End users see significant benefits from using their smartphones and other mobile devices to watch what’s going on at their businesses. Here’s what integrators need to know to meet customer expectations.
Like many managers of small businesses, Kevin Mykle gets awakened in the middle of night from time to time by a call from his central station to let him know that an alarm has come in from his company — Surrey, British Columbia-based Stampede Tack & Western Wear.
Avigilon, Vancouver, a provider of high-definition (HD) and megapixel video surveillance solutions, announced that the SGL Arena in Augsburg, Germany — a 30,660 seat stadium that is home to the FC Augsburg football club — deployed the Avigilon high-definition surveillance system to ensure spectator safety, confirm regulatory compliance, and reduce liability costs. Vulnerable to the threat of football-related violence and disorderly conduct, the SGL Arena deployed system as a strategic component of its security plan.
Honeywell was selected to overhaul the video surveillance system at Casino Niagara, one of the top tourism attractions in Canada’s Niagara Falls. The project includes retrofitting the existing surveillance network with IP video technology that will allow casino officials to use a single command and control center to view and remotely manage the systems at both Casino Niagara and its nearby sister facility, Fallsview Casino.
Siqura B.V., Gouda, Netherlands, is now part of TKH Security Solutions, a close-knit collection of five companies working together to provide integrated and complete security management systems for critical infrastructure, traffic, public transit, healthcare, financial institution, public building, and government applications.
SureView Systems, Tampa, Fla., developer of Immix®, a video-based automation platform for the security alarm industry, and Videofied, White Bear Lake, Minn., developer of the MotionViewer, a self-powered wireless radio device combining a PIR and digital day/night vision camera in one unit, announced an enhancement to their integration of Videofied with Immix and Immix Cloud.
Virtua Healthcare System, a comprehensive multi-hospital healthcare system headquartered in Marlton, NJ, recently upgraded its video surveillance system to an IP-based network complete with Arecont Vision, Glendale, Calif., IP megapixel cameras.
Surveillance technologies get showcased in “Off the Grid: Million Dollar Manhunt,” a one-hour special for The HISTORY Channel airing December 8 at 10:00 p.m. All the chase scenes, zooming cameras, and surveillance that could be dismissed as “stuff of movies” are brought from the movies into real life in this reality television show.
North American Video (NAV), Brick, N.J., upgraded the video surveillance recording system at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles from VHS format to a digital system that encompasses the Casino’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. The new integrated system provides Casino management with increased search functionality, enabling quicker and more proactive response to incidents.
IQinVision, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.,a provider of high definition (HD) megapixel IP cameras, announced it signed an agreement with Tri·Ed /Northern Video, Woodbury, N.Y.,to join the ranks of IQinVision distribution partners. The agreement designates Tri·Ed / Northern Video, an independent security distributor providing CCTV, IP, access control, fire, intrusion, sound, communications, structured cable and home automation products, as one of IQinVision’s distinguished North American distribution partners.