The Senate passed a defense spending bill June 18 that does not include a ban on certain Chinese camera manufacturers, including Hikvision and Dahua, as the House version did; however, a final bill will have to be passed by both chambers reconciling the two bills and then signed by President Trump. Whether this final bill includes the Chinese camera ban remains to be seen.
March Networks, a global provider of intelligent video solutions, announced it was one of the first companies in Canada to become Cyber Essentials Canada certified, designating it as a cybersecure business.
ASSA ABLOY Electronic Security Hardware’s Securitron M680E Magnalock with EcoMag Technology was awarded the 2018 Green GOOD DESIGN Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, in the Green Product/Graphic Design category.
Micro Key Solutions and CHeKT are completed and successful deployed the integration between the Micro Key Solutions Monitoring platform and video monitoring from CHeKT. This seamless integration fully enables monitoring centers powered by Micro Key Solutions to leverage video verification from CHeKT with no additional software or equipment needed.
The Security Industry Association announced winners of the SIA New Product Showcase Awards Program. Winners were recognized on stage at ISC West 2018, North America’s largest security tradeshow, and IPConfigure took top honors as Best in Show.
Sigma Designs, a provider of intelligent system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for connected smart home IoT, announced a cumulative lifetime 100 million Z-Wave modules have shipped into the smart home market. Sigma Designs announced that the recipient of the 100 millionth module was the smart home service provider and long-time customer of Sigma Designs, Vivint Smart Home.
IDIS returned to ISC West in Las Vegas for the company’s first U.S. tradeshow appearance following the conclusion of the company’s year-long 20th Anniversary celebration, “Two Decades of Innovation,” with plans to highlight the IDIS technological offerings set to define the start of its next 20 years of innovation.
In our annual green report, SDM profiles security companies reducing their carbon footprints and working toward creating a cleaner environment.
April 6, 2018
Security dealers and integrators use a lot of paper: invoices, work orders, requests for proposals (RFPs), schedules, plans and revisions. Not only can that result in hundreds of thousands of printed pages each year, but paper can get misplaced. Focusing on paper reduction can reduce a company’s municipal solid waste (MSW) and increase efficiency.