Tag: surveillance
i-PRO introduces FlexPay Financing
May 22, 2023SSN Staff
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL – i-PRO, a provider of professional security, surveillance, and public safety solutions announced the introduction of i-PRO FlexPay Financing which offers users a path to reduced debt and ownership.
i-PRO FlexPay Financing promises to assist organizations of any size stay current with security technology while staying on budget. It offers flexible options, enabling its customers to choose from a variety of 3rd party software, hardware, and services as a bundle.
“New...
King named i-Pro regional sales director and head of cyber convergence
May 11, 2023SSN Staff
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL – i-Pro, supplier of professional security solutions for surveillance and public safety, has announced the appointment of security expert Antoinette King as regional sales director and head of cyber convergence.
In performing her duty for those roles King will be responsible for managing the U.S. East Coast sales for i-Pro Americas. She’ll also lead the company’s cyber convergence initiative that I-Pro said will establish a holistic security approach...
Shabodi and Megh Computing unveil network-aware video analytics solutions for private 5g networks
April 20, 2023SSN Staff
HILLSBORO, Ore. – Shabodi and Megh Computing announced the launch of their network-aware video analytics solutions suite for private networks.
The solutions have at their core the Video Analytics Solution (VAS) product line, Megh’s Open Analytics platform, and Shabodi’s network-aware Application Enablement Platform (AEP). The suite has been designed for private advanced networks including LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi 6, and 6G. In their official press release Megh describes video analytics...
Perimeter security market to hit $132.4 billion by 2030, report says
March 6, 2023SSN Staff
SAN FRANCISCO – Consulting company Grand View Research Inc. has released a new report that pegs the perimeter security market to more than double by 2030.
Valuations from 2022 place the global perimeter security market at $64.6 billion. Grand View Research’s estimates would have it register a CAGR of 9.4 percent between 2023 and 2030. The research company attributes the growth in the sector to rising insecurities and illegal activities like planned crimes, smuggling, theft,...
Hikvision, Dahua feeling the squeeze as Australian audit removes cameras
February 10, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
SYDNEY – Hikvision and Dahua are off to a bad start in 2023 as sanctions from the prior year and accusations of human rights violations continue to produce repercussions for the Chinese telecoms.
In an audit released on Feb. 9, the Australian government found as many as 900 pieces of surveillance equipment manufactured by those companies were installed at government locations, on over 200 buildings, and in every department although numbers per department could not be verified. In an interview...
Wasabi Surveillance Cloud offers "bottomless" storage for video surveillance
February 2, 2023SSN Staff
BOSTON – Cloud storage company Wasabi Technologies is delivering a scalable, first-of-its-kind video storage solution for the surveillance industry.
The Wasabi Surveillance Cloud allows organizations to offload video surveillance footage from a local storage environment directly to the cloud, without ever running out of capacity the company claims. Wasabi said that this "bottomless" approach to video storage is vital for the surveillance industry in their efforts to manage enormous...
i-PRO expands distribution network in Canada and Latin America
December 12, 2022SSN Staff
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL – Surveillance and public safety security provider i-PRO has announced the expansion of its distributor network in Canada and Latin America.
The company has formed new partnerships with ADI and TD SYNNEX in Canada to further its expansion. “The finalization of the distribution network in Canada is very exciting as we have reached a key milestone in joining the i-PRO Americas family,” said Zoran Trgacevski, district sales manager, i-PRO Canada. “We...
Global market for mass transit security to grow 76 percent by 2018
December 3, 2014Spencer Ives
LONDON—The global mass transit security market will grow 76 percent from 2013 to 2018, according to a TechNavio report that assesses the value of this market through examining surveillance, infrastructure, and identification.“We believe the mass transit security market in America to be valued � a little over $3.2 billion and we believe this market might go as high as $5 billion by 2018,” Navin Rajendra, senior TechNavio analyst, told Security Systems News. This would equate to a...
State of the Industry: Looking ahead to 2014
December 18, 2013Leif Kothe
IRVING, Texas—The past year on Capitol Hill will be remembered for legislative inaction and partisan rifts so deep they culminated in a 16-day government shutdown. Time will tell if the inertia and division will persist in 2014, but the fact that it's an election year promises to make things a little hectic for the security industry, John Chwat, director of government relations for ESA, told Security Systems News.�So what's on the agenda in the face of the midterm turbulence? Chwat says the...
Arkansas town considers requiring businesses to install surveillance
November 13, 2012SSN Staff
PINE BLUFF, Ark.—Leaders in this town are considering an ordinance requiring convenience stores and restaurants to install and maintain surveillance equipment, according to NACS.online.
The move was prompted by an unsolved crime in which Mohammed Islam, a convenience store clerk at the Big Red Food Mart, was killed during an attempted armed robbery two months ago, the report said. At the time of the robbery, cameras in the store were not working.
According to the proposal, storeowners, managers...