What We Learned At SecTech Roadshow – What did we learn at SecTech Roadshow about the latest trends in electronic security?
What We Learned At SecTech Roadshow 2024 About Electronic Security Trends.
What We Learned At SecTech Roadshow – What did we learn at SecTech Roadshow about the latest trends in electronic security?
As the electronic security industry continues its supercharged evolution in lockstep with consumer electronics, communications, wireless, video and data analysis technologies, there’s a sense things are getting away on you – a vertiginous feeling our industry is pouring itself down some digital giant’s network port never to be seen again.
SecTech Roadshow put paid to some of those feelings as I watched large numbers of techs drawn to products and solutions with profound operational cores. There’s a deep gravity in such attractions when you understand they emerge from the minds of people whose decisions put bread on the tables of dozens of families orbiting small business.
The sorts of products and solutions attracting attention included pieces of foundational hardware like locking systems, key management systems, access controllers, wireless communicators, public address speakers, robust and clever intercom solutions, solar utility poles and plenty more. What was most interesting to techs was stuff that works.
There was significant interest in alarm systems at SecTech – Ajax got plenty of attention on multiple stands, while U-Prox, Qolsys and Risco were other points of interest. U-Prox is going to be appealing to installers wanting a degree of simplicity with full functionality, while Qolsys supports a serious spread of high-end DSC sensors and has the most highly evolved back end of the current generation of wireless alarm systems. Risco is also ramping up development, which is great to see.
Walking around SecTech I mulled over ‘the Ajax effect’. A solution that appears after years of manufacturer under-investment and revitalises an entire industry segment, pushing competitors to re-think end-to-end development, highlighting the power of inventive electronic hardware. A solution that shows installers and end users, too, the difference between cheap consumer junk and professional security solutions crackling with energy.
What’s interesting about Ajax is the dynamism of its development team – the traditional annual cadence of new releases has been thrown entirely out the window. Then there’s the proliferation of partners. There’s a diverse ecosystem growing up around the brand that allows a lot of scope for inventive installers who want to plug and play additions like fog cannons, key safes (Loxal from VAT), or enhance a system with some Ajax CCTV gear.
Given we really like alarm systems at SEN it was also inspiring to see the green shoots of a serious response to Ajax at SecTech – some of that competitor response was delicate enough in the scheme of things to be kept under wraps. More competition that’s driven by functionality not price can only make alarm systems and alarm monitoring services better.
RF action wasn’t only around alarms – wireless and cloud-based access control systems were in evidence, too, suggesting a broader trend. There were also Wi-Fi cameras and 4G cameras – some of the latter solar-powered. This is a form factor experience has convinced us to really like. Being able to move an industrial quality surveillance point around the place to meet changing needs is a good thing.
The action on the Gallagher, Inner Range, ICT and DAS stands showed that the industry’s dependence on highly evolved field controllers is not going anywhere, while the respect integrators have for Tecom solutions remains evident. There’s an opportunity for the Discovery panel to make a real impact on the market in ANZ, in our opinion.
Looking at the crowds on these stands I got to thinking how lucky the security industry in ANZ has been to have such manufacturers. They’ve not only developed pioneering technology but have stayed the course through waves of technological ruction on a global scale. They’ve achieved this in a way that was unimaginable to those of us who were looking on at the start. On further thought, let’s add CS Technologies (LSC) to this eminent list. They deserve credit, too.
The only drone we saw was on the CRK stand. Given the power of observation drones give operators in a range of situations around the world, from fire detection and law enforcement, to search and rescue, we think drones are unappreciated locally. The ability to have a boxed drone launch and put eyes on an event anywhere across a large site in under 30 seconds offers peak situational awareness and supercharges response.
Given Australia’s large size, sprawling industrial sites and complex terrain, drones have a serious role to play and it’s only going to take one incident for the end user market to realise this. Every big site needs at least one response drone integrated into its surveillance system, in our opinion. Large or high security sites should have more.
Video surveillance was an interesting study at SecTech. The thing we heard most as organisers was ‘bring back the camera shootout’ (you can vote for it in our poll here) but many of the cameras on display highlighted video-as-a-sensor use cases. We didn’t see too many low light specialists – instead we saw cameras integrated with 4G comms, PIR detection, video analytics and white light.
We’d never argue this underscores ubiquity. Cameras like these are fine over short range if you don’t need court admissible ID or if your goal is video verification of alarm events. Many other cameras at SecTech were expressing innovative form factors.
Installers looking for high performance had brands like Pelco, Milesight, Hanwha, Dahua, TP-Link, Vivotek and Hikvision to choose from – that’s a solid group in anyone’s language.
