Category: International

BCDVideo, the global security industry provider of purpose-built video surveillance recording appliances and infrastructure, has been named to CRN’s 2019 Fast Growth list for the second consecutive year. CRN, a brand of the channel company, bestows this recognition to the top 150 fastest-growing technology solutions providers in North America. BCDVideo, which has experienced an average two-year growth rate of 49.2 percent, currently has more than 95,000 systems recording video in 75 countries and throughout all verticals. Earlier this year, BCDVideo also was named to CRN’s 2019 Solutions Provider 500 list, which is regarded as the industry standard for recognizing the highest-performing technology companies and strategic solution providers. A technology provider since 1999, BCDVideo has always delivered high-availability solutions with a purpose. Now a 10-year veteran in the surveillance market, BCDVideo is generally considered the industry leader in purpose-built video surveillance recording systems and continues to be the only video surveillance system manufacturer in the world that guarantees its calculations, bandwidth capabilities, and performance, removing the mitigation of risk away from the security integrators.  

NICE Actimize, a NICE business and the player in autonomous financial crime management has been voted the ‘Best Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Solution Provider’inWaters Magazine’s 2019Rankings competition forthe sixth consecutive year. It was selected through an online voting process conducted by the publication. NICE Actimize was honored for its Autonomous anti-money laundering suite of solutions. “For the sixth year in a row, NICE Actimize was recognized by our readers as the top provider of anti-money laundering solutions,” said Anthony Malakian, Editor-in-Chief of Waters Technology Group, “Six in a row is a testament to their consistency and innovation.” “We thank the readers of Waters, and our own customers, for demonstrating their continued support of our anti-money laundering technology and services,” said Craig Costigan, CEO, NICE Actimize, “We continue to make significant investments across our integrated AML suite, with a focus on further developing intelligent automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence-based solutions that function as enablers to enhance the quality and consistency of AML programs while reducing the cost of compliance.” NICE Actimize’s autonomous anti-money laundering solutions suite consists of suspicious activity monitoring, customer due diligence, CTR processing and automation, and watchlist filtering, as well as the capability to address FATCA legislation. The suite also includes the ‘AML essentials’ SaaS solution, targeting mid-sized financial institutions. Additionally, the suite includes ActimizeWatch for AML, delivered by X-Sight. ActimizeWatch is a cloud based managed analytics service that continuously monitors criminal typologies and AML model performance. With AML expertise and machine learning, ActimizeWatch proactively optimizes Actimize anti-money laundering models, when needed, with minimal impact to on-premises resources at a financial services organization.  

Matrix will participate in Securexpo East Africa during 24-26 September 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. The event is an ideal platform for different industries to network with their peers and showcase latest products. Matrix will showcase their revolutionary technologies in security, access control and time-attendance domains, as well as newly launched face recognition and palm vein reader technology for authentication. Both the devices offer contactless and highly secure solutions with precise and accurate authentication. They are also showcaseing another newly launched product – COSEC ARGO – which brings modern design to the access control market with an enhanced IPS LCD touchscreen for a visually splendid experience, and the gorilla glass providing enhanced toughness. As Mobile is the next generation tech nology in security domain, Matrix will showcase mobile based access control solution whereby a user can either scan QR code, or just twists his/ her phone for security authentication via bluetooth. Mobile application also helps users mark attendance automatically using GPS or Wi-Fi. Matrix will also demonstrate some extraordinary biometric door controllers useful for time-attendance, access control, visitor management, cafeteria management, and many more applications which allow you to generate 300+ customized reports. As the other wing, Matrix will showcase its video management solution SATATYA SAMAS, which addresses threats in a logical and sequential manner through its unique features like CREAM (cognitive responsive engine with automated monitoring). CREAM eliminates false alerts by conducting a multi-stage verification. To address the need for automation in medium, large and multi-location enterprises, they will demonstrate how SATATYA SAMAS can seamlessly automate the parallel working of various systems integrated in an organization. Alongside, they are going to exhibit the recently launched new range of network video recorders that are equipped with characteristics like cascading, camera-wise recording retention, database-level integration and plenty of other distinct features. In addition to this, the new range of IP cameras which sport SONY STARVIS series sensors with EXMOR technology will also be shown. These cameras have an edge over others in terms of exceptional low light performance, consistent image in varying light conditions (true WDR), better bandwidth optimization, and many other features.  

Award-winning book by Jennifer Hesterman, Ph.D. offers a comprehensive approach to increasing organizational security in addressing growing criminal, terrorist, and mass-casualty threats and vulnerabilities ASIS International has recently announced that Soft Target Hardening: Protecting People from Attack (Second Edition) by Jennifer Hesterman, Ph.D., was selected as the 2019 ASIS Security Industry Book of the Year. “Increasing instances of active shooter assaults underline a universal truth in security. It is easier to commit crime or terrorism when a facility has minimal security – otherwise known as soft targets. Author Jennifer Hesterman, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, draws upon her experience securing military assets overseas and applies it to protecting soft targets in the domestic and civilian space,” stated A. Benjamin Mannes, CPP, Chief Compliance Officer for a Philadelphia-based financial firm and member of the ASIS Philadelphia Chapter, “By adopting the principles in this book, readers can take an important first step to recognizing and mitigating threats to their organizations.” The ASIS Security Industry Book of the Year is selected by a panel of ASIS members who review member-authored titles using criteria including relevancy to today’s security threats, importance of the subject in the field, and the uniqueness of the coverage of a new security concept, idea or technology. Runners-up for the 2019 award include Reawakening America: Leadership, Vigilance, and Collaboration (Vincent Bove, CPP), and Workplace Violence: Issues in Threat Management (Christine M. Holbrook, David E. Bixler, Eugene A. Rugala, Carri Casteel). “I am truly humbled by this award. Being recognized for a second time by the world’s leading organization in security management is an honor of a lifetime,” said Dr. Hesterman, “It is my sincere hope that organizations in both the private and public sectors gain new perspectives and knowledge in order to better protect their workplaces, public spaces and other assets.”  

