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Milestone's Mike Taylor: New technologies changing the role of security sales

Mike Taylor has been involved in security industry sales for more than 20 years, on the front line of industry changes and watching how they impact customers. Among the changes is a shift in the nature of the sales function itself. As Director of Sales, Americas, for Milestone Systems, Mike Taylor currently oversees a team that brings to market the full suite of Milestone open platform solutions. We sat down at Milestone Community Days (MIPS) earlier this year to discuss the technologies and tr...

Hikvision organises ‘Shaping Intelligence’ AI Cloud World Summit at Hangzhou

Organised by Hikvision, the 2018 AI Cloud World Summit was successfully held at Hangzhou International Expo Centre from March 30–31. Over 2,000 participants attended the summit, including industry experts and scholars, as well as Hikvision partners including Microsoft, Intel, Milestone Systems and Axxonsoft. Attendees and presenters explored trends in AI development, its real-world applications, and opportunities for AI-related partner cooperation in global markets. Hikvision introduced...

Secutech India 2018 set to open amid strong demand in security and fire safety industries

Secutech India 2018 opens this week amid growing industry demand for products in the security, fire and safety industries. The trade fair will take place in Mumbai from 5 – 7 April at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, and will provide regional buyers the opportunity to source products from some of the world’s leading safety and security brands. With India’s accelerating economic growth continuing to drive industry demand, the fair presents an ideal opportunity for leading players...

Inner Range receives recognition as the Milestone’s APAC Technology Partner of the Year for 2018

At the beginning of April, Inner Range attended the 2019 Milestone Integration Platform Symposium in Bali, Indonesia. The day’s proceedings were truly valuable for all who participated. Inner Range was in attendance to showcase an upcoming Milestone integration for Inception, their web-based security and access control solution. Successful technology partnership Inner Range is very proud to announce that they have been recognised as Milestone’s APAC Technology Partner of the Year...

BCDVideo partners with Centerprise to build video recording systems for the EMEA marketplace

Expanding its global reach, BCDVideo announced that it has contracted UK-based Centerprise International to build BCDVideo video recording systems for shipment into the EMEA marketplace. The two companies combine over fifty years of server building experience – both sharing Intel, Microsoft, and VMware certifications. Proven system integrator partner "On the heels of our new Dell EMC initiative, and the ongoing growth opportunity within the EMEA landscape, we felt it paramount to partner...

GJD’s D-TECT IP motion detectors enhance perimeter protection

GJD, a manufacturer, designer and supplier of electronic perimeter detectors and high performance LED illuminators, continues to reinforce its international world class reputation with its advanced product range of D-TECT IP external motion detectors. The D-TECT IP range provides flexible volumetric field of view sensing, making the range suitable for intruder monitoring, CCTV surveillance and other alarm warning requirements. The range is easy to install for both new and experienced IP motion...

Milestone's video management solutions facilitate incident management at Port of Antwerp

Milestone Systems, a provider of video management software (VMS), is the chosen solution for protecting the Port of Antwerp, the second largest seaport area in Europe, covering more than 12,000 hectares, the equivalent of 20,000 football fields.     Large areas like ports are very difficult to secure in a traditional way. Reporting incidents using only radio communications can lack information at an optimal level of detail and accuracy. It takes time for responders to reach incidents....

Vanderbilt and Milestone integration gets a positive response at Denmark seminar

Vanderbilt and Milestone recently held two half-day integration seminars launching the new SPC plugin for the open Milestone platform. With more than 100 attendees at two locations, Aarhus and Brøndby in Denmark, the interest for this new integration with Vanderbilt’s SPC and Milestone was extremely positive. “The feedback from the attendees has been excellent, and we are already quoting for new projects with this integration. This make us believe there is a great opportunity...

Milestone releases data pack for XProtect VMS with software updates supporting new hardware

Milestone Systems, the open platform company in networked video management software (VMS), has released Device Pack 9.6a for partners and customers using Milestone XProtect video solutions. The bi-monthly device packs contain software updates for XProtect video management to support new hardware. This release is the first to support modular device packs, minimising the download for most users. Enhanced user experience  AXIS Optimizer for Milestone XProtect is a dedicated suite of plugins...

Open Options to showcase DNA Fusion access control platform at ISC West 2018

Open Options, a provider of open platform access control solutions, will showcase their DNA Fusion access control platform and its powerful components at ISC West 2018. Considered the largest security industry trade show in North America, ISC West hosts nearly 30,000 security professionals and showcases a wide range of products and solutions from hundreds of industry manufacturers. ISC West attendees are invited to visit Open Options at booth #3103 to learn about the latest features in the DNA...