We looked twice at the surprising spread of camera forms on the TP-Link stand. Most CCTV companies have leaned into networking. It’s unusual to see a networking company leaning into CCTV, but that’s exactly what TP-Link is doing.
Software was another key element of the SecTech product spread. Software management solutions can trigger a sense of dread as you stand before a huge monitor and a sales engineer tabs opens a directory that goes tumbling to the floor. But this year’s solutions showed off glittering operational facets – maps, video, thermal, sensors, VCA, drone management, access control, automation and alarms spiralling in a dizzying array that made many systems feel intensely outwards facing.
It’s impossible to pare software from hardware – especially when you’re looking at things like the cloud management end of the Edimax multi-sensor that Bluechip was showing off. But that observation also applies to software solutions like Art of Logic, which we’re not sure the market fully understands yet.
An Australian R&D company, Art of Logic spins AI functionalities out of the Nx Witness VMS via its Samurai suite of products. Samurai is AofL’s own technology and it generates data with an operational focus, empowering security managers and security teams – among others.
Something nice from an Art of Logic point of view was that as the roadshow progressed the team starting fielding questions along the lines of ‘can you solve this’ and ‘can you deliver that’. When you consider the number of intrusion sensors, door sensors, CCTV cameras, process control sensors, lift controllers, gate controllers that wheel around hundreds of thousands of door and security controllers across ANZ, you realise the clearest perceptions in the tidal rush of enterprise events belong to AI.
Other mature software development specialists included Avigilon and OpenEye, along with Milestone on the BGW Technologies’ stand. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that i-PRO is a souped-up AI suite attached to a camera – there’s another brand the market hasn’t fully wrapped its head around – yet.
Networking gear – all the distributors and some of the manufacturers carried networking kit but it wasn’t front and centre. Yes, we are in the business of security electronics & networks – we all understand that now.
Something we noticed last year at SecTech was what felt like oversharing by some manufacturers. Every high-end distributor carried some of the same key brands. This year distributors have responded by diversifying away from brands exposed to over-sharing and price erosion.
Heaven forbid the security market, heavily reliant on trusted relationships, should sink to IT-style margin shredding, with high-value brands subjected to calamitous price erosion before being dumped for some over-eager competitor. The onus isn’t only on disties but on manufacturers to manage their routes to market. It’s your future you’re messing with.
As ever, the simplicity of SecTech Roadshow revealed our industry through its elevation of long-term relationships, its brand loyalties, its thrill of bleeding edge security technologies smirking out of vapourware, and through all this shouldering the operational gravitas of solid-state electronics our long history has taught us can never die.
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“What We Learned At SecTech Roadshow 2024 About Electronic Security Trends.”
Bosch 7100i IR Bullet Night Review Highlights Strong IR Performance.
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Introduction — Bosch 7100i IR Bullet Night Review
Bosch 7100i IR Bullet Night Review – We were impressed with Bosch’s robust 7100i IR bullet camera when we tested it during the day in our busy street scene, and we’re even more impressed having tested it in the back lane at night.
Just to refresh memories, the Bosch Dinion 7100i IR NBE-7703-ALX bullet camera (embedded link to the right) – features a 1/1.8th inch sensor delivering 2688 × 1520 pixels of resolution. The focal range is 4.7-10 mm and there’s 141dB of WDR performance along with 80 metres of IR from the 850 nm IR array — invisible 940 nm IR and white light is an option.
This camera is a tough puppy – the cast alloy housing weighs 3 kg and is rated IP66/67 against water and dust ingress, and IK10 against impact. The 7100i also meets the IP6K9K rating, which makes it impervious to dust, high temperatures and high-pressure jets of water.
The Bosch 7100i IR features Bosch’s Starlight X technology for enhanced low-light performance, as well as Bosch’s HDR X (high dynamic range), which delivers a strong WDR number – I have this activated for our afternoon and night test.
Bosch 7100i Bosch vs DINION 7100i
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Bosch 7100i
Bosch DINION 7100i
The Bosch 7100i IR features Bosch’s Starlight X technology for enhanced low-light performance, as well as Bosch’s HDR X (high dynamic range), which delivers a strong WDR number – I have this activated for our afternoon and night test.
The camera is running on SEN’s local Gigabit network via an Ubiquiti Unifi 16-port Gigabit PoE switch, and I’m driving it on a custom-built ASUS gaming machine that’s well but over-spec’d for a single CCTV camera (inside we have a 12th GEN i9 CPU with 32 GB RAM, 8 GB GPU and importantly NVMe SSD drives for video stream data transfer).
