Working with a customer is the best way to determine the mechanical access control and video surveillance needs of a facility.Although each job is different and cookie-cutter approaches are discouraged

With a printer, digital camera and software, an ID card can be produced while the subject waits, such as with this printer from Ultra Electronics Card Systems, Redmond, Wash.ID cards

Will customers continue to see the benefit in professional security monitoring when they can see what is happening at a location through the Internet? It is up to the security

Wireless mesh nodes from Firetide Inc., Los Gatos, Calif., are configured and placed into enclosures as part of a deployment for the Dallas Police Department.Like the Internet, mesh networks use

Rod Motta, US Relay’s marketing director, shows off a Web site from which his company is streaming live video.Approximately three-and-a-half years ago, US Relay Corp., San Diego, was formed to

In retail, domes can provide high security with or without being conspicuous.Domes can be used for a birds-eye view with wires to stabilize the image.When illegal activity is suspected, a

Flush-mount smoke detectors are used in the ceiling of the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium.This flush-mount smoke detector uses light that is not in the visible range

Nat Aryucharoen, CCNA, system support specialist, configures the video security system in the lab of Tech Systems Inc., Duluth, Ga.Tech Systems Inc., Duluth, Ga., has become the fourth security systems

The software Cisco Systems will obtain at its headquarters in San Jose, Calif., in its definitive agreement to acquire BroadWare Technologies, Santa Clara, Calif., will enable Web-based monitoring, management, recording

New video cables like HDMI from Monster Cable Products Inc., Brisbane, Calif., are changing the residential video wiring landscape. HDMI cable is designed to provide high-definition, uncompressed video to components