Technologies
HGH Wins Multi-Million Euro Contracts in the Middle-East and Europe
HGH recently won contracts worth about six million euros from world-leading shipyards in the Middle-East and in Europe, to equip new warships with SPYNELpanoramic thermal cameras and with their new IRSTsolution. The rise of new technologies urges naval forces to adapt their defence, detection and threat-tracking capabilities. SPYNEL-X is a sea-proven solution suited for self-protection of all surface vessels.
HID Global Enables Employees to Open Doors and Authenticate to Systems, Hands-Free
HID Global announced that its next-generation Seos credential technology will enable Nymi Band 3.0 users to seamlessly open doors and authenticate to systems, devices and machines. The Nymi Band is the world?s only workplace wearable wristband that, once authenticated, offers the convenience of continuously authenticating the identity of the user until it?s removed from the wrist.
BCD Releases Dell iDRAC Plug-in for Genetec Security Center
BCD International released its Harmonize Conductor iDRAC plugin, which integrates with the core Genetec Security Center platform. Built on the Genetec SDK platform, the BCD Conductor leverages many advantages that are found within Security Center such as the creation of entities, event-to-actions, and role fail-over. BCD Conductor enhances the user experience by introducing virtual machine management while staying true to the Genetec platform.
ADT Invests in Percepta Labs ?Ethical AI? Security Technology Startup
ADT announced that via its commercial channel, it is investing in Percepta Labs. ADT Commercial is a premier provider of commercial security, fire, life safety, and risk consulting services in the U.S., and through its investment will fund the commercialization and application of the startup?s cutting-edge AI technology to help detect and deter shoplifting. ADT Commercial will work directly with Percepta to further test and develop the application of Percepta?s AI technology.
Luxand Has Released a New Face Recognition SDK with a Thermal Face Detection Feature to Help Fight COVID-19
Luxand released a new FaceSDK 7.2 version with numerous improvements, including a major Thermal Face Detection feature, that helps small, medium and enterprise level companies fight the spread of COVID-19. Thermal face detection is a major feature that makes it possible to detect faces on streams and images from thermal cameras for anti-spoofing or fever-screening needs. Combined with a thermal camera, this new feature detects high temperatures in humans, meaning potential coronavirus cases.
New Orleans Uses Genetec Security Center to Catch Illegal Dumping in Real-time
Genetec Inc announced that City Council District E in New Orleans has taken an innovative approach to address illegal dumping using Security Center, the unified security platform from Genetec. Illegal dumping is a problem in most cities around the world but enforcing laws to prevent it can be quite difficult and resource-intensive. To catch culprits in the act, law enforcement or other city staff have to physically watch known sites and wait to spot illegal dumping activity.
Davista Social Distancing Ensures a Safe Return to Work
Davista announced the availability of its AI-powered social distancing platform. The solution is designed to help businesses, organizations, and government agencies ensure social distancing efforts to keep individuals safe while promoting a healthy return-to-work. Across the globe, governments, corporate entities, and health and law enforcement agencies are working to find solutions to COVID-19 while making strides to get their local economies back up and running.
Interconnected Locks Add Convenience and Security to Logix Credit Union
Convenience and security haven?t always been mutually beneficial, particularly for financial institutions and credit unions. Sometimes the necessary and important steps to ensure security stifle efficiency and add cost. The Logix Federal Credit Union in California was founded as the Lockheed Aircraft Employees Federal Credit Union in 1937. It has maintained a perfect record of positive earnings since 1937, and is rated A+ by DepositAccounts.
Security Industry Association Says Portland, Ore., Facial Recognition Bans Are Shortsighted
The Security Industry Association (SIA) says that the decision by the city council of Portland, Ore., to ban facial recognition technology use by businesses in places of public accommodation starting January 2021 and to prohibit all city government use of facial recognition technologies are shortsighted decisions that do not consider effective and beneficial applications of facial recognition. The ordinance will impact businesses? ability to protect workers, customers, facilities and property since it effectively targets business use of security systems.
UVeye to Unveil New Vehicle ?Fingerprint? System for Security Industry
UVeye is introducing technology that can create a virtual ?fingerprint? for any vehicle after a UVeye underbody scan.
