We are pleased to welcome Richie Peterson to Exacq. Richie is a summer intern in our engineering department.
Richie is certainly involved in some important projects this summer. Among those include in-depth testing of our exacqVision Linux server software under the latest 8.04 version of Ubuntu Linux, and working on the customer-accessed IP license key generator, which will roll out to our reseller base later this summer.
Richie will be attending Purdue University this fall as an engineering major. When he’s not playing with cool technology he works as a lifeguard and is actively involved in gymnastics.
exacqVision Technical Reseller Training Hilton North Hotel, Indianapolis, IN Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:00am - 4:00pm
We’ve recently launched our exacqVision Technical Reseller Training program. This course is a day-long technical training that involves all aspects of installing, configuring and using the exacqVision IP video surveillance products.
The first scheduled in house training date is Thursday, June 26th, in Indianapolis. There will be a scheduled Indianapolis-based training course every other month with August and October dates to be announced soon. The training is open to all exacqVision resellers.
This is a hands on training experience. Attendees should bring a laptop computer running XP or Vista if possible. Upon completion, attendees should be able to easily complete an entire system installation on their own.
The upcoming course on June 26 will be held at the Hilton Indianapolis North and we have secured discount room rates for attendees. Roger Shuman will be coordinating the training and can be reached at 317-845-5710 X223 or rshuman@exacq.com. This is only two weeks away, and there are a limited number of spaces available, so please contact Roger as soon as possible if you are interested in attending.
We are pleased to announce that Doug Porter has joined Exacq Technologies as one of our Senior Software Engineers.
Doug comes to us from Humanizing Technologies, where he was a lead software developer. Doug is a Linux guru, with extensive Linux distribution and development background, which will be a great asset here at Exacq. He is now part the team working on our exacqVision Client SDK, which is our development environment for integration of exacqVision with access control systems and other third-party systems and applications.
We’re continuing to expand the functionality of the Client SDK for our various integration partners and projects, and Doug will be adding some specific functionality in preparation for an upcoming SDK update, including features required for integration with the DSX access control system.
The Indiana earthquake footage from last week that was captured on our in-house exacqVision IP video surveillance system has certainly garnered interest. It has been featured on Indianapolis-based WTHR-TV, South Bend-based WNDU-TV, a number of blogs, and the clips on YouTube have each received thousands of hits directly.
It also made the CBS News. Below is the CBS Mobile Newsbreak edition for April 19, 2008. The Exacq footage starts at 30-seconds in.
The Exacq headquarters is located in Indianapolis. This morning, at 5:37 am EDT, we were awoken by an earthquake whose epicenter was southwest of us, near the town of West Salem, IL. The US Geological Survey reports it as having been a magnitude 5.2 quake. Local news coverage of the earthquake is here and here and here.
We reviewed the surveillance footage from our exacqVision surveillance systems at our office for the time of the quake, and saw quite a bit of shaking. Below are two brief video clips taken from the systems.
The top clip, from one of our lobbies, is from an Axis 233D network dome IP camera that is mounted on its side. The bottom clip, from a back storage room, is from a JVC analog camera connected to the exacqVision Hybrid unit.
And as we were writing this post, an aftershock hit, at 11:15 am EDT.
Today’s Indianapolis Star newspaper has a feature story on Exacq Technologies in the business section. The reporter, James Harper, did a good job in tying together the growth of the video surveillance industry with the shift to IP cameras. A special thanks to Skip Sampson of Koorsen and Rich Best of Vigilcorp for their nice comments about us.
Not much escapes its digital eye Exacq Technologies’ adaptable software advances surveillance By James Harper, Star correspondent
Video surveillance is adapting to the needs and demands of an increasingly sophisticated clientele.
A company on Indianapolis’ Northeastside, led by a handful of forward-thinking colleagues, is at the forefront of the industry’s transition into the digital age.
Exacq Technologies, founded in 2002 by co-workers from another local surveillance company, offers cutting-edge software to run Internet Protocol, also called network cameras, in demand for their sharper images, broader range of capabilities and cost-effectiveness.
"Exacq is a real gem among industry software developers," said Skip Sampson, vice president and head of the security division at Indianapolis-based Koorsen Industries. "Their (exacqVision) technology is first-class, making it easier to collect, store and review video content or track it live."-
The exacqVision software, created in 2006, has spurred soaring sales for Exacq Technologies, which have risen 262 percent over the past two years. It’s also a key reason Exacq plans to increase staffing from 16 full-time workers to at least 26 by the end of this year, said Roger Shuman, the company’s marketing manager.
Exacq’s products are in demand at vulnerable high-traffic locations. Clients range from Plainfield’s aquatics center to customers such as the State Bank of Texas, Diamond Pet Centers of Missouri and Canberra International Airport in Australia.
As the security industry changes over from older analog cameras to newer digitally based network cameras, Exacq is poised to profit, since its software can work with multiple hardware platforms, said Dave Underwood, company president.
"There are probably millions of analog security cameras currently installed, but the industry is now moving toward IP systems," Underwood said. "We offer software that allows users to upgrade systematically, transitioning toward the newer technologies at their own pace, thus enabling them to better control cost."
A recent analysis by San Antonio, Texas-based Frost & Sullivan of the video surveillance software market found that higher demand for security spurred $139.8 million in sales in 2006. Frost & Sullivan estimated those revenues will increase nearly sixfold to $826 million by 2013.
