Promise Technology, a developer of open storage platforms for video surveillance, announced that its Vess A-Series Network Video Recorders (NVRs) are certified for use with Bosch Video Management System software (BVMS).

According to the Fall River, Mass., newspaper The Herald News, the city’s police department announced it would no longer be using the gunshot detection system ShotSpotter, which covered about three square miles in the Fall River.

Speco Technologies announced that they are proactively working with Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to obtain a UL 2900 certification for all of their video surveillance products and software.

Police officers in Chicago’s Waukegan Police Department are using Motorola Solutions’ S1500 body cams, which, according to an article in Engadget, may soon be employing artificial intelligence to help officers identify objects and missing people.

The San Francisco public metro system BART has stirred up some controversy with its explanation for why it ended its practice of releasing video surveillance of crimed committed on board the trains. 

Assembly Bill 748 from Assemblyman Phil Tang (D- San Francisco) would significantly expand public access to footage from police body-worn cameras from shootings and other public interest cases, according to the Los Angeles Times. 

Conditions could not be more challenging than in Borneo’s tropical rainforest, where temperatures reach up to +30 degrees Celsius and humidity can be as high as 100 percent.

Cash Saver stores, located in Memphis, Tenn., have installed 3xLOGIC NVRs and upwards to 120 cameras in three of its four store locations.

Hikvision USA Inc., a North American provider of video surveillance products and solutions, received the Koorsen Fire & Security Circle of Excellence Award.

Vicon Industries introduced a new line of 6MP and 12MP panoramic cameras with fisheye lens.