Report from Interop 2008
We were once again at Interop Las Vegas, which concluded yesterday. This conference is a natural fit for us. Physical security is rapidly moving into the IT market with the advent of IP cameras and IP access control systems, and we saw significantly more interest and involvement from the IT integrators this year in IP video surveillance.
We had a stand in the IP Physical Security Pavilion, run by our friends at IPVS Magazine, where we showed the latest features of our exacqVision IP video surveillance software. In addition, Dan Rittman, the Director of Engineering for Exacq, participated in a panel discussion in the Physical Security Conference Track entitled "Implementation: Best Practices in Physical Security." Keven Marier of IPVS Magazine, Fredrik Nilsson of Axis Communications, and Dan all gave case studies in the use of IP video surveillance.
Keven’s presentation focused on the Retail sector, citing a case study of a large retailer that made the cost justification for going all-IP, with implementation numbers of almost 135,000 cameras over 2000 stores.
Fredrik’s presentation focused on the Transportation sector, and how - outside of airports - this is an under served market for IP video surveillance. He cited the Stockholm bus system, where Axis 209FD-R cameras have been widely deployed (video story here).
Dan’s presentation focused on the Education sector, with case studies from various school systems that have installed IP video surveillance systems: the case for it, the results our customers have seen, the cost justification, the network issues, the storage requirements, and the increasing requirements for Mac capability for video viewing. The PowerPoint presentation Dan used is embedded below.
Our thanks to Keven and the IPVS Magazine crew for doing another great job with the IP Physical Security Pavilion.
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