Hikvision, City of Industry, Calif.,a supplier of video surveillance productsand solutions, announced that it recently entered into contract renewal of Chongqing’ssafe city program in China with the total investmentof the contracts reaching to 1.2 billion U.S. dollars (RMB 7.7 billion).

Honeywell, Melville, N.Y., launched a new application for Android devices, letting users control their security systems and view live, streaming video from any remote location.

Developing a revenue stream from designing and installing wireless video networks takes experience over time. Counted in that experience: attention to such things as grounding, weatherproofing, channel management, antenna placement and alignment. Here’s how.

Honeywell and integration software maker Tridium Inc. introduced a software tool that allows integrators and security dealers to more easily incorporate digital video surveillance capabilities into larger building control systems. The Rapid Eye™ Driver enables Tridium’s Niagara Framework to communicate with Honeywell’s flagship line of Rapid Eye digital video recorders.

Avigilon unveiled a number of new products at ASIS Int’l 2011 Seminar & Exhibits yesterday, including the 29 megapixel (MP) JPEG2000 HD Pro camera, which the company described as a powerful high-definition surveillance camera.

When talking about video systems, any discussion of cabling is undoubtedly intertwined with a discussion about power and power supplies. This is especially true when the conversation steers towards running power and video signals over the same wire, whether using power over Ethernet (PoE) or another type of cable.