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The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) advises the world on the latest information and data regarding cancer prevention. The organization funds research on the relationship of nutrition, physical activity, and weight management to cancer risk. AICR then educates people worldwide about choices they can make to reduce their chances of developing cancer. Challenge to install IP voice solution Forward-thinking puts the American Institute for Cancer Research on the leading edge of cance...

Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort is a full-service entertainment venue near Mount Pleasant, Michigan, owned and operated by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Nation. The casino was relying on analog surveillance equipment that was becoming a security risk to the business. After growing concerns of reliability, failing devices, and low-quality video recordings, the casino decided it was time to modernize surveillance with an IP camera system. The complexity of IP systems Soaring Eagle Casino wanted t...

Punto Sur is a shopping center located in Guadalajara, Mexico. However, it is much more than a typical shopping center. Punto Sur’s “Lifestyle Boulevard” is an urban and open entertainment center with shops, restaurants, hotels, and beautiful outdoor areas. Due to its vibrant and comfortable entertainment spaces, Punto Sur hosts many events that bring the surrounding community together. Punto Sur even has a large hall called the Balcony, where the community can host weddings,...

Glenn Fletcher has returned to NVT Phybridge as Director of Sales for the European region. Mr. Fletcher will provide leadership to the European Sales team while continuing to bring value to partners and customers. Prior to his leave of absence in January of 2019, Mr. Fletcher was instrumental in leading his sales team to success and growing revenues in the EMEA region. Under Mr. Fletcher’s leadership, the EMEA sales team worked on several major digital transformation projects for UK Rail,...

McKinney ISD relied on an aging analog phone system that was out-of-date, end-of-life, and no longer supported. The school district wanted to upgrade to an IP communication solution across 37 separate buildings. The school board already had a Fiber backbone that connected each of the buildings. However, the IP devices would also need power, meaning every classroom would require an MDF closet. This solution was not viable due to high costs, network complexity, network security, and safety concer...

One of the world’s largest food companies was relying on an analog communication system that could no longer keep up with the company’s needs. The organization wanted to modernize to IP. However, the company needed to overcome critical network readiness challenges to support a new IP voice solution. Changing the traditional LAN design  A CAT3 network infrastructure supported the existing analog phone system. Based on traditional LAN design thinking, the food company believed...

El Paseo South Gate is a large shopping center, located in South Gate, California. Guests visit to take advantage of the shopping, food, and entertainment amenities while enjoying the stunning modern architecture and large outdoor murals. El Paseo South Gate was relying on an analog surveillance system that was installed in the late ‘90s. The system was becoming increasingly unreliable and could no longer meet the organization’s modern-day security needs.  The center tried rep...

A Mexican correctional facility was relying on an outdated analog surveillance system that could no longer meet the growing demands of the prison.  The organization responsible for managing the prison decided it was time for an upgrade and wanted to modernize the facility with a new IP security solution.  The customer was interested in deploying IP cameras due to their enhanced video quality, better analytic capabilities, and overall improvement of security for staff, inmates, and th...

Hexadrone unveiled its first serial drone, the Tundra, a ruggedized, multi-functional, modular drone that will be industrially manufactured in a factory under construction in France. The Tundra uses ultra-rugged, miniature Fischer UltiMate™ and Fischer MiniMax™ connectivity solutions, able to withstand the harsh environments the drone may need to operate in. First French modular, multi-rotor drone Resulting from more than three years of development, the Tundra is the first French m...

The new FLEXIDOME IP starlight 8000i X series cameras offer enhanced image quality for low-light scenes and fast-moving objects, thanks to two resolution offerings of 2- or 4-megapixels and next-level HDR X and starlight X technologies. HDR X and Starlight X technologies HDR X enables the cameras to optimize video capture in scenes with fast-moving objects with a dynamic range up to 144 dB, ensuring perfect exposure, while reducing motion-related artefacts and blur in the daytime. The new Star...

As technology develops at an ever-faster rate, the possibilities for where and how new innovations can be used are endless. The property sector is one such area where new technology, such as smarter video surveillance, is being used to improve the quality of life for families and communities by increasing security as well as implementing changes based on new insights. Specifically for the coliving movement, cloud-based video surveillance is helping operators to improve the communal spaces for t...

SKIDATA, the globally renowned company in parking access and revenue management, has announced a new technology integration partnership with Openpath, an international company in touchless and modern access control, and workplace safety automation. SKIDATA – Openpath partnership Through this partnership, Openpath’s ground-breaking touchless and mobile access control technology will be integrated into SKIDATA’s parking access and revenue control equipment, in order to permit d...

Sepura launches SmartChat, a secure operational messaging solution that joins smartphone, tablet, and office-based staff with field officers equipped with TETRA terminals. SmartChat enables mission critical messages to be shared between users on a secure TETRA platform, enabling all members of the operational team to be kept informed and aware of developing intelligence. Crucially, SmartChat enables TETRA radio users to see and share text and image-based communications. It can be extended to mu...

Digital Barriers, a globally renowned provider of edge-intelligent surveillance and security technologies, reveals its collaboration with the Future Farms Cymru project, run by North Wales Police. Real-time surveillance solutions Digital Barriers has equipped a farm in North Wales with its real-time surveillance solutions, to demonstrate the role that sophisticated technologies can play in cutting the cost of rural crime, estimated by the National Farmers Union to have reached 54 million pound...

NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc. is pleased to introduce a new marketing tools portal for dealers/integrators, enabling them to market security services, upgrades, and new systems more easily. The portal offers free customizable mailers/statement stuffers security pros can download and printout or request free physical copies; customizable ready-made HTML emails & a library of high-res or web-ready downloadable photos (by division and product brand). Customizable marketing tools A large...

