Day: October 9, 2022

Dallmeier Electronic, a leading German manufacturer of video cameras, recording and software systems, announces the establishment of its own national subsidiary in Türkiye. With immediate effect, the newly founded Dallmeier Türkiye will support interested installers and security service providers with additional sales, pre-sales, and support staff. A Dallmeier Türkiye showroom and a demo centre complement the offering Prominent customers such as Istanbul Airport, Alsancak Stadium or the Merit Hotel & Casino Group trust the video security systems of Germany-based manufacturer Dallmeier. In addition, more and more small and medium-sized commercial enterprises, banks, stadiums, and numerous public clients in Türkiye are using the video security solutions ‘Made in Germany.’ Dallmeier has been active in Türkiye since 2009. Due to the steadily increasing demand, Dallmeier has now decided to establish its own national company, Dallmeier Türkiye. This gives installers and integrators access to all necessary resources for smooth project handling: At the recently opened branch in the Hacettepe TechnoCity in Ankara, everything revolves around comprehensive and practice-oriented customer care – from presales advice to technical support. Patented technology ensures low operating costs At the heart of many Dallmeier solutions are the patented Panomera® cameras. Customers benefit from a unique cost-benefit ratio – thanks to the combination of several video sensors with different focal lengths in one optical unit, Panomera® reduces the number of cameras required many times over compared to conventional solutions. This results in savings in all project areas – from implementation, infrastructure, and civil engineering to ongoing operational and administrative costs. Panomera® systems can be used in sports stadiums, large company premises, airport aprons and runways, car parks and public spaces. Best-of-breed or everything from a single source Dallmeier also offers 4K single sensor cameras, recording, video analysis and software solutions for a wide range of applications. The solutions can either be used as Dallmeier complete solutions or through open interfaces such as ONVIF, with a wide range of third-party systems. In addition, there are integrations with a variety of security and analysis systems as well as with common VMS systems such as Milestone or Genetec. Short distances and a holistic offer for integrators Dallmeier Türkiye sells exclusively through integrators and installers. At its premises in Ankara, the company offers them a complete portfolio of innovative technologies and comprehensive services. From consulting and the Dallmeier 3D planning service, with which customers and partners can precisely define all details of their future system by means of a ‘digital twin’ even before the project begins, to the Factory Acceptance Test, which puts the entire system through its paces before handover, to support during ongoing operation. In addition to a meeting room and a showroom for product demonstrations, partners also benefit from training rooms for comprehensive ‘hands-on’ training. “For installers and integrators, the establishment of Dallmeier Türkiye is an important message. With Dallmeier, they can distinguish themselves through a variety of cost-saving innovations. Therefore, paradoxically, our integrators can offer solutions with products from a supposed high-wage country with which they are more than competitive. And this with higher quality and interesting margins. With the Ankara office, we now offer all the resources necessary for our partners to offer their customers high-quality solutions and services. Channel neutrality is also very important to us. When a partner registers a project with us, he can be sure that we guarantee him appropriate project protection” Orhan Yorukoglu Sales Director, Dallmeier Türkiye “Quality in security solutions is becoming increasingly important in Türkiye. With the solutions from Germany, we offer the highest standard worldwide both in hardware quality but also in data protection and cybersecurity. Moreover, Dallmeier’s products are always focused on providing the customer with an actual solution to their problems and not just another camera product,” said Dieter Dallmeier, Founder and CEO, Dallmeier. “Türkiye has been an important market for Dallmeier for over ten years, with solid and dynamic growth. With the establishment of our own national company, our local partners have everything they need for a smooth process of pre and post sales, planning and consulting.”  

Gallagher, the leading security solutions manufacturer, announced the expansion of its technical support services to the Americas with a dedicated team of people based in Atlanta, Georgia. Operating from September 5 onwards, the team in the Americas will create stronger connections in the region, while also alleviating the New Zealand team’s current load of operating all day and all night. “It’s an evolution of our technical support. We’ve been providing 24/7 technical support from New Zealand and we’re growing really quickly elsewhere, particularly in the Americas. So, this expansion has been a couple of years in the making,” said Shane Keesom, Gallagher’s Technical Support Manager. “Expanding our global support capabilities is a natural progression of our vision to provide exceptional customer experiences. The team here in the Americas adds to the diversity within our global team,” said Paul Wilson, the Gallagher’s Director of Technical Services for North America. The new team consists of four engineers, servicing the entire globe during their shift, with one member who is able to provide technical support in Spanish too. “This is going to be gold, being able to talk to our partners and customers in their own language and lingo,” said Matthew Dean, Gallagher’s Technical Support Team Leader.  

According to the latest report from research organization Omdia, Genetec Inc., a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions, has been recognized as the fastest-growing access control software provider in the world for the second year in a row. The report shows Genetec taking market share from other access control vendors and strengthening its number two position globally (up from 4th in 2019). Regionally, Genetec experienced the most organic growth in the Americas and was the fastest-growing software provider in EMEA. Traditionally dominated by proprietary solutions with slow innovation cycles, the access control industry provided few options for IT and cyber-security conscious customers. Modern enterprises of all sizes are now looking to migrate to unified, open-architecture, and secure access control solutions that allow them to choose hardware that best suits their needs. This has, in large part, fueled the rapid market share gains of Genetec. “While traditional, proprietary access control vendors were hard hit the last couple of years, Genetec grew by almost 20% globally, gaining ground in both the Americas region and in EMEA,” said Bryan Montany, Physical Security Analyst at Omdia. Genetec credits its growth to the continual innovation of its unified security platform, Security Center, where access control functions go beyond locking and unlocking doors and address non-traditional applications such as enclosure management. Genetec unified solutions are designed to reveal new insights that help organizations better understand their business and operations and provide customers with a measurable return on their investment. “At a time when many traditional access control vendors are trying to maintain market share through mergers and acquisitions, Genetec is growing its access control business organically by focusing on innovative, nonproprietary, and cybersecure solutions that meet the needs of forward-thinking organizations, while laying the foundation for their future growth,” said Guy Chenard, Chief Commercial Officer, Genetec Inc. With its open approach, Genetec provides a large and growing selection of third-party access control devices. This allows organizations to choose the hardware that addresses their security needs and objectives, while avoiding the long-term setbacks of closed solutions. The open approach offered by Genetec solutions enables end users to scale up or down, broaden the capabilities of their solution, and migrate to the cloud at their own pace. With unified solutions, which bring together access control, video surveillance, and license plate recognition, physical security is evolving from a tool for mitigating risk to playing a significant role in organizations’ digital transformation. According to another recently published Omdia report, Genetec ranked #1 in video surveillance software globally for the 11th consecutive year, and recorded the fastest market share gain over the last three years. These figures coupled with the company’s global growth in access control software, further underscore its market leadership and the benefits of a unified platform.  

