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July 2022 6 Webeye looks forward to more opportunities to meet in person

The Webeye team reported remarkable success from its participation at IFSEC 2022 and said it is looking forward to IFSEC Europe 2023.

8 How HID helped physical access control solutions to take off

HID Global has its origins in the aerospace industry. For over 30 years HID has been leading the way on what it takes to make access to buildings easy and secure and how to help businesses evolve with the times.

10 Pyronix NanoShock offers discreet perimeter protection

Flexibly fitting out of sight within uPVC window or door frames, or surface mounted with its low profile and pleasing design, the NanoShock has been designed to deliver fast and easy professional installation and reliable protection.

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With the release of its latest VMS, IDIS Solution Suite (ISS) version 3.5, IDIS is challenging the sector’s longestablished pricing structures, understanding that customers want fairer, more sustainable options for security infrastructure development.

16 Benchmark Innovation Awards – A.I. Tech offers PPE infractions prevention on the Edge

Preventing accidents and deaths is an excellent way to reduce costs rather than managing the consequences.

18 News 21 Benchmark Innovation Awards – Webeye looks forward to more opportunities to meet in person The Webeye team reported remarkable success from its participation at IFSEC 2022 and said it is looking forward to IFSEC Europe 2023.

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July 2022 Welcome to Benchmark Magazine’s July issue.

ome of the apparent trends in the industry today are simplifying security operations, making them scalable and remotely accessible, and extracting more information from surveillance systems to extract more information. End users and installers no longer want to be restricted in either technology they use, their graphical location, or by proprietary technology from one manufacturer brand. These days, compliance regulations are numerous, and the threat landscape is constantly changing. This is why organisations, installers and enterprises look for the utmost flexibility and reliability in their security systems. Cloud-based solutions, such as the ones offered by webeyeCMS, provide one of the pieces to the flexibility puzzle. webeyeCMS is a SaaS (Software as a service) cloud-only alarm handling platform tailored for the CCTV industry. It uses fail-safe methods via the cloud to send, receive and monitor alarms. The scalable video monitoring solution does not require a capital infrastructure and, according to the company, could save clients around 40% a year in costs. (read more on page 21) The use of artificial intelligence to obtain enhanced data from the video captured by cameras is another path to finding flexibility and expanding the usability of security systems. A good example is A.I. Tech's A.I. PPE (Personal Protective Equipment ). The video analytic app uses A.I. to detect the presence of workers inside the monitored areas and raise the alarm if some are not using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as helmets

and visibility jackets. There are no restrictions on the number of workers and areas to be monitored; the app can deal with multiple workers and areas simultaneously and can be used indoors and outdoors (read more on page 16). Saving overall costs is the third leg of the stool. IDIS Solution Suite v3.5 is challenging the sector's long-established pricing structures, understanding that customers want fairer, more sustainable options for security infrastructure development. Unlike most major enterprise system vendors, IDIS does not charge annual licence fees, camera connection fees, or bundled-in fees for features that customers never use. With no yearly charges, the cost of owning and running an IDIS video system is significantly lower, letting more customers access the latest video and analytics tool (read more on page 13). Don't forget to cast your votes for the Benchmark Innovation Awards 2022! Enjoy this issue and reach out to share news, case studies and more. Geny Caloisi Content Editor

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Webeye looks forward to more opportunities to meet in person The Webeye team reported remarkable success from its participation at IFSEC 2022 and said it is looking forward to IFSEC Europe 2023. The stand was constantly busy, with the technical team walking visitors through the three key areas for which webeye provides security solutions: Self Monitoring, Monitoring Stations and Rapid Deployment.

t the centre of it all is webeyeCMS, the company’s cloud video alarm platform that offers a cost-effective way of keeping track of even the most vulnerable sites. As demonstrated on the Monitoring Station Zone at the stand, webeyeCMS can be seamlessly integrated with any current monitoring setup. The webeyeCMS solution saves time and reduces the cost for operators as they can have a sophisticated IT solution without needing an in-house development team. The video alarm monitoring platform is a powerful tool to monitor, manage and quickly distribute alarms. If required, ‘Calipsa AI’ can also be used to visually verify any intrusion or disturbance within seconds after the alarm has been triggered. An automated alarm

