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Synectics, a pioneer in advanced security and surveillance solutions, will demonstrate how its technology is helping organisations across transport, energy, critical infrastructure, leisure and hospitality, and smart city initiatives to enhance safety, efficiency, and cyber resilience. Synectics will exhibit at stand S1-I25 at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 12–14 January 2026.  Award-winning AI innovation Artificial Intelligence will be central to Synectics’ presence, with its award-winning Synergy DETECT on show. Synergy DETECT enables operators to activate up to twelve AI tools. Capabilities span safety, security, and operational analytics – from PPE and fall detection to crowd, intrusion, and loitering analysis. For public spaces and transportation environments, traffic analytics, including vehicle classification, wrong-direction detection, and counting, provide real-time intelligence to enhance both safety and operational oversight. New ‘in-camera’ intelligence Visitors to Intersec will be able to explore significant enhancements across Synectics’ COEX and IP camera portfolios, designed to elevate risk detection and situational awareness. These include advanced edge-based analytics and integrated IR illumination within the latest COEX camera models, alongside new 4K and multi-sensor additions to the Synectics IP camera range. Together, these innovations enable operators to capture more actionable details with fewer devices, supporting smarter and more effective surveillance. New features for fast incident response Synectics will be demonstrating the latest Synergy capabilities, designed to accelerate incident location, strengthen two-way collaboration, and support faster, more coordinated response aligned with established standard operating procedures. The team will also unveil enhanced mapping capabilities within Synergy, enabling operators to visualise incident patterns with heat maps and hot-spot analysis. By correlating events with precise geographic coordinates, control rooms gain a clearer view of how risks develop over time, helping anticipate emerging issues sooner and respond with greater accuracy. Intelligent surveillance David Aindow, Chief Strategy Officer at Synectics, commented: “Intersec is the ideal stage to demonstrate how far intelligent surveillance has come – and how accessible it is. Organisations today don’t just need more data; they need the right insights at the right moment.” “Every enhancement we’re showcasing this year is about enabling faster decisions, stronger coordination, and safer outcomes across every sector we support.” “From powerful, in-camera analytics to advanced mapping and AI-driven detection, this is our most extensive line-up yet. It reflects the real-world challenges our customers face and our commitment to helping them anticipate, understand, and respond with confidence in an increasingly complex world.”  

Synectics, a pioneer in advanced security and surveillance solutions, will use this year’s National Association for Healthcare Security (NAHS) Conference to demonstrate how hospitals are using integrated data and AI-driven analytics to improve safety, incident response, and operational awareness across complex NHS estates. Building on recent projects with NHS Foundation Trusts, Synectics will showcase its Synergy platform, including the award-winning Synergy DETECT AI-powered analytics suite. Solving everyday security challenges in healthcare Hospitals face a unique mix of pressures, including constant public access, high-risk clinical areas, and 24-hour operations across dispersed sites. Many also rely on legacy systems that make coordination difficult. Synectics’ approach enables healthcare providers to connect CCTV, access control, and alarm infrastructure into a single management platform, creating a complete view of activity across facilities, car parks, and service areas. From the control room, teams can dispatch officers directly via the Synergy mobile app, providing them with live video, incident details, and clear task instructions. Quicker response to safeguarding concerns In practice, this enables a quicker response to safeguarding concerns, missing patients, or violent incidents, with a complete audit trail of the incident through to resolution. Synergy DETECT adds an AI layer that automatically alerts users to developing risks, such as overcrowding in waiting areas, unauthorised access to restricted wards, missing PPE, or vehicles blocking ambulance bays. These real-time insights enable hospitals to take action before issues escalate, thereby easing the burden on overstretched teams and enhancing compliance with health and safety standards. Proven results across NHS sites A recent deployment of Synergy for a large NHS Foundation Trust, shortlisted for the NAHS Security Innovation Award 2025, demonstrates the benefits of this integrated approach. The project delivered situational awareness across multiple hospital sites, enabling real-time coordination between the control room and mobile officers while preserving the existing infrastructure. By