports of other access controllers. Learn more.
The new door access report shows a door's access permissions in an intuitive table. Learn more.
Access control alert filters have been streamlined to make it even easier to capture a particular event. Learn more.
Admins can now create multiple credentials per user via CSV upload. Learn more.
Admins can now create a person of interest for an access user from the user’s profile page. Learn more.
Intercom
Shared call flows allow admins to configure and manage the call routing and device settings of multiple intercoms at once. Learn more.
Call receivers can now receive intercom calls concurrently in Command. Learn more.
Global SIP registration allows users to bulk configure many intercoms at once. Learn more.
Alarms
Full Alarms functionality is now available in the new Command mobile app. Learn more.
Automatic BZ11 speaker alerts enable users to play an alert message immediately when an alarm event is detected, prior to an alarm being raised. Learn more.
Workplace
New volunteer management functionality in Verkada Guest enables organizations to collect volunteer applications, screen individuals, and cross reference against an approved list at check-in. Learn more.
Easily upload into Verkada Guest a list of known people, such as vendors or contractors, and automatically check against it when an individual comes on site. Learn more.
U.S. government customers can choose to use Verkada Guest in Command in AWS GovCloud, which supports our FIPS-validated cameras and Verkada Guest. Learn more.
Verkada Workplace will be available to K-12 schools for $1,500/year, down from $3,600/year. Learn more.