Tag: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Three questions with Brinks Home
July 24, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine — In light of surprising burglary statistics, Veronica Moturi of Brinks Home discusses the latest in residential security systems, including the evolution into home automation, the leverage of AI and more.
In the United States, as many as 3,062 burglaries occur every day, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program; however, only 25% of Americans have a home security system, according to SafeWise.
We took some of our pressing...
Florida SouthWestern State College deploys ZeroEyes
July 23, 2024SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA — ZeroEyes, has announced that its AI gun detection and intelligent situational awareness solution has been deployed by Florida SouthWestern State College (FSW) to mitigate gun-related violence.
ZeroEyes revealed it has been implemented across all four FSW campuses, which includes 16,000 students and nearly 1,000 faculty and staff. First established in 1962, FSW’s main campus is located in Fort Myers, Fla., with satellite campuses in Punta Gorda and Naples and a center...
ISS launches Intellisection for automated intersection monitoring
July 22, 2024SSN Staff
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.—ISS (Intelligent Security Systems), a global provider of video intelligence and data awareness solutions, has launched Intellisection, a turnkey solution for automated intersection monitoring.
Intellisection leverages artificial intelligence and advanced neural network training technology to enhance road safety and efficiency, enabling federal, state, and local agencies to create a comprehensive traffic management solution.
The state-of-the-art neural network technology...
Comcast partners with Eagle Eye Networks, C2RO, on AI video analytics solution
July 2, 2024SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA — Comcast Smart Solutions, a division of Comcast that specializes in smart technologies for businesses and communities, announced expanded strategic relationships with Eagle Eye Networks and C2RO to provide customers with a new, broader set of artifical intelligence (AI) video analytics solutions.
"As technology continues to innovate and industries continue to face new challenges, organizations must reassess how they are using and managing their video and analytics systems,”...
Physical Access Control Report from HID highlights top 5 trends
July 1, 2024SSN Staff
AUSTIN, Texas — HID has released its 2024 State of Physical Access Control Report, which identifies five key trends that it says are shaping the future of access control.
Produced by IFSEC Global in partnership with HID, the report surveyed over 1,200 security professionals across the globe. Conducted between November 2023 and January 2024, the survey reveals five trends, as follows:
Mobile access and digital ID set to become ubiquitous
According to this report, nearly two in...
Axelera AI raises $68 million Series B funding
June 27, 2024SSN Staff
SILICON VALLEY, Calif. and EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — Axelera AI, a provider of purpose-built artificial intelligence (AI) hardware acceleration technology for generative AI and computer vision inference, has announced its successful close of an oversubscribed $68 million Series B financing round.
This latest round brings the total amount raised to $120 million. Axelera AI has spent the past three years building a team of 180+ employees (including 55+ PhD’s with more than 40,000 citations...
Milestone Systems and Arcules to reunite in merger
June 27, 2024SSN Staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, and IRVINE, Calif. — Global video technology company Milestone Systems has announced that it will merge with cloud-based video surveillance solutions provider Arcules, effective July 1, 2024.
Based in Irvine, California, Arcules was spun out from Milestone in 2017. Now, following that split from each other, the companies say that the merger brings together Milestone and Arcules' capabilities within video management software (VMS), video analytics and video surveillance...
Axis Communications celebrates 40th anniversary
June 25, 2024SSN Staff
CHELMSFORD, Mass. —Axis Communications, a provider of IoT, cloud and AI in video surveillance, is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Originally founded in 1984, over the past four decades Axis has introduced a number of innovations beginning with the world's first network camera in 1996, which spawned an industry and triggered the shift from analog to IP-based video surveillance.
According to Axis it has since launched many other “world’s firsts” including the first...
‘Spending wisely but slowly’ - SSN readers weigh in on Q1
June 19, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine - Reports that came out of the first quarter of 2024 were a mixed bag for most companies in the security industry.
As organizations increasingly tighten belts and return to the fundamental parts of their business, Security Systems News (SSN) has turned to readers in the July News Poll to provide their outlook on the first quarter of 2024.
Interestingly, in spite of growing AI adoption there was a general agreement that traditional industry segments performed the best in the...
Milestone Systems funds research project at University of Aalborg
June 14, 2024SSN Staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The University of Aalborg, Denmark, has been honored for advancements in Harbor Safety Technology through a collaborative project with Milestone Systems.
In a release from Milestone the company specified its video technology and synthetic datasets deployed in a Danish harbor were recently awarded the Danish Spar Nord Foundation Research Award for research into detecting fatal accidents in harbors using Artificial Intelligence (AI)-trained models for thermal cameras.
Milestone...