System Management is the administrative backbone of NDIS — where you prove every camera is healthy and compliant, control who and what gets access, keep a single record of every device in the estate, and manage every user who touches the system.
NDIS continuously checks the recording state, signal and storage of every camera and recorder across every VMS, then turns that evidence into the retention and audit records regulators ask for.
A camera that silently stops recording is worse than no camera at all. NDIS polls every device on an interval and reports its true state — Recording, Not Recording, Video Loss, Hardware Problem — so blind spots surface the moment they appear, not when you go looking for footage.
On top of live health, NDIS holds the compliance picture: configured retention versus actual days on disk, recording coverage against the schedule a regulation requires, and a time-stamped audit trail that proves the footage existed when it mattered.
Continuous checks confirm each camera is actually recording — not just powered on and reachable.
Track days-on-disk against the regulatory minimum for each camera, site and jurisdiction.
Watch storage headroom and 30-day uptime so retention is never lost to a full or failing disk.
Export time-stamped health and compliance evidence for auditors, regulators and investigations.
Manage cardholders, credentials and access levels across every access-control brand from one place — provision once, revoke instantly, and keep a single source of truth for who can go where.
Most estates run more than one access-control system, each with its own cardholder database. NDIS unifies them — a person is provisioned once, and their credential, schedule and access levels apply consistently across every connected door and brand.
When someone joins, moves or leaves, you change it in one place. Revoking access takes effect immediately everywhere — no orphaned cards, no door left open, and a complete history of every grant and change.
Issue, modify, suspend and revoke credentials in one place — changes propagate to every door at once.
Define who reaches which area, and when — with time profiles, holidays and anti-passback rules.
Pre-register visitors and contractors, issue time-boxed credentials, and expire them automatically.
One identity model spans every access-control platform — no duplicate databases to reconcile.
Cameras, recorders, controllers, readers, panels and sensors — across brands and sites — held in a single, live inventory with firmware, location, warranty and lifecycle state for each one.
One register of every device across systems, brands and sites — auto-discovered and always current.
See firmware versions and end-of-life across the fleet, and flag what needs patching or replacing.
Track warranty windows, service history and maintenance schedules against each asset record.
Know where every device sits — site, building, floor and network path — for fast fault-finding.
Operators, supervisors and administrators are governed by role — with permissions scoped to sites and functions, single sign-on to your directory, and a full audit trail of every action taken in the platform.
Permissions follow roles, not individuals — scoped to the sites, systems and functions each role needs.
Authenticate against Active Directory, LDAP or SSO — user accounts and groups stay in sync.
Every login, acknowledgement and configuration change is recorded in a tamper-evident audit trail.
Partition users, sites and data by tenant or region — ideal for SOCs serving many customers.
Most security teams started with a Video Management System. But video is only one of a dozen systems a modern operation depends on. PSIM — Physical Security Information Management — is the layer that sits above them all: correlating alarms, guiding response and giving operators one operational view. Here’s what PSIM is, and exactly how it differs from a VMS.
PSIM stands for Physical Security Information Management — a software category that integrates and manages multiple, otherwise-disconnected security systems through one interface, correlating their data into a single operational picture.
A PSIM platform doesn’t replace the security systems you already run. It connects them — pulling events, alarms and telemetry from CCTV, access control, fire, intrusion, perimeter, analytics and IoT into one place, then turning that flood of raw signals into verified, prioritized incidents with a guided response attached.
Where a point system answers “what is this one device doing?”, a PSIM answers the operational question: “what is happening across the whole estate right now, and what should we do about it?”
A PSIM is the operational layer that unifies every security system into one view — so people respond to incidents, not to a wall of disconnected alarms.
A Video Management System is excellent at what it’s built for — recording, viewing and managing camera streams. The ceiling appears the moment your operation depends on more than video, and on more than one site.
A VMS sees the world through cameras. Access control, fire panels, intrusion sensors, perimeter detection and IoT live outside it — in their own portals, with their own alarms, on their own screens. Operators become the integration layer, manually switching tabs and correlating events in their heads.
That works until it doesn’t: an alarm flood, a multi-system incident, a second or third site. The VMS keeps showing video — but no single screen shows the operation.
When systems can’t talk, operators lose seconds switching screens and correlating by hand — and under pressure, those seconds become missed events.
Same building blocks, different jobs. A VMS is a system of record for video; a PSIM is a system of action for the whole operation. Here is where they diverge, dimension by dimension.
Adopting a PSIM doesn’t mean ripping out the systems you trust. NDIS keeps your VMS, access control and panels exactly where they are — and adds the operational layer that makes them work as one.
Your VMS stays the system of record for video. Your access platform still controls doors. NDIS connects to each through open protocols and orchestrates them — so a forced-door alarm automatically pulls the right camera, drops a pin on the map, and launches the correct SOP.
The result is additive, not disruptive: keep your investments, gain an operation.
If two or more of these describe your operation, you’re managing complexity that a video system was never designed to carry — and a PSIM is the next step.
Operators jump between a VMS, an access platform, a fire panel and analytics — each in its own window.
It takes seconds — or minutes — to match an alarm to the right camera and figure out what’s actually happening.
How an incident is handled depends on who’s on shift — there’s no enforced procedure.
A flood of raw, un-prioritized alarms means real events get lost in the noise.
Each location has its own systems, but no single command view ties them together.
Reconstructing who did what, when — across systems — means stitching logs together by hand.
A PSIM turns fragmented activity into coordinated response — and coordinated response into a record you can review, report on and improve over time.
Every system, site and alarm on a single console.
Linked video, map and telemetry the moment an alarm fires.
Guided SOPs enforce the same workflow on every shift.
Correlated, ranked incidents instead of raw alarm floods.
Keep the VMS and systems you already own and trust.
From one control room to a multi-region GSOC.
Tamper-evident, cross-system records on demand.
Open architecture over the brands you choose.
See how Nanodems unifies physical security, operational intelligence, and automation into a single synchronized environment — built on Converged Vision™.
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