News Source For The Physical Security Industry

Blackstone (NYSE: BX) —the owners of Vivint home security firm— announced that private equity funds it manages have agreed to sell AlliedBarton to Wendel SE (EPA: MF) of Paris, France, for approximately $1.67 billion. The transaction is expected to close later this year, and is subject to customary regulatory approvals.

Convenience and simplicity are always the priorities for a project-based site. To have either an instant network connection or a temporary surveillance connection over a harsh environment can be mission critical and one is not allowed to spend too much time and cost waiting for cable deployment. To this end, AirLive is proud to expand its category of wireless networking equipment with the latest AirMax 4GW, a 4G/LTE outdoor gateway with WiFi, which features higher speeds and network sharing, mobility and security, and various management functions.

Salient Systems Corporation, a leader in video surveillance solutions, is pleased to announce newly optimized PowerProtect NVR?s for a comprehensive video management solution. The PowerProtect platform extends the limits of operational capabilities of video surveillance systems. The PowerPro-R, in a newly designed 2U form factor supports up to 30TB RAID5 storage,

Urban mobility efficiency and its sustainability are all the buzz, both on major news outlets and within the urban transportation industry. Current efforts have been focused heavily on leveraging the Internet of Things and all the data that can be collected on a mass transit system to improve the efficacy of urban transport.

The Protection Bureau is pleased to announce that Mike Esmond, Jr. has joined our team as a Senior Security Consultant. Mike is a true security professional with over 16 years of electronic security experience.

iOmniscient, the leader in providing intelligent analytics solutions, is proud to announce our partnership with Ajilon, a leading Australian IT consultancy firm. iOmniscient’s smart solutions are offered hand-in-hand with Ajilon’s excellence in deployment of such solutions to ensure successful implementation of Smart Video, Sound, and Smell Analytics Systems.

As expectations towards emergency response change, further development of control rooms will be critical to handle the capabilities of future technologies. Along with changing legislation and initiatives such as Next Generation 911 and 112 and FirstNet, the market has become more dynamic, offering tremendous opportunity to suppliers who can enhance current technology.

The new MOBOTIX p25 6MP model is equipped with the brand-new 6-Megapixel Moonlight sensor technology, providing best low-light performance to cope with every indoor situation. The p25 is positioned extremely price competitive at 398? and represents with all included MOBOTIX features and the MOBOTIX VMS MxMC, one of the most attractive security solutions in the market.

Smarter Security, Inc., provider of premium, innovative entrance control and outdoor security solutions, announced a leading chemical company ordered Fastlane® Glasswing optical turnstiles for a building on the east coast. DHS directives for chemical companies moved the company to better control the entry to the office building and witnessing the operation and beauty of Fastlane turnstiles installed nearby was compelling.

Keeping pedestrians safe, protecting structures from accidental or intentional automobile crashes and force protection (keeping employees and visitors from harm) have always been campus safety concerns. A wide variety of campuses find peace of mind through the use of barriers, barricades and bollards for vehicle-based physical access control at their perimeters.

BCDVideo has announced the release of their second-generation of its SMARTcontrol Management Suite. The system-monitoring package comes standard on all of BCDVideo’s enterprise access control and video recording platforms. SMARTcontrol 2.0 takes system monitoring to the next level – simply and proactively.

Recent events highlight another important change ? the need to secure the business from the impact from cybersecurity. The new UL regulations are going to significantly improve quality before the industry suffers major failures. Improvements to communications, networks, and security standards will raise consumer confidence and build the industry reputation. Welcome in the new UL827 standard for central station software and operating sites.

A new type of sensor, that is much faster than competing technologies used to detect and identify hidden objects, has been developed by scientists at the University of Warwick. Called ?Q-Eye?, the invention senses radiation across the spectrum between microwaves and infra-red, known as the Terahertz (THz) region of the spectrum – a goal that has challenged scientists for over 30 years. It works by detecting the rise in temperature produced when electromagnetic radiation emitted by an object is absorbed by the Q-Eye sensor, even down to the level of very small packets of quantum energy (a single photon).

A face, though?that?s different. We?re stuck with our faces. It?s prohibitively expensive to change them beyond recognition, if it?s even possible. Facial recognition and other biometrics bind data about us to us like nothing else. And, once corporate metadata can recognize and glom onto our bodies?in all their ?everlasting sameness??we can never escape that link.

News has emerged that hackers have successfully duplicated copies of fingerprints used to unlock the Samsung Glazy S5 phone. According to security firm, FireEye, who will give a presentation at today?s RSA conference on the matter, a flaw in Android makes it possible to steal the personal information so it can be used elsewhere.

Nortek Security & Control LLC, a Nortek, Inc. company (Nasdaq: NTK) and a leader in the residential and commercial security and smart control markets, announced it acquired mobile personal emergency response system (mPERS) and telehealth business assets from privately held Numera, Inc. Headquartered in Seattle, Numera creates best-in-class, easily implemented, mobile PERS products and cloud-based software platforms that enable providers and healthcare-related companies to create new safety and health monitoring services for their customers.

As these technologies surge forward and spread outward, there are mounting legal questions about how they?re used, and more importantly, how we consent to that use. One lawsuit underway in Illinois against Facebook (and a similar case in that state against Shutterfly) accuses the service of running afoul of state ?biometric privacy? statutes (laws that remain unique to Illinois and Texas).

2015 Global Biometric Access Control System Industry Report is a professional and in-depth research report on the world’s major regional market conditions of the biometric access control system industry, focusing on the regions of North America, Europe and Asia.

Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN ) released d?zlCam, its first all-in-one trucking navigator with a built-in dash cam that serves as an on-board eyewitness. Truckers can rely on firsthand video footage that continually records the drive and automatically saves video footage on impact.