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How HID helped physical access control solutions to take off HID Global has its origins in the aerospace industry. For over 30 years HID has been leading the way on what it takes to make access to buildings easy and secure and how to help businesses evolve with the times.

e interviewed Steven Commander, HID Global’s director of consultant business management to find out where the company, and in particular its Physical Access Control Solutions [PACS], is and what can we expect in the near future. Steven has been at HID for 14 years. His role focuses on liaising and engaging with security consultants, electrical engineers and

access control system designers. His depth of knowledge gives an in-depth insight into HID’s complete range of physical access control solutions so that consultants can include them in their designs.

Can you provide a short introduction to your company? HID originates from the aerospace industry. The name, HID, is an acronym for Hughes Identification Devices. The business was founded in 1991 and was originally a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft. You may remember the 2004 Martin Scorsese film, Aviator, starring Leonardo di Caprio which depicts the life of the founder of the firm, Howard Hughes. HID was acquired in 2000 by the Swedish conglomerate, Assa Abloy AB, a global leader in access solutions, and is now a whollyowned business within the group. The group has 190 brands, such as HID and Yale [locks

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and home security]; significant market leaders in their own right. HID Global’s vision is powering the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things. Every day millions of people in more than 100 countries use its products and services to securely access physical and digital places. And over two billion things that need to be identified, verified and tracked are connected through HID’s technology. The company structure comprises six business areas: Physical Access Control Solutions (PACS), Secure Issuance (SI), Identity and Access Management Solutions (IAMS), Citizen ID Solutions (CID), Identification Technologies and Extended Access Technology (EAT). Put simply, HID Global sells products and services to enable authorised access to buildings, allows people to securely log into computer networks and track assets in manufacturing plants and other commercial settings. HID Global also makes the various components like chips that go into passports, national ID cards and driving licences. The scope of its portfolio is broad. From a PACS perspective, the mission of the company is to be a market leader for trusted identity solutions by providing a seamless customer experience leveraging a connected architecture complemented by cloud services. To provide some scale to this, as international markets recovered after Covid19, group sales increased 8% in 2021 to SEK 95,007 million [Kronor] with operating profits up 19% to SEK 14,181 million. In Pounds Sterling, that’s around £7.74 billion and £1.14 billion respectively. HID Global employs about 4,400 people worldwide.

Millions of HID readers and hundreds of millions of HID cards are therefore in use today. HID solutions are used in all industry sectors such as government, education, healthcare, financial services and so on.

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HID’s main flagship PACS products are: • Seos® – credential technology platform; • HID Signo™ Readers – the signature line of HID readers launched in 2020 • HID Mobile Access® – allows an individual’s mobile device to be used to gain access to secured doors, gates, networks, and services • HID Aero™ and HID Mercury Controllers – a controller range which provides a flexible, open architecture, IP-enabled platform for deploying a broad range of access control systems • HID Origo™ – a cloud platform which allows technology partners to create access control solutions. It stores identity information about users in a database, their access rights to a building, specific zones and so on.

What are the company’s flagship PACS products? When a person wishes to enter a building, they walk up to a door, use a badge to touch a reader on the wall and then – if authorised – a controller unlocks the door giving them access. The component and platform technology behind this simple scenario is what HID Global designs, manufactures and sells. In other words, the badges, readers, [door] controller modules and associated management software. This has now evolved into a mobile and digitally based approach underpinned by cloud-based services.

