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Vintra Adds Key New Features to Industry-Leading Video Analytics Platform

Vintra announced that they have added an array of new features to the latest release of their award-winning product suite Vintra Fortify. This enhancement further positions Vintra as the go-to provider for security professionals, with solutions designed to help them detect potential threats more quickly, respond to ongoing incidents with greater intelligence and dramatically improve investigative results.

RightCrowd Launches RightCrowd Access Analytics at ISC West 2022

RightCrowd announces the launch of RightCrowd Access Analytics at ISC West in 2022, booth #31049. This first of its kind innovation in physical security adapts cyber security technology and capability to the needs of physical security teams. With extremely fast time to value, RightCrowd Access Analytics instantly identifies people with inappropriate access to security systems, buildings, facilities, and critical areas.

How AI Software Helps GSOCs Solve Real-World Problems

Global Security Operation Centers (GSOCs) are the hub of security operations, bringing together large amounts of data from surveillance, access control and intrusion systems into a centralized location, in addition to carrying out travel risk management and various intelligence operations. They play an important role by helping corporations to mitigate risk and gain situational awareness. All of this data, however, presents a challenge for GSOCs. Faced with processing thousands of events each day, GSOC operators find it hard to identify real threats from false nuisance alarms, leading to real breaches getting missed frequently. This defeats the entire purpose of GSOCs, which is to protect people and assets.

DRAGONFRUIT Innovative Split AI Technology

Dragonfruit Frontier, a new fully integrated VMS and video analytics solution, runs AI in the cloud as well as on a powerful on-premise base station. The patented Split AI technology solves the challenge of the tradeoff in video processing ? high hardware cost to process video on-prem or high bandwidth costs to transport video to the cloud. With Split AI, the AI models work in tandem, both on the small yet powerful base station and the auto-scaled Dragonfruit cloud.

viisights Announces Wise Behavioral Recognition Software as a Service

viisights announced the viisights wise solution would be available as a software as a service (SaaS) offering later this year. viisights wise SaaS will be available in the second half of 2022, providing customers with an additional deployment option to match their needs. viisights wise provides AI-driven, real-time video analytics of video content captured by widespread surveillance cameras located throughout traffic control centers, roads, public areas, buildings, shopping centers, and commercial and industrial zones.

Cisco Meraki and Cogniac Partner to Automate Smart Spaces

The hybrid world has changed where and how we work. Supply chain constraints require more efficiency and make reducing waste more important than ever. Increased options and competition have changed the way consumers and businesses transact. In order to stay ahead, organizations need to rapidly adapt their current environments. This means continually evaluating their workspaces to improve the employee experience, actively managing resources and processes to improve sustainability, and finding new ways to engage their customers.

Calipsa adds Forensic Video Uploader Tool to its Suite of Advanced Video Analytics

Calipsa has enhanced its video search offering to enable security operation centers to conduct quick and efficient security investigations. The new forensic software, Investigate Uploader, allows users to upload any video file to the Calipsa platform, where its algorithms review the footage for genuine activity before presenting a summary of results. Investigate Uploader sits as a standalone product and joins Calipsa?s existing solutions for false alarm filtering, camera health checks, advanced real-time alerting and forensic video search.

Salata Partners with Interface to Deploy Video Analytics with Upgraded Network

Interface Security Systems announced that Salata Salad Kitchen, a popular, fast-casual built-to-order salad kitchen has chosen Interface?s advanced video analytics solution to gain critical operational insights by leveraging an upgraded security camera system installed by Interface. In addition, Salata will deploy Interface?s ?Restaurant-Technology-in-a-Box? to upgrade their network and voice connectivity. Salata wanted to completely overhaul its network and voice solutions to keep pace with changing customer preferences driven by the pandemic. In addition, Salata needed insights on restaurant operations to create a superior customer experience and optimize sales.

DRAGONFRUIT AI Launches Frontier ?Cloud VMS with Video Analytics Included? for Multi-Location Enterprises

Dragonfruit has announced Dragonfruit Frontier, a new Cloud VMS with AI Analytics included. Frontier delivers a fully integrated experience, combining consumer-grade usability with enterprise-grade capability. Frontier is designed for multi-location enterprises that are not able to deploy expensive GPU hardware across all their sites (for On-prem AI), and do not have enough upload bandwidth for Cloud-based AI. Dragonfruit’s patented Split AI (US 11265591) helps scale even advanced AI, like Liquid Spill Detection, to hundreds of such locations while keeping bandwidth requirements low ? even at 4G speeds. Pricing starts at just $1,000/location/year.

i-PRO and Vaxtor Join Forces to Deliver Powerful Edge ALPR Apps on AI-capable Cameras

Panasonic i-PRO and Vaxtor announced a global collaboration for the latest generation of its powerful automated license plate recognition software, VaxALPR, to run on i-PRO AI-enabled models. These powerful and reliable AI-capable cameras can now integrate Vaxtor?s high-performing and easy-to-use edge application — reducing system costs and complexity. With analytics carried out on the edge of i-PRO cameras, the on-camera solution does not need to stream video to a PC/server ensuring efficient operation on all networks, including 4G.

