Enterprise Ireland, the Irish government agency for the promotion of international trade by Irish companies, announced the opening of a new Chicago operations center by client company Netwatch. The new office will be based on North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, and will employ five people with plans to grow to 15 employees over the next 18 months.
Hikvision USA Inc. and Hikvision Canada Inc. director of marketing Alex Asnovich has been named one of the World’s Most Influential CMOs 2017 by Forbes Magazine.
A University of California, Santa Barbara, study demonstrated how unmanned aerial vehicles can use safe, everyday Wi-Fi signals to provide through-wall 3D imaging of unknown areas, including moving or stationary objects.
Pelco by Schneider Electric introduced the VideoXpert Professional, which is designed to make implementing professional video management systems for small and medium business applications more convenient and economically practical.
Eagle Eye Networks Inc. has acquired Panasonic Cloud Management Services Europe B.V. (PCMSEU), makers of Panasonic CameraManager and Panasonic Nubo. PCMSEU operated the largest number of cloud recorded cameras in Europe.
Camcloud has written a blogpost describing an upcoming demo planned for ESX. Camcloud says in the post that the VSaaS solution “revolutionizes how Hanwha Techwin cameras can be configured for the cloud,” allowing end users and dealers to deploy cloud cameras from the Camcloud mobile app and ensuring that all Hanwha Techwin cameras are auto-discovered on the network.
An article on Slate.com said that police in South Wales have been the first in the UK to use automatic facial recognition (AFR) technology to identify and arrest a suspect on May 31.
Nest Labs Inc. announced the Nest Cam IQ indoor security camera, which can differentiate between animals and people and track movement while sending alerts about who is in the house.
As facial recognition technology continues to increase in popularity, a rising trend is programming them to recognize emotions, age, gender and criminal tendencies, according to an article in Vocative, a media outlet that says it monitors the Deep Web to reveal hidden voices, emerging trends and surprising data.
The primary thing for security integrators to know about today’s video management systems (VMS) can be summed up in just a few words: these solutions are no longer commodities, but have evolved into fully functional business and security management hubs.
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