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Avigilon Unity Reviews & Product Details

Avigilon Unity Product Details

This is the next generation of on-premise security. Give your teams full oversight and control through a centralized, browser-based video security and access control management platform, complete with powerful AI analytics. Avigilon Unity Video (formerly Avigilon Control Center) seamlessly merges intelligent, on-premise video management software and advanced cloud-managed capabilities with enterprise-class Avigilon Unity Access (formerly Access Control Manager) to elevate your situational awareness across any number of sites. Delivering a unified, end-to-end security management experience, Avigilon Unity helps you solve your most important security challenges, connecting you to the Motorola Solutions Safety and Security Ecosystem.

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Product Description

Avigilon Unity Video (formerly ACC) is designed to bring the right information to you so that you can take action. Unity Video provides an easy-to-use, AI-enabled user interface to help ensure critical events do not go unnoticed. Unity Video is designed to revolutionize how operators interact with and gain situational awareness from their video security systems. Its powerful search, Avigilon Appearance Search technology, sorts through hours of video with ease to quickly locate a specific person or vehicle of interest across an entire facility in near real-time. Its Focus of Attention interface is a cutting-edge user interface for live video monitoring that leverages AI and video analytics technologies to determine what information is important and should be presented to security operators. Avigilon Unity Access (formerly ACM) is a physical access control system for enterprise-class installations, designed to protect people, property and assets. With advanced alarm and identity management, this 100% browser-based solution offers the flexibility to respond to alerts from anywhere. Its unification with Avigilon Unity Video software offers a powerful, end-to-end security solution to monitor and secure sites. With no server or client software installation required, Unity Access delivers a ready-to-deploy solution that saves you time. Unity Access is an open-platform solution that integrates with hardware from Mercury Security and HID Global®, with the ability to scale from just a few readers to larger, more distributed installations.

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Alan L.

Analyst

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/9/2024

"Overall simple product to use and reliable"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Avigilon Unity?

The website has a lot of information about the brand and the products that Unity provide. Additionally it provides documentation as well as resources for both existing and new customers who are interested in using the products.

The system is easy to set up and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Avigilon Unity?

Take in customer suggestions on what potential features that customers are hoping to have in the products. There may be some frustrations with the survillence due to the lack of certain features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Frankie A.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/14/2023

"User friendly with great features!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Avigilon Unity?

Very user-friendly client. Nice features that allow for complex video searching. When I train my soc operators, my rule is we no longer watch hours of unnecessary video but use one of the many search features available and should find what we need in under 5 minutes. The analytics feature sets help us build complex rules to correlate with alarms we set up for each of our unique sites we have to eliminate lots of "unnecessary alarms". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Avigilon Unity?

I don't have many downsides with ACC. Still, if I were to be picky, it would be nice if there was a way to create an analytic event rule to automatically provide a pre-recorded talk-down message when specific criteria were met. Currently using an Avigilon IP speaker, all talk-down features are manual, which is ok for us as we have a 24-hour SOC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Avigilon Unity solving and how is that benefiting you?

With proper placement of cameras, ACC can solve having physical security personnel on each of our sites. With the use of Avigilon intercoms, we can also assist with our sites at remote locations and can communicate effectively if needed when we have sites integrated with ACM (Access Control Manger) we can allow delivery personnel to place packages in a building all while watching via CCTV. With that case, we no longer have packages being left outside, unsecured or stolen from our property. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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David H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/10/2023

"Reliable, expandable, and a little clunky"

4/5

What do you like best about Avigilon Unity?

Simple to use, once set up, and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Avigilon Unity?

Set-up and interface are a little clunky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Avigilon Unity solving and how is that benefiting you?

This provides easy management of users for building access within our school district. It also allows for management of camera access for various users with different permission levels. The integration with our security cameras provides easy access control for building monitors as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Derek S.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/23/2023

"Powerful On-Prem VMS With An Associated Cloud Solution - ACS"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Avigilon Unity?

