Physical Security Executive Commentary

1. How To Build A Powerful, Budget-Friendly Surveillance System For SMB Retailers
   6/12/2013

   Today, there’s no doubt that video surveillance is moving to IP networks for a number of reasons such as superior image quality from IP cameras, ability to easily integrate video with other systems such as access control, the need for accessing video from remote locations and the added value from video analytics.

2. IP Video In Retail: ROI Via Enhanced Productivity & Stronger Data
   6/12/2013

   Retail is a dynamic market, constantly changing and evolving due to the economic climate, buyer behavior, and the rise and fall of criminal activity. It's also a challenging market, where thin profit margins make cost control not just a useful strategy but a daily and constant requirement of doing business.

3. Beginner’s Guide To Selecting The Right IP Camera
   6/11/2013

   There are many advantages to choosing IP cameras over standard devices. Megapixel cameras provide high-resolution images, and the higher the resolution, the more accurate the detail of the image. Therefore, megapixel images are much more valuable from a forensic standpoint than lower-resolution images. With analog technology, a recorded image has around 0.3 megapixel, but a network camera with 3.1 megapixels records 10 times more detail.

4. What Every VAR Ought To Know About Workforce Management
   6/11/2013

   For those who already sell ERP, shop floor data collection, or physical and intellectual access control solutions the leap can be easier than for others.  VARs who already know the benefit and pay back from these applications can more easily envision WFM working for their clients.  The best place to look is at a WFM company whose products are designed to be sold by a VAR.

5. IP Video For SMBs
   6/11/2013

   Rapid growth using limited available resources presents plenty of challenges for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB), and the challenges extend to their choice of video surveillance systems. In contrast to large companies that can target personnel and resources to specialized areas, SMB customers often have to make do with less and call on their employees to wear “multiple hats.”

6. Remote Video Monitoring: 4 Factors That Can Kill Performance
   6/10/2013

   Viewing video on a smart phone is common today in the consumer market. Remote access to video — from anywhere to anywhere — is also an expectation among security end users. The security benefits are undeniable, including greater productivity for security officers, who no longer have to sit at a desk to view video. Easy availability of real-time video of remote locations can help protect a company's people, facilities and assets — and even offer operational benefits.

7. 3 Ways To Ensure Your First VMS Install Is A Success
   6/3/2013

   When examining a job, the VMS is usually only one part of the solution. Integrators need to examine the profit potential of a job from an overall perspective first, but also break it down and examine the VMS portion among other components (cameras, storage, network etc.)

8. IP Video Demystified: Fact vs Fiction
   5/30/2013

   Mid- and large-sized video solutions (16 video channels or more) today are universally specified for lower total cost of ownership than analog CCTV due to shared/consolidated infrastructure, common off the shelf hardware, Power over Ethernet and improved forensic video coverage, scalability and more. It only remains to compare small analog and small IP video systems for cost – and that paradigm is shifting more in favor of IP thanks to continued innovation.

9. A Marriage Of Education & IP Video
   5/30/2013

   Decision making in education security on campus varies with the complexity of the property, number and type of sites, and, of course, the most important assets: students, faculty and staff.

10. 10 Things To Look For In A VMS
    5/28/2013

    A video surveillance system is only as good as the sum of all its parts. Make sure you’re customers are getting the most out of the system, starting with the video management software (VMS). A lot goes in to selecting the right VMS, but here are some important questions you should be asking.