Icon Labs Announces Anti-Tamper Support for Embedded Devices

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Icon Labs, a leading provider of embedded networking and security technology, announced the availability of Floodgate Anti-Tamper, an application and data protection solution that protects real-time operating systems (RTOS) and embedded Linux devices from malicious or accidental changes to firmware, configuration information, and static data.

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Smart Devices, Smart Homes and the Problem With Multiple Automation Systems?

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I am still enjoying the recent Gartner publication on the future of smart devices in the home. The article says there will be 500 smart devices in the home by 2022. This makes the reality of home automation that much more critical. The number of interesting home automation projects has gone up on the two sites I monitor (Indiegogo and Kickstarter) roughly 10 fold.

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Biometrics Institute Proposes Biometric Trust Mark

Biometrics Institute proposes biometric trust mark

The Biometrics Institute has unveiled its proposals for a ‘trust mark’ system to boost consumer and public confidence in systems using biometric technology. The Institute made its announcement at this week’s Biometrics 2014 conference in London. According to the Institute early support for the scheme has been received by a major US as well as several Australian government agencies – including Australia’s largest welfare provider.

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NYPD Equips Officers With Biometric Smartphones

NYPD Equips Officers With Biometric Smartphones

New York Police Department officers and vehicles are to be outfitted with new technology as part of a $160 million program that will lead to fewer arrests and more summonses after being fully implemented next year, Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters on Oct. 23. All 35,000 NYPD officers will be equipped with smartphones that allow officers to search databases, view wanted posters, and scan suspects’ fingerprints.

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Video Surveillance Becomes Architectural Cornerstone

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Hikvision is now presenting a new line of BIM security cameras that can be integrated seamlessly with specifiers’ and engineers’ Autodesk Revit models.

This content is available via Autodesk Seek, a leading web service that allows users to find, preview, and download BIM components from a library of over 66,000 items.

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SeeTec VMS and BCDVideo NVR Integration

SeeTec AG and BCDVideo, a global manufacturer of high-performance IP recording systems for the video surveillance market, announced their Technology Partnership for SeeTec Cayuga and the BCDVideo product family. As both companies are leading in their segment the cooperation provides high standard for video surveillance projects of any size.

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Google Launches Security Key, World?s First Deployment of Fast Identity Online Universal Second Factor (FIDO U2F) Authentication

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Google Chrome became the first web browser to implement support for FIDO Alliance authentication standards, opening the door for any website to deploy simpler, stronger FIDO U2F authentication to users of the world?s most popular web browser.

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Securing Critical Infrastructure With AvaLAN?s FIPS140-2 Level 2 Certified Industrial Wireless Solutions

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AvaLAN Wireless, a leader in long range industrial wireless Ethernet products, announced a new high power industrial wireless product with government certified FIPS140-2 Level 2 encryption technology. This new 1 Watt Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum wireless radio has industry leading encryption to meet the needs of industrial customers who are looking for new ways to securely connect their network devices.

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Expert: Prosecution of Accused Indio CA Officers a Rare Act

Expert: Prosecution of accused Indio officers a rare act

The case of two Indio, CA., police officers accused of misconduct in the line of duty will be a rare example of law enforcement officials facing prosecution, a court expert said. Unless there is surveillance footage, which alone doesn’t guarantee a conviction, police officers rarely go to trial for alleged crimes committed in the line of duty, said Olu Orange, director of the University of Southern California’s Dornsife Trial Advocacy Program, which educates students on the U.S. legal systems.

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Ambarella S3 IP Camera SoC Delivers Outstanding 4K Video Quality Using State-of-the-Art H.265/HEVC Encoding

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Ambarella, Inc., a leading developer of low-power, HD and Ultra HD video processing semiconductors, today introduced S3, a security IP camera System-On-Chip (SoC) family with support for the new H.265 or HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) video standard. S3?s full implementation of H.265 delivers up to twice the compression efficiency of Ambarella?s current H.264 IP camera SoCs, providing outstanding video quality at very low bitrates to optimize network utilization and reduce storage costs. ?Ambarella has become an established leader in H.264 video encoding solutions for the security market,? said Fermi Wang, President & CEO of Ambarella. ?With S3, we establish a new standard of H.265 encoding excellence to enable future generations of the highest quality HD and Ultra HD IP cameras.?

