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Vector Flow?s AI-Enabled SOC Automation Suite Transforms System Data into Insights and Actions

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 22, 2021 11:08 am Categories: Cloud, Technologies. Tags: Ajay Jain, Loren Hansen, Vector Flow.

Vector Flow

Vector Flow breakthrough Security Operations Center (SOC) Automation Suite is proving to deliver significant results for enterprise customers across a range of physical security operations that have been plagued by longstanding challenges. The SOC Automation Suite includes three key AI-driven modules: SOC Alarm Reduction, SOC System Health and Predictive Maintenance, and SOC Operation Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). These three modules provide complementary functionality that ties together physical security processes and automates time-consuming tasks to reduce costs, increase business value, and maintain compliance with measurable standards.

Allied Universal Acquires New York-Based MSA Security

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 22, 2021 11:00 am Categories: Distributors / Systems Integrators. Tags: Allied Universal, Glen Kucera, GreyLion, MSA Security, Steve Jones.

Allied Universal

Allied Universal announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire New York-based MSA Security (MSA) from GreyLion, a middle market private equity firm focused on investing in leading high-growth businesses. MSA is a provider of comprehensive threat protection solutions to clients nationwide including K9 security services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Security & Safety Things Announces Winners of its Second App Challenge

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 22, 2021 10:53 am Categories: Corporate News, Smart Devices. Tags: Adam Wynne, Bosch, Elle de Jonge, Matteo Ferrabone, Security & Safety Things.

security and safety things

Security and Safety Things GmbH is pleased to announce the three winners of its second App Challenge, a contest to spur creative development in video analytic applications. The winning apps were chosen from a pool of more than 30 proposals for solutions that addressed specific security and business use cases in the retail, transportation, stadiums and entertainment, and healthcare verticals.

IPVideo Announces New HALO Smart Sensor Release v2.5

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 22, 2021 10:30 am Categories: Corporate News, Smart Devices. Tags: David Antar, GSX trade show, IPVideo.

IPVideo Halo

IPVideo announced that it has released new product version 2.5 of the HALO IOT Smart Sensor providing instant Health and Indoor Air Quality readings and alerts. The HALO Smart Sensor, the worldwide leader for vape and vape with THC detection is now helping facilities monitor their indoor health and air quality. As part of the newest v2.5 software release, HALO provides both a real-time air quality and Health Index and sends alerts when either index falls into danger zones.

Solis Energy to Showcase Wide Range of Power Solutions at GSX 2021

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 22, 2021 9:25 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: GSX trade show, Robert Reynolds, Solis Energy.

Solis Energy

Solis Energy announced that the company will be showcasing its wide range of power solutions at GSX 2021 taking place on September 27th ? 29th at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. As one of the largest security trade shows in the world, GSX offers an event that unites global security professionals and delivers the very latest in cutting-edge technology, and a chance to learn from industry leaders.

Alcatraz AI Launches Initiative to Promote Touchless Authentication

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 19, 2021 10:25 am Categories: Biometrics. Tags: Alcatraz AI, COVID safety, facemask verification.

Alcatraz

Alcatraz AI announced an initiative to promote touchless authentication while returning to the office. As companies decide how to safely return to work, Alcatraz AI is providing the opportunity to try its frictionless authentication solution, the Rock, which minimizes touchpoints and provides facemask verification to ensure COVID safety. Until October 31st, companies who sign up will get a 45 day free trial of the Rock.

City of Lancaster, CA uses Moxa Smart Technology to Improve Residents’ Lives

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 19, 2021 2:55 am Categories: Technologies. Tags: John Cox, Mitch Megas, moxa.

Lancaster City Hall

Lancaster is a charter city in northern Los Angeles County with a growing population of over 172,660. The city has been taking significant steps to leverage smart technologies to improve the lives of their citizens. In accordance with the city?s vision of Strategic Technology, Innovation, and Resilience (STIR), the City of Lancaster launched a number of projects and initiatives towards becoming a Smart City, and continues to implement changes that advance accessibility, engagement, infrastructure, safety, and sustainability.

