NYSS and Alcatraz Partner to Increase Touchless Access Control Offerings Along the East Coast
Alcatraz has partnered with New York Security Solutions, Inc. to sell and market the Alcatraz Rock platform in the East Coast market. Headquartered in New York City, NYSS designs and develops comprehensive security solutions for a variety of clients in the New York area and beyond. They have installed more than 20,000 access-controlled points and 60,000 video devices for more than 100 organizations.
Building Technology Executive Tina D’Agostin Joins Alcatraz as CRO
Security industry leader Tina D?Agostin has joined Alcatraz as Chief Revenue Officer. D?Agostin brings deep enterprise security and building technology experience that will accelerate Alcatraz?s go-to-market strategy for its revolutionary facial authentication platform for physical access control. D?Agostin will oversee sales, marketing, and customer success for Alcatraz?s enterprise customers. Tina D?Agostin comes from Johnson Controls, where she most recently was the General Manager of Building Technology & Solutions.
Alcatraz Partners with SAGE Integration to Expand Modern Access Control Solutions Along the East Coast, Midwest
Alcatraz and SAGE Integration have partnered to deliver facial authentication solutions to enterprise businesses to help modernize access control. Headquartered in Kent, Ohio, with a regional office in Atlanta, SAGE Integration will develop and expand Alcatraz?s presence along the East Coast and in Midwestern states. SAGE Integration is a national security integration provider serving enterprise clients with the mission to protect their people, facilities, and reputation.
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.
BriefCam Appoints Gil Briman Chief Executive Officer
BriefCam announced the appointment of Gil Briman as its Chief Executive Officer. Briman joins the organization to build upon BriefCam?s momentum delivering the best-in-class video analytics platform. As CEO, Briman will focus on driving the company strategy to help organizations transform video into actionable intelligence through BriefCam?s innovative and comprehensive video content analytics platform. Briman has 27 years of experience leading global technology companies.
Genetec launches e-book to Help Public Safety Organizations Build Safer, Smarter Cities
Today, the resilience of cities depends on the open communication and connection between a wide variety of systems and organizations including health officials, businesses, traffic control, public works, schools, transit authorities, hospital administrations, among many others. To help public safety organizations navigate options and evaluate different technologies, Genetec and Intel have co-authored an e-book called Enhancing Public Safety: Considerations for building Safer, Smarter Cities.
Pivot3 Validation Enables Bosch Customers to Utilize Infrastructure Purpose-Built for Video
Pivot3 announced it is the first hyperconverged infrastructure platform to be certified with BVMS ? the video management system from Bosch. This certification enables organizations using BVMS to realize additional improvements in economics, simplicity, and agility in their physical security environments that only Pivot3?s video-optimized infrastructure can offer. Pivot3?s HCI surveillance solution is the industry?s only hyperconverged infrastructure designed specifically for the unique demands of video workloads.
Pivot3 Expands Automation and Intelligence Capabilities for Lifecycle Management of Video Infrastructure
Pivot3 announced significant automation and intelligence enhancements to its Acuity software platform to address the system administration, maintenance and availability challenges often faced in large-scale video surveillance deployments. The new intelligent system health and best practices analysis features provide significant reductions in total cost of ownership, ensure 24 x 7 system uptime in large multi-petabyte environments, and enable customers to automate end-to-end system life-cycle management processes.
HID Global Extends Industry?s Broadest Portfolio of Open- Architecture Controllers for Access Control with The New HID Aero Platform
HID Global announced that it has extended its open-architecture controller line with the introduction of HID Aero. Building on the proven success of its Mercury intelligent controller platform delivering total security beyond the door, HID Aero extends flexibility and access control choices to a wide range of businesses, while future-proofing an organization?s investment as requirements change.
Powerful Integration and Flexibility with Redesigned BEST Wi-Q Technology
Facility administrators can now manage thousands of access credentials to their heavy use doorways from a smart, secure, centralized platform. BEST?s updated Wi-Q Technology Wireless Access Solution has been integrated with Mercury, opening the door for dozens of integrations through Mercury Panels. It also includes a portal gateway housing redesigned to look like an everyday Wi-Fi router to help reduce tampering by allowing it to hide in plain sight.
