ASIS Announces Lineup of World Class Keynote Speakers for GSX 2019

GSX 2019

ASIS International announced its keynote lineup for the Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2019, to be held September 8-12 in Chicago. The exciting schedule includes presentations from leading authorities with experience and expertise in international security, politics, homeland security, cybersecurity, and corporate security. Tuesday?s general session will feature Steve Demetriou, Chair and CEO, and Joe Olivarez, Vice President, Global Security, of Jacobs.

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Combined Access Control and Community Management Solution Delivers Powerful Benefits to Atlanta Condo Complex

Freedom Heights Pool

ProdataKey and OwnerGo has implemented a fully integrated, comprehensive solution for Freedom Heights and Lofts, a condominium community in Atlanta, GA. The integrated platform provides enhanced security and convenient controlled access to all tenants and workers who service the property while simultaneously providing the Homeowners Association board members and property managers with the tools they need to be responsive to residents.

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Patriot One Initiates International Sales and Announces New Covert Threat Detection Platform Technology

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Patriot One Technologies reports that its business development team is celebrating the commencement of international sales force engagement and entry into the global marketplace. This announcement establishes multiple reseller commitments representing the launch of international reseller operations and activates contractual multi-year commitments unique to each territory. The initial overseas commitments cumulatively represent CAD$1.96 million.

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Genetec: State of the Company 2019

Genetec now has over 1,500 employees and has offices around the world. The Genetec team is proud to state that this growth has been organic and not through acquisitions ??that would just make our top line look better.? Genetec is unabashed on focusing on enterprise-size customers and not the smaller ?mom and pop? customers. They are a channel driven organization and will ?shake up? their channel from time to time to make sure those integrators can continue to support the Genetec customers at the level Genetec feels is necessary.

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Johnson Controls’ exacqVision Now Integrates with MASterMind for Video Verification and Alerts

exacqvision NVR

Exacq has announced its integration with the highly-rated monitoring station software, MASterMind. These technologies combined utilize video verification services to receive live video from the exacq Network Video Recorder when an event occurs and sends a call to the monitoring station call center. Made possible through the Connected Partner Program, the exacqVision and MASterMind integration allows seamless collaboration of video into the dispatching process through MASvideo.

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IndigoVision and Africa Business Development Announce New Partnership to Drive Expansion in Africa

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IndigoVision is set to drive expansion in Morocco and West Africa with the announcement that Africa Business Development has been unveiled as a new Authorized Partner. ABD will supply IndigoVision?s renowned end-to-end-security solutions into the growing North and West Africa markets. ABD will initially focus on driving uptake within the Moroccan market where the Casablanca based business has set its sights on becoming a top-three surveillance technology provider.

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Genetec Partners with BlackBerry Cylance to Include AI-based Antivirus in its Appliance Portfolio

Genetec Cyclance

Genetec announced that it is partnering with Cylance, a business unit of BlackBerry, Limited, to bring AI-based antivirus protection to its appliances customers. Through this partnership, Genetec will offer additional cybersecurity protection. Genetec Streamvault all-in-one and rackmount appliances, storage, and workstations are expected to be shipped pre-installed and optimized with CylancePROTECT in September 2019.

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Avigilon?s Product Line up for GSX 2019 Using AI to Bring Focus to Security.

Avigilon A5 Camera

Avigilon Corporation is excited to once again be showcasing some of its latest and most innovative products and technologies at GSX 2019. Avigilon will showcase the next generation of video analytics, artificial intelligence, access control and cloud solutions, as well as some of the integrations with Motorola Solutions. Avigilon will be demonstrating how these latest technologies are redefining how customers consume data in order to help them gain actionable information.

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NEC Provides Facial Recognition System for Admission Control at EU Summit

NEC Face Recognition

NEC Corporation and its Romanian Branch office announced the provision of a facial recognition system for admission control at the EU Summit held in Sibiu, Romania on May 2019. From January to June 2019, Romania held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time, during which time the country was dedicated to strengthening security measures at important domestic events. NEC was selected by the Romanian Protection and Guard Service to provide NeoFace.

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SkyBiometry Updates Cloud-Based Face Detection and Recognition API

Sky Biometry

SkyBiometry announced the release of the new version of its face detection and recognition algorithm. Significant enhancements make the algorithm much more accurate and allow for a wider range of facial attributes in the detection process. The latest face detection algorithm locates many more faces in varied and difficult conditions. The new version’s face recognition accuracy is five times higher when set at a low False Acceptance Rate.

