Located in Santa Clara, California, United States, Levi’s® Stadium is the recently built 1.2 billion-dollar home of the National Football League (NFL) team, San Francisco 49ers. Since opening its doors on July 17, 2014, the stadium has been host to numerous football games, soccer games, concerts, and major international events including Super Bowl 50 and the Copa Am
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Surveon Technology, the complete enterprise NVR solutions provider, announced the Linux-based NVR2104 is added to the existing Window-based storage subsystem NVR2100 Series, providing an ultimate option for the surveillance application. Supporting up to 64 channels of 5MP recording and RAID subsystem with 12-bay or 16-bay hot-swappable HDDs, NVR2104 is an ideal solution to fulfill the need for remote recording as the storage subsystem could be located on a separate site from the server so as to easily receive recordings from multiple servers.
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OnSSI continues to expand the versatility of the Ocularis 5 Video Management System (VMS) via integration with Vidsys? Converged Security and Information Management (CSIM) software. The integration allows operators to respond to events more quickly and effectively while enabling more accurate and efficient post-event investigation.
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Networking is the backbone of any video surveillance system. While servers, workstations, and cameras remain vital, the best network switches reduce outages, grant quicker access to information, and easily integrate new communication channels and applications. Yet, when the server begins to drop frames, the first instinct of most technical professionals is to drop camera frame rate, resolution, bitrate, or even add more servers. The network equipment is typically overlooked. This oversight often leads to continued outages. Listed below are the three most common reasons security integrators have networking issues.
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Mr. Sorrentino has been with ScanSource since 1999 and with the ScanSource Security business since its inception in 2004. He has more than 16 years of technology distribution experience and previously served as Vice President of Merchandising for ScanSource Security, where he was instrumental in developing the company?s line card to include the industry?s leading networking and physical security manufacturers. Prior to joining the Networking and Security business unit, Mr. Sorrentino served in merchandising leadership roles for ScanSource POS and Barcode in the US.
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Today, at the “AI+: Perception of the Future, Integrated Development” forum and a new HIKVISION product launch was held in Beijing. During the event, HIKVISION and global industry leader in visual computing NVIDIA® jointly released the latest smart binocular video recorder. Mr. Zhang Jianzhong, NVIDIA?s Global Vice President and General Manager for China, addressed the conference and joined other experts and business leaders in various areas of artificial intelligence (AI) witnessing another milestone of AI in the application of intelligent security hardware and the promotion of smart city construction.
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Dahua Technology, a world-leading manufacturer and supplier of video surveillance products headquartered in Hangzhou, China has announced the integration of its IP-cameras to Ivideon cloud service. The integration involves Lite series, ECO Savvy 2.0 series, and Wi-Fi series IP-cameras, which offer 1.3 and 3 megapixels resolution. Eco Savvy 3.0 series and XVR (Penta-brid Video Recorder) are to follow in the coming weeks.
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Legislation approved by the Pennsylvania state Senate on Wednesday would let police departments across the state refuse public requests for copies of video recordings by officers, unless a court orders the release. The bill sets a sweeping policy to exempt recordings from body cameras and dashboard cameras from public records requests in Pennsylvania.
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Eagle Eye Networks, Inc., announced the Eagle Eye Contract Vault, a complete cloud based system for recording and archiving video of important business transactions. The video recordings are stored long-term in the Eagle Eye Cloud Data Centers with descriptions and metadata for easy search and retrieval. Using the Eagle Eye Video API both audio and video analysis can be completed on the recordings to extract key data. Currently the system is used for recording contracts for vacation ownership, home loans, and personal loans. Other applications include estate planning, human resource actions, and financial transactions.
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The Chinese Ministry of Justice has threatened legal action against “organisations and individuals” making “false claims” about the security of Chinese-made devices. It follows a product recall from the Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou after its web cameras were used in a massive web attack last week.
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OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, announced that the company’s second-generation RGB-Ir image sensors, the OV9756 and the OV4686, will be supported by MStar’s new on-chip image signal processor, the MSC318. The MSC318 is designed for security IP camera solutions and for driving recorder video cameras in automotive imaging applications. OmniVision’s OV9756 and OV4686 were selected for their advanced infrared sensitivity to produce excellent videos in all lighting conditions in an ultra-compact industrial design.
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FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced the identiFINDER® R100 personal radiation detector, the latest addition to its industry-leading identiFINDER R-Series handheld radiation security solutions. The belt-worn R100 integrates networking capabilities to safeguard first responders, law enforcement, and military and security personnel by delivering immediate radiation threat alarms and providing automatically-generated radiation dose rate reports to offer increased situational awareness to central command personnel.
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Movidius, a developer of embedded machine vision technology, together with leading provider of video-based IoT (Internet of Things) solutions and data operation services Hikvision have announced that Movidius? Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit (VPU) technology will be powering a new lineup of smart cameras. Among other things, Myriad 2 will be utilized for running cutting-edge Deep Neural Networks in order to perform much higher accuracy video analytics locally.
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Camden Door Controls, a premier provider of door activation and locking devices, has expanded their Lazerpoint RF™ family of 915Mhz. spread spectrum wireless products. The system encompasses the widest range of wall switch transmitters, 1, 2, & 4 button FOBs, touchless switches, and digital keypads available today, and qualifies Camden as the only manufacturer to provide all these activation devices in one suite offering.
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Tyco Security Products introduces version 4.9 of the American Dynamics? victor Video Management System and VideoEdge network video recorders (NVR), with more powerful, intuitive features designed to put greater system functionality and key information in the hands of security system operators and administrators.
Read More ›Spanning 210,000 square feet of table games, poker, slot machines and bingo, Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort in Mount Pleasant, Mich., is owned by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and serves as a retreat for visitors who are looking to experience relaxation and entertainment. The safety and security of guests, and employees are paramount to the tribe, and with 24/7 operations, o cials needed comprehensive surveillance of the entire gaming oor.
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ONVIF®, the leading global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, announced that ONVIF Chairman Per Bj
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Hitachi VMP is a Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) compliant solution designed specifically to support enterprise video security and monitoring deployments, storing large files from hundreds or thousands of cameras simultaneously. Using virtualization and dynamic tiering with flash storage, the system is highly scalable, able to deliver high levels of availability with no single point of failure. Hitachi VMP was built from the ground-up to support high performance video compute and analytics for large enterprise video surveillance environments of 150 to 10,000 2-megapixel cameras.
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Cradlepoint, the global leader in cloud-based network solutions for connecting people, places, and things over wired and wireless broadband, announced that emergency responders will now be able to seamlessly transition to the First Responder Network Authority?s (FirstNet) Band 14 National Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN). Cradlepoint?s new MC400L2 modem is the first solution with a full range of applications for coordinated response efforts across public and private first responder networks. It is also the first Band 14 solution that —when integrated with the AER product family— features full Unified Threat Management (UTM) security. Emergency personnel and first responders now have a flexible, cost-effective option to support Band 14 migrations, while ensuring reliable, secure connectivity at all times.
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It?s another example of the biometric access control and attendance tracking solutions emerging as such technology becomes more accessible to customers. For its part, in a statement announcing the new F2, Face Forensics says the system ?is designed to be straightforward to integrate into existing access control systems and connects easily to images in existing industry-standard databases,? which should help to heighten its appeal to organizations in the market for improved security or attendance tracking.
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