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  According to an IMS study the video content analysis market is set to grow across the security market  The Video Content Analysis (VCA) market endured another difficult year in 2010. There were successes, with new VCA project wins in the transportation and critical infrastructure markets; and there were failures, with a number of analytics vendors choosing to focus on other product areas and the news that Vidient has gone out of business.VCA vendors have continued to build stron...

 Geutebruck Southern Africa is seeking system integrator partners for Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and other countries Geutebruck now has a new African subsidiary, Geutebruck Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd based in Meyersdal near Johannesburg in South Africa.  Managed by Charles Volschenk, who has returned to his native land after a spell as Geutebruck's international sales director, this is now the sales office for sub-Saharan Africa and will provide technical support for local partners acros...

  HDcctv will show a strong trend in the video surveillance market as predicted by IMS ResearchThe HDcctv Alliance was formed in 2009, with the core objective being to develop and manage the definition of an open standard for the transmission of high definition closed-circuit television (HDcctv) using industry standard coaxial cable. HDcctv technology is built upon the HD-SDI standard pioneered in the professional broadcast market.In terms of sales, 2010 was a muted year for HDcctv bra...

 Leading UK monitoring stations recommend the REDWALL range for intrusion detection solutions Optex Europe, leaders in detection technology, will be showcasing its range of REDWALL products at Intersec 2011 including REDSCAN, the award winning innovative laser scan detector, and its new perimeter protection offering Fibre SenSys.REDWALL has been the market leader in outdoor PIR sensors for use in CCTV systems for over 10 years. Their rugged design and unrivalled detection capability have ma...

 Low light CCTV surveillance test was successfully completed at the seminar event at Rutland Golf Club, Lincolnshire Leading surveillance solutions provider CBC has demonstrated its expanding range of innovative low light CCTV systems at a special night time test and seminar event. CBC organised it to answer one of the industry's most difficult questions: how do you obtain good surveillance images at night?Attended by an invited audience of installers, consultants, distributers, end users a...

  Mayflex, an IP specialist distributer strengthens its Physical Security Division by recruiting Sales DirectorGary joins Mayflex from Norbain, where over a 20 year period he led strategic and major account development teams and was involved in many major account and project wins. Gary joins the business on January 4th 2011, managing the current Mayflex security sales team recently boosted by the recruitment of Neil Jeffrey and Steve Green. He will be responsible for developing th...

  OnSSI is a leader in manufacturing of open platform video network management software OnSSI, the number one manufacturer of open-platform network video management software in the Americas according to IMS Research, announced three new positions on the OnSSI sales team. Joining the company are Trevor Newton as Western Region Manager and Steve Kingsbury as Mid-Atlantic Region Manager. Brad Anderson, formerly Mid-Atlantic Region Manager, has been appointed to the new position of Nat...

 Chris Williams, Director, Marketing and Business Development, Wavestore applauded the Wavestore's progress "Wavestore has achieved considerable success in the Middle East over recent years and particularly so during the last twelve months," said Chris Williams, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Wavestore. "The timing of Intersec 2011 could not therefore be better as it will provide us with a great opportunity to give demonstrations of our very latest CCTV and...

 CompoSec participants can approach more than 550 companies producing security devices and solutionsSecutech, Asia Pacific's leading exhibition and conference for the electronic and information security and fire and safety industries is already attracting a large number of exhibitors to its 2011 exhibition to be held 20-22 April 2011 at the Nangang Taipei World Trade Centre in Taiwan. The show is organised by Messe Frankfurt New Era Business Media Ltd., a leading integrated media compa...

Mission Kjell & Company is Sweden's fourth fastest growing brand name in the Swedish retail sector. Its number of stores during the 2004 to 2009 period has increased from 9 to 46. Kjell & Company's stores have over 7,000 items in stock, and well-functioning surveillance is certainly needed in order to ensure safety and security for the personnel. Kjell & Company was looking for a cost-effective system with great flexibility and the best possible image quality. Solution Kjell &...