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Armored Things Appoints Julie Johnson as Chief Executive Officer

Julie Johnson

Armored Things has named Julie Johnson as Chief Executive Officer. She will assume day-to-day leadership of the company in support of its mission to keep communities safe. Johnson will be responsible for guiding the strategic management of the company. As part of the transition, co-founder Charles Curran will take on the role of President and continue to support key business functions. Armored Things is building an AI-powered intelligent operations platform.

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Kwikset Launches First Commercial Grade Product

SmartCode 955

Kwikset? brand of Spectrum Brands, announces the launch of SmartCode 955. Functioning as a commercial-grade electronic lever, SmartCode 955 provides advanced security, strength and durability. It is the first commercial-grade electronic lever from Kwikset designed to serve the security needs of facility managers, residential and commercial property owners, and small business owners. SmartCode 955 is now available for purchase from select retailers.

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Rekor Systems Joins NVIDIA Metropolis Software Partner Program to Apply Deep Learning to Video Streams

Nvidia Metro

Rekor Systems announced that it has joined the NVIDIA Metropolis Software Partner Program and is leveraging NVIDIA Graphic Processing Units to accelerate its OpenALPR vehicle recognition software. NVIDIA Metropolis is an intelligent video analytics platform that spans multiple NVIDIA products operating on a unified architecture. NVIDIA Metropolis is paving the way for the creation of AI cities, making them safer and smarter.

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H.265 support on offer with Wavestore?s latest v6.16 release

Wavestore continues to make incremental improvements to its Video Management Software (VMS) with the introduction of v6.16. The latest version of Wavestore?s open platform and highly secure Linux-based VMS includes support for H.265 compression. As a result, Wavestore?s customers are now able to benefit from a considerable reduction in bandwidth and storage capacity requirements due to the efficiency of H.265 over other video formats.

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IFSS Announces Investment to Support Strategic Growth Plans

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Integrated Fire and Security Solutions announced that it has received a private equity investment to drive strategic growth and further build its presence in the dynamic Southeastern U.S. market. The sizable investment will be used to expand sales operations, acquire similarly aligned service providers and boost service offerings focused on recurring revenue services. The investment by Newlook Capital is part of the organization’s strategic focus on investing in high-growth industrial services companies.

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FLIR Launches Brickstream People Counting Sensor with Employee Filtering Solution

FLIR Brickstream

FLIR Systems announced the latest generation of the FLIR Brickstream 3D Gen 2 people counting sensor. This new version includes a unique employee filtering feature designed to provide retail and shopping businesses with more accurate customer traffic data and sales conversion metrics. The employee filtering feature uses a combination of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology and employee-worn tags to automatically identify and remove staff from customer counts.

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Percepto Launches Its Autonomous Industrial Drone Solution Across Singapore in Partnership with Certis

Percepto Drone

Percepto announced that the company has launched its market-leading industrial on-site autonomous drone solution in Singapore, through partnership with Certis. In October 2018, Certis announced that it has expanded its industry-leading ops-tech capabilities to deliver Security Plus (Security+) solutions. Today, Certis? Security+ combines advanced security, facilities management, and customer service into a single holistic service, supported and underpinned by technology.

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Arecont Vision Costar Positioned for Growth on 1st Anniversary of Launch

Shane Compton

Arecont Vision Costar announces the 1st anniversary this month of its launch as a business unit of Texas-based Costar Technologies, Inc. The new company has committed itself to the delivery of the surveillance industry?s best customer experience and to fully addressing ongoing customer needs and requirements. The company marked its 1st anniversary with the launch of a new public website. Arecont Vision Costar was launched on July 13th, 2018.

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NEC to Provide Customs Procedure System With Face Recognition for Six Major Airports in Japan

NEC Customs Procedure System

NEC Corporation has announced an order from Japan Customs, under the Ministry of Finance, for an electronic customs procedure system utilizing face recognition to be installed at the customs inspection areas of six major airports in Japan: New Chitose Airport, Narita International Airport, Haneda Airport, Chubu International Airport, Kansai International Airport and Fukuoka Airport. This electronic customs procedure system utilizes NEC’s face recognition technology.

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