IP cameras basically are miniature computers with lenses. They provide incredible detail along with pan, tilt and zoom capability. Their small size also enables easy installation even when space is limited.
Executives from locally based Koorsen and VigilCorp can attest to the remarkable growth from the move to IP networks. As two of Exacq’s largest customers, they are among its stronger supporters.
Koorsen is a family-owned business established here in 1946. According to Sampson, fire protection and security services are the fastest-growing segments of a company that employs more than 600 people in Indiana and parts of the Southeast.
Richard Best, owner of VigilCorp, which installs access-control and video-surveillance systems statewide, is optimistic about the future growth of his company, too.
"We are positioning ourselves to go national as the demand for security services expands," said Best, grandson of the founder of Best Lock Co. "Exacq offers a great product, and we use it for customers who require a cutting-edge installation."
As to Exacq’s future, Underwood is optimistic the company will double its sales over each of the next five years. He projects an annual revenue base "somewhere north of $30 million annually" by 2013.
Exacq Techologies’ genesis dates to AT&T’s Bell Labs in the mid-1980s. A few co-workers, led by Jeff Walters, formed a division within the company called the EPICenter, to focus on video-graphics hardware. In 1988 it became a separate company called Truevision, where Walters was joined by Underwood, Tom Buckley, Jim McMillion and others.
In 1994, Walters, Underwood and Buckley formed Integral Technologies, based in Indianapolis, which created the Xpress image capture boards that helped launch the digital video surveillance industry. Integral since has been sold several times.
And in 2002, Dan Rittman joined Walters, Underwood, McMillion and Buckley to form Exacq Technologies.
One reason for Exacq’s success, said Rittman, now the company’s director of engineering and chief designer of the exacqVision software, "is that we had the opportunity to make all our first-time mistakes with predecessor companies."
Underwood echoes Rittman’s comments, adding that "most of us here have gone through the exercise of founding and nurturing an entrepreneurial startup, so there are few challenges that we can’t anticipate."
We are pleased to announce that Stephen Self has joined Exacq Technologies in the role of Technical Support Specialist.
Stephen is no stranger to us. We had the privilege of working with him back when we owned Integral Technologies, where he played vital roles as a Senior Support Engineer and a Software QA Engineer. About three years ago he left Integral to take a position with Dell, where he was, among other things, the support manager in charge of a 3000-seat Dell installation within Citibank in Florida.
Stephen’s experience in managing support services at companies both big and small will certainly be welcome here at Exacq. We’re experiencing rapid growth, and Stephen will be instrumental in ensuring that we maintain support practices and procedures sufficient to support our channel.
Stephen can be reached at sself@exacq.com or by phone at +1-317-845-5710.
We are pleased to announce that Jeff Meeks has joined Exacq Technologies in the role of Production Manager.
Jeff is no stranger to us. We began working with him back when we were all with Truevision,where he was working in operations. When we sold Truevision and started Integral Technologies, Jeff soon came over and joined us. At Integral he held a variety of positions in the operations department, and most recently was the Operations Manager for the entire company.
The timing of Jeff joining us now at Exacq couldn’t be better. We’re experiencing rapid growth, and the demand for production has increased dramatically in the last few months. Jeff will be managing the production of our line of exacqVision Hybrid and IP video surveillance servers, as well as planning the production for some new products coming down the road.
Jeff can be reached at jmeeks@exacq.com or by phone at +1-317-845-5710.
We are pleased to announce that Carey Lefebvre has joined Exacq Technologies as our new West Coast Regional Sales Manager. Carey will be responsible for all Exacq territory activity in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho and Hawaii, and will be working with our Manufacturer Rep firms, integrators and OEMs in those states.
If you are a security systems integrator based in California you are probably already familiar with Carey. He spent many years with Seevid, a Manufacturer Rep firm based in Huntington Beach, where he represented products from American Dynamics and others, and most recently was with Sacramento-based Innovative Systems Marketing where he represented products from Digiop, TOA and others.
Continuing our introductions of new Exacq employees, we are pleased to announce that Robert Ansell has joined Exacq Technologies as Product Manager, and will be working with engineering and sales in both product management and major customer support.
Robert comes to us from Lenel Systems, where he served a variety of roles, including project management, product management, engineering and sales. Robert was principally involved with the network-based digital video systems from Lenel.
Robert can be contacted at ransell@exacq.com or by phone at 317-845-5710.
We are pleased to welcome Richie Peterson to Exacq. Richie is a summer intern in our engineering department.
exacqVision Technical Reseller Training 
We are pleased to announce that Doug Porter has joined Exacq Technologies as one of our Senior Software Engineers.
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The Exacq headquarters is located in Indianapolis. This morning, at 5:37 am EDT, we were awoken by an earthquake whose epicenter was southwest of us, near the town of West Salem, IL. The US Geological Survey 
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We are pleased to announce that Stephen Self has joined Exacq Technologies in the role of Technical Support Specialist.
We are pleased to announce that Jeff Meeks has joined Exacq Technologies in the role of Production Manager.
We are pleased to announce that Carey Lefebvre has joined Exacq Technologies as our new West Coast Regional Sales Manager. Carey will be responsible for all Exacq territory activity in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho and Hawaii, and will be working with our Manufacturer Rep firms, integrators and OEMs in those states.
Continuing our introductions of new Exacq employees, we are pleased to announce that Robert Ansell has joined Exacq Technologies as Product Manager, and will be working with engineering and sales in both product management and major customer support.