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Checkpoint Systems, a global supplier of Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS), RFID solutions and Alpha High-Theft Solutions for the retail industry, introduced the Alpha OptiLok, its next generation of specialised tags for eyewear protection. The new hard tag offers an improved and refined design to enhance the ease and speed of application/removal without any security compromises. It is based on a well-proven adjustable grip mechanism used in previous eyewear tags, but with an ingenious lock...

According to the announcement of the Red Dot Award 2018, Hikvision's MR-Q3-LR series of intelligent warehouse robots stood out from the submissions from 59 countries and won the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2018.  The robots boast concise and versatile design. By adopting the concept of ‘handling complexity by simplicity’, Hikvision's MR-Q3-LR series of intelligent warehouse robots provide excellent technical performance and human-machine interaction capabilities. In addition,...

Axis Communications, provider of network video solutions, has announced new products and solutions to be introduced at ISC West. The main areas of development include, small business, seamless panoramic surveillance, and audio. “We are excited to attend ISC West and to showcase our products and solutions there,” said Fredrik Nilsson, VP, Americas, Axis Communications, Inc. “We encourage attendees to come to our booth to experience our newest innovations for a smarter, safer wo...

IC Realtime, global digital surveillance and security technology provider is introducing a new surveillance camera with on-board analytics to provide traffic metrics for business owners at ISC West 2018. IC Realtime will also show off Ella, the video search solution that augments surveillance systems with fast and reliable search via natural language, and the recently announced Ella dealer portal. The new 3 Mega Pixel, IP-based surveillance camera (Model: ICIP–3128–3D) is ideal for...

Infrared (IR) illumination provides a highly-effective enhancement for video surveillance in complete darkness. At ISC West 2018 in Las Vegas, Axis Communications is unveiling several new network cameras featuring its IR functionality, including pan, tilt and zoom (PTZ) and fixed dome cameras, bullet, fisheye and panoramic cameras, and discreet sensors units. Together, these bring IR capability to almost any surveillance environment and answer an increased market demand.  IR’s abilit...

Sony’s latest SNC-HMX70 security camera maintains an all-round 360-degree hemispheric view with no blind spots – ensuring full situational awareness in a wide range of indoor surveillance applications. The camera's fixed lens and high-resolution 12-megapixel CMOS sensor stream crisply detailed, high-resolution video at a smooth 30 fps. This assures that people and objects are seen clearly, even in challenging lighting conditions.  Harshly backlit windows, lobbies and entrances...

Axis Communications, global providers of network video solutions, will be participating as a silver sponsor and exhibitor during Seamless Retail 2018, taking place at the Dubai International Convention Exhibition Centre, April 15 - 16, 2018.  Being in retail has never been so challenging. Competition is fierce, margins are being squeezed, and external/internal losses are becoming increasingly costly. It is therefore the perfect time to reconsider the many ways in which video surveillance c...

Sargent and Greenleaf (S&G), a division of STANLEY Security that manufactures high-quality mechanical and electronic locks, has announced the release of its new Digital Time Lock, a high-security solution for small businesses and retail outlets. S&G’s Digital Time Lock is the newest addition to its Digital Platform portfolio, which includes the Audit Lock 2.0 and A-Series with Display.  The lock allows employers to assign four independent schedules for up to 100 users, with f...

The National Business Crime Solution (NBCS), a not-for-profit initiative that enables the sharing of data between law enforcement agencies and the business community to reduce crime, is continuing from the inaugural success of its first Members’ Day in January with a second Members’ Day on Wednesday 21st March 2018.  The event will take place at Trent Vineyard, Nottingham. The theme of the day is ‘Managing Current Business Crime Risks’ Managing current business cri...

Navigating through security integration options can be extremely complicated and time-consuming. Clients demand exceptional performance and functionality in security systems for environments as diverse as retail, commercial, industrial, domestic, healthcare, and monitoring stations. Vanderbilt is positioned to help clients through this maze by finding the best-integrated solutions to solve this challenge. Vanderbilt offers a wide range of integration choices including card management, cloud-bas...