introducing secure cloud evidence storage and task management tools, the system has also simplified audit processes and improved cross-departmental collaboration on incidents and security issues, outcomes that are increasingly important as hospitals face tighter budgets and greater scrutiny around robust threat detection and response protocols. Helping hospitals protect their systems and data Cyber resilience is also a core requirement in healthcare environments. Synergy’s architecture incorporates encryption, access controls, and secure data pathways to protect surveillance systems and recorded evidence from unauthorised access. Together with privacy tools, such as facial redaction and blurring, this ensures that patient information and operational data remain safeguarded in line with NHS Digital and NCSC guidance. Demonstrations and resources available at NAHS 2025 Throughout the show, Synectics will be running live Synergy demonstrations, including how its mobile app, remote access functionality, and Synergy DETECT enhance hospital safety and security. Delegates can also pick up a free copy of the company’s guide to Healthcare Security Best Practices. This provides actionable strategies for modern healthcare challenges, highlighting the solutions available to hospitals to help them detect risks faster, optimise emergency responses, enhance patient care, and protect sensitive data, all while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Synectics will showcase the latest advances in AI-enabled surveillance for oil, gas, and transitional energy projects at this year’s ADIPEC and celebrate the 40th anniversary of its COEX camera range. Visitors to stand 15548, Hall 15 – The Chevron Hall, will see how COEX hazardous and safe area camera stations, together with Synectics’ Synergy software, are helping operators cut costs, improve safety, and extend asset life across traditional facilities and new energy developments. Edge-based intelligence and flexibility An important focus for Synectics has been the acceleration of edge analytics within COEX cameras. Building on proven functionality, such as intrusion detection and object tracking, the latest models now incorporate capabilities such as PPE monitoring – traditionally the preserve of control room software. Darren Alder, Head of Oil & Gas at Synectics, comments: “COEX cameras deliver powerful edge-based analytics through advanced in-camera processing. By handling data directly at the source, they significantly reduce server, network, and infrastructure demands while ensuring efficient, precise, and scalable AI-driven performance. Whether deployed with Synergy or integrated with other video management systems, customers gain the real-time intelligence they need to make faster, better-informed decisions.” Cost-efficient camera and capability upgrades Synectics has also added integrated infrared (IR) illumination to its COEX camera range. “This makes a big difference to cost and complexity,” notes Darren. “It’s a straightforward way to improve performance where IR is a real benefit to security and process monitoring, while reducing maintenance overheads.” Cost efficiency is especially important for brownfield sites, oil and gas operators, and vessel ship management companies. To support operators, Synectics has published a practical guide on planning surveillance upgrades the right way – maximising existing infrastructure while preparing for future requirements. Instead of focusing on wholesale replacement, the guide highlights how operators can extend asset life, strengthen monitoring capabilities, and ensure investments remain resilient. Supporting the energy transition Synectics remains a trusted partner in the oil and gas sector, delivering solutions for offshore platforms and rigs, FPSOs, and gas processing plants. Alongside major contracts in LNG, FLNG, and refining, Synectics is increasingly active in security and surveillance projects that support the energy transition – from carbon capture plants to offshore wind and wider renewables. Ross Chapman, International Business Development Manager, comments: “Operators are looking for solutions that make their facilities secure, safer and more efficient today while also aligning with the future shape of the energy sector. Whether it’s traditional hydrocarbons or renewables, COEX cameras and Synergy software meet these requirements.” At ADIPEC 2025, Synectics will demonstrate how four decades of engineering expertise, combined with the latest edge analytics and integration, continue defining surveillance for mission-critical energy infrastructure.

Assembling security solutions has long been considered the role of the integrator, whose role is to pick and choose the best technology tools and then to assemble the complete system. However, more manufacturers are offering pre-integrated end-to-end solutions that include multiple elements from the same manufacturer, designed to work seamlessly together. At the end of the day, end users want to know: Whose role is it to provide security ‘solutions’ – the manufacturer or the integrator? We asked our Expert Panel Roundtable.