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Pyronix NanoShock offers discreet perimeter protection Pyronix has released its compact Grade 2 wireless shock sensor, the NanoShock (Product code: NANO/SHOCK-WE).

lexibly fitting out of sight within uPVC window or door frames, or surface mounted with its low profile and pleasing design, the NanoShock has been designed to deliver fast and easy professional installation and reliable protection. Pyronix Marketing Director, Laurence Kenny, said: “We’re really pleased to introduce the NanoShock, as it brings with it a wealth of benefits; not only its optimised installation and calibration features, but also how it’s been developed to provide resolute performance in changeable environments alongside its high-end and attractive finish.” The NanoShock is an accelerometer device that detects impacts caused by potential

intruders as they attempt to break into any residential or small-commercial property. Installed without having to worry about the positioning of any detection chamber or requiring further adjustments, the NanoShock is simply positioned where required and as soon as the sensitivity is set, it autoorientates. Once placed, calibration is also quick and simple with the pinhole button on the front with LED indication. Using the included pin needle calibration tool, all the installer has to do is hold the button and cycle through 5 increments to the required sensitivity using the LEDs to guide them, with 1 being the least sensitive and 5 the most sensitive. With this enhanced installation process there’s no need to open the device to configure the PCB, which is encased in the front of the sensor along with the batteries. This setup makes maintenance very straightforward too; replacing its batteries without having to unscrew anything. Recognising that the device will be fitted in changeable environments that can be humid

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Vemotion wireless CCTV for highways and traffic surveillance Supporting local authority, highways and traffic organisations, UK manufacturer Vemotion, is promoting their range of low latency, plug & play, live video streaming solutions to provide highly secure and cost-

effective wireless CCTV surveillance, for temporary or fixed camera traffic monitoring of highways, road construction and road maintenance site protection. Extending the coverage of hard-wired video surveillance systems to cover highway surveillance applications, deployable CCTV camera

Read the full article here Economical fall detection and gesture recognition applications Imagimob, a Swedish startup driving innovation at the forefront of Edge AI is using Texas Instruments mmWave Radar Sensors and *tinyML for two new applications, fall detection and gesture recognition. The fall detection algorithm

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IDIS Solution Suite v3.5 offers a powerful enterprise-class VMS

nlike most major enterprise system vendors, with its new VMS, IDIS does not charge annual license fees, camera connection fees, or bundled-in fees for features that customers never use. With no annual charges, the cost of owning and running an IDIS video system is significantly lower, letting more customers access the latest video and analytics tools. Innovations with the VMS show how IDIS is using its technical expertise to deliver genuinely useful tools: The Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) service enables stable video and voice relay to third-party devices and software without an SDK or API. An Instant Synchronised Playback which presents operators with precisely time-

IDIS Solution Suite v3.5 has been nominated for the ‘Analytics and software innovation’ category at the Benchmark Innovation Awards 2022. With the release of its latest VMS, IDIS Solution Suite (ISS) version 3.5, IDIS is challenging the sector’s longestablished pricing structures, understanding that customers want fairer, more sustainable options for security infrastructure development. synched screen views of video streams across single or multiple sites, removes the need for manual configuration and eases pressure on security control rooms. The Event Notification Center enables

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Wisenet Q upgrades and expands Hanwha Techwin is adding 12 new 4-megapixel cameras to its Wisenet Q series. Together with existing 2 and 5-megapixel Wisenet Q models, the new NDAA compliant cameras are designed to offer an affordable solution for virtually any high camera count video surveillance application.

he H.265 cameras, which have built-in IR illumination, are equipped with an Open Platform chipset and have a suite of Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA), which includes tampering, directional detection,

defocus detection, virtual line, enter/exit and motion detection. Other key features include Wide Dynamic Range (WDR), which performs at up to 120dB to produce clear images from scenes containing a challenging mix of bright and dark areas and WiseStream II, a complementary compression technology that when combined with H.265 compression, improves bandwidth efficiency by up to 80% compared to current H.264 technology. The cameras support Power over Ethernet (PoE), which saves time and reduces installation costs, as it negates the need to run separate cabling and to install a power supply at each camera location. They also have an SD/SDHC/SDXC memory slot which allows up to 128GB of video or data to be stored at the edge, should there be disruption to the network. Video evidence, which might have been potentially lost, can be retrieved when the network connection is restored. Uri Guterman, Head of Product & Marketing for Hanwha Techwin Europe, said: “The introduction of these new models, which

