After canceling the 2020 conference and delivering a portion of the conference online, ESX — sponsored by the Electronic Security Association (ESA) — made a triumphant return in a fully virtual format, presenting education sessions and panels June 15-17.
The Baltimore City Council voted on June 8 to approve what would be the most extreme ban by a local jurisdiction on personal and business applications of facial recognition technology.
The pandemic has brought changes for wholesale central stations. UL has temporarily allowed central station operators to work from home, provided certain requirements were met; and multiple wholesale central stations chose that option — others went a different route.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao announced that the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Integration Pilot Program (IPP), including the initiative in North Dakota, will begin its transition to a permanent program.
ONVIF, the global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, announced that its Export File Format, the ONVIF specification for the export of video from security surveillance recording platforms, is the new standard recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the exporting and playback of video surveillance recordings.
Berk-Tek, a Nexans company and manufacturer of network infrastructure solutions, has joined forces with Cree Lighting and Transition Networks to provide a complete end-to-end solution for the smart building’s utility LAN (uLAN).
Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken our industry to a whole new level, becoming a force multiplier for video monitoring by filtering out false alarms.
It’s a new world for security intercoms. Make sure you are taking advantage of the latest and greatest capabilities and communicating those to end users.
Today’s intercom solutions are not the same as in the past. With technological advances including IP, PoE, networking and mobile, these technologies are truly part of a fully integrated security solution and should be presented, sold and installed accordingly.
As solutions improve, integrators face decisions about when and how to deploy these technologies to provide additional benefits to their customers and generate all-important RMR.