Posts Tagged ‘ARK Systems’

• Top 7 Trends in Video Surveillance

  • September 9th, 2011
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  • Tags: 2011, advantage, ARK Systems, Bandwidth Consumption, businesses, campussafetymagazin.com, conventional analog, Data Storage, devices, edge, Equipment, Facebook, high definition, homes, Megapixel, megapixel cameras, next big thing, protection, Solutions, surveillance industry, TCP/IP, Technologies, technology trends, top 7, trends, Twitter, Video Management Systems, Video surveillance, VMS

  The Security and surveillance industry is one full of trends with the “next big thing” lurking right under the corner. Technologies are constantly changing, evolving the way we protect our homes and businesses. So what are the current trendy technologies… Read More

• Video Surveillance: What Works

  • September 1st, 2011
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  • Tags: ARK Systems, Bandwidth Issues, best surveillance, best surveillance methods, cameras, cheap price, cost is reduced, cost-efficient, Coverage Issues, difficult to hack, eliminate glare, fiscally responsible, Great coverage, handling bandwidth issues, hemispheric camera, high-resolution, high-resolution cameras, highly reliable, improve security, improving your system, Increased security, infrared cameras, infrastructure, insufficient bandwidth, IT, IT department, Lighting and Coverage Issues, new security system, PoE, power of the Ethernet, Privacy Concerns, security, security network, security options, segregate cameras, Solving Bandwidth Issues, Surveillance, surveillance methods, surveillance technology, technology investment, upgrading security systems, Video surveillance, Video surveillance compression, Video Surveillance: What Works, virtual backbones, wide angel view

  The use of video surveillance is quickly growing. The number of cameras in service is constantly on the rise and surveillance technology is continuously being improved upon. But with so many security options on the market, how can one determine… Read More

• 20 Things You Should Know About Networked Video

  • August 25th, 2011
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  • Tags: 20 Things You Should Know About Networked Video, Analytics, ARK Systems, Bandwidth, high-speed video, high-speed video communications, HTTP protocol, integrated security systems, integrators, IP systems, IT security, l.o.s., l.o.s. technology, latency, Network, network design, Networked Video, secondary networks, security, security systems, Storage, Surveillance video, technological breakthroughs, Video, Video analytics, video communications, video management, VSI Summit, Wireless, Wireless applications, Wireless line-of-sight

  What can video now do that it was not able to before? What is the future of video? Those were just a few of the questions addressed at the Video, Security and Integration Summit (VSI Summit) in Atlanta. The Summit,… Read More

• Biometrics

  • August 19th, 2011
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  • Tags: ARK Systems, biometric identification, biometric identification system, biometrics, can credentials, card readers, credential, credentials, flash pass, identification system, Laboratory tests, personal identification, Pilot facilities, pilot program, scan, security, technological, technological hurdles, Transportation Security Administration, Transportation Worker Identification Credential, TSA, TWIC, TWIC program

  The Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) is, after a long and drawn out process, entering a promising new phase. This article from HSToday.us explains. After 11 September 2001, the federal government decided to credential every worker with access to sensitive… Read More

• The great debate: HDcctv versus IP video

  • August 11th, 2011
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  • Tags: access, access control, ARK Systems, CCTV, Emergency, emergency response, HD, high definition, HSPD 3, infrared cameras, Internet Protocol, IP, IP Video, Maryland, secure facilities, security, security cameras, security field, security personnel, security systems, Surveillance, Technology, Threat Advisory System, Threat Conditions, VHS

  As technology continues to expand, your decisions begin to become more and more complicated. What was once as simple as picking a manufacturer and grabbing a box of 24 VHS tapes is now so much more complex.   In the… Read More

