IP security & surveillance news

 Security Industry veteran Guy Walker has been appointed Northeast Director of Sales by SightLogix SightLogix the leading supplier of intelligent video systems for outdoor areas and perimeter security, announces the appointment of Guy Walker as its new Director of Sales for the Northeast United States and Canada. Mr. Walker comes to SightLogix with extensive experience as a consultative salesperson in the security industry. For the past eight years, he has managed the same territo...

 Mr Lucas Lee was Overseas Sales & Marketing Director for company's professional security division Samsung Techwin Europe Ltd, the company responsible for promoting and supporting Samsung Techwin professional and consumer security equipment and solutions across Europe, Russia and CIS, has appointed Mr. Lucas Lee as its new Managing Director.With a career spanning nearly 20 years within Samsung Techwin, Mr. Lee has headed up the overseas sales and marketing activities of the company...

  LCA Sales Company set to boost Altronix sales across New Jersey and Greater New York City  Altronix, the leading manufacturer of low voltage power supplies and accessories for the electronic security industry, announced the appointment of LCA Sales Company of Hawthorne, New York, as its manufacturers' representatives for New Jersey and the greater New York City area effective immediately."LCA Sales Company is a highly respected manufacturer's rep organization, and we are pl...

  G4S Egypt, which has over 5,200 employees across Egypt is working on the present scenario in Egypt G4S, the world's leading security solutions group, has helped repatriate over 1,000 clients from Egypt over the last week via the country's key international transport hubs including airports, ports and country borders. G4S Egypt, which has over 5,200 employees across the country, has been working closely with G4S Risk Management to provide a rapid response service utilising their exper...

 Security systems by Cryptography Research save USD 100's of billions annually for various industriesCryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) announced that in 2010 more than five billion security products were manufactured under license to CRI's semiconductor security technologies. Long-term R&D investments focussed on developing solutions to security challenges facing a range of semiconductor security products, as well as traction in new industries, gave rise to the company's business a...

  David Cooper has been appointed as the Customer Support Manager for CBC(Europe) Leading surveillance solutions provider CBC (Europe) has created a new Customer Support Manager role, providing a dedicated one-stop link between its customers and a wide range of support functions. The move ensures that buyers of CBC brands including Ganz and Computar including installers, end users, and consultants will continue to get the best possible help with all their requirements, ranging fr...

 The new logo of Security Industry Association Within the past year, the Security Industry Association (SIA) has undertaken several major projects that will shape its future and affect the security industry, as a whole. From buying Securing New Ground and helping to establish Security Week to expanding its international presence to forming the Ashlar Foundation, SIA, in many ways, has entered a new era. And the new SIA era demanded a new SIA logo.The staid vertical rectangle is gone, repl...

  Van Heijningen will be based in Austin, Texas where the Honeywell's Vindicator security systems are manufactured Honeywell announced that Franco P.L. van Heijningen has joined Honeywell Systems in the role of general manager for its Vindicator Technologies business. Vindicator® offers electronic security systems that protect critical assets and personnel within the government, military, commercial and industrial markets at more than 1,500 highly sensitive sites across t...

  'Securing the Student City' guide published by ADT provides information on campus safety and security ADT, Europe's leading provider of electronic fire and security solutions, announced its blueprint for ‘Securing the Student City,' a guide to helping universities across the UK face campus safety head-on. Designed to offer higher and further education institutions practical  advice, the free ADT whitepaper provides tangible steps to protecting on-campus facilities, st...

Canon introduces the VB-M40 ONVIF compatible megapixel network cameraCanon Europe, world-leader in imaging solutions, announces the launch of the first Canon 1.3 megapixel pan tilt zoom (PTZ) network camera. The Canon VB-M40 offers embedded video content analytics functions, and is ideal for security environments where customers need to monitor outside spaces or large indoor areas such as warehouses or factories.Canon's first megapixel network camera offers 20x zoom and a 55.4° hor...

 Mayflex offers a true one-stop shop for anyone looking for a complete surveillance solutionVersion 2 of Mayflex's Security Product Guide is now available, highlighting products from the full range in Mayflex's security portfolio.In the last 6 months Mayflex has taken on board a range of new suppliers, such as Sanyo, QNAP, Netgenium and Grandstream, and the new guide highlights some of the key products from these vendors as well as those products more familiar.Mayflex's portfolio covers a b...

 The EverFocus UK Partner Programme will help installers and integrators benefit from EverFocus security solutionsEverFocus, a leading top 20 global professional security equipment manufacturer, has announced the introduction of its global partner programme for UK partners. The EverFocus UK Partner Programme is designed to help and support security installers, integrators and distributors to benefit from the comprehensive range of EverFocus solutions on offer, ranging from analogue and...

  Dedicated Micros' Closed IPTV next generation, IP video security solutions attracted visitors at Intersec 2011 CCTV specialist Dedicated Micros part of AD Group announced that this year's Intersec exhibition in Dubai was a record for the business in terms of visitor numbers to its booth. This uplift in attendees was driven by strong interest in the company's Closed IPTV next generation, deterministic, IP video security solution and the unveiling of a wide range of Closed IPTV compati...

 Counter Terror Expo has been a platform to discuss measures and ways to tackle with the menace of terrorism Recent suicide attack in the busy international arrivals meet and greet area at Moscow Domodedovo Airport, serves as a chilling reminder that transportation hubs and other high profile locations where people gather, remain potent targets for those with the intent to kill and maim. This message has been voiced regularly at Counter Terror Expo, the world leading event held annually in...

