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New cybersecurity research center opens in Belfast
The £30 million center will work primarily on embedded security tech for next-gen IT equipment, and on real-time automated analysis of CCTV footage for “criminal activity”
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Open-System Vendors demo IP interoperability
Exacq Technologies, Firetide, IQinVision, and Pivot3 are showing how standards-based solutions from open-system vendors can be integrated and supported in the field
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BRS Labs takes ASIS' Accolades award
This is the fourth award BRS Labs has won this year for its unique approach to security; its AISight’s software ingests external visual input (computer vision), while its machine-learning engine observes the scene, learns and recognizes behavioral patterns, and responds accordingly
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Team recognized for Hollywood video surveillance implementation
TimeSight Systems, VAS Security Systems, and Technicolor selected as Silver Medal Winner of the 2009 Security Innovations Awards
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ASIS International offers standards and guidelines for the security industry
ASIS standards and guidelines address issues concerning the protection and management of assets — both physical and human — which are common to all sectors of society
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Clayton Consultants on kidnapping and ransom
In many developing countries, kidnapping the family members of rich individuals and then asking for ransom has become a small industry; a specialist offers ideas about what to do to prevent kidnapping — and deal with it when it happens
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Intransa shows new simple, green video solutions
Some companies go for gold-plated complexity; Intansa prefers simple, green video surveillance solutions for physical security; the company introduces new products and enhancements to old products
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Protection One unveils uConnect
Large security provider shows a new, all-in-one online security management solution for businesses of all sizes
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Rolls-Royce, EDF to construct four nuclear reactors in U.K.
The civil nuclear market is worth around £30 billion a year globally and is expected to grow to £50 billion a year in fifteen years’ time, more than 70 percent of which will relate to the build and support of new facilities
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Biometric surveillance checkpoint technology would notice the imperceptible
Draper Laboratory and collaborators develop technology which will home in on irregular physiological and behavioral biometrics of the individual being screened, such as heart rate, blink rate, and even fidgeting
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They identify horses, don't they?
Sarnoff chosen by Global Animal Management to develop the first portable equine iris capture and identification system
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The day of the "iSniff" nears
Pocket-size pollution sensors hold promise of big improvement in monitoring personal environment; wearable sensors to be used for identifying air-borne causes of disease
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Methane mining in Africa could unleash deadly gas cloud
Lake Kivu, on the Rwanda-Congo border, contains a vast reservoir of dissolved methane; many companies are extracting the gas to burn for electricity production, and both Rwanda and Congo are aggressively courting further investment in extraction plants; scientists say that the rush to extract the methane might trigger an outburst of gas that could wash a deadly, suffocating blanket over the 2 million people
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Turning water fountains into infection control units
Toronto’s Farrow Partnership Architects sees future in infection-control units
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More scandalous revelations about Kabul embassy security
The State Department outsourced the security of the U.S. embassy in Kabul to a private security company; the company cut costs by extending shifts from 8 to 12 hours; one security contractor had to be forcibly removed from a brothel during working hours
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