ONVIF, a standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, announced that it hosted a successful networking event at the IFSEC 2011 trade show in Birmingham, England.
Honeywell and 2GIG Technologies Inc. today announced the settlement of a lawsuit involving the alleged infringement of a Honeywell patent related to the design of security system panels, known as the “148 Patent.”
IQinVision recently announced that Sonderborg Kollegierne, a dormitory campus in Denmark, has initially installed approximately 75 IQeye indoor and outdoor HD megapixel cameras to provide enhanced security for the students in residence. Necom is the integrator for this ongoing project.
Standards for the physical security industry took an important step forward at ISC West with the successful demonstration of interoperable products from Honeywell, UTC, Tyco, Hikvision, Arecont Vision, IQinVision and ObjectVideo.
Twenty-eight percent of U.S. organizations are using cloud computing today, a CDW poll found, with most reporting (73 percent) that their first step into the cloud was implementation of a single cloud application.
McAfee recently released “Mobility and Security: Dazzling Opportunities, Profound Challenges," a global report focused on the consumerization of IT and its impact on security. The report looks at mobility from two perspectives -- that of the company’s senior IT professional and that of the general end users of mobile devices in the workplace.
Children of firefighters from California and Michigan were awarded $10,000 in scholarships by the Electronic Security Association (ESA) through the ESA Youth Scholarship Program.
DVTel Inc. recently announced that the Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK, has selected DVTel from among eight video management software providers as the central platform for a newly-upgraded IP video management system.
VidSys and Quantum Secure recently announced that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has selected the companies’ PSIM and Physical Identity and Access Management (PIAM) technologies, respectively, to manage the complex security operations of the new World Trade Center in New York City.
With this year's IFSEC exposition in the books, there are many things similar to tradeshows in the United States. IFSEC, hosted in the United Kingdom, relies heavily on local traffic. But because the show is in Birmingham, there is more outside traffic.
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- May 25, 2011