4 Ways Intelligent Video Analytics Enhance Body-Worn Cameras

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Body-worn cameras have been a growing trend in the law enforcement community for the last several years. Yet, as agencies worldwide establish body-worn camera programs, they are challenged with how to access, manage, protect, search, and easily share that video. The hundreds to even millions of hours of video that agencies —depending on size— are capturing weekly is simply overwhelming them and complicates compliance with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Criminal Justice Information Standards (CJIS) requirements. Agencies can deploy Video Analytics solutions to help them face these challenges in four key ways.

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Axis? Latest Zipstream Technology Saves More Storage And Bandwidth

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Axis Communications, the market leader in network video, introduces an enhanced version of its award-winning Zipstream technology. It now dynamically adjusts the frame rate, instantly adapting to any changes in the scene. The new dynamic frame rate feature offers significant additional bandwidth and storage savings for video surveillance applications.

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Moxa Launches New EN 50155 Certified 1080P IP-Cameras For Extreme Onboard Railway Applications

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Moxa has launched its new VPort 06-2 and VPort P16-2MR series rugged IP-cameras to fulfill all of your onboard CCTV system requirements. The cameras support 1080P HD video resolutions and are EN 50155 certified. The wide-temperature models have operating temperatures from -40 to 70°C, ensuring reliability and safety for railway operations under extreme temperatures. For mission-critical applications, such as the 24/7 video surveillance required in the driver?s compartment, our VPort P16-2MR series features a built-in IR illuminator and Infrared Cutfilter Removal (ICR) to ensure crystal clear images during the day and night.

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Thorny Legal Issues Surrounding Body Cameras: From Privacy To Public Access

More and more law enforcement agencies across the country are outfitting their officers with body-worn video cameras and report better policing and public behavior as a result. But Jim Bueermann, president of the Police Foundation, a Washington, D.C. organization that helps improve policing through research and training, said ?There?s more we don?t know about the impact of body worn cameras than what we do know.? From privacy, public access, to cost.

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Bill Wood Is SALTO System’s New President For North America

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SALTO Systems is very pleased to announce the incorporation of Bill Wood as President of SALTO Systems North America as of August 1, 2016. In this new role, Wood will be responsible for both the commercial and hospitality business lines in the United States and Canada. He will report to Marc Handels, SALTO’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer.

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Milestone’s New Device Pack Accelerates ONVIF Support

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Milestone Systems, the open platform company in networked video management software (VMS), has released Device Pack 8.6 for partners and customers using Milestone XProtect video solutions. Device packs are released every other month and contain software updates supporting new hardware. These updates are rooted in demands from the partner community. Thanks to the foundation of true open platform technology, Milestone adds new devices and functionality to the XProtect VMS at a rapid pace.

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Tyco Security Products Offers EyeLock Nano NXT Iris Authentication

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An ideal solution for business, government and other applications, EyeLock nano NXT uses video, rather than still pictures, to capture eye images at 20 frames per second. EyeLock?s technology converts the unique characteristics of each iris into encrypted code, creating a high level of security with a false accept rate during authentication of 1 in 1.5 million for a single eye. The biometric identifier can authenticate up to 20 people per minute while in-motion and at-a-distance of 12 inches.

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ONVIF Hosts 14th Developers? Plugfest In London

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ONVIF®, the leading global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, hosted its 14th Developers? Plugfest June 1-3 in Brentford, West London, at the Holiday Inn London ? Brentford Lock. With multiple testings of ONVIF conformant products, the Developers? Plugfest included interoperability testing for all six ONVIF profiles, including Profiles Q and A, which are both scheduled for final release in 2016, and Profile T, ONVIF?s newest profile for video that is currently in development.

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Dallmeier Introduces Video Management Centre VMC-2 With Touch Screen

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The Video Management Centre VMC-2 stands apart from other devices due to its ergonomic and intelligent design. It is made up of a touch screen, a joystick and a jog-shuttle. The individual components are modular and flexible, as they are freely positionable and thus ideally suited for both left- and right-handed operators. Moreover, it is possible to use the components independently as stand-alone devices.

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SG-System 5 Integrates With Manitou Central Station Software From Bold Technologies

Tyco Security Products is announcing an enhanced integration between its SG-System 5 receiver and Bold Technologies? Manitou central station software. The enhanced integration means that Manitou now supports visual alarm […]

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Tyco Security Products Introduces World?s Most Accurate Reader, Contactless Biometrics

Tyco Security Products introduces the Safran MorphoAccess SIGMA Series access control high speed biometric and card reader featuring the world?s number one performance-ranked fingerprint technology and the world?s only single […]

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