Surveillance & Security News for August 2021

A West Columbia, South Carolina neighbourhood had been dealing with complaints from their residents. Residents were noticing vandalism happening around their community and they wanted to put an end to it. The vandalism wasn’t just bringing down their property values. Residents were concerned about the safety of themselves and their neighbours, and felt that their homes and neighbourhood were being violated. Licence plate reading camera Hoping to put a stop to the vandalism, residents re...

ReliaQuest, the globally renowned company in Open XDR-as-a-Service, has announced a new corporate headquarters at Thousand & One in Tampa, Florida. The new headquarters will support the ongoing growth of ReliaQuest, as the company expands operations within the US and to new regions globally. ReliaQuest’s new corporate HQ The building, the distinctive centre point of Tampa’s new Water Street neighborhood, is part of a holistically balanced urban design experience, within a walka...

The South German industrial camera manufacturer IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH was able to exceed industry expectations in the first half of 2021. Instead of the 7% increase in the turnover forecast by the VDMA for the machine vision industry, the company has so far generated more than double this growth. The camera manufacturer from Obersulm expects consistently high growth until the end of 2021. The positive order situation and the strong development of foreign business give the camera...

A busy Scottish ferry terminal has become a safer place for workers and passengers, following the installation of new state-of-art remote-operated, mobile gates at the port. SentriGates The two remote-controlled, solar-powered traffic control gates - SentriGates were installed earlier this year, to control the speed and flow of heavy goods vehicles, boarding P&O Ferries at the port, located in Cairnryan, near Stranraer, in Scotland. The SentriGates, provided by globally renowned safety an...

Altronix, the globally recognised company in power and data transmission solutions for the professional security industry, continues to expand its industry-renowned portfolio of NetWay PoE solutions, with the release of their new NetWay3012P PoE+ Adapter/Converter. NetWay3012P PoE+ Adapter This new device, NetWay3012P PoE+ Adapter/Converter provides 12VDC and PoE/PoE+ (30W combined) to power two devices, simultaneously, so as to accommodate PoE cameras and external microphones, control boards,...

Keyless Technologies, the privacy-preserving, identity company announced FIDO2 Certification for its proprietary biometrics technology. This comes just months after Keyless became one of only seven providers globally to receive FIDO Biometrics Certification, validating that Keyless' facial recognition technology meets industry standards for user verification and spoofing detection accuracy. Achieving certification in both Biometrics and FIDO2 confirms that Keyless' biometric authentication...

Everyone in security understands the significance of events, such as trade shows, road shows, seminars, galas and meet-and-greets. Whether virtual or in-person, these gatherings are important for a number of reasons. Role of security events For start-ups and high-profile manufacturers alike, security events have been the place to display new products, interact with key customers and strengthen existing partnerships. They serve as a forecast for evolution, showcasing the latest advancements in...

HID Global, a worldwide pioneer in trusted identity solutions launched an enterprise-grade service that enables users to verify the date and time of their electronically or digitally signed documents, code, and other files. The service embeds an irrefutable date and time thereby binding the signer’s Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) digital certificate to the date and time of their signature. IETF standards HID Global has met the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards RFC 3161 r...

JumpCloud announced the findings from its recent survey, “2021 Impact of COVID-19 on SMEs.” With global changes in the workplace due to COVID-19 and the Delta variant, small and medium-sized enterprises are continuing to adjust their workplace models. The survey results detail the impact of the Delta variant of COVID-19 on SMEs, how SMEs are making adjustments to the workplace, and what the future of the SME workplace might look like. JumpCloud’s 2021 Impact of COVID-19 on SME...

Cutting-edge technologies from Cognitec Systems GmbH (Cognitec) will capture biometric facial images of all relevant travellers from third countries, as part of the European Entry/Exit System (EES). Cognitec Systems GmbH was awarded the contract for the delivery of the capturing devices in Germany. FaceVACS-Entry CS devices Cognitec’s technology will be installed at border check points in all international airports and seaports in Germany. The contract initially spans four years and incl...

SALTO will exhibit its latest access control innovations at The Security Event at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham on 7-9 September. “With a welcome return to live exhibitions after the pandemic, we’re looking forward to showcasing our latest access control products and software that deliver an unrivalled keyless experience,” says SALTO UK Managing Director, Ramesh Gurdev. “SALTO continues to push boundaries, to expand the envelope of what is possible and how w...

inter airport Europe, the B2B event brand for the international airport sector is going ahead with the first major live event for the entire airport industry, providing a much-needed opportunity for airports, airlines, air cargo carriers, and aviation-support specialists to meet with the innovation drivers in airport technology in their endeavour to exchange solutions how to return strong from the crisis. Currently, 226 exhibitors from 29 countries have already registered their participation, w...

For many businesses and organisations, the term 'authentication' is synonymous with 'password' or 'multi-factor authentication (MFA)’. However, because today's business ecosystem is complex and stretches across distributed workforces with work from home, BYOD policies, and multiple cloud environments, it is very challenging to efficiently recognise and authenticate identities of people, processes, and devices throughout the enterprise using traditional methods. The problem with passwords...

“Deep learning” is recently among the more prevalent jargon in the physical security industry, and for good reason. The potential benefits of this subset of artificial intelligence (AI) are vast, and those benefits are only now beginning to be understood and realised. But how can we separate the marketing hype from reality? How can we differentiate between future potential and the current state of the art? To clarify the latest on this new technology, we asked this week’s Exper...

Martyn’s Law (also known as ‘Protect Duty’) could forever change the landscape of event security if changes to legislation are passed. Some would argue it already has. In 2017, just as concertgoers were leaving the Manchester Arena, a terrorist detonated an improvised explosive device in a suicide attack killing 22 and injuring more than 250. The mother of one of the victims, Martyn Hett, has tirelessly campaigned for tighter security and a duty of care to be placed upon venu...

