ASIS Show 2017 Final Report

IPVM

In reply to Ari Erenthal

That's who they are...

To clarify, Costar Video hired them, Costar is also local to the Dallas area. A lot of Texas companies. If there was a notable minor theme, that was one, much higher rate of Texas companies exhibiting and correspondingly less sales people / people from the Northeast.

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John Honovich

IPVM

Update: Looks like the Garage Monkey guy got the last laugh here. There was a long line to get a photo with him, see video below:

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Thomas Stoker

John,

Good catch on the attendees...

I've been out of the security industry for nearly 10 years and ASIS has changed as to whom attends and from what locations. We found very few SI's stopping by the Turing Video/robot booth from either east or west coasts. That said, overall we rated the show a "B". Which was perfect for us to launch our robot and drone products.

Thomas - TuringVideo

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John Honovich

In reply to Thomas Stoker

IPVM

Thomas, good point about SI's. I noticed similarly with less integrators at ASIS, with the exception of larger integrators. Related: Top Trade Shows For Security Integrators

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Undisclosed Integrator #1

I am confused by the Cat Crap. Aside from being humorous is it a legitimate product? I looked up and saw the company was out of Utah so I assume no mistranslation. Utterly perplexed by their marketing.

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Undisclosed #2

In reply to Undisclosed Integrator #1

Absolutely an outstanding product for use on snowmobile or motorcycle helmet shields, and I won’t leave home without it. I would not, however, recommend it for use on camera optics, as Cat Crap has a tendancy of creating a film which will distort video images, particularly noticeable on high resolution cameras 2MP and up. But friend, when it comes to its anti-fogging properties on helmet shields, Cat Crap is the cat’s ass!

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Undisclosed #2

In reply to Undisclosed #2

I would also mention that the founders of Utah-based Cat Crap are Arctic Cat fanatics, Arctic Cat being one of the four snowmobile manufacturers out there, and an OEM for Yamaha. It’s a clever marketing stunt for sure.

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John Honovich

IPVM

Dahua PR person thanks for us for the 'advertising':

Dahua is one amazing company...

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Undisclosed Integrator #1

Just a mind-boggling amount of ineptness.

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #7

And thanks Dahua for the marketing of the even larger Hanwha banner in the background!

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Undisclosed #3

IPVMU Certified

Is this the ISO symbol for "Untrusted Network"?

or the guy from Spy vs. Spy with a parachute?

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John Honovich

IPVM

Note: added images and short commentary on Anixter, Avigilon, Bosch and Hikvision to post.

Expect next update Wednesday early evening.

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #4

The Apple booth has to be in contention for strangest booth. People were lining up to talk to a couple of Apple employees behind a table. There was an iPad on the table, the table was a trade show table not a cool Apple store table. Does anyone have any idea why they are there?

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John Honovich

In reply to Undisclosed Manufacturer #4

IPVM

Karas went to the Apple booth and they said it was for employee recruitment, specifically for investigators if I recall him correctly. Despite the booth being strange and unadorned, lots of people were going up simply because it was Apple, he noted.

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Thomas Stoker

Our booth was just around the corner from them. We looked under their table after the show closed and they left all the product brochures they had brought.

They were about recruiting for corporate attorneys... Oops, wrong show. LOL

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Dori Ribak

RBtec Perimeter Security Systems

How's the floor looks today?

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Marty Calhoun

IPVMU Certified

Thanks for all the pictures on Hik-Central.....

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #5

In reply to Marty Calhoun

There’s still 3 hours tomorrow, maybe if you call your friends at HIK they will run John through a full demo.

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Undisclosed Integrator #1

In reply to Undisclosed Manufacturer #5

Just wait until it shows up on Shodan.io and see for yourself.

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #6

Any exhibitors feedback?

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John Honovich

In reply to Undisclosed Manufacturer #6

IPVM

We are going to do a survey on Thursday and publish the results on Friday about manufacturer feedback on the show. This will provide a broader picture of manufacturer experience.

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #6

That would be great but i think being undisclosed here will make people more honest about how the show really went other than admitting to you it didn't go well.

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John Honovich

In reply to Undisclosed Manufacturer #6

IPVM

Disagree. Hearing from a handful of random people is less accurate than getting 100 or so people to vote and explain.