Qognify Launches Cayuga R15 Video Management System
Qognify announced the launch of Cayuga R15. The new release of Qognify?s video management system for multi-site corporate and enterprise projects focuses on enhanced usability and connectivity, improved maintainability, and intelligent analytics. One of the main goals while developing Cayuga R15 was to help security personnel quickly identify, locate, and evaluate an event. This can present a real challenge when operating large systems with widely distributed locations.
Panasonic i-PRO Offers Panasonic IDguard Automated Identity Redaction Solution
Panasonic Public Safety Solutions Division announces the immediate availability of Panasonic IDguard, an identity redaction solution that reduces up to 90% of the manual effort associated with editing video files of sensitive content. With the growing volume of video from body-worn, in-car cameras, and other sources, agencies have been forced to allocate more and more personnel time to editing video to fulfill Freedom-of-Information-Act requests.
Southwest Microwave Introduces IP-Based Power over Ethernet Fence Detection System
Southwest Microwave has expanded its suite of IP-based Power over Ethernet (POE) intelligent perimeter intrusion detection solutions with the INTREPID MicroPoint-POE-S Fence Detection System. Ideal for fence applications with cut-or-climb intrusion risks, MicroPoint-POE-S employs proprietary digital signal processing algorithms to precisely locate intrusion attempts to within 1.1 m while ignoring harmless disturbances caused by wind, rain or vehicle traffic.
Insight and Genetec Partner to Help Make Cities Smarter, Communities Safer
Insight Enterprises announced its partnership with Genetec. The collaboration will drive digital transformation for cities, providing end-to-end delivery and management of a unified data platform across a city?s departments. A 2018 McKinsey report predicts that, globally, cities are expected to add 2.5 billion new residents by 2050 and are already home to half the world?s population. Such a population boom places growing pressures on infrastructure and the environment.
Alcatraz Partners with ISM to Extend Presence in Northern Cali, Nevada & Rocky Mountain States
Alcatraz has partnered with Intelligent Systems Marketing, Inc., to sell and market Alcatraz?s innovative security solutions. ISM is a manufacturer?s representative company covering Northern California, Northern Nevada, and the Rocky Mountain states, that specializes in the sale and installation of a variety of security products including comprehensive access control solutions.
Bosch Launches the First Fully Open Camera Platform
Bosch has announced the launch of INTEOX, a new camera platform designed to modernize the security and safety industry. The first fully open platform of its kind, INTEOX gives users, system integrators, and application developers unlimited freedom for innovation and customization. To take full advantage of the opportunities that the IoT brings, the safety and security industry must embrace change. Bosch is demonstrating the vast potential of the IoT with INTEOX.
Panasonic i-PRO and WCCTV Connect to Provide High-performance Mobile Surveillance Solutions
Panasonic i-PRO U.S. Intelligent Surveillance has recently entered into a technology partnership with Wireless CCTV LLC to offer high-performance wireless transmission solutions over state-of-the-art 4G LTE networks. The reciprocal agreement enables authorized Panasonic i-PRO systems integrators and reseller partners to integrate WCCTV wireless solutions for delivery to their customers, and for WCCTV to offer their customers wireless surveillance solutions that integrate Panasonic i-PRO cameras.
Qognify to Unveil New VisionHub VMS+ During ISC West 2020
Qognify will showcase it’s new VisionHub VMS+ during ISC West 2020. The enterprise-class security management solution is taking VMS to a new level by going beyond the pure management of video streams to include superior workflow support, situational awareness and system management capabilities. VisionHub VMS+ is an ideal security management solution for organizations such as airports, seaports and operators of critical infrastructure.
HID Global Unveils Signature Line of Readers HID Signo
HID Global announced the launch of HID? Signo?, its signature line of readers that creates a new industry benchmark for the most adaptable, interoperable and secure approach to access control. The new readers dramatically simplify system deployment and management, meet the advanced security requirements of today?s dynamic environments and set organizations up for smarter, more connected access control.
Mitch Fagundes has Joined Alcatraz AI as Vice President of Global Accounts
Alcatraz AI has named Mitch Fagundes Vice President of Global Accounts. Alcatraz AI is an innovative firm that?s improving access control by delivering secure, frictionless solutions that enhance flow, improve security, reduce overall cost, and work with any access control provider. Based in California, Fagundes will oversee business development and strategic growth for the Globe.