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Designed primarily for traffic applications such as intersection monitoring, automatic incident detection, and facilitating data-driven decision-making, Traffic Detector helps distinguish and classify vehicles in congested scenes with precise detail including speeds, location, and color. It also can detect and count trucks, buses, motorcycles, bicycles, and people. network-based video analytics The new Traffic Detector software is founded on deep neural network-based video analytics that suppo...

YMCA Heart of England has upgraded video systems across its busy community facilities in Birmingham, Solihull, Rugby, and Coventry with a roll-out of end-to-end DirectIP technology from IDIS. Part of the international YMCA movement, YMCA Heart of England supports local people, including vulnerable groups, with services from housing to youth services. Need for end-to-end system Systems integrator Unison Integrated Technology was asked to replace YMCA’s poorly performing mix-and-match sys...

Roselle Catholic High School is a co-ed private high school founded 61 years ago in Roselle, New Jersey. Home to more than 400 students, Roselle Catholic is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. In its community, Roselle Catholic is known for its core values promoting academic excellence, service, and tolerance. Like many high schools across the country, Roselle Catholic High School relied on outdated technology to communicate between the front office and classrooms. Outdated inter...

Camden Door Controls, a pioneering provider of innovative, high quality door activation and locking products, is pleased to welcome two new U.S. Regional Sales Managers. Joining Camden are Jeffrey Hochstrate as Regional Sales Manager for the South Central/East, and Rick Hill as Regional Sales Manager for the North Central/East. Hochstrate brings over thirty years of experience in sales and marketing management within the Door & Hardware industry. In addition, his diverse leadership position...

Hikvision, a global pioneer in delivering high-performance professional security solutions with tremendous value, introduces the new DF8 Series of IR PTZ cameras, launching with three new models. An industry first, the DF8 PTZ Camera offers a 1/1.2-inch sensor with 4K resolution and 42x optical zoom lens to enable wide-area surveillance with crystal clear images, even in challenging lighting conditions. “We engineered the new DF8 Series DarkFighter cameras to deliver industry-leading leve...

Alcatraz AI, a pioneer in physical security technologies, will showcase its state-of-the-art product, the Rock, at ISC East (Booth 500). The security conference is taking place at the Javits Center in New York City on November 17-18, 2021. ISC East 2021, the largest annual converged security trade show, features training on security and public safety best practices while highlighting the latest technologies related to the safety sector. Alcatraz AI provides organizations with autonomous access...

Inner Range announced a new integration for its flagship system, Integriti, with global CCTV brand AXIS Communications. The new integration creates more choices for customers building bespoke security solutions. It also opens up new business opportunities for Inner Range via its parent firm, global distributor Anixter, which also sells AXIS products. The director at Inner Range, Tim Northwood, said, “Our enterprise-level intelligent access control system Integriti is designed to integra...

AnyVision announced today that the company will change its name to Oosto. The new name reflects the company’s evolution and vision for the future which is shaped, in part, by a new collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) CyLab Biometric Research Center. The CMU partnership will focus on early-stage research in object, body, and behavior recognition. Vision AI Oosto CEO, Avi Golan remarks, "Historically, the company has focused on security-related use cases for our wat...

One of India's most premier educational institutions, IIT Delhi, is sprawled over 325 acres of land. It houses classrooms, department buildings, laboratories, libraries, recreational zones, and residential areas for students, faculty, and other staff, among other things. Need for an intelligent surveillance system As expansive and beautifully landscaped the institute is, it presented a massive security challenge. Until now, its measures were limited to the campus being physically manned by sec...

In a surveillance monitoring context, video metadata refers to the structured details that the user can extract from given video footage. It is data that provides information about other data – a “data about data” in short. Human-based video metadata, as its name suggests, are data derived from human targets in the monitored scene. It can be utilized based on users’ requirements to significantly enhance the management and operation of various application scenarios, while...

