video surveillance
Video Storage Solutions Showcased At ISC West 2017
BDT Products, a data storage automation original equipment manufacturer celebrating its 50th anniversary delivering quality engineered products, will highlight a video surveillance storage solution that utilizes low-cost LTO technology at this year?s ISC West. This video surveillance storage solution focuses on customers that have larger camera counts, implementing higher resolution levels, and/or needing longer-term retention. Typically, a storage challenge for such situations but BDT will share their expertise and technology with visitors to booth 30110 at ISC West 2017 expo in Las Vegas.
HPC And Object Storage Helping Companies Intelligently Manage Video Surveillance Data
The adoption of high-definition cameras, increasing device connectivity, and the shift from analog to IP technologies are causing complex stores of video surveillance data to expand at an exponential pace. As the costs and complexity of video surveillance storage architectures grow at the same rate as the data itself, organizations are seeking new ways to intelligently store and manage these rising data volumes. However, many organizations struggle to adapt to the evolving storage requirements associated with exploding data volumes, advancing camera technologies, and an expanding number of cutting-edge use cases.
Bosch Security Systems And Sony Corporation Video Surveillance Partnership Finalized
After the official approval of the antitrust authorities, the business partnership of Bosch Security Systems and Sony Corporation in the field of video security solutions became effective by February 1, 2017. Both companies will now focus on strengthening their collaboration that was first announced in November 2016. The partnership entails both a sales and marketing cooperation as well as a technical collaboration. As part of the sales and marketing partnership, Sony’s video security sales and marketing associates joined a newly formed dedicated team within the Bosch Security System organization. Sony’s video security customers, in all markets except Japan, will be served and supported by this sales and marketing team.
Tyco Security Products Brings Multi-Site, Integrated Security To The Edge
Tyco Security Products, part of Johnson Controls, introduces the iSTAR Ultra Video, a palm-sized solution that delivers integrated, small site security scaled for enterprise management and performance. Using C?CURE 9000 Security and Event Management software from Software House or American Dynamics? victor Unified client, iSTAR Ultra Video brings access control and video recording to the edge, allowing users to remotely control up to eight doors and eight IP video cameras using a single appliance, without the need for server software at each site.
Apollo Video Technology Named Market Leader In Transit Bus Video Surveillance
Apollo Video Technology, a leading manufacturer of mobile video surveillance and fleet management solutions, has been named the transit bus market leader in the Americas in the 2017 edition of the Mobile Video Surveillance and Body Worn Cameras Report. Apollo Video has maintained its position as market leader in the Americas since 2010. The report released by IHS Markit, a global business information and analytics provider, ranks companies based on annual sales revenue.
SoCal School District Selects Nexsan For Petabyte Video Storage Project
Nexsan™ announced that Corona-Norco Unified School District has deployed Nexsan’s E-Series Model E60™ solution to meet increasing storage demands and accommodate the s chool districts new video surveillance mandate. CNUSD expects these projects to exceed a petabyte of storage. Corona-Norco has more than 20,000 desktops to protect and growing volumes of data, including data generated from a large new video surveillance implementation, the district continued to face difficulties with its existing Fibre Channel-based storage infrastructure and associated high cost per terabyte.
Arteco Announces Integration With SANS Technology To Increase Video Storage Options
Arteco, a global provider of video event management solutions, announced its integration with SANS Technology?s enterprise-class storage solution Syneto. The technology partnership ensures the Arteco Video Event Management System (VEMS) is optimized for robust performance and reliability when hosted on the SANS-Syneto storage appliance. The integration helps ensure video data is stored and protected, while video management capabilities are readily available for video monitoring, security, and operational purposes. Clients and integrator partners benefit from this proven integration that increases storage and video management options for those seeking to protect video data in mission-critical surveillance environments.
City Of Houston Deploys Siklu Radios To Deliver Video Surveillance At Super Bowl LIVE Event
Siklu Inc., the global market leader in millimeter-wave solutions, announced that it had been selected by the city of Houston to provide wireless connectivity for the video surveillance system to be used at Super Bowl LIVE, a 10-day outdoor event in Houston that is expected to draw more than one million visitors as part of the pre-game festivities. Siklu?s EH-600TX radios will be used to transmit video surveillance from the east side of downtown Houston, which will host the Super Bowl LIVE festivities from January 28 to February 5. The outdoor event will include entertainment, music and games and will be held over several city blocks near a 12-acre urban park.
Quantum Extends Video Surveillance Solutions Portfolio, Grows Partner Ecosystem
Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM) announced expansions to its storage solutions family and technology partner ecosystem for video surveillance and security. With the new Xcellis™ Application Director E, customers in low camera-count environments can now run video management systems (VMS) or analytic applications with directly attached storage.
