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As a property investor, Structure Capital aims to create buildings which combine form and function with a return on investment (ROI). To help achieve this, ‘it is important… to have a clear vision of every project.’ In the hotel and hospitality sector, this vision centers on harnessing modern technology to improve the design, functionality, and construction efficiency of the build. They adopt a strict approach to cost control and cost management, to ensure finished buildings...

Back in March 2020, the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) issued the following decision, citing Article 8 of the Grundgesetz, the German Constitution: In the case of peaceful assemblies, fixed position video surveillance systems for all participants must be deactivated in a manner that is visible at a distance. Since then, a growing number of German cities have begun relying on the Panomera® cameras with ‘data protection shutter’ from the...

Lumeo, a designer of computer vision solutions, has announced several key initiatives that serve to accelerate deployment of custom video analytics solutions by customers. First, Nvidia-powered devices - commercial-grade/ruggedized Advantech, and AIMobile Jetson and DGPU devices are available with Lumeo pre-installed for a smoother out-of-the-box deployment. Second, a partnership with Seneca, an Arrow Company, makes it easy for integrators and solution providers to procure these devices. Finall...

Lumeo, a designer of computer vision solutions, announces the integration of the Microsoft Azure Face Service with its ever-growing library of vision AI (Artificial Intelligence) models and analytics. The Azure Face Service provides AI algorithms that detect, recognize, and analyze human faces in images. Lumeo is an open and flexible video analytics platform that addresses the specific business challenge of bridging the latest AI models and techniques with a growing audience attempting to bring...

Lumeo, a designer of computer vision solutions, is pleased to welcome George Joseph to their expanding team as the Vice President of Engineering. George has an impressive professional history of building strong engineering and program management organizations. “George is a seasoned veteran with over 25 years of hands-on technical and managerial experience in cellular and mobile technologies. George comes to Lumeo with a track record of end-to-end product development, operations, and inter...

Lumeo, a globally renowned designer of computer vision solutions, is announcing new analytic building blocks that extend its innovative analytic platform, in order to enable customers to take the custom analytics solutions they build on the Lumeo platform and integrate them with VMS, data visualization, alerting, and central monitoring systems. This flexible and ready-to-use integration approach enables businesses to leverage existing infrastructure and harness the wealth of untapped data livin...

Paxton Access Inc. has updated its installer training offering for 2022, with a focus on in-person, hands-on sessions. Delivering free installer training has always been at the heart of Paxton’s business strategy. In fact, over 1400 installers participated in Paxton training sessions in 2021. 120 more installers registered for training just last week during ISC West. These hands-on sessions offer guidance on the installation of Paxton’s networked access control system Net2, as well...

Year 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of Dahua Technology’s independently developed HDCVI technology. For the past decade, this industry-renowned coaxial technology achieved several key technological breakthroughs, including Audio-over Coax, AI (Artificial Intelligence) functions, AI Coding, 4K Real-time, and Super Adapt. HDCVI TEN In 2022, Dahua Technology will launch its brand new HDCVI TEN that is equipped with AI-for-all, Scheduled AI, Smart Dual Illuminators and Real 5MP 16:9 technol...

Minister of State Hildegarde Naughton officially opened the new 500-staff capacity HID Global Centre of Excellence in Galway city. This new, state-of-the-art facility will increase efficiencies across HID’s EMEA business activities and give HID the capacity to triple its current headcount in Galway over the next three-to-five years. HID currently employs 250 people in Ireland, and that number is expected to reach 300 by year-end. Physical and digital access HID, a pioneer in trusted ide...

GTT Communications Inc. which is a cloud networking provider to multinational clients announced its partnership with Arc Solutions. By partnering with Arc Solutions, which provides integrated network solutions in the Middle East, GTT will be able to consolidate and expand its service reach across the Middle East. What forms the basis of this partnership is the network-to-network interconnect (NNI) between GTT’s global Tier 1 network and Arc Solutions’ Middle East network at the Data...

