Technologies
Bosch Expands LECTUS Secure Card Readers To Support New Functionalities And Highest Level Encryption
Bosch expands its LECTUS secure card readers to support new functionalities and highest level encryption. Bosch has extended the flexibility and security of its LECTUS secure Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP)* series with a new card reader and added functionality. Taken together, these expansions enable both economical adoption of the series and continuous encryption from controller to card.
Adams Rite Offers Unique Mechanical To Electrical Lock Upgrade Path With eForce
Facility managers and security professionals often must choose between enterprise-level access control systems that are too expensive and complex for their needs, or key-based mechanical locks that don?t offer any accountability or audit trail. Many situations, especially older buildings and door-dense environments, require the management of brass keys and key sets, and this is difficult for tenants, employees, visitors and contractors to access areas and maintain an appropriate level of security.
Camden Introduces 2nd Generation Restroom Control And Emergency Call Systems
Camden, a premier provider of door activation and locking devices, has just introduced its second generation of restroom control and emergency call systems, specifically designed for universal restroom applications. These additions and enhancements offer a new range of design options and exclusive product capabilities.
Total Recall Corporation To Showcase Crimeeye-Rd-2 Video Surveillance Unit With 180-Degree Axis Camera At ASIS NYC
Total Recall Corporation, a Convergint Technologies Company, will showcase its video surveillance and citywide safety solutions ? including a new 180-degree CrimeEye unit ? at the 27th annual ASIS NYC Security Conference and Expo to be held on June 7-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City. CrimeEye-RD-2 with 180-degree Axis camera?The CrimeEye-RD-2 with optional Axis Q3708-PVE offers a fixed-dome video surveillance camera with multiple sensors, resulting in a 180-degree panoramic view. Although the unit has three sensors, it only uses one IP address. The 180-degree camera features enhanced light sensitivity as well as WDR-Forensic Capture, which allows for expansive coverage
Arecont Vision Technology Partner Program Welcomes Louroe Electronics
Arecont Vision®, the industry leader in IP-based megapixel camera technology, announced that Louroe Electronics has joined the Arecont Vision Technology Partner Program. Louroe Electronics is a world leader in audio monitoring technology, and its products are now available in the Arecont Vision MegaLab™ as a result of the collaboration. Focusing on a wide range of the sound spectrum, Louroe?s products offer many benefits including perimeter protection, access control, alarm verification, deterrence/loss prevention, additional evidence, and quality assurance when integrated into commercial security systems.
VIVOTEK Joins HEVC Advance To Expand HEVC/H.265 Video Compression Technology
HEVC Advance and VIVOTEK Inc. announced that VIVOTEK has become a Licensee of the HEVC Advance HEVC/H.265 Licensing Program. As a Licensee, VIVOTEK gains access to a large portfolio of valuable patents essential to implementing the HEVC/H.265 video compression standard. HEVC/H.265 offers the next generation video compression that delivers twice the efficiency of H.264. VIVOTEK, a leading IP surveillance solution provider, is among those companies leading the effort to bring HEVC/H.265 video compression technology to the IP surveillance marketplace through its comprehensive H.265 solutions and strategic alliances.
New Ideas, Big Ideas, Smart Ideas Emerge At Smart Cities Week Silicon Valley
Smart Cities Council gathered inventors and technologists and pioneers and civic leaders in the innovation capital of the world last week for a preview of what’s ahead for the cities of tomorrow and the technologies that will shape them. Conference participants had a deep-dive into some of the new technologies that will drive smarter cities, including what breakthroughs in artificial intelligence will mean for cities, how leaders can prepare for the arrival of self-driving cars, new technologies that are helping tackle homelessness and the latest advances in 3D urban modeling, among many others.
Surge Protection Goes A Long Way In Loss Prevention
We have all heard the phrase ?an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.? Security and fire prevention professionals across the country can attest to this as they routinely see losses in the tens of thousands of dollars that could have been prevented with the installation of a surge protection device. Fire alarm and other life safety and security system failures often are the result of power surges caused by events such as lightning strikes on unprotected systems. Schools, businesses, hotels and many other businesses are subject to a large number of lightning strikes and —without proper protection— these strikes can wreak havoc with daily operations and budgets.
Future And Current Applications Of Artificial Intelligence Outlined In New Book
Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD), an innovator in artificial intelligence and robotics, announced the release of the third edition of An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence by Steve Reinharz, CEO, RAD. The book explores the many benefits and uses of artificial intelligence, and provides readers in-depth insight into this quickly developing and expanding technology segment.
Axis Introduces Comprehensive Store Optimization And Loss Prevention Solutions
Axis announces new solutions for retail, which can provide intelligence and drive revenue growth Axis Communications, the market leader in network video, announced that Cognimatics? applications have been fully integrated with Axis? network cameras, audio, and access control products. Axis acquired Cognimatics in 2016 after a long, successful partnership.
