To monitor cameras across many branches from one place, you need three things. First, connect every camera, from any brand, to a unified video management platform (VMS). Second, bring that feed into a corporate monitoring center. Third, add artificial intelligence that analyzes every camera 24/7 and alerts an operator when it detects something. A viewer app or a cloud viewer lets you see your stores remotely, but seeing them is not monitoring them: no human team can watch thousands of cameras at once. Axentra OmniSight is that AI layer. It runs on-premise on your own servers, works with the cameras and VMS you already have, and your video never leaves your company.
Why isn't a viewer app or a video wall enough?
The problem is scale. For example, FEMSA reported that as of December 31, 2025, its Proximity Americas division (OXXO) had 25,587 stores, and in Colombia 98% of its stores operate 24/7. You don't need to be that big to have the same problem. With 300 branches and just 4 cameras per store (an illustrative number), you already have 1,200 streams that nobody can follow live.
Here's what usually happens in a chain with traditional monitoring:
- Only a fraction gets watched. Operators cycle through camera grids, so most cameras go unseen at any given moment.
- Mixed brands. Every remodel or vendor left behind different NVRs and apps, and there's no single console.
- Blocked, turned or dead cameras that can go unnoticed until the footage is needed.
- Slow investigations. Finding a loss-prevention incident means scrubbing through hours of footage, store by store.
What options exist to centralize a chain's cameras?
- An NVR in every branch plus the manufacturer's app. It gives you remote access to each store. But every brand has its own app, video stays scattered, and detection depends on someone watching.
- Cloud video surveillance. It centralizes access without on-site servers. The trade-off is that management and at least part of the video go through a third party's infrastructure, and remote access depends on each store's internet link. Some cloud platforms also offer analytics. If you evaluate them, ask where the video lives and whether they work with the cameras and VMS you already own.
- A corporate VMS (for example, Milestone or Genetec) plus a monitoring center. It's a solid foundation for unifying, recording and managing video. On its own it organizes video and can raise basic alarms, such as motion-detection alarms, but it doesn't watch every scene: without added analytics, detection still depends on operators' eyes.
- AI over every camera (Axentra OmniSight). It runs on top of your cameras and VMS, not instead of them. It analyzes every camera in real time and turns the monitoring center into one that responds to alerts.
How do you monitor every branch from one place, step by step?
- Take inventory. List branches, cameras, brands, NVRs, VMS and each store's network link. That tells you what you can connect today.
- Define what you want to detect. Write it the way you'd tell a supervisor: "alert me if anyone enters the stockroom after closing" or "alert me if you see an accident in the parking lot." OmniSight accepts rules and instructions in natural language.
- Connect without replacing. OmniSight works with IP cameras via ONVIF and RTSP, with brands such as Hikvision, Dahua, Axis, Hanwha, Uniview, Bosch, Avigilon, Verkada and Cisco, and with VMS such as Milestone and Genetec. It can also serve as a unified VMS for cameras from different brands.
- Decide where the video lives. With OmniSight, the AI runs on-premise on GPU servers in your own data center. Video never leaves the organization and doesn't depend on cloud services.
- Redesign the corporate monitoring center. Operators stop watching grids and start handling alerts. If you use face recognition against watch lists, a person reviews every match, always within the applicable data-protection legal framework.
- Monitor camera health. OmniSight detects blocked, turned or out-of-service cameras across the whole chain, so you don't find the gap after an incident.
- Speed up investigations. Search archived video in natural language (for example, "white van at the loading dock"). OmniSight also tracks people and vehicles across cameras and generates their route. It also reads license plates, fleet numbers and vehicle lettering, which is useful for distribution and logistics centers.
- Test it on your cameras. Start with a free 10-day pilot on up to 10 of your cameras. Then scale with floating licenses per processed camera, per year.
What makes Axentra OmniSight different?
Plenty of solutions help you see cameras. OmniSight is built so that none go unwatched:
- Analyzes every camera, 24/7, instead of relying on an operator to watch a fraction, and alerts the operator when it detects something.
- Natural-language rules and search. You set alerts and search archived video by typing in plain language, with no coding.
- Cross-camera tracking that rebuilds the route of a person or vehicle.
- Face recognition with human review, plus license-plate, fleet-number and lettering reading.
- Detection of blocked, turned or offline cameras across every branch.
- Any brand and your existing VMS. You don't need to replace cameras, Milestone or Genetec.
- On-premise: video never leaves your company.
Results confirmed to date: more than 1 million vehicles detected, video searches in about 40 seconds, and more than 1,000 alerts sent to operators.
| Criterion | Axentra OmniSight | Traditional monitoring (NVR/VMS + operators, no AI analytics) |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | ✓ Every camera, 24/7 | ✗ Only what gets watched |
| Rules | ✓ Natural language | ≈ Basic alarms (e.g., motion); the rest depends on operators |
| Video search | ✓ Natural language, ~40 s | ✗ Manual footage review |
| Cross-camera tracking | ✓ Generates the route | ✗ Manual, camera by camera |
| Faces and plates | ✓ Human-reviewed; plates, fleet numbers, lettering | ✗ Manual identification |
| Blocked or offline cameras | ✓ Automatic detection | ≈ Depends on alerts configured in the NVR/VMS |
| Brands and VMS | ✓ Any brand, over your VMS | ≈ Unified if you already have a VMS |
| Where video lives | ✓ On-premise | ✓ On-premise, if recorded locally |
Bottom line: your VMS already handles access. OmniSight adds monitoring of every camera without your video leaving the building.
What about privacy and control?
People make the decisions. The AI alerts, the operator decides, and a human reviews every face match. Because the system runs on your infrastructure, video stays on your corporate network with no cloud dependency. Your company must comply with the applicable legal framework for video surveillance and personal data in each country where it operates.
Where do I start?
Pick 10 cameras at the branches that worry you most, define three or four natural-language rules, and for 10 days compare what OmniSight detects with what your team sees today. Talk to Axentra to request your free pilot.