CEDIA announced that John Penney, executive vice president of consumer business development and strategic partnerships for 20th Century Fox will deliver the 2018 CEDIA Expo Keynote. Penney’s keynote will focus on how the proliferation of direct-to-consumer services in tandem with the powerful hand of human and machine-based personalization will accelerate change in the content and distribution landscape and bring about business opportunities for integrators.
ADS Security (ADS), a regional security and automation company headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., and ranked No. 19 on the SDM 100, acquired the customer accounts of Alarm One Inc. in Columbus, Miss. This marks the third acquisition for ADS in 2018 and the 26th acquisition since 2014. The newly acquired accounts will be serviced by ADS Security’s existing branch in Columbus, Miss.
ASSA ABLOY Electronic Security Hardware’s Securitron M680E Magnalock with EcoMag Technology was awarded the 2018 Green GOOD DESIGN Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, in the Green Product/Graphic Design category.
This week, the Electronic Security Association’s National Training School launched its new Online Instructor Led Training (OILT) platform providing synchronous online training to its customers. ESA has been a front-runner when it comes to offering online courses for the electronic security industry, and the association’s training school continues to evolve with this new and convenient delivery method.
It’s that time of year again when the door-to-door salespeople are out in force trying to spread the word about security services in their area, and once again ADT is spreading the word about fighting fraud and deceptive sales practices, teaming up this time with the Louisiana State Fire Marshal, the Better Business Bureau, TMA and ESA.
In the recent words of London police commissioner Cressida Dick, social media serves to “rev people up,” so the global push to crack down on extremist and violent internet content is unsurprising. In March, the European Commission demanded that tech firms remove terrorist posts within one hour of their appearance. Similar calls have come from corporations and commentators, alike. These forms of pressure are important but focused only on the problem of social media serving as a tool for spreading violent ideas and propaganda. Disturbingly, social media use itself may be predisposing individuals to commit terrorism, shootings and other forms of violence by impacting user behavior and well-being.
Ronald Walters has retired as director of the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) after a career that included work in law enforcement, corporate security, an alarm company owner and director of the Security Industry Alarm Coalition.
Until now, U.S. law enforcement has used facial recognition primarily for comparing still photos with mugshots from a database — that is until the ACLU discovered that the Orlando Police Department is testing Amazon’s facial recognition system “Rekognition.”
I-View Now, a software company that has been providing video verification services to central stations and end users since 2011, will be releasing its Police Alarm Portal video verification solution for law enforcement as an extension of its existing technology.
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