End users and integrators have come up with very creative ways to leverage existing infrastructure for IP cameras and overall Ethernet data transmission. One of the challenges that is beyond control is the continually increasing power demand of new...

"Back in the day" security pro's talked about the percentage of the screen an object occupied in order to be able to detect, classify, recognize, or identify a particular subject or object in a scene. At MidChes, we refer to these items of interest...

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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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...

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...

We caught the Big Game on TV this past Sunday.

Well, actually, we did far more food preparation than game watching, however we did catch the Katy Perry halftime show and a few commercials now and then.

And we wish we missed the last two minutes of...

Questioning what you bought? We often do when the devices are high-tech.  Even more so when most of it is hidden from plain sight. And then throw in 3rd party service contract uncertainty.

Seems odd.

You buy a Bosch alarm panel.

You buy it for all...

WAKE UP CALL: things are changing dramatically for power continuity! 

Uninterruptable power supply (UPS) discussions have evoked a "less than excited" reaction from me in the past. I was invited to a conference call last week where I learned how...