Digital Barriers News

Transport for London’s decision not to renew ride-sharing company Uber’s licence has highlighted security concerns within the ride-sharing and broader shared economy, says Zak Doffman, CEO of UK-based Digital Barriers. How do we assure ourselves of the identity and trustworthiness of those delivering or using services organised through smartphones or cloud-based applications? How do we know that the person who underwent the background checks is the same one turning up at our doorstep...

Digital Barriers plc is pleased to announce that its ThruVis thermal screening camera technology was deployed by G4S to enhance security at the Manchester “One Love” Concert at the Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester on the 4th June, 2017 and throughout the week of the British Summer Time event at Hyde Park, London 3-9th July 2017. Manchester “One Love” Concert Digital Barriers and G4S offered their services to the organisers of the One Love concert, respon...

Digital Barriers plc, announces that it will be making its live facial recognition software available at no cost to national and local authorities and agencies in the UK involved in the search for missing young people. As seen last week on BBC Newsnight, the new and unique automatic facial recognition system, SmartVis Face, has been built around machine learning, originally with the purpose of tracking criminals and terror suspects against watch lists of many thousands of people. After being pu...

Morphean and Digital Barriers announce a new collaboration to offer Digital Barriers’ government-accredited video analytics and facial recognition solutions as an enhanced Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) solution across the Morphean video surveillance platform. First SmartVis video analytics suite as a VSaaS provider This combination will bring a market-leading solution to businesses looking to enhance their control over physical security and business intelligence, whilst reducin...

Can you imagine what it would be like if you could only look at your CCTV cameras eight hours after an incident, when your security team finish their shift? That is what 99% of current body cameras offer. Most body cameras can only record video, which limits them to settling arguments after the fact – who said what first in an altercation with the police? What sparked an incident with the door security team at a nightclub? This leads to a curious asymmetry of video and immediacy between m...

Digital Barriers plc has announced SmartVis Identifier, the world's first live facial recognition system for body worn law enforcement cameras. The integration of the company’s world-class EdgeVis and SmartVis technologies provides defence, security, and law enforcement agencies with real-time facial recognition against multiple watch lists and databases. SmartVis facial recognition technology The SmartVis facial recognition technology is already available for standard smartphones and ha...

Milestone Systems, the leading open platform company in networked video management software (VMS), will once again be at IFSEC International 2017 in London, June 20-22. On show at the Milestone booth E750 will be the full Milestone XProtect 2017 portfolio of products and the Milestone Husky Advanced NVRs for enterprise use, in addition to the full range of Milestone Husky NVRs. A number of Milestone partners will be showcasing integrated solutions at the Milestone booth and throughout the show...

ThruVis detects all types of items concealed under clothing at stand-off distances of up to ten metres Digital Barriers, a provider of visually intelligent solutions to the global surveillance, security, and safety markets, announced that it has secured a framework contract with G4S for its ThruVis people screening technology. This framework contract, one of several that were in the final stages of negotiation at the time of the Group’s trading update on 24th March, 201...

Careem will use the facial recognition platform to secure the driver enrolment process Digital Barriers, a provider of visually intelligent solutions to the surveillance, security, and safety markets, announced that it has secured a recurring revenue software contract for its facial recognition technology with Careem, a ride hailing provider in the Middle East and North Africa, with operations across more than fifty cities, across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt,...

ThruVis is used operationally in US during Christmas 2016 travel surge period and at National Security Special Events Digital Barriers plc, the specialist provider of visually intelligent solutions to the global surveillance, security and safety markets, confirms today that its ThruVis public safety solution has been used successfully in the US by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to help protect high profile events. These operational deployments follow the awar...

ThruVis technology is being enhanced for operators of airports, mass transit systems and other public spaces Digital Barriers, the provider of visually intelligent solutions to the global surveillance, security and safety markets, announces that it has secured a contract with the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to enhance the capability of the Group’s ThruVis solution for the detection of objects such as weapons and explosives concealed under clothing....

ThruVis is a highly sensitive camera that is mobile, discreet, and rapidly deployable G4S, a security company, has entered into a strategic partnership with AIM-listed technology specialist Digital Barriers, which will see G4S deploy the company’s ThruVis solution at major UK events to protect against the threat from concealed weapons and explosives. G4S will use ThruVis to provide enhanced security at public and private events to detect potential threats concealed unde...

Digital Barriers’ EdgeVis Live surveillance technology offers secure distribution of real-time video Digital Barriers, the specialist provider of visually intelligent solutions to the global surveillance, security and safety markets, is pleased to announce a number of new contracts for its EdgeVis Live technology signed this month. The company has agreed deals with two different flagship US federal law enforcement agencies worth a combined $6.8 million. In addition, it...

Public Safety solutions in strong demand amidst heightened terror threat UK-based security firm Digital Barriers has announced an exponential 113% increase in its international revenues which have doubled to £15.1m from £7.1m in 2015, accounting for 83% of its total revenues. Revenue growth was driven by a strong performance from Digital Barrier's Solutions division, which grew organically by 53%. State-of-the-art counter terror technology security solutions...

