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I’ve been thinking a bit about operations science and quality assurance for a few weeks now. I think there could be some parallels to performing loss prevention.
If no one counted the cash at the end of the day, how much would go missing? The answer: you can’t tell if you’re not measuring it.
So [...]
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Over at IP Video Market Info John Honovich has a good discussion going regarding megapixel without IP. The topic might also be labeled: “What’s the best way to retrofit an existing analog system for megapixel video?”
Currently megapixel requires IP cameras which can be a costly upgrade if you are all analog today. IP [...]
A new report from Retail Systems Research states:
while retailers that use IT strategically have the opportunity to turn technological advantage into real long term market gains, most survey respondents report a growing backlog of demand for IT services driven by lack of governance, tangled obsolete application portfolios, and siloed departments each clamoring for their own solutions.
MVaaS can [...]
Envysion regularly visits our customers, providing training and receiving feedback about how to improve Envysion video.
A new customer of Envysion Insight last week had a great story to share. An area manager had just explained to his employees the full system capabilities and how they will be used. One of his stores saw immediate 20% [...]
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I was reminded today of the number of applications and the massive numbers of downloads of iPhone applications out there. As of this writing nearly 1 billion downloads of iPhone apps have occurred. That sure is a lot. It also reminds me of a great quote from Sci-Fi author Kurt Vonnegut:
“It has been [...]
IMS has a new report on RVMaS (Remote Video Monitoring and Surveillance). IMS defines RVMaS as: “…network camera based solutions that allow the end user to remotely view live or recently recorded video in security and non security related applications.”
MVaaS is certainly a piece of that market which IMS claims is about $158M in annual [...]
Remember those images where if you “defocus” your eyes just right you can see a 3D image jumping out at you on the page? These “stereograms”
A new imaging chip from Stanford University uses a similar principle to capture an image which includes depth information. It sounds like they are looking at digital photography, but one [...]
Or perhaps, more precisely, sales of tickets to see movies on the big screen are up over 10% according to a report from NPR. In the last 7 years of recession since 1965, movie sales have gone up in 5 of them.
Mall Cop out grossed all comedy films of 2008. Fast and Furious 3 had [...]
Business data (meta-data) needs to be constantly scanned and reported onto to maximize it’s value. It’s important that there are many ways to scan, slice and dice this data because each business is different and the information sought also frequently changes.
Storing video and business intelligence separately allows Envysion to have more flexibility as well as [...]
Perhaps expansion of broadband into rural areas will help bring managed services to locations where they were previously not possible due to lack of high speed Internet.
Controversy over stimulus for rural broadband as covered by NPR
Some data on broadband penetration in rural areas from 2007.
Clearwire and Open Range Communications are a couple of large providers [...]
