Articles Tagged with ''security integrators''

How often do you work with architects, builders and interior designers? Often it is hard to explain how different technologies will impact a project. Working with your industry partners in the planning stages of a project just got easier.

The marketing madmen understand that a security integrator is not to be confused with a security dealer. When we first got started in the security industry we often got the proverbial slap on the wrist for referring to an integrator’s business as a security dealer. But after more than four years of dedicating our agency to the security industry, we’re proud to say we no longer get slapped for saying the wrong things.

Motivational writer Napoleon Hill wrote in his 1937 bestseller, Think and Grow Rich, that “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.” Fast-forward several decades and one could apply that same quote with a few liberties; for example, swap destiny, environment and life with the word “home” to describe what technology can do for the residential security market.

Advanced technologies combined with lower costs have made outdoor perimeter video more accessible for more end users. So while critical infrastructure assets, including electrical substations, refineries and petrochemical facilities, remain the highest-profile applications for outdoor perimeter video, there are more and more opportunities for a security integrator to take advantage of in other sectors, as well.

What is big data and how does it benefit you? If you are like many security integrators the subject of big data may barely be on your radar yet. However, looking to the future of the industry, it seems inevitable that as more and more devices become both smarter and more connected (think Internet of Things), the desire to do more than just sit on all of that information will prompt users to demand more from their security system, their integrator — and, increasingly, their data that may go way beyond the scope of “security” today.

Advantech has just released the AIIS-1240 and AIIS-1440, new PoE and USB3 camera controllers for vision inspection.

IPVideo Corporation, manufacturer of IP-based video surveillance and command center solutions, designed the CargoCam to serve as an ideal way to view and record HD surveillance video from within aircraft cargo bays.

The E-Series NVR merges powerful HD NVR and plug-and-play installation.