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ONVIF announces the release of Profile D, a new profile to address interfaces for access control peripheral devices

ONVIF, the renowned global standardisation initiative for IP-based physical security products and solutions company, has released Profile D, a new profile that addresses interfaces for access control peripheral devices, providing the market with an additional tool for building modern and secure IP-based integrated video and access control systems, using ONVIF. Profile D Profile D is designed to provide ONVIF interoperability for peripheral devices such as locks, credential/biometric readers, P...

Argos Edge offers first fully comprehensive one-stop DRP solution

Cyberint has launched the next-generation Digital Risk Protection platform, Argos Edge, a fully SaaS-based solution, to provide real-time responses to cyber threats coming from beyond the traditional security perimeters.   All-in-one DRP platform Unlike other solutions, Cyberint's holistic and integrated approach combines external Attack Surface Monitoring (ASM), advanced threat intelligence, extensive phishing detection as well as social media and brand abuse monitoring. The differ...

3xLOGIC to exhibit innovative security products and host session on benefits of natively developed cloud solutions at ISC West 2021

3xLOGIC, Inc., a globally renowned provider of integrated, intelligent security solutions, will be attending ISC West 2021, taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada, from July 19-21, 2021. The company will be demonstrating its innovative security solutions, including its new Gunshot Detection Solution, which was named best new product in the Law Enforcement/Public Safety/Guarding Systems category of the 2021 SIA New Product Showcase. Self-contained gun detection device Rather than utilising micropho...

Hanwha Techwin unveils new 8 and 16 channel Wisenet X Series NVRs with Deep Learning AI video analytics

The introduction of 8 and 16 channel Wisenet X Series NVRs makes it cost-effective, for even small businesses to take advantage of the licence-free Deep Learning AI video analytics, built into Wisenet AI cameras. As is the case with the 32 and 64 Wisenet X NVRs introduced in 2020, by reading the AI metadata captured by Wisenet AI cameras, the new NVRs are able to help users to quickly and accurately search video for objects and the attributes associated to them.  Deep Learning AI video an...

Flock Safety shares how licence plate reading cameras are a neighbourhood watch group’s best friend

Neighbourhood watch programmes play a fundamental role in community safety. They act as the first line of defence in deterring crime and reporting suspicious activity. However, these programmes are not all that the community needs. Most neighbourhood residents don’t have the time or desire to remain home all day reporting potential nefarious sightings. They go to work or school, attend appointments, run errands and go on vacations, leaving ample opportunity for crime to strike. One easy...

Genetec showcases latest version of Security Centre and new operational solutions at ISC West 2021

At ISC West 2021, on booth#13053, Genetec Inc., a technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions, will showcase the latest version of Security Center (v5.10), the company’s open-architecture platform that unifies video surveillance, access control, automatic license plate recognition (ALPR), communications, and analytics. The company will also showcase new operational solutions for a safe return to the office, and upd...

Hanwha Techwin unveils five new models of P series HD AI cameras

Hanwha Techwin, a global supplier of IP and analogue video surveillance solutions, has expanded and updated its line-up of P series AI cameras with five new 2 MP HD models. A follow-up to the premium 4K P series AI cameras announced in 2020, the new cameras present a cost-effective entry point into the powerful world of AI-based camera technology. Hanwha P series AI cameras Hanwha P series AI cameras include licence-free video analytics based on deep learning that can detect various object typ...

3xLOGIC to host dealer-focused virtual webinar to provide customers with product demonstration

3xLOGIC, Inc., a provider of integrated, intelligent security solutions, is hosting two dealer-focused events to provide customers with information about the company’s products and how they can grow their business by selling these solutions. The company is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, June 29, at 2 p.m. ET to focus on new features and enhancements to existing solutions, as well as three new offerings: Gunshot Detection, Licence Plate Capture, and Gen III Mounts. Force recognition sensor...

ConnectWise launches recover complete BDR to help partners monitor and manage all their solutions

ConnectWise, the provider of business automation software for technology solution providers (TSPs), announces the launch of ConnectWise recover complete BDR, a comprehensive offering integrating multiple third-party backup vendors into the ConnectWise platform. With this offering, TSPs gain a powerful service management console to monitor and manage all their BDR solutions, reducing complexities like duplicated processes as well as significant management overhead. In addition, TSPs will be able...

