Author: dtaitano
Smart Bracelets: The Future of Access Control?
Security concerns are always balanced by the need for occupants to have easy facility access when they need it. A new technology developed by the Tecnalia Applied Research Centre in partnership with the Palladium Hotel Group and Paypal could change that by combining personalized access with daily functionality. The next generation of wearable technology is here – a smart bracelet that allows hotel guests to access their rooms, make payments, share experiences on social networks, and receive personalized services while maintaining information security.
Sydney Airport Takes Security to New Heights With Axis
The Mission: Sydney Airport sought a more flexible, scalable solution that could keep pace with its growing operations while maintaining the highest level of security and safety that staff and the traveling public expect from an airport regularly voted one of the world’s best.
Access Control Market to See Slower Growth Than Expected in Mexico, Brazil
Despite earlier forecasts, the market for electronic physical access control equipment in Mexico and Brazil will see slower growth than previously expected, according to IHS. IHS had previously forecast a compound annual growth rate of nearly 11 percent for Mexican market through 2018. However, the research firm said this prediction was “a bit bullish” and has revised that figure down to 7.6 percent. “This adjustment is a reflection of a lowered GDP as well as delayed infrastructure projects. Additionally, city surveillance projects were found to receive a larger share of funding which led to the purchase of other security equipment such as CCTV cameras.
How Do Casinos Catch Card Counters?
Interesting question. They actually employ former card counters and have them sit in the security booths and watch players via the security cameras. If they see a lone card counter raising and lowering his bets, they either send more drinks to slow him down, or they’ll eventually send a pit boss or security to ask him to leave. Catching a team card counter is slightly harder to do just through the “eyes in the sky.”
LAPD?s Growing Use of Surveillance State Technology
With the recent protest in Ferguson, MO over the shooting of Michael Brown and the heavy handed response of the Ferguson police department, bringing out mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles (MRAP), tear gas, snipers, and camouflaged dressed cops, much focus has been put on the militarization of the police force. Los Angeles is no stranger to a militarized police force. The LAPD created the first SWAT team in the nation in 1967. You could say L.A. started the trend in police force militarization.
Retrieving Sound From Vibrations Captured on Video
Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass. In other experiments, they extracted useful audio signals from videos of aluminum foil, the surface of a glass of water, and even the leaves of a potted plant.
Ohio Attorney General Won?t Release Surveillance Video of Walmart Shooting
The events leading to the death of John Crawford III on Aug. 5 are disputed: the Beavercreek, Ohio police officers who shot Crawford claim that the young black man in Wal-Mart was waving around what appeared to be an AR-15 rifle (but was actually a BB/pellet rifle) and would not abandon the weapon when asked. An attorney for Crawford’s family claims that Crawford was talking on a cell phone and leaning on the toy gun, when the police officers shot him.
Judge Allows Video in Toledo Chop Shop Case
A video camera mounted on a telephone pole overlooking a purported central Toledo chop shop for more than four months was legal, a federal judge ruled, though investigators still should have sought a warrant before installing it. [ See the original article posted August 12 here .]
Agent Vi Partners With Samsung Techwin
Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi), the global provider of open architecture video analytics software, together with Samsung Techwin, have announced strategic cooperation to integrate their products to allow Agent Vi’s embedded component to run on Samsung Techwin network cameras. The integration enables end users to run Agent Vi’s full range of video analytics solutions on up to 200 open platform WiseNetIII network cameras simultaneously per single server.
Ferguson Shooting: Police Now Wear Cameras
Police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, have begun wearing body cameras after weeks of unrest over the shooting death of an unarmed black teen by a white officer and sharply differing accounts of the incident, officials said on Sunday.
LE Body Worn Camera Used by Over 4000 Police Agencies Worldwide
The LE3 is rugged, waterproof, and easy to use. The camera clips to a uniform to record both the actions of the wearer and those in its field of view. LE3 features include HD video resolution, 16GB internal memory, and up to 12 hours of record time. The LE3 camera is powered by VIEVU’s VERIPATROL™ software system. Video evidence is securely stored and cataloged with a FIPS 140-2 compliant digital signature process, to verify the video has not been altered.
