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High-Definition Surveillance: Are You Getting The Whole Picture?

HDTV is working its way in to the security industry, providing a clearer image, larger screens and fewer security personnel, saving businesses money. Is your business getting the whole picture? It will with HDTV cameras.

26Jun2009 | Paul.Lalley | 1 comment | Continued
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HDTV and Video Surveillance

[ June 30, 2009; 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] HDTV and Network Video round table discussion

5Jun2009 | steve | Comments Off | Continued
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Networking giant’s new servers to compete with old partners…..

That was the head line of the Wall Street Journal. Cisco is now selling servers with the intent of creating a “unified computing” platform. If you read the article a little closer you get to the real point of Cisco’s intent, more revenue and more profit. Cisco wants you the consumer to [...]

23Mar2009 | SusanM | Comments Off | Continued
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Top 7 Design Considerations for improving Security Technology

After observing a client’s disaster drill from a dispatcher’s point of view, I developed a list of the Top 7 Design Considerations for using security technology to improve response to a disaster event.

30Jan2009 | steve | 0 comments | Continued
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Security Technology Configuration Must Consider a Range of Scenarios

We built our design around Lenel OnGuard and used a Pelco CM9760 analog matrix switch with intercom from Zenitel and recorded all of the video first generation DVRs from Lenel. The system was configured so that a perimeter alarm would activate video tours on the matrix switch and automatically generate alarm views…a great idea [...]

29Jan2009 | steve | Comments Off | Continued
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Security System Design Criteria

The setting for the disaster planning exercise was a large campus in the Minneapolis/St Paul area. The campus area has 1.6 million square feet of office space and is located on a 40-acre campus. It includes four office buildings, a five-level 6,800 car parking structure and a 100,000 square-foot common area that connects all of the structures together.

29Jan2009 | steve | Comments Off | Continued