Arecont Vision®, the industry leader in IP-based megapixel camera technology, unveiled the SurroundVideo® Omni Mini dual sensor megapixel camera at IFSEC International. The SurroundVideo Omni Mini features twin megapixel camera sensors that are individually mounted in the Arecont Vision-designed 3-axis gimbals for outstanding adjustability and are each able to look in virtually any direction, including straight down.
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The Supervisory Board of Mobotix has a new chairman. Yuji Ichimura, Executive Officer of Konica Minolta, Inc., the majority shareholder of MOBOTIX, was elected by the Supervisory Board of the company as its new chairman, following his appointment as new member of the supervisory board by the register court upon a motion by the company.
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AirLive has announced an innovative new product called the Topology PoE Switch that is an ideal PoE solution, especially managing AirLive’s network Access Points. The Topology PoE Switch makes troubleshooting easier, supports more configuration intuitiveness, provides greater visibility into networks, and is available with network topology that features automatically mapping your network deployment.
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Siklu, the leader in millimeter wave wireless solutions, announces an affordable V-band radio for providing interference-free connectivity on the street. Operating in the 60GHz band, the new EtherHaul-500 provides predictable and reliable performance, perfect for upgrading congested 5GHz networks. The 60GHz band is characterized by abundant license-free spectrum, minimal reflections and narrow beam-width that enable dense link deployment.
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Surveon Technology, the end-to-end IP surveillance solution provider, introduced the newest storage-server NVR5400 Series at IFSEC, offering an alternative to the current enterprise network video recorder product line. Featuring 12- or 16-bay hot-swappable hard drives and hardware RAID data protection, NVR5400 Series supports 5MP video recording of up to 64-channels and SAS storage with up to 316 hard drives for 1-year plus video retention, making it ideal for mission-critical projects like city surveillance, industrial, and government projects.
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TRENDnet®, a global leader in reliable SMB and consumer networking solutions, announced it is shipping their new 10dBi Wireless N300 Outdoor PoE Access Point (2.4 GHz), model TEW-740APBO, designed to provide high-performance, point-to-point, wireless connectivity.
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This is a Research Note from IHS, Inc., providing information on the latest findings from its research into the video surveillance equipment market. The world market for professional video surveillance equipment grew by 1.9% in revenues in 2015. This is according to recently published estimates from IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), through its Video Surveillance Intelligence Service. This is a much lower rate of growth than in 2014 (14.2%) and 2013 (6.8%).
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Wavestore’s new NVR video storage units have been designed to meet the widest possible range of small, medium and large video surveillance applications and come pre-installed with Wavestore V6. With the option to upgrade or expand at any time in the future without having to reinstall the software, users can choose from Base, Premium, or Enterprise levels and select the exact number of camera licenses required for the application at hand.
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Axis Communications introduces the industry’s first IP-cameras featuring i-CS lens. This latest lens technology is the result of a joint development between Axis Communications and the Japanese leading lens manufacturer Computar® (CBC Group). The new intelligent i-CS lens directly exchange information such as its geometrical distortion and the exact position of its zoom, focus, and iris opening. Thanks to several motors inside the i-CS lens, both zoom, focus, and iris opening can be remotely adjusted.
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Integrating the latest video compression and high-definition IP technology into its innovative, rugged video camera systems, CohuHD’s line of high quality HD cameras, transmission equipment and management software can be found on the International Space Station and monitoring the busiest freeways and ports, military bases, U.S. Navy ships, oil refineries, nuclear reactors, mines, high value manufacturing sites, and many other critical installations around the globe.
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The purpose of the conference, which will be held in Washington, DC, will be to provide information on DIVA and the research problems the program aims to address, to address questions from potential proposers and to provide a forum for potential proposers to present their capabilities for teaming opportunities. The DIVA program will be designed to develop robust automated activity detection for a multi-camera streaming video environment. As an essential aspect of DIVA, activities will be enriched by person and object detection, as well as recognition at multiple levels of granularity. DIVA is anticipated to be a three-phase program. The DIVA program will produce a common framework and software prototype for activity detection, person and/or object detection and recognition across a multi-camera network. The impact will be the development of tools for forensic analysis, as well as real-time alerting for user defined threat scenarios.
