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LENSEC Announces Release of Perspective VMS Version 3

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 22, 2017 3:04 pm Categories: New Products, VMS Software. Tags: HTML5, LENSEC, new version, Perspective VMS, vms.

LENSEC is announcing a complete redesign of Perspective VMS™, an enterprise-level HTML5-based software delivering surveillance video and information to customers from IP cameras and physical security devices. Perspective VMS Version 3.0.0 is a major software release built exclusively on an HTML5 rich application. HTML5 is the current standard for creating web pages and browser-based applications. PVMS leverages the browser language to enable live video streaming, forensic archive management, and flexible administration from one robust and scalable application.

Vicon Reports Financial Results For First Quarter Ended December 31, 2016

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 21, 2017 4:08 pm Categories: Corporate News, Uncategorized, VMS Software. Tags: financial results, Valerus, vicon, video management system, vms.

Revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2017 decreased 39% to $6.6 million as compared to $10.9 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2016. The $4.3 million decrease in the current quarter included a $3.0 million, or 35%, decrease in sales in the Americas market and a $1.3 million, or 56%, decrease in EMEA market sales. Revenues weakened across all market segments due principally to a continuing reliance on legacy product offerings and the continuing market effects of previously reported camera line issues. Order intake for the current quarter decreased $5.9 million to $5.8 million as compared to $11.7 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2016.

Hitachi’s New Video Analytics Software

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 21, 2017 12:06 pm Categories: New Products, Video Analytics. Tags: and license plate recognition, Hitachi Video Analytics, HVA, parking space detection, traffic analysis, vehicle counting, video analytics.

Hitachi Video Analytics (HVA) from Hitachi Insight Group is video analytics software. It combines computer vision and advanced analytics to extract rich insights and generate real-time alerts that can provide cities, airports, campuses, transportation agencies, and businesses with operational business intelligence; smarter transportation, traffic, and parking management; and more effective public safety and security. HVA?s people counting, queue detection, activity analysis, directional counting, and image enhancement deliver insights that help cities, businesses, and other organizations improve operations and customer experiences. It also helps to protect individual privacy, which can help to reduce their risk and liability.

Parking Spotter: Milestone Community Kickstarter Contest 2017 Winner

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 21, 2017 11:56 am Categories: Corporate News, Integrated Systems, VMS Software. Tags: community, integration, kickstarter, milestone, Parking Spotter.

The Milestone Community Kickstarter program was recently launched in November 2016. Participants had one month to submit their integration ideas to Milestone and those ideas would then be reviewed and narrowed down to five finalists. Those finalist would compete for the grand prize of US$10,000 cash, US$40,000 in marketing and development services, and other Milestone assistance. All five finalists were invited to MIPS 2017 in San Antonio, where they could present their ideas and solutions to other Community members, as well as to the Milestone Product Advisory Board, who then made the final selection.

DSRC ? Dedicated Short Range Communications

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 15, 2017 9:31 pm Categories: Network, New Products. Tags: Dedicated Short Range Communications, DSRC, Fluidmesh, network, traffic.

Substantial efforts have been made to the Federal Highway Administration Roads and Weather Management Program. For instance, the DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) technology which uses IEEE 802.11p in the 5.9 GHz band is now being used in connection with various federal and state connected vehicle programs, these programs pinpoint opportunities of obtaining data from vehicles acting as mobile device platforms.

Avigilon Launches Highly Anticipated Appearance Search Technology

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 15, 2017 9:14 pm Categories: New Products, Technologies, Video Analytics. Tags: Appearance Search, Avigilon, technology, video analytics.

Avigilon Corporation (TSX: AVO), provider of trusted security solutions, announced that it has further enhanced its self-learning video analytics capabilities by introducing Avigilon Appearance Search technology immediately available with Avigilon Control Center (ACC) 6.0 video management software. Avigilon Appearance Search, Avigilon’s newest and most advanced video analytics technology, is a sophisticated deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) search engine that sorts through hours of footage with ease, allowing users to quickly locate a specific person of interest across all cameras on an entire site.

