Tim A. Scally

Trends toward increasingly detailed forensic search capabilities offer quicker and more accurate results for users and integrators.

With multiple methods of storing and retrieving video available, security integrators can carefully craft a plan and choose the best storage methods based on their customers’ needs.

With AI, converging fields, increased stress on data centers and changing protocols, the fire alarm industry is being called on to integrate more systems and technology into fire detection. Here are some trends in fire detection and some of the new products designed to meet the challenges.

A changing technological landscape and an evolving customer base means a security industry in flux. While this reality presents undeniable challenges, it also opens the door to a great deal of opportunity.

With possible shifts in the industry over the past year or so, slowing sales and acquisitions aren’t necessarily cause for alarm, but they should be cause for wise planning and awareness.

The video surveillance market is strong and will continue to grow. It is less a lumbering giant, though, and more an agile athlete, able to pivot and adapt — it just happens to be the largest one on the security court.

Thanks to decades of AI villains in the movies, and technology leaders who tend to hyperbolize the dangers of AI, some fear that artificial intelligence is a threat to humanity — but is it?

Last September, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated, “Whoever becomes the leader in [artificial intelligence] will become the ruler of the world.” While not everyone finds the Russians completely trustworthy with regard to foreign intelligence, there is no denying that artificial intelligence is the next great frontier in which companies are racing to stake a claim.

Electric Guard Dog, SDM’s 2016 Dealer of the Year, named Mark Wesley its CEO, as Jack DeMao steps down from the role. 

Customers of Perennial Software’s AlarmBiller and SedonaOne cloud-based management applications were without access to the systems for several days beginning the weekend of July 14 due to a cyber attack.