Tag: Ken Francis

AUSTIN, Texas—Eagle Eye Networks, a global leader in cloud video surveillance, has released a best-practices guide, Video Security Primer: 9 Core Elements that Ensure Businesses Have the Best System for Their Needs. This new resource outlines questions to ask and features to look for in a video management system to secure and grow your business.  Designed especially for multisite commercial businesses that want to understand the basics and how to choose an optimal system, the Video...

AUSTIN, Texas—Security Systems News caught up with top leadership from global cloud video surveillance pioneer Eagle Eye Networks, just ahead of the company’s announcement of record Q1 2021 revenue growth, and greater than 85 percent year-over-year revenue growth in 2020. As Eagle Eye Networks Founder and CEO Dean Drako pointed out, the company “has passed the tipping point in the video surveillance industry's adoption of cloud video, as businesses of all types and sizes...

AUSTIN, Texas—Eagle Eye Networks, a global leader in cloud video surveillance, released a best-practices guide, “Analog Video to Cloud,” for business owners interested in economical ways to upgrade legacy analog video surveillance cameras to a modern, digital cloud system, and how existing cameras can be reused in the process. The report details the advantages of managing analog camera video in the cloud - including lower costs and greater flexibility - outlines video-to-cloud...

AUSTIN, Texas—Eagle Eye Networks Inc. today announced that it has launched its first phase of video analytics, which includes line crossing, intrusion detection, and object counting within the Eagle Eye Cloud Security Camera VMS. For the remainder of 2017, Eagle Eye customers can utilize these analytics at no cost, and beginning on Jan. 1, 2018, Eagle Eye Analytics will be available to the customer for $4 to $5 per camera, per month.“Prior to this cloud-based solution, the cost of analytics...

DALLAS—Securadyne Systems, a new systems integration company launched in February by industry veterans Ken Francis and Carey Boethel, now has a platform for growth in the Northeast with the acquisition of Surveillance Specialties (SURV).“After the acquisition of SURV, the pro forma revenue [of Securadyne] will sit at about $35 million,” Boethel, Securadyne president and CEO, told Security Systems News.Three features attracted Securadyne and Pamlico Capital, Securadyne's financial...

DALLAS—Carey Boethel and Ken Francis, two well-known industry veterans, announced this morning that they've founded a new systems integration firm called Securadyne Systems, and acquired SecureNet,  a Dallas-based security integrator, as a platform for growth.With backing from Pamlico Capital, the phase-one strategy for Securadyne is “to build a Southeast regional company over the next two years. Phase two would be to achieve a national footprint,” Francis told Security Systems...