Corporate News
ONVIF Hosts 20th Developers? Plugfest
ONVIF® hosted its 20th ONVIF Developers? Plugfest in early June in Tokyo, a milestone that emphasizes the continued growth and demand for interoperable solutions. Developers and engineers from 22 ONVIF member companies gathered at the three-day event to test their implementations of ONVIF Profiles with other ONVIF Profile-conformant products. Developers could test their products independently for profile conformance.
Building Intelligence?s SV3 Receives SAFETY Act Certification, Homeland Security?s Highest Level of Accreditation
Building Intelligence?s SV3® has received SAFETY Act Certification, the highest level of accreditation awarded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for anti-terrorism technologies, making it the only visitor and vehicle management solution to achieve this level of federal recognition. Specifically, all three major components of SV3, the visitor, vehicle and vendor Modules, have been awarded the SAFETYAct certification status.
Cobalt Robotics Secures Series B Funding with Coatue
Cobalt Robotics announced that it has raised $35 million in Series B financing. The financing was led by global technology investment firm, Coatue, and is intended for geographic expansion of services throughout the domestic United States. Security robots are an innovative new tool within the industry that enhance security programs by bridging the gap between traditional technologies and services such as cameras, access control, and manned guards.
Boon Edam Publishes Whitepaper on Advanced Data Available from High Security Entrances
Boon Edam Inc., published a whitepaper for security professionals. Titled ?The Advanced Analytics of Security Entrances?, the whitepaper provides information and guidance about the data that can be extracted from security entrances. By delivering important insights into user traffic at the entry and in some cases, predictive metrics on the potential for a breach, this data provides higher value than traditional swinging or sliding doors and access control systems alone.
Rekor Systems Selected by Nokia to Provide Automatic License Plate Reader Software as Part of Nokia?s Analytics Solutions
Rekor Systems, announced it has been selected by Nokia to provide automatic license plate reader (ALPR) solutions. Rekor?s solutions, powered by artificial intelligence-based OpenALPR software, will be offered to Nokia?s worldwide customer-base for use within Nokia smart city offerings. Nokia has applications that help utilities, transportation, logistics, and other public and private entities analyze real-time video streams for site surveillance, inspection, public safety, and more.
PureTech Systems awarded contract to protect Electric Power Generation Sites with PureActiv
PureTech Systems announces it has been awarded a multiple site contract for the deployment of its PureActiv Geospatial Video Analytics and Sensor Integration Command and Control software. The system will provide wide-area perimeter protection at multiple electric power generation plants in the United States. This award follows extensive multi-year testing of its system to prove the ability to reliably detect challenging perimeter breaches by adversaries.
Arecont Vision Costar Welcomes GT Reps
Costar announces the addition of GT Reps, LLC to its Authorized Manufacturer?s Representative Program. GT Reps will deliver pre-sales support across the US Great Lakes Region, which includes the states of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Indiana. GT Reps is a manufacturer?s representative agency based in Avon Lake, Ohio. The company brings strong knowledge of emerging standards and technology improvements to assist and guide customers.
iluminar Joins Forces with Professional Sales Representatives for Western U.S. Region
iluminar is excited to announce its partnership with Professional Sales Representatives (PSR) to increase the company?s services and sales presence with customers across the western United States. PSR is an independent sales agency operating in the 13 western states and Guam. Their associates bring many years of field sales experience in the security marketplace as well as the audio/video, low voltage, fire and life safety industries.
TDSi Announces the Next Stage in its Growth and Evolution
After strategic analysis of the best options to accelerate growth at TDSi and augment the launch of the new GARDiS ONVIF Profile A and C compatible hardware and software platforms and the journey to offering Access Control as a Service capability to their customers and the market TDSi announced that it has agreed to be acquired by VITAPROTECH Group, one of the European leaders in access control and security systems and technologies for critical sites.
Genetec Takes #1 Global VMS Vendor Position According to Latest IHS Report
According to a recent report published by business intelligence provider IHS Markit, Genetec was named the world?s number one vendor of Video Management Systems. IHS-reported results from 2015-2018 also point to the company sustaining a 24.1% CAGR for the past 3 years in this category. In the Americas, Genetec remains the leading VMS manufacturer by a wide margin for the eight consecutive years, with an 18.3% share of this $4.1 billion market.