Honeywell announces it was selected to lead the Bengaluru Safe City project under the Nirbhaya Fund by the Government of India’s Ministry of Home Affairs. The project aims to create a safe, secure, and empowering environment for women and girls in public places to enable them to pursue all opportunities without the threat of gender-based violence or harassment. The Bengaluru Safe City project is valued at INR 496.57 crore ($67 million USD). Advanced video analytics Honeywell will create...

Boosting efficiency through digitalization, almost no branch of industry can evade it. Also operators of press shops are increasingly networking their production. But, regardless of whether it’s a single press or press lines, it’s not always necessary to replace the entire plant, in order to stay up to date. Retrofitting existing lines, true to the principle of ‘sensible evolution instead of cost-intensive revolution’, is often the order of the day. With Visual Die Prote...

Four out of every ten (41%) of England-based medium and large-sized businesses which are running CCTV systems have already deployed facial recognition analytics in their systems to capture human faces and compare images to human face databases to identify matches for access control, event security, or for public safety purposes. One in six (16%) of CCTV system owners admitted to having access to this capability on their system but not yet going live with it. Over a third of CCTV system owners...

For dealers and integrators working with or looking to work with the cloud, 3xLOGIC is hosting a webinar Thursday, October, 28, at 2 p.m. ET to unveil a number of new features for its VIGIL CLOUD offering. Building on 3xLOGIC’s 20-plus years of experience recording and managing video, VIGIL CLOUD brings a new paradigm to physical security through a powerful case management system that empowers users to share critical information and insights easily and quickly with team members and other...

Konica Minolta Italia, already a MOBOTIX Gold Partner since 2019, will become an official distributor of MOBOTIX AG to combine the competencies of both companies, offering added value to the Italian market. The alliance between MOBOTIX and Konica Minolta will enable both companies to expand their offerings and develop new solutions for the market, thanks to a joint, organic, and structured approach to vertical markets. Video surveillance Konica Minolta's innovation and technical expertise, to...

SharpEagle recently featured in the top 10 list of regional and global brands that manufacture the best explosion-proof cameras, according to the consumption status for the period 2021-2026. SharpEagle is one of the ten brands featured in the list. While conducting the research, the team has analyzed the market thoroughly. Some major things that they considered include the market share, size, growth, dynamics, and prospects. They also analyzed the in-depth historical data of the explosion-proof...

Synectics releases a new ‘tech note’ exploring the benefits of cloud storage for enhancing security and surveillance operations. The guide focuses on hybrid cloud surveillance solutions which deliver maximum flexibility, allowing users to record, process, manage and store video and operational data on site, carry out these actions directly to the cloud, or seamlessly use a mix of both. Adopting cloud storage David Aindow, Business Development Director at Synectics, said: “Ha...

Alarm Man is one of the most trusted security solution providers that offer dedicated services in areas of North Carolina and has been the pioneer in the domain since its establishment in 1980. This family-owned and the locally based company offers state-of-the-art security systems to residential and business establishments alike. Hence, be it for fire alarms in Cary and Raleigh, North Carolina, or security and surveillance systems, Alarm Man of NC, is the most trusted name in the whole of Nort...

Ipsotek, an Atos company and a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence-powered video analytics, has announced the fulfillment of its contract with Sydney Trains, the operator of rail services across the metropolitan Sydney area, to increase security capabilities at 13 railway stations. Following a competitive tendering process, Ipsotek was selected by Sydney Trains, to deliver an AI-based video analytics solution. This has seen the train operator, Sydney Trains, integrate a range of Ipsotek’s...

Eagle Eye Networks., the global pioneer in cloud video surveillance announced a new Vehicle Surveillance Package for the Eagle Eye Cloud VMS. The Vehicle Surveillance Package (VSP) captures license plate and vehicle information received from distributed cameras and sends it to the cloud, where it’s analyzed, compared, alerted upon, and searched to deliver business intelligence that improves efficiency, effectiveness, and safety. The solution includes Eagle Eye Time Watch™, the indus...

