Phoenix, Ariz., the sixth largest city in the United States, has 1,097 intersections with traffic signals, and the number is growing. With 96 of these signalized intersections using closed circuit surveillance cameras installed to monitor traffic, VIVOTEK cameras account for 88 of the intersections with the completion of a project in October 2011.
At ISC West last week, Samsung Techwin and Intelligent Security Systems (ISS) jointly exhibited an integrated video surveillance system that combines Samsung’s video surveillance cameras and devices and ISS video management services (VMS) and image analytics.
OzVision and Schneider Electric signed a strategic marketing and distribution agreement to provide U.S. businesses with comprehensive Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) solutions. The agreement was signed in January 2012 and announced last week during ISC West.
Video surveillance, for all its clear benefits, comes with its equal share of barriers: storage limitations, image quality and resolution demands, price concerns, a painfully absent ease-of-use. There’s a whole list.
By virtualizing Cisco Video Surveillance software, available on Cisco’s Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS™) platform, Cisco is providing significantly improved levels of performance, scalability, agility and manageability.
Axis Communications’ AXIS P13 and AXIS Q16 Series products are the company’s first network cameras to be UL listed under the 60950 standard for IT equipment, the company reported. All other IP cameras in the Axis portfolio will be UL listed in 2012, joining the company’s encoder, Power over Ethernet (PoE) midspan, PoE splitter and power source portfolios, which also hold UL certifications.
With new technologies making security cameras more affordable and flexible, home surveillance systems are changing. Installations and placement don’t look the same as they did years ago, though some of the dealer concerns such as privacy, wiring and lighting optimization remain. Security dealers talked to SDM eNews about how an evolving technology landscape is changing the way cameras are installed in a home and opening up new markets.
It’s a $38 billion a year business. It’s a residential community of 2.3 million men, women and children, with a population gain of more than 500 percent over the past thirty years. There are bedrooms, dayrooms, exercise rooms, hospital facilities and even gardens.
Cars and car parts are hot items for thieves, leaving a car dealer’s inventory especially vulnerable. Sophisticated thieves know how to circumvent security systems to quickly strip or steal them. Vera Cadillac, a dealer in Pembroke Pines, Fla., wanted to combat this threat with an improved security system.