Royal Boon Edam International B.V. (Boon Edam) is proud to announce the appointment of Marc Giese as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Group, effective from 1st April 2022. Marc Giese has extensive experience in leading international industrial companies and has an impressive track record in organizing and developing pan-European structures for sales, services, and operations over the past 20 years. New Chief Executive Officer (CEO) appointed Niels Huber, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO...

Last week, a virtual open day was held to present the results of research into enabling the safe integration of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) in controlled airspace (PJ.13, Solution #117). The research is part of the activities of the SESAR/Horizon 2020 project, ERICA. ‘Remotely Piloted Aircraft’ (RPA) ‘Remotely Piloted Aircraft’ (RPA) is a specific set of unmanned aircraft, which is remotely operated by a pilot in a control station, hence the term - ‘R...

Businesses have always sought to lower their costs, increase productivity, and better serve their customers, but these goals have taken on increased importance in the last year. Organizations are cognizant of their expenses and are seeking to get the most out of their investments, including security solutions. For example, in the current environment, it is no longer sufficient to install video systems purely for security purposes, especially when they can do so much more to help businesses achi...

Can we finally relax a little and announce that the pandemic is nearing an end? With all the false starts and stops, it’s understandable if uncertainty continues to be the dominant force. The apprehension that ruled at every stage continues even as the pandemic (hopefully) ends. But what about ‘the new normal?’ How will the industry need to reinvent itself in the post-pandemic world? We asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: As the industry transitions back to in-pers...

G4S Secure Solutions UK (G4S Technology Ltd.), an Allied Universal company, has been awarded a £24 million contract with Magnox Ltd, which manages one of the largest nuclear reactor decommissioning programs in Europe. The new contract will see G4S providing security services for the nuclear Shared Service Alliance, a complex consortium comprising 21 sites across the UK. Commencing in March 2022 and lasting three years, G4S will be deploying 226 staff across the UK to provide security offi...

Redline Assured Security, a globally trusted security solutions provider and part of the Air Partner Services division, is adding Computed Tomography (CT) support to their highly popular cloud-based Threat Image Recognition Training system (TIRT). The combination of Redline’s successful TIRT program with full X-ray 3D volumetric CT functionality provides the most technically sophisticated and intuitive solution available. The training is specifically designed for the new generation o...

Videx, the UK’s door entry and access control manufacturer, has expanded its popular IP IPURE offering, introducing a new IP audio panel and IP video panel. Both the 4504X audio IP panel and 4534X video panel are fully compatible with the IPURE IP range which includes a 7” full multi-touch hands-free video monitor (6798), a 3.5” touch screen hands-free video monitor (6398), a 3.5” touch screen video phone with the handset (6296) and a 3000 Series audio telephone (3196)....

Interface Security Systems (Interface), a globally renowned managed service provider, delivering business security, managed network, UCaaS and business intelligence solutions to distributed enterprises, has announced an expanded suite of Personal Protection Monitoring services that use active RFID tags to protect infants from abduction, prevent mother/infant mismatches, and monitor memory care patients. Personal Protection Monitoring services Personal Protection Monitoring was first launched i...

LastPass, the pioneer in zero-knowledge password management, has announced the winners of its 2021 partner awards to display outstanding sales achievements and innovative performance. LastPass is pleased to be able to celebrate its global partners for their contributions in facilitating customers’ continued security across cloud apps, legacy apps, and VPN, which has proved crucial for businesses amid the shift to hybrid work during the last few years. This year’s winners were selec...

Salford City Council has experienced a wealth of recent success using Hikvision’s IP cameras, to the extent that it has been standardizing Hikvision cameras across its public space surveillance network of 109 cameras. So, when the chance arose to upgrade to a brand new 4K Smart PTZ camera, the Council jumped at it. The results, including increased viewing distances and image quality without a major impact on bandwidth, have been remarkable and could revolutionize the way Salford uses CCTV...