Obsidian Energy Adopts Calipsa’s Intelligent Video Analytics

Calipsa announced Canada?s Obsidian Energy is using its market-leading, deep-learning Calipsa Pro Analytics video platform to reduce false alarms by 95% while providing other benefits to elevate overall security and operational intelligence. Obsidian Energy is a publicly traded oil and gas company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Obsidian, with almost 250 employees and contractors, is an intermediate-sized company producing around 25,000 barrels of oil daily.

viisights Showcases Innovative Behavioral Video Analytics at Smart City Expo

viisights will be attending Smart City Expo, Barcelona, Spain November 16 ? 18, 2021. viisights advanced video understanding technology provides highly cost-effective and efficient security, safety and environment sensing solutions for smart-cities, corporate and education campuses, commercial and industrial businesses, transportation hubs, critical infrastructure and more.

New Bi-directional Video Analytics-driven Integration Supports Safer, Smarter Cities

Professionals in charge of delivering smart and safe city programs can now accelerate review of camera footage, more rapidly identify risks to public safety and infrastructure, and easily derive valuable operational intelligence from video content. This is thanks to a new bi-directional analytics-driven integration between BriefCam and Synectics? Synergy command and control platform.

New Smart, Connected Wearables by Blackline Safety Keep Workers Safe

The easily configurable G7 wearables ?small, wireless devices worn like a cell phone? accurately detect gas leaks, falls and other health events in all types of business environments, from lone workers in the field to industrial workers. They can also be used for contact tracing purposes or to determine how often workers travel through high-risk areas. The devices operate on available cellular, with optional satellite connectivity, and deploy in minutes, straight out of the box.

LenelS2 Announces Strategic Agreement to Resell BriefCam Video Analytics Software

LenelS2 announced a strategic distribution agreement with BriefCam, the leading provider of video analytics software. The agreement enables LenelS2 value-added resellers to offer the BriefCam Video Content Analytics Platform with LenelS2 VRx and Milestone XProtect video management systems as well as within LenelS2?s Magic Monitor unified client. These integrated solutions enhance situational awareness and provide actionable insights to security operators when viewing live video surveillance feeds and recorded video.

Atos Integrates viisights Software into Atos Computer Vision Platform to Enable 24/24 7/7 Safety in Cities.

Atos announces its new partnership to integrate viisights software into its Atos Computer Vision Platform. Atos is a leader in global Edge AI. This collaboration will allow viisights? powerful behavioral video analytics to run on Atos Computer Vision Platform, providing users with unique insight and therefore to immediately detect and predict violent activity, suspicious activity, crowd behavior, traffic monitoring, and much more to help authorities prevent harmful activities from escalating. viisights is the leading developer of advanced AI-powered behavioral video analytics software.

Milestone and BriefCam Bring Premium Forensic Analytics to Xprotect Customers

With the introduction of XProtect Rapid REVIEW, Milestone?s customers will be able to accelerate investigations and find what they are looking for with speed and accuracy. Powered by BriefCam?s video analytics technology, hours of video recordings can now be reviewed in minutes, bringing enhanced decision-making and momentum to any investigation. Milestone?s XProtect Rapid REVIEW is an intelligent video analytics solution for security operators.

Calipsa Adds Advanced Real-Time and Forensic Analytic Capabilities to Its False Alarm Reduction Software

Calipsa has further unleashed the power of event-driven video surveillance software to create actionable intelligence for security operations. The new Calipsa Pro Analytics software suite adds four tiers of advanced analytics, incorporating customizable real-time alerts, camera health checks, object tracking and forensic video analysis. Calipsa?s flagship false alarm filtering technology detects the presence of human and vehicular activity in video alarms.

The Big 3 Suppliers of Video Surveillance Software

Genetec, Milestone Systems and Motorola Solutions have grown to become the ?big 3? suppliers of video surveillance software, video analytics and managed services. According to a new report from Novaira Insights, the global market for video surveillance software and managed services was worth $2.2 billion in 2020 with around 69% of this outside China. However, the supply base outside China is very different to that of the Chinese domestic market.