In choosing London’s Heathrow Airport as the site for its initial project, the Total Airport Security Solution (TASS) consortium thought big — as big as they come, in fact.
Generally speaking, most integrators find that the best path to success is by offering a full suite of products and solutions from a number of manufacturers. Stone Security, however, has achieved success using a very different approach.
Navigating the ins and outs of storage can pay big dividends. But there is no single common solution for storage to make that easy. Instead, each technology has its own pros and cons to consider.
There are a variety of storage types available, from analog DVRs to appliances to on-board storage at the edge to cloud-based solutions. Even tape is making a comeback. Yes, you read that right.
Since the Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response group was introduced a primary point of discussion has been whether it would continue to operate as an independent organization or whether it would be absorbed by an established industry organization like CSAA or ESA, in order to ensure that the message sent to law enforcement and insurers was cohesive and representative of the whole industry.
Samsung Techwin, Ridgefield Park, N.J., a global supplier of video surveillance and security products, announced a collaborative partnership with Pivot3 wherein the two companies will offer a unified IP video surveillance solution to new and existing clients.
Milestone Systems, an open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), provided the technology for live monitoring with archived recordings when the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) needed to supervise every moment during the space shuttle Endeavour’s recent weekend-long journey from the Los Angeles International Airport to its final home at the California Science Center.
Protection 1, Romeoville, Ill., partnered with I-View Now to enable cloud-based video services. The integration of the I-View Now technology enables receipt of alarm video — both pre- and post-alarm — in Protection 1’s security automation system by alarm center agents, as well as simultaneous delivery to customer mobile devices and event storage on the customer’s eSuite Web-based account.
Samsung Techwin America, Ridgefield Park, N.J., is partnering with FaceFirst LLC. to supply megapixel video surveillance cameras for its FaceFirst facial recognition system.
Salient Systems Corp., Austin, Texas, announced at the 2012 ASIS Int’l Seminar that it would begin offering CompleteView™ Cloud, a hosted video surveillance service powered by Dell OEM Solutions.