Best and Worst ISC West 2013
Great attendance with a limited number of new products marked ISC West 2013. Brian, Carlton, Ethan and myself attended, putting together the...
By John Honovich - about 11 years ago
Great attendance with a limited number of new products marked ISC West 2013. Brian, Carlton, Ethan and myself attended, putting together the...
By John Honovich - about 11 years ago
In this post, we bring updates from the show floor, highlighting the great and not-so-great trends we see at the show. UPDATE: Our full roundup of...
By Carlton Purvis - about 11 years ago
ISC East, cancelled this week, is now back on [link no longer available] for the end of November, the week after Thanksgiving. The show, which was...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
Spinning is an art form. And doing so when faced with bad news is the pinnacle of the art. With show traffic so poor at ASIS 2012, this demanded...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
Definitely the most eventful and colorful ASIS show in a long long time; While it certainly was not particularly successful in a conventional sense...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
At ASIS, sponsors get top billing. Literally. The organization that makes $10+ million each year from manufacturer sponsors now readily admits this...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
The security industry is not showing much love to the City of Brotherly Love. A small show floor hosted clearly lighter traffic than recent past...
By IPVM Team - over 11 years ago
Single day, touring 'roadshows' promise an easy way to learn about new security technology without having to travel far. In the US, one of the most...
By Ethan Ace - over 11 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 - over 11 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 - almost 12 years ago
Trade shows typically are run by manufacturers, for manufacturers (except for ASIS which is simply controlled by manufacturers). By contrast, PSA,...
By Brian Rhodes - almost 12 years ago
The ISC best new product awards use a secretive process that lacks transparency, making it impossible to understand the rationale, fairness or...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
We spent the week on the ISC West show floor checking out what is interesting and have come away with a series of observations and images. Here...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
We spent hours on the ISC West show floor today and yesterday checking out what is interesting and have come away with a series of observations,...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
In a past millennium, historians tell us that Interlogix innovated digital surveillance solutions. Now, the once-proud brand has been reduced to...
By John Honovich - about 12 years ago
Despite struggling to identify truly innovative products over the last few years, ISC West is nearly tripling the number of video surveillance...
By John Honovich - over 13 years ago
Facing falling attendance and interest, ISC East has been 'transformed' to ISC Solutions. Exhibit attendance dropped to 6,331 in 2009 while paying...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Below is a video screencast showing the live iSecurity Virtual Trade Show held on March 3rd. The virtual trade show is meant to be an on-line...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
On March 3, 2010, a one-day 'virtual' trade show will be held. Called the iSecurity Virtual Trade Show and run by Security Magazine / SDM, the...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
A common complaint for seminars at trade shows is that they tend to be too commercial and too vendor specific. Sometimes this occurs indirectly and...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
With a significant drop in attendance for the second straight year, attendance to the ASIS International tradeshow is now down to 2004...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
While ASIS show attendance was down and disappointing for the second consecutive year, online traffic to security websites continues to rise...
By John Honovich - over 14 years ago
Analysts and pundits agree that video analytics has been significantly over-sold in the last few years. Bosch certainly did its part with its IVA...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Cisco is not exhibiting at ISC West due to "limited marketing dollars". It is another symptom that, despite their self-promotion, Cisco is not yet...
By John Honovich - about 15 years ago
Internet economics and the recession pose a significant risk to the future of trade shows. A broad trend facing all technology industries, we may...
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