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How Adding Video Integration Can Improve Safety in Schools Mark Nazarenus For school officials in today’s world, the safety of students and staff is a top priority. But improving safety in schools is about much more than just metal detectors, door security, or video surveillance.

While the news from the 2015 National Retail Security Survey wasn’t all great – with retailers having suffered losses in the previous year to the tune of $44 billion – there was, it turns out, a silver lining. The overall shrink percentage reported – 1.38 percent – was actually the lowest in the 24-year history of the survey.

Did you know that the global installed base of security cameras was estimated at 245 million cameras in 2014? This was the headline number from our most recent research report on the video surveillance camera installed base. This report used over a decade of IHS video surveillance data to size the installed base of analog, network, and HD CCTV security cameras.

CNET has just published a very good round up of DIY security home cameras. The article is a fairly comprehensive review of 23 cameras for the home market. Accordingly, these cameras are described as offering simplicity, mobility, advanced feature sets, smart home integration, etc. CNET has put the guide together to simplify the purchasing decision. As always, the devils in the details. If you’re in the market, or just want to learn more about the latest DIY camera offerings take a read at the link below.

Heathrow Airport has one of the busiest car parking infrastructures of any airport globally. With 14 public carparks handling up to 50,000 vehicle movements and 1000 intercom assistance calls per day the parking contractor, Apcoa, decided to explore better ways to manage such high and growing volumes of traffic, customers, equipment and services.

PROMISE Technology announced the company will provide its surveillance cloud platform to Asahi Net who will launch a video surveillance cloud service in Japan later this year. The solution for Asahi Net is based on Milestone Systems XProtect® Corporate video management software (VMS) and PROMISE?s cloud surveillance platform – a complete and integrated solution that not only includes VSky A1970 scale-out storage, but also a customized software solution from PROMISE that manages the system and the installation and configuration of the IP cameras.

NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) today announced that it is the winner of a 2015 Airport, Seaport, Border Security award from Government Security News (GSN). NICE Suspect Search was recognized as the Best Video Analytics Solution in the surveillance systems category.

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ZKAccess, a leading provider of biometric and RFID security solutions, is pleased to announce the release of its EC10 Elevator Control Panel, a secure, scalable, and affordable access control solution primarily designed to control floor access. Floor access can be restricted based on various user credentials, including fingerprint and/or proximity card.

WavestoreUSA, a world class innovator in open platform digital Video Storage and Management Systems, announces the new release of version V5.50 of the Wavestore Video Management Software. This maintenance release delivers additional video performance enhancements, along with code optimizations for improved handling of views for cameras and layouts, and better management for network interfaces.

ASUSTOR Inc., a leading innovator and provider of network storage solutions, is now entering the professional surveillance arena. At the Axis Solution Conference 2015, ASUSTOR will be exhibiting a cost-effective yet high quality surveillance solution. All interested parties are welcome to attend. Surveillance Center is an add-on application developed by ASUSTOR that can be run on all ASUSTOR NAS devices.

Vicon Industries, Inc. (VII: NYSE-MKT) (?Vicon?), trusted designer and producer of video security systems and high-performance IP cameras, announced the hiring of Lawrence de Guzman in Singapore to better manage our growing local business in southeast Asia. Mr. de Guzman has been hired as VP APAC reporting to Bret McGowan, Sr. VP Sales and Marketing.

D-Link announced it is now shipping the Full HD PoE Day/Night Network Camera (DCS-2210L). The new DCS-2210L replaces the current DCS-2210 and doubles the frame rate to 30 FPS, increases the field of view to a wide 103 degrees, doubles the SD card storage capacity from 32GB to 64GB, and adds support for the mydlink? cloud service, allowing convenient remote viewing of the camera from a mobile device or computer.

A civil lawsuit arising out of what is believed to be the biggest prescription drug theft in American history is set to move forward to trial, after a federal judge in Florida denied summary judgment motions of defendant Tyco Integrated Security, f/k/a ADT (NYSE: TYC), the nation?s leading security provider. The case, which seeks to recover $48 million from Tyco, could set precedent impacting the responsibilities of companies that provide security or cyber-security or have access to any sensitive customer data, such as network support companies, and could have wide-ranging implications across the insurance and real estate as well as security industries.

Dot Hill Systems Corp. filed suit against Crossroads Systems, Inc. for patent infringement in United States District Court in Denver, Colorado. The asserted patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,277,995, Storage controller and method for performing host access control in the host interface adapter, covers access control technology for storage systems and is asserted against Crossroads’ StrongBox storage solution.

Video Management Software (VMS) has been a primary element of a video surveillance / physical security infrastructure and there has been a number of mergers and acquisitions of VMS companies of late. One of the market leaders in the VMS space has been OnSSI (On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc.) out of Pearl River, NY. OnSSI has been known as a leader in North and South American in VMS software and recently acquired SeeTec, a VMS software company out of Germany. SecurityHive’s Stan Lewis recently chatted with OnSSI’s VP of Sales and Marketing Ken LaMarca to discuss how OnSSI plans to maintain and grow their position in the VMS market.

3xLOGIC, Inc., a leading provider of integrated intelligent security solutions, announced the expansion of its line of VISIX IP-cameras. The enhanced offering includes the new VISIX V-Series standard dome, bullet, and mini-dome camera models. VISIX V-Series All-in-One, edge-based IP-cameras are powerful, full-featured, VMS and advanced analytic capable.

This is a research note from Blake Kozak, principal analyst for Security and Building Technologies at IHS Inc., providing insight on the recent acquisition of Allegion and SimonsVoss. On the heels of the recent announcement that Kaba and DORMA would merge, comes the news that Allegion plans to acquire SimonsVoss from HgCapital. This latest merger would again reshape the access-control market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

The Second West Africa Oil and Gas Security 2015 Summit, organized by global Summits organiser IRN, and held on 10-11 June 2015 in Lagos, Nigeria, brought together senior-level security specialists from IOCs, NOCs, major service providers. and governmental bodies to debate the security issues affecting the oil and gas industry in Nigeria and wider West Africa. In terms of the national security, the feeling within the conference was that adopting a whole governmental approach is essential to improve security in the West African countries.

Due to publish in October, this market research report focuses on mobile surveillance cameras used by law enforcement, transit buses, school buses, and transit trains. New to this report will be the inclusion of body-worn cameras used by police forces.