Lessons for Cisco from GE Security's Failure
A common refrain from industry veterans is how the physical security industry is especially, perhaps uniquely, different and difficult than other...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
Failure (112)
Displaying 'Failure' tags 101 - 112 of 112 in totalConcealed Bomb Detection Criticism Examined
Detecting concealed bombs with video surveillance or analytics is fairly infeasible as video can only detect what it can see. As such, various bomb...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
IBM "Dumped" and US Public Surveillance Problems
Despite massive interest in public video surveillance projects in the United States, many of the projects since 9/11 have faced serious public...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
Cisco Admits Failure, Partners with Pelco (v2)
Less than 3 years ago, Cisco threatened the physical security industry with disruption and innovation. Spending more than $100 Million USD, Cisco...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
GE Security's Problems are Good for the Industry
GE Security's sale is a recognition of its failure as a business. That's actually a good and necessary force for the industry. The best case...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
Turning Off Lights Dangerous to Security
Driven by the recession and increasing interest in environmentalism, many cities are turning off their streetlights. This is a surprisingly...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
How Costly are Hard Drive Failures?
Storage tends to be one of the more costly and problematic parts of video surveillance systems. Most video surveillance systems, even today, do not...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Analytics Signs of Failure
When trade magazines run negative articles, you know a technology is in trouble. This month, SDM released a report on security integrator's...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Advantages of RAID6 over RAID5 For Video Surveillance
For large scale video surveillance deployments, like casinos, the enhanced redundancy provided in RAID6 over RAID5 is critical to minimizing video...
By Carl Lindgren - about 15 years ago
Why Wireless Video Surveillance Systems Fail
Wireless video surveillance systems fail almost as frequently as video analytics - and that should tell you something. Let's examine a fascinating...
By John Honovich - over 15 years ago
Casino Video Surveillance Design Case Study
Distributed architecture is the key concept behind casino system designs. All encoding and recording is done on the single channel (blade) DVRs,...
By Ben Wood - over 15 years ago
Priorities for Network Uptime in Video Surveillance
Understanding what measures are feasible and what measures are extremely expensive or not possible is a key element in planning your network uptime...
By John Honovich - almost 16 years ago