The long-standing technology partnership between Hanwha Techwin and Facit Data Systems has resulted in selected Wisenet cameras being able to take full advantage of Facit’s powerful Calculus server-based intelligent retail video analytics software, to deliver a new generation of Retail Intelligence solutions. The Wisenet Heatmap and People Counting cameras enable retailers to identify lost sales opportunities by monitoring continuously updated live reports and view comparative hourly and...

Lodge Service has launched Transpeye, a low-cost, cloud-based data mining system. It enables retailers to identify avoidable losses in EPoS and other retail systems quickly and easily, whether these result from fraud or non-compliance, when staff fails to carry out data entry or other tasks correctly. Exception-based data analysis “Transpeye gives retailers the full protection of exception-based data analysis, verified by CCTV video, highly cost-effectively. They can pay just to protect...

Manufacturer of Telecommunications and Security systems Matrix designs systems that fit in the various needs of Healthcare, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Retail, BFSI and other industries. After understanding the need of modern enterprises, the company has tailored some innovative solutions such as Mobility, Multi-location Connectivity, Unified Communications and more. Commitment to modern communication With a legacy of delivering value-oriented solutions, Matrix has managed to form a strong bas...

With a US$2.9 billion e-commerce market expected to grow at an annual rate of 15.9% through until at least 2021, a new national electronic payment system with 18 million users already and a recovering retail sector with 2.6% annual growth, Thailand is an exciting example of the future potential for commerce in Southeast Asia. The team at Seamless have been watching the Thai market closely for a number of years, and are excited to be finally launching an edition of the show in 2018. As one of th...

SecurAmerica, a leading U.S. man-guarding security company has announced the purchase of ERMC, based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. With headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, SecurAmerica, headed by the legendary entrepreneur Frank Argenbright, will continue its relentless focus on growth. With this expansion of infrastructure, the combined business will operate in over 650 locations, employ more than 8,000 security officers, and have annual revenues of over $300 million. SecurAmerica will now be the fi...

Yale Commercial, an ASSA ABLOY group company is pleased to announce its A-ALR emergency exit option for 6000 Series exit devices. Featuring the sleek lines of the original 6000 Series exit device, with the complete features of an alarmed exit device, the new A-ALR emergency exit option for the Yale 6000 Series exit device is suitable for commercial applications concerned with loss prevention, including retail, hospitality and more. The 6000 Series exit device with A-ALR emergency exit option ha...

Hikvision, the global supplier in innovative video surveillance products and solutions, announced that it has once again achieved the highest global ranking in the a&s ‘Security 50 Ranking and Reports 2017’. Ranking publicly listed security industry manufacturers based on their physical product sales revenue for 2016, the a&s Security 50 report confirms Hikvision technology took the top position with a 2016 revenue of US$4.6 billion. This figure represents a growth of 29.2%...

3xLOGIC, Inc., a provider of integrated, intelligent security solutions, and the three-year-in-a-row Deloitte Fast 500 winner, announced moves to strengthen the company’s sales and training resources in order to continue to support its award-winning growth. Richard Rao is the new Regional Sales Manager for Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas and is based out of Houston, Texas. Richard has 20 years’ experience in the security industry, working in both sales and operations roles f...

The event took place across four days, Tuesday, November 14th to Friday, November 17th and gave us the opportunity to showcase solutions in retail and finance, as well as our strength and depth in remote monitoring capabilities. Our flagship products in these categories are of course SPC Connect, ACT365, ACT, and a prototype of our upcoming SPC Wireless portfolio. The four-day event was well attended with most visitors being installers. The rest of the audience was split evenly between end user...

As we're quickly approaching the holiday season, retailers are officially in full preparation mode: stocking, staffing and extending hours to serve the rush of customers shopping day and night for new attire and gifts. This influx of business also brings with it an increased risk for threats, as larger groups of people throughout a store at any given time can make comprehensive security a difficult task. The multi-layered issues that the retail industry already faces on a daily basis, such as s...

