City Wide Monitoring by Police of Private Cameras
By John Honovich
The City of Atherton in California is now running a fairly sophisticated operation whereby the police remotely monitor IP video surveillance. The...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
IQinVision has announced a small scale access control software offering to be used with their Megapixel cameras. It works with their PRO series of...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Storage tends to be one of the more costly and problematic parts of video surveillance systems. Most video surveillance systems, even today, do not...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
When trade magazines run negative articles, you know a technology is in trouble. This month, SDM released a report on security integrator's...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Figuring out how video surveillance products are different is a challenging task. While some products are literally the same, most of them are...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
A lot of video surveillance products look the same. The reason may be becuase they literally are the same. Big Western manufacturers routinely buy...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
One of the interesting dynamics I see in the industry is between those who are used to deploying DVRs and those who deploy IP video software. As...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
It's become clear that 1.3 MP, H.264, 10 - 12 fps cameras are now everywhere. At SecuTech, basically every camera manufacturer, even the laggards...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
OnSSI continues to expand its market position to be a PSIM provider. This week, they shared a new video that overviews their PSIM solution with an...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Axis 1st quarter results were weaker than Q4 2008 (see Axis' Q1 presentation). For the first time, Axis reported shrinking revenue (-2% in real,...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Bosch Security President Gert van Ipeeren presented at SecuTech. Key points presented: Expects 2009 security sales decline of 5% globally, 10%...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Cisco has conducted a limited re-structuring with the goal of fostering a singular platform for video surveillance. The plan, underway, is to unify...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
One of these Taiawanese companies that is increasingly focused on building their brand is Nuuo, a video management manufacturer. Nuuo develops IP...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Avocado is a startup claiming to do a combination of video analytics, Software as a Service and Business Intelligence. They have been around for a...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
While not very well known in the US and Europe, SecuTech is a suprisingly interesting and strong security industry conference. This...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Maximum security facilities have far different requirements for video surveillance than typical commercial use. In a maximum security facility,...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Recently, IQinVision releaed an article advocating benefits of MJPEG [link no longer available].[Update Dec 2010: We conducted extensive testing...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
For large scale video surveillance deployments, like casinos, the enhanced redundancy provided in RAID6 over RAID5 is critical to minimizing video...
By Carl Lindgren - about 15 years ago
A routinely overlooked but key aspect to using video analytics is camera positioning. Not simply an implementation issue, camera positioning...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
ADT posted an article on their site validating the growth of IP video surveillance, saying that IP's time has come. Of course that sentiment is not...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
IMS has publicly released revised market forecast for 2009: "IMS still sees growth, but the research firm's predictions are 15 percent less robust...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Digiop offers a line of hybrid DVR and NVRs. The most interesting differentiators about Digiop is (1) Dell provides the hardware and (2)...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
This premium report examines the value and potential impact of 12 new products announced at ISC West. If you are looking for the next new thing or...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
What is Convergence? Examining various definitions: Vidsys has an interesting webinar discussing the operational/organizational issues in...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
In the last month, a renewed sense of optimism has emerged in the video surveillance industry - mirroring the rise of the global stock markets and...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
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