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Avigilon and VideoIQ unite

VideoIQ, a company we have been following closely recently have announced they are now fully integrating their cameras with Avigilon’s Control Center 4.6 Network Video Management Software (NVMS). This new partnership allows both video IQ and Avigilon customers to upgrade their Avigilon surveillance systems with VideoIQ’s award winning adaptive analytics that are integrated into the iCVR-HD camera range; this includes the iCVR dome cameras, iCVR encoders, and iCST line of streaming cameras and encoders.

Avigilon ACC-4.6 Range

The iCVR-HD unlike other analytical technologies, feature full megapixel analytic processing something the industry has been screaming out for and self calibration means simple installation and set up.

iCVR VideoIQ camera — iCVR Video IQ camera

Avigilon’s CCTV solutions and Megapixel IP cameras secure many hundreds of sites in more than 60 countries. The Avigilon Control Center 4.6 update extends the video management platform’s performance, extensibility, and manageability. The partnership seems the perfect synergy for these two camera giants.

What Avigilon have said of the partnership.

Avigilon Rick_Ramsay Product Manager

“VideoIQ enables us to provide our joint customers with extended proactive surveillance solutions that include leading video analytic solutions in the market, helping organizations identify and address security risks before incidents occur,” said Rick Ramsay , product manager, Avigilon. “VideoIQ’s unique combination of megapixel analytics, self calibration and high accuracy in all weather and light ensure we deliver the best joint solution available today.”

VideoIQ commented…

“Avigilon delivers one of the most powerful, open High Definition VMS platforms on the market and we are confident this integration will provide unmatched value and return for our customers,” said Mark Gally, vice president marketing of VideoIQ. “By partnering together, we are able to reach an even larger market with a proactive surveillance solution that solves the needs of not only the most secure critical infrastructure customers, but also mainstream businesses of all sizes.”

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About VideoIQ

So it seems that these two companies have found a way to up their market share and Avigilon and VideoIQ must be considered when specifying cameras here in the UK.

The HDTX Indoor PTZ True/Day Night dome is an internal camera offer from Honeywell it is equipped with a 10X optical zoom lens making it ideal for warehouses and retail scenarios. Excellent picture quality and easy installation mean that the HDTX internal dome camera is top of installers shopping list over the next few months.

This is not a personal attack on Security Consultants….

But, what value do they add to the supply chain?

They charge a fee to ‘design’ a system – most system designs I have seen are generally cut and paste, often with complete mish-mash of information.

CCTV consultants

And, how much are they influenced by Manufacturers ‘Come and Learn about us’ events?

I recently heard that a major IP organisation recently paid for a group of Consultants to attend a several day ‘awareness’ event……..with partners…….on board a cruise ship in the Caribbean…….mornings were ‘learning’………afternoons were free to visit the various port stop offs!

Don’t get me wrong, rewarding or thanking for continued loyalty and support is always needed, but as the Security Consultant is pretty darn influential in the supply chain, but doesn’t actually place any orders, it makes it difficult to compete with such grand gestures surely??

A major Security manufacturer used to treat it’s ‘prospective’ customers to a trip to their Factory Plant…..it just so happened that was combined with a week’s visit to a rather nice part of the world – result? Customers used their products, maybe out of a sense of repayment? The products weren’t even necessarily the best or the cheapest!

So, is our industry and more importantly, the development of products moving forward dependant on the amount of marketing and corporate entertainment budgets companies have?

I sincerely hope not……..and that our industry moves forward through innovation and not persuasion!!!

If you consult for a living and don’t agree with CCTV insider please let us know.

http://ipvideomarket.info/report/security_consultant_conflict_of_interests

It’s long been an argument between those that say we are watched everywhere (and that it is an invasion of privacy) and those that feel safe and secure in the knowledge that they are being watched….everywhere

CCTV cameras too many — CCTV cameras everywhere

But recent data has shown that actually, the number of cameras is a LOT less than the anti brigade will have you believe

4+ million cameras has been touted as the figure installed within the UK…….some have doubted that for quite some time and now it would appear they are correct…….new figures in a recent study show that the actual figure is closer to 1.8 million…….

Therefore, how can those that argue there are simply too many be treated with any seriousness when in reality, up until now, no-one actually really knew!

Another urban myth is that all cameras installed are monitored and recorded by ‘the establishment’…….again, not correct – only around 2 percent in the UK are owned by local authorities!

SecurityNewsDesk.com and CCTV Image magazine broke the story this week that there are fewer than 2 million CCTV cameras in the UK. In fact, the ACPO lead on CCTV, Graeme Gerrard, writing exclusively for CCTV Image and SecurityNewsDesk.com, put the figure at closer to 1.85 million.

The story was quickly followed up by the national press, first by Paul Lewis in The Guardian and then the Press Association, the BBC, The Daily Mail, The Mirror, The Daily Express and about 160 local newspapers.

Alex Deane from Big Brother Watch famously told an audience of CCTV specialists that the security industry would lose the argument about CCTV cameras. While you have to admire the strength of his conviction, the evidence doesn’t support it.

Apart from approval ratings of over 80 per cent in public opinion surveys, CCTV also enjoys a great deal of support from MPs who love it for the simple reason that their constituents love it.

In a debate in the House of Commons on the Protection of Freedoms Bill recently, many MPs got to their feet to state their support and approval for CCTV.

Jack Straw MP, former Home Secretary and Justice Minister, said: “In the whole of my 32 years in this House, I have never had a single representation seeking the removal of CCTV monitors. Not one. The demand is there because it makes people feel safe.”

To read more on this story, Read more here: Only 1.85 million cameras in the UK – with thanks to SecurityNewsDesk.com for the article

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