Business Insight 3 (Bi3), Kingdom Systems and Kingdom Services Group Ltd partner to deliver WasteWatch Cam video security solution

Councils in England dealt with nearly one million instances of fly-tipping, in the year running up to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of the numerous lockdowns since then has worsened the problem still. Closed waste facilities and many houses deciding to have a ‘clear out’ has led to mountains of house-hold rubbish, electrical goods, construction waste and vehicle parts piling up on pavements, roads, highways and countryside. WasteWatch Cam But three leading bus...

Flock Safety and Piedmont Police launch first-ever ALPR transparency portal

Flock Safety was founded with the mission to eliminate crime and it has always been believed that is possible while protecting civil liberties and encouraging positive, productive relationships with local law enforcement and their communities. This mission is why it loves working with city leaders who place a premium on communication and transparency, such as Chief Jeremy Bowers of the Piedmont Police Department in Alameda County, California. “Trust is built. It’s built over time,...

University of Arizona speeds up COVID-19 vaccine roll-out with Genetec AutoVu ALPR and Traffic Sense

When the University of Arizona (UA) was chosen as a COVID-19 vaccine point of dispensing (POD), they wanted to put in place a distribution process to get the vaccines out to as many people as possible as quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, they turned to Genetec Inc., a technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions, and Route1 Inc., a data-centric systems integrator. ALPR technology “We had already heard ab...

Minds Lab extends their cloud service to run on Blaize Xplorer accelerator platform by utilising Blaize AI Software Suite

Blaize, the AI computing innovator revolutionising edge and automotive computing solutions, announces that Minds Lab of Seongnam, S. Korea has extended its maum.ai ‘AI as a service (AlaaS)’ cloud service to the Edge running on Blaize Xplorer X1600P PCIe accelerator platform and utilising the Blaize AI Software Suite. The Maum Edge AI Platform combines Edge AI Devices and Maum AI Cloud to improve and expand services with greater usability and expandability. Minds Lab is using Blaize...

Hanwha Techwin adds five new high-definition AI cameras to provide users with cost-effective AI technology

Hanwha Techwin has added 5 new 2-megapixel high-definition AI cameras to its Wisenet P series. The new cameras are designed to complement the 4K models which were launched in 2020, by making it more cost-effective for users to benefit from AI technology. As is the case with the existing 4K models, the new cameras are equipped with Deep Learning AI video analytics which delivers a high level of detection accuracy whilst minimising false alarms. It does so by simultaneously detecting and classify...

LILIN launches DVR 6 series products for retail and back industry

LILIN has been dedicated to the cybersecurity industry for more than 40 years, leading the smart application market to leap forward again.  LILIN recently released 6 series 4/8/16 channel, HD analog, and IP camera hybrid DVR, providing high-resolution, high-quality, security-enhanced DVR video recorders for home, banking, and retail industries. In addition to using the LILINHome App for remote home use, it can also be used with LILIN NCC 3.0 for remote branch and image management LILINHom...

Robotic Assistance Devices announce the release of ROSA270 autonomous video surveillance and response solution

Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions, Inc. has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Robotic Assistance Devices, Inc. (RAD) has released a new member of its popular ROSA product family, ROSA270. ROSA270 security solution This new solution, shipping in June 2021, adds an entirely new dimension to autonomous video surveillance and response - literally, a new dimension of an additional 90° viewing area via one additional camera. There are a total of three cameras on ROSA270, each...

2N to host a virtual event to highlight the benefits of integrating cyber security, office access and video analytics under one platform

2N, the provider of IP intercom systems, has come together with four other tech firms to promote the practical benefits of bringing together building cyber security, smart office access, and video analytics within one unified platform. The companies will showcase the practical benefits to installers, integrators and building users during the latest 2N On Air event at 2pm BST on Thursday, May 20th. The event comes as evidence grows of UK firms rethinking building space in 2021; a survey of 500 H...

Dahua provides Intelligent Residential Solution to improves the overall efficiency of property management

The rapid development of IoT, AI and mobile technology is greatly changing the work and lifestyle. As these technologies are increasingly applied to commercial and residential buildings, smart living is no longer a fantasy. However, traditional residential solutions are usually operated by multiple independent systems, resulting in time-consuming management and unpleasant living experience. As a video-centric smart IoT solution and service provider, Dahua Technology is actively promoting the in...

LILIN releases Navigator Control Center 3.0 series products

LILIN has been actively optimising customer experience in recent years and is committed to upgrading the VMS system. LILIN released Navigator Control Center 3.0 (NCC 3.0) video management software, dedicated to managing tens of thousands of cameras. Through NCC 3.0 management system, it integrates NVR/DVP, IP cameras, TV wall, facial recognition system, Pos system, and license plate recognition system, which is convenient uses for one-stop central management. NCC 3.0 video management software...

