At the 15^th annual Milestone Integration Platform Symposium (MIPS), held at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas February 17-19, Milestone sought to drive home a singular message, which was also the tagline for the event: The Power of Open. With a variety of general and breakout sessions — including keynotes by not one but two noted futurists — the company debuted some big news as well as discussed the future roadmap for both products and the larger scale trends, particularly cloud.

OpenEye, a provider of cloud managed video surveillance solutions, announced the integration of its OpenEye Web Services (OWS) cloud managed video platform with SureView Systems’ Immix Central Station software. This cloud-to-cloud integration provides video verification of alarm events transmitted to the central station from an alarm panel or events raised by OpenEye recorders such as video loss or video analytics.

AJ’s Cleaners is a Charlotte, N.C.-based family-run, premier in-house dry cleaning delivery service, founded in 1988. AJs Cleaners has three locations, 20 employees and daily deliveries from all locations. To help protect their business, monitor security concerns and ensure a high degree of positive customer experiences, they needed a reliable, easy to use surveillance solution.

Avigilon Corporation, a Motorola Solutions company, announced that Avigilon Blue, its cloud platform for video surveillance, is launching in Canada.

Paxton announced that its cloud-based access control solution, Paxton BLU now integrates with Ivideon, a cloud-based video surveillance company.

Eagle Eye Networks and Arecont Vision Costar announced a partnership for supporting next generation Arecont Vision MegaIP cameras on the Eagle Eye Cloud VMS.  

Arcules, provider of video cloud internet of things (IoT) as a service technology, announced the launch of the Arcules platform at Google Cloud Next. The Arcules Intelligent Video Cloud platform aggregates and analyzes previously untapped video surveillance and IoT sensor data, identifies trends in that data and applies predictive analytics to help businesses optimize operations and improve safety. Using the Arcules solution, businesses can access these insights anywhere and from any device in a streamlined, centralized platform, and quickly scale the solution without the burden of additional maintenance or hardware.

Digital Watchdog, provider of digital recorders, surveillance cameras and related management software, and Connected Technologies LLC, provider of a powerful cloud-hosted security management interface, announced the release of the DW Spectrum integration with Connect ONE.

Avigilon Corporation announced that Avigilon Blue, its new integrator cloud service platform, is now available for order.