Virginia University Puts Faith in JVC Security Devices

Regent University, a private, faith-based institution that shares a campus with the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in Virginia Beach, Virginia., is keeping better watch than ever over more than 5,500 graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and staff with IP-based cameras and NVRs from JVC Professional Products Company.  read more

IndigoVision Experiences Significant Growth

IndigoVision, the supplier of IP video security solutions, has announced its half year financial results. The company reported an increase in sales revenues of 25 percent to US$24.0m for the 6-month period ending Jan. 31 2011, with operating profits up by 15 percent to $2.2m. Significant investment in research and development continued and the strong balance sheet enabled the payment of an interim dividend for the first time.  read more

Oncam Cameras Spotlight on London's Residential Towers

Oncam Global has designed a customized security solution for The Landmark, one of London's latest luxury residential addresses.  read more

SRI International and Applied Science Foundation Partner to Advance Technology for First Responders

SRI International and the Applied Science Foundation for Homeland Security have signed a strategic alliance partner agreement to foster collaboration relating to the development, testing and fielding of technology designed to meet the needs of first responders at the federal, state and local levels. The agreement between the organizations will facilitate the exchange of ideas, technology and experiences between the foundation's resident research partners, government agencies and the Morrelly Homeland Security Center, all located at the foundation's headquarters.  read more

Personnel Tracking of the Week

EMEA

Basler,
Enzio Schneider, Product Line Manager for the vertical ITS market

Enzio Schneider is Basler's new Product Line Manager for the vertical ITS market (traffic applications). He is a graduate geophysicist and joined Basler in 2004. Schneider was active as an Application Engineer (2004-2006) and as a Project Engineer (2006-2008) for Flat Panel Display Inspection with extended stays in Taiwan and Japan. He took over the responsibility for Surface Inspection Sales in 2008 before joining the camera product management team in 2010. In his current role, Schneider will manage project engineering, product management and sales specifically as they apply to ITS applications for both machine vision and network cameras. Schneider brings a wealth of knowledge from his previous positions, and we are happy to have such an experienced and skilled new colleague on the team.  read more

Panasonic Surveillance Cameras Look After US Governmental Organizations

Hello Alert, a Babylon, New York security systems dealer, has installed thousands of Panasonic video surveillance cameras throughout the state of New York to provide surveillance of various municipal buildings, jails and approximately 50 fire houses in multiple jurisdictions on Long Island.  read more

MaxID and I.D. Solutions Team Up to Optimize Indian Identity Market

MaxID, a provider of mobile identity solutions and I.D. Solutions, a provider of identity and security solutions in India have teamed up to address the potentially explosive market for identity hardware and software driven by the efforts of the Unique Identification Authority of India, known as the UIDAI.  read more

Hikvision Cameras Set at Romanian Building Supply Company

Hikvision's IP-addressable speed domes and IR outdoor cameras have been installed at Black Sea Suppliers' stores and warehouses throughout Romania. The company is the country's building supplies company with outlets and linked warehouses serving 6,000 customers.  read more

PSIA Steps into Access Control and Intrusion for More Interoperability

The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) will host a reception to demonstrate the final pieces of its security suite of specifications. Arecont Vision, Hikvision, Honeywell, IQinVision, ObjectVideo, Tyco and UTC Fire & Security will demonstrate products relying on five PSIA specifications to support systems interoperability.  read more

Global Security Service to Exceed $218 Billion in 2014, Says Freedonia

The global market for private contract security services is forecast to advance 7.4 percent per annum through 2014 to US$218 billion. In general, demand for security services is driven by rising urbanization, the real and perceived risks of crime and terrorism, belief that public safety measures are insufficient and growth of a middle class with assets to protect and the means to pay for supplementary security. Through 2014, gains will also be boosted by improved economic activity and building construction expenditures in developed nations and continued growth in these areas in developing ones.  read more

VidSys PSIM Platform Makes Texas Citywide Security Come True

VidSys, a provider of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software that allows organizations to resolve business and security situations in real time, announced that the City of Plano, Texas along with systems integrator Johnson Controls, has selected the VidSys PSIM software system to power the city's new centralized security and safety platform. read more

Safeguard Addresses Mexican SmartCity Program

Safeguard Security Holdings, a provider of corporate, industrial and residential security solutions, announced that its subsidiary, SYSTEMSgroup Global, will introduce its “SmartCity” program in Mexico. read more

Basler Cameras Watch over Veracity Storage Equipment

Basler network cameras will be seen throughout the US headquarters of Veracity, producer of the COLDSTORE video data storage system. read more

Evergreen Fire & Security Awarded US Army Security Systems Contract

Evergreen Fire & Security (Evergreen), an integrator focused on delivering life safety and security solutions to high-security government installations, has been awarded the prime contract designation on a five-year, US$250 million maximum value contract to provide physical security and force protection services in an automated control systems environment for worldwide support of the Department of Defense (DoD) and key non-DoD Federal Government Agencies. read more

Tyco Security Products Race around UK Motorsport Circuits

Tyco Security Products has announced that American Dynamics has been installed at Oulton Park race track, U.K. The video solution has been installed by Tyco Security Products partners Total Security Protection and WOT Security Group.  read more

Axis Helps Spanish Police Fight against Crimes

In early 2006, the municipalities of the Sierra Norte de Madrid suffered from a huge wave of thefts in the town halls and centers for public access to Internet (CAPIs), with 25 out of the 42 towns of the Sierra being affected. read more

CEM Systems Takes Care of UK Hospital

CEM Systems, a brand of Tyco Security Products, announced that the security management system has been installed by ADT Glasgow to secure Edinburgh's new ‘Spire Shawfair Park hospital'. The system secures patients, visitors and the medical equipment at the hospital.  read more

OSI Systems Wins US Cargo Screening Systems Contract

OSI Systems, announced that its security division, Rapiscan Systems, a provider of detection and imaging solutions has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) to develop two separate systems as part of S&T's CanScan Program. read more

Pan European Certification Provides Niche for Small Businesses

ne of the EU's main objectives is to facilitate reciprocal trade between its member countries. In the security equipment manufacturers' environment, however, this has not proved as effective as companies may have hoped. Increasingly standards have been written to provide the platform for uniform independent testing but this in itself is not enough. Consequently, the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), trade association for the private security industry in the U.K., and its Security Equipment Manufacturers Section have been long-term supporters of pan European certification whereby the quality mark is recognized in all member countries.  read more

Basler Megapixel Domes Secure Office Building in Bucharest

Bucharest's city council is currently transforming Northern Bucharest into one of the city's key areas with high-end office developments, shopping centers and upscale residential buildings. Among the new buildings is a high-profile office building offering 26,000 square meters of office space and a restaurant with a capacity of 150 seats. Four basement levels covering an area of 19,000 square meters are used for parking and storage.  read more

Huntingdonshire College Deploys JVC and SharpView Video Solution

As part of a major upgrade at Huntingdonshire College, Guardian Security selected JVC Professional's surveillance cameras together with SharpView from J2K Video, to form the center of a new enhanced video surveillance security system.  read more

SeeTec Increases Revenue by 40 Percent for Past Three Business Quarters

SeeTec, a manufacturer of video management software in German-speaking countries, has been able to continue the positive development also in the first three business quarters of the fiscal year 2010/2011. The turnover for the business areas software and services has increased by more than 40 percent from June 2010 to February 2011, compared to the reference period in the previous year.  read more