Milestone Hires Vice President of Sales for the Asia Pacific Region
Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), announces Benjamin Low as the new VP Sales, APAC. He will be based out of the company?s office in Singapore, and report directly to Kenneth H. Petersen, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at the Danish headquarters. Low will focus on working with the Asia Pacific Milestone sales personnel and partner ecosystem of distributors, installers, solution partners and camera manufacturers.
Genetec and Prism Skylabs Help Retailers Gain in-Store Insights With Retail Analytics Suite
By integrating Prism with Security Center, retailers can extend their existing video surveillance camera system to provide valuable in-store data and metrics to monitor store traffic reports, monitor customer shopping trends, and remotely inspect store merchandising and brand displays.
Hikvision Partners With Agent Vi to Offer Intelligent Solution
Hikvision, the worldwide leader in innovative video surveillance products and solutions, together with Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi), the leading global provider of open architecture video analytics software, have announced strategic cooperation to integrate their products to allow Agent Vi?s embedded component to run on Hikvision cameras. The integration enables end users to run Agent Vi?s full range of video analytics solutions on up to 200 Hikvision cameras simultaneously per single server.
Can Milestone Walk the Open Talk?
As truly global companies, Canon and Milestone work with partners around the world and yet it seems —in the U.S. at least— this long-term ?open platform? business strategy for Milestone has its vocal doubters.
VIVOTEK Launches Professional Box Network Camera, Ideal for Traffic Monitoring
VIVOTEK is pleased to announce the launch of the IP816A-HP, a professional 2-Megapixel box network camera with advanced image process technologies such as WDR Pro and SNV (Supreme Night Visibility) and several unique features, making it the perfect camera for monitoring traffic and tunnels.
Negligent Security: When Is Crime Your Problem?
This valuable whitepaper, presented by the Federation of Defense and Corporate Council Winter Meeting in March of 2011, is still timely today and shared with the SecurityHive.com community to provide a better understanding on how our companies could be liable for large jury verdicts for not providing proper secure environments. Written by Richards H. Ford of Wicker, Smith, O’hara, McCoy, and Ford, P.A., a Florida law firm, this whitepaper showcases what negligent security conditions can cost an organization via a lawsuit.
Security Partners Announces West Coast Operations Manager
As Security Partners prepares to open a state-of-the-art strategic operations center in Las Vegas, the company has tapped a California-based security professional to handle its expanding operations. Rick Guzman, of Corona, Calif., who has 22 years of experience in the alarm monitoring industry, will oversee all West Coast operations.
Panasonic Acquires Video Insight
Panasonic Corporation of North America today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire all shares of Houston, TX-based Video Insight, Inc., a leading developer of video management software, as part of its strategy to expand business opportunities for both companies in the education market in North America. Founded in 2002, Video Insight provides enterprise-class video management solutions for security systems to over 25,000 customers in the financial, government, retail and transportation sectors as well as 6,500 K-12 school and college customers.
Panasonic Launches 360 Degrees Network Camera With New 4K Ultra Engine
Panasonic Marketing Middle East and Africa (PMMAF), a leader in video surveillance cameras and solutions, launched their first 9-megapixel 360-degree network cameras for indoor and outdoor use at Intersec 2015 in Dubai. They are ideal for surveillance applications that require wide area coverage such as shopping malls, retail stores, airports, railway stations, parking lots, factories, warehouses, offices, and more. The WV-SFN480 and WV-SFV481 360-degree cameras provide a 360°/180° field of view, delivering very detailed 9-megapixel images with a 9MP 3K x 3K fisheye, panoramic, and de-warped view at 30fps in H.264 for incredibly high resolution at standard frame rates, ensuring bright images under any lighting condition.
Axis Partners With Solink to Deliver Integrated Contextual Analytics
Axis Communications, the global leader in network video surveillance, and Solink, the first event-driven video discovery platform, are partnering to deliver a fully integrated contextual analytics solution. This partnership allows Axis IP-cameras to work seamlessly with the Solink platform and its banking and retail applications.
Honeywell Security Group: Rothman Retires, David Paja Becomes President
Honeywell announced today that Ron Rothman, who has been with the company for 30 years, has retired. David Paja, 45, will take over as president of Honeywell Security Group on Jan. 19.
Enhanced 3SI GPS Tracking Solution Tracks Virtually Any Type of Asset
Thanks to 3SI Security System’s newly enhanced NextGen3 Asset Tracker™, criminals will face greater obstacles when trying to steal protected items. Asset Tracker is a GPS tracking device that allows police to safely track criminals and help recover assets.
Sentry360 Brings on New CTO and Director Biz Dev
Sentry360, a manufacturer of advanced megapixel surveillance cameras for government and commercial markets, announced the addition of Jeff Mueller as Chief Technology Officer and Scott Merrell as Director of Business Development.
Eight Cities Video-Linked With Milestone Ring of Protection
Open platform IP video management software (VMS) from world-leading provider Milestone Systems is improving safety and public services in eight cities around Minnesota?s largest metropolis. Minneapolis/St. Paul is the most populous area in the state with a sprawl of more than 3,000,000 people. Eight cities here covering more than 200 square miles have formed a valuable circle of relationships by connecting their video surveillance to protect citizens and quickly resolve incidents that can cross between their borders.
Easy IP Migration Using Existing Networking Cables
Choice, cost savings, speed of deployment, and convenience. That is what the reuse of existing cables can offer end-users when they are looking to migrate their existing analogue based surveillance, access control or intercom system, to IP transmission. For decades, tens of millions of analogue-based CCTV cameras have been connected to recording & control equipment via coax cable. Also, about 80% of analogue cameras installed via coax have cable runs greater than the defacto Ethernet standard of 100m; typically being in the range of 150-200m.
ADI Appoints Michael Flink New President
The US-based wholesale distributor ADI has named Michael Flink as president of ADI Global. ADI, part of the Honeywell Security Group (HSG), will operate globally, and Flink will lead all ADI businesses across the Americas, EMEA, and India. Flink, pictured, has been president of ADI Americas since 2010.
Tyco Security Products Sponsors Prestigious Women?s Symposium
Tyco Security Products, part of Tyco (NYSE: TYC), the world?s largest pure-play fire protection and security company, announced today it is a proud sponsor of the Massachusetts Conference for Women, which will host its 10th annual event on December 4 in Boston. The conference features nationally recognized speakers and provides professional women with workshops and seminars on entrepreneurship, professional development and personal /professional life balance.
Buffalo TeraStation 5200 as Standalone NVR Product Review
Wouldn?t it be nice if you could find a video storage platform that really could easily connect with a handful of cameras and allow someone to quickly call up the camera video feed as well as the recorded video and do this all without a seasoned I.T. staff. Yes, it would and we have found such a solution in the Buffalo TeraStation 5000 series network attached storage (NAS) unit integrated with the Axis Camera Companion software.
TRI-ED Announces New Logo and Management Changes
Following its recent acquisition by Anixter, TRI-ED Distribution is proud to announce its new logo as well as key management changes. Pat Comunale will now serve as President of Global Security Solutions. James Rothstein will serve as Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Dirk Foreman will be responsible for Global/National Integrator Sales, both reporting directly to Pat Comunale.
Milestone Systems Hires New CSMO
Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), announces Kenneth Hune Petersen as the new Chief Sales & Marketing Officer. He will be based out of the global headquarters in Denmark and as a member of the Executive Management Team will report directly to CEO Lars Thinggaard.