The City of Salford in England’s northwest is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester and includes Salford itself as well as the towns of Eccles, Swinton and Pendlebury, Walkden, and Irlam. More than 218,000 people live in the City, and Salford City Council and its partners fund 130 public space CCTV cameras that cover eight neighborhoods. The CCTV cameras are monitored at a central control room located at Salford Civic Centre. This control room is linked to police radios so staff is...

Cities all over the world are looking at ways to reduce and manage crime levels. One such city, Mennecy, turned to installer Ibson for a solution, who then installed Hikvision cameras and equipment. Challenge The city of Mennecy lies to the southeast of Paris, in the Essonne department of France. It has a population of around 14,500, and its Mayor, Jean-Phillipe Dugoin-Clément wanted to take steps to make his city safer, both for these residents and visitors. They had already identified...

Iris ID, which has been for more than 20 years now, the globally renowned company in iris recognition technology, announced the appointment of Abraham Peniche as the company’s new Latin America Regional Sales Manager. Abraham Peniche joins the company with 23 years of industry experience, with global major market leaders in electronic security. He is responsible for increasing sales and building customer relations throughout the regions of Mexico, Central and South America. New Latin Ame...

Sift, the pioneer in Digital Trust & Safety announced that it is integrating the technology from Keyless, the passwordless and Multifactor Authentication (MFA) pioneer, into Sift’s core platform to provide businesses with unmatched consumer accounts security. The integration with Keyless, which Sift acquired in November 2021, adds MFA step-up authentication as an option directly within the Sift Connect App Gallery so that consumers can authenticate by simply looking int...

Rapid7, Inc., a globally renowned provider of security visibility, analytics, and automation, has announced new cloud workload protection capabilities for InsightCloudSec, the company’s fully-integrated cloud-native security platform (CNSP). These enhancements, which include native vulnerability assessment for container and Kubernetes environments, leverage Rapid7’s proven, industry-renowned vulnerability assessment technology, which is delivered via an agentless experience that is...

Zimperium, the mobile security platform purpose-built for enterprise environments announced it will be acquired for approximately $525 million by Liberty Strategic Capital, the private equity firm founded and led by former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin. With this investment, Liberty Strategic Capital will acquire a controlling interest in Zimperium and Secretary Mnuchin will chair the company’s Board of Directors. The investment will enable Zimperium to continue acceler...

Milestone is launching a new program for its resellers, system integrators, security specialists, and service providers to help them grow their business and achieve customer success. Designed with new incentives, resources, rewards, and support, it aims to empower its partners to drive growth and deliver top-performing video solutions for a wide-range of customers and industries. Milestone Systems announces new enhancements to its Partner Program that are designed to maximize partner success, h...

HID Global, a worldwide pioneer in trusted identity solutions announced the OMNIKEY Secure Element that sets a new simplicity standard for reader manufacturers and others integrating RFID-based security technology into connected solutions. It supports applications in connected workplaces, healthcare environments, education campuses, office buildings, and more. Smarter, unified embedded and desktop product HID Global’s OMNIKEY Secure Element will succeed the iCLASS SE Processor and is th...

HID Global, a provider trusted identity solutions, announced the OMNIKEY Secure Element that sets a new simplicity standard for reader manufacturers and others integrating RFID-based security technology into connected solutions. It supports applications in connected workplaces, healthcare environments, education campuses, office buildings, and more. iCLASS SE Processor HID Global’s OMNIKEY Secure Element will succeed the iCLASS SE Processor and is the first step toward consolidating and...

Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced the launch of a new Lightweight Vehicle Surveillance System (LVSS) with revolutionary air domain awareness (ADA) and advanced counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities. The LVSS ADA C-UAS is an enhanced addition to Teledyne FLIR’s field-proven LVSS platform that features reliable, rapidly deployable, cutting-edge technology to detect and mitigate the growing threat of small drones. Easy threat detectio...