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A.I. Tech offers PPE infractions prevention on the Edge T Preventing accidents and deaths is an excellent way to reduce costs rather than managing the consequences. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work reportedly said that the annual cost of accidents at work is approximately $ 2.680 billion, $ 476 billion if we consider Europe only.

his is an objective close at heart at Italian innovator A.I. Tech. A.I. Tech’s latest product, the A.I. PPE (Personal Protective Equipment ), has been selected by Benchmark Magazine readers as a finalist for the Analytics and software innovation category on the Benchmark Innovation Awards 2022. Based on advanced artificial intelligence algorithms, the AI-PPE is a video analytic app designed to detect the presence of workers inside the monitored areas and raise the alarm if some of them are not using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as helmets and visibility jackets. There are no restrictions on the number of workers and areas to be monitored; the app can deal with multiple workers and areas simultaneously and can be used indoors and outdoors. AI-PPE video analytics application guarantees worker safety in all the environments where wearing PPE is mandatory.

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Benchmark Innovation Awards 2022 The Benchmark Innovation Awards 2022 showcases organisations that are taking inventive approaches in the security sector to help find solutions for a complex and changing environment, with specific needs.

This year categories and nominated finalists are as follows: 1 – Video Management Software innovation

4 – Alarm/detection innovation

7 – Network & connectivity innovation

• Vicon – Valerus • AtoS – SafeKit • Cathexis Technologies – CathexisVision • Genetec – Stratocast • Qognify – VisionHub VMS+

• Ajax Systems – Ajax DualCurtain Outdoor Johnson Controls – Qolsys IQ2 • Optex – Bridge • Pyronix Ltd – Enforcer V11 with Android Tablet and HomeControlHUB • TAKEX EUROPE LTD – TXF-125DM • Texecom – Capture

• Barox Kommunikation LT-LPITE402GBTME • CSL CSL Router Pro and Broadband • Paxton Paxton10 Multisite • SilverNet 4 Point Managed Switch • Vemotion – VB200 • BT Redcare All-IP • Conxtd – Conxtd • Texecom – Monitor

5 – Analytics and software innovation

8 – Innovator (company) of the year Award

• A.I. TECH – AI-PPE • ACRE International – Razberi Monitor • Assa Abloy – CLIQ Web Manager • Azena – Platform • COSMO – COSMO PSIM+ IoT System • Genetec – Security Center • IDIS Europe – IDIS Solution Suite v3.5 • IPSOTEK – VISuite

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2 – Surveillance innovation (CCTV) • 3xLOGIC VX-20M – Varifocal MultiImager Surround Dome Camera • Dahua – TiOC 2 • Hanwha Techwin – Wisenet X Series • Hikvision UK & Ireland Hikvision – HeatPro Series • Honeywell – 70 Series cameras • i-Pro – AI Multi-sensor • Milestone – Husky IVO series • Raytec- Vario IPPoE discoman • Teledyne Flir – A500f cameras

3 – Visitor Management innovation • CDVI – iface • Genetec – ClearID • Hanwha Techwin – Touch-less Video Intercom TID-600 • Hikvision UK & Ireland Hikvision – All-in-one Indoor Station • Maxxess Systems EMEA – eVisitor • Paxton – Paxton10

6 – Cloud/SaaS innovation • Assa Abloy – Incedo Business Cloud • Eagle Eye Networks – Eagle Eye LPR (license plate recognition) • Qumulex, Inc. – QxControl • Webeye Limited – webeyeCMS • Texecom – Texecom Cloud

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Hitachi Rail deploys new IP cameras system on existing Infrastructure

trains to drive sustainable connectivity. Hitachi Rail designs and manufactures signalling systems, components, and other technologies to manage and control new or upgraded railway systems worldwide.

