Archive: October 2015

LONDON—The wireless video surveillance market will grow across the globe, according to market research firm Technavio, and IoT and drones will play a big role in that growth.“The global wireless video surveillance market is close to 21 percent CAGR [from] 2014 to 2019,” Technavio senior industry analyst, Amrita Choudhury told Security Systems News. Technavio estimated the global market's 2014 value at $399 million, rising to about $1.05 billion in 2019.The Americas, including North...

YARMOUTH, Maine—Before attending a conference, security executives pay more attention to their budget, timing and their current projects than what the show offers, according to responses in Security Systems News' latest poll. But, when it comes to the show, respondents were almost evenly split between location, attendees/keynotes/speakers and “something different.”Attending a conference depends on money, time and current company projects, according to 69 percent.Thirty percent listed...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Alarm Protection Services has converted 1,100 of the 1,800 2G systems in its customer base. That's helped its business and it only lost four customers who did not want to upgrade, according to Spencer Smith, APS president. Dealers need a plan to be so successful in their conversion, according to Quentin Gunther, Honeywell business development manager.Smith spoke about how his company approached the conversion at Honeywell CONNECT 2015, held here this month. Gunther also spoke...

SALT LAKE CITY—The downtown venue that is home here to the Utah Jazz NBA team and is the region's premier concert and entertainment spot will now be called the Vivint Smart Home Arena. The renaming comes along with a partnership between Vivint and Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainment. Financial terms of the 10-year agreement were not disclosed, according to a prepared statement. The 19,911-seat facility, formerly known as EnergySolutions Arena, hosts about 1.8 million guests and more than...

ALBANY, N.Y.—New York state will spend $42 million on security cameras and other security equipment targeted at cutting crime at New York City Housing Authority developments, according to report from The Associated Press. The security upgrades will include interior and exterior lighting, intercoms, external doors and gunfire detection sensors, the report said. Shootings and robberies at city housing developments were up between Jan. 1 and Oct. 11 compared to the same period last year, New York...

NORTH CANTON, Ohio—Securitas has agreed to buy Diebold's North America-based electronic security division for $350 million. The divestiture by Diebold is aimed to better position it to pursue growth in the self-service industry, it said. For Securitas, the purchase "will bring added value to our customers" with added levels of protective services.The deal, subject to regulatory approval, is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2016.Diebold Electronic Security has current annual...

FOSTER CITY, Calif.—Michael Korgan, Microsoft National Security Officer, will be the keynote speaker at Cloud+, the first-ever physical security conference dedicated to cloud-based security technology, conference organizers announced today. Cloud+ will take place here in Silicon Valley, Dec. 7-8.Major cloud providers—Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others—garnered $16 billion in sales in 2014. Of the big three, Microsoft is the fastest growing provider of cloud services, with triple-digit...

CLOVIS, Calif.—Herve Fages, former CEO of Pelco, has a new job heading up MultiSight, a new VSaaS company owned by Schneider Electric.Designed for retailers, convenience stores, restaurants and other multi-location businesses, MultiSight is offered for a monthly fee. The fee includes installation, hardware, apps (Apple and Android), cloud services and storage, support, maintenance, updates and system health monitoring.A differentiator for MultiSight, Fages said, is that its “hardware...

PROVO, Utah—Vivint is bullish on smart home technology, reporting a record demand for its integrated smart home products and services, according to CMO Jeff Lyman.“We've had a really solid year as far as growth. Eighty percent of our new customers are choosing one or more of our smart home devices with their systems, such as lock, camera and garage control, along with our doorbell control," Lyman told Security Systems News.Vivint says it has seen a 60 percent increase in smart home customers...

EATONTOWN, N.J.—MSA Systems Integration, which became independent in April, has decided to return to its original name: Access Systems Integration.“We went round and round with a bunch of different names and had a contest internally … but the majority wanted to go back to the original name,” Jim Hennessy, Access Systems Integration president, told Security Systems News.MSA SI was known as Access Systems Integration before it was acquired by MSA Security in 2008. Although it hasn't...