Keri Systems Releases Visual Doors: An Intuitive, Graphical User Interface For Access Control
With VisualDOORS, Keri Systems Inc. is answering customers’ call for an easy-to-use, graphically-enhanced access control client without sacrificing powerful software and features. VisualDOORS was designed to provide users access to the most commonly used features of Doors.NET, Keri System’s flagship software solution, with a simplified, clean and highly-intuitive Graphical User Interface.
NETAVIS sMart Data Warehouse 2.0 Released
NETAVIS sMart Data Warehouse contextualizes security and business data to provide user-specifically tailored information for each user and the tasks at hand. The professional Data Warehouse technology and elaborate interfaces transform mere data into vital key performance indicators. Individually created sMart Dashboards provide user-specific information at a glance while scheduled and password protected PDF reports deliver the required key performance indicators conveniently into the decision makers’ inboxes. For business analysts sMart Data Analytics offers versatile options to compare and analyse all available data in detail.
Sony Files New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain Magnetic Tape Cartridges
As LTO storage technology is beginning to take root in the video surveillance retention market, a lawsuit such as this described below, could ultimately reduce the number of sources to obtain this storage technology and would more than likely increase costs thus stunting the acceptance of this technology in the physical security market. With companies like Quantum and SpectraLogic and others showcasing the low-cost option of long-term video retention when using LTO storage technologies, such a supply-chain lawsuit will not help grow this market.
NVIDIA Paves Way To AI Cities With Metropolis Edge-To-Cloud Platform For Video Analytics
NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference: Paving the way for the creation of AI cities, NVIDIA® (NASDAQ: NVDA) unveiled the NVIDIA Metropolis™ intelligent video analytics platform.
Metropolis makes cities safer and smarter by applying deep learning to video streams for applications such as public safety, traffic management and resource optimization. More than 50 NVIDIA AI city partner companies are already providing products and applications that use deep learning on GPUs, many of which will be on display this week at the GPU Technology Conference.
Arecont Vision Technology Partner Program Adds Code Blue To Membership
Arecont Vision®, the industry leader in IP-based megapixel camera technology, announced that Code Blue Corporation has recently joined the Arecont Vision Technology Partner Program. Code Blue Corporation is the leading manufacturer of emergency communication solutions in their industry, and Arecont Vision cameras are successfully installed with Code Blue products in a wide variety of verticals and applications.
Dahua Technology USA Expands Smart H.265+ Portfolio
Dahua Technology USA, a leading manufacturer of video surveillance solutions proven the world over, has announced the expansion of its camera lineup featuring Smart H.265+, an enhanced version of the standard H.265 codec. When compared with standard H.264, Smart H.265+ saves on bandwidth and storage up to 80%, decreasing bitrate and alleviating strain on the network. Pairing Smart H.265+ cameras with compatible Dahua storage devices represents a total solution that fully embraces the latest industry compression standards while offering the flexibility to tailor encoding for a particular scene.
Veracity Introduces Integrated Security Management Platform At IAPSC Annual Conference
Veracity, a leading provider of innovative and intelligent solutions that solve real-world challenges in IP video systems, is a key sponsor of the IAPSC Annual Conference and will be presenting to the attended delegates in Austin, TX on Monday 8th May, during Day 2 of the three day event. Following on from its acquisition of security command and control software manufacturer icomply Ltd, Veracity has been demonstrating VIEWSCAPE Pro™, an integrated security management platform which provides a unified and coherent system for management and control of single or multiple sites.
LifeSafety Power Unveils Native Integration With Software House Solution
LifeSafety Power® Inc., Mundelein, Ill., has announced a groundbreaking, new integration with the Software House C?CURE 9000 solution from Tyco Security Products, part of Johnson Controls. The native integration with LifeSafety Power?s intelligent network monitoring modules now allows C?CURE 9000 users to receive and centrally manage alerts and notifications through the software, for monitoring and control of PSX power and distribution modules that are sold and supported through Software House.
The Border’s New Boundaries, Part I: Digital Towers
In a dim, low ceiling room, federal agents and private contractors are testing the feed coming off cameras erected along the southeastern Arizona border. It?s a subdued project when you consider the magnitude of the goal: eyes and ears watching every movement along the U.S.-Mexico border 24 hours, seven days a week. The Customs and Border Protection agency uses two types of towers: integrated fixed towers (IFT), which use ground sensor surveillance in rural parts of the Mexican border, and remote video surveillance systems, which are used in urban areas where legal traffic is heavy enough to render ground sensors useless. The agency currently uses eight of the IFTs in southeastern Arizona and 11 of the remote video systems. It?s called the Arizona Border Surveillance Technology Plan; and it?s a network of these towers, cameras mounted on pickup trucks and backpack surveillance systems that can be hiked into the desert and dug into the ground.
CNL Software And Sonardyne Collaborate To Deliver Waterside Situational Awareness
CNL Software, a world leader in Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software, is pleased to announce it has entered a non-exclusive technology collaboration with underwater security company, Sonardyne International Ltd. The companies are currently working together on a major critical national infrastructure project, integrating Sonardyne?s Sentinel intruder detection sonar with the IPSecurityCenter™ PSIM platform. This delivers complete situational awareness through the long-range identification and early classification of approaching underwater threats.