Milestone Systems' radar-based video surveillance system protects Hogle Zoo visitors from polar bears

Milestone Systems, an open platform company for IP video management software (VMS), has announced a collaboration with NMS Security, SpotterRF, Canon, Dell, Utah's Hogle Zoo, and Polar Bears International to implement a unique video surveillance solution that helps the city of Churchill, Manitoba, to keep citizens, sightseers and polar bears at a safe distance from each other. Every year, nearly 10,000 tourists pour into this small town of 1,000 to view the polar bears that migrate along the sh...

SIA's Women in Security Forum facilitates women's participation in the sector

The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced, on International Women’s Day, the establishment of the SIA Women in Security Forum to support the participation of women in the security industry. Through programmes, professional development and networking events, the committee will engage members, both men and women, who share this goal.  The inaugural steering committee for the SIA Women in Security Forum includes (listed alphabetically by company): Elaine Palome, Axis Comm...

Hikvision's plug-in for Milestone XProtect enhances video surveillance and incident management

Hikvision, a global IoT solutions provider with video as its core technology, has announced a new plug-in for its thermal and speed dome cameras as a result of continuing collaboration with its strategic partner, Milestone Systems. This gives operators a better situational awareness through visual verification of alarms. Hikvision’s plug-in for Milestone XProtect enables the operator to view ‘bounding boxes’ in the XProtect Smart Client and to receive alarms from a Hikvision t...

Agent Vi’s innoVi for Central Monitoring SaaS integrates with Milestone XProtect VMS

Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi), a global provider of video analytics solutions, and Milestone Systems, the open platform company in network video management software (VMS), announced the integration of innoVi for Central Monitoring, Agent Vi’s cloud-based video analytics Software as a Service (SaaS), with Milestone XProtect video management software. Central monitoring stations (CMS), alarm receiving centres (ARC), and enterprises deploying Milestone XProtect will now be able to bene...

GJD to exhibit IP-enabled solutions and devices at ISC West 2018

GJD, a manufacturer and designer of smart electronic perimeter detection and high-performance LED illumination equipment, is proud to announce it is showcasing an extensive range of outdoor intrusion sensors and security lighting technology at the ISC West exhibition. The exhibition takes place from April 11th to 13th 2018, at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Las Vegas. Interactive product demonstrations will be shown on the LILIN Americas booth. GJD formed a strategic partnership with L...

Hikvision expands support for thermal and speed dome cameras in Milestone XProtect software

Hikvision, the worldwide IoT solutions provider with video as its core technology, announces a new plug-in for its thermal and speed dome cameras as a result of continuing collaboration with its strategic partner Milestone Systems. This gives operators a better situational awareness through visual verification of alarms. Hikvision’s plug-in for Milestone XProtect enables the operator to view ‘bounding boxes’ in the XProtect Smart Client and to receive alarms from a Hikvision t...

Milestone Systems announces Malou Mousten Dyhr Toft as new Vice President for EMEA

Milestone Systems, an open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), announces its new Vice President for EMEA, Malou Mousten Dyhr Toft, who also becomes member of Milestone Systems’ Extended Leadership Team. She will be responsible for the whole EMEA region, including Sales Operation, Custom Development and Support and will focus on further strengthening the EMEA partner community of distributors, installers, solutions partners and camera manufacturers. “I’m ver...

MIPS 2018 focussed on artificial intelligence for video technology

Milestone Systems, the open platform company in networked video management software (VMS), concluded a series of regional partner and customers events for 2018 with MIPS (Milestone Integration Platform Symposium) in Las Vegas on February 21. The three events gathered 1,509 attendees and 90 exhibitors, and the theme was how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be the next market disruption for video technology. Milestone Systems also took the opportunity to award partners for their contributions to...

Milestone's System Builder Program endorses XProtect VMS to support surveillance deployments

Milestone Systems, specialising in networked video management software (VMS), has announced a new global program for hardware partners in the Milestone community. This unique open program enables hardware manufacturers to ship their servers, clients and storage solutions powered by Milestone XProtect software. The Milestone Channel Partners and customers will benefit from tested and validated hardware configurations from leading hardware manufacturers. With XProtect Essential+ preloaded on the...

Milestone Systems updates XProtect 2018 R1 video management software for enhanced privacy masking

With the latest update of Milestone XProtect 2018 R1 video management software, Milestone introduces client-side hardware acceleration with NVIDIA and enhanced privacy masking. Milestone Systems, an open platform company in networked video management software (VMS), has released XProtect 2018 R1. Milestone is responding to the market’s rising demands for cost-effective video business solutions with this first VMS update this year. In this release, Milestone pioneers the use of multiple NV...