Something we noted during our daylight testing was just how capable and pleasing the Bosch 7100i IR’s analytics performance was for street work. It was more pleasing still to find that in more challenging low light applications Bosch’s AI capability remains a real benefit thanks to its accuracy and reliability. The success rate for correct entity detection was close to 100% for our test subjects during the afternoon daylight.
Given this camera is a low light specialist, I’m going to undertake 2 scenarios – the first out front where there’s more reflectance and traffic, and the second out back where things are reliably murky but where there’s less going on.
I start my testing with the camera out the front of the office, looking at our familiar street scene in the afternoon. I do a bit of playing around with settings before getting started and continue tweaking throughout the process, seeking the best balance of sharpness and low blur. This is a balanced picture, with good colour rendition that’s not too saturated. Motion blur and tone mapping are well controlled, and I’m pleased with sharpness and contrast.
The camera was wound in a little after the daylight test and I go back to full wide, noting the slightly higher than usual barrel distortion, before winding in a little. Not being at the widest settings is going to impact slightly on aperture, but there are parts of the scene I don’t need to aggregate pixels on.
Night Front Colour (Bosch 7100i IR Bullet Night Review)
It’s now around 7.22 pm – at the time we were still on daylight savings time in Sydney, but Autumn is well and truly on its way. Lux levels are comparatively low on this grey day, and fall precipitously in a surprisingly short space of time. At this focal length, depth of field is a particular strength of the camera, and it’s easy to see why the engineers opted for 85 metres of IR to complement reach.
A point arrives looking out through the front window when the scene on the monitor detaches itself from reality, staying bright and colourful despite lux levels rapidly falling below 40 lux on their way to sub 2 lux under the lens. We have a mix of low-pressure sodium lights and LED’s on the street, but they are widely spread, and the light is screened by trees.
With some cameras, there’s a point in falling light where you suddenly see all the design compromises simultaneously – the strange colour tones, the pulsating amplification noise, the bloom around headlights, whacky ghosts in lenses and housings. But with this Bosch 7100i IR bullet, the scene holds in a very uniform way. There’s a slight alteration of colour tone, but it’s only once the light levels have bottomed out at sub-2 lux that there’s visible noise, slight blur and a little blooming from lights very close to the lens.
At this early point in the test, it starts to become clear how capable Bosch’s AI is – I’m getting AI ID and on cars, pedestrians, and motorcycles out to 50 metres in a very cluttered street scene in very low light. I had already found this to be a benefit during the daylight scene – it’s better still at night. Bosch’s object and people detection works deep into the scene – at this point in the test the clutter on the street made me think IVA pushed to 50 metres, later in the lane I realise it pushed 80 metres with the lens nearly wide open.
The strength of the camera is most apparent when there’s a lot going on – the ability to handle shadows, bright points and movement. The strong colour rendition and the nicely balanced resolution and compression strategies combine to give situational awareness across and through a deep angle of view.
“The strength of the camera is most apparent when there’s a lot going on – the ability to handle shadows, bright points AND movement.”
Night Front Monochrome
At this point, I’ve pushed the camera into night mode, and I’ve got IR activated and decided I can see very slight number plate flare. IR flare is so subtle I wonder if IR is activated at all, and I went outside and looked up at the array to be certain. The usual extravagant flare cues don’t apply with the Bosch 7100i IR.
On the other side of the street, I can see pedestrians passing each other, a group walks down the crown of the road laughing, on my side someone is heading home from work, a resident comes down their front steps and way up on Albion St I can see a person walking up the hill and can get a sense of attire. This is all good work operationally, and it’s delivered at about 5 mm focal length – I still have 5 mm optical reach up my sleeve.
As usual, monochrome impresses with its capacity to express detail through grey scale contrast, translating into sharpness that delivers increased detail and enhanced depth of field. An IP camera works less hard in monochrome – I imagine there’s slightly less latency in my scene, but might have been over-thinking it.
Bosch 7100i Monochrome
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Lane Afternoon
I undertake my second scenario a couple of weeks later. I take the camera out back and set up the Magic Arm looking up to Albion Lane, which is about 70 metres from the lens and 5 or 6 metres wide – I judge this scene gives me about 80 metres depth of field. The first thing is to play around with optical zoom. I want something a bit longer than I was using on the street, but want to see what’s going on at the camera’s feet.
It’s possible to partly achieve this with camera angle, but after mucking around a while at longer focal lengths, I back out again and settled on 5.5 mm as giving me the best balance of angle of view and depth of field.
