Video surveillance, for all its clear benefits, comes with its equal share of barriers: storage limitations, image quality and resolution demands, price concerns, a painfully absent ease-of-use. There’s a whole list.
This year the alarm industry is increasingly unshackled from landlines and high costs, buoyed by end user demand for remote/interactive services, and up against more competition.
Every new year always starts off with speculation. The interpretation of several noticeable changes impacting the alarm industry in 2012 depends on whether one subscribes to the philosophy of “glass half empty” or “glass half full.” What do you think as you read through the following list?
The focus on fire protection and mass communication is stronger than ever, providing opportunities in 2011 and helping shift the fire industry ‘from neutral to positive.’
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude quake hit northeastern Japan, triggering a tsunami with 10-meter-high waves that reached all the way to the U.S. West Coast.
There’s so much happening in the video surveillance market in 2011. From A (analytics) to Z (zettabytes), continued advancement in key areas means the best video has to offer just keeps getting better.
There’s so much happening in the video surveillance market in 2011. From A (analytics) to Z (zettabytes), continued advancement in key areas means the best video has to offer just keeps getting better.
The recession may be on its way out, but the confidence level among SDM’s subscribers hasn’t returned to the fire protection market. The majority of dealers who participated in SDM’s
Visitor management kiosks such as this one can be used to easily manage visitor traffic in any size office.About one-third of dealers and integrators who participated in SDM’s 2010 Forecast
IP-based video management systems give security officers the tools they need to be more productive and efficient and equip them to do more in less time.While the number of SDM’s
Before the recession, 6 out of 10 dealers and integrators saw the market as excellent/very good. Today, only 3 out of 10 see the market that way.The reality of change
Luis Ortiz, part of Fire-Lite’s Technical Services Department, tests an ACC-25/50ZS voice evacuation panel.For the second year in a row, the confidence level fell among SDM’s subscribers about the vigor
Although the security business is holding up better than other parts of the economy today, one area that is more challenged than others is access control. Five out of