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PSA Security Network®, the world?s largest electronic security cooperative, announced changes to its Board of Directors. Elections were held on May 5, 2015 at the Annual Stockholder Meeting held in conjunction with TEC 2015. The following PSA owners were elected or appointed to positions on the Board:

The world market for video surveillance equipment grew by 14.2% in 2014. This is according to recently published estimates from IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), through its Video Surveillance Intelligence Service. This is a higher rate than IHS was forecasting back in December (it was forecasting 10.7% back then). The difference is down to higher than expected growth in China. EMEA, Americas, and the rest of Asia all grew at slightly lower rates than forecast in December.

In the competitive security market, the strategy for getting ahead is getting designed into new projects. To do that, it is essential to have BIM (Building Information Modeling) models and CAD drawings ready to go. Orion Entrance Control, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative and customized entrance control lanes such as turnstiles, has taken this strategy further by helping architects, consultants, and engineers to easily find and access its 3D CAD and BIM models on Autodesk Seek, a web service that helps designers quickly discover, preview, and download high-quality 3D information.

I?ve been reading about a series of FBI emails the ACLU recently obtained that demonstrate that the Bureau was ?wrestling? with privacy issues related to their use of LPR. The emails do not give any detailed information on what issues they were facing or what was done, but they do make clear that the FBI?s purchase of LPR equipment was temporarily suspended in the spring of 2012 due to this controversy.

Aurora has launched FaceSentinel, the world’s first Deep Learning-powered facial recognition access control system. Deep learning (DL) is an artificial intelligence form that trains a computer’s memory to recognize unique patterns of characteristics by processing large amounts of data.

The Z-Wave Alliance, an open consortium of leading global companies deploying Z-Wave, is excited to announce the first winner of Z-Wave Labs. Boston start-up BeON Home, a preventative security and safety company, is the program’s first winner and will receive Z-Wave Alliance membership and access to the new Z-Wave IoT ready 500 series development kits. Z-Wave Labs is a brand new competition to support and incentivize IoT innovation on the Z-Wave? platform.

PERCo presents new IR10 long range RFID reader for outdoor use. It operates as a part of the vehicle checkpoint, which is designed to control the passage of private and company transport. IR10 operates together with the barrier controller.

Recently, SecurityHive?s Maurice Joseph had a chance to sit down with Milestone?s Lars Nordenlund Friis, the VP of Incubation and Ventures, for a one-on-one conversation about Milestone Husky and Milestone Arcus products.

As the nation debates recent incidents of alleged police misconduct in Baltimore and across the country, one proposed solution is offered repeatedly: equip officers with body-worn cameras. In an important step toward this goal, the Department of Justice announced in early May that the first $20 million of the proposed $75 million in federal funding will be made available through a body-worn camera pilot program. The program will match state funding for 50,000 cameras nationwide.

Consultancy group Goode Intelligence has predicted that bank customers will be using biometrics as the predominant Biometrics to Dominate Banking Methods by 2020 of identifying themselves to access bank services by 2020. In a new report titled Biometrics for Banking; Market and Technology Analysis, Adoption Strategies and Forecasts 2015-2020 Goode Intelligence details that biometric authentication is being adopted across all of the major bank channels and by the end of 2015 some 450 million bank customers will be using biometrics.

Protection 1 has completed the acquisition of Cam Connections, Inc. (CCI), a full service security systems integrator based in Lakeland, Florida with satellite offices in Davie, Florida and Charlotte, North Carolina. The company specializes in providing tailored security solutions to meet its customers’ specific needs. This acquisition follows the recent announcement that Apollo Global Management has signed definite agreements to acquire both Protection 1 and ASG Security.

Melvin Carraway, an 11-year veteran of the TSA who became acting administrator in January, was immediately reassigned to a DHS program coordinating with local law enforcement agencies, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday night. The acting director of the Transportation Security Administration has been reassigned after an internal investigation revealed security failures at dozens of the nation?s busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials.

According to a new report by Dell Security, cyber attacks on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems doubled last year – and they?ve increased 600% since 2012. As alarming as those statistics are, another key finding is even more troubling: physically disruptive attacks are becoming increasingly common. In fact, 25% of all cyber incidents last year were a specific type of attack that can flood SCADA systems and shut down mechanical devices, potentially disrupting physical operations.

NEC Corporation announced that AEON MALL SINAR MAS LAND INDONESIA, a specialist shopping mall developer, has appointed NEC Indonesia to provide video analytics surveillance and infrastructure systems. Solutions that NEC will be implementing include CCTV systems, people counting systems, facial recognition video analytics and IP telephony infrastructure systems for AEON Mall BSD CITY.

Driven by ever growing demand for high definition and the development of image processing, 4k is definitely a buzzword on the market, playing an increasingly vital role in video surveillance, especially in applications such as safe cities, stadiums, sea ports, plazas, and other large scale projects and it places a strong demand on capturing detail, which at the same time, puts additional pressure on decoding and storage. Luckily, a solution has been developed to overcome these restraints with the introduction and development of H.265, which brings extensive possibilities and optimism to the industry by addressing problems such as shortage of bandwidth, improving transmission efficiency and delivering other benefits.

WavestoreUSA has announced the new release of version V5.50 of the Wavestore Video Management Software. This maintenance release delivers additional video performance enhancements, along with code optimizations for improved handling of views for cameras and layouts, and better management for network interfaces.