I start off the test in the afternoon, which gives me a chance to see performance with some backlight. I notice amplification noise stepping through large static wall areas – given the benign conditions, this seems like the camera is prioritising areas of movement – that’s the middle of the lane where some workers are loading a small truck.
I’d say I have court admissible identification to about 15 metres out here, and recognition to about 40 metres. Although I’m spreading pixels with digital zoom at this resolution, when a person walks up Albion Lane around 75 metres from the lens I have gait, attire, hair colour, skin tone, carried items, and more.
The afternoon chugs along – people come out and collect their bins, pedestrians, and delivery drivers go up and down, mums push prams, neighbours walk dogs – I have good detail, the analytics work well. It’s obvious that if you set up Bosch’s IVA rules cleverly, this camera could undertake live perimeter detection duties and handle them creditably to the limits of my scene.
The fact the camera is alerting me to vehicles and pedestrians going up Albion Lane 70–75 metres from the lens is very pleasing, indeed. Bear in mind the intersecting lane is only 6 metres wide, so the camera is having to make snappy decisions about what’s taking place at a pixel-spreading distance in a couple of seconds.
From about 4.30pm light begins to fade, and the camera goes through that stage of increased detail in slightly lower, slightly warmer light. Whether it’s load coming off WDR processing, or some other factor, it’s always a great time for a surveillance camera – depth of field increases and sharpness and contrast appear enhanced.
“This camera could undertake live perimeter detection duties and handle them creditably to the limits of my scene.”
Lane Twilight
At around 6 pm I can see there’s a greyer tone to the overall scene. This doesn’t impact on the camera’s ability to fish for useful information at depth. In terms of DORI, at 40 metres I have something between identification and recognition, with high levels of detail of attire, including colours, clothing layers, boots, socks, etc.
Deeper in things are impressive, too. Pedestrians heading up Albion Lane, between 70 and 75 metres from the lens depending on which side they are walking, are well rendered. You can’t see faces, but there is recognition-level performance, including hair colour, gait, clothing colour, carried items, singlets hanging out, dangling bag straps, etc. Remember that while this is a 4.7-10 mm camera, I’m not using the full reach – I’m at around 5.5 mm.
When a car comes down the lane, I have plates at around 8 metres from the lens – this is from front-on in fading light. At 7.10 pm a delivery e-bike goes up Albion Lane at a good clip and is registered as a motorcycle by the Bosch AI, which is probably a fair call, in my opinion.
From around this time to 7.28 pm there’s a heap of activity in the lane. Pedestrians, locals walking dogs, vehicles going in and out of garages and driving up and down the lane – performance throughout is excellent at this focal length and moderate resolution of 2688 x 1520 pixels.
Lane Activity on Dusk and Twilight
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I have face recognition and identification throughout, license plates, and significant additional detail. It’s worth pointing out that my snapshots are at 1920 × 1080 pixels (please note — these snapshots have been reduced further down by our CDN to around 1200 × 675), so my later positive impressions are overwritten by the extra resolution and detail available by mouse wheeling digital zoom a click or 2.
As time passes, the Bosch IVA keeps up with traffic and people in the lane without missing a beat. At one point it identified a mother pushing a pram as a motorcycle, but given the angle and the blend of person and wheeled contraption this judgement was understandable, in my opinion.
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Between 7.15 and 7.30pm, the scene gets darker. I have a pair of low k streetlights overhanging the lane and it takes me longer than it should have to realise my mild initial dislike for the yellow orange colour tone is emerging from a poor setting’s choice.
“I have face recognition and identification throughout, license plates, and significant additional detail.”
Lane Night Colour
I finally woke up and selected low-pressure sodium, and that has a positive impact on the colour cast. Looking at the recorded images later, I can’t decide if the default settings didn’t offer higher contrast and a little more detail as a result, but presently I’m happy with my choice.
We’re now in that very brief period on a late autumn evening between noticeable ambient light and no light at all. That’s what my experience is with this test. Running back and forth from monitor to courtyard with the Sekonic I go from 4.7 EV to an error reading – the latter of which I generally rate as sub-2 lux.
The process of going to complete darkness ends at around 8.10 pm, but I’m measuring sub-2 lux at the lens well before then. Heading back to the monitor, I remember that a slightly longer focal length will close the aperture a touch. The situational awareness is forceful all the way to Albion Lane – 70–75 metres from the lens.
