City Chooses Dummy Cameras to Secure Government Building
By Carlton Purvis
| 15 CommentsAfter a Massachusetts city’s government complex added one dozen cameras, the local newspaper questioned where they came from. What they found was...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago | 15 Comments
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Most card readers are hardwired to a controller, but not this unit. It claims to be as easy to install as a sticker. Even better: they say it works...
By Brian Rhodes - over 10 years ago | 2 Comments
Cameras are going up everywhere, so it was only a matter of time until people would anticipate a market for anti-camera technology. There’s already...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago | 6 Comments
A 2013 study found that body cameras led to a massive reduction in use of force incidents and officer complaints. However, a new Justice Department...
By Ben Wood - over 10 years ago | 5 Comments
Video management software companies entering access control is a growing trend. One of the first to do this was Genetec, who now has a long...
By Brian Rhodes - over 10 years ago | 26 Comments
The Video Quality in Public Safety (VQiPS) working group is run by the US government and is comprised of "public safety practitioners, Federal...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago | 2 Comments
This is the technique that two of the fastest growing companies in surveillance use, but most incumbents miss. It offers incredible low cost plus...
By John Honovich - over 10 years ago | 20 Comments
A controversy is brewing in Japan after a newspaper was tipped off about a practice stores use to combat shoplifting. A network of stores uses...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago | 5 Comments
A key limitation of integrated IR cameras is distance covered. Even long range integrated IR cameras are typically not more than 50 meters. Now,...
By John Honovich - over 10 years ago
Here are the 7 key trends we see for the video surveillance market emerging in 2014: Low cost camera manufacturer competitive shift FLIR and...
By John Honovich - over 10 years ago | 14 Comments
Some are bad, some are good, some are nonexistent, but what considerations go into crafting a surveillance policy? We talked to University Police...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago | 4 Comments
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Is analog innovation heating up? 960H was the big analog jump over the last few years, offering 34% increase in 'resolution.' Now, Samsung is...
By Ethan Ace - over 10 years ago | 24 Comments
What is the camera of choice for securing archaeological sites? We talked to archaeologist Chris Merritt [link no longer available] about what...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago | 4 Comments
Cameras in schools are nearly everywhere but inside classrooms? Far less common. A school district in Michigan paid $3,000 per classroom for a...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago | 11 Comments
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What video surveillance manufacturer is worth a staggering $12 billion USD? How about Avigilon? Avigilon is growing very fast and, impressively,...
By John Honovich - over 10 years ago | 21 Comments
The German Pirate Party recently created an anti surveillance campaign that focuses on the security (or lack of) that cameras provide people. The...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago | 2 Comments
With surveillance dissapointing, access control dominanted the top awards at ISC West. Of course, a bulletproof bookshelf might be fatally flawed...
By Brian Rhodes - over 10 years ago
A crowd mobbed and beat a man into a coma after the man accidently ran over a 10 year old boy near a gas station in Detroit. Because of poor image...
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago | 4 Comments
A major new offering, now IPVM members can take a series of 7 quizzes, plus they can assign them to their co-workers who are also IPVM members. 7...
By John Honovich - over 10 years ago | 14 Comments
This map shows the locations of IPVM PRO members throughout the world. The map is based on member logins to the IPVM site. Global Impact One...
By John Honovich - over 10 years ago | 30 Comments
A company was ordered to pay a female employee $11,000 after an investigation found that the owner regularly used the surveillance system to stream...
By Ben Wood - over 10 years ago | 38 Comments
A little-known company produced a marketing video comparing its cameras to Chinese giants Dahua and Hikvision, becoming a topic of conversation....
By Carlton Purvis - over 10 years ago | 3 Comments
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