Month: April 2018

Zicom, one of the pioneers in the electronic security industry, is expanding its citizen-safety initiative ‘Make Your City Safe’ (MYCS) to the state of Telangana towards making the state safe. The company has recently signed an MoU to launch the citizen safety mission for Telangana in the honorable presence of Home Minister Naini Narshimha Reddy and other influential stalwarts by the name of ‘Make Telangana Safe.’ Zicom launched Mission ‘Make Your City Safe’ in 2012. It is a Zicom SaaS initiative to make housing societies, schools and hospitals more secure by equipping them with high quality CCTVs that require ‘zero investment, zero management.’ Apart from providing hardware, the company also undertakes the responsibly of monitoring the health of their security systems and offering free-of-cost services to ensure the smooth functioning of their products. With currently over 4500 buildings coming under the MYCS banner, Zicom looks forward to a safer and better urban lifestyle to become a reality. Taking this initiative to another level by extending the mission to cities across the country, Zicom SaaS has recently partnered with TITA and Digithon to create a robust digital ecosystem that not only monitors but also prevents crime in Telangana. Currently the initiative encompasses the cities of Hyderabad, Varangal, Karimnagar, Adilabad and Nalgonda. Today Zicom’s initiative has its presence across 7 cities (8th being the cities of Telangana) by the names of Make Mumbai Safe, Make Pune Safe, Make Navi Mumbai Safe, Make Thane Safe, Make Hyderabad Safe and Make Ahmedabad Safe As the part of the upcoming phase Zicom plans to cover the whole of Telangana followed by other states as well. The company is also exploring for possible associations. Under the ‘Make Your City Safe’ initiative, Zicom will offer a broad spectrum of security solutions on Security-as-a-Service model. Additionally, the company is also exploring the idea of establishing their local command center to support ‘Make Telangana Safe’ initiative and to help citizens connect all buildings for monitoring and proactive prevention of crimes. The key benefits of Make Your City Safe are mentioned below: The hardware and software costs are to be borne by Zicom – users have to pay for the services only. No worries about the functioning of the system, Zicom assures that the system will function 24×7, 365 days. No financial burden – Easy payment option that doesn’t need the society to block any funds for buying CCTV system. No annual maintenance contract – It is Zicom who maintains the CCTV system and also takes care of repairs and replacements. No confusion on what is best for customers – Free security assessment by experts that helps one choose the right security solution. Always accessible – 24×7 technical/ after sales support enables customers to stay connected.     We, at Zicom SaaS, have been committed towards the cause of citizen safety through our mission ‘Make Your City Safe’ since 2012. MYCS has earned Zicom the responsibility of providing safety and security to over one million satisfied residents across the country. With the spread of cities, and many cities turning into smart cities in the next one decade, Zicom sees a larger role for itself as a major security service provider to them. MYCS is the one step forward towards fulfilling that responsibility. We believe, through this initiative, the authorities have set an example for other states as well on how the power of technology can be used to prevent crimes and ensure the safety of citizens – Pramoud Rao Founder & Managing Director of Zicom SaaS Pvt. Ltd.  

Honeywell has introduced its latest smart building technology, Command and Control Suite release 200 (CCS R200), which connects building personnel with data analytics to help drive operational improvements and efficiencies. CCS R200 builds on the original Command and Control Suite by offering more user interfaces to bring building performance data to key personnel, when and where they need it – from building operators and managers to security incident response teams – helping to reduce operational costs, mitigate risk and enhance business continuity. CCS R200 combines intelligent automation, advanced analytics and data visualization with the contemporary user experience of consumer home and mobile electronics, bringing simple, intuitive displays to building operations to enhance facility and security management in an easy-to-understand manner. The latest release brings the holistic integration, mapbased visualization and incident workflows of CCS to the control room works t a t i o n , desktop PCs and windows tablets, extending the software’s mobile, touch-optimized experience to more interfaces. This creates a seamless hub of information pulled from IT networks, building control systems and outside sources, which allows for better incident response and operational decision-making. “The value of a building’s data is dependent on how easily the right people can access and understand it. As today’s operations become increasingly data-driven, it’s imperative for organizations to ensure they’re taking steps to make this data accessible and actionable to those who need it in order to do their jobs such as security personnel, building operators and C-suite executives,” said John Rajchert, President of Building Solutions, Honeywell Home and Building Technologies, “That’s why we chose to develop more interfaces and software mobility functions with CCS. We’re providing additional ways for key personnel to tap into key building insights so they can keep systems up and running and optimize building operations.” Building off the basic components of the original Command and Control Suite, CCS R200 is designed with the same ease of use as the Command Wall, which was designed as a collaboration and team decision-making tool, and features map-based visualization and navigation from a single intuitive touch screen. CCS R200 brings that same ease of use to core operational interfaces, the Command Station and Command Console, extending an organization’s ability to turn complex data into easy-to-implement changes to enhance overall building operations. The Command Station is a single window, single monitor interface, designed for a desktop PC, laptop and Windows tablet, and is often ideal for facility technicians, security guards and management as well as for casual use by occupants. It allows even inexperienced users to quickly understand the overall situation at a glance by pro viding unique insights in a straightforward manner, while allowing expert users the ability to drill down to technical detail and full system control. The Command Console, in contrast, is a premium multi-window, multi-monitor interface designed for engineers, control-room operators, and building mangers, and others who need to view insights from multiple systems and areas of a building simultaneously. It seamlessly integrates with Honeywell’s digital video manager console to access and provide a view of video footage and corresponding data for improved operational decision-making. In addition to new interfaces, CCS R200 includes enhancements to the original system’s incident workflow feature, which guides users through scripted responses to security incidents and other emergencies. The enhancements include map visualization to clearly locate an incident, such as a fire alarm going off, to quickly identify the exact location. Integrated with the underlying control system, workflows can be initiated by system alarms and procedure steps can include operatorinitiated control actions such as announcement, equipment start up, door release and other actions depending on the needs of the incident. Additionally, with CCS R200, organizations can issue multiple Incident Workflows, which can be managed by different people in order to promote efficiency and overall security. CCS R200 integrates with Honeywell’s flagship building management platform, Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI), which helps facilitate the integration of security, comfort, life safety and energy systems among other functions. CCS R200 is available now.