Facial Recognition Market to See 27.7% CAGR to 2018: Analysis of Emotion, Thermal, Mobile, Forensic, Facial Recognition
The global facial recognition market is estimated to grow from $1.92 billion in 2013 to $6.50 billion in 2018. This represents a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 27.7% from 2013 to 2018. In the current scenario, government and utilities are expected to be the largest adaptor for face recognition technology. In terms of regions, North America is poised to be the biggest market for face recognition. However, over the next five years, APAC will experience increased market traction, to become the biggest facial recognition market globally.
Digital Ally Receives VuLink Patent, Provides Automatic Body Cam Activation & in-Car Video System Linking
Digital Ally, Inc. (Nasdaq: DGLY), which develops, manufactures and markets advanced video surveillance products for law enforcement, homeland security and commercial applications, today announced that it has been notified by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (?USPTO?) that its initial patent (No. 8,781,292) on its VuLink™ connectivity system has been approved and will issue on July 15, 2014. The Company also announced that it has begun shipping the new product to law enforcement customers.
Malaysia Can Solve More Crime With NeoFace Facial Recognition
To strengthen public safety capabilities in Malaysia (and anywhere for that matter), NEC Corporation of Malaysia recently introduced a very promising product. NeoFace, a facial recognition solution was unveiled for the first time as part of public safety capabilities. This new technology was introduced during the Public Safety & Internal Security Asia 2014 held at the Grand Millennium at Kuala Lumpur from 12 – 14 August 2014. NEC’s NeoFace is the world’s fastest and most accurate facial matching product.
Sony Announces New Day-to-Night, Dual Light Video Security Camera Ahead of Security Essen
Sony has announced the latest edition to its outdoor camera range with the launch of the SNC-VB632D Full HD infrared bullet camera. The SNC-VB632D employs the newly adopted Dual Light system with infrared (IR) illuminator and white LED, working as an effective deterrent and allowing for clear visibility under dark conditions in either black and white or color. The SNC-VB632D supports high-performance illumination during the night-time through the IR illuminator, up to a wide range of 30 metres in black and white, with a minimum illumination of 0 lux (0.1 lux for color) at 50 IRE.
Nigeria to Issue National Mastercard-Branded Biometric ID Cards
Nigerian Identity Management Commission (NIMC) announced it has launched the eID pilot program, issuing MasterCard-branded identity cards with electronic payments functionality to 13 million civilians. The program marks the largest rollout of a biometric verification card with an electronic payment solution in Nigeria, as well as the broadest financial inclusion program in Africa. The eID card is a key part of the NIMC’s mandate to develop, maintain and run Nigeria’s first central national identity database and provide proof of identity to Nigerians 16 years and older.
ASUSTOR Camera Channel Licenses Now Available
ASUSTOR Inc., a leading innovator and provider of network storage solutions, announced today that its expansion camera channel licenses are now available for purchase, globally. After installing the Surveillance Center App on an ASUSTOR NAS, users will be able to enjoy the use of 4 free IP-camera channels. In order to further add more channels to Surveillance Center users can make use of the new purchasable camera channel licenses. ASUSTOR?s 2 and 3 series devices can be expanded up to a maximum of 8 camera channels while 6 series devices can be expanded up to a maximum of 12.
Linear Unveils QUADStor NVR 400 Series
Linear LLC, a leader in residential and commercial access control, health and wellness, home automation and security solutions, announced today that it has begun shipping the QUADStor™ NVR 400 Series Network Video Recorders, the cornerstone of Linear’s IP video ecosystem. The embedded-browser based NVRs are simple to install, cost-effective to manage and allow users to integrate, capture, and store video data, and then retrieve and view the video images remotely with the QUADView™ NVR mobile app or locally with a connected display monitor.
City of Atlanta?s MARTA Selects BRS Labs as Provider of Artificial Intelligence
Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. (BRS Labs), creator of AISight® the artificial intelligence-based analytics solution that teaches itself to recognize and alert on unexpected patterns within massive volumes of data, continues its rapid growth in the mass transit industry as more agencies choose to implement the award-winning behavioral recognition software as part of their public safety initiatives.
Technology Is Targeting Human Face for Security Reason
The human face, weather is good looking or bad looking can be a matter of consideration which is used to remember and identify each person from the other. The different features of the face vary from one human being to another. There are approximately 80 points called the nodal points. The various points like the distance of the eyes, width of the nose, the length and the position of the cheeks, the shape and the length of the jaw, are the nodal points.