On the Editor’s Desk

The component makers are one step removed from you, the installer, but it can be interesting to see what they’re up to, as they can drive the manufacturers in new directions and they have an effect on price.
A couple days back I had an interesting call with OmniVision, which makes chips for IP cameras [...]

As part of my ISC West coverage, I related a little bit of the press briefing put on by Axis, during which I made myself slightly irritating by asking questions about their claim to sell “100 percent through the channel.”
How could this be, I wondered aloud (and have been wondering), when any schmuck can buy [...]

I didn’t catch up with Cernium CEO Craig Chambers at ISC West so I caught up with him yesterday on the phone. As part of a pretty wide ranging conversation (which matched up pretty well with the video analytics discussion we had at TechSec), he offered up one piece of math that called into question [...]

I haven’t really seen much activity from Intel in physical security, other than a team-up with GE to get into medical monitoring and the fact that their chips are inevitably in servers used to store video footage, etc. They’re not close to as active as, say TI, Stretch, or any number of other chip manufacturers, [...]

It’s not exactly a sign that boom-times are back, but NICE Systems’ financials came out today and they’re not bad. I don’t have a non-registration link to give you right now, but here are the pertinent details:
RA’ANANA, Israel, November 2/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE), the global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to [...]

Apropos of the discussion on Johnson Controls’ numbers in security integration, IndigoVision just released their numbers for the year ended July 31 (why it took until Sept. 30 to get them together, I’m not sure, but much of the financial world is a mystery to me, frankly).
And they look pretty good.
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I really don’t know much about Salient Systems, but a release they put out this week just caught my eye:
Salient Systems Corporation, a leading provider of advanced, network friendly video management software solutions announces the expansion of their national sales presence with the appointment of Christopher Meiter, as Director of Sales - Midwest; Phillip Heydt, [...]

These guys will design your IP surveillance system, sell you the parts, and let you do the installation. I think.
It’s hard to tell exactly what that Web site wants to do, other than sell you some IP cameras.
The blog does an okay job of summarizing press releases, I guess, but it’s mostly just an exercise [...]

They just invited me for a booth visit at ASIS, and since I’d never heard of Allied Telesis, I said yes.
They claim to be in the IP surveillance space, and you can find a white paper they’ve done on their presence in surveillance here, but I’ve never heard anyone mention them.
Just like I [...]

So, I just got done writing this quite lengthy special report on what “stability” means for physical security software, covering everything from testing procedures to metrics, network compatibility to the stability-feature dynamic.
Most people agreed, referring to that last bit there, that in order to have robust features you’ve got to have a long track [...]