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Hikvision Celebrates its 10th Anniversary
posted on 13/01/2012

Hikvision celebrated its 10th anniversary with a gala show in Hangzhou, China on December 31st, 2011. Over 2700 employees including staff in headquarters and representatives from branch offices attended the birthday celebration. The employees from overseas branches also gave their blessing to Hikvision through the greeting videos and together everyone shared the happy moment. From the beginning, Hikvision has taken active part in the surveillance market, achieving great success and rapid growth with the average annual growth of sales revenue of over 50%. “Hikvision’s ten-year success story reflects Hikvision’s impressive strides in the past decade and Hikvision’s competitiveness in the upcoming years. We’re thankful to our employees, customers and partners for their support and commitments for helping us reach this milestone,” Yangzhong Hu, president of Hikvision, said in the opening remark. With ten years’ development in the industry, Hikvision now becomes the world’s leading supplie... [more]

SG Systems UK launches the new RF HANDHELD VERIFIER/DEACTIVATOR WAND
posted on 09/01/2012

SG Systems UK Limited (Shopguard) – a market leading provider of anti-theft solutions and CCTV design house, has launched the new modern 8.2mhz RF handheld Verifier/Deactivator Wand, which is designed to deliver quick and efficient label detection and deactivation, all in one quick movement. This innovative and powerful solution combines functionality of the standard Label Verifier and the Deactivator in an easy to hold RF EAS tool, which can both detect and deactivate all 8.2mhz labels with the detection range about 8cm and the deactivation range 5 cm. This efficient handheld verifier/deactivator is equipped with the latest DSP (Digital Signal Processing) technology and can be carried by a sales assistant or security guard on a belt, allowing a full door check operation and quick and easy customer interaction without issue or delay. The RF handheld Verifier/Deactivator Wand has low power consumption and a built in 1700mAh lithium battery, which can be charged within two hours, by ... [more]

VoiceVault Advanced Wireless Microphone Now Available With Digital Ally’s DVM-500Plus In-Car Video System
posted on 05/01/2012

Digital Ally, Inc., which develops, manufactures and sells advanced law enforcement video systems, LIDAR speed guns and fleet event recorders, announced that all new orders of the DVM-500Plus In-Car Video System will now include the VoiceVault™ Advanced Wireless Microphone at no additional cost to the customer. Previously only available with the DVM-750 In-Car Video System, the VoiceVault offers the same extended range, voice optimization and noise filtering, and fully digital audio transmission with true frequency hopping technology as the previous DVM-500Plus system’s mic. However, it also offers the industry-first feature of recording up to two hours of audio evidence onto On-Board Solid State Memory when the mic is out of range or the signal to the in-car video system is interrupted. The VoiceVault also records its own metadata to later link with recordings from the in-car video system for the same incidents when loaded into Digital Ally’s VideoManager software. For more informati... [more]

Demand for video surveillance systems will remain strong in 2012
posted on 13/12/2011

Despite the economic turbulence, the global CCTV and video surveillance equipment market continued to grow throughout the downturn. IMS Research remains confident that demand for CCTV & video surveillance equipment will remain strong through 2012; growth for network video surveillance equipment sales is forecast to exceed 25%. In a previous press release (The Tipping Point Approaches - July 2011), Senior Analyst Gary Wong stated, “The world market for video surveillance equipment continued to achieve strong growth in 2010, in excess of 10%, despite the persistent after-effects of the global economic downturn”. Wong also noted that “Whilst the global analogue market was relatively depressed in 2010, the network video surveillance market continued to grow almost three times as fast as the total market in 2010, over 30%.” So why did the video surveillance industry continue to grow whilst many other industries suffered greatly during the first downturn? Well, the answer is, unfortunately... [more]

Acquisition of Visonic Ltd. expands Tyco’s presence in strategic markets and strengthens wireless security products portfolio
posted on 09/12/2011

On 6th december, Tyco International Ltd. announced the acquisition of Visonic Ltd. is completed. Visonic Ltd. is a global developer and manufacturer of electronic security systems and components, for approximately $100 million in cash. The acquisition was first announced on September 15, 2011. A leader in advanced wireless technology for the security industry, Visonic’s portfolio includes wireless communications technologies that offer increased range and secure communications. These technologies are in use in more than 1 million wireless installations around the world. “The addition of Visonic to the Tyco Security Products portfolio advances our strategy to provide our global customer base with broad-based, best in class security solutions,” said Mark VanDover, President of Tyco Security Products. “The company’s technological capabilities and strong presence in markets such as Europe enable us to further enhance the solutions and reach of our intrusion security portfolio.” The Vis... [more]

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