Throughout twilight, I’m getting details like skin colour hair colour, clothing colour, carried items, gait not clear faces but certainly useful supporting evidence in terms of face shape – you’d readily recognise a family member or friend deep into this scene – 40 metres or more. This is exceptional performance.
At 7.40pm a couple of neighbours comes down the lane and I have recognition level detail – body shape, clothing, hair colour, shoes. A worker comes out of the office building 3 doors up, and I have face recognition there, too.
When a 4WD ute comes up the lane I can’t get the plate, but have considerable detail – what’s in the tray, the accessories, the make, and model. The same applies when a vehicle comes down the lane – there’s mild blooming from high beams, but I can see the make and model and even make out a face through the windscreen. This is a neighbour’s car driven by one of their kids. Soon after, another car heads back up the lane and this is a solid image, too. There’s a little blur, but plenty of useful detail.
“Monochrome always does an impressive job in low light”
Lane Night Monochrome
Once we get to full dark, the lane goes quiet, and I sit for a while waiting for a subject, which is even less interesting than it sounds. In the absence of action, I realise this camera is never going to go over into monochrome by itself, even out here. I hop into settings and nudge the camera into night mode and check to make sure smart IR is activated – yep, it is.
Just because it used to be necessary, I do a full focus in the lens wizard, appreciating the intuitive and snappy Bosch browser as I do so. I sit back and survey the scene. That’s a good image, I think to myself — it’s strong. The camera’s intelligent IR is adjusting to this busy, stacked scene – I’m not up against any excessive flare – but it’s delivering gigantic reach.
Monochrome always does an impressive job in low light – when you head over from a low light colour video stream, mono never fails to impress, thanks to its high levels of detail. The contrast has a flinty sharpness to it with leaf edges and the tops of fences, the edges of graffiti and the detail in brickwork. That increased detail delivers enhanced depth of field, helping to offset the slight blur of a lazy shutter speed and the slight softness of amplification noise.
In one scene there’s the jumble of trash in a skip, the detail of the lane with some very slight noise pushing through if you go pixel peeping. As I watch, a white Toyota Camry heads down Albion Lane and is identified by the IVA. Beyond all this, at the rear of the second floor of a house facing Albion St, I have a light in the window and can make out window frames. This is at least 100 metres from the lens – possibly a touch more – I am 5.5 mm focal length, remember.
The IVA also manages to snare a fast-moving bike all the way down the lane, though I’m a bit slow to snatch an image and only get the back half of the bike. Looking at the image, which includes a bright light source between lens and subject, I realise that IVA able to perform at 80-plus metres at night is a very nice thing to have.
IVA picks up a fast-moving bike heading up the lane – (Bosch 7100i IR Bullet Night Review).
Something I notice with the smart IR is that it backs off in the face of headlights – the scene to the rear darkens momentarily before filling back in as the IR powers up again as the lights pass. I notice the same impact to a lesser extent when a neighbour turns on an external floodlight. The presence of that strong light generates very slight blooming and causes the IR to ease a touch across the scene.
Slight booming and exposure adjustment with floodlight operation.
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On the subject of IR, one of the pleasant things about this spread is that it has no holes or central hotspots – it’s a very even coverage. There is some reflection from the no parking sign over the road – about 6 metres from the lens – but otherwise the array is very tight and helps the camera deliver a great image.
“This strong performance comes down to multiple factors”
Sitting at my workstation with nothing much going on in the lane, I’m beginning to despair until floodlight neighbour emerges from his back gate to chuck out some furniture out for a council collection. All this action is relatively close to the camera, but happily a few other neighbours come out into the lane to glare.
All this activity gives me an excellent opportunity to get a sense of the performance of this camera deep into the scene. With IR activated and at depth, I still feel I’m jagging recognition that borders on identification when subjects stand still at considerable depth – between 15–25 metres.
When it comes to additional details – clothing, hair, glasses, watches, shoes, dog breeds and harnesses – all these details are readily attainable. This strong performance comes down to multiple factors – the clever IR management being one. It delivers a very even spread close up and at depth with almost no flare, which makes for exceptional performance throughout. Depth of field at night is a particular strength.
Back in the lane, my neighbours get to chatting, and it’s effortless to get a sense of the flow of events from an initial “what the heck is that guy doing” through to classic mirroring behaviour. Finally, another neighbour walks down the lane with her dogs and at around 12 metres I’m sure I have court admissible ID in sub-2 lux, which a very rare thing, indeed.
Bosch 7100i IR Bullet Night Review — Bosch’s 7100i IR bullet camera is a strong performer day and night, but it really comes into its own in challenging applications where security managers need situational awareness deep into scenes.
