Posts by Ray Bernard, PSP, CHS-III
Applying Indoor Positioning Systems: A Primer for Integrators and Security Specialists
This paper reports on modern indoor positioning system (IPS) technologies that utilize personal smart mobile devices, or non-personal non-smart mobile devices (object tags and beacons),for purposes of locating and tracking people and objects. The greatest attention is given to technologies that incorporate smartphones. Smartphones are of special interest to IPS manufacturers, because smartphone users are…
Keep Reading »Big Data and Privacy for Physical Security
Big data and privacy are two interrelated subjects that have not warranted much attention in physical security, until now. Both subjects are about to become of strategic importance to security, due to recent advancements in video analytics and big data technologies, court rulings regarding data privacy rights relating to surveillance video, and the growing value…
Keep Reading »The State of Security Video Analytics
In recent years there has been an appreciable increase in video analytics research and development, and as a result, the video analytics capabilities for security video surveillance systems have been advancing significantly. As with any rapidly advancing technology, consideration must be given not only to where the technology is at the current moment in time,…
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