When building fences and landscaping their properties, homeowners should keep fire safety on the top of their minds, especially if they live in a wildfire-prone region, according to a new study. Across nearly 200 fire experiments, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) burned residential fences and mulch beds to examine the role they play in spreading fire. They found that fire hazard was generally disproportionately higher when combustible objects burned together. Flames rushed along mulch lining the base of fences, and infernos quickly swallowed up pairs of fences when they burned in close proximity to each other. In contrast, stand-alone fences clear of mulch or debris burned at a much slower pace. Based on their findings, the authors of the new report recommended that homeowners not place two fences back to back, keep other combustible surfaces far apart and take important other actions. Wildfires can spread quickly through and potentially overwhelm communities adjacent to the wilderness – the socalled wildland-urban interface (WUI). Post-wildfire studies, including NIST’s study of the 2018 Camp Fire, have pinpointed fences and mulch as culprits in spreading fire. “Fences that catch fire were often completely gone. If you looked closely, you could see some nails and screws remaining. The ones we saw partially burned were left standing because they were defended by someone,” said Report Co-author Alexander Maranghides, who is leading NIST’s Camp Fire study, “These things don’t put themselves out.” Fences and mulch can act as bridges for flames to reach buildings and as launch pads for airborne embers to ignite fires far away, but fire codes in the U.S. do not address how they should be installed and maintained, and little guidance exists to help homeowners. To help build a technical foundation for the development of guidelines in the future, the authors of the new report sought to study fence and mulch fires under conditions that are closer to real life than what has been used in previous studies. The research team burned fences, mulch beds, and combinations of both outdoors, igniting the materials several meters downwind from a wind machine used to simulate real fire-spreading conditions. Downwind of the fire, the team set up a shed or mulch bed as a target. Through 187 experiments, they burned fuels alone and in combination, including fences of several common designs made of wood, vinyl or wood-plastic composites and mulch beds composed of shredded hardwood, pine bark nuggets, pine straw or rubber. The researchers captured footage of the blazes to gauge the speed and pattern of flame spread and to record how often embers ignited the target shed. They also conducted research in the lab to measure how quickly samples of fence raw materials released heat. Taking all the data together, the authors categorized the relative fire threat level for the various test conditions. “In the highest hazard category, the fences and mulch are going to carry the fire along toward your house in a matter of a few minutes, not hours,” said NIST Physicist Kathryn Butler, Co-lead Author of the report. The most dangerous fires observed were those that had multiple sources of fuel burning at the same time. In the tests where mulch lined the bottom of a fence, fire tended to swiftly advance across the beds of fine combustibles, which served as rich sources of embers and allowed flames to quickly ignite the fence along its entire length. The researchers learned that the fires could get much worse as well. When two fences made of combustible materials were placed back to back – mimicking the scenario where two neighbors each put up a fence along their property lines – the most intense flames of the entire project erupted. After the fire was established, long-reaching flames quickly shot up, completely engulfing fence panels 2.4 meters (8 feet) long and 1.8 meters (6 feet) tall in as little as four minutes. Embers sparked fires on the target in almost every one of these tests. “It’s very well known that when you confine a fire on the sides, it’s bad news. Keeping those hot gases between the fences with surfaces radiating intense heat to each other leads to explosive fire behavior,” Butler said. When fence panels burned alone, it was a different story. Flames slowly chewed away at the fences and did not spread very far during these experiments, with some progressing less than a meter (3.3 feet) in an hour. Although these fires burning slowly on a sole fuel source were less hazardous and more manageable, high winds that may accompany a wildfire could blow debris toward the fence, adding fuel to the fire. Butler, NIST mechanical engineer Erik Johnsson and the rest of the authors crafted seven recommendations for homeowners living in WUI zones based on their analysis. The first recommendation is to avoid doubling up on fences completely, as the study found that fences as far apart as 91 centimeters (3 feet) still produced large flames. The second says that combustible fences should be placed where they will not interfere with exit routes. Other recommendations advise keeping combustibles as far away from each other as possible, even between property lines, and clearing yards – and especially the space near or between fences – of debris, such as leaves or fallen branches. The report also indicates that homeowners should replace combustible landscape features with those consisting of noncombustible material such as stone, steel or cement, when possible. Because of the ever-present danger of embers during wildfires – even when there is a large distance between a structure and the fire – the researchers also urge homeowners to enhance their homes to resist ember ignition through a process called hardening. The detailed steps for hardening are described in a separate NIST report on mitigating wildfires. The team members intend to keep pushing forward to cover new ground in wildfire research. With additional experiments, they plan to offer additional insights on risk mitigation and eventually lay a groundwork for new guidance,…