Hitachi Rail, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, delivers innovation through the development and maintenance of

Read the full article here GSM powers door entry system at Manchester high-riser The Great Northern Tower is an impressive 72-metre (236 ft) high-rise tower block tailor-made for residential living. With 25 floors, it’s home to 287 self-contained apartments in the heart of Manchester. An effective door entry system plays a critical role in convenient, secure and flexible access control as well as the safety and wellbeing of residents. The tower block has a concierge service too that also requires specific authorisation for entry into and exit out of the building. The building was completed in 2007 and fitted with a door entry system that, 15 years later, was hugely outdated and causing issues for entry into the tower block by

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Motorola Solutions acquires Calipsa Calipsa’s scalable platform enables businesses to optimise security with AIpowered analytics that verifies alarms, enables content-based searches, detect tampering and assesses the health of cameras in real-time. The solution is relied upon by enterprise and security monitoring

customers around the world. “We believe AI, spanning from the edge to the cloud, is driving the future of video security,” said Greg Brown, chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions. “With Calipsa, we can rapidly extend our intelligent analytics across any video security solution and support the accelerating trend of enterprises using cloud

Read the full article here Johnson Controls appoints Rodney Clark as Vice President and CCO Johnson Controls has named Rodney Clark as vice president and chief commercial officer, effective June 1, 2022. In this role, Clark will lead global sales excellence efforts across the company, replacing chief commercial officer, Brian Young who retired at the end of last year. Clark will also take on a portion of the role being transitioned from Michael Ellis, executive vice president, chief customer, and digital officer, who will retire at the end. “I am excited to welcome a proven, strategic leader such as Rodney to Johnson Controls,” said George Oliver, chairman and CEO of Johnson Controls. “As we deliver on growth platforms such as decarbonization in smart, healthy

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webeyeCMS could save you 40% a year in costs

hris says, “webeyeCMS is the first cloud only alarm handling platform tailored specifically for the CCTV industry. WebeyeCMS is an intelligent platform that uses fail-safe methods via the cloud to send, receive and monitor alarms. It’s a video monitoring solution that does not require a capital infrastructure.” SaaS (Software as a service) is a costeffective and efficient way of managing security needs. Cloud-based, webeyeCMS has been designed to be straightforward, easy to configure and use, and cost-effective. Chris continues, “webeyeCMS was created to be 100% cloud-based, giving our partners in monitoring stations and control rooms the flexibility to run a business without the need of extensive infrastructure within the company or a specific software and dedicated

WebeyeCMS, Webeye’s cloud-based security solution, has been nominated for the Could/SaaS Benchmark Innovation Award category for a second consecutive year. We spoke to Chris Coughlin, webeye Global Head of Software and Services, who shared what is ‘unique’ about webeyeCMS. Don’t miss out the video interview with Chris. equipment. Customers can save up to 40% a year in costs.” Not having to make a significant investment in servers and complex infrastructure already provides substantial savings. In addition,

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CertAlarm completes 4th cycle comparative tests CertAlarm, an organisation offering a panEuropean quality mark in the fire protection and security systems industry, confirmed the completion of its 4th cycle of round-robin test series. Round-robin tests are comparative tests performed by the participating laboratories at

Concept Smoke Screen partners with University of Lincoln criminologists Concept Smoke Screen, an innovator of electronic security systems, specialising in security fogging technology, is partnering with criminologists from the University of Lincoln to assess the impact of their systems on retail loss prevention and on crime in

regular intervals and using the same test sample. As such they are an important monitoring tool for CertAlarm’s partners and recognised test laboratories. They enable quality supervisors and management to place the results obtained by the laboratory performing the tests in a wider framework and to identify problems and initiate actions for

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surrounding communities. The new partnership was born out of Concept’s ‘Connected’ campaign, which urges a radical rethink of the private security industry’s approach to crime prevention. A significant part of the Connected project focuses on collaboration between academia and industry to address structural-level

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Bosch Inteox cameras for traffic control are integrated with Genetec Security Center

Traffic Detector software is founded on deep neural network-based video analytics. It is trained using high-quality, real-life data from the field, enabling it to recognise patterns to tackle more complex tasks

