Sep 24, 2010

DVTel and Schneider Electric Watch over Pennsylvanian City

DVTel, a provider of smart security solutions, announced the City of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania is protecting the city’s square, downtown and other high-risk areas in the city with DVTel’s security platform and its PTZ and fixed network cameras.  read more

Motorola Security Solutions Enhance University of Delaware Safety

The Motorola Solutions business of Motorola partnered with the University of Delaware (UD) to deploy a video security solution that helps promote a safe and healthy learning environment by enhancing visibility to campus incidents. The system incorporates campus-wide video surveillance, access control, asset management and a command-and-control center to address the university's need for a comprehensive solution that helps improve situational awareness, tactical response and incident management capabilities.  read more

Homeless Individuals Given Helping Hand by Fulcrum Multibiometric Solution

Fulcrum Biometrics, an international provider, distributor and integrator of multiple biometric identification systems and biometric devices, delivered a biometric management solution to the Bergen County Department of Human Services (DHS). Working with New Jersey Business Systems (NJBS), Fulcrum used their modular development system to develop a fingerprint identification system that will allow the Bergen DHS to better serve their homeless population. read more

Wren Video Solution Takes Care of Mississippi School District

Wren, a provider of physical security solutions that create safe learning environments, announced that Water Valley School District has selected the company's video solution for improved school security, easy access to IP video, and scalability to allow the school to grow its video network across the entire school district over time.  read more

3VR Security Surveillance Search Helps Roseville Police Combat Crimes

3VR Security, a provider for intelligent surveillance and search, in partnership with security integratorSurveillance Systems Integration, announced that the Roseville, California Police Department identified and arrested a convicted felon just four days following the attempted robbery and threatening of a security guard of a major department store using 3VR’s online community of fraud, loss prevention and law enforcement professionals dedicated to stopping crime.  read more

Indra's CES Projects a National R&D Initiative for Explosive Detection Development

Indra’s Centre of Excellence for Security Systems (CES) in Leon is leading the Detection systems of Explosives in Centres and Public Infrastructures (SEDUCE) project, which is promoted by the R&D CENIT program. It seeks to develop the knowledge and the necessary technology to guarantee detection of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in centers and public infrastructures such as ports, airports, trains and metro stations.  read more

Code Locks Take Care of UK Hospital

Upgrade and replacement of damaged mechanical digital locks at Worcester Royal Hospital has led facilities managers on site to specify electronic locks from Codelocks. read more

Sep 23, 2010

IMS Research: Brazil Heats Up Latin American Surveillance Market

In a recently market study entitled “The Latin American Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment” from IMS Research has concluded that Brazil is the largest and fastest growing market in Latin America for video surveillance equipment, and one of the fastest growing markets globally. read more

Indian Hydroelectric Power Plant Fueled by DVTel Surveillance Solutions

DVTel, a provider of smart security solutions, announced that the Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station (NJHPS), India's largest hydroelectric power project, has installed DVTel's security operations center to protect operational areas of the power station.  read more

Digital Barriers Acquires COE

COE Group, a video surveillance specialist, has been acquired by Digital Barriers. This is the third acquisitionfor Digital Barriers this year and is the next step in its strategy to build a mid-market business in the homeland security and defense sectors. For Digital Barriers, the acquisition of COE will bring expertise and technologies in the transmission and management of video over IP, fiber and hybrid video networks.  read more

AMG Systems Expands Indian Team to Include Technical Support

AMG Systems has expanded its Indian operation to include local technical support. Based out of New Delhi theIndian technical support will be headed up by Lakshay Kaushik. Kaushik joins AMG from a position as Project Engineer in Bosch Security Systems and he brings valuable hands on project experience having worked on anumber of large projects both in the transport sector and the security sector. read more

Nedap Partners with Italian Access Control Provider Apice

Nedap Security Management and Apice entered into a partnership agreement to collaborate on the Italian security market.  read more

Schlage Acquires Fusion Hardware Group's Door Hardware Division

Schlage Lock Company, a business unit of Ingersoll Rand, acquired the assets of the Door Hardware Division of Fusion Hardware Group.  read more

L-1 Identity Solutions Awarded $24.5 Million Indian National ID Order

L-1 Identity Solutions, a provider of identity solutions and services, has received US$24.5 million in purchase orders for finger and iris biometric capture devices for the initial phase of India’s Unique Identification Number (UID) program, or AADHAAR. The orders include both fingerprint slap devices and iris cameras, both of which have been certified for the UID program by the Standardization, Testing and Quality Certification Directorate for the Government of India’s Department of Information Technology (DIT). read more

