Video Surveillance
The most rapidly growing sector of the security industry is undoubtedly video surveillance, which has seen fast adoption with a boost in video quality and a drop in system prices. Video surveillance systems empower security personnel to see across vast enterprises, but they also provide other benefits such as demonstrating patterns in customer behavior.
Four Tech Trends Shaping Today’s Video Surveillance Industry
Cloud-based solutions, big data, artificial intelligence and managed services all are poised to revolutionize the security industry. It is an exciting time to be involved in the security industry. The pace of technological advancement is such that the rate of development seems to outpace even our most fantastical imaginings. Today, technologies are arriving swiftly, filling…
Keep Reading »Security Organizations’ Dual Responsibility Under GDPR
GDPR affects security technologies like video surveillance systems. Here’s what you need to know to improve your GDPR compliance. Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was implemented on May 25, much of the information has been focused on how organizations can – and must – approach their data practices to not only become compliant…
Keep Reading »Lighting the Way to a Smarter, Safer City
The Importance of External Illumination Systems When Lighting for Video Surveillance Demand for video surveillance systems has continued to surge throughout the years, with its market share expected to reach $40 billion by 2019 according to TrendForce’s market data. While there is no doubt that cameras keep us safer and aid in law enforcement efforts,…
Keep Reading »SIA GovSummit 2018 Highlights
GovSummit 2018 was a huge success; check out this report for summary findings, session notes and perspectives from the event.
Keep Reading »New Member Profile: ROG Security
New Security Industry Association (SIA) member ROG – based in Los Angeles, California – is a software technology company that develops artificial intelligence (AI) for the security guard industry. ROG provides its software as a service to security personnel anywhere in the world with its cloud delivery. SIA spoke with Jordan Lippel, ROG’s chief operating…
Keep Reading »SIA Technology Insights – Spring 2018
In every issue of SIA Technology Insights, we try to look to the cutting edge (and sometimes even to the bleeding edge) of security technology, to ensure you stay current with the steady whir of technology change. In that spirit, we start this issue off with two technologies – social media and facial recognition – that are seeing great adoption in the consumer space and poised to be adopted for security and safety applications.
Keep Reading »24-Hour Perimeter Protection
Relentless defense for critical infrastructure The challenges to perimeter protection seem to grow more nefarious every day. The bad news is that intruders are increasingly inventive and unscrupulous. The good news is that the security operators are leveraging more innovative technologies to mitigate and deter these threats. Effective perimeter protection on a 24/7 basis is…
Keep Reading »Smart Power
The paradigm has shifted to intelligent networking solutions In the past, power wasn’t smart. It was simply a static piece of hardware – still necessary but not connected or integrated with other physical security components and certainly unable to tap into analytics, predictive data or history reporting. That’s no longer the case. Now, the paradigm…
Keep Reading »Modern Face Recognition Systems
Living the revolution as algorithms based on Deep Neural Networks (DNN) come to market Face recognition as a technology experienced its first wave of adoption in 2000s, mostly in government projects. We must admit that the quality and performance of the previous generation of face recognition products simply doesn’t hold up against criticism, although many…
Keep Reading »Letter of Support for Secure Airport Public Spaces Act
On May 16, 2018, the Security Industry Association expressed strong support for the Secure Airport Public Spaces Act, which will help address critical security needs at our nation’s airports.
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