The camera’s 4.7-10 mm optical zoom allows tight framing on areas of interest, but the camera’s overall performance is so balanced that wider angles of view at mid-focal lengths contrive to deliver outstanding performance in very low light.
The camera’s low light performance is strong in colour and monochrome on the street, but it goes to another level in the back lane in sub-2 lux with IR activated. Here, the range and spread of the pattern deliver excellent performance and penetration out to the quoted 85 metres and beyond.
We found that DORI values were to be had deep into our lane scene in sub-2 lux, with static-ish face recognition/identification out to at least 15 metres at focal lengths of 5.5 mm. At the same time, the camera’s IVA delivered reliable performance to 80 metres on test, allowing delivery of valuable notifications in higher security applications.
In our opinion, the 7100i IR bullet is the best performing IR camera we’ve tested in this focal range – if you need a mid-angle of view and reliable long-range performance in challenging light, this camera deserves very close attention.
Bosch 7100i IR Bullet Features (Bosch 7100i IR Bullet Night Review)
4.1MP Sensor Delivering 2688 x 1520 pixels
Motorised Lens – 4.7-10mm
Ratings – IP66/67 IK10
Frame rate – 1-60 fps (I’m using 30)
Horizontal field of view – 103–53 degrees
Electronic image stablisation
IP rating – IP66, IP67, IP6K9K
Starlight X low light technology
WDR technology – HDR X
Operating temperature -50 to 60C
Sensor type – 1/1.8-inch CMOS
Video compression – H.264, H.265, MJPEG.
“Bosch 7100i IR Bullet Night Review Highlights Strong IR Performance.”
Dahua Technology Announces Sponsorship Of Starlight Children’s Foundation For Third Year.
Dahua Technology Announces Sponsorship Of Starlight Children’s Foundation For Third Year.
Dahua Technology Announces Sponsorship Of Starlight Children’s Foundation – After 2 successful years of sponsorship Dahua Technology Australia’s has announced the continuation of its partnership with the Starlight Children’s Foundation for the coming year.
“Once again we will ask our partners and customers to join us in helping seriously ill children and young people in Australia,” said Dahua Technology Australia’s Oceania alliance manager, Ardel Moore.
What Is The Starlight Foundation?
Starlight is a non-for-profit charity organisation which focuses on bringing happiness and hope to seriously ill children and their families. Starlight’s vision is that everyone experiences a happy childhood because happiness matters.
Serious childhood illness doesn’t just impact a child’s health. It can turn their whole life upside down, causing them to miss out on spending time with their family, building friendships, going to school, and just living their life.
Australia has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, but seriously ill children and young people need more than the exceptional care that our clinicians can offer. They need the social and emotional support that lets them be a child.
For over 30 years, Starlight Children’s Foundation has used play, social connection, and creativity to support children and young people in some of their toughest times and to positively change their healthcare experience.
“Dahua’s commitment to improving technologic living conditions resonates with Starlight’s goal of providing essential social and emotional support to seriously ill children, ensuring their well-being and happiness during challenging times,” Moore said.
“Both Dahua and Starlight are deeply committed to enhancing the well-being of individuals and society, caring for society and improving the future of humanity. Dahua, through technological advancement to enable a Smarter Society and Better Living, and Starlight’s vision of ensuring every child experiences a happy childhood.”
How Will Dahua Support Starlight & Sick Children?
According to Moore, in the upcoming 12 months, Dahua Technology will make quarterly donations to Starlight and actively engage its customers in this noble cause.
“Each quarter, we will work closely with Starlight to ensure that our contributions make a meaningful impact on the lives of seriously ill children and their families,” Moore said.
“Dahua will also organise events and activities throughout the year, designed to foster a sense of community and commitment among our employees while highlighting the importance of supporting Starlight.”
How Can You Get Involved?
According to Moore, the support of Dahua Technology Australia’s partners and customers over the years has been “simply amazing”.
“We once again invite them to help make a positive difference through the DH Partner App,” Moore said. “Within the app, customers can easily choose to use their points to redeem a $50 donation, with $25 contributed under your name, matched by an additional $A25 from Dahua.
“Together, we can provide essential social and emotional support to sick children, helping them experience the joy and happiness they deserve – join Dahua and Starlight in making a difference – together, our efforts can help create a more compassionate and progressive world for future generations.
“We encourage our business partners and customers to participate and support – you can support Starlight here, learn about Dahua Technology Australia here and there’s more SEN news here.
“Dahua Technology Announces Sponsorship Of Starlight Children’s Foundation For Third Year.”
