Arecont Vision®, the industry leader in IP-based megapixel camera technology, has announced that AMAG Technology, a leading access control, IP video, identity management, visitor management and intrusion detection solution provider, has joined the Arecont Vision Technology Partner Program. AMAG?s Symmetry™ CompleteView VMS (video management system) is certified for use with Arecont Vision megapixel cameras, and is available in the MegaLab™ as part of the program.
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Altronix, the recognized leader in power and transmission solutions for the professional security industry, is further expanding its popular line of eBridge™ Ethernet over Coax (EoC) solutions with the introduction of the new eBridge 800E Managed 8-Port EoC Receiver with Integral PoE Switch. Altronix eBridge EoC solutions provide a highly efficient means of upgrading coax infrastructure to accommodate IP networked systems.
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MOBOTIX is starting series production of their new Mx6 6MP camera line with the outdoor dual cameras M16, D16, S16, and V16. In terms of their outer appearance, these models look exactly the same as the x15 cameras (which are still available); all the innovations in these new cameras have been made to the mainboard and camera software.
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Feenics Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based access control solutions, launched its enterprise Keep by Feenics™ platform that delivers extreme scalability, unprecedented flexibility and advanced security. The new cloud-based access control as service (ACaaS) platform integrates native visitor management, and incorporates RESTful API that dramatically simplifies integrating complementary systems plus connecting Keep to applications outside of the organization. The solution?s mobile capabilities also make it possible for customers to monitor and manage systems on the go.
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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.
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Tyco Security Products, part of Johnson Controls, announces that Nigel Spinks has been named Chairman of the Associate Members? Liaison Committee for The Monitoring Association, formerly known as the Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA). Spinks, who is the Global Senior Director Communication Service Provider Sales at Tyco Security Products, is a long time member of The Monitoring Association and will lead a committee that serves as the voice for manufacturers who are members of the association.
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Tyco Security Products introduces EntraPass Go Pass support for Apple Watch®, the industry?s first Apple Watch mobile credential that allows card holders to use the watch as a mobile access control credential, facilitating quick entry and exit through access points without an access card. EntraPass Go Pass for the Apple Watch extends the power of the EntraPass go Pass mobile phone application to the iOS Apple Watch environment. Once the application is downloaded to the phone paired with the watch, the ?Go PASS? icon will appear on the watch indicating to the user that the app is now ready to be used on their Apple Watch.
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Tyco Security Products, part of Johnson Controls, announced that Sur-Gard, the industry leader in monitoring station solutions, now supports PSTN line cards on the SG-System 5 receiver to give central stations the flexibility to monitor both IP and PSTN alarm signals to create their most powerful receiver solution to date. With this enhancement, SG-System 5 can support a combination of 24 IP or PSTN line cards. More than 150 communication formats are supported through the PSTN line cards, which features patented Automatic Hand Shake (AHS) technology to remember the required handshake and/format of the incoming events resulting in an expedited signal processing time.
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Tyco Security Products, part of Johnson Controls, announces the launch of iotega, its next generation wireless security and automation platform designed to provide safer, smarter, living for homes and businesses. iotega is an innovative security and lifestyle management platform, which is supported by Tyco Security Product?s trusted, full-featured security technology and facilitates home automation enhancements and add-ons via software apps running on additional devices. Discrete in design, iotega includes a touch keypad, as well as optional 7″ Wi-Fi capacitive touchscreens, wireless keypad arming stations and flexible software app compatibility.
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IndigoVision, the leading developer of end-to-end video security solutions, showcased their new camera offerings at ISC West 2017. With the latest 12MP sensors and advanced analytics, the IndigoVision BX 4K Bullet and Minidome Cameras deliver full frame rate 4K resolution video. Installation is straight forward with a full range of mounting options, with motorized lenses and Auto Back Focus ensuring pin-sharp focus every time.
