What was planned as an early morning joyride recently turned in to a ride straight to jail for four would-be car thieves in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Bosch Security Systems Inc. has signed an agreement with Ingram Micro Inc. to make its products available to the distributor’s channel partners in the United States, giving customers of Ingram Micro’s Physical Security business access to a broad portfolio of products and systems for communication, video, intrusion detection and access control.

More than 80 percent. That’s the proportion of the $400 million market for remote monitoring services in intelligent buildings that commercial and retail end users will represent in 2016, says a new study by IMS Research.

In what the company’s president and CEO describes as an “opportunistic and synergistic” move, Avigilon Corp. acquired RedCloud Security Inc., combining Avigilon’s strength in HD and megapixel video with RedCloud’s Web-based physical and virtual access control systems.

BCDVideo has partnered with San Lorenzo, Calif.-based Premier IP Video Solutions, which will represent BCDVideo’s IP video server products in the region.

Dallas Security has been growing, with sales up about 8 percent this year over last year. Perhaps the biggest driver for this has been IP video

In an effort to raise sector-specific expertise in the video surveillance industry, video management software provider Milestone Systems launched its Vertical Specialist Partner (VSP) program.

Admittedly, in the beginning, video analytics was a technology that was doomed to fall short of the hype and high expectations surrounding it. Let’s face it; when “CSI” became one of the most popular shows on television, it pretty much became the gold standard for video analytics against which almost all solutions — real or make-believe — were judged. So between TV shows, movies and manufacturers who promised more than their solutions could deliver, analytics didn’t stand a chance.