Author: Stan Lewis
D-Link?s Latest Smart Home Hub Lets You Add Devices With a Scan
How cheap is too cheap? D-Link has found the sweet spot between low-priced, but low-quality smart home systems and pricey security systems. It’s now planning on opening up its system to many more accessories, judging by the DCH-G020 connected home hub that just passed through the FCC.
Illinois Supreme Court Approves Use of Video and Audio Recorders in Cook Country Courtrooms
The Illinois Supreme Court gave its OK on Tuesday for reporters to use cameras and audio recording devices in Cook County (Chicago) in certain circumstances, a major signal of progress in the state’s nearly 3-year-old experiment with media coverage at trials.
SpotCam Announces New Professional Grade Motion Detection Capability
SpotCam, the cloud home monitoring service startup, announces a new Motion Masking feature for its SpotCam Wi-Fi home monitoring camera. Found in professional security camera systems, SpotCam’s new motion masking feature, attained by updating to the latest firmware, allows users to configure the camera to only monitor motions for a specified area. This feature is built to reduce false alarms
Terrorism Is Not Just ‘Over There’ Anymore
[Editorial] The effects of terrorism are being felt by nearly every country now, east and west. From the continuing plague of ISIS in the Middle East, to domestic attacks such as those in Moore, Oklahoma, to the assault on the Canadian parliament building – the message being sent is very clear: No one is immune. These attacks are not confined to any one kind of victim, not restricted inside any set of borders.
GreenPeak Announces Smart Home Senior Lifestyle System
GreenPeak Technologies, an industry leading Smart Home semi-conductor/system company, announces the availability of Senior Lifestyle sensor and cloud based intelligent system technology for service providers and retailers. The Senior Lifestyle System empowers children and their elderly parents to privately and securely share lifestyle information, enabling the seniors to feel safe and live longer at home independently, while their children feel secure that their parents are safe and well.
US Cellular Introduces OnLook Digital Home Automation System
Regional wireless carrier US Cellular recently launched OnLook, a new home automation and security system. The OnLook digital home automation system was developed by US Cellular with the help of Alarm.com, a firm that specializes in providing solutions for managing homes over cellular networks, including house security, environmental monitoring, and home control. US Cellular’s OnLook service offers many tiers according to the customer’s home management and security needs.
Select Security Expands Into Kentucky
Select Security is proud to announce that it has expanded into Kentucky with the acquisition of three local companies. Over the past several months, Select Security has welcomed the employees and several thousand customers from Comstar Systems in Bowling Green, AAA Systems in Elizabethtown and Bardstown Alarm in Bardstown, KY.
L.A. Mayor Plans to Equip City’s Police Officers With Body Cameras
TASER International (NASDAQ: TASR) announced the purchase of 860 AXON body-worn video cameras and a five-year subscription to EVIDENCE.com by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti further announced a plan by the city to equip a total of 7,000 officers with body cameras in 2015.
Point Grey?s New 6-Megapixel Grasshopper3 Vision Camera Features Quad-Tap CCD Sensor at 25 FPS
Point Grey, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of innovative, high-performance digital cameras, announced the addition of a new 6-megapixel global shutter CCD model to its Grasshopper3 family of USB3 Vision™ cameras.
OnSSI Receives Axis Partner Award for Caribbean Region
OnSSI, the market leader in open-architecture, intelligent IP video surveillance software, announced
that they received Axis Communications? 2014 Application Development Partner (ADP) award for the Caribbean Region at the Axis Connect & Converge Conference held in Cancun, Mexico on October 30, 2014.
Expanded IP-Camera Portfolio From Bosch Makes Professional Surveillance Easy
The recent release of the IP 2000, IP 4000 and IP 5000 IP-camera families from Bosch Security Systems, Inc. creates a comprehensive portfolio of IP-cameras that make it easy for small and medium-sized organizations to set up professional surveillance solutions. With these cost-effective cameras, Bosch raises the bar and sets new standards in security and data management for everyday surveillance situations, including schools, hospitality sites, retail shops, commercial buildings and more.