CP PLUS is bolstering its production in India by opening its first dedicated manufacturing plant in Andhra Pradesh, India. They are setting up the manufacturing facility under the Honorable Prime Minister’s ‘Make in India’ initiative which lays a lot of emphasis on R&D and local development of goods. Established in Chitoor, near Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, the state-of-the-art facility is equipped with world class technology for manufacturing a wide range of security and surveillance products to cater to the needs of government, defense, navel and key infrastructure projects which is ideal for Indian environment and various challenges. The facility has also indigenous R&D and Test Lab to ensure stringent quality standards and innovations of the products. With a productions capacity of 2.4 million cameras and 0.6 million recorder per year which is scalable to 6 million cameras and 2 million recorders, the new plant enables CP PLUS to upsurge its production capacity in India and to serve its consumers better and more effectively. Commenting on the launch, Aditya Khemka, Managing Director, CP PLUS India and Aditya Group said, “Security is a huge concern in India presently and CP PLUS intelligent solutions will go a long way in taking preventive steps towards a safe and secure world. This investment demonstrates our ambition to grow in the important Indian surveillance and security market. We are also designing some unique products and solutions indigenized to meet the dynamic needs of our customers.” The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility boasts of a robust R&D lab that is equipped with the latest technology to create and test breakthrough technologies and product. CP PLUS also aims to create hundreds of jobs through this initiative. Over a time, as the production expands, the demand for skilled workforce will also increase.  

Matrix has recently unveiled its indigenously designed COSEC Facial Recognition. Matrix COSEC Face Recognition is based on innovative, deep learning technology, which evolves as per regular user interaction in different conditions. It identifies a user quickly and accurately with 1:1 or 1:N identification method. The technology checks liveness of a face with 99.53% accuracy. It accepts the user’s mobile as a credential, which eliminates hardware cost and makes the verification process simple and secure. With contactless authentication, Matrix COSEC Facial Recognition technology reads the user’s face through COSEC APTA application. It ensures contactless authentication and identifies user’s face in < 1 second.  It eradicates the issues of identifying varying height of user(s) as the user needs to capture the image of their face in a smart phone for authentication process. Moreover,it works well even in low bandwidth conditions and is agnostic to changes in facial hair, angles and lighting. “Matrix Facial Recognition is a powerful tool conceived with liveness detection method. It has the ability to read beyond the surface of the skin and identifies real skin within fraction of a second. With the addition of these unique biometric technology in our range of security solutions, we want to weave our image as a company manufacturing solutions catering to different verticals for various access control and time-attendance applications,” commented Jatin Desai, Product Manager, Access Control and Time-Attendance, Matrix. Smartphone as an identity: By installing COSEC APTA application in their smartphone, users’ mobile becomes a biometric device for timeattendance and access control applications. Identification or verification is done through capturing an image of their face through the phone’s camera which in turn marks their attendance. Ease of face enrolment: The user face enrolment is done by capturing the image of a user’s face from different angles, which gets stored in COSEC CENTRA/ VYOM database. Unique enrolment: Due to unique technology of TRAIN feature in COSEC APTA, user’s face can get easily recognized in dynamic and uncontrolled environments. With TRAIN feature, user can add many images of their face for error free facial recognition. . ● Face recognition: It works on 1:N authentication method wherein, a user’s face is compared with the facial images in a database of stored records. Face detection: It works on 1:1 authentication method wherein, a user’s face is verified against the logged in ID of the user. Dual security: For strong authentication, user’s face is verified after establishing bluetooth connectivity with the assigned door for accessing the door assigned to respective user. Location tracking through GPS: To keep track of the user’s movement outside/ inside the premises, COSEC APTA sends location details to the server using GPS by taking user’s face image from the present location.