Lobby Security for New York City Office Tower Provided by Smarter Security
Smarter Security, Inc., provider of premium, innovative entrance control and outdoor security solutions, announced a New York City high-rise selected Fastlane Plus AS optical turnstiles to secure its building lobby. The unique design of the upcoming building led to architectural requirements for custom turnstiles that complement the space. The building owner appreciates Fastlane™ in some of its other properties and with this new building, embraces the efficiencies, cost savings, and appeal of the IP and smartphone technologies Smarter Security offers.
Advancing Smart Cities: The Vital Role of Multi-connectivity Devices and AI
With the rapid proliferation of connected devices, the concept of smart cities is becoming an ever-closer reality. These technologically advanced urban centers promise to enhance the quality of life for residents and optimize operational efficiency for city administrators through an intricate web of interconnected devices. From smart lighting and electric vehicle (EV) chargers to intelligent meters, these devices hold immense potential to revolutionize urban living.
Xtract One Technologies Partners with NWSL’s Kansas City Current to Secure Entrances at New and Historic CPKC Stadium
Xtract One Technologies announced its SmartGateway System has been selected to protect the new 11,500-capacity CPKC Stadium, as a result of the Company’s partnership with Kansas City Current. CPKC Stadium is being built by construction partners, J.E. Dunn and women-owned Monarch Build, as well as the female-led team at Henderson Engineers, and is expected to open at the start of the 2024 NWSL season.
VIVOTEK Creates International Smart Security Solution for Chi-Hai Cultural Park in Taiwan
VIVOTEK has introduced international standard security solution to Ching-Kuo Chi-Hai Cultural Park (hereinafter referred to as “Chi-Hai Cultural Park”) in Taipei to offer citizens a safe environment and experience when they visit the park and protect the park’s important cultural heritage and historical displays from damage, while also strengthening the park’s security under the premise of effective management of manpower and operating cost.
Smart Cities and Security.World
Urban regions that use cutting-edge technology and data analytics to increase their livability, sustainability, and efficiency have created a new term “Smart Cities.” The idea of these Smart Cities centers on the management and optimization of urban processes through the use of numerous interconnected technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing.
Tunja City Implements IoT Taxi Tracking with Illumination and Abeeway
Tunja city, Colombia, has successfully deployed an IoT project of city taxis fleet tracking and safety, in order to provide the drivers with a mean of self-protection. The solution, initiated by Iluminacion.co, a leading Colombian provider of IoT and renewable energy solutions, is based on Abeeway tracking devices and innovative ultra-low-power LoRaWAN connectivity for data transfer.
City Workers Can Now Add Their Employee Badge to Apple Wallet and Gain Office Access Using their iPhone or Apple Watch
Smart Spaces has teamed with HID to introduce an employee badge in Apple Wallet, offering a secure and even more seamless building entry for employees at 22 Bishopsgate in the City of London. By adding their employee badge to Apple Wallet, employees and staff in the building can now safely and easily gain access to offices with just a simple tap of their iPhone or Apple Watch. Following the initial partnership between Smart Spaces and 22 Bishopsgate utilising HID Mobile Access in 2020, all occupiers and guests at the landmark office tower have had access to a frictionless arrival-experience.
LoRaWAN Live Orlando to Showcase Global Smart Cities, Buildings and Utilities Deployments and Technological Advances Using LoRaWAN
The LoRa Alliance announced the full program for LoRaWAN Live Orlando, offering a wide variety of programming across technical and certification tracks, business developments and solutions, global and regional deployments, and live demos and exhibitions with a focus on smart cities, buildings and utilities. This is the first LoRaWAN Live event of 2023 and the only […]
NRG Energy Inc. to Acquire Vivint Smart Home Inc.
NRG Energy announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which NRG will acquire Vivint for $12 per share or $2.8 billion in an all-cash transaction with an implied multiple of 6.3x run-rate Enterprise Value to Adjusted EBITDA. The agreement has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies. Vivint Smart Home is a leading smart home platform company whose mission is to help its nearly two million customers live intelligently by providing them with technology, products, and services to create a smarter, more efficient, and safer home.
