HikCentral is Hikvision's management platform, replacing the IVMS-5200. The HikCentral solution synergises products, technologies, and functionalities that make central control of security systems easy, efficient, and unified. Based on a client-server model, it's a video management solution that assists with the daily running of your business, securely with centralised management, information sharing and multi service cooperation. HikCentral is compatible with the entire line of Hikvision products. It offers features such as automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) and people-counting. Hikvision always strives to develop and deliver the best products and complete end-to-end solutions in the security surveillance industry. A successful surveillance operation is ultimately determined by its management platform. HikCentral is also available pre-loaded on a Windows-based server.

Hikvision's HIK-CTRL-1LIC is a one channel licence designed to manage one camera connection on a Hikvision HikCentral CMS, which supports up to a maximum of 3000 channels.