The integration of Milestone video management software with Brickcom IP cameras will offer scalable IP surveillance solutionBrickcom Corporation is proud to announce the complete integration of a wide range of their IP camera series with Milestone XProtect®™ open platform IP video management software.Customers will now be able to integrate the clear definition video from Brickcom IP cameras with the proven high quality of Milestone XProtect IP video management software....

 Tim Fagin joins SightLogix as the new Director of Support Services for video intrusion detection systemsSightLogix®, Inc., the leading supplier of intelligent video systems for outdoor areas and perimeter security, announced the appointment of Tim Fagin as its new Director of Support Services. Fagin will be responsible for developing and implementing channel training, best practices and support programme to ensure the successful application of SightLogix video intrusion detection syste...

  Secutech Thailand is part of Messe Frankfurt's global network of security trade fairs involving many companiesSecutech Thailand, set to become the leading trading platform for the security, fire and safety industries in Thailand, is attracting leading industry players to its upcoming show which will be held 30 June - 2 July 2011 at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre.The annual show is organised by Messe Frankfurt New Era Business Media Ltd. and IPEX - International...

  Future trends for IP video door phones in the market were highlighted in a report by IMS Research The race to be the first large scale IP video door phone provider is currently underway. In the soon to be published report "World Market for Video Door Phones 2011 Edition", IMS Research examines the potential uptake of IP video door phones over the next 5 years."Very few companies currently offer a full IP video door phone system, and the majority of companies that do ar...

  Avigilon has been listed in top 100 innovative companies of the world by Red Herring a global media company Avigilon, the performance and value leader in high definition and megapixel video surveillance systems, announced that it has been named to the 2010 Red Herring 100 Global list, a prestigious list honouring the year's most promising private ventures that are leading innovation around the world. The Red Herring 100 Global Award is the fifth award that Avigilon received in 2...

  There has been a demand for HD in the video surveillance market due to its increased capabilities  Last year may have been HD ready, but how fast did the network video surveillance market move towards higher resolution cameras? It certainly saw significant growth in the number of HD and megapixel network security cameras shipped; however, standard definition network camera shipments still outsold their higher resolution counterparts at a factor of four to one.In IMS Research's &...

  Infinova's video surveillance and security equipment was installed in a number of venues and stadiumsInfinova announced that the Asian Games Organisation Committee has recognised the company with its "Outstanding Safeguard" Award for its role in keeping stadiums and venues safe during the Asian Games and Asian Para Games which were held in Guangzhou, China between November 12 and December 19, 2010. Infinova video surveillance and security equipment was installed in a number...

  IP video surveillance is set to grow as a part of big transition that has been triggered in the surveillance market As 2011 begins, the video surveillance industry doesn't show any signs of being any less compelling than it was five years ago. Technology innovation continues at a fast pace; and the structure of the industry continues to evolve, with M&A activity on the increase.But the question asked most often is: when will this market tip? When are sales of network video survei...

  JSIC is as originally intended a single representative body that can speak for the security industry with government The leak in September 2010 of an imminent government announcement that the Security Industry Authority (SIA) would be axed in the current round of planned expenditure cuts caused the security industry manned guarding interests to reel in shock. The demise of a number of quangoes and other non-departmental public bodies was threatened and in many cases subsequently conf...

 The BSIA suggests use of the potential in-store security measures such as CCTV and access control Following the publication of the results from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Retail Crime Survey 2010, the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) urges retailers to up their game in the fight against retail crime by improving their in-store security and seeking advice from reputable security companies.The survey results, released earlier this week, show that the total value of good...

 RemGuard operators encountered unusual and dim-witted incidents for the criminally incompetent groupsWhen it comes to remotely monitored, detector-activated CCTV, fact is often stranger than fiction according to the hardworking operators at RemGuard Visual Management's BS8418 compliant RVRC (Remote Video Response Centre).Said Alan Collinge, Director of Operations at RemGuard Visual Management - part of AD Group: "Protecting customers against the threat of attack is a serious business,...

  IMS Research conducted a study that video surveillance is set to grow in the year 2011 across various markets Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) or cloud based video surveillance was certainly a hot topic in 2010 and that interest in VSaaS turned into an increase in the number of VSaaS providers. But can this hype be translated into market growth in 2011?The hype around VSaaS is not unfounded; the recurring monthly revenue business model is very attractive to telcos/IS...

  An IMS study predicts that the Indian security market in video surveillance is set to grow in the coming years Without fear of hyperbole, the Chinese video surveillance market is phenomenal. It's the largest consumer of video surveillance equipment and one of the fastest growing markets. City-wide deployments of 100,000+ cameras are not uncommon, dwarfing even the largest European or US ‘enterprise' projects. Can India, with its fast economic growth, huge population, and burgeo...

  Commercial thermal security camera market is predicted to continue to expand rapidly in the year 2011 The use of thermal security cameras in surveillance applications is not a new phenomenon. Historically, thermal cameras have been deployed in high security buildings, border protection projects and to protect critical infrastructure such as, nuclear power plants, prisons, airports and pipelines. However, thermal cameras used in these applications have been costly and beyond the reach...

 Mayflex works to put forward to its customers a full range of courses on more specific productsFor 2011 Mayflex launched a brand new CCTV over IP course aimed at helping those who are new to IP security. These one day courses are completely free and contain both technical and sales elements providing an overall introduction to CCTV over IP. The morning session is a basic technical session that will give delegates the chance to touch and feel products, exploring the key elements involved in...

  IMS Research considers 3D technology will upgrade video surveillance to a higher level providing the perception of depth  HD was the hot trend in the video surveillance industry in 2010; could 3D be the next hot technology trend for the video surveillance industry in 2011? In the consumer and professional broadcast space, 3D technology gained increasing acceptance and mindshare during 2010, and recently IMS Research has observed a number of examples of 3D technology beginni...