Monitoring


Liberty University Uses Q1 Solution to Detect Network Threats on Universitywide Network

Liberty University, the largest and fastest-growing Evangelical Christian university worldwide, has selected QRadar Security Intelligence Platform from Q1 Labs to manage the university’s increasing amount of security related data, while improving the detection of threats across the university network.

Tyco International to Acquire Signature Security

The transaction brings together Signature Security with Tyco's ADT business, creating a stronger player in the Australian and New Zealand security industry.

Micro Key Solutions Offers Free CSAA Memberships

Micro Key Solutions, in cooperation with the Central Station Alarm Association, a trade association that represents companies offering alarm monitoring systems through a central station, is offering to pay the first year’s CSAA membership dues for any CSAA-approved Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) Central Station using Micro Key Solutions’ Millennium Series Monitoring software.

Updated Honeywell App

Honeywell Updates Live Streaming Video App For Apple Mobile Devices

Honeywell has updated its Total Connect mobile app to enable faster, higher-quality, live, streaming video viewing on Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices.

OnSSI Integrates VMS with Lextech Labs' iRa C3 Mobile Video Surveillance Application

OnSSI has announced that its flagship video management platform, Ocularis, has passed Lextech Lab’s compatibility testing. As a result, Lextech’s iRa C3 mobile video surveillance application will support OnSSI’s software and meet the mobile viewing requirements of the security and law enforcement industry.

APX Alarm Enters Home Automation Market as Vivint

APX Alarm Security Solutions Inc. has changed its name to Vivint as it enters into the home automation market with the launch of new products and services.

Brickcom IP Cameras Integrated with Milestone XProtect

Brickcom Corporation has announced the integration of a wide range of its IP camera series with Milestone’s XProtect open-platform IP video management software.

Jupiter Hires

Display Wall Company Jupiter Expands Technical Support

Jupiter Systems, a provider of display wall technology has expanded its field systems engineering, promoting Pascal Berthe to senior field system engineer for European, Indian and Middle Eastern operations, and hiring of industry veteran Erwin Daley as a field system engineer for U.S. operations.



APX Alarm Joins Forces With SIAC

X Alarm Security Solutions Inc. recently announced the company will help the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) with additional resources in its fight to improve alarm management practices across the country and enact fair and balanced ordinances.

Lunarline and SAC Partner to Create Near-Real-Time Continuous Monitoring

The two companies have to extended Lunarline's enterprise compliance manager to meet federal guidelines for "near real time" monitoring and new FISMA reporting guidelines outlined in OMB Memorandum M-10-15.

VideoIQ Receives Lenel Factory's OpenAccess Certification

The certification makes VideoIQ a member of the Lenel OpenAccess Alliance Program, which validates software interfaces to OnGuard, Lenel's flagship product, demonstrating to the market that program companies have developed standard, supportable interfaces that properly expand capabilities for OnGuard customers.

Wolfhound PRO

BVS to Unleash Latest in Line of Contraband Cell Phone Detectors

The Wolfhound-PRO is the third in a line of BVS' award-winning cell phone detection products and the most sensitive.

Honeywell Debuts iPhone App for Performance Series DVRs

Honeywell has announced new mobile remote access capability to its popular HRDP H 264 DVR. The new Remote-View app allows users to view live video on their Apple iPhones from CCTV surveillance systems that use Honeywell’s HRDP H.264 DVR.

APX Alarm Acquires Meter Solutions

The acquisition expands the company's energy management and smart grid portfolio.

Cardax integration

IndigoVision's Updated Module Brings Video to Cardax Command Centre

Users can see a live video feed to ensure that the person using the access card is the person with access permission.

San Francisco Bay restaurant and bar

Pelco Integrated Solution Prevents Theft at SF Bay Area Restaurant

Using a DVR and a mobile app, the owner powered up his phone and saw bartenders giving away free drinks.

NitroSecurity, Waterfall Security Solutions Integrate Physical and Enterprise Management

Security information and event management solutions now can report over unidirectional gateways and collect logs and events.

New Product Of The Year Award Winners Announced

Security Products magazine, the only integrated product magazine reaching the entire security market, announced the winners of its 2010 New Product of the Year Award at the publication’s premiere Virtual Event today.

Deterrence or Arrests

Every month, more products pour into security magazines and catalogs. We see a torrent of innovation and evolution continually adding features and reducing costs along the way. We need to step back from the tsunami of progress and ask, “So what?” What is the purpose of all this effort? Is there some technical nirvana we can bask in when we finally reach 100 megapixels, or ultimate peace when mesh networks consume our geography? Or is it all simply a pointless game of live fast and die? It is time to step back and consider the true goal.

Canon VB-C60 PTV IP cameras are installed at the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, in Riverhead, N.Y. The camera shown is mounted in a protective dome above seal tanks 5 and 6 at the facility. Photo courtesy of Gretchen Kowalik/Norico Kanai.

Canon Cameras Deployed to Help Advance Marine Research

The company's VB-C60 IP video cameras, installed at the Atlantis Marine World Aquarium, are helping scientists monitor animals' behavior and rehabilitation while also educating the public.

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    Luma x20

    Snap One has announced its popular Luma x20 family of surveillance products now offers even greater security and privacy for home and business owners across the globe by giving them full control over integrators’ system access to view live and recorded video. According to Snap One Product Manager Derek Webb, the new “customer handoff” feature provides enhanced user control after initial installation, allowing the owners to have total privacy while also making it easy to reinstate integrator access when maintenance or assistance is required. This new feature is now available to all Luma x20 users globally. “The Luma x20 family of surveillance solutions provides excellent image and audio capture, and with the new customer handoff feature, it now offers absolute privacy for camera feeds and recordings,” Webb said. “With notifications and integrator access controlled through the powerful OvrC remote system management platform, it’s easy for integrators to give their clients full control of their footage and then to get temporary access from the client for any troubleshooting needs.” 3

  • Unified VMS

    AxxonSoft introduces version 2.0 of the Axxon One VMS. The new release features integrations with various physical security systems, making Axxon One a unified VMS. Other enhancements include new AI video analytics and intelligent search functions, hardened cybersecurity, usability and performance improvements, and expanded cloud capabilities 3

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    Hanwha QNO-7012R

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