The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance, a global consortium of physical security providers focused on promoting the interoperability of IP-enabled devices, recently released its 0.9 Video Analytics draft specification for public comment.
Software video enables Beverly Hills to expand smart-city surveillance project
The city of Beverly Hills, Calif., is expanding its video surveillance project, and former mayor Jimmy Delshad wanted an IP video surveillance system as a part of the smart-city initiative. Coming from a technical background, Delshad saw the opportunity in IP video to help the city be the cleanest, safest and most sustainable city it can be.
Manufacturers must make the first move with convergence
From a data networking perspective, this has become an all-too-familiar storyline: a non-networked application encounters the traditional data networking world. The migration to VoIP showed us networking equipment manufacturers want to help integrators handle new applications and make transitions easier.
Much has been said, written and debated regarding why IP video surveillance systems are not more rapidly overtaking analog video surveillance systems in marketshare. One of the top reasons is the actual versus the perceived reliability of IP video surveillance systems.
Multi-faceted systems protect schools, temple and students
The Stephen S. Wise Temple and Schools in Los Angeles make up one of the largest reform Jewish congregations in the country, with more than 3,000 member families and nearly 1,700 students. The temple and schools take security seriously and have installed a multi-faceted security system to ensure the safety of facilities, members, students, faculty and staff. The video surveillance management and control solution manages networked video from cameras located throughout the facilities and integrates with the institutions’ physical security information system.
IndigoVision’s IP video technology is at the heart of a ground breaking ‘Data Warehousing’ and surveillance system for the City of Calgary, Canada.
School District 51 in Mesa County Valley, a part of Grand Junction, Colo., began using OnSSI's open-architecture, intelligent IP-based video surveillance software five years ago in a test system incorporating 25 cameras at a single middle school.
A major oil and gas company based in Brazil is using IndigoVision’s complete IP video security technology to remotely monitor high-tech automated gas facilities in the Amazon rainforest.
IQinVision recently announced that The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company LLC has deployed about 30 IQeye HD megapixel cameras to protect both its headquarters and millions of dollars worth of automobiles on display and as they go on the auction block at its four annual “World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions.”
Milestone XProtect Enterprise Video Management Software is providing centralized management for the city of Dublin, Ohio. City management and IT staff built the installation on the unified Milestone platform with its open architecture running on an IT infrastructure.
Pivot3 Inc. recently announced that the Muskogee Community Hospital in Muskogee, Okla. has deployed Pivot3 Serverless Computing as the compute and storage platform for multiple systems within the newly constructed healthcare facility.
ONVIF, a global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, announced recently that its member base has grown to 201 companies.
Avigilon recently announced that it has installed the Avigilon HD surveillance system to monitor traffic at Greenwich Peninsula, a new district in London surrounding the world-class music, sports and entertainment complex, The O2. The Avigilon HD surveillance system has also been installed at indigO2, a 2,350 capacity live music venue inside The O2.
Following on from a recent security review, the Northshore Utility District in Washington has deployed an IndigoVision site-wide integrated IP video surveillance system using high-definition cameras to help combat terrorism and improve public and staff safety.
Verint Systems Inc. recently announced that KFC Yum! Center is implementing the Nextiva IP video management platform from Verint Video Intelligence Solutions. Verint, along with its industry-leading technology and integration partners EMC and Orion Systems Group, is delivering the physical security solution for the new $252 million, 22,000-seat basketball and multi-purpose arena on the Ohio River waterfront in Louisville, Ky.