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Spreadsheets and portals.

Or one place for every site.

Most service teams keep their installed base in a spreadsheet and check each manufacturer's portal by hand. It works until it does not.

The manual workflow

Every brand has its own portal, its own PDF format and its own way of announcing end of life.

What it looks like today

  • Sign in to each manufacturer's portal, one brand at a time.
  • Download datasheets, firmware notes and end-of-life notices as PDFs.
  • Copy model, firmware version and install date into a spreadsheet per customer.
  • Check release notes by hand before every service visit.

What breaks

  • The spreadsheet is out of date the day after the visit.
  • End-of-life notices are spread across portals, newsletters and distributor emails.
  • Firmware drifts between sites without anyone noticing.
  • The overview lives with one security professional, not with the team.
  • Nothing compares across manufacturers.

What Awernica does instead

One catalog, every manufacturer

  • Lifecycle status, firmware and specifications for 13,532 products from 13 manufacturers.
  • 4,683 of them are already discontinued or past vendor support – marked as such.
  • Compare cameras, systems and manufacturers side by side.

Your sites, kept current

  • Register the devices you have installed, per site.
  • Site Review shows what is end-of-life, which firmware each device should run and what to follow up.
  • Replacement suggestions across manufacturers when a device reaches end of support.
  • Awernica never connects to your cameras or network – nothing to integrate.
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Questions

Do I still need the manufacturer portals?

Yes, for downloads, licences and support cases. Awernica links to each manufacturer's official resources and keeps the lifecycle, firmware and specification overview across manufacturers in one place.

Does Awernica connect to my cameras or network?

No. You register the devices you have installed. Awernica never connects to your cameras, recorders or network, so there is nothing to install or open in a firewall.

What does it cost to stop using the spreadsheet?

You can start with a free account. Basic covers one site; Pro covers many sites and customers. You pay only for the sites you run.

Who can see my sites?

Only your account and the people you invite. Privacy Mode hides sensitive site details and keeps less data on record.