Most video management systems make you choose: on-premises performance, or cloud-based flexibility. Hanwha Vision’s new BLAZE is built to do both — a hybrid VMS that combines local performance with cloud federation for centralized control across one site or many.
It auto-detects connected Hanwha cameras, speakers, intercoms, and thermal devices with optimized configurations out of the box, and supports bulk camera configuration to cut setup time on larger installs. On the AI side, it works with Hanwha’s WiseAI for rapid object and attribute search across archived footage, Similarity Search to trace a person’s movement across multiple cameras, and Semantic Search — natural-language queries like “a person with a face cover and backpack in the office lobby.”
Why It Matters
Cloud-based federation means centralized user management and single sign-on across sites, with secure remote access that doesn’t require VPNs or port forwarding — a real reduction in what IT has to maintain for a multi-site video deployment.
Where We’d Recommend It
Multi-site organizations already running or considering Hanwha cameras, especially ones that want investigation tools — searching footage by description instead of scrubbing through hours of video — without adding a separate analytics platform on top.
Next Step
If managing video across more than one location currently means logging into more than one system, ask CSS whether BLAZE simplifies that for your portfolio.