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Hands-on With Homeboy: This Could Be the Best Home Security Camera Yet

Hands-on with Homeboy: This could be the best home-security camera yet

Is the Homeboy, interesting product name, a DropCam replacement. Here’s an excerpt from PCWorld’s take on this potential competitor to DropCam.[SL]

If you?re looking for an IP camera for home security, you’ll want to know about Homeboy. It remedies almost every drawback I?ve seen in security cameras. It doesn?t cost a fortune. And you?ll be able to buy one soon?without having to participate in a crowd-funding campaign.

If Homeboy looks familiar, it’s because it built on the intellectual property developed for the Hive camera that garnered a lot of attention about two years ago, but that was ultimately never brought to market.

Homeboy runs on a rechargeable battery, so you can put it virtually anywhere indoors (it?s not weatherized against the elements). It eliminates the expense associated with a monitoring service that can contact an emergency dispatcher, but it delivers some of the most important benefits a paid monitoring service provides. It can function as a stand-alone device, or you can integrate it into your home-control system to trigger other devices, such as a light switch.

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Vivint Hosts Grand Opening of New Innovation Center

Vivint hosts grand opening of new Innovation Center

?We initially were a residential security provider,? said Todd Pedersen, Vivint CEO. ?Now we are evolving rapidly. We are now working in connected homes, smart homes, Internet of things.?

Pedersen, who kicked off the meeting, spoke about the potential Vivint has with their Innovation Center. The smart home industry is projected to be an $800 million industry by 2018 and Internet of Things is supposed to be a multi-trillion dollar industry by 2020, he said.

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SECUR-ED ? Into the Breach

Secuer-ED Into The Breach

While safety addresses problems caused accidentally, security concerns those caused intentionally. As more people journey, both at home and across borders, and travel becomes intermodal by nature, keeping mass transport secure is proving a costly, time- and technology-consuming task. To help operators in European cities stay in control, FP7 project SECUR-ED has stepped into the breach.

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SHANY IP Cameras Compatible With Synology NAS Systems

SHANY IP cameras compatible with Synology NAS systems

SHANY Electronic, professional security surveillance supplier, announced the successful compatibility certification of Synology’s all NAS products. Synology’s reliable NAS solutions coupled with SHANY’s cameras allow users to establish an integrated surveillance environment more easily.

Through easy installation, multiple applications can be applied without a hitch. From front-end image processing to back-end video recording, the combination of SHANY’s IP Camera and Synology Surveillance Station demonstrates marvelous video quality with universal access, video contents can be played remotely via mobile devices or all popular browser platforms.

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WVU Office of Technology Transfer Licenses Biometric Technologies to Confirmix

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Confirmix will use the biometric technologies to develop enterprise and consumer identity authentication products, marketing the enterprise products through its flagship brand, Confirmix, to combat the identity theft and online fraud activities.
The licensed technologies include capabilities for image enhancement and restoration, face and eye detection, task detection and matching, and dual-mode and dual-scenario matching, which provide the key aspects of identity management solutions.

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Iconic Metlife Stadium Selects Arecont Vision

Iconic Metlife Stadium selects Arecont Vision

Each year, Metlife Stadium hosts 20 NFL games (twice as many as any other NFL Stadium), major concerts and entertainment events, college sporting events, international soccer matches, motor sports, and family shows. Since opening, the Stadium tops the annual charts, being named the Top Grossing Stadium in the World.

Arecont Vision megapixel cameras have been deployed to ensure wide area coverage with extreme detail and the ability to electronically zoom into live and recorded footage without affecting wide area surveillance. The new video surveillance solution was built around Arecont Vision?s megapixel imaging technology to ensure that the highest levels of security and surveillance are maintained at the facility without impeding the fan experience.

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