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Maintaining an efficient flow of vehicles, people, and goods throughout cities and communities is fundamental to everyday life and business activities. Transportation professionals need to reduce response times, improve traffic flow, and enhance the driving experience. Bosch offers a smart choice to address these challenges with its Inteox fixed and moving camera models, Traffic Detector software, and seamless integration with Genetec Security Center. Developed on Bosch’s intellectual property in automotive applications, the

Qognify adds real-time and post incident investigation capabilities to its VMS Qognify latest version of its Cayuga video management system (VMS), the Cayuga R17, provides control rooms with powerful new person tracking, masking and camera forwarding capabilities, to improve real-time incident handling and post-incident investigation.

The ability to act quickly during a live security/safety incident is vital to a successful outcome. Security operators need tools at their fingertips that are instinctive and intuitive, to ensure they respond appropriately, regardless of their knowledge and experience. Tracking persons of interest across a camera network, in real-time, requires a deep understanding of where cameras are located and the ability to rapidly

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The University of the West of England invests on Wisenet The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) serves over 30,000 students from 140 countries. It has over 3,200 staff, and is one of the largest universities in the UK with three

modern campus locations: the main Frenchay Campus, City Campus (Bower Ashton, Watershed, Spike Island, and Arnolfini) and Glenside Campus. Over the past five years the university has invested over £300 million in its state-of-theart facilities and it needed a video surveillance

Read the full article here Schiebel Camcopter on maritime surveillance duties in Denmark The trend of using drones for surveillance is on the up. A good example of this is the Royal Danish Navy (RDN) which is operating the Schiebel CAMCOPTER S-100 for maritime surveillance. The Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) service is delivered by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). Stationed in Denmark’s northernmost town Skagen, the CAMCOPTER S-100 is supporting the RDN alongside other national authorities in carrying out various maritime surveillance tasks, including detecting, verifying and providing information on potential oil spills and discharges at sea.

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Internal management team takes over Foremost Security East Midlands’ leading security company, Foremost Security Limited, has been successfully sold to its internal Management Team. The business is being transferred in

equal shares to Managing Director, Matt Prince, and Finance Director, James Vincent. The company had been under ownership from former Managing Director and Owner, Paul Ritchie, since 2010. Foremost Security is a major provider of security services, and as many people across

Read the full article here Nine Engineering raises €1.1 million to reinvent access and identity management Access and identity control SaaS- and hardware start-up Nine Engineering is raising 1.1 million euros to increase access security, site safety and privacy compliancy. Already, 10% of data breaches are caused by physical security compromise, according to IBM’s 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report. Nine Engineering founders Roy Jeunen and Frederik Keysers state, “Our products are the interface between the cyber world and the real world, a door that is far too often left open for hackers. We want to close that

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2N IP Style intercom can now read QR codes Responding to changing trends in consumer behaviour and working patterns, 2N IP Style comes with a QR code reader functionality. The enhancements were presented at IFSEC last week. Studies by McKinsey, CBRE and PwC, highlighted two main trends. One is the acceleration of the use of e-commerce, which demanded a solution to allow packages to be delivered safely even when residents are not at home. The other trend is the hybridisation of work, with employees splitting their time between the office and home. To 2N IP Style QR code reader, makes it easier to share access data with couriers and other visitors. In residential buildings,

360 Vision Technology releases TX Direct wireless PTZ camera range 360 Vision Technology, the UK manufacturer of rugged HD, radar and thermal PTZ imaging cameras, has launched TX Direct, an innovative static IP address wireless PTZ camera now available in the Predator (HD, thermal & radar) and Invictus model ranges. Offered alongside the existing wireless TX

it allows a courier to be given one-off access to the main entrance and the package room – with, at the same time, a message being sent to the tenant letting them know that there is a parcel waiting.

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camera range, TX Direct camera technology offers installers and end-users the advantage of seamless, direct ONVIF integration into Video Management Systems (VMS), rather than via a hosted server or third-party software.

Cost-effective deployment Providing high definition 1080p, 25fps, 2048 kbps, CVBR images, TX Direct enables the

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