• 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Army heli-UAV hops to avoid obstacle trouble

    The U.S. Army funds development of a hopping rotochute — a UAV designed to travel deep into obstacle-ridden spaces such as caves and rubble-laden buildings to video what it finds

  • Fuel cells for UAVs

    Massachusetts company awarded a contract to increase the power density of its existing fuel cell while also increasing the power output of the overall system

  • UAV defies controllers' commands and is destroyed by U.S. jet

    UAV operators lose control over a rogue Predator-B UAV — a large five-ton turboprop powered machine able to carry up to fourteen Hellfire missiles — and U.S. jets destroy it before it could leave Afghan air space

  • Surveillance software solves security snag

    Network security monitoring is currently limited by the inability of operators to recall the relationships between more than about 40 cameras in a network; the new software will automatically integrate data from thousands of security cameras in a video surveillance network into a single sensor, eliminating existing problems with huge information overloads

  • Locata Corporation: Location hot spots -- beyond GPS

    A conversation with Locata CEO Nunzio Gambale; “It has been an adventure and we have already come a long way. I hope to live long enough to see positioning technology implemented in a place like New York City to be able to locate the position of someone in an emergency down to a couple of feet. That’s my dream”

  • ioimage to show new IP camera with video analytics

    The new camera, the sc1dn, is priced at $990 and aimed at mid-size entities

  • ShotSpotter, Inc. says its technology saves lives

    The Mountain View, California-based company says that in the first half of 2009 its technology saved the lives of 57 gunshot victims; this represents a 138 percent increase from the first half of 2008

  • Mandatory automated tracing of food stuffs nears

    There indications the the FDA may soon require food companies to maintain lot and batch information records electronically better to facilitate forward and backward traceability

  • Russian security services step up snooping

    The heightened interest might stem from authorities’ fear about possible public unrest connected to the economic crisis; in the first half of this year, the secret services filed nearly 77,200 requests for search warrants, more than 66,000 requests to tap phones and nearly 7,800 requests to read mail

  • Pakistan to build own UAV

    Under a program launched this month, Pakistan’s domestic version of the drone or unmanned aerial vehicle to be called Falco will be made in collaboration with Selex Galileo of Italy at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra in Punjab province

  • Iran prepares for launch of UAV

    Models of the new UAV passed early testing in August, showing its capability as a reconnaissance aircraft as well as a bombing and radar-evading vehicle

  • Sanswire has lofty plans for airship

    The Florida company has seen its ups and downs, but it now has a joint venture with TAO Technologies of Germany to develop and manufacture airships for use in war zones, border security, and for commercial purposes