Honeywell Introduces New Performance Series IP-Cameras

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 15, 2017 8:55 pm Categories: IP Cameras, New Products. Tags: Honeywell, IP-cameras, new, Performance Series.

Honeywell further expands its Performance Series IP Family to include new, affordable, easy to install 1080p and 4MP Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) IP-cameras. The new Honeywell Performance Series IP-cameras deliver high quality video, a superior user experience, easy video integration with other solutions, and improved user account security with enhanced risk reduction, all of which increases revenues and lowers installation, operation and maintenance costs.

Milestone: Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding

Milestone is the first video management software (VMS) vendor in the world to introduce hardware accelerated video decoding using Intel?s built-in Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) component in the CPU and the Intel? Media SDK. Even for installations where hardware accelerated video decoding is not supported by the hardware, decoding using the Intel? Media SDK offers significant enhancements with improved rendering and smooth display of live and recorded video. By shifting the computing intensive video decoding process from the CPU to the GPU, the CPU load is drastically reduced.

Pivot3 Delivers More Than 80% Revenue Growth In 2016

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 15, 2017 3:41 pm Categories: Corporate News, Storage. Tags: hyper converged, PIVOT3, revenue growth, video storage.

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Pivot3, a technology leader in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions for the modern data center, announced that the company experienced record growth throughout 2016, with the year?s total revenue increasing by 84 percent over the prior year —including a more than 200-percent increase in Q4 2016 from Q4 2015— and significant deals secured across federal, healthcare and education customers.

SoCal School District Selects Nexsan For Petabyte Video Storage Project

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 15, 2017 3:31 pm Categories: Customer Implementations, Education, Storage. Tags: Corona-Norco, E60, Education, nexsan, storage, video storage, video surveillance.

Nexsan™ announced that Corona-Norco Unified School District has deployed Nexsan’s E-Series Model E60™ solution to meet increasing storage demands and accommodate the s chool districts new video surveillance mandate. CNUSD expects these projects to exceed a petabyte of storage. Corona-Norco has more than 20,000 desktops to protect and growing volumes of data, including data generated from a large new video surveillance implementation, the district continued to face difficulties with its existing Fibre Channel-based storage infrastructure and associated high cost per terabyte.

Andrew Teich, FLIR CEO, To Retire After 33 Years Of Service

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 15, 2017 3:20 pm Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Andrew Teich, ceo, flir, Management, retirement.

FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced that Andrew C. Teich, its President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of its Board of Directors, plans to retire after 33 years of service. Mr. Teich will continue to serve in his current roles until a successor is appointed. As part of FLIR’s succession planning process, the Board will conduct a comprehensive search for a new CEO. FLIR has retained Korn Ferry International, a leading executive search firm, to assist in the search process.

ISONAS Unveils Pure Mobile Credentials; Opens Door To Hassle-Free Access Control

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 15, 2017 3:08 pm Categories: Access Control. Tags: Access Control, ISONAS, pure IP, rc-04, Smartphone.

ISONAS Inc., a leading Pure IP™ access control system manufacturer, announced that Pure Mobile Credentials are now available and complimentary until April 30, 2017. Pure Mobile allows consumers to take the convenience of their mobile phone to the next level and turn access control into a simple, hassle-free part of their day. Pure Mobile is available with the next generation hardware family from ISONAS, the RC-04, which was introduced in December.

Four More States Propose Biometrics Legislation

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 15, 2017 2:31 pm Categories: Access Control, Legal, Legislation. Tags: Access Control, Biometrics, legal, Legislation.

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In recent years, the plaintiffs? class action bar has focused its efforts on pursuing claims under legislative schemes that provide for statutory damages. The litigation explosion under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) is a textbook example of how enterprising lawyers exploit laws that provide for such uncapped damages in an attempt to extract large settlements for technical violations that, in many cases, have caused no cognizable harm. As plaintiffs begin to explore new claims under these legislative schemes, we seek to help our clients minimize their risk through heightened awareness of the technical requirements of new and existing laws, vigilant compliance programs, and aggressive defense against litigation. Biometrics is one such area.

