Key Note: UK CCTV Market to Grow by 3.9 Percent by 2011

This Key Note market report examines the UK CCTV market, which has experienced a downturn since 2008 owing to the recession. Key Note estimates that the value of the CCTV market including installation and maintenance as well as equipment, but excluding the cost of monitoring fell by 16.5 percent between 2009 and 2010, to more than US$ 660 million at end-user prices.  read more

IDC: Smart and Connected Technology to Become Important for Megasporting Events

Cisco outlined its vision for the role that technology will play in megasports events of the future. A white paper from International Data Corporation (IDC) sponsored by Cisco assesses the impact that smart and connected technology may have in terms of supporting the planning, staging, management and subsequent ongoing economic contribution of a megasports event within a region, particularly in a developing-country market environment. read more

Pelco IARC Selected for Governmental Network Security Efforts

Pelco management announced that the company’s Information Assurance team has been selected and reorganized as the Information Assurance Resource Center (IARC) to support the Schneider Electric North America organization in its government network security compliance efforts. read more

Morpho Detection Awarded UK Transportation Detection System Contact

Morpho Detection, part of Morpho, Safran group’s security business, announced that the United Kingdom Department for Transport (DfT) has approved the trace detection system for use in U.K. transportation security applications. The UK approval paves the way for more countries to use the technology to help protect security interests. read more

3VR Helps US Bank Cracks Down on Fraud

3VR Security, a provider of intelligent surveillance and search, announced that customer Union Savings Bankhas leveraged 3VR’s search-based surveillance and analytics technology to capture 80 times more usable security video and maintain one of the industry’s lowest fraud rates.  read more

Document Security Systems and CardLogix Partner up for e-passports

Document Security Systems, a provider of optical deterrent technologies and CardLogix, a manufacturer of smart cards and software, announced a strategic partnership to create secure e-Passport solutions. The two companies are working on combining chip-based encryption and graphic features that will make e-Passports a fast, effective and accurate means of identification. Credentials with chip and graphics technology are ideal for all forms of identity, including e-Passports, National IDs, driver licenses and many other official forms of secure identification.  read more

Infinova Watches over Indian Toll System

Infinova announced that peripheral ring roads, expressways, interchanges and toll plazas on the outskirts of Bangalore developed by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises (NICE) will use a variety of Infinovacameras as part of a customized independent vision-based solution created by Infinova and Deepti Electronics & Electro-Optics (DELOPT) to be installed at all eight plazas and their 106 total toll lanes. read more