Tag: IP cameras
ONVIF ending support for Profile S, recommends Profile T
October 9, 2025SSN Staff
SAN RAMON, Calif. — ONVIF announced that it will end support for ONVIF Profile S, and is recommending the use of its successor, Profile T.
Profile S, introduced in 2011, provides a standardized set of specifications that enable basic video streaming capabilities between conformant devices (like IP cameras) and clients (like video management software) from different vendors. Profile S, however, specifies authentication mechanisms that are no longer consistent with current cybersecurity...
ALCEA hires Bart Bednar as ALWIN sales engineer for North America
July 31, 2024SSN Staff
IRVING, Texas — Bart Bednar, a professional with more than 26 years of engineering and integration experience, has joined ALCEA as an ALWIN sales engineer for North America.
Bednar is based in Irving, Texas, and reports directly to Michael Woody, the company’s technical service and customer success manager. In his new position, Bednar is working with ALCEA sales personnel to promote and support the ALWIN and CLIQ access software systems.
During the first 15 years of his career while...
Snap One launches Luma Insights platform
November 21, 2023SSN Staff
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Snap One has launched Luma Insights, a new AI-based surveillance solution for Control4 customers.
The company revealed that the Luma Bridge device comes bundled with a three-year subscription to the Luma Insights service, which allows users to integrate new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning features that Snap One said exceed the capabilities of their IP cameras and Network Video Recorders (NVR) alone. The Insights service is compatible at launch with...
ONVIF 2-way audio support available with exacqVISION VMS
December 17, 2019SSN Staff
MILWAUKEE—Johnson Controls introduces exacqVISION VMS 19.12 that provides enhanced security and communication with new ONVIF 2-way audio support and offers more camera license deployment flexibility for Enterprise Manager customers.
Exacq's ONVIF camera integration supports the ability to talk and listen through IP cameras equipped with audio I/O. This new feature is perfect for businesses who utilize entryway cameras to authorize visitors as operators can hear what a visitor is saying and...
Parks looks at IP camera sales, DIY's impact
September 19, 2018Paul Ragusa
An estimated 7.7 million standalone and all-in-one networked/IP cameras will be sold in the U.S. in 2018, with $889 million in revenues, according to research from Parks Associates entitled Smart Product Market Assessment: Networked Cameras.
“Networked cameras have experienced a positive growth rate over the last year—2018 is expected to witness a roughly 11 percent increase in unit sales from the year prior,” Dina Abdelrazik, research analyst, Parks Associates, told Security Systems...
Universal Protection Security Systems leads with IP
September 24, 2014Martha Entwistle
SANTA ANA, Calif.— Universal Protection Security Systems, the integration arm of guarding giant Universal Protection, leads with IP video surveillance solutions “90 percent of the time,” according to UPSS's Bob Hinton.
Hinton, who is director of corporate accounts for the Southeast region of UPSS, said IP cameras are spec'd most of the time and even if they're not, the price of IP cameras has come down so much “it's really not worth looking at analog anymore.”
UPSS...
Non-compete complete: TycoIS woos small business
September 24, 2014Martha Entwistle
BOCA RATON, Fla.—When TycoIS's non-compete agreement with ADT expires next week, the integrator is poised to expand its small business footprint with the launch of a new HD IP camera line that's bundled with a security assessment, a mobile app and flexible financing options.
“The price point, quality and remote access are key [components] of the offering,” Mark Bomber, TycoIS director of commercial marketing, told Security Systems News.
TycoIS and ADT split into two...
Scallop Imaging is back
June 17, 2014Martha Entwistle
BOSTON—Scallop Imaging, a camera manufacturer that introduced its “distributed imaging” technology in 2009, has new ownership and management who plan to make Scallop Imaging a well known name in security.New CEO Olaf Krohg has hired Steve Gorski, who was most recently GM Americas for Mobotix, to head up sales and marketing. Krohg, working with investors he declined to name, purchased the assets of Scallop Imaging from Tenebraex, an optical technology company, about a year ago....
Vicon and IQinVision merge, form $56m business
March 31, 2014Martha Entwistle
EDGEWOOD, N.Y., and SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.—On the eve of ISC West, publicly traded Vicon and privately held IQinVision announced a plan to merge, creating a $56 million company.Vicon is a provider of VMS software, NVRs, and other devices based in Edgewood, N.Y. IQinVision manufactures IQeye HD megapixel IP cameras, and is based in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. “IQinVision's core technology is megapixel video and that's complementary to what Vicon sells in the solutions market,”...
Who's in charge? Study shows 91 percent of IT departments do video surveillance
March 19, 2014Martha Entwistle
CHELMSFORD, Mass.—Who's in charge of video surveillance purchase and operations at corporations? Increasingly, that's the domain of the IT department, according to a study commissioned by network video provider Axis Communications.The results, released March 19, show the IT department “manages or supports” video surveillance deployments in 91 percent of the surveyed organizations currently using video surveillance technology.The survey, completed by Enterprise Strategy Group in...