Visitors to Tampa, Florida’s MacDill Air Force Base the weekend of March 19 and 20 were treated to displays of some of the most sophisticated aircraft in use by the United States Armed Forces as well as the most daring stunt flying they are likely to see in their lifetimes as the base’s annual AirFest air show returned for the first time since 2014. What attendees may not have noticed was the advanced security technology helping to keep them safe during the show’s two-day run. At AirFest 2016, the cornerstone of MacDill’s security was Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) technology from Oldsmar’s PlateSmart. Technologies. PlateSmart worked in partnership with integrator Sentry View Systems of Melbourne, Fla.
Littleton Public Schools (LPS), in Colorado, continue to roll out new cameras and 3xLOGIC hybrid NVRs as they move toward their ambitious goal of creating a district-wide, comprehensive Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) system. Upon completion, the new system will oversee and coordinate security for approximately 15,000 students and staff at LPS’ 28 school and administrative buildings.
Middle Atlantic Products announced that the Configurator, its Web-based configuration tool, was the program behind planning the large-scale A/V installation at the Marine Corps University (MCU) in Quantico, Va. Integrator Karcher Group used the tool to design the control system racks needed throughout the new building, saving critical installation time.
Hikvision USA has partnered with the Sunset Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to provide a security solution for round-the-clock surveillance. Located on the bustling Sunset Strip, the hotel had a great need for versatile, user-friendly cameras and recorders that allowed their staff to keep an eye on the premises at all times. A variety of Hikvision models now protect the hotel guests and serve as powerful tools to keep hotel operations running smoothly.
Lafayette Locksmith and Security in Lafayette, La. traditionally focused on door locks and locksmith activities, but last fall Joel Broussard, vice president of operations, and Brian Lavelle, security operations manager, found a product offering they believed could not only solve problems for their multi-tenant housing clients, but also potentially open up a whole new business opportunity for the company.
For Thomas Marino, president of Advanced Technologies, Baton Rouge, La., “green” projects were nothing new. He had done projects that involved low-power, solar or other green elements. But when he ran into local attorney Joe Simmons at a trade show, the extremely environmentally conscious lawyer asked him to do the security and home automation for the custom home he was building. The home was new construction in a community of older homes and would feature as many green elements as possible, from the material in the countertops to the security and audio elements.
S.E.A.L. selected SentryVMS as the video management platform to support its redesigned fleet of mobile security and surveillance trailers. The company’s mobile security camera trailers feature up to six high resolution PTZ cameras on a telescoping mount that transmit video via cellular 4G back to S.E.A.L.’s central command and live monitoring center. S.E.A.L. Security offers mobile security trailers in electric and solar self-contained systems.
Celebrating more than 100 years in the community, Wayne Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro, N.C., serves patients from some nine surrounding cities and other locations across Wayne County, and is home to many distinguished physicians, advanced technologies and innovative treatments.
OpenEye Web Services (OWS) is a powerful Web-enabled video management platform that improves operational efficiency and drives value across the entire organization, the company stated.