Pelco IP cameras and Milestone Systems IP video management software (VMS). Milestone Systems will provide deeper integration support for Pelco’s IP-based cameras in the award-winning XProtect®-family of open platform VMS. This closer relationship will enable partners and customers to explore the advanced capacities of Pelco’s cameras and Milestone’s VMS.

In the ensuing silence, you may miss an opportunity to be the customer’s go-to home technology professional and fail to earn some potential revenue. Therefore, it may be time to catch up on those other residential topics that sometimes elude home systems professionals.

IP cameras have proven valuable to end users, who get the benefit of high resolution and a number of other features. For installers, they’ve also been valuable, as more and more end users either want new IP camera installations or want to migrate their existing analog cameras to IP and take advantage of the benefits.

The surveillance system at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) manages about 1,000 channels of video, including a mix of IP cameras (75 percent) and legacy analog cameras (25 percent).

Hikvision USA, City of Industry, Calif., partnered with VoloForce to develop what it described as an industry-first retail brand surveillance software.

From FLIR Systems Inc., Portland, Ore., comes FLIR Cloud™, described by the company as an easy-to-use cloud-enabled service platform that offers instant remote access to FLIR security products using a smartphone/tablet (iOS/Android™), PC or Mac.

BCDVideo announced recently that its storage solutions have been optimized for IP Video design by HP. As a global HP OEM partner, BCDVideo designs and builds project-based recording servers exclusively on the HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) platform.

BCDVideo, based in Northbrook, Ill., announced at last week’s ISC West that its storage solutions have been optimized for IP video design by HP.

Thanks to a new partnership announced at ISC West, Hikvision’s embedded recording solutions are now integrated with Solink’s event-based video discovery platform.

It seemed that the biggest buzzword to come out of last week’s ISC West was 4K — just as it was the biggest buzzword to come out of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2012.