Johnson Controls Adds Cost-effective, AI-Driven Face Mask Detection to ExacqVision VMS

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Johnson Controls is announcing exacqVision 20.09, which offers an integrated, cost-effective face mask detection solution that can quickly put information into the hands of facility decision-makers to help maintain safe environments for employees and visitors. Based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) analytics versus pixel-based analytics, exacqVision 20.09 with Face Mask Detection offers improved accuracy and a scalable, efficient solution.

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HID Global Introduces HID ELEMENT For Superior Quality, High-Volume Industrial and Financial Card Printing

HID Global Element

HID Global unveiled its new HID ELEMENT product line, the industry?s first heavy-duty, fully modular desktop-based card personalization portfolio that establishes a new category for mid-range and high-volume market segments. The portfolio?s enhanced card production capabilities, flexible system architecture and cost-effective deployment model empower organizations to create custom secure ID and financial card production solutions.

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Davista Social Distancing Ensures a Safe Return to Work

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Davista announced the availability of its AI-powered social distancing platform. The solution is designed to help businesses, organizations, and government agencies ensure social distancing efforts to keep individuals safe while promoting a healthy return-to-work. Across the globe, governments, corporate entities, and health and law enforcement agencies are working to find solutions to COVID-19 while making strides to get their local economies back up and running.

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Leon Mexico

Applied to existing video feeds in one of the most populous cities in the country by national integrator MER Group Mexico, whose its SMART M platform will be installed in the police C4 and integrated with Viisights systems, Wise will be leveraged to identify suspicious behavior, violent activity, weapon detection, crowd behaviors, perimeter protection, traffic monitoring, and environmental changes such as smoke or fire. The newly applied technology will help to increase public security and safety.

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Merger sees ?Synectics Security? Become Major Independent Force in UK Security Integration

Iain Stringer and Mark Pennington

Combining the on-vehicle expertise of SMS and QSG?s experience in providing electronic security solutions for complex, critical and heavily regulated environments,
Synectics Security works with ?best-of-breed? technology partners to offer ?one of the most comprehensive product and service portfolios available?. Based out of its Nottingham HQ, the unified business will continue to serve customers in the UK and Ireland operating in Public Space, Heritage, High Security, Banking and Finance, Critical Infrastructure and Transportation sectors.

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Blaine Frederick Joins Alcatraz as VP of Product

Blaine Frederick

Blaine Fredrick has joined Alcatraz as Vice President of Product to lead the technology startup in product development as it delivers its secure, autonomous access control platform. As VP of Product, Frederick serves as a liaison between business, technology and user experience. He manages all components of the Alcatraz Rock product from strategic planning to tactical activities. He connects internal resources with the needs of the addressable market.

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VCredential Cloud Platform Takes Vanderbilt Bluetooth Offering to the Next Level

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Vanderbilt announced the launch of their VCredential cloud-based credential management platform. Following the introduction of the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) reader family in conjunction with ACT Enterprise last October, Vanderbilt?s increased expansion in this market responds to the continuing trend toward virtualization and a shift toward touchless door access. VCredential is a cloud-based credential management platform that offers users the ability to create and manage Bluetooth credentials.

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Interconnected Locks Add Convenience and Security to Logix Credit Union

Axessor Interconnected Locks

Convenience and security haven?t always been mutually beneficial, particularly for financial institutions and credit unions. Sometimes the necessary and important steps to ensure security stifle efficiency and add cost. The Logix Federal Credit Union in California was founded as the Lockheed Aircraft Employees Federal Credit Union in 1937. It has maintained a perfect record of positive earnings since 1937, and is rated A+ by DepositAccounts.

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Security Industry Association Says Portland, Ore., Facial Recognition Bans Are Shortsighted

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The Security Industry Association (SIA) says that the decision by the city council of Portland, Ore., to ban facial recognition technology use by businesses in places of public accommodation starting January 2021 and to prohibit all city government use of facial recognition technologies are shortsighted decisions that do not consider effective and beneficial applications of facial recognition. The ordinance will impact businesses? ability to protect workers, customers, facilities and property since it effectively targets business use of security systems.

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Altronix Trove Solutions now Accommodate LenelS2 NetBox Large Scale Access Systems

LenelS2 NetBox

Altronix continues to expand the company?s popular Trove Access and Power Integration Solutions. Altronix now seamlessly integrates its power and sub-assemblies with the LenelS2 NetBox platform for installations supporting up to 28 doors in a single housing. Altronix new Trove3SS3 is completely customizable and accommodates LenelS2 controllers with Altronix power distribution. These new products provide more options for system designers.

