How Much Megapixel Do You Need?
By John Honovich
When selecting one's next recorder, a critical question for existing analog camera users will be: How much megapixel do you need? Answer wrong and...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
In March 2011, the Carlyle Group [link no longer available], a global asset manager with nearly $100 Billion under management, acquired VMS...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
While security consultants should be totally committed to the needs of their customers, many fear that manufacturers have undue influence on...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
Surprisingly, Milestone is entering the hardware business [link no longer available]. After years of warning the industry about the dangers of...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
Online sales of video surveillance products is already a sizable market growing at a robust rate. We estimate the global market size is over $200...
By Marty Major - over 13 years ago
The rise of megapixel cameras is literally making Standard Definition cameras look bad. We see this having a significant psychological, marketing...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
In this note, we review the key features and positioning of Agent Vi's System 4.0 real time alerting release [link no longer available]. It...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
NLSS is likely the most interesting recent startup in the video surveillance market. The founder's last startup was sold to Cisco. Plus, NLSS has...
By Antony Look - over 13 years ago
Video quality at night can be very poor. Even cameras that rate their minimum illumination as .1 lux or less routinely display dark, noisy images...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
For the second half of 2010, Mobotix recorded significant revenue growth at a far higher rate than the previous year and its best results since the...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
In this note, we examine a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) RFP for covert audio/video surveillance equipment and services. The equipment is...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
While the typical role of security distributors is facilitating sales of products between manufacturers and integrators, significant evidence...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
In this note, we examine the sales expansion and policies of Avigilon, an HD surveillance manufacturer, which has grown at a very high rate over...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
A rising fear among security professionals is that surveillance video can be 'hijacked' and put on the Internet, resulting in embarassment or worse...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
Gaps, or holes, in one's surveillance coverage is a fact of life for most organizations. Unfortunately, it can become a painful fact when incidents...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
The standard security sales model encourages bad system designs and poor integration skills. Specifically, manufacturer's varying discount levels...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
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In Anixter's investors call [link no longer available], the company disclosed that it's Q4 2010 security sales increased sharply, providing further...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
Many incumbent CCTV/security dealers do not want to deal with IP's complexity. It is frequently argued that these dealers, perhaps the core of the...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
The ACLU's surveillance concerns [link no longer available] are based on technology that does not work in the real world. Ironically, the ACLU is...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
In this note, we examine Bosch's new HD camera lineup [link no longer available]. One of the last major vendors to release their own H.264 HD...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
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After a long stretch of sharp revenue declines, in Q4 2010, Vicon recorded its best financial results in years. Compared to Q4 2009, revenue was up...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
We examine key considerations in the design and use of video surveillance monitoring stations. All too often, the tendency is to hang multiple...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
Axis's financial results continue to improve, finishing a strong 2010 with its best quarter [link no longer available] in a few years. In local...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
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