The IVS patent is another indicator of CSST's leadership stance on surveillance and safety solutionsChina Security & Surveillance Technology, Inc., a leading integrated provider of digital surveillance technology in the P.R.C., announced the Company has recently been awarded a patent ZL 2008 1 0066660.4 for Intelligent Video Surveillance (IVS) in China. The patent reinforces CSST's commitment to driving innovation in surveillance and safety products and solutions in China. The IVS...

The National Archives has installed a total of 58 static cameras and 41 PTZ cameras from Panasonic The National Archives, based in Kew, London, houses 900 years of UK history. From the Doomsday Book to present documents, it has records ranging from parchment and paper scrolls through to recently created digital files. The National Archive building has recently undergone a change, with the family records centre moving from Islington into its premises to create the largest collection of UK histori...

VIVOTEK's IP7138 incorporates a 1.3-megapixel CMOS sensor and incorporates Compact Flash storageAl-Qusoor is one of Saudi Arabia's leading manufacturers and retailers of candy and other snack foods. Last year, at the recommendation of security solutions provider International Edaat, Al-Qusoor had VIVOTEK network security cameras installed at its main manufacturing complex in the city of Makkah. It was so pleased with the results that it subsequently adopted VIVOTEK cameras for security applicati...

Siqura provided the FALCON project with its Siqura XSNet 2800 SW switches Streamlining commerce, cars, and safetyDubai is incontestably one of the most financially pivotal cities in the Gulf region, but any businessman will tell you that sitting in a traffic jam in the sweltering desert heat is certainly not what makes the city a success. Yet, since Dubai absorbs a good deal of the interchange between international companies, this worldly city has inevitably been confronted wi...

The company Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Union Bank, N.A., is a full-service commercial bank providing an array of financial services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major corporations. The story of Union Bank goes back more than 145 years to the founding of The Bank of California, the first incorporated commercial bank in the West, and a predecessor of Union Bank. Today, the financial institution honours that history with a commitment to superior...

Germany has a total of 330 road tunnels, and as a consequence of a long-term partnership between Geutebruck GmbH and Goldfunk GmbH more than 40 of them have been made safer by using Geutebruck video systems.  Every year the ADAC, Germany's (and Europe's) largest automobile club carries out pan-European tunnel surveys and awards marks for safety.  Tunnels equipped by Goldfunk with Geutebruck systems have had podium positions three times in recent years.  In 2004 the Berg Block tunn...

WebVR is state-of-the-art technology that can compete with any surveillance offering on the marketMission G4S, one of the world's leading international security solutions group with approximately 600,000 employees, specialises in outsourced security-related business processes. Back in 2008, G4S Israel was seeking to enter the VSaaS (video surveillance as a service) market and sought out business partners. That is when they were introduced to VideoCells and its VSaaS solution, WebVR®. VideoCe...

"We are a public facility that needs to be hospitable and accessible to the community on the one hand, but on the other hand, we see changes in such growing communities as ours where crime becomes more of an issue.  We are committed to ensuring the safety of both our patients and employees," says the Executive Vice President at a hospital in New York State. "It's a vulnerable population with many of the patients being elderly or psychiatric, and we have to protect them at the same time as t...

Bernt Lüchtenborg, a former building contractor from Brake in Germany, has some big ideas: To sail around the world, twice, alone and without setting foot on land - he calls his project sail2Horizons. As if sailing around the world twice was not ambitious enough, after the first circumnavigation ("sailing with the wind, as a warm-up," as he flippantly refers to it), he plans to turn around and sail against the prevailing wind for a second round. Of course, for such a daring mission, he nee...

The SourceSecurity.com team on the ground at this year's IFSEC recorded many of the exhibitors in their full glory:See the album with captions

 Craig will be responsible for securing additional alliances and partnerships within the security and IT industriesPelco is pleased to announce that Craig Schaefer has joined the company as the Director of Partnering and Strategic Alliances. "We are very excited to have Craig join Pelco. Our momentum in developing strategic alliances and partnerships is very strong and is a key component to our corporate strategy of open systems. We will be asking Craig to drive the already establ...

