If your video system isn’t linked to “real” information, it is providing only a mere fraction of the value it could be.
The future of video surveillance lies in how to manage all the data being collected and turn it into something useful. Our ability to collect ever more massive amounts of data is growing [...]
Any company that processes credit card transactions must be PCI compliant. Merchants that are not compliant may be fined or can pay the ultimate price when they get hacked!
So the question is, how do you best obtain and maintain PCI compliance? The general answer to this always starts with the IT environment that is deployed [...]
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) is composed of 12 basic requirements that are summarized:
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The other day I posted about an acronym that is set to blind-side a fair number of providers in the video space. I offered a couple of hints about what it was. The last hint was the most obvious – look in your wallet. If you are like most people, you carry a credit card [...]
There is no more clear evidence that video is gravitating toward a managed service model than the fact that the telecom folks are beginning to talk about it in earnest.
Check out the following two blogs that have recently had a post specifically on video as a managed service
Ike Elliot’s Telecosm Blog – “Interview with Envysion” - [...]
I’ll give you a couple of hints. Video service providers have been expanding their value propositions, stressing the value of video beyond security. They highlight how video can be used for training, for operational improvement and for improved profitability. To deliver this value they have had to expand their ecosystem beyond the traditional security players. [...]
Last week’s NACStech show in Dallas provided an opportunity to see the latest in technology for convenience stores and petroleum retailers. There were about a half dozen video providers exhibiting at the show, as video is a long-established technology in the convenience store environment. The combination of late-night hours, customers who tend to pay with [...]
I spoke with Paul Bodell from IQeye recently. Paul wrote an interesting article calling for an industry video quality standard in Video Technology & Applications of SDM Magazine.
Explaining video quality to customers who are non-technical is difficult. How can you tell a customer what level of quality to expect from a particular installation? IQEye’s approach [...]
Today’s businesses produce a lot of data and the trend is to produce more. With video (and in some cases, audio) coming into the picture there is a lot more data. Collecting it all can be expensive. Making sense of it all is a problem. There is valuable information hidden within this massive sea [...]
One of the most obvious players in the MVaaS ecosystem is the broadband service provider. In order to provide remote access to video, you need at least a modest amount of bandwidth.
The benefits to the broadband service provider are clear. Having a powerful value added broadband application riding on the network is a good thing. If [...]