• Safety of Whole Body Imaging

  • August 5th, 2011
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  • Tags: adiation-emitting, adiation-emitting machines, ARK Systems, baggage screening systems, baggage-screening machines, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Congressman Ed Markey, dangerous, dangerous amounts of radiation, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Ed Markey, Full-body, full-body X-ray screening machines, Greg Soule, health, health and safety, health hazards, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Imaging, Inspector General Richard Skinner, Joe Pistol, levels of radiation, machines, malfunction, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, public health, public health and safety, radiation, radiation health, radiation health and safety, Safety, Safety of Whole Body Imaging, screening machines, screening systems, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, TSA Administrator Joe Pistol, TSA spokesperson, unsafe levels of radiation, Whole body, Whole Body Imaging, X-ray, X-ray screening machines

  A joint report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in September 2008 found that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) did not take proper care of some baggage-screening… Read More

• Addressing Privacy Concerns

  • July 28th, 2011
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  • Tags: ACLU, Addressing Privacy Concerns, American Civil Liberties Union, ARK Systems, cameras, Campus, Campus Safety, Chicago, Chicago Police, Concerns, Decreasing privacy, increase the quantity of video surveillance cameras, Increased security, Increasing Security, Privacy, Privacy Concerns, privacy concerns surrounding surveillance cameras, Private video Systems, protect privacy, push for privacy, Racially Profiling, Safety, Spying, Surveillance, surveillance cameras, System, Systems, Technologies, Technology, Video, Video surveillance, video surveillance cameras, video Systems, video technology, window blackening

  When does increasing security start to decrease privacy? That is the questions addressed in this article from CampusSafetyMagazine.com. Recently, there has been an uproar from the American Civil Liberties Union about Chicago’s plan to increase the quantity of video surveillance cameras… Read More

• Mass Notification Know How

  • July 22nd, 2011
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  • Tags: Advancements, Applications, ARK Systems, audible notification, capability, commercial facilities, Communication, ECS, Effective, effectiveness, Emergency, emergency communications systems, emergency messages, emergency situations, Fire Alarm, fire alarm systems, Immediate, live-voice emergency messages, Mass Notification, mass notification systems, MNS, Notifications, Notify, Real-tine information, security, security field, Technology, Threats, UFC, Unified Facilities Criteria, visual notification, ways to improve communication

  The security field is always looking for ways to improve communication, especially in terms of mass notification systems (MNS). The Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) defines mass notification as “the capability to provide real-time information to all building occupants or personnel… Read More

• Top 7 Technology Trends

  • July 15th, 2011
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  • Tags: Analytics, Analyze, Anaolog, ARK Systems, Bandwidth, cameras, Customer Service, Data, Data Storage, Developments, DVR, Edge Devices, Equipment, Evolving, Features, Hard Drives, HDcctv, high definition, High-tech, Images, Innovations, Integrated, IP, IP-based Systems, megapixel cameras, Network, Products, Recording, Scurity Systems, security, security field, Signals, Software, Sohpisticated, Storage, Surveillance, surveillance cameras, surveillance systems, Tech Trends, Technology, Top 7 Technology Trends, Traditional Security, Transmits, uncompressed video, VCR, Video, Video Alarm Verification, Video Management Software, Video Management Systems, Video surveillance, VMS

  Technology is always evolving. Because of this, it is very important to stay up to date on recent tech trends and developments, especially if you are in the video surveillance/security field. Video surveillance was introduced in the 1970’s with the… Read More

• Tech Spending on Rise

  • July 7th, 2011
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  • Tags: Agencies, ARK Systems, Attacks, Chief Technology Officer, CIA, Companies, Computer, Computer Hackers, Corporate, Corporate Spending, Data, Data Breach, Educated, Education, FBI, Fox, Global Spending, Government, Government Agencies, Government Spending, Hacker Group, Hackers, Hardware, High Alert, High-profile, information, information technology, information technology security, LulzSec, New Hardware, Nintendo, PBS, security, Security Companies, Security Officials, Security Products, Services, Software, Sony, Spending, Spending on the Rise, Stole, Stole data, Tech Spending, Tech Spending on Rise, Technology, Websites

  Corporate and government spending on information technology security is quickly growing. Global spending on security products and services, which is currently around $55 billion in 2011, is projected to reach $71 billion by 2014, according to Lawrence Pingree, research director… Read More