Hikvision, a globally renowned company in delivering high-performance professional security solutions with tremendous value, offers an intelligent radar PTZ camera that combines advanced radar detection and a 4 MP high-resolution network speed dome, with long-range zoom capabilities. Hikvision's Radar PTZ camera The Hikvision iDS-2SR8141IXS-AB Radar PTZ Camera operates effectively 24/7, in virtually any weather or lighting condition, with the ability to detect intrusion and line-crossing event...

Patient falls in nursing homes are a serious problem. In the United States, for example, around 1,800 elderly people, living in nursing facilities, die each year from injuries related to falls, according to the Nursing Home Abuse Center. Those patients who survive their injuries often have a reduced quality of life and suffer some form of permanent disability. Rise in nursing home patient falls Figures show that between 50% and 75% of nursing home residents suffer falls each year, twice the c...

Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced the launch of the ION™ M640x tactical Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). The American-designed, developed, and manufactured UAS builds on the capabilities of the ION M440 (a Blue sUAS) and will provide military and other government customers with best-in-class capabilities for their unique missions. Defense and public safety “Our proven, U.S.-based engineering expertise and focus on defense and public safety markets m...

Dahua Technology, a video-centric, provider of smart IoT solutions, is rolling out a new generation of Power over Ethernet (PoE) transmission devices designed to provide higher power and protection, further transmission distances, and smarter management features. These PoE 2.0 switches come in 16-port and 24-port gigabit models, both designed for field transmission applications and high-definition video. “Our slogan for PoE 2.0 is ‘higher, further, smarter',” noted Damon Chou,...

The 5 new Wisenet P series AI NVRs (Network Video Recorders) launched by Hanwha Techwin are able to apply AI metadata to images captured by most non-AI Wisenet cameras, allowing users to quickly and accurately search for people, and vehicles. Deep Learning AI video analytics The license-free Deep Learning AI video analytics onboard the NDAA-compliant NVRs offer a wide range of search criteria, including, for example, looking for people of a certain age group or gender, as well as whether they...

Delta, a provider of power and thermal management solutions, announces its board of directors has approved the purchase of 100% of the shares in Infinova (Canada) Ltd., owner of Canadian-based video surveillance and business intelligence pioneer March Networks® from Infinova International Ltd. for USD 114 million (approximately NTD 3,163,500 thousand) through its subsidiary Delta International Holding Limited B.V. The deal is expected to strengthen Delta's presence in the growing video surv...

Intersec, the emergency services, security, and safety event has strengthened its leadership team appointing expert industry veteran Alex Nicholl as Intersec Exhibition Head. The senior hire is a further demonstration of Intersec’s investment in the significant growth of the flagship event that will mark its return in January 2022 by uniting global leaders to discuss the challenges and opportunities within the industry at the highly anticipated event. Nicholl has 20 years of experience i...

Hanwha Techwin, a global supplier of security solutions, has released three explosion-proof camera models (TNU-6322E, TNU-6322ER, TNO-6322ER) designed to operate safely even in hazardous industrial locations with explosion and fire hazards.    Three newly unveiled explosion-proof cameras prevent explosion triggered by any internal or external factors, ensuring safe operations at high-risk industrial facilities. TNU-6322E/6322ER models feature 360˚ endless panning and 180˚ tilting...

Dudley-based surveillance and security specialist Zicam Integrated Security Limited, which is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary year, has appointed industry expert Barry Gunningham as Business Development Manager. Barry comes to Zicam with over twenty years of experience in the security industry, beginning his career in the USA where he worked for one of the country’s largest home security providers. Work experience Following this he branched out to work in commercial secu...

Security contractors can no longer afford to simply complete a project and move on to the next job without creating recurring service revenues and an ongoing commitment to the customer. iDter, which stands for intelligent and immediate deterrence of crime, recently launched a complete commercial security solution and partnership program with the ability to generate RMR streams through its unique technology footprint. A fully integrated and automated security solution, iDter is proven to foil 98...