ZeroEyes Selected by South Side Area School District for Weapons Detection Solution
ZeroEyes? platform is purpose-built to detect visible weapons in real-time, identifying guns before any violent threats can occur. ZeroEyes? software integrates with an organization?s existing camera systems and video analytics to detect weapons in real-time. As soon as a visible weapon is detected, an alert with the image of the weapon goes to the ZeroEyes monitoring team. Once confirmed, an alert is sent to local emergency dispatch, onsite security staff, police and school administrators.
Dahua AI Gait Recognition Technology Hits Historical Heights on CASIA-B Gait Dataset
Dahua Technology made new breakthroughs in the field of AI technology recently. Various indicators of its Gait Recognition Technology have once again broke the record of CASIA-B gait dataset: the average accuracy of Rank1 for NM (normal walking), BG (with a bag), and CL (in a coat) reached 97.4%, 94.0%, and 87.0% respectively, hitting another historical height and maintaining its leading position. Gait recognition uses body shape and walking posture to identify a person.
FelenaSoft?s Xeoma VMS Now With Mask Detection Analytic
FelenaSoft has announced the release of the latest version of its Xeoma VMS that now includes the new mask detection analytic. The mask detector feature of Xeoma video surveillance software monitors real-time camera feed for individuals wearing or not wearing facial masks. This intellectual feature ?based on artificial intelligence and deep machine learning video analytics? is capable of detecting people in a camera?s field of view, finding their faces, and determining if they have an ‘medical mask’ on or not.
Video Technology During A Pandemic: How Can We Address New Challenges?
The current global pandemic presents businesses and institutions with an array of new challenges beyond security. Businesses and organizations must now implement protocols and address logistical, commercial, and security hurdles. The panel discussion will feature professionals from key frontline industries affected by the pandemic, including end-users from municipality management and healthcare. Milestone Systems announced a webinar panel discussion of safety and security professionals.
SALTO Adds Antimicrobial Technology to SALTO Neo Cylinder Range
SALTO Systems and BioCote have added antimicrobial technology to the new SALTO Neo Cylinder Range. As a result, SALTO and BioCote offer buildings increased protection against microbes to support a cleaner and more hygienic environment. The new SALTO Neo Cylinder is a compact smart door lock cylinder equipped with state-of-the-art wireless access control design technology. It is designed to provide smarter building management and can be installed on doors where fitting an electronic escutcheon is not normally possible or required.
SISCO CORP Keeping Personnel Safe During the Pandemic
SISCO CORP has turned its technological prowess toward protecting personnel greeting visitors at schools, hospitals, and businesses nationwide from COVID-19. SISCO?s technology reduces investigative time by providing the hospital, school, or business and the CDC with an investigative tool to mitigate the risk of the disease spreading further, said Tom Madden, whose public relations firm TransMedia Group is spreading the word why SISCO is the leader in identity management solutions.
Intel Endorses iQ-FeverCheck Systems
Intel Corporation has established many initiatives to fight the current pandemic internationally. One of these has been to partner with iOmniscient in approving iQ-FeverCheck to be a part of its Intel IMRS Program. Intel IMRS offers intelligent connectivity, exceptional performance and manageability, and a reliable roadmap that can help customers use data-driven insights to increase efficiency, improve safety, and enhance the overall quality of life for their citizens.
Sentry Security Launches Human Temp Scanner for Schools
Sentry Security Solutions now offers Human Temperature Scanners. This product line is designed for quick and easy deployment at scale across school campuses, businesses, and other commercial applications. Campus and Workplace Protection during COVID 19 requires new technology like Sentry Live HT thermal imaging. The solution is currently being utilized for hospitals, corporate campuses, airports, retail stores, train stations, event centers, grocery chains, schools, universities and restaurants.
iProov Partners With Evernym to Simplify Onboarding and Device Binding for Personal Identity Management
iProov announced its partnership with self-sovereign identity (SSI) specialists, Evernym. Evernym is the market leader in SSI, working with over 100 organizations in the technology, government, nonprofit, finance, insurance, communications, and healthcare sectors to issue, accept and verify portable digital identity credentials. Based on the most advanced decentralized identity technology, Evernym?s Verity platform enables organizations and governments to issue, accept, and verify credentials with individuals that serve as digital proofs of one?s identity.
Bosch Building Technologies Makes Data Visible and Usable with Intelligent Insights
Using data to improve security, safety, and business decisions have become increasingly important to the market and continues to grow. Now, Bosch has introduced an affordable software solution called Intelligent Insights that enables customers to use data in new ways. It completes the data journey from scene to screen and helps users quickly understand the context of various situations, enabling them to make informed decisions.