Johnson Controls has recently announced its Digie Award win for ‘Most Intelligent Building – Corporate Headquarters’ for its ground-breaking work on Bee’ah’s new headquarters in the UAE. This award recognizes extraordinary examples of buildings, projects and communities that best demonstrate smart, connected, high-performance intelligent building concepts throughout the world. Using Johnson Controls Digital Vault and extended capabilities built on Microsoft Azure, Johnson Controls partnered with Microsoft and the Middle East’s leading digital transformation catalyst, Evoteq, to implement intelligent edge systems, devices and software designed to optimize energy efficiency, make the best use of available space and help the building’s occupants be more productive. “With the help of Johnson Controls, Microsoft and Evoteq, Bee’ah is thrilled to be recognized for becoming the first building in the region, and one of the first in the world, to have full integration with AI to support new seamless experiences for optimization of efficiencies, performance and functionality,” said HE Salim Al Owais, Chairman of Bee’ah, “This award represents the Middle East’s commitment toward creating a sustainable future for smart buildings within the region’s urban fabric. In alignment with our vision of merging the core pillars of sustainability and technology to build a future-ready economy, our headquarters has become a benchmark for sustainable, intelligent buildings everywhere by being fully powered by renewable resources and optimized to achieve zero net energy consumption and reach LEED platinum certification.” At Bee’ah’s headquarters, Digital Vault is revolutionizing the construction industry by translating the physical world inside a building into a digital representation with rich data that can be visualized, analyzed and acted upon to deliver proactive maintenance, optimize building systems, and deliver intelligent support for the people inside. From digital workspaces to smart back-office integration, and from smart lobby-visitor management to smart security, employees and visitors at Bee’ah’s new headquarters will experience a diverse range of cutting-edge AI features through multiple touch-points across various functions including HR, customer care, procurement, administration, and mechanical electrical and plumbing. “It is an honor to be recognized for our part in making Bee’ah’s new headquarters one of the most intelligent buildings in the world,” said Sudhi Sinha, Vice President and General Manager of Digital Solutions at Johnson Controls, “This accolade demonstrates the shift around the world that prioritizes a holistic transformation approach over a siloed technology mindset, allowing companies around the world – like Bee’ah – to reap the reward of true digital transformation.” “We’re proud to be leading the charge of creating innovative solutions that merge the physical and digital worlds to transform traditional building systems,” said Dr. Marcus Schumacher, Vice President and General Manager GCC at Johnson Controls, “We are dedicated to helping more businesses and organizations achieve new levels of efficiency and sustainability around the world using our past knowledge and deep expertise.” For the past 21 years, the Digie Awards have recognized companies, real estate projects, technologies and people that have gone above and beyond to positively impact the real estate industry using technology, automation and innovation. This year’s award winners were announced at the Realcomm/ IBcon 2019 conference at the Music City Center in Nashville, TN.  

After obtaining the first place in the open dataset ranking in 2018 and the large-scale person search competition of PRCV2018, Dahua AI Person Re-identification technology recently made another breakthrough – in the three international authoritative open data sets Market1501, DukeMTMC-reid and CUHK03, the key indicator mAP reached 91.98%, 83.96%, and 85.72% respectively, refreshing the best performance record and continuing the leading position in algorithm. This year, Dahua AI technology has acquired the top rankings in many international competitions fields such as semantic segmentation and instance segmentation etc. Person re-identification technology, referred to as Person-ReID, uses computer vision technology to retrieve the same target person under different cameras. This technology has great practical value for carrying out artificial intelligence businesses because of the difficulty to recognize the same target due to the different image shooting angles, resolution, target postures, obstacle occlusion, and uneven illumination under different cameras. Based on years of technical accumulation in vehicle and person recognition, Dahua Technology has achieved breakthroughs in the following three areas to facilitate the AI application. First of all, Dahua Technology’s innovative application of image data enhancement methods, including random blur and random interception strategies, enabled the effective simulation of complex situations such as body occlusion, blur and incompleteness in various environments. The random interception strategy is conductive to mine the potential feature extraction of the block components network and to improve the network feature matching performance. Secondly, for the problem of feature granularity difference in multi-branch component network, a progressive part model (PPM) is adopted. There is cascaded semantic relation among the branches besides the shared basic convolution network. Finally, while designing PPM network, the overlapping sampling operation is used to facilitate the extraction of more striking feature information from each component branch, and the improved loss function is used to learn the feature embedding space based on spherical constraints. In addition, a branch based on the attention scoring mechanism is added to the PPM feature layer to enable the network to adaptively combine the multi-granularity features of the human body from each branch. The person re-identification technology has been successfully applied in Dahua video structured cameras and video structured analysis servers, and has maintained a leading place in the search by image performance of ultra-largescale pedestrians, non-motor vehicles and motor vehicles, targeting smart cities, buildings, supermarkets and other places to reduce user costs, improve work efficiency and video development application value.