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Americans have no Second Amendment right to carry concealed guns in public, a federal appeals court in California ruled on Thursday in a significant blow to gun-rights activists and gun owners in a large swath of the Western U.S. The San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 7-4 ruling, upheld a California law requiring residents to show ?good cause? for carrying a concealed handgun. Under the California law, personal safety alone doesn’t qualify as good cause, which is defined by county sheriffs. The plaintiffs, gun owners seeking licenses to carry their weapons concealed, said the policies in San Diego and Yolo counties where they live violated their Second Amendment rights.
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Shares in security firm G4S slumped to their lowest since 2009 after it emerged that the gunman who killed 50 clubbers in a Florida nightclub this weekend was an employee. Omar Mateen, an American citizen who pledged allegiance to Islamic State before embarking on the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, had worked for the global giant since 2007, the company confirmed.
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Suprema, a global leader in biometrics and security technology, announced global launching of BioEntry W2, an outdoor fingerprint access control device that offers highest matching performance, outdoor durability and multi-card reading in a package to provide comprehensive access control features. BioEntry W2 well blends loads of industry-leading technologies and innovations. BioEntry W2 is loaded with class-leading 1.2GHz quad core CPU which achieves incredible matching speed up to 150,000 match/second. With its large 2GB memory, BioEntry W2 can store and manage up to 500,000 users and provides instant matching results with minimal lag time.
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Just six months after buying Israeli-based video surveillance firm DVTEL for $92 million in cash, FLIR Systems has acquired Innovative Security Designs (ISD), a provider of intelligent systems and IP technologies, in a deal that finalized June 3, 2016. About a year ago, FLIR partnered with ISD on several projects, and the two companies became familiar with each other?s skillsets and plans. Flir purchased ISD from from rival Digital Watchdog for an undisclosed amount.
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The portable desktop IONSCAN 600 will be able to detect a range of narcotics such as amphetamine, cocaine, heroin, ketamine, MDA, MDMA, and others. This capability will be important to front-line organizations including customs authorities, prisons and other secure facilities, which have a growing requirement to detect and identify illegal narcotics and other controlled substances.
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Vidsys software is a force multiplier for organizations with a large physical footprint because the software geospatially provides real-time information, including video data and many other assets, into a single unified dashboard. Vidsys software collects, analyzes, verifies, resolves and tracks information from multiple disparate subsystems using open architecture standards that enable any authorized user from any location to view and manage situations, as they unfold.
Read More ›Visitors to the Genetec stand will be able to see the first public demonstration of Security Center 5.5, the latest version of its flagship unified security platform, featuring added authentication and authorization protection, new encryption and privacy features, a disaster recovery mode, video management enhancements, expanded access control features. Genetec will offer previews of new and in-development technologies benefitting large-scale enterprise and institutional clients with advanced new decision support capabilities and an intuitive map-based user interface. Additionally Genetec will demonstrate its new Security Center Subscription model with “pay-as-you-go” based ownership that removes the usual operational expenditure (OpEx) costs for a term-based, affordable introduction to Security Center for enterprise and small and medium size (SMB) outlets.
Read More ›The Government of Vojvodina is the official political organ of the Autonomous Province in Serbia. It consists of its president and vice-presidents, cabinet ministers, provincial secretaries and general staff. The seat of the government, Banovina Palace, is located in Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina and second largest city of Serbia. The impressive building complex from the 1930s is under the protection of UNESCO as a valuable heritage. Government officials and their employees are still frequently threatened in former Yugoslavia. Therefore, a flexible security system is needed to protect both staff and facility.
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The M500 Advanced NVR supports up to 48TB of internal raw storage and has the ability to archive to network-attached storage appliances when additional storage is required. Both Milestone XProtect Expert and XProtect Corporate software come preloaded on the Husky M500 Advanced NVR enabling a number of advantages for Milestone partners. These include already being trained and certified on the system software and being able to easily upgrade customers from previous Milestone XProtect products like XProtect Enterprise.
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