Expanding into QSRs
By John Honovich
A job posting by Cernium indicates that they will be selling their new Archerfish video analytics appliance to Quick Serve Restaurants. They are...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
With hundreds of manufacturers to choose from and little comparative information available, choosing the 'right' surveillance camera can be...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Acuity is a new video surveillance company (1-2 years old) founded by Pelco and AD veterans gaining recent press attention. I received a company...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
While IT departments are accustomed to paying for ongoing support of their software (15%-20% annually of the purchased price is common), security...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
A security management blog ran a series of posts on the use of video analytics to eliminate guards. The application is secure facilities where US...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
What's interesting is that when I talk to industry people, BRS Labs now is consistently listed among the top video analytics companies. This has to...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
3xLogic tells me they are growing quickly and given their product lineup and pricing, I believe them. They used to be an OEM (CSI Technologies) and...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Mobotix has a new version of their panoramic dome series - Q24. Mobotix states that the 3MP camera offers 8fps at 3MP, double the frame rate of the...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Vicon is/was a powerful analog company years ago but is fairly marginalized today. Vicon is selling software only in addition to appliances. They...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Ironically, PSIM Vendor Vidsys is running a webinar asking if PSIM Deployments Exist? Clearly, Vidsys will discuss how they do exist and the...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
The happy press for managed video continues to roll with new articles in SSN [link no longer available] and Central Station [link no longer...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Recently, results from a facial recognition test for the Korean National Police were reported [link no longer available] widely by 3VR of...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
With so much hype and now so much disappointment, the state and future of intelligent video can be difficult to judge. I consistently hear business...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Everyone in video surveillance praises being open but what does that really mean? And despite the words, how many companies are really open?...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
The IP video surveillance industry frequently looks to Axis for guidance and recommendations on the future of the market. In this presentation,...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
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
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