Genetec Inc., a globally renowned technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions, has announced that Reiknistofa bankanna (RB), an IT service provider for Icelandic financial institutions, has recently overhauled its security infrastructure with Genetec Security Center. Managing cameras With the help of its system integrator, Hafnes Ehf, Reiknistofa bankanna is now using Genetec to manage its cameras, access control and video analytics,...

A lockout/tagout padlock is often the last obstacle to prevent premature machine energization, and a potential maintenance accident with impact on professionals and on their personal lives. To strongly highlight that lockout/tagout padlocks protect people, Brady Corporation now offers PrintFace: a complete padlock personalization, up to printing coworkers' pictures directly on their padlocks. By printing a face on padlocks, each lockout/tagout padlock can clearly show who it is protecting. Prin...

ASIS International, the association for security management professionals, has opened registration for Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2021, a hybrid event taking place 27-29 September that will offer a digital experience on the GSX online platform as well as an in-person event at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando, FL. Online and digital experience “Building resilience among security professionals begins with knowledge, and GSX is where global security p...

Vectra AI, a pioneer in threat detection and response announced a $130 million round of funding led by funds managed by Blackstone Growth (BXG, “Blackstone Growth”). The investment will help fuel Vectra’s continued growth through platform innovation and expansion into new markets and geographies, solidifying its Cognito platform as a market-pioneering solution for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cloud security for threat detection and response.  Existing investors als...

The Security Executive Council (SEC) welcomes Tom Bello, Coral Gehring, Matthew Giese, and Tom Mahlik to its faculty of esteemed security experts. SEC subject matter experts and emeritus faculty (former CSOs and CISOs) have excelled in their careers and are eager to transfer their knowledge and competencies to other security pioneers. About Tom Bello Tom Bello (emeritus faculty) is senior risk management and global security professional with 38 years of combined experience in federal law enfo...

The topic of video analytics has been talked and written about for decades, and yet is still one of the cutting-edge themes in the physical security industry. Some say yesterday’s analytics systems tended to overpromise and underdeliver, and there are still some skeptics. However, newer technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are reinvigorating the sector and enabling it to finally live up to its promise. We asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: What new technologies a...

Sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT has received an order from Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) worth nearly 75 million euros to equip the Royal Netherlands Army's ‘Fennek’ armored reconnaissance vehicles with visual systems. The scope of the order includes 188 BAA II NL observation and reconnaissance systems as well as a number of spare parts. “Our optronic solutions combine sensors from different technologies to provide armored vehicle crews with an excellent situational awareness...

Egnyte, the unified content security, compliance, and collaboration solution for multicloud businesses, announces new governance tools and services aimed at helping mid-market IT organizations improve their data security and compliance competence. The new capabilities provide actionable intelligence that will not only prioritize risks but also recommend solutions and implement automated safeguards to improve security and compliance around mid-market companies’ most vulnerable data –...

Agent Vi’s AI-Powered video analytics software platform- innoVi is seamlessly integrated and embedded within Milestone’s XProtect video recording and management platform, enabling end-users to operate through a single client application.  The integration allows customers to receive, display and manage events of interest in real-time from multiple video sources. The events are then sent as alarms to Milestone’s XProtect Smart Client.  Through the innoVi- XProtect int...

BIRD Aerosystems, the developer of Airborne Missile Protection Systems (AMPS) and Airborne Surveillance, Information, and Observation (ASIO) solutions, announced the opening of an office in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as part of the expansion of its activities in the Latin American market. The company already has offices across the world, including Israel, the USA, Cyprus, and Switzerland, and is currently establishing another office in Singapore. Attaining local presence The new office in Argen...

ASSA ABLOY Group brands Corbin Russwin and SARGENT announce the release of their highly anticipated premium bored lock that is certified to surpass ANSI/BHMA Grade 1 requirements, making it ideal for use in some of the most challenging environments.  Marketed as the Corbin Russwin CLX3300 Series and SARGENT 10X Line, the lock offers superior vandalism resistance as evidenced when it successfully maintained egress in the face of more than 3,100 in-lb. locked lever t...

Security stakes are high at healthcare premises. Patients expect and deserve privacy and safety. Yet, most medical buildings must remain welcoming spaces, many open around the clock. The protection of drugs and confidential data is critical, and every breach demands thorough investigation. Such needs go way beyond what mechanical security was designed to meet. Real-time control and monitoring Hospitals, for example, are often large and spread out. Their locks may need to integrate with fire de...

The Annual Fraud Indicator estimates that fraud costs the United Kingdom approximately £190 billion every year. The private sector is hit the hardest and loses around £140 billion a year, while the public sector loses more than £40 billion, and individuals lose roughly £7 billion. The effects of fraud can be devastating on both individuals and organizations. Companies can suffer irreversible damage to reputation and be forced to close, and individuals can experience sign...

Johnson Controls, a smart, healthy, and sustainable building, and architect of the OpenBlue digital platforms has announced the introduction of eight additions to its popular Tyco Illustra Flex camera series. High performance and safety With enhanced image processing, improved low-light capability, and secure trunk protection against cyber-attacks, the new NDAA compliant Illustra Flex Gen3 cameras are designed to provide high performance, cost-effective solutions for virtually any video survei...

Calipsa, a provider of deep-learning powered video analytics for false alarm reduction, announces the compatibility of its false alarm reduction platform with Milestone Systems' XProtect corporate VMS designed for use by organizations such as airports and train terminals. XProtect corporate's enterprise users deploy large numbers of cameras and will benefit from Calipsa's 90 percent false alarm reduction rate. Alarm reduction platform When XProtect corporate receives an alarm from a connected...