For the Third Consecutive Time, HID is the Smart Ticket Producer for FIFA World Cup 2022
HID announces it is —for the third consecutive time— the smart ticket producer of FIFA World Cup, one of the largest and most popular sporting events in the world. This year, HID is also providing a fully custom solution for outer-perimeter access control and all exit gates to ensure a smooth exit and facilitate emergency evacuations. Featuring eight stadiums spread across five Qatari cities, the Middle Eastern country expects more than 1.2 million visitors to attend the games, happening Nov. 20 – Dec. 18.
viisights Proves to Make Smart Cities Smarter with Line of Behavioral Recognition Video Analytics
viisights is rapidly increasing its dominance within the video analytics market for smart cities with its Wise™ product offering for public security, safety, environmental health, and urban mobility. viisights’ innovative behavioral recognition video understanding technology adds AI-driven intelligence to existing security cameras to automatically detect developing safety and security risks and raise near real-time alarms, thus making smart cities smarter. This equates to added value in the form of enhanced operational efficiencies, improved quality of life for residents, and safer, healthier, and more secure environments.
TKH Security Installing Park Assist Solution at Kansas City International Airport
TKH Security (formerly Park Assist) has begun installing the previously awarded Automated Parking Guidance System (APGS) contract through JE Dunn Construction in conjunction with the Kansas City Aviation Department (KCAD) in Kansas City, MO. Landing in spring 2023, the Kansas City Aviation Department will open a new single terminal representing a total transformation of Kansas City’s air passenger experience.
Wasabi and Hanwha Announce Smarter Video Surveillance Storage Integration
Wasabi Technologies announced a new integration with Hanwha Techwin that delivers a fully scalable, cost-effective cloud storage solution for the Wisenet WAVE VMS to reinforce the surveillance industry’s next generation architecture needs. By leveraging a combination of on-prem and cloud technology, users of Wasabi hot cloud storage and Wisenet Wave VMS can support high camera counts, high-definition resolutions, high frame rates, and long retention periods with exceptional reliability, affordability, and availability to meet the demands of video surveillance deployments while protecting video with the industry’s strongest security practices.
Quantum Expands Video Surveillance Portfolio with Industry-First Smart Video Servers
Quantum Corporation announced the Unified Surveillance Platform (USP), a resilient, flexible, and secure software platform for recording and storing video surveillance data. In addition to introducing this software platform, Quantum is introducing a new line of Smart Network Video Recording Servers (NVRs). The Smart NVRs combine the Quantum Unified Surveillance Platform software with a purpose-built NVR server to create a next-generation, integrated appliance for capturing and recording surveillance video. These new offerings expand Quantum’s video surveillance portfolio which also includes hyperconverged appliances from the recently acquired Pivot3 video surveillance assets, standard NVRs, and long-term retention solutions.
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.
Quantum VS-HCI Series Acuity Software Update Extends Simplicity
Quantum Corporation announced the availability of an update to the Quantum VS-HCI Series Acuity software platform, which was recently acquired from Pivot3. The 10.9 version of the Acuity software platform addresses the system-level availability, health, maintenance, and performance needs of organizations where video is mission-critical in delivering the highest levels of safety and security.
Dedrone Announces Successful Citywide Airspace Security Deployment
Dedrone successfully implements a citywide airspace security deployment in Southern Europe. Dedrone protects people, property, and information from drone threats across large footprint areas like cities, airports, and power plants. A major metropolitan city in Southern Europe has deployed less than a dozen DedroneSensors to detect, track and locate drones and their pilots across the city center. The protected area includes internationally renowned tourist destinations, corporate and shopping districts, residential areas, and a port encompassing 50 square kilometers.
Zyter Partners with Juganu to Deliver Digital Smart Lighting and Sensor Platform for Smart Cities
Zyter announced it has formed a strategic partnership with Juganu. Under the terms of the agreement, Zyter will leverage Juganu’s smart lighting solutions and network connectivity framework on future smart campus and smart city implementations worldwide. In a smart city deployment, smart lighting enables connected light sources and IoT-enabled sensors to be controlled through a single management dashboard or even a smartphone.
Nice Strengthens Global Smart Home & Building Automation Leadership Position with Nortek Security & Control LLC Acquisition
Nice announced today it has acquired Nortek Security & Control, LLC from Melrose Industries. Nortek Security & Control is a leading developer of technology for security, home automation, control, power, AV and entertainment, access control, health, and artificial intelligence (AI) systems for residential and commercial markets. With this acquisition and addition of strategic award-winning brands.
City of Chattanooga Deploys Genetec and Stratocast in Public-Private Policing Initiative
Genetec Inc. has deployed its Security Center unified platform to enable the City of Chattanooga’s ‘Dragonfly Community Connect,’ a public-private policing initiative to enhance public safety in the Tennessee community. Through the initiative, when calls come into the Chattanooga Police Department (CPD) to report a crime, the Real-Time Intelligence Center (RTIC) can check with participating businesses in the area to see if they are able to share video from their security cameras.