retail

ADT Unveils New Cloud Storage Solutions, Expands Video Surveillance Capabilities

The ADT Corporation ( ADT ), an electronic security provider, expanded its video surveillance portfolio by launching new cloud storage solutions, targeting the requirements of small business owners in the U.S. The extended video offerings will aid clients in keeping a tab on their most critical assets, with the flexibility to store video footage on-premise […]

Bionic Mannequins Could Secretly Profile The Way You Shop

If you’ve ever suspected store mannequins of knowing more than they let on, it might not be just your imagination. An Italian company known as Almax has developed a $5,000 bionic mannequin that employs the same type of facial-recognition software used to identify criminals in a crowd. Equipped with cameras in their eye sockets, the […]

Axis Introduces Modular Mini Camera Series

AXIS F Series is a highly flexible, modular network camera series ideal for ATMs, banks, stores, hotels, and mobile environments like ambulances and police cars. Axis Communications, the global leader in network video surveillance, today introduces a modular camera series, the AXIS F Network Series, that not only gives customers discreet surveillance solutions with HDTV […]

Global Analysis On Facial Recognition Market – Trends And Forecast – 2013-2019

Transparency Market Research Reports compiled a definite business overview and investigation on "Facial Recognition Market." This report incorporates more insight about fundamental areas of the business including definitions, requisitions, and worldwide business sector industry structure. Facial recognition technology as a biometric security measure has gained significant traction in recent years driven by growth in security […]

Verint Nextiva Portfolio Expansion And New Integrations Enhances Security And Business Intelligence To Retail Market

Verint® Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNT) announced the expansion of its portfolio of security and business intelligence solutions for the retail sector as it continues to deliver advanced technologies to help reduce fraud and loss, boost operational efficiency and improve the customer experience. To help reduce shrinkage and achieve a significant return on investment, retailers are […]

Retail Security: A Complex Sale

As many security integrators are aware, the retail security market has experienced a pretty dramatic shift in the past decade, which makes selling to this huge market a trickier proposition. Retail security departments that are dominated by decision makers from the loss prevention side of the equation are dwindling. Analog cameras are reaching their end […]

Video Analytics Packages From RIVA

The acronym RIVA, stands for "Realtime Intelligent Video Analytics" an intelligent 3D-video analytic system which is already integrated in all RIVA cameras and encoders as a standard feature at no extra cost. The basic version VCA Presence continually tracks moving and stationary objects and persons in predefined detection zones and generates real-time alerts. Up to […]

High-Fashion Retailer Century 21 Goes IP With American Dynamics

Tyco Security Products, part of Tyco (NYSE: TYC), the world’s largest pure-play fire protection and security company, announced that Century 21, a high-fashion, low-price retailer with stores in New York and New Jersey, has chosen an end-to-end American Dynamics IP video surveillance solution as part of a unified loss prevention program for its newest store […]

DTT Ranks High On 2014 SDM Top 100 List

As the leading provider of digital video surveillance and loss prevention for the hospitality and retail sectors, DTT (DTT Surveillance Company Information) ranked on SDM Magazine’s Top 100 list for the third consecutive year, coming in at 26th. The SDM 100 Report ranks U.S. companies that earn their revenues from the sale, installation, service and […]

DVS To Distribute Retail Analytics System Prism Skylabs In UK

DVS, the UK’s distributor of IP surveillance equipment, has entered into an agreement with San Francisco-based Prism Skylabs which will see DVS distribute their cutting-edge retail analytics and visual merchandising cloud service in the UK. Prism Skylabs allows any surveillance camera to be used to provide powerful analytics, including dwell, footfall, and product lift – […]

Tracking Customers In-Store; Stuff Sci-fi Novels Were Made Of

Sci-fi authors –the Nostradami of technology– have been making accurate predictions of modern-day living since as far back as 1888 when the idea of debit cards surfaced in the utopian tale “Looking Back.” Similarly, Philip K. Dick, the author behind “Minority Report,” foresaw and wrote about various technologies that are being put into play today […]

Why Facial Recognition Isn’t The Way of the Future…Yet

It’s the how the future is meant to be, isn’t it? The good guys need to find a bad guy in a crowd of people, so they start scanning the environment with a camera that is equipped with facial recognition technology. Seconds later, they scan a face that’s a positive match with an entry in […]

Security Systems Integrator iTech Digital Releases Full Featured IP Video Management Solution

i2i BLUE is a next generation video management system capable of integrating HD megapixel camera technology with the flexibility to provide security system configurations from pure IP to IP-analog hybrid variations. iTech Digital, an Indianapolis-based integrator of video surveillance solutions, announces the release of its new IP video management system (VMS) called i2i BLUE. By […]

Planet Beauty Selects DTT As Video Surveillance & Loss Prevention Partner

DTT announced a partnership with Planet Beauty, a privately owned, upscale beauty retailer based in Southern California. As a full-service provider of digital surveillance and loss prevention solutions for both the retail and hospitality sectors, DTT supplies Planet Beauty locations with a wide variety of Managed Services, including their unique SmartAudit? tool, as well as […]

Singapore Telecommunications Launches Cloud-Based Video Analytics Solution For Retail Industry

Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) today launched the SingTel Video-Analytics-as-a-Service (VAaaS), a solution developed by KAI Square Pte Ltd (KAI), a Singapore-based start-up specialising in next-generation video analytics technology. Mr Lee Han Kheng, SingTel’s Vice President Global Products, Group Enterprise said: "SingTel’s VAaaS is a subscription service that leverages analytics to extract information from video images. […]

DigitalPersona Fingerprint Biometric Solutions Improve Security And Service In Latin America Banks

DigitalPersona, Inc., a trusted partner for biometric identity verification solutions, announced that Coppel Corporation, a group of retail and finance companies, has chosen DigitalPersona® fingerprint technology to verify employee and customer identities in more than 800 banks and 1,000 Pension Fund Offices throughout Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. Coppel Corporation also maintains similar biometrics-based solutions in […]

Kroger, eInfochips showcase ‘Retail Site Intelligence’ solution

Kroger and eInfochips are demonstrating the new Retail Site Intelligence platform this week at ISC West. While many retailers look to the security industry to provide them with the latest cutting-edge technology, one grocery chain has decided to take an active role in actually helping to develop a new solution that spans both security and […]

Genetec Unveils Turnkey Network Security Appliances SV-32

Genetec, a global provider of unified IP security solutions, announced the SV-32, the latest offering in its line of turnkey network security appliances. Designed for customers that require a small size Network Video Recorder (NVR) —such as retail and banking organizations— the SV-32 will be able to support up to 32 cameras and will offer […]