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Participants **** ***** ** *************
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Submitters ****** **** *********
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Comments (17)
Undisclosed #1
This is an insult to the intelligence of programmers everywhere.
Are you kidding me?
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John Honovich
This Valentine's day, Milestone will select one lucky developer...
In addition to #U1's concern, I think Milestone would help themselves and developers by making it easier to purchase apps / solutions. Currently, while Milestone sales and marketing does help promote partners, the friction to buy 'add ons' is high. If Milestone had some form of store that simplified discovery, purchasing and install, this would help attract more developers and make it easier for Milestone customers to take advantage of them.
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Undisclosed #2
The Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio does free weddings all day long on Valentine's Day - and they have done this for many years now.
Maybe Milestone should pony up the $81 license fee (please submit 72 hours prior to 2/14) in an effort to entice participants with long-time significant others.
Valentine's Day Celebrations in San Antonio
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Vlad Craciunescu
It would be interesting to see how many of the 5 finalists are on this forum...
John/IPVM Team, will you attend MIPS this time ?
PS I know one of them already :)
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Brian Karas
Milestone has announced the 5 finalists.
From the link:
Integrating with the security force of the future - Autonomous Mobile Security Bot Squad
Preparing a complete turnkey Security Bot Solution that has an API integration with Milestone. Customers can choose what they need the robot to do and it will be ready for video monitoring surveillance with Milestone.
CCTV for the IoT age with OpenCV and Milestone XProtect®
Developing an open-source solution based on OpenCV, with a simple people-counting and virtual fence functionality as a starting point. This simple solution consumes video streams from the Milestone XProtect server, and publishes events to a NodeRED server.
Parking Spotter
Helping end-users find the closest available parking spot and parking owners to improve operational flows by analyzing the video images from cameras installed inside a parking lot and gathering all parking places inside a city/country in a single app.
Security control for XProtect
Providing an entry level PSIM solution inside XProtect: Customer can receive alarms and view device position on maps from intrusion or fire panels. From XProtect, customers can perform basic commands like arm, disarm, enable or disable. This project aims to provide a unique user experience to all alarm devices, regardless of manufacturer or model.
Asset of Things (AoT)
Cataloging video with assets, messages and events, creating a framework to allow the flow of messages from VMS to device and vice versa using the security APIs, event triggering, rules system integration and most other features. This is done by implementing a new tab in the Smart Client and incorporating a MQTT protocol layer into the VMS server using the plug-in integration.
Any predictions on which one will win it all?
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Undisclosed #2
The entry level PSIM solution should win.
...a 'unique user experience to all alarm devices, regardless of manufacturer or model ' makes training/operations faster and more intuitive.
Robots and analytics for people counting, virtual fence and open parking spaces are so 2014....
For the last one, I'm not sure I want my VMS talking to everything else that has an IP address...
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Brian Karas
UPDATE - Winner
Parking Spotter, an app that uses video analytics to monitor open or occupied parking spaces, providing feedback to users and to parking lot owners/managers, won the Milestone Kickstarter contest at MIPS 2017.
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Brian Karas
For anyone who missed this last year, Milestone is running the developer contest again this year with roughly the same layout as before.
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