Secutech Thailand is set to open to the trade from 16 – 18 November in Bangkok. To align with the local market demand and trends, the 2017 edition will reveal a complete blueprint of a smart and safe city to an estimated 15,000 trade visitors. More than 150 global brands and companies will feature various updated applications in smart factory, high-rise buildings, hotels, home and retail. These applications will be fully integrated with the latest technologies such as intelligent video, ef...

Axis Communications, a provider of network video, is celebrating its success at The Fraud Awards after winning the ‘Best Collaborative Solution’ category alongside The Metropolitan Police Service. The award recognised the pair’s ongoing commitment to deter and detect crime in retail environments by optimising camera placement and configuration to ensure fit for purpose images for the identification of offenders. Identifying offenders with CORII The two organisations are worki...

Oncam, the leading provider of 360-degree video capture and business intelligence technology, announced that it has been honoured with two awards as part of Retail Risks' Fraud Awards 2017 programme. Oncam, alongside partner Video Analysis Solutions (VAS), was named the winner of the Most Innovative In-store Solution for its Live Customer Occupancy Watch platform and received a “highly commended” recognition in the category of Most Innovative In-store Surveillance for its one box vid...

Axis adds to its growing offering for smart, network based audio solutions for use beyond traditional security. A new network audio bridge allows integration between analogue and network audio systems and lets customers benefit from the advantages of a network-based system, while keeping current analogue hardware. Axis also introduces a new network microphone console that, when paired together with Axis network speakers, creates a complete public-address system. The latest additions from Axis C...

Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, announced the grand opening of their newest Axis Experience Center (AEC) in Irving, Texas. The official grand opening ceremony and ribbon cutting event was held in conjunction with ASIS on September 26th at Axis’ new facility. The 7,100 square foot AEC features a 30-person training centre, multiple state-of-the-art conference rooms, which can collectively hold up to 25 people. The space features solutions in realistic demo areas for...

InfoSecurity Russia 2017 held on September 19-21 in Moscow, Russia has been a smashing success with 6445 visitor registrations and over 11500 pre-arranged meetings. Their team was pleased to gather a professional club of executives and technical specialists, manufacturers of profile products and developers of unique software, representatives of state regulatory bodies and leading enterprises of the country under one roof. The festive atmosphere of communication and business cooperation was cre...

Hanwha Techwin America, a global supplier of IP and analogue video surveillance solutions, is showing the latest additions to its Wisenet X series cameras at ASIS 2017 (booth 3523). The latest evolution of Wisenet X features Hanwha’s innovative Wisenet 5 chipset, the most important core technology developed to date by Hanwha Techwin. "By extending our Wisenet X series, Hanwha Techwin offers the most comprehensive portfolio of video surveillance solutions with the highest levels of perform...

Johnson Controls introduced the latest version of exacqVision video management system (v8.8) which provides powerful tools that improve situation awareness and control for both administrators and users. To better react to imminent events that could potentially affect business, users can now embed a web page as a panel within the exacqVision client to get important information such as weather updates or breaking news headlines. Retail application Additionally, event links can be displayed as an...

VIVOTEK, the IP surveillance solution provider, is proud to showcase a wide range of new products and solutions at Salon APS 2017, to take place from September 26 to 28 at Porte de Versailles in Paris, France. At its booth, (#E36) VIVOTEK will unveil its latest strategy - See More in Smarter Ways, combining fully smart IP surveillance solutions to target retail, city, and industrial markets. Smarter Ways to Operate Retail VIVOTEK introduces a complete solution to its end users with the latest...

Synology® Inc. has announced the official release of Surveillance Station 8.1, which boasts faster performance and provides a more complete surveillance solution than previous versions, with the introduction of the remote recording archiving feature, the integration with transaction devices and intercom cameras, and the ability to intelligently switch between different security levels. Complete surveillance for homes and retail "In this new release, we focused on enhancing performance and...