Arecont Vision announced Thursday its sponsorship for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. The 16-day event will be hosted in the United States for the first time since its inaugural event, at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky.
If ISC West serves as an indication of the industry, then security is starting to rebound strongly. The buzz on the show floor was the noticeable rise in visitor traffic as compared to last year’s show, and exhibitors unveiled some amazing products and news on the first day of the show.
- By Sherleen Mahoney
- Mar 25, 2010
Security Products magazine announced the winners of the 2010 Security Products’ GovSec Award today at GovSec, the Government Security Expo & Conference.
Houston-based Video Insight and its integration partner Titus Systems of Round Rock, Texas have been selected to provide a comprehensive IP video surveillance solution at Pflugerville ISD in Texas.
The CBORD Group Inc. recently announced that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is using the CS Gold campus card solution from CBORD and the NiceVision intelligent video solution from NICE Systems to better manage financial, access and other security operations across campus.
March Networks, a global provider of intelligent IP video solutions, recently announced that the Casino de la Vallée is using the company's VideoSphere solution to meet the demanding surveillance requirements of its popular gaming venue in Saint-Vincent, Valle D'Aosta, Italy.
Excalibur City, a themed shopping and entertainment complex in the Czech Republic, has deployed IndigoVision’s IP video solution to enhance the security for its customers and staff. The new upgrade has transformed the surveillance operation, having replaced poor-performing analog/DVR equipment with a distributed network-based digital video system.
Hikvision's video compression boards are being used at a major residential building in New York. The block is one of a set of three adjoining riverfront structures in Manhattan that has attracted residents such as Calvin Klein and Nicole Kidman.
When construction is complete in December 2010, 10.5 miles of new high-tech, double-track electric rails will connect Malmo Central Station in Sweden with the Oresund Bridge to Denmark. Six kilometers of that will run underground in two parallel tunnels through the center of Malmo. The goal of the CityTunnel connection between Malmo and Copenhagen is to greatly reduce the travel time between the two cities -- and not least to transform Malmo Central Station into a transit hub that powers the pan-Scandinavian network.
The government security market is a growing multi-billion dollar business. To address a host of new security requirements, the security industry has partnered with the government to develop new security standards and capabilities. New requirements have led to opportunities in the physical access control systems and the identity management markets.
- By Kim Rahfaldt, Adam Shane
- Mar 05, 2010
For more than 75 years, GECU, an El Paso, Texas, credit union, has served its members and developed into El Paso's largest locally owned financial institution, with more than $1.2 billion in deposits and $1.4 billion in assets. As it continues to grow with 15 locations, including branches and new satellite centers in local schools, GECU holds true to its mission statement: People helping people.
- By Richard Lisko
- Mar 04, 2010
It's no surprise that for data industry leaders, when addressing the questions of physical access control, the overwhelming answer has been biometric technology, which provides a level of security beyond that of conventional card systems by verifying the identity of the person.
- By Jon Mooney
- Mar 03, 2010
DVTel Inc. recently announced that Mineta San Jose International Airport has upgraded its security system to a DVTel intelligent Security Operations Center (iSOC), a completely IP-based video surveillance solution.
The University of Missouri’s Residential Life Buildings complex has a unique combination of features for a campus security system: state-of-the-art technology, user-friendliness and the cost-cutting ability to be installed and maintained in-house.
The Blue Earth Nicollet County Humane Society in Mankato, Minn., a nonprofit, no-kill shelter, has been caring for hundreds of homeless, injured, abandoned and abused animals since 1977.
- By Sherleen Mahoney
- Mar 02, 2010
Government directives were designed to help enhance security, increase government efficiency, reduce identity fraud and protect personal privacy by establishing a government-wide standard for secure and reliable forms of identification issued by the federal government to its personnel.
- By Mas Kosaka
- Mar 02, 2010
In a major CCTV upgrade, Eurotunnel’s French passenger terminal has deployed a widely distributed IP video solution from IndigoVision. Used for security, traffic management and immigration control, the networked CCTV system has transformed Eurotunnel’s surveillance operation.
IQinVision recently announced that IQeye HD megapixel cameras are being deployed in an innovative Swedish project to cut down on costly gas station “driveaways.” The expanding project is being implemented in cooperation with Milestone Systems and Niscayah.
The largest supermarket chain in Sweden is ensuring personnel safety with video surveillance from more than 100 IQeye megapixel cameras managed by Milestone XProtect open platform IP video management software.
DVTel Inc. recently announced that the ioimage-powered Visentry monitoring solution, Virtual Sentry, has prevented at least two major thefts at a Honda dealership located in Paramus, N.J.