Dahua Technology announces their WizMind series to provide flexible AI solutions for a wide range of industries

Dahua Technology, a video-centric smart IoT solution and service provider, recently releases its upgraded WizMind series, offering a comprehensive project-oriented product portfolio and flexible AI solutions for a wide range of industries. Inheriting the company’s high-end AI solutions that focus on human, vehicle, object and thermal technology, the upgraded WizMind series boasts topnotch AI algorithms with expanded functions including human/vehicle video metadata, face recognition, priva...

Hanwha highlights the uses of adaptive IR illumination cameras to identify people and vehicle number plates from a distance

Uri Guterman, Head of Product & Marketing for Hanwha Techwin Europe, provides a bite-sized overview of the contribution IR illumination can make to the effectiveness of a video surveillance system. Video surveillance cameras need light to capture high quality images 24 hours a day. In times gone by, this meant supplementary lighting had to be installed to ensure cameras could operate effectively in low light and night-time conditions. The cost of doing so could be prohibitive if civil engin...

SKIDATA announces collaboration with Openpath to offer smartphone access capabilities to parking facilities

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...

Security & Safety Things highlight ways in which healthcare operations can enhance patient safety with smart cameras

In the past year, hospitals, eldercare and other healthcare facilities have found themselves overwhelmed with new patients, COVID-19 regulations and other side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. As efforts focused on the mitigation of pandemic health risks for patients and staff, routine and elective procedures were halted, only to seesaw back and forth, as conditions shifted around the globe. Now, decision makers for healthcare facilities find themselves in search of solutions to help navigate...

Security & Safety Things’ intelligent video analytics driving parking lot management digitisation

Just like other industries around the globe, the patience of parking operations management has been tested, as the usage of parking facilities in urban and suburban settings fluctuated widely over the past year, due to local health and safety, and occupancy restrictions. As the overall industry looks to spring back from the COVID-19 levels, it is also simultaneously looking to transition from traditional analogue and on-premise managed operations to solutions that digitise parking operations an...

New AVA & Northern Europe Study reveals increased demand for video analytics amongst CCTV system owners

Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) innovator AVA Security found that more than four out of every five (82%) of IT, Operations, Facilities Management and Security systems decision makers employed by medium and large-sized businesses, see a potential role for their workplaces’ video monitoring systems in supporting corporate plans for 'a safe return to the workplace post-lockdown’. Video monitoring systems This was perhaps the most significant finding of the security industry&rs...

ProdataKey announces the release of PDK/Rhombus integration to simplify monitoring and enhance security

ProdataKey (PDK), a manufacturer of the cloud access control platform built for mobile, announces the release of seamless integration with Rhombus Systems, the pioneer in cloud-based video surveillance and asset tracking systems. In joining forces, the two companies – each known for their best-in-class cloud offerings – bring to market the industry’s easiest-to-implement, easiest-to-use, comprehensive access control and AI-assisted video management solution. The integration is...

IDEMIA launches Mobile ID technology in partnership with ADOT to easy identity management in Arizona

IDEMIA launches a Mobile ID offering for Arizona in partnership with the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division (ADOT). Mobile ID allows Arizona residents to carry a digital version of their driver’s licence or other state-issued ID in an app on their smartphone. The mID builds off the strength of the Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) enrolment process while adding layers of fraud protection. Mobile ID data is only stored with the MVD system of record and in the mID app on...

Dahua releases a new update to their Intelligent Video Surveillance Server to provide accurate AI functions

As the saying goes, ‘There is always room for improvement.’ This year, Dahua Technology, a video-centric smart IoT solution and service provider, is once again utilising this ‘room’ by releasing the new upgrade of its intelligent server– the Dahua IVSS. The Dahua Intelligent Video Surveillance Server, or simply IVSS, is positioned as a multiple intelligent algorithm server. With its strong computing power and flexibility, it offers multiple algorithm integration as...

Security & Safety Things offers AI based cameras to transform healthcare operations at lower costs

In the past year, hospitals, elder-care and other healthcare facilities have found themselves overwhelmed with new patients, COVID-19 regulations and other side effects of the pandemic. As efforts focused on the mitigation of pandemic health risks for both patients and staff, routine and elective procedures were halted, only to seesaw back and forth as conditions shifted around the globe. Now, decision-makers for healthcare facilities find themselves in search of solutions to help navigate the...

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