Understanding Video Surveillance APIs
By John Honovich
While APIs are key to 'open' platforms, they are a frequently misunderstood and over-hyped aspect of physical security. While APIs can provide...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
Using video analytics beyond security may be the most important trend in video analytics. While marketing and business intelligence applications...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
Recently, BRS Labs announced its company to great fanfare. Indeed, BRS Labs has a very interesting offering but great questions remain about its...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
A dangerous and mass movement is underway for video surveillance companies to sell you packages. Packaging together cameras, encoders and IP video...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
In the next few years, we will see a significant transition away from storing video inside DVR/NVR servers. This 'on-board' storage will be...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
While the publicity goes to mega-cities deploying video surveillance, city wide video surveillance is becoming very cost-effective, valuable and...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
SightLogix is optimizing a video analytics solution for outdoor use in harsh weather conditions and over large areas. The product aims to be more...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
Surveillance vendors who sell to retail merchants have undoubtedly heard about PCI compliance, but may not understand exactly what it is and how it...
By Dave Nieweg - about 16 years ago
In a move foreshadowing the future of video surveillance, the NYPD is launching a service for anyone to upload video of crimes captured on their...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
Megapixel IP security cameras deliver one great benefit that traditional analogue CCTV cameras just cannot match, you'll all be using them...
By IPVM - about 16 years ago
An in-depth Q&A with industry leaders on IP vs CCTV has been published by Security Technology and Design magazine. I have summarized...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
Verint's objective is to be an end-to-end solutions provider delivering a complete product offering of IP video products. This is a significant...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
The overwhelming majority of people buying cameras today do not choose IP cameras. While most people see the move to be inevitable, serious debate...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
What importance do software operating systems have in the IP video surveillance software industry? In 2002, I left PeopleSoft to work for Heery...
By Christopher Uiterwyk - about 16 years ago
Video surveillance faces many specific problems. All of these problems derive from a single crisis facing technology industries today.Look at some...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
Envysion is optimizing a solution for small box retailers. This is good news because small box retailers (e.g., quick serve restaurants and retail...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
The video surveillance market will take a beating regardless of the hope that security is recession-proof. This report reviews the key reasons and...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
You are making a mistake by not blogging. It does not matter who you are. Blogging can have a very significant impact on your business at an...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
Tyco's acquisition of Intellivid has the potential to be a great solution for retailers. While it certainly will take time and there are...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
While Axis brought IP cameras to the enterprise, ACTi could be fostering IP cameras to the masses. With a broad camera line and extensive NVR...
The most novel or powerful product is usually viewed as the best. Though usually wrong, it is attractive nonetheless. The solutions most likely to...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
Centrally recording video from remote sites is as frequently claimed as it is wrong. It is an exciting concept that fails due to basic technical...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
The camera system is compact and has good packaging, but the overall embedded system design and firmware has to be improved. The system has some...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
Steelbox provides a unique and very attractive solution to large scale video surveillance deployments. In applications where more than a hundred...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
While we continue to spend more on public CCTV systems, the debate on CCTV effectiveness has reached a polarizing and inconclusive standoff. On the...
By John Honovich - about 16 years ago
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