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Genetec ALPR Calculator Shows How Parking Operators Can Save Thousands of Dollars Per Year

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While the accuracy rate of traditional rules-based ALPR systems is very good, every false positive still requires human intervention. These service interruptions not only cause customer dissatisfaction but also cost parking operators time, money, and create overall enforcement inefficiencies. To address these issues, Genetec has developed a next-generation machine learning-based engine for Security Center AutoVu.

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Suprema to Introduce New Fusion Multimodal Terminal at Live Sessions of Suprema Connect

FaceStation F2 Fusion

Suprema invites industry members to the ?Fusion Face Recognition? live session scheduled on September 17th, where it will introduce the new FaceStation F2 Fusion Multimodal Terminal. The live session is part of Suprema Connect 2020, Suprema?s first virtual event, designed to compensate for traditional security conferences, most of which were cancelled due to COVID-19. At the Fusion Face, Recognition live sessions a Suprema expert will go over the features and technology of FaceStation F2 in detail.

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OPTAGE and NanoLock to Enable Nationwide IoT Security in Japan

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As a cyber company well-known for its powerful technology that can work with all devices regardless of CPU or operating system, NanoLock brings innovative and patented device-level protection and management to OPTAGE?s new service, providing device monitoring, alerts, and version upgrades, as well as enabling secure over-the-air updates. A new kind of managed cybersecurity service, OPTAGE?s offering will increase the security of IoT and connected devices while also reducing operational costs for device makers and OEMs.

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Boon Edam to Participate in First Virtual GSX+ Event

Boon Edam GSX+

Boon Edam today announced that they will be exhibiting in the first virtual GSX+ conference, September 21-25, 2020. The company will be introducing a new optical turnstile, the Speedlane Compact, and will also be presenting an educational session about ?Scalable Security? at the event. This year, the ASIS International organization is presenting GSX+ as a fully virtual conference to provide the security industry with a forum to learn, network and collaborate in this pandemic year.

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ONVIF Goes Live on GitHub for Open Source Development

ONVF GitHub

ONVIF announcedthat it is now live on GitHub, an online open-source development platform. The repository at github.com will help drive the development of ONVIF network interface specifications. ONVIF interoperability specifications are already publicly available as open standards and are implemented by more than 400 manufacturers of IP surveillance cameras, video management software and physical access control systems to enable communication between conformant devices and clients

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Johnson Controls Introduces Tyco Software House iSTAR Edge G2

Tyco Software House iSTAR Edge G2

Johnson Controls is introducing a reliable, cyber-hardened IP edge access control device for up to four doors. One of the most powerful, flexible and secure edge access controllers, Tyco Software House iSTAR Edge G2 provides effortless upgrades from existing edge controllers, is OSDP compatible and supports embedded high assurance FICAM operation without additional third-party hardware, making it an ideal solution for both government and commercial users.

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Johnson Controls Releases Mask Detection, Intelligent Person Search and More in Victor/ VideoEdge 5.6 update

Victor VideoEdge

Johnson Controls introduces the latest generation of the Tyco American Dynamics victor/ VideoEdge solution, which introduces powerful features such as Intelligent Person Search, Area Occupancy, new Event Management hub, 64-bit client, and NVR Network Interface Card bonding for increased bandwidth. New victor/ VideoEdge AI features give security operations an advantage over potential threats with shortened response times and more accurate intelligent search capabilities.

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Alcatraz and Channeltivity Partner to Deliver High Tech Channel Management Solutions for Dealer Success

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Alcatraz and Channeltivity have united to help deliver a state-of-the-art channel and training program that fosters partner success. The Channeltivity PRM has provided Alcatraz with an impressive solution that gives partners the power of a DIY channel management solution leading to improved communication, increased training opportunities, and powerful sales channel enablement said D?Agostin. Channeltivity?s PRM platform is designed to make channel management as easy as possible.

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The New Age of Safety and Security

Mimi Lanfranchi and Charles Bohnenberger

With the advent of the pandemic and societal unrest, today?s government agencies are faced with evolving threats like never before. The pandemic, which has created higher unemployment rates and civil unrest across the nation, has created the ?perfect storm? for increased crime. The Wall Street Journal reported that in a survey of municipal budget officers, the average municipality tax revenue has declined 11% year over year. How can today?s agencies ensure the protection of their employees and their property in times of heightened security needs in a financially feasible way?

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New ProdataKey and Systems Surveyor Partnership Streamlines Design and Delivery of PDK Access Control Solutions

Pdk System Surveyor

ProdataKey (PDK) announced a partnership with System Surveyor. A complete catalog of PDK?s mobile-first access control system components is now available for import into the System Surveyor platform, making it easier than ever to incorporate PDK?s solutions into site plans and design drawings that can be shared by integrators, subcontractors, vendors and customers. Using an iPad or Android-based tablet or browser-based device, users upload a floor plan or Google Earth snapshot into the System Surveyor platform.

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