Monitoring
Trust Issues: New Survey Sheds Light on Americans? Biggest Security Concerns
Lots of homeowners are investing in modern technologies like smart assistants, smart speakers, and internet-connected security cameras. And while all this technology makes life easier at home, it also raises concerns as more people worry about things like getting hacked, being spied on, and having their identity stolen. ASecureLife.com surveyed hundreds of Americans across the country to get a sense for how much people trust the new-age technology filling their homes
LifeSafety Power Announces Mercury Security Breakthrough
LifeSafety Power® Inc., Mundelein, Ill., announced a breakthrough in connecting intelligent power management analytics to leading software manufacturers directly through Authentic Mercury Security hardware. End users can now obtain intelligent alerts and power solution testing natively through one single user interface with no additional hardware. This new functionality, part of the growing LifeSafety Power and Mercury Security partnership, brings proactive real-time reporting and delivers mission critical information on overall system health before it fails.
Australian City Opens $1.3M Surveillance Center With Facial Recognition Technology
Logan City in South East Queensland, Australia recently opened a $1.3 million CCTV surveillance center that uses facial recognition technology to monitor troublemakers, criminals, and burst water mains, according to a report by The Register. Over the past decade, the program has expanded from nine CCTVs to more than 300. The system operates on the Teleste video management system, which is also being used in Paris and Sweden, as well as in Austria?s national transport and roadways.
SureView Systems Introduces Central Station Training Program for Its Video and Security Event Management Software
SureView Systems, a global provider of video and security event management software, announced the new Immix® Central Station Training Program. This program is designed to help teach valued SureView partners and their employees best practices on using the robust functionality of the Immix platform.
Vemotion Integration With Synergy Good News for Public Spaces
Synectics? Synergy command and control platform – including Synergy 3 – is now fully integrated with Vemotion?s video acquisition and streaming solutions. The announcement is good news for councils and other public space bodies looking to benefit from wireless and deployable surveillance solutions that were previously impossible or costly to implement due to non-existent or poor fibre network provision.
Case Study: Audio Enhances Safety in Ebola Hospital Ward
2014 marked the year of the largest outbreak of Ebola? one of the deadliest diseases mankind has faced. When the World Health Organization categorized the epidemic as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern last August, hospitals across the United States acted quickly to increase safety measures. One hospital in New York was fast-tracked to set up a temporary Ebola ward, in case an Ebola patient who arrived at JFK Airport needed to be rushed over to their center.
Security Partners Completes Transition to Bold Manitou System
Security Partners, widely considered the fastest-growing national wholesale security monitoring company in the U.S., today announced the full installation of the Bold Manitou platform, with the CSS Aeonix Telephony and SecurVoice call recording platform, at its Lancaster, Pa. and San Antonio, Texas, operation centers.
US Cellular Introduces OnLook Digital Home Automation System
Regional wireless carrier US Cellular recently launched OnLook, a new home automation and security system. The OnLook digital home automation system was developed by US Cellular with the help of Alarm.com, a firm that specializes in providing solutions for managing homes over cellular networks, including house security, environmental monitoring, and home control. US Cellular’s OnLook service offers many tiers according to the customer’s home management and security needs.
Minuteman Security Technologies Develops Video Monitoring System for Mass Transit
Minuteman Security Technologies is getting into product manufacturing with the introduction of TransitSentry, a mobile IP video surveillance and security monitoring system designed specifically for mass transit vehicles. The integrator developed TransitSentry over the course of the past two years while it was working on a $7 million mobile video surveillance project for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
RISCO Group Releases VUpoint Live Video Verification Solution
Global integrated security solutions provider RISCO Group, has released VUpoint, a revolutionary new video verification solution that seamlessly integrates with RISCO security systems to provide a combined intruder detection and video verification solution. Utilizing RISCO IP-cameras and cloud connectivity, the highly cost-effective VUpoint solution is designed for use within RISCO’s Agility 3 and LightSYS 2 intrusion systems.
Quantum Secure Drives the Next Evolution of Enterprise Security
Quantum Secure, the world?s leading provider of enterprise software to fully integrate physical identity and access management (PIAM) across multiple systems, is demonstrating the company?s latest advancements for enterprise and SMB users here at ASIS 2014.
Quantum Secure Drives Next Evolution of Enterprise Security
Quantum Secure, the world?s leading provider of enterprise software to fully integrate physical identity and access management (PIAM) across multiple systems, is demonstrating the company?s latest advancements for enterprise and SMB users here at ASIS 2014. Quantum Secure continues to refine SAFE?s capabilities to automatically capture and correlate extensive volumes of data from present and historic events for detailed analysis of IOCs based on user-defined policies.
Access Control Integrations Handle Physical Security From Milestone XProtect Video Interface
Milestone Systems open platform IP video management software (VMS) integrated with access control systems from multiple Milestone Solution Partners will be presented at this month?s security industry events: SECURITY Essen in Germany and ASIS International in Atlanta, Georgia.
NC State University Relies on Boon Edam to Upgrade Security at Recreational Facilities
Boon Edam, Inc., announced North Carolina State University (NC State), in Raleigh NC, has installed Boon Edam Speedlane 996DA (Drop Arm) optical turnstiles at the main entrances of both its recreational facility buildings.
SeSys Delivers 500th ATEX Certified Digital IP CCTV
MOBOTIX AG, a leading manufacturer of digital high-resolution, network-based video security systems has announced that SeSys, an Advanced Partner has shipped its 500th ATEX / IECEx digital CCTV IP-camera based on a modified MOBOTIX core within a unique design certified for use within inhospitable, hazardous, or explosive areas. The SeSys ATEX and IECEx certified models offer high resolution images for live monitoring and can include integral storage to record any images for post processing or record keeping.
BCDVideo Introduces Gamma Series Monitoring Stations
BCDVideo?s Gamma Series family is designed specifically for Commercial environments such as Access Control and IP Video Surveillance. The solution is designed to be in 24x7x365 applications and powerful enough to render high quality megapixel images.
VIVOTEK Introduces Advanced Video Content Analysis Solutions
VIVOTEK has announced its first video content analysis (VCA) application package, which includes three key functions: Field Detection, Line Crossing Detection, and Object Counting. Introduction of the new VCA application package follows the debut of the VIVOTEK Application Development Platform (VADP), an open platform for integrating video analytic functionality within its cameras. Now, the VCA […]
Monitor Your Video Server Health With DNF Security Lifeline Software
Servers related to video surveillance need to be constantly monitored in order to keep a tab on their recording, storage, and playout capabilities. This helps the users identify, react, and resolve mission-critical system and network infrastructure problems in a timely manner. If this is ignored, the whole concept of protecting the organization with help of […]
Leeds City College Selects MOBOTIX To Help Protect Data Centres
MOBOTIX AG, a leading manufacturer of digital high-resolution, network-based video security systems has released details of a project at Leeds City College to secure access to critical data centres and communication rooms across multiple sites. On 1st April 2009, Leeds City College was formed following the merger of three of the city?s renowned colleges; Leeds […]
Moreno Valley, CA, Private Security Cameras Could Join Police Network
Moreno Valley, CA., is looking to expand the reach of its citywide video surveillance camera program. The city already has 260 cameras posted at parks, rooftops, and intersections providing live feeds to police under a program it started two years ago. Now it’s hoping to “deputize” security cameras owned by private businesses, providing police with […]