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Leveraging Digital Video Solutions for Today and the Future

Due to the many requests we have received, here is the PowerPoint part of Dan’s presentation to the IP-in-Action LIVE conference entitled Leveraging Digital Video Solutions for Today and the Future.

The video of Dan’s presentation should be up on the IP UserGroup USA site within the next couple of weeks.

Add comment November 17th, 2006

Blue is the New Green

The latest generation of the Exacq Technologies eDVR board has a distinctive new color:  blue. This new color signifies our company’s commitment to RoHS standards throughout the world.

RoHS is the acronym for Restriction of Hazardous Substances. RoHS, also known as Directive 2002/95/EC, originated in the European Union (EU) and restricts the use of specific hazardous materials found in electrical and electronic products. The substances banned under RoHS are lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), hexavalent chromium (CrVI), polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE). These materials are hazardous to the environment and pollute landfills. They are also dangerous in terms of occupational exposure during manufacturing and recycling.

Any business that sells applicable electronic products, sub-assemblies or components directly to EU countries, or sells to resellers, distributors or integrators that in turn sell products to EU countries, is impacted if they utilize any of the restricted materials.

According to the EU Directive, Electronic components like the eDVR board are actually exempt from RoHS compliance in most OEM applications (e.g. control and monitoring equipment, national security use and military equipment) and these standards have yet to be mandated in the United States. However, at Exacq Technologies we believe these initiatives are in the best interest of our company and the entire world.

For more information on the eDVR board, click here.

Add comment November 16th, 2006

Report from IP-in-Action LIVE New York, November 14, 2006

We just returned from New York where we participated in another successful IP-in-Action LIVE event. We were showing the upcoming Version 2.0 of exacqVision. In addition, Dan Rittman, our Director of Engineering, spoke on Leveraging Digital Video Solutions for Today and the Future. Using several real-life case studies, Dan showed the need for working with existing analog cameras and infrastructure in addition to installing IP video cameras to solve today’s surveillance needs.

Speaking to the assembled crowd of Security and IT systems integrators, Dan used examples of recent exacqVision installations in a University, in a large retail chain, and in a multi-branch bank, to show how the hybrid nature of exacqVision enabled the reseller to win the business by providing the best elements of the customer’s existing analog infrastructure as well as adding the latest IP video products to provide the best solution for the customer’s video surveillance requirements.

Dan’s presentation will be available on the IP UserGroup USA website within the next couple of weeks. Our thanks again to Bruce Doneff for putting on another great conference. The next IP-in-Action LIVE event will be February 13, 2007, in Atlanta.

Add comment November 15th, 2006

Dollacker & Associates: New Rep Firm for Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana

We are pleased to announce that we have appointed Dollacker & Associates, Inc., based in Houston, as our newest Manufacturers Representative to offer the exacqVision IP Video Surveillance line of products in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas.

Dollacker & Associates, Inc. was formed in 1983, and specializes in the marketing and sales of advanced technology products available to systems integrators, distributors and consultants in the security and audio/visual industries. We’re delighted to welcome Michael, Ellen, and Emily Dollacker and their sales and support team to the Exacq family of Reps.

Dollacker can be contacted by e-mail here, by visiting their website here, or by calling 1-281-469-6132. A complete listing of all of Exacq’s North American Sales Representatives can be found on our website here.

Michael Dollacker	Ellen Dollacker	Emily Dollacker

Add comment November 3rd, 2006