We have just returned from PSA-TEC 2010, the annual education, training and technology event that PSA Security Network holds for its members. We have found PSA-TEC to be of considerable value to us, as it affords us the opportunity to spend some in-depth time with the PSA member resellers.
One of the most important parts of the conference is the training sessions. We held one of our day-long exacqVisiontechnical reseller training sessions on Tuesday, where we had a pre-registered full house as well as some dealers who added the course on-site.
Wednesday morning was the Vendor Awards Banquet, the result of PSA member surveys ranking vendors on overall products, support, pricing, and service to the membership. We were very honored to receive the "Superstar Vendor Achievement Award" this year, the highest award PSA offers. Our sincere appreciation goes out to the entire PSA member base for this award.
After the awards breakfast was the trade show. This was the first year at the Rosemont Convention Center, and the upgraded facilities were a great change of pace. We had a packed booth the entire show, and the increased space and wider aisles were most welcome. We showed our latest exacqVision Version 4.1 features, as well as a sneak peek of the upcoming Version 4.2 features, including Sanyo IP camera support and ONVIF support, using Bosch and other ONVIF-compatible cameras. We also were using IP cameras from Axis, Vivotek, IQeye, Panasonic, ACTi, Sony, and Arecont Vision, who was also right across the aisle from us.
Additionally, we also featured our iPhone & iPad surveillance app, which allows full connection to all exacqVision servers, live viewing with multiple camera layouts, and search and playback of recorded video.
Our thanks once again to the entire PSA organization for the great job they did with this years’ well-run event. Below are some pictures and a video from the show floor. Click on each for a larger image.
We have just added an ACTi IP camera demo server to our growing number of exacqVision demo servers located in Indianapolis and around the world. These demo servers are widely used by our resellers and customers for evaluation, training and demo purposes. The large number of servers replicates an enterprise video surveillance deployment, complete with a full range of cameras of varying types, brands, resolutions and compression formats.
The ACTi server is running on our new exacqVision EL embedded Linux Hybrid NVR appliance. There are eleven ACTi IP cameras connected, including their new H.264 models. Since the exacqVision EL is a hybrid server, we additionally have 16 analog cameras connected, for a total of 27 video sources on this demo server. As with all of our demo servers, audio channels, POS inputs, and user-activated triggers are also connected.
If you currently have a login to our exacqVision demo serves and would like to add the ACTi server, just e-mail us at info@exacq.com and we’ll add your login to that server.
The Security 2008 Australia show was held last week at the Sydney Convention Centre. This is the largest physical security trade show in Australia, and our agent for the entire region, Zone Advanced Protection Systems, had a prominent booth on the show floor.
Zone was showing their full line-up of products, including ICx thermal imaging, intelligent sensors and radar surveillance systems; ioimage video analytic cameras; and ACTi IP video cameras. But certainly a highlight of their booth was the exacqVision IP video surveillance systems combined with the new Arecont Vision h.264 megapixel IP cameras. These new h.264 compression-based megapixel cameras (Arecont models AV5105, AV3105, AV2105 and AV1305) provide a tremendous benefit in reducing both storage space and network traffic. Since these cameras have become available, we’re seeing upwards of 10x average file size reduction with the h.264 models vs. the corresponding MJPEG models.
Bill Nolan, Managing Director of Zone, reported that the new cameras with the exacqVision software were a hit: “The customers GOT it and so it made megapixel much more interesting.” One visitor to the booth said this combination was “the first real megapixel management system I’ve seen.” The fact that the exacqVision software runs natively on Windows, Linux and Macintosh, as well as browsers and mobile devices, was also a big draw. Bill summed up the exacqVision response at the show by saying “it was instantly understandable by the trade and will migrate IP systems to the forefront of the buyers mind by its great management of megapixel cameras.”
Our congratulations to the crew at Zone for yet another successful show. Zone will exhibiting the exacqVision products at two additional trade shows this month, the JAA Australian Jewellery Fair 08 in Sydney next week, and the Security in Government 2008 show in Canberra in two weeks. Zone can be reached as follows:
Version 2.10 of exacqVision NVR video surveillance software has been released. This latest release, compatible with all hybrid and NVR exacqVision systems, continues the quest for rapid, incremental releases to roll out new features and enhancements quickly.
Version 2.10 can be downloaded here. Key Features in the Version 2.10 Release:
ACTi Megapixel – Support added for the new line of megapixel IP cameras from ACTi
Vivotek – new Vivotek IP camera models supported
Axis & ACTi – New resolution modes supported
New Media Formats – DVD+R and DVD+RW formats now supported for exporting video
New System Configurations – New 4U chassis, up to 8 TB storage
Here are some of the new features in detail:
ACTi Megapixel Support ACTi has recently launched a new line of megapixel IP cameras. We support this entire new line, which includes the following models:
Axis & ACTi – New Resolutions Supported exacqVision now supports 1280×1024 and 1280×720 resolutions on all Axis and ACTi megapixel cameras, in addition to all of the other previously-supported resolution modes.
Both the Axis and ACTi megapixel cameras produce faster frame rates when running in the 1280×720 mode vs. higher-resolution modes.
New Media Formats Support has been added for the DVD+R and DVD+RW media formats for exported video. exacqVision also supports DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R and CD-RW formats.
New System Configurations We have expanded the chassis offerings for our exacqVision NVR servers and Hybrid Servers. A new, matching 4U-height chassis configuration is now available, in addition to the 2U chassis and the space-saving desktop chassis. The new 4U chassis allows for increased storage options up to 8 TB on storage, as well as RAID-5 storage options. The spec sheet for this new offering is here, or you can click below.
Recent Releases We have continued to make rapid progress with exacqVision, with incremental releases hitting about every 2 months. Here are some highlights of the most recent releases:
As always, the latest versions of exacqVision client and server software can easily and quickly be copied over existing versions while retaining all user settings. The latest version can always be downloaded from our Downloads page, or you can click on ‘Check for Updates‘ within the ‘About‘ box in the exacqVision software.
The next release, Version 3.0, will coincide with the ISC West show in Las Vegas, April 2-4, and will have some major feature additions.
ACTi makes a full line of low-cost IP cameras and video servers for video surveillance. We’ve been working closely with ACTi and we support their entire line of CAM-series and ACM-series cameras.
We’ve recently added support for the latest ACM-series, we have audio support for some of the product line and we’ll have full audio support for ACTi cameras in our upcoming Version 2.5 exacqVision release next month.
Our lineup of ACTi IP camera support in exacqVision is here:
We have just returned from PSA-TEC 2010, the annual education, training and technology event that PSA Security Network holds for its members. We have found PSA-TEC to be of considerable value to us, as it affords us the opportunity to spend some in-depth time with the PSA member resellers.
Wednesday morning was the Vendor Awards Banquet, the result of PSA member surveys ranking vendors on overall products, support, pricing, and service to the membership. We were very honored to receive the "Superstar Vendor Achievement Award" this year, the highest award PSA offers. Our sincere appreciation goes out to the entire PSA member base for this award.
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