Milestone XProtect VMS 2020 R1 New Release
Every 4 months or so Milestone releases a new release of their XProtect Video Management Software. Some are steady level climbs of incremental features. Others are larger steps into new territories. The 2020 R1 is somewhere in between. With a slew of incremental improvements with a few larger changes that have big potential to improve […]
Providing Nonprofit Organizations Power, Access and Trust
OMNIA Partners is the cooperative purchasing organization that is driving excellence in nonprofit organizations. Our unmatched breadth of competitively-solicited contracts from world-class suppliers streamlines the purchasing process and helps nonprofits achieve their strategic goals. We provide nonprofits the power to deliver value to their organizations through access to a seamless procurement process and suppliers they can trust. As a nonprofit, saving on expenses for operating supplies […]
Avigilon White Paper: Record Locally. View Centrally. Manage Remotely.
Challenges Video surveillance is essential for security, and active monitoring of that surveillance is necessary to manage risks. We asked professionals about their organizations’ use of this technology, and found the vast majority of business are underutilizing surveillance and monitoring. As Forbes Insights found in a recent study, many organizations underutilize video surveillance in their […]
Study: One Billion Surveillance Cameras Expected to Be Installed Globally By 2021
Excerpt from SecurityToday By 2021, more than one billion surveillance cameras will be installed across the globe, according to a new report issued by IHS Markit. An estimated 770 million cameras are already in place, with about 54 percent of them installed in China, according to CNBC, which reported on a pared-down version of the study. […]
New Updated Names for Shield | Key Platforms
Arxys Shield | Key NVRs have been helping security professionals solve video surveillance challenges from small single site 24 camera systems to large scaled out surveillance systems with 3,000+ cameras. Our goal at Arxys is to continuously deliver greater value to our customers. As part of our pursuit of constant improvement we are proud to announce […]
Solve Support Headaches Remotely With Remote Management
Now all Shield | Key Professional and Enterprise NVRs have remote management built in. When your customers or users report an issue with their video surveillance system the clock starts ticking. They want instant support and fixes. The first step in any successful support troubleshooting process is to determine what the actual problem is. You […]
Milestone Xprotect’s New Adaptive Streaming- Why You need it now.
Read the full article on the Boring Lab Milestone’s newly released version 2019R3 includes some really great new features. One of the most interesting is a new and greatly requested feature called adaptive streaming that will help reduce network throughput, and more importantly the stress on the client hardware needed to view many cameras at […]
Network Segmentation For Video Surveillance Systems
Designing a robust video surveillance system is often full of traps and pitfalls that can leave an integrator frustrated with both performance and overall functionality of the surveillance system. While engineers typically design the VMS platform in a simplified network infrastructure, real-life deployments are anything but simple. Based on the scale, expected growth, and level […]
Hikvision, Dahua Technology Among Chinese Companies Added to U.S. Government Blacklist
The Trump administration has added 28 more Chinese organizations to its entity list, which forbids American companies from selling their products to foreign companies without government permission. After banning American companies from doing business with Chinese tech company Huawei, the Commerce Department announced Monday that it will blacklist another 28 Chinese organizations, including two giants in the video […]
Video Analytics: California Legislature Votes to Ban Facial Recognition in Police Body Cameras
The California state legislature voted Thursday to send a bill temporarily banning facial recognition software in law enforcement body cameras to the governor’s desk, becoming the third state to do so. Outside of Oregon and New Hampshire, which have similar laws in place, two California cities, San Francisco and Oakland, already adopted similar measures this […]