I am also not sure why you believe that people will pretend the show went better than it did because for the last few years, manufacturers in our survey ripped ASIS apart, e.g. Weak ASIS 2016 Upsets Manufacturers

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #6

I agree statistics is a powerful tool and probably an anonymous pole would be the best.

Probably survey of scan numbers will be the only hard number you can compare about how good or bad was it, everything else it subjective.

I believe that you need to take it with grain of salt since it projects badly on them so if they say it was bad probably it was very bad.

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John Honovich

IPVM

Below is a video of interacting with the Knightscope robot. Key findings - the robot is quite good at stopping quickly and avoiding people but the robot is programmed to be very cautious so anytime it detects a person close to it, it stops and waits a few seconds and can be easily and effectively blocked. That is good for avoiding crashes but it undermines its overall usefulness (vs a human being who could better navigate around people):

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Undisclosed #3

IPVMU Certified

It would be hysterical if you made a comparison video with a unsuspecting human guard :)

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Undisclosed #2

In reply to Undisclosed #3

I’d be happy to submit to such a test were IPVM in need.

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Undisclosed End User #9

•Sep 30, 2017

After John’s interaction with the CEO we know that he is know by knightscope leadership, we also know the robots do not have facial recognition because they surely may have programmed some interesting features when John approached their bot at the show. <smile>

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #5

•Oct 03, 2017

I was expecting the "Tango" music in the background.

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #8

Maybe it's just me, but that Teddy Bear booth looks a bit creepy...

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Scott Napier

I loved the anti-drone guys being right next to the drone companies. One of them even told me that the drone maker was a reseller for the anti-drone stuff, my head nearly exploded.

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Undisclosed #13

In reply to Scott Napier

I know Hikvision has both drones and anti-drone products! You can find those on their machine vision pages.

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #10

•Sep 30, 2017

"They [Dahua] should own the problem and communicate clearly the risks so partners are aware..."

Don't underestimate ignorance, willful or otherwise. Average consumers dont read about such issues unless its Target or Experian. Even the supposedly cyber aware IT community, many seem overly focused on computers and routers, but don't seem to give cameras or NVRs a second thought, unless you effectively bring it up. And if end users aren't concerned enough, there are plenty dealers willing to push the products.

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Undisclosed Integrator #11

Good morning from Panama,in our opinion, the new trend for this kind of shows, forums, would be more regional, like, one for central america and the caribbean, other for north america, mexico, canada, USA, less costs, more time for the guest to be in every presentation, stand, better planning for logistic, economies of scale, more oriented to the real needs, budgets, technology of each area

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Undisclosed End User #12

Any more info on the "Liner" :) BLE Reader?, seams to be nothing on their website:

https://www.linearproaccess.com/

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Brian Rhodes

In reply to Undisclosed End User #12

IPVMU Certified

Thanks for catching that, typo fixed.

We're reaching out for more details to Nortek on the BLE Reader for a post. We'll have more on it coming up.

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Undisclosed End User #12

In reply to Brian Rhodes

All in fun Brian. Another note, when I called Nortek, they know nothing about this. I emailed a regional rep, I'll report back when I hear back (Company Internets just went down! :( )

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Undisclosed End User #14

For those that attended the show (I did not) - were there any products that jumped out and new technologies that we should be aware of beyond what was covered here?

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Scott Napier

In reply to Undisclosed End User #14

Nothing really earth shattering, but the autonomous stuff (ground based) is starting to get to the point that I can start thinking about putting it to use in the real world.

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John Honovich

IPVM

In reply to Scott Napier

Scott, which autonomous options are you considering? Curious to hear which ones you think have the most potential.

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Scott Napier

We have been talking about this for quite some time, right now Turing seems to make the most sense for our purposes. The Knightscope aesthetics would never work for us and the Cobalt guys want to use their own team to monitor and dispatch response. That is another non-starter around here.

I spent quite a while talking to Mr. Stoker before and after the show. The only issue we have is dealing with multi-level facilities. If that thing had an arm to hit elevator call buttons we could make better use of it.

We are still in the "talk it thru" phase, but a demo seems to be the next logical step so we can identify the real limitations and advantages over what we have in place now.

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #15