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For the full picture, you can also read the other blogs in this series by Wentworth’s Charles Hotchkiss and student Joshua Ramirez.

Think Outside of the Box, Look Inside the Camera

Part One in a Three-Part Blog Series: Axis and Wentworth Team Up — Perspectives on Innovation
Robert Muehlbauer
June 13, 2013
When trying to solve difficult problems, it’s always good to think outside the box. For Boston’s Wentworth Institute of Technology, thinking outside of the box means looking inside the camera.
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For the full picture, you can also read the other blogs in this series by Wentworth’s Charles Hotchkiss and Axis’ Robert Muehlbauer.

Alibi

Part Two in a Three-Part Blog Series: Axis and Wentworth Team Up — Perspectives on Innovation
Joshua Ramirez
June 13, 2013
As I walked into the studio, the technology director gave me a concerned look, and mused: "People haven't been checking into the studio."
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For the full picture, you can also read the other blogs in this series by Axis’ Robert Muehlbauer and Wentworth student Joshua Ramirez.

Win-Win Collaboration

Part Three in a Three-Part Blog Series: Axis and Wentworth Team Up - Perspectives on Innovation
Chuck Hotchkiss
June 13, 2013
The collaboration between Axis Communications, Chelmsford, Mass., and Boston’s Wentworth Institute of Technology began, as so many collaborations do, with a personal connection: Rob Muehlbauer of Axis and Annamaria Wenner, Wentworth’s dean of students, have been friends since the days when Annamaria lived in Rob’s building in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood.
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Standing With Boston & Proud of Our Industry

April 18, 2013

We deeply empathize with the people of Boston in their losses, and we hold in high esteem the people who acted heroically to help the injured following the Monday bombings at the Boston Marathon. Besides these heroes, the only brightness in all of this despair is the detection — and hopefully the eventual identification — of a suspect, enabled by “promising images” from a department store surveillance camera mounted atop a building: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/51575894/#51575894.

 


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Sustainable Solar Savings

Nathan Leaphart
April 18, 2013
As the chief financial officer at Electric Guard Dog, a company that has been one of the original pioneers in renewable energy for the security industry, I’ve studied our system for the cost/benefit ratio of our investment in solar power in detail.
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