VideoCells' WebVR (Web Video Recorder) technology is a carrier-grade video surveillance platformVideoCells® Ltd., a leading provider of web-based video surveillance solutions for security monitoring companies, telecommunications operators, and ISPs, offering VideoCells' WebVR® (Web Video Recorder) technology, a carrier-grade video surveillance platform,  was showcased in parallel by two leading Russian telecoms, each in their own booth. AKADO Telecom and COMSTAR-UTS hosted a live We...

The solutions consist of a surveillance manager, a video encoder & decoder and digital video recorderMindTree has announced that it will unveil the largest portfolio of ready-to-brand video surveillance solutions at IFSEC 2010, in Birmingham on 10th May 2010. MindTree's portfolio of ready-to-brand solutions consists of a surveillance manager, a suite of video analytics solutions, a video encoder, video decoder and digital video recorder. The portfolio also includes a licensable Open Net...

Photo: 8-bay, 16TB VS-8040/VS-8032/VS-8024 NVR (40/32/24-channel)QNAP Security, a world class manufacturer of Linux-embedded, stand-alone Network Video Recorder (NVR) solutions is pleased to announce its participation at IFSEC 2010. QNAP will showcase the world's first 2, 4, and 6-drive Linux-based NVR with a VGA port for local display. All the new VioStor NVR models support PC-less system configuration, monitoring of IP cameras over the network, and video playback by connecting a monitor, a key...

The Encoder ICR is the latest ICR-enabled product from Dedicated Micros Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - will be using IFSEC 2010 to announce the rolling-out of its Integrated Camera Recording (ICR) technology across key product lines. These include the popular CamVu series of CCTV cameras and, most recently, a new Encoder ICR which offers network streaming from any video input regardless of its source.The ground-breaking ICR approach, adopted by Dedicated Micros, which is realised in...

IQinVision is a market leader in HD megapixel network cameras, IP cameras and video recording systemsIQinVision, market leader in high-performance HD megapixel network cameras, smart IP cameras, and network video recording systems, announced a series of new positions in the expanded support and marketing departments, as well as new sales staff and several significant promotions.In the company's European operations, the expansion includes several new Regional Sales Managers including Indy Kler, i...

Plustek will be sharing a stand with EtherWAN, a leader in Ethernet connectivity for IP surveillancePlustek Technology Inc., a provider of surveillance and imaging solutions, is delighted to announce that it will be showcasing a new security device at IFSEC 2010 (Birmingham NEC, 10-13 May). Plustek will be sharing a stand with EtherWAN, a leader in Ethernet connectivity for IP surveillance.Plustek's NVR Slim240 is one of the world's slimmest and lightest video surveillance devices (152 x 125 x 4...

Chapman has extensive experience of working on major bids and selling advanced IP solutionsMOBOTIX AG, a leading manufacturer of digital high-resolution, network-based video security systems has appointed Dominic Chapman as its new UK Channel Development Manager as the firm continues to post strong growth in the market.Chapman joins MOBOTIX from Cisco UK where he dealt extensively with the Channel for over 10 years as part of the Cisco Systems Commercial, ISP, Enterprise and Carrier sales teams....

Tony Lannon brings with him over 20 years of CCTV transmission and network design engineering know-howAD Network Video - the recently established enterprise video arm of AD Group - announces two major appointments to further strengthen its UK team. Tony Lannon joins as Systems Consultant and Rob Drewery as Systems Sales Engineer. Lannon is to be based at AD Group's headquarters in Daresbury, Cheshire, giving him ready access to the Group's technical team to support large-scale AD Network Video p...

Siqura TrafficServer is the first video server ever to be integrated with automatic incident detection technologyOptelecom-NKF, Inc., a leading global supplier of advanced video surveillance equipment and the manufacturer of Siqura surveillance solutions, announced its intention to participate in the IFSEC 2010 tradeshow as a key sponsor. As visitors traverse the various booths at the IFSEC tradeshow this year in Birmingham, UK, they might very well notice that Optelecom-NKF's Siqura surveillanc...