HID And AWS Collaborating On Facial Recognition Technology For Self-Service, Point Of Sale.
HID and AWS collaborating on facial recognition – HID said its imaging technology and U.ARE.U camera identification system now works with Amazon Rekognition, a fully managed computer vision cloud service in the identity verification process.
HID’s technology captures faces across widely changing light conditions, backgrounds, expressions, and demographics, and allows for flexibility in deployment. In addition, the camera leverages sensors onboard to offer built-in liveness detection and can be deployed in ADA-compliant use cases, leveraging its wide vertical field of view.
HID And AWS Collaborating On Facial Recognition
HID now works with the following Amazon Rekognition capabilities:
Amazon Rekognition Face Detection: Predicts attributes such as bounding box size, pose, brightness, sharpness, eyes open, mouth open, and eyeglasses worn to determine face quality.
Amazon Rekognition Face Comparison: Measures the similarity of 2 faces to help you determine if they are the same person.
Amazon Rekognition Face Index and Search: Creates a face collection of existing users and searches new user selfie pictures.
“This successful collaboration is an example of our commitment to innovation and continued focus on creating value through our technologies,” said Vito Fabbrizio, managing director of Biometrics Business Unit, Extended Access Technologies, HID.
“We are proud to work with Amazon’s face recognition technology to meet the best possible performance in challenging environments, such as self-serve and point of sale.”
You can learn more about AWS Rekognition here or read more SEN here.
“HID And AWS Collaborating On Facial Recognition Technology For Self-Service, Point Of Sale.”
Melton Locksmith For Sale Generating $A550,000 Revenue Annually.
Melton Locksmith For Sale – A Melton-based locksmith with a strong business turning over $550,000 annually is for sale asking $250,000 plus value of existing stock.
Trading for over 40 years in Melton, the business has built up a loyal customer base, including local government, schools, estate agents and car dealerships, with most income generated from these commercial customers.
The business operates from a fully equipped workshop rented long term from a freehold vendor at $2834 +GST per month. The broker puts the cost of equipment at $90,000 – whether this is an opportunity cost to your benefit or forms part of the overall purchase price you’ll need to establish.
Operated 5 days a week by 2 full time working owners, this is a great first business opportunity for someone wanting to go out on their own, or for an existing locksmithing business wanting to expand its portfolio with the addition of high value commercial customers delivering reliable income.
You can find out more about Melton locksmith for sale from the broker here or read more SEN news here.
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Allegion Revenues Ease Earnings Up – Allegion said a healthy institutional market helped the company beat earnings estimates in Q1 2024.
“Allegion is off to a solid start in 2024, and I’m very proud of our entire team,” Allegion CEO John Stone said. “Institutional markets remain healthy as we expected, our team continues to leverage our capabilities in spec writing, made-to-order manufacturing and strong distribution partnerships to best serve our end user customers. We’re executing at a high level, expanding margins in the quarter and delivering balanced capital allocation.”
The company posted net earnings per share of $US1.41, up 0.7 per cent compared with $1.40 in the first quarter 2023; adjusted EPS of $1.55, down 1.9 per cent compared with $1.58; and revenues of $893.9 million, down 3.2 per cent on a reported basis and down 3.6 per cent on an organic basis. It attributed the results to a modest positive impact from foreign currency and acquisitions.
Stone highlighted notable acquisitions for the quarter, including Boss Door Controls in the U.K. and Dorcas in Spain. The company credits Boss Door Controls with bringing a strong architectural channel and a flexible supply chain and Dorcas for bringing a strong electro-mechanical access control solutions presence in several European markets in verticals like health care and education.
“Our team believes in Allegion’s responsibility to keep our employees safe, operate sustainably, live up to high ethical standards and serve our local communities,” Stone said.
You can learn more about Allegion Australia here or read more SEN news here.
Paul Kirby of NAS (left) with Dahua state manager Qld, Tim Drewry.
NAS Partners With Dahua Technology Australia.
NAS partners with Dahua Technology Australia – NAS Australia, a member of the Security Alliance Australia group of distributors, has signed a new partner agreement with Dahua Technology Australia.
“We are thrilled to announce a new and exciting partnership with Dahua Technology, a world-leading CCTV, security and video-centric solutions provider,” said Paul Kirby national technical sales manager at NAS Australia.
“This collaboration will bring together Nas Australia’s regional distribution network and Dahua’s cutting-edge technology products – as well as being great for NAS, it also positions us in line with other Security Alliance Australia members.”
According to Kirby, the agreement means a wider range of products on the shelf in regional areas, greater service and support, as well as local promotion and educational days in regional areas.