MOBOTIX to Hire New Chief Sales Officer April 2015
The Supervisory Board of MOBOTIX AG has appointed Dr. Tristan Haage as a new member of the Management Board for the area of Sales. With a PhD in physics, Dr. Haage comes from Kaiserslautern and will assume responsibility in the Management Board starting 1st April 2015. With Dr. Haage, MOBOTIX AG gains a leader with many years of management experience in international sales.
Viscount Systems Appoints Geoffrey Arens to Board of Directors
Viscount Systems (OTCQB: VSYS), a leading provider of IT-based security software and services, announced today the addition of Geoffrey W. Arens to its Board of Directors. Mr. Arens participated in Viscount?s latest funding round and joins as the designated board member appointed by the company?s Series A Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock Holder, One East Capital.
Synology Surveillance Station 7.0 Beta Available
Synology is claiming a thoughtfully crafted interface that emphasizes ease-of-use is now being tested in Surveillance Station 7.0 Beta. The company is tauting a bold step into the world of physical access control with dynamic automation tools that increased efficiency. This beta also allows for expanded integration of specialized camera hardware. All of this, and more, delivers the most intuitive and flexible Synology Surveillance Station yet, the company says.
ObjectVideo Sells Entire Patent Portfolio to Avigilon
Avigilon Corporation (?Avigilon?) (TSX:AVO), a leading global provider of end-to-end security solutions, announced that it has completed the acquisition of the entire patent portfolio and the patent licensing program of ObjectVideo, Inc., for cash consideration of US$80.3 million. Founded in 1998, ObjectVideo is an innovator in the intelligent video solutions market. ObjectVideo?s video analytics patents, now acquired by Avigilon, are licensed and deployed by leading IP video manufacturers around the world.
IC Real Tech to Unveil World?s First 720-Degree Immersive Video Camera at 2015 CES
IC Real Tech, a global innovator of Internet of Things enabled video technology solutions, is tapping the 2015 ICES to show the world ALLIE – its 720-degree video monitoring camera. So revolutionary in its functionality, ALLIE (formerly called IC720) has already been named an honoree of the 2015 CES Innovations Awards in both the Digital Imaging and SmartHome categories. The camera can be experienced live at IC Real Tech?s ICES exhibit, located in the Sands Expo @ Tech West, booth #70223 from January 6 – 9, as well as the CES Unveiled press preview event taking place January 4th at Mandalay Bay.
enrGies and PlateSmart Develop First LPR-Capable Drones
PlateSmart Technologies, the industry leader in License Plate Recognition (LPR) solutions and video data analytics, has entered into a teaming agreement with defense systems integrator enrGies of Huntsville, Alabama. The two companies have successfully tested and are working to perfect the first LPR and video analytics technology for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to assist security agencies and military personnel in combatting crime and terrorism.
RADWIN Wireless Solutions Used in Large-Scale Central Africa Safe City Project
RADWIN, the global provider of sub-6 GHz broadband wireless solutions, today announced that its point-to-point and point-to-multipoint wireless broadband systems were deployed by a municipality in Central Africa in a large-scale SAFE CITY video surveillance project. RADWIN?S systems connect high definition (HD) video cameras installed in strategic locations throughout the city back to the local police command center.
Women?s Security Council Announces 2015 Women of the Year Awards Program
The Women?s Security Council, a network of successful security professionals focused on promoting the advancement of women in the industry, has opened nominations for its 2015 Women of the Year awards. The annual initiative is aimed at recognizing the top female professionals in the physical security industry in a variety of categories. The WSC Women of the Year Award recipients will be honored during ISC West 2015 in Las Vegas. The award winners will be formally announced at WSC?s 2015 Networking Reception.
exacqVision 6.6 Release Introduces ESM Failover for Increased Reliability
Exacq Technologies, part of the Security Products business unit of Tyco (NYSE: TYC), introduces the ability to set up and manage failover on exacqVision servers with exacqVision 6.6 and Enterprise System Manager (ESM) version 3.0, a health monitoring program for use with exacqVision Enterprise networked video recorders (NVRs). The new exacqVision version 6.6 VMS (video management system) also includes updates to the views and event monitoring features in exacqVision, faster searching with the Exacq mobile app and additional updates to ESM.