Intelligent video surveillance and deep learning dominate MIPS 2018 agenda

Milestone Systems is embracing artificial intelligence and deep learning in a big way at this week's yearly Milestone Community Days (MIPS 2018) in Las Vegas. The Danish company's theme is "Creating an Intelligent World," and Milestone's stated goal is to make "the Milestone community part of every surveillance installation in the world."    Science fiction becomes reality In a presentation on opening day, Milestone CSMO Kenneth Hune Petersen pointed to the 2002 movie Th...

Milestone XProtect video management software aids crime prevention in Argentina’s Vicente López District

Vicente López, one of the 135 districts that make up the Buenos Aires province, started a project at the end of 2011 to modernise and expand the city’s video surveillance system. In addition to capturing criminal activity, the project’s main goal has always been to reduce crime through preventive measures. Stretching over 33 square kilometres, Vicente López is home to about 300,000 people. In recent years, the flow of population that moves through the district has rise...

How should your security company measure total cost of ownership (TCO)?

How much does a security system cost? We all know that total costs associated with systems are substantially higher than the “price tag.” There are many elements, tangible and intangible, that contribute to the costs of owning and operating a system. Taking a broad view and finding ways to measure these additional costs enables integrators and users to get the most value from a system at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). However, measuring TCO can be easier said than done. We...

Arcules heightens value of IoT data and cloud video through focus on business optimisation

Leadership roles are changing inside enterprise companies, where higher profiles of roles like CIO and CISO are blurring the lines separating legacy security departments from the larger enterprise. The role of security – protecting the company – now overlaps with broader concerns such as business optimisation. The changes are impacting how technology is used; what was once considered a “security system” can now impact the company in larger ways. It’s not just prot...

Milestone Systems celebrates 10th successful participation at IntersecExpo 2018

Milestone Systems, the open platform company in network video management software (VMS) celebrated its 10th successful participation at the IntersecExpo in Dubai recently. The region’s leading security and safety trade fair this year saw more than 29,000 visitors from 120 countries. At the Milestone booth, visitors showed a keen interest in the latest release of the XProtect Video Management Solution, the company's visions for intelligent technologies and innovative solutions from the Mile...

AgilityGrid and Regal Technologies collaborate to install Intransa IP video surveillance system at Dubai’s Hyatt Regency

AgilityGrid, a Dubai-based security solutions provider that delivers IP CCTV security solutions for businesses and government bodies across the EMEA region, along with its partner, Regal Technologies, has migrated the analogue surveillance system at Hyatt Regency Dubai to the latest Intransa IP video surveillance appliances for the hotel complex that includes 421 guestrooms and 388 residences in its apartment complex; restaurants and bars; 4000 sqm of meetings and events area; extensive recreati...

Oncam completes Milestone Solution certification of XProtect VMS

Oncam, a provider of 360-degree video capture and business intelligence technology, has completed the retesting and documentation of its 360-degree solutions with Milestone XProtect open-platform IP video management software (VMS). The certification guarantees the interoperability of the tested solution with Milestone XProtect VMS and ensures users gain access to a proven system designed to increase awareness and enhance intelligence. Milestone XProtect Recording Server The Oncam video p...

Agent Vi signs VAD agreement with Canon Marketing Japan to provide security solutions

Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi), a global provider of video analytics solutions, has announced the signing of a Value-Added Distributor (VAD) agreement with Canon Marketing Japan, the marketer and provider of Canon Inc. products and solutions in Japan. Canon Marketing Japan will operate as a VAD throughout Japan for Agent Vi’s savVi on-premise video analytics platform, which features real-time event detection, video search and business intelligence applications. Already representing o...

Arecont Vision showcases PoE-enabled network video recorders at Intersec Dubai 2018

Arecont Vision, a provider of IP-based megapixel camera technology, has announced the availability of the AV NVR all-in-one network video recorder series. The new AV NVR is on display at Intersec Dubai 2018, and is the first network video recorder to be offered by Arecont Vision. “Customers have increasingly requested that Arecont Vision provide them with an NVR platform for their small to mid-sized project requirements,” said Brad Donaldson, Vice President of Product Development, A...

Arecont Vision unveils MegaDome UltraHD IR dome camera at Intersec Dubai 2018

Arecont Vision, a manufacturer of IP-based megapixel cameras and technology, has unveiled the newest member of the MegaDome feature-rich camera series. The new MegaDome UltraHD camera is on display here at Intersec Dubai 2018, in stand A11. “The MegaDome family continues to lead the dome camera segment with the many features and capabilities built into this installer-friendly camera series that our customers have come to expect,” said Brad Donaldson, Vice President of Product Develo...

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