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.
May 2nd, 2008
We participated in the IPVS Magazine booth and conferences at the Interop Las Vegas event at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center this week. IP Video Surveillance Magazine (IPVS) gathered together leading vendors representing what they refer to as the 5ive-S Reference Architecture of IP video surveillance: Surveillance, Switches, Servers, Software and Storage
exacqVision IP software and servers were on display in the booth, connected to a large number of IP cameras from Axis and Canon, connected together by switches from Foundry Networks. Lumenera and Covi were also showing their hi-res multi-megapixel IP cameras. As we have increasingly seen, the IT managers and integrators that came by to speak with us are now being asked to spec and implement video surveillance in addition to defining and implementing the data and telecommunications networks. The ease of use in deploying products like exacqVision IP software and Axis IP cameras fortunately makes this task fairly straightforward.
Keven Marier, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of IPVS Magazine, led two sessions over the course of the show. On Tuesday, he moderated a panel discussion entitled The Future of IP Video Security: Defining the New Role of IT. With video surveillance rapidly migrating to IP, it is a growing concern for IP professionals who, until now, have not had to manage the physical security of their organization. Keven and the panel discussed the the higher-quality of physical security delivered by IP systems over analog CCTV systems and the various key components necessary to successfully deploy IP video surveillance systems.
On Wednesday, Keven led an all-day-long workshop entitled Introduction to IP Video Security with in-depth discussions and demonstrations of the 5ive-S key interoperable components of and IP video security system, and discussed video security technology, the key interoperability touch points, and cost benefits.
Our thanks To Keven and his IPVS crew at the show: Melissa, Mark, Eric and Brian, for putting together yet another great tradeshow booth and relevant educational sessions. We also want to extend our appreciation to the other participants in the booth for their help in making this a great collaborative experience: Fredrik Nilsson and Steve Lewis of Axis, John Recesso of Lumenera, Chalon Dilber of Covi, Ricardo Chen of Canon, and Val Oliva of Foundry Networks.
May 25th, 2007