The benefits of mobile surveillance have come into focus for the business community: reduce theft, keep staff on task, and evaluate potential security situations for appropriate response from afar.
American Dynamics, part of Tyco Security Products, announced that its flagship Illustra HD IP camera line is integrated with the Genetec Omnicast video management solution.
BCDVideo announced that all its video servers will ship standard with a five-year on-site next business day warranty from HP. This upgrades the previous standard three-year on-site warranty.
Integrators are depending more on video-based detection solutions for outdoor and perimeter security installations, not because traditional technologies aren’t working — it just gives them more options
Security dealer Sonitrol of Indianapolis used to install a lot of photoelectric beams for protecting the perimeter of commercial installations, but today the company relies exclusively on a wireless camera system for perimeter protection. As Sonitrol of Indianapolis Sales Manager, Mike McCalip, explains, the company uses the Videofied camera from St. Paul, Minn.-based RSI Video Technologies, which has its own power source, eliminating the need to trench for wires.
The Greater Lafourche Port Commission, in partnership with national security firm Crescent Guardian Inc., completed implementation of a video analytics application to accompany its next-generation video surveillance system.
A SightLogix®, Princeton, N.J., smart thermal video analytics system was chosen for deployment at the Jacksonville, Florida Port Authority (JAXPORT) in a project partially funded by a Homeland Security Grant initiative to enhance security at port facilities.
Emerging hosting approaches can include video surveillance as a service (VSaaS), remote viewing on mobile devices, virtual guarding, video verification, in the cloud solutions, remote storage and retrieval as well as fully outsourced management of a surveillance system.
With the theme of ‘partnering for the future’ as a backdrop, Axis Communications hosted specifying consultants at a four-day summit that showed them how to design stronger IP surveillance solutions through partnerships.
Axis Communications recently hosted its fifth annual A&E Technology Summit which, from bow to stern, was a rigorous educational program that intertwined Axis’ development and technology partners. From a “This is Axis”-themed dinner on the first evening of the event, to a group gathering on the fourth evening to watch Super Bowl XLVI, the program was packed with sessions that covered product detail, technology trends, application challenges, business opportunities, and idea sharing.