Category: Product

The Kwikset® brand of Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. – Hardware & Home Improvement Division, adds to its family of Wi-Fi enabled smart locks with its latest addition, Halo™ Touch Wi-Fi smart lock. Using the latest technology to create a convenient and secure smart home experience, Halo Touch smart lock provides homeowners access to their home via fingerprint. Halo Touch smart lock comes with the ability to program and store up to 100 fingerprints(50 users), ensuring all family and household members can access the home with one-touch fingerprint locking and unlocking. In addition, through the Kwikset app, homeowners can remotely monitor and control their Halo Touch smart locks from anywhere in the world while connected to the Internet. Like its predecessor, Halo, the brand’s first foray into Wi-Fi enabled smart locks, will connect directly to homeowners’ existing Wi-Fi network and smartphone to create a simple, secure smart home, without the need for a third-party hub, panel or subscription service. “Building upon the technological advances with the original Halo Wi-Fi-enabled smart locks, Kwikset once again is at the forefront of security technology with Halo Touch,” said Ali Atash, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Kwikset, Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. – Hardware & Home Improvement Division, “With the introduction of Halo Touch, Kwikset continues to reinforce our commitment to creating residential security solutions for our customers.”  

Allied Vision releases first Alvium 1800 U camera models incorporating Sony’s popular high-performance image sensors With the Alvium 1800 U-040 and the Alvium 1800 U-158, Allied Vision released the first camera models within the Alvium camera series that are equipped with Sony’s high-performance CMOS sensors with Pregius global shutter technology. The Alvium 1800 U-040 incorporates the 0.4 Megapixel IMX287 sensor and the Alvium 1800 U-158 is equipped with the 1.58 megapixel IMX273 sensor. Cross-over machine vision camera Allied Vision’s Alvium 1800 series is a cross-over machine vision camera combining the performance and durability of industrial machine vision and the compact hardware and cost effectiveness of embedded devices. Now available with Sony IMX CMOS sensors, these cameras provide high frame rates, high sensitivity, and excellent picture quality. Offering industrial-grade hardware, an USB3 Vision compliant interface with screw-locked connectors, on-board image correction functionalities, and high-precision triggering they fulfill all machine vision requirements. The cameras are also built on Allied Vision’s Alvium platform optimized for embedded vision systems. That means they come in an ultra-compact, lightweight package and are available as a single board module or open housing variant for easy integration into small systems. Their cost-optimized platform design delivers unprecedented value for money. Thus, the cameras are the ideal choice for machine vision applications requiring a small and lightweight camera delivering high image quality and frame rates at an affordable cost.  

Videotec has recently released the video encoders firmware version 3.0. This update brings new functionality to the system. This firmware can be uploaded on ULISSE EVO (all versions). Enhancements ONVIF Profil-T certification (in addition to Profile-S and Profile-Q). This offers better management of video stream configuration with VMS. Implementation of the SNMP protocol that allows feedback on the status of the devices present in the network to be obtained. Introduction of support for the NTCIP protocol so Videotec’s PTZs can be integrated into traffic control network systems. Introduction of support for positioning control of Videotec’s PTZs from maritime traffic radar interception systems (VTM – Vessel Traffic Management – systems). It is now possible to order ULISSE EVO and NVX models that do not have ONVIF Profile-Q to comply with specific requirements of some certifications regarding the request for username and password when the system is opened. These models will still have ONVIF Profile-S and Profile-T. New regulation parameters to achieve greater accuracy and reliability of temperature threshold alarms in thermal cameras. Ability to choose different colours for dynamic privacy masking. The new 3.0 firmware is only available if release 2.2.10 is pre-installed.

