Dotworkz Solar Surveillance Kits Examined
By Brian Rhodes
Dotworkz wants to make solar-powered surveillance easy. In what can be a daunting design challenge for even experienced integrators, Dotworkz...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
Why use Pan-Tilt positioners when speed dome PTZs are widely available? For many, these units are a thing of the past. However, they do play...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
Startups and investors focus heavily on how big the market is - Is it $10 billion, $20 billion, $41 billion??? By contrast, both would be better...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
"Well actually nothing," admits a security manufacturer who is giving away 3000 rubber ducks [link no longer available] at ASIS 2012. Indeed, there...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
It started off with a bizarre seemingly staged 'mob hit', got worse a few months later and now has become a major crisis. One of the most powerful...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
A few years ago, TimeSight burst on to the scenes with an NVR claiming to deliver massive storage savings up to 90%. Now, TimeSight is ceasing...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
How actively are surveillance systems monitored? Do end users prefer to passively use surveillance for recording activity, or do they actively...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
In the past 5 years, megapixel IP cameras have sweeped the surveillance industry, changing the landscape and expectations of security users. While...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
Microsoft is empowering New York City to track you car's activities for the past 5 years, allowing near instantanous recall and mapping of...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
Will making returns easy and guaranteeing stock draw integrators to Pelco? The company thinks so, and they have leveraged the idea into a recently...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
Color images in no light... impossible claim? Not according to Speco, who recently announced an IP version of their Intensifier series [link no...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
While analytics have a bad reputation, are security operators using them? In a new end user survey, we asked "Do You Use any Intelligent Video...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
While still fast for the surveillance market, Avigilon's growth cooled notably in Q2 2012 while marketing expenditures skyrocketed. In this note,...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
Should you be concerned about the energy costs from your surveillance systems? Are these a hidden killer or can certain products deliver huge...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
One of the ugliest yet least known elements of the media business is publications selling article reprints to companies covered in those articles....
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
Declining margins are a huge issue for integrators. With pressure from Internet sales rising, a key driver of integrator profitability is being...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
Maintenance for wireless surveillance is critical, far more so than for wired ones. If you install a wireless surveillance system and forget about...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
City surveillance projects are hard, one of the hardest in all of surveillance. They need lots of outdoor cameras, generally distributed over large...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
Who calls the shots when it comes to video surveillance? Given the close proximity of the system to several distinct departments, we were curious...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
Neighborhood watches have become a hot topic. And while the press now is overwhelmingly bad, such watches, done right, can help keep neighborhood...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
Video gets all the hype but should savvy integrators lead with access control instead? Recently, some integrator members advocated this as a...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
Servicing cameras mounted high in the air can be very problematic and costly. Renting a lift, transporting it to the site, and manoeuvring it in...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
Historically, video surveillance recorders and the cloud did not mix. Now, March Networks is adding a cloud service to their existing product...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again, PR people are worthless. Not all, of course, but an amazing number of them. In today's episode, we have...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
One of the biggest decisions surveillance end users make is how to buy their systems. Traditionally, integrators were the primary source but...
By Brian Rhodes - about 12 years ago
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