In an every more connected world security threats seem to be continuously multiplying. Every day there are reports of significant fraud and security breaches perpetrated. These are not even all over the Internet. If you ever paid for parking at Denver International Airport by credit card between about 2000 and 2006 your cardholder information could [...]
I’m not an expert in law enforcement or military intelligence, but I have heard that the biggest issues making it difficult to share information are both cultural and organizational. Many of those organizations are designed not to share information. Protecting information, especially in those environments is often part of what makes the information [...]
That’s what Detektor – SecurityWorldHotel.com called the Martin Gren, one of the co-founders of Axis communications in their recent interview. Mr. Gren does sound like a man who has strong priorities around family, but also technology and business and is really not so concerned about just making lots of money. He has grown to be [...]
Sony, Bosch and Axis have recently agreed to cooperate in forming a new, open forum aimed at developing standards for networked video. Here’s a quote:
The main goal of this new standard is to facilitate the integration of various brands of network video equipment and to help manufacturers, software developers and independent software vendors ensure product [...]
MySpace’s “Data Availability” Project might make for an interesting model to approach processing data captured from today’s business systems.
Granted, social apps are ALL about sharing with only minimal consideration for control and privacy of data. However, imagine if there were de-facto standard ways of handling managed video. Software providers, service providers [...]
Given enough time a particular camera, location, recorder or other piece of equipment WILL fail and your system won’t be capturing the information you bought it for. If you don’t have a management system monitoring your video systems, Erwin Schrödinger might say it is both working and broken at the same time. You won’t [...]
It is interesting to see how we culturally and socially react and adapt to technological changes, especially those that affect our everyday lives, even if in indirect ways.
Here’s an interesting use of video surveillance… I found this interesting tidbit on slashdot about an unusual method a band used to make a music video.
A key component of managed video is that it must work like it’s just “built-in” to your network.
Step by step, access to video, video acquisition, storage and management will become components of “the network”.
The form factors that these components will take will vary. They may be separate hardware devices, or expansion cards for an existing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
