Archive for January, 2007
We have released the latest version of the exacqVision Spec Sheet. This new version, dated January 2007, includes both a general overview of the exacqVision Pro and exacqVision IP lines, plus has a detailed Product Matrix on the back comparing the features of the various exacqVision offerings.
You can download the exacqVision Spec Sheet from our Downloads page, or the direct download link is here.
A quantity of printed copies are being mailed out to each exacqVision reseller, and additional copies are available by request simply by e-mailing us.
January 31st, 2007
We had a successful NRF show earlier this week in New York. Co-located with Axis Communications and their IP Cameras in the IPVS Magazine booth, we showed our exacqVision IP software in an all-IP megapixel camera environment.
The comments from the many integrators and retail loss prevention personnel who saw exacqVision IP focused on the following key points:
Low Cost – exacqVision IP is low-priced and simple to buy: one flat low price per video channel. Cameras can be easily added at any time. No additional server fees, enterprise fees, or charges for additional features.
Ease of Use – exacqVision IP NVR software is the most intuitive video surveillance software on the market.
True Scalability – whether you need just a couple of cameras for a convenience store, or hundreds of cameras across a chain of stores, excaqVision IP is an ideal solution.
Extensive IP Camera Support – exacqVision IP works with the most popular IP cameras on the market, including megapixel and PTZ IP cameras, from vendors such as Axis, Sony, IQeye, Panasonic, ACTi, and more.
Use of Existing Equipment – exacqVision IP can also integrate existing analog CCTV cameras seamlessly with the IP cameras, using the same user interface, with full frame rate and high quality images. No need to discard existing cameras, domes, PTZ units, etc.
POS Integration – exacqVision IP can integrate with POS systems, alarm systems, access control systems, and more.
In addition to sending all of the leads an evaluation copy of the exacqVision IP software, we’ll be forwarding the end-user leads to our dealer channel. Our thanks to Mark Bonde and the crew at IPVS Magazine for the terrific job they did with their booth at this year’s NRF show.
January 19th, 2007
We’re off to New York for the National Retail Federation’s annual BIG Show Convention and Expo. We’ll be exhibiting our exacqVision IP NVR software solution in the IPVS Magazine booth #2128.
exacqVision has been uniquely designed for retail loss prevention video surveillance applications. Extreme ease-of-use, low cost per video channel, ability to use existing legacy analog equipment, ability to add any number of IP cameras of any resolution or type, and the ability to interface with POS and back-office systems.
From a single-location store that may only require a small number of cameras, to a nation-wide chain encompassing hundreds of store locations, exacqVision’s common user interface and client-server architecture is an ideal choice for retail loss prevention video surveillance applications.
The exhibit hall of the NRF Annual Convention is open Monday and Tuesday, January 15-16, 2007, from 10:30 am - 6:30 pm.
January 12th, 2007
We’re pleased to announce that we have appointed three new Manufacturers Rep firms to represent our exacqVision NVR products in their respective territories.
C&B Sales Associates, LLC
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina
C & B Sales Associates, LLC was founded in 1932 and was one of the first electronics manufacturers’ representatives based in the mid south, and today the fourth-generation continues the tradition serving the sales and customer service needs of the security and public safety products industry. In addition to Exacq, C & B Sales represents a number of physical security manufacturers, including IP camera vendor ACTi. We welcome Rett Bean and his crew to the Exacq family of Reps. C & B can be reached by phone at 866-566-9530 or by visiting their website here.
Professional Sales, Inc.
Southern California, Southern Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii
Professional Sales, Inc. is a multi-faceted independent manufacturer’s representative firm specializing in the Audio, Video, Fire, Security and Surveillance industries. The personnel of PSI have over 200 collective years of experience in this field. In addition to Exacq, PSI represents a number of manufacturers in the audio, fire and security field, including IP camera vendor Arecont Vision. We welcome Dennis Grant and his crew to the Exacq family of Reps. PSI can be reached by phone at 909-390-8812 or by visiting their website here.
Nightingale Rep Associates
Colorado, Utah, Wyoming
Nightingale Rep Associates was founded in 2005, with a mission to represent the highest quality and most affordably priced security product manufacturers in the industry. In addition to Exacq, Nightingale represents a wide spectrum of security manufacturers, from IP Intercom Systems to Mobile Video to Perimeter Protection. We welcome Bob Short and Ken Rice to the Exacq family of Reps. Nightingale can be reached by phone at 303-483-5681 or by visiting their website here.
A complete listing of all Exacq Manufacturer Reps is located here.
January 11th, 2007
We received a nice write-up in this month’s Security Systems News magazine, focusing on the ease of use of our exacqVision software, our background at Integral, customer involvement in defining features, and more. Our thanks to Scott Hard and Brad Kelley of BankPak for their kind remarks.
Exacq hits the market with Integral vets
DVR manufacturer stresses customer involvement with product development
By L. Samuel Pfeifle, editor - 01.2007
INDIANAPOLIS–In the year since Exacq Technologies entered the market with its first product, the Exacq eDVR component board, the company has moved from offering a pure hardware solution for OEMs to manufacturing its own network DVR to, in December, releasing a pure software product that manages an all-IP camera surveillance network. It’s all part of the company’s plans to migrate users from an analog environment to a digital and IP-based environment.
If anyone knows DVRs, it’s the team running Exacq. President David Underwood, director of engineering Daniel Rittman, director of application software Jerome Fath, director of operations Jeffrey Walters, and director of sales and marketing Thomas Buckley all hail from Integral Technologies, the DVR pioneer sold to Balfour Beatty’s Andover Controls in 2002 and again to Schneider Electric in 2004.
“Integral was one of the first three companies to do DVRs,” said Underwood. “You know how well that business has developed. Now you see the emergence of IT technology in the security surveillance and recording market … Our strategy is to migrate both the integrator and the investment into new technology.”
Hence the coexistence of exacqVision Pro and the brand-new exacqVision IP. The former is a network DVR, like a normal DVR but easily scalable and networkable. The latter is just a piece of software, turning any PC into a video management system that can control a number of IP cameras. Both have essentially the same interface.
It’s an interface with which Scott Hard, vice president and general manager of BankPak, working exclusively in the bank-branch market out of an office in Morrison, Tenn., has had great success. “It just blew other products out of the water,” he said, without a moment’s hesitation.
This is partly because Exacq essentially gave BankPak the keys to the DVR. Hard said manufacturers weren’t meeting the needs of financial institutions and when he heard Exacq was coming into the market he contacted them. “They allowed us to have actual input into the features,” he said. “They told us to write up a wish list, along with a couple of other dealers.”
Thomas Buckley, Exacq’s director of sales and marketing, said this close work with mid-tier integrators is part of the plan to constantly be communicating back and forth to develop products that work specifically for different verticals.
For example, Brad Kelley, BankPak’s installation manager, said, “with a lot of the other units we’ve installed in the past, the remote software has always been problematic to install. With Exacq, it installs in under 10 seconds. The ease of use is just so key to making our customers happy. It’s a real good selling point for us.”
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January 2nd, 2007