Omdia Report Finds Purpose-driven Smart Homes Will Lead to a Market Size of $178bn in 2025

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 19, 2021 2:24 am Categories: Corporate News, Smart Devices. Tags: Blake Kozak, Omdia, smart homes.

Smart Homes AI

Despite a turbulent 2020, the smart home market is poised for exceptional growth as the industry aims to bring intelligence to ?not-so-smart? smart homes, according to research group Omdia. The expansion beyond traditional retail channels and traditional use cases such as security will be achieved through partnerships and new technologies, ranging from Matter to Wi-Fi/radar sensing and edge-based systems that are deeply integrated into homes and buildings.

HID Global Improves Mobile Ticketing for NFC-Enabled Devices

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 17, 2021 6:10 am Categories: Mobile / In-Vehicle. Tags: Cesare Paciello, HID, Philippe Vappereau, SDK.

Soma Atlas 500

HID Global announced that it is the world?s first ticketing solution provider with a software development kit (SDK) that is fully certified and compliant to Calypso HCE standards for secure and convenient mobile ticketing on smartphones. The certification specifies how to protect ticket data stored in the mobile device?s wallet, helping transport operators to effectively fight fraud by preventing tickets from being duplicated, transferred or altered.

Irdeto and SyncShield partner to Secure Connected Vehicles

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 17, 2021 3:18 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Irdeto, Niels Haverkorn, SyncShield, Tero Takalo.

SyncShield

Irdeto announces a partnership with SyncShield. SyncShield Device Management Platform is combined with Irdeto?s industry-leading cybersecurity solutions to provide tools to centrally manage and update device fleets in the field. Irdeto?s product suite for connected vehicles includes solutions such as Anomaly Detection System (ADS) for cybersecurity related risk management and the award-winning Keystone for protecting software on the in-vehicle systems.

RapidDeploy Announces Integration of New Law Enforcement RMS

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 17, 2021 2:50 am Categories: Distributors / Systems Integrators. Tags: Dorian Deligeorges, Kaseware, RapidDeploy, Steve Raucher.

RapidDeploy

RapidDeploy announced a new Law Enforcement Records Management System (RMS). This product is the fourth product in their ecosystem, joining their Cloud Aided Dispatch (CAD), Mapping, and Analytics products. The RapidDeploy products are designed to help achieve their important mission ? to save lives by reducing response times. Modern Policing requires more than the traditional collection and storage of records.

DHS Awards $750K to Texas Small Business for Urban Detection and Identification of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 16, 2021 11:32 am Categories: Corporate News, Mobile / In-Vehicle. Tags: DHS, Dr. Jeff Randorf, Dusty Lang, Kathryn Coulter-Mitchell.

DHS

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program awarded $750,000 to Texas-based small business Cobalt Solutions Inc. to develop a detection and tracking sensor system that can identify nefarious small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in an urban environment. The DHS SBIR Program selected Cobalt Solutions Inc. for a Phase II award after they successfully demonstrated the feasibility of their 5G Passive Radar UAS Tracking and Targeting (5G-PRT) sensor system.

ProdataKey Adds Custom Fields to Its pdk io Access Control Software

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 16, 2021 11:26 am Categories: Access Control, Cloud. Tags: Access Control, Jeff Perri, ProdataKey.

ProdataKey now allows for “custom fields” within the interface of its pdk.io software. Custom fields increase PDK’s solutions’ overall functionality by allowing administrators to include a wide range of pertinent data associated with each user. Address, location, floor, unit number, or any other field can be added to the pdk.io user database, providing more ways to identify employees and tenants accurately and categorize them into meaningful segments.

IB Announces Advancements in Contactless Fingerprint IP

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 16, 2021 11:21 am Categories: Biometrics, Distributors / Systems Integrators. Tags: Connect:ID 2021, integrated biometrics, Mark Walch, Sciometrics, Shawn O’Rourke.