Avigilon Appoints New Western Canadian Sales Director

Avigilon appointed Andrew Mooney as the Regional Sales Director for Western Canada. With experience in thesurveillance industry and an established network of customers and integration partners, Mooney will leadAvigilon’s continued expansion in the region.  read more

Mobotix Reinforces Management Board

To support the continuous growth of Mobotix, the supervisory Board of Mobotix has decided on Sept. 19, toappoint two additional members to the Management Board as of Jan. 1, 2011 and to divide the departments. Lutz Coelen, who also managed the sales department on interim basis, will remain CFO. Magnus Ekerot will beappointed as the new CSO. Oliver Gabel, Director of Advanced Technology Development and assistant of many years to the CEO, will be appointed to CTO and will also be in charge of Production and Development.  read more

Sep 21, 2010

CEM Access Control Descends on Manchester Airport

CEM Systems, part of Tyco Security Products, announced that the CEM security management system atManchester Airport has been extended to secure the new A380 Pier B. Pier B was updated to accommodate anA380 aircraft, which first landed at Manchester Airport on Sept. 1.  read more

Integrated Design Glass Gates Secure Macedonian Manufacturing Plant

Glass gates from Integrated Design Ltd (IDL) has been installed in Macedonia to secure the new manufacturing facility of a large global corporation.  read more

DVTel and Software House Collaborate on Technology Integration

DVTel, a provider of smart security solutions, announced the integration between DVTel’s network VMS (NVMS) and Software House security and event management system creating an integrated security solution that delivers the power of each system’s capabilities.  read more 

Gunnebo and Salto Systems Enter Strategic Partnership

Gunnebo entered into a partnership with Salto Systems and is integrating their offline access equipment into its server supervision system. read more

ICOP Delivers Additional Order for US Police Mobile Video

ICOP Digital, a company engaged in advancing digital surveillance technology solutions, announced the receipt of a US$100,000 order for ICOP in-car video systems from the Fort Polk Police Department in Louisiana.  read more

US Budgets $98 Million for X-Ray and Baggage Screening at Airports

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced approximately US$98 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for advanced technology X-ray units and inlinebaggage screening systems’ enhancing the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) efforts to strengthen airport security while boosting the local economy.  read more

Sep 20, 2010

Safran Buys L-1 Identity Solutions for $1.6 Billion

L-1 Identity Solutions entered into an agreement to be acquired by Safran in a merger transaction providing for stockholders to receive US$12 per share in cash, for an aggregate enterprise value of approximately $1.6 billion, inclusive of outstanding debt. The per share consideration of $12 incorporates the purchase price to be received pursuant to the sale of the L-1 intelligence services businesses as described below. The per share price represents a premium of 24 percent over L-1's closing stock price on the NYSE on Sept. 17, and a premium of 66 percent over the closing stock price on Jan. 5, the day prior to L-1's announcement of its strategic alternatives review process.  read more

Remsdaq and 2020 Vision Systems Enter Technology Partnership

Remsdaq announcd a strategic business partnership with UK-based 2020 Vision Systems. 

2020 Vision Systems will join an value-added resellers program supplying Remsdaq’s, access control, alarm and video management products and its Sabre perimeter intruder detection products.  read more

Gallagher Security Appoints New Zealand Sales Manager

Gallagher Security, a division of Gallagher Group, has appointed a new Sales Manager for the New Zealand & Pacific region.  read more

Security and Telecommunications Vendors Form Secure City Technology Alliance

Technology and market leaders in the physical security and telecommunications industries formed the SecureCity Technology Alliance (SCTA). The alliance is focused on providing governments around the world with interoperable, city-wide security solutions that can be rapidly deployed, easily managed and will enable instant coordination for dramatically improved public safety and emergency response. The market for these types of integrated solutions is large, global and growing with spending predicted to accelerate by 30 percent annually to reach US $5.7 billion by 2014, according to projections based on data from IMS Research and Infonetics Research.  read more

Brazilian Financial Institution Invests in VIVOTEK IP Surveillance

A financial institution located in Sao Paulo, Brazil is in the midst of a massive technology upgrade. It decided to complement its security system for data center access with a surveillance system based on network cameras.  read more