City Surveillance

Stream critical control room displays to your VMS

Enhance transparency, incident response, and audit capabilities in municipal monitoring centers.

Track What Operators See

Record actual operator screen activity in real time

Improve compliance, performance analysis, and post-incident investigation with full visual logs from inside your control room.

Integrate SCADA and Dashboards into Your VMS

Stream traffic control, emergency alerts, and infrastructure panels as secure ONVIF feeds

Centralize all critical visual data without adding extra hardware or physical cameras.

Why Screen Monitoring Matters

Most Video Surveillance platforms log when an operator logs in and out of the system.

But they don’t log what the operator actually looked at — which cameras were viewed, for how long, or what was visible on their screen when an incident occurred.

This lack of visibility creates challenges for:

  • Audit and compliance reporting

  • Verifying consistent monitoring across all cameras

  • Understanding operator reactions during critical moments

DeskCamera fills that gap by turning any workstation into a virtual IP camera. It records the screens from control rooms directly into your VMS, providing a complete and searchable visual log of operator activity.

What DeskCamera Enables

Operator Accountability

Ensure that all cameras are being monitored equally. Identify missed views or neglected zones

 

Compliance and Audit Readiness

Provide proof of viewership logs — what was seen, when, and for how long — essential for audits and compliance

Complete Incident Context

Reconstruct events not just from camera footage, but also from the actual screens operators were using at the time

 

Training and Performance Insights

Use recorded screen activity to assess operator behavior and improve training programs

Integration in Action

  • Control Rooms and Monitoring Hubs
    Record multi-camera layouts, switching behavior, and operator attention.
  • SCADA Dashboards and Infrastructure Interfaces
    Stream and archive traffic control systems, utility panels, and other visual dashboards.
  • Command and Dispatch Centers
    Capture GIS maps, live alerts, and incident response tools within the monitoring archive.
  • Post-Incident Review and Investigation
    Match camera evidence with what operators actually saw and did in real time.

How it works

Install DeskCamera on any Windows PC

DeskCamera is a lightweight software that runs on a regular Windows computer — no special hardware required. It captures the desktop screen, audio, and connected webcams.

Emulate a Virtual IP Camera

Once installed, DeskCamera turns the Windows PC into an ONVIF-compliant virtual IP camera. This means it can stream screen and webcam video just like a real IP camera would.

Stream to Any VMS/NVR

DeskCamera sends the video stream over the network to any compatible Video Management System (VMS) or Network Video Recorder (NVR), such as Milestone, Nx Witness, Hikvision, or others.

Key features

  • Acts as a virtual ONVIF IP camera — no extra hardware or capture card required, runs in the background

  • Allows to convert external HTTP and RTSP streams to ONVIF

  • Streams screen, webcam and multiple video sources simultaneously to VMS or NVR

  • Delivers 4K video, audio, motion events and up to 60 FPS

  • GPU-accelerated for high performance and low system usage

  • Fully compatible with all ONVIF and RTSP-compliant VMS platforms

  • Technology partner of Milestone, Genetec, VIVOTEK, OpenEye, and others

    1. Deployed in smart cities, retail, government, and critical infrastructure worldwide

    Official compatibility verified by VMS vendors and technology partners

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