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In what the company’s president and CEO describes as an “opportunistic and synergistic” move, Avigilon Corp. acquired RedCloud Security Inc., combining Avigilon’s strength in HD and megapixel video with RedCloud’s Web-based physical and virtual access control systems.

As part of its overall security improvements, Radnor Township School District in Pennsylvania is using video intercoms from Aiphone Corp. at the main entrance of four of its schools — three elementary and one middle school.

As a full-service provider of identification and security solutions, Minnesota-based IdentiSys serves more than 28,000 customers in a diverse range of industries.

With the launch of its HID Trusted Tag Services Software Developer Kit (SDK), HID Global is driving an initiative for its partners to develop NFC Trusted Tag applications.

When integrators talk to end users about “convergence” of physical and logical access control, the nature of that conversation hinges on multiple factors. There is no single definition of what that term means, and a government office will have a very different need than, say, a university.

If anyone understands managed services, it’s an IT services company. Even so, when IT services provider Internap Network Services Corp. faced the unenviable task of quickly relocating 200 employees from downtown Atlanta to new suburban headquarters, using managed security services to streamline the move wasn’t originally considered.

The access control world abounds with the latest and greatest technology buzzwords: wireless; Power over Ethernet (PoE); near field communications (NFC); convergence; the cloud — to name just the top few. But are these the features end users are looking for in access control today? Are these the words integrators can use to close the sale?

HID Global, Booth 11049 — HID Global, Irvine, Calif., a worldwide provider of secure identity solutions, is demonstrating a comprehensive range of innovative solutions that drive customer empowerment at this year’s ISC West.

Ingersoll Rand, Booth 20029 — At ISC West, attendees will see how Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, Carmel, Ind., and members of the aptiQ Alliance Program have come together to create an ecosystem of applications that support aptiQ smart card technology.