Surveon Upgrades Hospital Security With Complete Solution
While the aging population rises with the declining birth rate, healthcare has become a crucial issue all over the world. Security in and around the healthcare institution is always a major concern due to the open nature of these places and the sensitivity of hospital operations. To protect the staff, patients, visitors, as well as the assets in many areas in the hospital, the security requirements are much more stringent than those in regular surveillance applications. Being a professional solution provider in vertical application, Surveon offers complete healthcare solutions, including high-resolution cameras, enterprise hardware RAID NVR, as well as enterprise VMS with real-time video analytics (VA) to detect forbidden area access like patient rooms,
Total Recall Releases New Crimeeye-Rd-2 Unit
Total Recall Corporation, a Convergint Technologies Company, has released the CrimeEye-RD-2 rapid deployment portable video surveillance system, the latest in its CrimeEye® line of digital video surveillance solutions. The unique features of the CrimeEye-RD-2 make it a perfect video surveillance solution for marathons, parades, street fairs, concerts, or any other temporary security deployment.
IHS Markit Releases Annual Video Surveillance Top Trends Whitepaper
Demand for video surveillance equipment is likely to continue growing rapidly in 2017, however, price competition will remain intense. In its complimentary whitepaper, IHS Markit forecasts the world market will grow at an annual rate of less than 7%. Competition will not make it easy for vendors to grow revenues and margins. Some will fail in this regard and further consolidation of the supply base is inevitable. However, there will be opportunities for well-placed vendors and some end-user sectors will also grow quickly. So, what will be the big stories in 2017? Get your copy of this complimentary report.
Viakoo Awarded US Patent For Validating Retention Times Of Surveillance Data
Viakoo, the leader in automated verification of physical security system performance, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued its U.S. Patent No. 9,456,190. The patent covers methods for independently calculating the actual time period of retention for an individual video data stream on a recording system. Viakoo has implemented this patent in its products to automatically detect, track, and validate Video Retention Compliance (VRC) as a key performance metric.
Germany Approves Regulation To Allow Expansion Of Video Surveillance Network
Germany’s strict privacy laws prevent the widespread usage of surveillance cameras, but the coalition government on Wednesday approved regulation that could change things. Germany would allow more video surveillance in public places, under a draft law passed by the cabinet on Wednesday, reflecting growing security fears in a country that has for decades been wary of police intrusion. The bill was agreed in principle by the parties in Angela Merkel’s coalition last month, well before Monday’s deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that was claimed by Islamic State.
Lack Of Video For Knife-Wielding Hostage Taker Exposes ASU’s Security Camera Shortage
The lack of video security around ASU’s Tempe campus was exposed on Wednesday, December 7, when a knife-wielding man held a faculty member in her third-floor office in the Language and Literature building before releasing her unharmed. The suspect remains at large. ASU police spokeswoman Katy Harris confirmed on Monday that no video evidence of the man was captured, either inside or outside of the building.
Atlanta Invests $350,000 In Operation Shield Video Surveillance Program
Mayor Kasim Reed announced that the City of Atlanta has invested more than $350,000 in technology enhancements to the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) platform at the Operation Shield Video Integration Center (VIC), funded through the Renew Atlanta infrastructure bond program. Currently, the VIC integrates approximately 7,500 publicly and privately owned cameras which significantly increase the Atlanta Police Department?s coverage and situational awareness of the city streets, using state-of-the-art analytical software.
Dahua Technology USA New HDCVI 3.0 DVR Now Available
The new 1080p XVR Series DVRs feature Penta-brid compatibility for the five most popular industry standards?IP, CVI, Analog, AHD, and TVI. Until now, once an analog standard was chosen, the customer was committed to using the same standard throughout the entire video surveillance system. Today, Dahua provides the compatibility that customers require for more simplicity. Dahua?s Penta-brid XVR Series offers customers more flexibility and choices when adding or replacing system components.
Video Surveillance Technology To Have Biggest Impact On Security Businesses in 2017, Capital One Survey Finds
A Capital One survey found that more than half (52 percent) of security professionals see video surveillance as the technology trend that will have the biggest impact on their businesses in the coming year – a significant increase from 2015 when only 23 percent of respondents answered similarly. Growth of interconnected devices (the “Internet of Things”) was cited as the next most significant trend at 28 percent.
FLIR Systems Buys Prox Dynamics For $134 million
Sensor developer FLIR Systems announced it has acquired unmanned aerial systems maker Prox Dynamics for $134 million in cash. Based in Oslo, Norway and founded in 2007 by pioneers in nano helicopter technologies, Prox Dynamics develops, manufactures, and distributes aerial sensors that are revolutionarily small, light, and covert surveillance systems. Prox Dynamics’ Personal Reconnaissance System (PRS) features their Black Hornet aerial sensor and a hand controller, a system that is pocket sized and hand-launched by a soldier in the field, enabling a significant advantage in situational awareness and mission planning.
Axis, Milestone, And Quantum To Present On Video Surveillance Workflows At ISC East 2016
Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM) announced that Wayne Arvidson, the company’s vice president of surveillance and security solutions, will join Vince Ricco, business development manager, Technology Partner Program, Axis Communications, and Reinier Tuinzing, strategic alliance manager, Milestone Systems, to present at an SIA Education session during ISC East. The panel will explore the factors that make video surveillance among the most challenging workflows for any storage system and discuss solutions for addressing these challenges.