Cellebrite new digital intelligence (DI) platform, a fully integrated solution designed to maximize the potential of digital intelligence data and provide organizations with the most actionable intelligence critical to their investigations. Cellebrite’s DI platform employs a powerful ‘DI Core’ that stores and keeps data secure while allowing those who need to access it during various stages of the investigation to instantly obtain key intelligence information. Data uploaded to the core from remote sources can be sorted, managed and quickly analyzed using the latest artificial intelligence technologies to reveal insights for solving crimes, establishing defense plans or thwarting security threats. “The DI platform revolutionizes the way organizations deal with intelligence data, allowing teams to collaborate on shared information in real-time,” said Yossi Carmil, Co-CEO of Cellebrite, “This streamlined system safeguards digital intelligence information while allowing the right people to get the right data at the right time to manage the massive intelligence and data-handling problems facing law enforcement, intelligence, business and military organizations.” Cellebrite’s DI platform can be scaled depending upon an organization’s or enterprise’s needs and seamlessly integrates with existing infrastructures to maximize investments in previous digital management systems. “Agencies and businesses now have a platform that streamlines the data analysis process, allowing members from every arm of an organization to access and share key information in a collaborative environment that enables them to gain important investigative insights from the data presented,” said Mark Gambill, Chief Marketing Officer at Cellebrite, “And the DI Platform is backed by Cellebrite’s best-in-class training, service and technical support – all unmatched anywhere in the world.”

Extreme Networks, Inc. has recently unveiled ExtremeCloud™ IQ, one of the industry’s first end-to-end cloud management applications that leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide enterprises with insights, as well as complete visibility, control, and automation of their entire network. With this announcement, Extreme is also introducing ‘Co-Pilot,’ a new automation feature that will help IT administrators save time and effort on an increasing number of everyday tasks. The ExtremeCloud IQ application can be deployed in the public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises, providing enterprises with unmatched flexibility to accomplish their business objectives. Abby Strong, Vice President of Product Marketing, Extreme Networks said, “Being an IT administrator in a constantly connected world is a difficult task on the best of days. Most cloud management vendors focus on a single place in the network, forcing administrators to triage across multiple UIs to troubleshoot and manage the network. With Extreme Cloud IQ, we’re taking our proven, third-generation cloud management architecture and integrating it across our endto-end enterprise networking solutions portfolio, adding AI, ML, and automation capabilities that help drive cost containment and streamline IT operations and – ultimately – deliver a secure, compelling, and differentiated end-user experience. We are the only vendor in the industry that can do this.”

Airspace security technology leader Dedrone has been awarded certification from the UK’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) for its counter-drone technology platform DroneTracker. DroneTracker detects, tracks, and identifies drones by using multi-sensor capability combining RF radar, and optical sensors. The new CPNI drone detection standard is the first official validation of counter-drone technology. It enables organisations deemed to be of critical national importance to adopt drone detection technology with the assurance that it has been tested rigorously. “Any organisation needing drone detection technology should consider platforms evaluated and tested by CPNI,” says Amit Samani, Dedrone’s Regional Sales Manager for the UK, “Dedrone’s DroneTracker platform has successfully met CPNI’s rigorous testing standards, and this certification provides further assurances to our customers and partners that our system meets the security needs of the UK’s most sensitive infrastructures. We will continue working closely with government sector users, risk-critical sites, and major corporate customers to provide the most robust available airspace security and defence against drones and multiple drones.” Dedrone’s multi-sensor system enables security providers to match the best-in-class sUAS (small Unmanned Aerial Systems) detection hardware with DroneTracker, Dedrone’s software. Radio frequency sensors, including the RF-100 and RF-300, provide flightpath, localization and classification of sUAS. A PTZ camera system adds localization information via optical and thermal detection, whilst a 3D radar system adds altitude data and detection of autonomous drones. Hardware data was analysed by DroneTracker 4.1, which provides a near-instantaneous decision regarding whether a drone is a threat, and allows security personnel to respond accordingly. Dedrone creates customised airspace security solutions allowing organisations to identify, track and eliminate sUAS threats. Dedrone’s solution is deployed to customers around the world, including three of the G7 countries, correctional facilities, utilities, airports and corporations, among other public and private organizations.