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Avigilon Corporation (TSX: AVO), provider of trusted security solutions, showcased their new Avigilon Unusual Motion Detection (“UMD”) video analytics technology at ISC West 2017 last week. UMD is an advanced artificial intelligence (“AI”) technology that brings a new level of automation to surveillance. This technology is designed to continuously learn what typical activity in the scene looks like and focus the operator’s attention on atypical events needing further investigation.
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Due to the fact that Universities and Institutes for Higher Learning have large amounts of legacy financial and health records, grant computer privileges to students with traditionally a lax security mindset, and house valuable research data hackers have taken notice. This is why higher education has become the second most targeted industry after Healthcare. Based on how stolen data can be monetized, various types of hackers have become interested for different reasons. In some cases, it has been nation-state actors that are more interested in the research data such as with the recent case of the Russian hacker known as Rasputin. In other cases, it has been an individual who was able to change passwords of email accounts or a disenfranchised student assistant who was terminated but maintained access to the system.
Read More ›Goodwill-Suncoast was founded in October of 1954 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The company headquarters still remain in St. Petersburg and currently provide service to thousands of people in 11 of the surrounding counties. In 2007, IT Director, Jason Martino and IT Operations Manager, Mike Weaver, began their search for an Access Control System that could meet their needs of easily scaling across 11 counties, 15 retail locations and 100 square miles of terrain. Jason and Mike began with a pilot of one reader and now have more than 70 readers in Goodwill retail and Super Store locations across Central Florida.
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DeTect announced installation of its DroneWatcher™ drone detection and defense system at the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP) in Panama City, Florida. Drone incursions into controlled airspace around airports has emerged as a major security and flight safety risk over the past few years and DeTect?s DroneWatcher system provides the highest level of detection and control available.
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Johnson Controls has announced that David Grinstead has been named Vice President and General Manager, Global Security Products, a newly created position within Johnson Controls, to oversee all of the company?s security products operations. Grinstead leads Global Security Product?s operations and will be responsible for the organization?s sales, marketing, product management, innovation, engineering, and operations, which includes nearly 3,000 employees.
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Milestone will show the industry?s first load balancing of multi-GPUs, hardware-accelerated decoding and video motion detection, motion metadata generation and recording of 1,000 Full HD 1080p H.264/5 cameras on a single BCDVideo BCD215 Series server —purpose-built for this project— with multiple NVIDIA GPUs.
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Roqos, an innovative leader in residential cybersecurity and parental controls markets, announced that Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Dynamic DNS services are now available on the Roqos Core router. Roqos customers can easily connect to their routers from anywhere in the world to have secure and private Internet experience.
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Intel Movidius, the world leader in embedded machine vision technology, is helping bring artificial intelligence (AI) to video surveillance cameras.
Movidius participated in an announcement from Dahua Technology USA in which Dahua outlined how it is using Movidius’ Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit (VPU) technology to power select Dahua video surveillance cameras. These cameras will go beyond traditional functions such as monitoring and recording by offering advanced video analysis features, such as crowd density monitoring, stereoscopic vision, facial recognition, people counting, behavior analysis, and detection of illegally parked vehicles.
ASIS International (ASIS), the leading association for security management professionals worldwide, today sent a letter of support to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for the Making Available Information Now to Strengthen Trust and Resilience and Enhance Enterprise Technology (MAIN STREET) Cybersecurity Act. The proposed legislation calls on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other agencies to provide a consistent set of resources for small businesses to best protect their digital assets from cybersecurity threats.
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Lenel, a leading provider in advanced security systems for over 20 years, announced it will begin selling Milestone Systems Video Management Software (VMS) solutions directly through the Lenel Value Added Reseller (VAR) channel in North America. This alliance will reduce the total cost of ownership for users by offering both the industry-leading Lenel OnGuard® access control and the Milestone XProtect® VMS solutions through the same channel with reduced licensing fees. Lenel and Milestone Systems have a combined 40 years of industry experience in providing customers with open security solution technologies. Lenel is part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).
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