University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Deploys Advanced Security Including Scallop Imaging

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With a population of more than 53,000 students, faculty, and staff, the University of Illinois is a ?city within a city.? Like any municipality, the university works to prevent and respond to criminal activity and emergencies by offering a variety of programs University of Illinoisthat create a safer place in which to study, work and socialize.

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MicroPower Technologies Unveils SOLVEIL

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MicroPower Technologies Inc., an award-winning provider of surveillance solutions optimized for rapid, cost-effective deployment, announced the release of its new SOLVEILTM Surveillance System, a wireless, solar-powered solution that delivers high-resolution video to ensure increased security protection, rapid investigations, and operations monitoring in outdoor environments.

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Milestone Systems Hires National Sales Manager

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Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), has announced Tracy Little as the U.S. National Sales Manager, East Region. He resides in the Twin Cities metro area near St. Paul, Minnesota. As a member of the Milestone Americas Sales Team, he reports directly to Mike Taylor, Director of Sales, Americas.

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Axis Communications and Buffalo Americas Partner to Deliver Intel Powered Digital Surveillance Solution

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Axis Communications and Buffalo Americas teamed up to bring IoT optimization to small business and home surveillance systems with their Digital Security Surveillance (DSS) solution. Powered by the Intel® Atom™ processor, DSS is an affordable, state-of-the-art bundle intended to simplify the installation and configuration of a network surveillance system.

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Study Says That More Than 50 Percent of Federal Video Surveillance Data Goes Unanalyzed

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Video Surveillance data when analyzed carefully will give a lot of informative outcomes. But a recent study made by MeriTalk —a public-private partnership dedicated to improve outcomes of government IT— says that 54% of video surveillance data gathered by the federal government goes unanalyzed leaving a vast amount of information on the table when it comes to improving the nation’s security.

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SALTO Unveils JustIN: Mobile App Allows Your Smartphone to Serve as Your Hotel Room Key

SALTO unveils JustIN: a mobile app that allows your smartphone to serve as your hotel room key.

The intuitive JustIN mobile key app developed by SALTO communicates securely via the Cloud and enables a hotel guest to receive his room key online, anytime, and anywhere. For the guest, the process is as simple as arriving at the hotel and deciding to receive the room key directly to his smartphone (iOS and Android devices) without going to hotel reception for the traditional check-in process.

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Cognitec Unveils Real Time Face Detection Camera

Cognitec Unveils Real Time Face Detection Camera

The FaceVACS-VideoScan C5 camera from Cognitec. Germany-based facial recognition technology developer Cognitec has unveiled a new video camera featuring a built-in facial recognition system. The FaceVACS-VideoScan C5 camera is an IP video camera that offers high image quality over low bandwidth. The video camera’s face biometrics technology employs gapless, real-time face detection and tracking, and produces lossless video streams for each face that it detects.

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School Break-in Averted by STANLEY Security Grant Program Security Measures

School Break-In Averted by STANLEY Security Grant Program Security Measures

Less than four months after the installation of a new security system, the Montessori School of Dayton in Kettering, OH credits the products and services provided by STANLEY Security with preventing a break-in attempt at the school during the winter break.

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Skepticism About Alipay Facial Recognition Rises

Skepticism About Alipay Facial Recognition Rises

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In the wake of Alipay’s announcement that it is going to use facial recognition technology for user authentication in mobile payments, some are starting to ask if that kind of security is really enough. Dan Moren, in particular, says he has found a flaw in the system in a new Popular Science article.

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Milestone Systems Gathers EMEA Distributors for Summit Themed ‘Winning Together’

More than 25 distribution partners attended the first Milestone conference dedicated solely to distributors.

More than 25 distribution partners attended the first Milestone conference dedicated solely to distributors. In addition to intensifying the partnerships in the European, Middle East and African regions, a new Distribution Manager was announced for the Americas.

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Workplace Biometric Technology Outpacing the Law

Whether they?re clocking in to work, trying to enter a secure room or driving a company car, many workers are finding that the procedures for these everyday workplace occurrences are changing. To improve efficiency, combat fraud, and boost employee health and safety, employers increasingly are adopting biometric devices. Biometric technology analyzes the unique characteristics of a person through his or her fingerprints, irises, retinas, hand geometry, facial patterns, voice patterns or DNA information.

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HauteSpot Introduces HiveMINDER ? Fully Distributed Mesh VMS

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HauteSpot Networks Corporation, the premier provider of integrated wireless solutions for fixed, mobile, and nomadic IP video in the healthcare, broadcast, commercial security, and public safety industries, announced today the release of HiveMINDER™ the fully distributed mesh video management system (VMS). HiveMINDER VMS system runs on the innovative HauteSpot Networks HiveCAM™. HiveMINDER is a simple to use, powerful VMS that supports leading edge features and functions.

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Australian City Opens $1.3M Surveillance Center With Facial Recognition Technology

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Logan City in South East Queensland, Australia recently opened a $1.3 million CCTV surveillance center that uses facial recognition technology to monitor troublemakers, criminals, and burst water mains, according to a report by The Register. Over the past decade, the program has expanded from nine CCTVs to more than 300. The system operates on the Teleste video management system, which is also being used in Paris and Sweden, as well as in Austria?s national transport and roadways.

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