P-Iris Claims to Improve Megapixel Cameras
By John Honovich
Axis announced an upcoming product enhancement that aims to improve megapixel image quality. Called P-Iris (for Precise Iris), it is an alternative...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
Cisco has released an 8 page guide for their partners on how to sell Cisco video surveillance for small and medium size businesses. Most of it is...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
A May 2009 press release from ACTi demonstrates 3 interesting characteristics about ACTi's strategy and market approach. The press release is about...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
Continuing the trend of new manufacturers offering megapixel cameras, US vendor 3xLogic just announced the release of a series of 1.3 and 2MP domes...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
SVC, or Scalable Video Codec, can dynamically change the resolution and bit-rate of video streams. This is extremely important for security...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
Internet luminary Kevin Rose suggests that we cut out alarm monitoring companies through the use of low cost devices and sharing alerts via...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
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With megapixel becoming more commonplace, manufacturers are starting to focus on improving image quality and nigh-time performance (for instance,...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
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While many are familiar with HiKVision [link no longer available] as an OEM of DVR cards and DVR appliances, HikVision is expanding into a full IP...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
The 2010 Guide has now replaced the 2009 edition - providing double the coverage of 2009. The 612 page 2010 Video Surveillance Industry Guide...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
Will non-IP cameras soon provide megapixel resolution? It sounds strange and almost a contradiction in terms. Today, only IP cameras provide...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
This week, Vidsys released a video examining successful PSIM Deployments. It's an interesting webcast to watch. The two key themes were (1) cities...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
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In a survey of over 250 security managers, the Security Executive Council is reporting significant drops in security department budgets (see their...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
Mobotix's revenue grew 24.7 last quarter (compared to Q1 2009). While down from the 50% growth rate of early last year, the rate is significantly...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
Over the last few years, the MSRP of 16 channel enterprise DVRs were in the $7,000 to $9,000 range (AD, Verint, March, etc. - products that offered...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
Spring is the season of new product announcements and major trade shows for the security industry. This week, Europe's biggest annual security...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
Security Sales magazine recently released a very useful survey of US security integrators [link no longer available]. It's 6 pages long and has...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
The CEO of Norbain recently commented that IP growth has been cut in half. He sees spending on installs reduce but not a decrease in the overall...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
In the beginning of 2008, there were very few form factor options for megapixel cameras. Almost all of them were "box" units (except for Mobotix)....
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
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 - over 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 - over 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 - over 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 - over 15 years ago
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