Physical Security Industry

Memoori spoke to Tim Shen from the ONVIF Communications Committee & Dahua at the CPSE Exhibition in China. We discuss future developments with the Open Standard in Video Surveillance & Access Control Technology. Our brand new YouTube Channel called The Smart Building Series, features in-depth interviews with stakeholders from across the industry, including End Users, […]

The All-over-IP Event Team recently asked the Russian security and IT industry for their opinion; Including what local verticals open up greater revenue opportunities, and which of them they would like to connect more with in the future. The poll shows that vendors and solution providers mostly count on industrial projects (including critical infrastructure), retail, […]

In this, our third video interview, we ask Bjorn Skou Eilertsen, CTO of Milestone Systems, about the future of video surveillance and video management software. Why he believes that in 5 years, 50% of streams managed by video management systems will be from mobile recording devices and explains his mantra of Aggregation, Automation & Augmentation. […]

During the last six months we have published a number of articles relating to the growing connection between Physical Access Control, ONVIF and Identity Management. The announcement last week that HID Global will buy Mercury Security, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions, could have very significant implications; Bringing forward integration & total solutions […]

Chinese Manufactures will continue to dominate the mainstream video camera market unless western manufactures adopt viable strategies to meet the new challenges driven by customer needs. Just about every set of statistics that has been published in the last twelve months regarding the world market for video surveillance equipment shows that the world’s two major […]

“It’s not about tracking or monitoring people, it’s about keeping the bad people out and preventing insider attacks with the right risk management,” says Serra Luck, HID Global’s VP End User and Consultant Business – Physical Access Control Solutions, on the issue of privacy in our increasingly connected built environment. While this may sound good […]

In 2014, ONVIF brought out the final release of Profile C, which enables interoperability between different manufactures devices of physical access control systems (PACS) and network-based video systems. This was an important step towards extending the ONVIF specifications into physical access control. Through the availability of the Profile C Test Tool manufacturers are able to […]

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research With increased risk of terrorist activities and incidents both in the workplace and in public places, businesses need effective platforms to notify personnel in their facilities as to what is happening, where it is happening and how to respond in an emergency situation or […]