Digital Barriers, Ipsotek, and Intelico are showcasing their combined innovation with Canon for security applications Canon Europe along with solution providers Digital Barriers, Ipsotek, and Intelico, will show how their joint expertise delivers best-in-class security solutions across smart cities, critical infrastructure, transport and government industries at IFSEC International. Julian Rutland, European NVS Marketing Director, Canon Europe comments, “We’re hon...

Canon will be joined by Digital Barriers, Ipsotek, and Intelico to demonstrate their expertise in lens technology Canon Europe, world-leader in imaging solutions, will be joined by solution providers Digital Barriers, Ipsotek, and Intelico, at IFSEC International (stand F500, London ExCel, 21-23 June) to demonstrate Canon’s expertise in lens technology and how this delivers best-in-class solutions for vertical industries. At the show, Canon will be showcasing its cameras...

EdgeVis Live for Body Worn can stream live, near zero-latency video over constrained wireless networks Digital Barriers recently announces the launch of a new generation of wearable ‘body worn’ cameras for the defence, security and law enforcement markets at Security and Policing 2016. EdgeVis Live for Body Worn can stream live, near zero-latency video over constrained wireless networks, using bandwidths as low as 9kbps over 2G and GPRS networks, with full high...

The two events saw more than 30 partners showing solutions covering a number of different areas Axis showcases software and technologies with partners to over 400 attendees at highly successful 2015 events in UK and Sweden. Axis Communications, the global market leader in network video was joined by its partners for two highly successful events showcasing some of the leading innovation in the network video industry. Convergence of software and hardware partners The two even...

Milestone Systems, the open platform company in networked video management software (VMS), has released Device Pack 8.1 for partners and customers using Milestone XProtect monitoring solutions. A highlight of this release is support for Digital Barriers’ TVI wireless video streaming that contains a patent-protected codec which dynamically adjusts video image resolution and pixel density to fit the quality of bandwidth available for video transmission. TVI thereby ensures delivery of highl...

Digital Barriers recently announces the launch of its market-leading Cloud Video Platform (CVP) following successful beta trials with key partners. From launch, CVP provides automatic video alert verification, camera tampering alerts and face detection, all from a cloud service, enabling organisations of all sizes, both commercial and public, to analyse their video more effectively and to retrieve it where it is needed most. The volume of video being captured and stored by organisations is on t...

Milestone partners will be showcasing integrated solutions at their booth and throughout the showroom Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), will be at IFSEC International 2015 in London, June 16-19. On show at the Milestone booth E750 will be the full Milestone XProtect® 2014 portfolio of products, the newly introduced XProtect® LPR 2015 and the Milestone Husky™ range of NVR appliances. A number of Milestone partn...

The Milestone conference saw close to 500 attendees and 50 exhibiting companies Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), held its 10th annual MIPS partner conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week. It was their largest-ever gathering with close to 500 attendees and 50 exhibiting companies in the Technology Showcase that demonstrated integrated solutions for enhancing safety and optimising business. CEO Lars Thinggaard and CSMO Kenne...

Leading security services provider, Stanley Security, and surveillance technology provider, Digital Barriers, have joined forces to offer an innovative automated intrusion detection application to the European remote alarm monitoring market. SafeZone-edge, developed by Digital Barriers specifically for Axis network cameras and encoders, is an intelligent video analytics application for reliable intrusion detection. It accurately analyses scenes whilst automatically mitigating any environmental...

SafeZone-edge combines server-based intelligent video analysis with video motion detection Mayflex, the cabling infrastructure, networking and electronic security solutions distributor, has signed an agreement to distribute Digital Barriers’ intelligent video analytics application for reliable zone-based intrusion detection - SafeZone-edge. It is the first edge-based product to combine the performance of server-based intelligent video analysis (IVA) with the simplicity o...

Axis will be inviting attendees to learn first-hand how partnering with them can help businesses discover new markets Axis Communications, the global leader in the network video market will be demonstrating how it is continuing to open new opportunities and delivering a smarter and safer world of video surveillance at this year’s IFSEC International. As well as showcasing the latest innovations in network video at the international security trade show, Axis will be invi...

The addition of Keeneo has provided Digital Barriers a centre of excellence for rapidly deployable video analytics Since it was founded in 2005, Keeneo has pioneered the development of premium video analytics software. With its patented reasoning engine and 4D approach to analysis, Keeneo is achieving a level of detection accuracy that is setting new standards for event analysis. It has also delivered exceptional ease of use, through its rapid configuration, automatic mitigation of environmenta...

Digital Barriers will provide COE with access to a deep heritage in national securityCOE Group plc, the advanced video surveillance specialist, has been acquired by Digital Barriers plc. This is the third acquisition for Digital Barriers this year and is the next step in its strategy to build a leading mid-market business in the homeland security and defence sectors. For Digital Barriers, the acquisition of COE will bring world-class expertise and innovative technologies in the transmission and...