“We are confident that this partnership will allow us to deliver even greater value to our customers,” Kirby said. “Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks!
In the meantime, you can learn more about NAS Australia here, discover Security Alliance Australia here and read about Dahua Australia here – there’s more SEN news here.
Australia’s Department Of Home Affairs Seeks Terrorist Violent Extremism Detection.
Australia’s Department Of Home Affairs Seeks Terrorist Violent Extremism Detection.
Home Affairs seeks terrorist violent extremism detection – Australia’s Department of Home Affairs is seeking terrorist and violent extremism detection through a process of “referral, discovery and reporting services” addressing file sharing and social media platforms.
According to the tender, Department of Home Affairs seeks services from a suitable supplier for activities relating to counter terrorism and countering violent extremism.
This request for quote is seeking responses from selected sellers for the provision of professional services to identify and refer terrorist and violent extremist content to social media and file sharing platforms for action/removal.
Once you register, the RFQ and requirement details are in Attachment A, and the draft contract is at Attachment B – suppliers are requested to provide a proposal/quote for the department’s consideration.
The Department has attached the Form 1342-0 Financial Institution Details. Please complete and return so the Department can enter those details into its financial management system.
This Home Affairs Seeks Terrorist Violent Extremism Detection tender closes at midnight on June 19 – you can find out more and provide a quote here or read more SEN news here.
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BGW Technologies Adds Cloud With Avigilon Alta Video And Access Control.
BGW Technologies Adds Cloud With Avigilon Alta Video And Access Control.
BGW Technologies Adds Cloud With Avigilon Alta – Now available from BGW Technologies is Avigilon’s Alta range of cloud solutions, including Avigilon Alta Video and Avigilon Alta Access (formerly AVA and Openpath).
According to BGW Technologies executive general manager, Robert Meachem, Avigilon Alta Video & Access is a cutting-edge security solution that integrates high-definition video with access control in one unified platform or can be deployed separately.
“This innovative system offers seamless monitoring and control capabilities, providing users with real-time insights and enhanced security measures with powerful management tools from mobile and desktop apps,” Meachem said.
“With its advanced technology and user-friendly interface, Avigilon Alta Video & Alta Access ensures optimal protection for various environments, from small businesses to large enterprises.
“As a leading distributor of Motorola Solutions on premise solutions, the addition of the cloud portfolio is a welcome addition to our line up and aligns to the evolution in the industry,” Meachem said.
According to Peter Ha, product manager BGW Technologies, access control using cloud technology is rapidly expanding in the security industry, and BGW Technologies recognises this trend.
BGW Technologies Adds Cloud With Avigilon Alta Video And Access Control.
“Businesses increasingly adopt cloud-based solutions for enhanced security measures, the demand for more flexible and scalable access control systems will continue to grow,” Ha said.
“This shift towards cloud-based access control underscores the industry’s need for security solutions that can adapt to evolving digital landscapes.
“These types of products are ideally suited to small to medium buildings and specifically across multi-site environments such as retail chains, government multi-site offices, council facilities, strata management applications and much more. With this insight, continuing to expand our cloud-based product offer helps keep us and our SI customers up-to-date and relevant.”
BGW Technologies will be onboarding this range over the coming weeks – speak with your local branch for details and availability. To learn more about Avigilon Alta visit BGW Technologies’ supplier page here or read more SEN news here.
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Honeywell Completes Carrier Acquisition Enhances Building Automation Capabilities.
Honeywell Completes Carrier Acquisition – Honeywell has completed its acquisition of Carrier Global Corporation’s Global Access Solutions business for $US4.95 billion.
According to Honeywell, the acquisition positions the organisation for the digital age, including cloud-based services and solutions, as well as strengthening Honeywell’s portfolio around three compelling megatrends, including automation.
As part of the acquisition, Honeywell gains 3 brands, including LenelS2, a leader in commercial and enterprise access solutions; Onity, which offers electronic locks, specifically hospitality access and mobile credentials; and Supra, which specializes in cloud-based electronic lockboxes and scheduling software.
Honeywell Completes Carrier Acquisition
“As the world’s security needs evolve from a focus on protecting people to protecting both people and critical assets, we see strong growth prospects for our Access Solutions acquisition,” said Vimal Kapur, chief executive officer of Honeywell.
Global Access Solutions’ 1200 employees are now part of Honeywell – the transaction is expected to be adjusted earnings per share accretive in the first full year of ownership.
You can learn more about Honeywell Building Automation here or read more SEN news here.
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