Tag: Panasonic
SIA names Bill Brennan to SIA Executive Advisory Board
February 6, 2024SSN Staff
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has appointed Bill Brennan of i-PRO to serve on the SIA Executive Advisory Board.
Established in 2017, the SIA Executive Advisory Board (EAB) is a panel of executive thought leaders from SIA member companies and a forum that offers input on how market developments influence SIA’s strategy and key initiatives. The group advises the SIA Board of Directors on potential SIA member benefits on topics that include...
i-PRO opens new global headquarters in Tokyo
August 9, 2022SSN Staff
TOKYO—i-PRO Co., Ltd., a provider of professional security solutions for surveillance and public safety, today announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art global headquarters in Tokyo.
Manifesting the company’s ambitious growth plans since it became independent from Panasonic, i-Pro also announced it is relocating and expanding its R&D center in Fukuoka.
Located in the vibrant business district Shinagawa, i-PRO’s new headquarters will become a new core hub to showcase...
De Fina: A forward-looking industry veteran
July 29, 2015Martha Entwistle
Like others here at Security Systems News and across the industry, I was saddened to learn of Frank De Fina's death.
Over the past 10 years I got to know Frank and I admired him a lot. He was a great businessman who knew his technology and the security industry inside and out, but one of the reasons I liked talking to him is because he knew as much about music and art as he did about IP video.
And more than just talk about music, he was a musician. If you've been to PSA-TEC, you've probably enjoyed...
Frank De Fina, security industry veteran, dies
July 27, 2015Martha Entwistle
PLAINSBORO, N.J.—Security industry veteran Frank De Fina, 61, who served as a top executive for a number of video surveillance companies including Panasonic, Samsung, SightLogix and most recently Hikvision USA, died July 26 at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.Active in industry associations, De Fina was instrumental in putting together a security degree program at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey in collaboration with the Security Industry Association. That program will...
De Fina joins Hikvision USA
May 18, 2015Martha Entwistle
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif.–Frank De Fina, who has worked with video surveillance companies such as Panasonic, Samsung and Sightlogix, has joined Hikvision USA, one of the fastest growing video surveillance companies, Hikvision announced today.As senior director, strategic sales, a newly created position, De Fina will expand sales growth particularly in the systems integration business in North America, the company said.De Fina told Security Systems News he is impressed by Hikvision's products and...
Panasonic to buy Video Insight
February 4, 2015SSN Staff
OSAKA, Japan—Panasonic on Feb. 3 announced it has an agreement to acquire VMS provider Video Insight, based in Houston, Texas.Panasonic plans to acquire all shares of Video Insight. Terms of the deal were not released. Imperial Capital advised Video Insight.Panasonic said the deal is “part of its strategy to expand business opportunities for both companies in the education market in North America.”Video Insight will continue to be run by founders J. Robert Shaw and James Whitcomb....
Video companies branching out into access control
October 10, 2014Martha Entwistle
YARMOUTH, Maine—In the past 18 months, three major video surveillance companies have expanded into access control. There are many reasons why Axis Communications, Panasonic and Avigilon made this move, but the main reason, they say, is because of demand.“More and more customers are looking for integration [of their video systems] with access control,” said Bruce Stewart, business development manager, access control, Axis Communications.Willem Ryan, product marketing manager, Avigilon,...
De Fina joins SightLogix
July 15, 2014Martha Entwistle
PRINCETON, N.J.—Calling it the “next great company,” Frank De Fina announced today that he's joining smart thermal camera manufacturer SightLogix as EVP of sales and marketing.De Fina said SightLogix is a “hidden gem” that meets four criteria he has for getting involved with a new company.One of those criteria is that the product solves a problem.SightLogix “solves a big industry problem and that is intrusion detection,” De Fina said.“What I'm talking...
Minuteman gets $7m MBTA mobile video surveillance project
October 9, 2013Martha Entwistle
ANDOVER, Mass.—Within a year, hundreds of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) buses will be equipped with what Minuteman CEO Joseph Lynch calls “one of the most advanced multiband wireless IP video systems ever installed in mass transit.” The first group of buses will start transporting passengers the second week in November. Minuteman, a PSA Security owner, won the $7 million project at the end of July. “The contract is for the installation of high definition...
Axis stays atop IHS video surveillance rankings, claims top spot for video encoders
June 21, 2013SSN Staff
CHELMSFORD, Mass.—Axis Communications, a provider of network video surveillance solutions, retained the top spot in IHS Research's annual rankings of the top video surveillance companies, according to a news release.
Ranking just behind Axis in the same category were the Japanese electronics giant Panasonic and China-based Hikvision, according to the recently released report, titled “CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment - World - 2013.”
In addition, Axis for the first...