IB Integrated Metrics

Integrated Biometrics announced its strategic partner, Sciometrics LLC, has applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and The European Patent Office for new Intellectual Property (IP) that will improve the quality of touchless fingerprinting through mobile devices and expand application of the technology. Sciometrics already holds a seminal patent for empowering off-the-shelf smartphones to capture high-quality fingerprints.

Fortem Technologies Conducts Counter Drone Test For Department Of Defense Customer

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 16, 2021 11:11 am Categories: Autonomous Security, drones. Tags: Drone Test, DroneHunter, Fortem, George Mayor, TrueView.

Dedrone

Fortem Technologies announced successful performance in detecting small UAS before a team of U.S. Government evaluators based on an Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate requirement in May 2021. The event focused on testing various counter UAS systems including the Fortem SkyDome system, TrueView radar and DroneHunter. The Defense Innovation Unit created a test environment to determine how well various counter drone systems would perform in urban environments that make it difficult to detect potential threat UAS.

Movius Acquires Intentico, Cognitive CX and AI Provider

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 12, 2021 9:41 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Ananth Siva, Cognitive CX, Intentico, Movius, Satish Medapati.

Movius announces its acquisition of Intentico, a technology company that specializes in AI-based cognitive customer experiences (CX). By leveraging Intentico technology, Movius can provide businesses new ways to engage their customers and gain deep intelligence about those interactions in a unified solution. MultiLine is the trusted secure work-from-anywhere solution for mobile voice, text, and WhatsApp across mobile, desktop and CRM for business and customer communications.

Invixium and Open Options Sign Strategic Distribution Partnership

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 12, 2021 9:29 am Categories: Distributors / Systems Integrators. Tags: Chuck O’Leary, Invixium, IXM TITAN, Shiraz Kapadia.

Invixium Touch 2

Invixium announce a strategic distribution agreement in which Open Options will be able to offer Invixium biometric solutions to its network of access control customers. The foundation of this partnership is the integration of Invixium products with DNA Fusion through Invixium?s enterprise software platform, IXM WEB. What makes this integration possible is IXM Link, allowing automatic synchronization of cardholder data between the two software databases.

OPTEX REDSCAN PRO Lidar Sensors Fully Integrated with Genetec Security Center for Enhanced Perimeter Protection

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 12, 2021 7:40 am Categories: Distributors / Systems Integrators. Tags: David Lenot, genetec, optex, Tomohiro Tsuji.

REDSCAN-Pro

OPTEX has announced its award-winning REDSCAN PRO LiDAR Sensors are now fully integrated with Genetec Security Center, to provide enhanced perimeter protection for the highest security sites. The announcement follows a long period of engagement between the two firms, even prior to the launch of the latest OPTEX sensor series, to ensure the data and algorithms could be fully integrated and interpreted by the Genetec Security Center platform.

NICE Helps UK Retail Businesses Reduce Crime Through Rapid Information Sharing

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 12, 2021 5:15 am Categories: Retail. Tags: Chris Wooten, Iona Blake, Nice, Patrick Holdaway.

Boots

The volume of data necessary to solve crimes continues to rise across the UK and sharing information quickly is instrumental in solving cases. With this in mind, NICE announced that its NICE Investigate Digital Evidence Management solution is now helping connect businesses and police forces. NICE Investigate enables them to work collaboratively on investigations to speed the delivery of justice, by ensuring fast, seamless sharing of CCTV video and other digital evidence.

Oyla LiDAR-based 3D Sensor Fusion Camera System Gains Traction in Perimeter Security Market

Posted by Jay Bartlett September 12, 2021 4:59 am Categories: Cameras, Corporate News. Tags: 3D sensor fusion camera, Oyla, Srinath Kalluri, Wesley Tillu.

Oyla announced significant growth in the perimeter security market as more organizations look to adopt advanced and multi-layered surveillance applications to mitigate risks and increase awareness. The company?s core LiDAR-based 3D sensor fusion camera allows organizations to take video beyond traditional use cases and expand capabilities through the layering of AI, IoT, and other IT-enabled solutions.