Friendly and intuitive UI, tabbed views, auto-login capability (caching of credentials), configurable inactivity auto-logout timer per user account, granular user/group permissions, and tons of other features make this one of the best VMS (Video Management System) software solutions in the industry. Supports ONVIF, which is especiallly appreciated in this era of cloud-native camera solutions that are 100% proprietary... they aren't quick to tell you that, lol! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Avigilon Unity?

Software upgrades are a bit cumbersome unless done via ACS (Avigilon Cloud Services). We do get some flickering and brief pixelations and other graphical corruptions, but we also funnel many locations over a site-to-site VPN thru the internet and back to a hub site where the big NVR lives, so that's mostly our fault (most manufacturers don't support this network architecture, although in-house WAN is fully supported). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Avigilon Unity solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a lot of tools and other semi-valuable items that are growing feet and walking off, of course with no one seeing anything. We also have several physical break-ins per year across our several locations, which previously went unsolved without video evidence. We also have people not doing the right on safety, which in our industry can and does cost lives in worst-cases. We're not trying to be the "gotchya!" guys but use video for safety reviews -- think do's and don't's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mario A.

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/24/2023

"Robust features and user-friendly"

5/5

What do you like best about Avigilon Unity?

I used ACC based on a client operation. ACC has many features that allow get video and integrate video analytics from Avigilon cameras or third-party ones. ACC includes the availability to replicate complex rules for alarms that are used in several real-life scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Avigilon Unity?

I don´t have any dislike. However, I wish video retrieval via RTSP was available. This feature is helpful in scenarios where URL-based video isn't available. However I understand that this feature may not be available because of security purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Avigilon Unity solving and how is that benefiting you?

ACC helped me use different types of cameras based on their features and models. I was pretty impressed with the camera compatibility list that Avigilon offers, so you may not have any problems in most cases. Also, the allowance to use built-in video analytics is beneficial. However, using the latest ACC version is recommended for better results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Construction

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/19/2023

"Almost perfect"

5/5

What do you like best about Avigilon Unity?

AUV, from an installers POV, has been remarkable. It's extremely user friendly, even for the not so tech savvy users. I highly recommend Avigilon to everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Avigilon Unity?

I have no dislikes about AUV. The overall experience has been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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David S.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/20/2023

"Nice System but Outdated Look and Feel"

4/5

What do you like best about Avigilon Unity?

ACM works well and is easy to find simple actions that are used regularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Avigilon Unity?

The ACM system is very dated looking and does not have a modern feel to it. This really needs to be updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Brian M.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/14/2023

"Nice start for a product but needs a few more features"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Avigilon Unity?

Controller and reader setup is really good once you get the templates set up the way you run your doors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Avigilon Unity?

Needs a few more built-in features that don't require complex programming (e.g. double swipe unlock - it should be a check box).

A real first responder type emergency mode instead of a PIN+Card hack.

Needs better reports.

Elevator set up needs some work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sanjeev Kumar M.

Associate

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/9/2022

"Effective Application for monitoring"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Avigilon Unity?

As it captures motion, it is easy for us to narrow down to any particular event and review it. The application does not take up much of bandwidth, with average internet bandwidth, the visuals are stored and can be view seemlessly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Avigilon Unity?

Updating to the latest version is a concern at times, but otherwise no downside as such. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Avigilon Unity:

I would definitely recommend avigilon for users looking for remote operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Avigilon Unity solving and how is that benefiting you?

From a business perspective, it helps the employer to analyze any suspicious activity outside and inside the stores, which inturn reduces the risk of theft and prevents loss of goods or products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Evanjalin J.

Cctv Operator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/14/2022

"Master in Surveillance"

5/5

What do you like best about Avigilon Unity?

Excellent in surveillance and alarm systems. It is user-friendly. It has a high standard of features and client settings, including motion activiity, device name and location, playback, live timestamp, record indicator, and video analytics activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Avigilon Unity?

It occupies a large amount of space because of the high quality of its videos. Apart from this, everything is good and there are no complaints while using avigilon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Avigilon Unity:

As of now no any recommendation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Avigilon Unity solving and how is that benefiting you?

Investigations, Live Monitoring, Night Monitoring, Survillence. I personally felt the motion activity which triggers alarms benefits a lot, and it's very useful during surveillance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.