Security 101 Continues Rapid Growth with the Opening of Its New San Francisco Office
Security 101 continues to expand nationally with the addition of a new office in the San Francisco Bay Area. The office will serve San Francisco and the surrounding metropolitan area, and will engineer, install, operate, monitor, manage and maintain integrated security solutions for local small, midmarket and enterprise business customers. Veteran entrepreneur Rob Chamberlin is the latest franchise owner to join the team at Security 101.
ASIS Announces Supporting Organizations and Media Partners for 2019 GSX
ASIS International announced an extensive line-up of organizations allied to security as partners for the Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2019, taking place 8-12 September in Chicago, IL. The Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail, National Sheriffs’ Association and World Association of Detectives, Inc. are among the event?s newest partners, reinforcing the event?s commitment to growth and excellence across multiple market sectors.
ASIS Announces Expansive Education Program for GSX 2019
ASIS International announced their education lineup for Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2019. The session lineup addresses a wide variety of topics vital to today’s security professional, delivered in immersive formats like small group workshops, simulations, deep dives, and more. The tracks range from Business Continuity, Managing Organizations, and Enterprise Security Risk Management to Crime Prevention, National Security, and Digital Transformation and beyond.
Morse Watchmans Promotes Tim Purpura to VP of Sales & Marketing
Morse Watchmans announced the promotion of Tim Purpura to Vice President of Sales & Marketing. Purpura joined Morse Watchmans in October 2018 as International Sales Manager. Purpura is a proven security industry leader, with more than a decade of industry experience, including a VP and Publisher role at Security Systems News (SSN). He also held the positions of Secretary and Chairman of the Board at the security industry?s non-profit initiative, Mission 500.
Echodyne to Lead Session on 3D Perimeter Security at Energy Drone + Robotics Summit
Echodyne announced today that they will be leading a session on perimeter security for energy facilities on June 12th at the Energy Drone + Robotics Summit, in Houston. The company will speak about the importance of integrating high-performance radars into existing video management systems for a single view of both air and ground domains within a comprehensive perimeter security system. The Energy Drone + Robotics Summit will take place at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott.
London?s Riverscape Office Building Again Selects Boon Edam Entrance Solutions for Renovation
Boon Edam announced that a multi-story office building in London was recently refurbished to upgrade its existing Boon Edam revolving doors and optical turnstiles. Now adorning the entrance are two all-glass Crystal TQ revolving doors, accompanied by an array of slim Lifeline Speedlane Swing optical turnstiles in the lobby. Originally opened in 1980, Riverscape is a 63,000 square foot, multi-story office space located at 10 Queen Street Place.
New Office in Sacramento Expands Security 101 Footprint in California
Security 101 has opened an office in Sacramento, California. It?s the franchise?s third office in the Golden State joining Security 101 —San Diego and Security 101— Los Angeles. The new office will serve the Sacramento Valley region. The franchise owner for Sacramento is Kalib Smith, an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in business ownership and management. He acquired and revitalized two retail businesses and helped another to grow significantly.
3xLOGIC Showcases TRENDS, Other Innovations for Retail at NRF Protect
3xLOGIC and Deloitte Technology Fast 500? announced the company will be showcasing its AI-enhanced TRENDS Business Intelligence software at the NRF Protect show among a wide array of innovations for the retail market. 3xLOGIC TRENDS is designed to meet the needs of medium to large multi-site enterprises. The software provides actionable intelligence from the massive amount of dark data available from devices such as sensors, cameras, ATMs, point of sale, and other analytical tools.
Berk-Tek, Cree Lighting, and Transition Networks Join Forces to Offer the Industry?s First Complete Solution for the Emerging utility LAN (uLAN)
Berk-Tek defines the uLAN as an emerging network made up of non-traditional ethernet-enabled utility devices that are now connecting to the network. While the traditional Core LAN—comprised of the PC, VoIP phone and WiFi—is not expected to undergo significant change through 2022, the emerging uLAN is expected to grow significantly over that time. The uLAN and the network infrastructure supporting it will be largely responsible for connecting and powering the billions of new devices.
Interlogix TruProtect Commercial Security Solution Wins ESX Innovation Award
Interlogix announced its TruProtect commercial security solution is a winner in the 2019 Electronic Security Expo (ESX) Innovations Awards. TruProtect combines intrusion monitoring, access control and video surveillance into a robust single platform. Interlogix is part of Carrier, a leading global provider of innovative heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, fire, security and building automation technologies.