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Convergint Technologies Acquires Beacon Security of UK

Posted by Stan Lewis January 16, 2015 4:49 pm Categories: Corporate News. Tags: acquisition, beacon, convergint technologies, security services, United Kingdom.

Convergint Technologies announced the acquisition of Beacon Security and Communications Solutions, a leading provider of physical security systems and services in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe. Beacon is a value-added security solutions provider serving global Fortune 500 companies.

New GPS Tracking Solution Offers Protection for ATMs in Financial and Retail Establishments

Posted by Stan Lewis December 3, 2014 5:52 am Categories: Access Control, Banking & Finance, Critical Infrastructure. Tags: ATMs, Automated teller machine, beacon, financial institutions, GPS tracking, security.

This innovative system’s global platform leverages multiple security and tracking applications and will deliver impressive apprehension (up to 70% of cases) and asset return (more than 87%) rates. By incorporating smart technology, the devices offer wide flexibility in deployment and improved data storage and organization. The ATM Tracker offers a compact profile which makes it easier to install in different ATMs or similar cash dispensing machines.

Brickstream Acquires NOMi for Offline Analytics

Posted by dtaitano October 29, 2014 10:16 am Categories: Corporate News, Video Analytics. Tags: analytics, beacon, brickstream, data, in-store, nomi, re-code, retail, wifi, wifi-based.

Shortly after NOMi – a company that bills itself as the Omniture of the brick and mortar store – acquired cross-device startup Media Armor, NOMi itself has been acquired by in-store analytics competitor Brickstream. Apple delivered a major blow to a core part of NOMi’s business when it revealed this summer that it would begin randomizing Media Access Control (MAC) addresses for mobile operating system iOS8.