Transom Capital Group, an operations-focused middle market private equity firm, today announced it has acquired Pelco Inc., a provider of video surveillance solutions, from Schneider Electric.

The early struggles of video analytics technologies to live up to over-inflated expectations are well documented.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has enacted to ban the use of facial recognition technology by police and all other municipal agencies.

March Networks, a global video security and video-based business intelligence leader, has been designated as a cyber secure business by Cyber Essentials Canada for a second consecutive year. March Networks was the first company in the country to achieve the certification in 2018, and is the first to re-certify through the program this year.

While at ISC West 2019, SDM editors Laura Stepanek, Karyn Hodgson, and Courtney Wolfe asked exhibitors three of the most pressing questions facing the industry today.

At a meeting held May 1, the Chicago Police Department hosted an orientation and training meeting for District 19 CAPS officers who will be utilizing an innovative network of cloud-based cameras installed throughout Roscoe Village as part of the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy initiative. 

Memoreyes, an outdoor video surveillance system developer, is looking for qualified integrators to participate in its national dealer program. The company will provide integrators with training that centers on its patent pending, Megapixel/HD–quality, pan-tilt-zoom camera system with machine learning. 

A key benefit of PlateSmart Technologies’ award winning ARES automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) software is its ability to integrate with virtually any camera or video management system (VMS). That innovation has yielded PlateSmart another partnership — this time with the global IP surveillance solution provider VIVOTEK Inc.

Johnson Controls has combined its Tyco Access Control and Video Solutions businesses into a single operational unit to more closely align the two disciplines and optimize future technology developments for cyber resiliency, business efficiency and intelligence.

Unified security systems are one of the industry’s latest buzzwords. But beyond the hype, what do these types of systems offer the security integrator and, ultimately, the customer? Plenty, say the experts.