Milestone Releases New Version Of XProtect: 2017 R1

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 15, 2017 10:53 am Categories: New Products, VMS Software. Tags: 2017 R1, milestone, new release, Protect, vms.

Milestone Systems, the open platform company in networked video management software (VMS), has released XProtect 2017 R1. Milestone is committed to delivering three VMS product releases every year, in addition to bi-monthly device pack releases supporting third-party devices. This frequent release schedule will ensure Milestone?s rapid response to market and Milestone community needs.

Hackers Hit D.C. Police Surveillance Camera Network, City Officials Disclose

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 14, 2017 6:09 pm Categories: Corporate News, Customer Implementations, Law Enforcement. Tags: Cybersecurity, hackers, police, ransomware, surveillance cameras, washington dc.

Hackers infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump?s inauguration, forcing major citywide reinstallation efforts, according to the police and the city?s technology office. City officials said ransomware left police cameras unable to record between Jan. 12 and Jan. 15.

Milestone MIPS 2017: Share The Love Tour

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 14, 2017 6:01 pm Categories: Corporate News, VMS Software. Tags: community, gathering, milestone, MIPS 2017, platform, San Antonio, TX, vms.

Share the Love… It?s Valentine?s Day and Milestone has invited a couple hundred (ok, over 500) of their closest friends to their annual MIPS (Milestone Integrator Partner Summit) in San Antonio, TX. As was the introduction at last year?s MIPS, this year?s MIPS event is continuing to drive the ?community? platform model and Milestone’s continued focus on collaborative efforts with its partner base. This year?s theme is ?Make the World See.?

New Q4 Threat Intelligence Report from NTT Security Finds Attacks on Organizations Becoming More Targeted, Sophisticated

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 8, 2017 7:31 am Categories: Corporate News, Market Research, Retail. Tags: Cybersecurity, NTT Security, organizations under attack, retail.

NTT Security today issued its quarterly Threat Intelligence Report, which underscores the need for more advanced tools to protect organizations? data and networks from the evolving tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by cyber-attackers. A topic of considerable public attention is the ability to determine the source of cyber-attacks to determine their credibility and motivation.

S2 Security Delivers Unified User Experience With S2 Magic Monitor Version 4

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 8, 2017 7:04 am Categories: Access Control, New Products. Tags: Access Control, new version, S2 Magic Monitor, S2 Security, verion 4.

S2 Security has introduced S2 Magic Monitor Version 4. S2 Magic Monitor provides a unified security management user experience for access control, video surveillance, forensics, digital signage and live Internet feeds. Version 4 introduces new features that benefit security operations as well as employees and visitors, including third-party video management system support, audio support and advanced Internet widgets.

IHS Markit Access Control Predictions For 2017

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 7, 2017 9:57 pm Categories: Access Control, Market Research. Tags: 2017 analysis, Access Control, forecast, IHS Markit, physical access, physical security.

Information and analysis company IHS Markit has made its predictions for electronic access control for the year 2017. According to its report, the access control market will increase this year by 6.8%, exceeding $4.2 billion. The company says deeper integrations with video surveillance, business processes and IOT will ensure that access control continues to play a larger role in enterprise. IT, integration and mobility (remote connectivity) specialists are expected to see more growth as logical/physical security integrations together with remote services such as access-control-as-a-service are expected to be some of the top trends. Mobile credentials and biometrics will be two of the top hardware trends to watch.

ZKAccess Announces RS2 Biometric Integration

Posted by Jay Bartlett February 7, 2017 9:02 pm Categories: Access Control, Integrated Systems, New Products. Tags: Access Control, biometric, integration, RS2, ZKAccess.

ZKAccess, a leading provider of biometric and RFID security solutions, is pleased to announce its ZKBioPack software now allows for the integration of ZKAccess biometric readers with RS2 Technology?s Access It!® access control software. RS2 Technologies is an independently owned access management company, which allows them to stay close to their customers and be more responsive to their customers? security needs.