2009 IP Video Market Forecast Review about
Video Surveillance
on Oct 12 The IP Video market will grow much slower next year due to the unfolding financial implosion. It is critical for all of us to understand how much it will slow, where it will slow and hot the impact will be most ...
Is Eliminating Analog Cabling a Major Benefit of... Article about
IP Cameras
on Oct 11 The installation cost of an IP system is always higher than that of an equivalent analogue system. That is, where the coverage, resolution and camera quantities are the same, where there are no particular connec...
Does Lower Expectations Solve Video Analytics Pr... Review about
Video Analytics
on Oct 09 An increasingly popular but dangerous trend is the argument that expectations for video analytics need to be lowered. The thinking is that since video analytics have had problems in the field, if we lower ...
Is Axis IP camera dominance coming to an end? Review about
Axis
on Oct 05 IP video is becoming mainstream but Axis' IP cameras may lose their dominance in the process. Six critical issues may undermine Axis position and in the process provide consumers with more options and lower pric...
IP Video for Teleconferencing - Startup vs Cisco Article about
General
on Oct 05 Businessweek explores how teleconferencing costs are dropping significantly and a startup is challenging Cisco; interesting use of IP video beyond video surveillance
Video Surveillance Platforms Review about
General
on Oct 03 A platform for video surveillance could dramatically improve the effectiveness of video surveillance. However, no manufactuer has developed an actual platform despite frequent marketing claims to the contrary. T...
Sharing Video Surveillance Market Size Numbers Review about
Video Surveillance
on Oct 02 Tracking the market size of video surveillance is helpful to understand what the next big technology may be and how soon migration to that new technology may be.
See my new report forecasting 2009 IP Video mark...
SVC - A Better H.264 Coming For Video Surveillance Review about
IP Cameras
on Oct 02 SVC will solve a key problem of H.264: While H.264 generates a fixed quality and sized video stream, video surveillance users can benefit greatly from the dynamic re-sizing that SVC allows. The two main benefits...
550 Chain Restaurant Chooses Envysion html from
Envysion
on Oct 01 Captain D’s seafood restaurants, which operates more than 550 quick-serve seafood restaurants in 25 states and internationally. Envysion Video is a web-based video management service that provides operators of m...
New Overview of Exacq's Products pdf from
Exacq
on Oct 01 Exacq's support of H.264 and Apple is increasing interest in their products; new brochure overviews their product line
Eliminate Sales and Marketing Review about
General
on Sep 30 10-20% of all spending on video surveillance goes to sales and marketing costs yet customers find great difficulty determining the best solution for their needs. The solution to this, just like in stocks and rea...
Vivotek PT7137 Product Review by TrustedReviews.com html from
Vivotek
on Sep 30 Vivotek PT7137 was commended as a network camera that offers a fine selection of surveillance features at an affordable price. With an overall score of 7 out of 10, PT7137 proves itself a good choice with high C...
CSST acquires 3 Chinese Surveillance Companies Article about
CSST
on Sep 30 Announced plans to acquire three local security and surveillance companies. CSST recently signed letters of intent with access control system provider Shenzhen Coson Electronic Co. Ltd, residential security solu...
InformationWeek Reviews Envysion Managed Video O... Article about
Envysion
on Sep 28 Envysion aims its managed video as a service video-monitoring and storage application at management, marketing, and loss prevention, but we found the service a valuable security tool beyond those applications. The
Should You Use Auto-Tracking PTZs? Review about
IP Cameras
on Sep 25 Though available for many years, Auto-Tracking PTZs are generating renewed interest with Axis' recent release of their 233D camera. The claim is that "auto-tracking enables a single
Cisco, Proximex, Agent Vi Wins Amtrack Station P... Article about
Cisco
on Sep 24 Amtrak will deploy a video security system composed of Cisco’s Video Surveillance Manager (VSM), Proximex Surveillint and Agent Vi software to protect its Los Angeles and Oakland maintenance yards. The system wi...
Benefits of Standards for Specifying IP Cameras Review about
IP Cameras
on Sep 24 Specifications are valuable but often are done poorly, creating problems or biasing the bid. Such challenges are magnified with digital and IP video where multiple codecs and multiple resolutions become co...
Axis Introduction to H264 pdf from
Axis
on Sep 23 38 page presentation overviews the benefits and use of H.264 relative to MPEG-4 and MJPEG
Examining the CCTV Footage from the Marriott Bom... Review about
Video Surveillance
on Sep 22 Below is a recording of the actual CCTV footage from the Marriott bombed in Pakistan. It looks like it's from a DVR, recording about 5-8fps at CIF or 2CIF. This is solid performance for a system that was likel...
The Problem of Buying from Big Companies Review about
Video Surveillance
on Sep 21 Big companies like GE, Tyco, Bosch, Cisco and Honeywell make a broad range of mostly mediocre, overpriced video surveillance products that take advantage of customer's lack of information. While they are powerfu...
Analytics - To Lead or Not to Lead Review about
Video Analytics
on Sep 19 I'm not much for Shakespeare, but this is a good question. Over the past few years, many security companies have been leading into an Enterprise IP Video project with analytics as the main driving force. In a pr...
Genetec Launches Completely Revamped Website html from
Genetec
on Sep 18 Extensive new information on Genetec's applications, products and technologies offered. Includes half dozen new in-depth white papers.
New IP Video Book from Axis html from
Axis
on Sep 16 Axis released "Intelligent Network Video" book: 440 pages, $79.95 list price; authored by Fredrik Nillson and endorsed by Charlie Pierce.
ASIS 2008 Announcements Review Review about
Video Surveillance
on Sep 16 Megapixel cameras, storage solutions and managed video are the 3 areas with the greatest momentum of new product annoncements.
A brief review of each follows after 2 general observations:
Traffic was light as&n...
ASIS Exhibitor Floor Traffic Weak Review about
Video Surveillance
on Sep 15 Traffic on the exhibit floor looks weak. I had a couple of colleagues guess. Their estimates range from 10% - 30% less than the last few years. Whatever the specific traffic levels are, it's pretty c...
Innovation in video analytics on display at ASIS... Article about
DIGIOP
on Sep 15 to traditional security applications. Digiop, which manufactures DVRs, has begun selling its recorders, which integrate ObjectVideo's technology, to different end users in the retail and gaming industry. Tim Mar...
