Milestone Systems released the latest updates in XProtect 2025 R3 and the Arcules platform, delivering new capabilities designed to accelerate investigations, strengthen security operations and simplify system management.

The latest releases for XProtect VMS and Arcules VSaaS address the real-world challenges facing security professionals by making surveillance systems more intelligent, accessible and easier to manage while maintaining open-platform flexibility.

XProtect Remote Manager introduces new monitoring and management capabilities that enable security teams to maintain system health and respond to issues before they impact operations. Remote management, along with improved monitoring of recording servers, allows administrators to detect and resolve critical issues, such as full databases or server health problems, without local access. Event-based notifications keep teams informed through customized email alerts when cameras, servers or other components experience status changes. Video permissions control provides granular management of video feed visibility, allowing site owners to define who can view specific cameras.

Another key feature is the new Role-based Access Control Permissions for access control systems, which allows administrators to restrict the visibility and operation of access control units based on user roles directly within XProtect.

The Arcules cloud platform receives new enhancements that accelerate investigations, improve detection accuracy and increase deployment flexibility for cloud-based surveillance operations:

• New Multi-Camera Forensic Video Search enables security professionals to analyze footage across multiple cameras simultaneously in a unified interface.
• Dual-Layer Motion Detection reduces the risk of missed events by combining Arcules video analytics with on-camera motion detection algorithms. The feature works with ONVIF M and T cameras across both cloud and edge gateway deployments.
• New Extended Camera-to-Cloud Compatibility expands support to devices with limited internal memory, making cloud video surveillance accessible to even more deployments.
• External Case Sharing enables secure, time-limited sharing of video evidence with law enforcement, legal teams and third-party investigators. External recipients can access shared cases through secure links without an Arcules account, with access automatically expiring based on set permissions.