Global MSC Security announces that former Chief Constable of Derbyshire Constabulary and now a Strategic Advisor to the Home Office’s Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE) initiative, Peter Goodman OBE QPM, will participate in the Global MSC Security Conference and Exhibition 2021. The event takes place in Bristol on Tuesday 19th October and this year focuses on the use of artificial intelligence in the surveillance industry. During his 33 years’ service working across three poli...

A time attendance system can help to keep a close eye on an employee’s working hours, prevent time theft by accurately tracking and recording employees’ time and attendance. A biometric time attendance system allows employees to clock in quickly and easier compare to the standard system and eliminate “buddy punching” in advance to the traditional time card system. A complete biometric time attendance system includes both hardware and software. Include the electronic div...

The evolution of smart video technology continues at pace. As in many other industries, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic expedited timelines and the artificial intelligence (AI) video world is continuing its rapid evolution in 2021. As video demand and the use of AI to make sense of the visual data increase, the number of cameras and subsequent data produced are growing rapidly, and these are forcing the creation of new edge architectures. Cameras and AI in traffic management ‘Smart f...

Camden Door Controls, an industry-renowned provider of innovative, high quality door activation and locking products, has introduced new ‘SER’ surface boxes and extension rings that provide a complete solution for new construction. Simple and robust solution In addition, the devices provide a simple and robust solution, when replacing round wired and manual push plate switches, with either Camden’s wired or wireless SureWave no-touch switches, or Kinetic no-battery wireless s...

Netwatch North America, the pioneer in proactive video monitoring solutions, is now an authorised partner for Avigilon, a subsidiary of Motorola Solutions, specialising in the design and manufacture of AI-powered video analytics and network video management software and hardware. Through this partnership, Netwatch’s purpose-built platform for proactive video monitoring will integrate with Avigilon Control Centre video management software and analytics. Outstanding customer service &ldqu...

Group337, a team of experts focused on activating the companies, brands, and people in the security industry through insights, intuition, and ideas announced their partnership with Momentum Security Training, an online, context-based education platform serving the physical security industry and its users. Members of Group337’s industry community group, The Inside Community, will receive discounts and exclusive offers through the collaboration. Physical security training A division of Mx...

Gratitude is a free public art installation of 51 beautifully sculptures, each unique design created by artists from across the UK. Securitas is the only security company sponsoring a sculpture and it is extremely proud to represent the industry as it expresses gratitude to every security officer and engineer and recognises the role they played as key workers during the pandemic. In expressing gratitude, Securitas also wants to honour those employees and key workers the country has lost along t...

Vaylia Integrated Security announces a partnership with Quanergy, the provider of OPA-based solid-state LiDAR and smart 3D solutions for automotive and IoT. Vaylia CEO Paul Painter says the partnership will augment the security solutions offered to Vaylia’s clients. “The LiDAR technology from Quanergy will bring a new level of 3D sensor solutions to very challenging applications, including smart cities, security detection, and industrial automation. We are planning to integrate the...

Connect ONE® from Connected Technologies is the only cloud-hosted management platform one needs for all the system integrations: intrusion, access control, video surveillance, critical environmental monitoring and energy management. With the award-winning Safe Passage module for access control user authorisation and ScanPass mobile credential for frictionless entrance control, dealers and their customers have the latest services to manage multiple locations through one user interface. Conne...

Indusface, an application security SaaS company that continually detects security risks, provides real-time protection, and improves the performance of applications, announces that it is adding behavioural application DDOS protection offering to its product, AppTrana. Application DDOS attacks are sophisticated and hard to mitigate. Simple rate-limiting rules are insufficient allowing sophisticated attacks to fly under the radar. With AppTrana's behavioural application DDOS protection, built on...

The owners of Innovative Business Software A/S (Innovative), Montreal-based Valsoft Corporation (Valsoft Corp.) have acquired UK-based security firm, Bold Communications, in a move to drive expansion of its presence in the United Kingdom. The acquisition will strengthen Innovative’s product offering, with the inclusion of Bold Communications’ CCTV alarm event handling and lone worker protection services. Innovative Business Software A/S is a global provider of security technology in...

The last year revolutionised the way people work. When offices transitioned to work-from-home and worksites implemented social distancing, the security industry saw an overnight shift in what technologies our customers wanted. Now that businesses are bringing employees back to work in-person, management has broadened their focus to include healthy access in their security plans. Healthy access is a modern security concept that uses the latest technologies to blend employee and visitor health wi...

Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions is excited to announce their new in-car video (ICV4000) system, featuring a powerful new video processing unit (VPU4000). With high-speed processing, wireless networking, new security features, improved image quality and easier deployment, the new Panasonic i-PRO ICV4000 system takes in-car video technology into the future. ICV4000 in-car video system “Panasonic i-PRO in-car video systems for law enforcement and professional security applications have a...

Portico, the specialist provider of high-quality, tailored guest services, launches Portico Safe, its security offering designed to complement the existing front of house services or become the singular point of welcome. Portico Safe will facilitate guest arrival and departure journeys with a soft yet secure approach. Portico Safe will deliver an unrivalled blend of security protocol and service as one. With highly trained, SIA Licenced ‘Portico Security Operatives’ (PSO), the new o...

LENSEC, a pioneer in video management software, announced a partnership with Open Options to provide flexibility and greater efficiency when combining Perspective VMS® and DNA Fusion™ access control software. The integration between PVMS software by LENSEC and DNA Fusion access control from Open Options enables users to control doors by issuing access control commands to locks and devices. From the video management software, users can manage access points from the map module or t...