Bosch had plenty to talk about at its press conference at The 2013 International CES®. Among power tools, thermotechnology, home appliances, automotive technologies, software developments, and much more, security was also emphasized, as Bosch expanded its intrusion portfolio with B Series Control Panels.
A security dealer provided a widow in Virginia Beach, Va. with an alarm system and peace of mind after finding out she had been sleeping with a hatchet under her pillow since a burglar stole her gun in late November.
There has been an avalanche of media material regarding the Navy Seals after their successful mission against Osama Bin Laden. Tell-all books, movies and television shows have been presenting America’s elite warriors, with details regarding their missions and training activities. I’ve read or watched them all, mostly while sitting at Midway Airport waiting for my next flight out of town.
C24 Interactive, a brand within Connect24, which is part of Tyco Security Products, is available at central stations, providing installing dealers with an interactive life safety and lifestyle service solution to offer customers.
AES-IntelliNet (AES), a division of AES Corp., Peabody, Mass., announced a technology partnership with ipDatatel Inc., of Sugar Land, Texas, to deliver integrated smartphone and Web-based interactive services integrated with its mesh radio communication subscribers.
A just-released report from IMS Research, Wellingborough, U.K., predicts that the security systems market in the Americas will grow at an average rate of 7 percent per year to more than $30 billion by 2016.
Kantech, a brand of Tyco Security Products, released the Intevo, which is an easy-to-deploy, integrated security platform that is designed to be up and running in minimal time. Intevo includes a customized dashboard for easy system management.
Keeping watch over the newly constructed Twin Sails Bridge in the small town of Poole, on the south coast of England, are six Bosch Security Systems cameras, monitoring all who pass —whether by vehicle, by foot or even by boat passing below the bridge’s deck.
Understanding the speed, distance, and bandwidth requirements of today’s sophisticated security networks requires a leap in understanding of complex integration of hardware, firmware and software.
As video surveillance continues its shift away from legacy analog systems to IP, there is a corresponding shift in the types of transmission equipment and technologies that are necessary. In other words, there are several different roads video can travel to get from “there” (the camera) to “here” (the head-end).