The Verizon Center in Washington DC, home to Washington Wizards basketball, Washington Capitals hockey, Georgetown University Basketball, Washington Power men's lacrosse, as well as circuses and high profile performances, recently upgraded their...

Mirasys, one of the leading suppliers of open platform Video Management and Visual Intelligence Solutions, launches the Mirasys VMS (Video Management System) v7.3.

In this new version Mirasys has concentrated on software management and control...

It's been an expensive, risky, "nice to have" technology for a long time.  Times have changed.

A St. Louis parochial high school paid $7,500 for a facial recognition system to identify specific categories of people entering the facility.

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Be Prepared for Daylight Saving Time - from Bosch Security Systems

On March 8 at 2am, clocks will spring forward and cause a variety of issues with video recordings across the industry. The type of problem - whether it's dual recordings, no...

The transportation industry was an early adopter of streaming video. This technology helps the agency monitor road conditions for snow, ice, rain, stopped vehicles, traffic incidents, and more.

With real-time eyes on scene, the proper response can...

Fears about fingerprint information capture have long been put to rest.

The new frontier for biometric technology is now a reality: long range facial recognition for access control.

Challenges: historically there was fear about capturing and storing...

Do you sometimes jump to solving a security challenge with a quick search online? It's certainly tempting to get the quick answer.

With the myriad of security products on the market, how do you decide what device you need and how it will work with...

Power Protection and UPS are critical devices often overlooked "until it's too late."

Washington DC government and businesses learned about this all too well on April 7 when widespread power outages paralyzed the DC metro area.

Simple, relatively...

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Chesapeake & Midlantic Marketing (MidChes) is a technical manufacturer's representative firm in the security industry.

We provide free technical education, system demonstration, system design and specification assistance, solution budgeting, and...