Genetec was launched in 1997 — about four years after Pierre Racz first started the company in the basement of his Montreal home. The company recently launched a re-branding effort as it moves into the next phase of its growth. SP&T News talked with him about the evolution of the ... >> Read more
Established in 1852 in the City of Quebec, Canada, Université Laval was the first French-speaking university in North America. In 1950, construction began on its main campus in Sainte-Foy, which was then on the outskirts of the city. It has grown into what is now referred to as a city ... >> Read more
Canadian officials should exempt electronic security and life safety devices from energy efficiency requirements that cannot sensibly be applied to them, SIA and CANASA argued in a joint letter to Natural Resources ... >> Read more
According to a report released this week by IMS Research, more than half of network IP cameras sold around the world will be HD or megapixel resolution in the next four ... >> Read more
SecurTek Monitoring Solutions Inc. has acquired approximately 7,500 wholesale and retail accounts from Aurora, Ont.-based Maximum Monitoring Services Ltd. for $1.4 million. It becomes SecurTek's first monitoring station in ... >> Read more
To summarize, these companies flood representatives in a certain area, and have been accused of engaging in less than ethical sales tactics in order to take your customer (and revenue) from you and switch to their system and monitoring service. The alleged sales tactics have included misleading the consumer that this is an upgrade to your existing system, that the consumer’s company has either gone out of business or is transferring the accounts to this new company, your existing supplier is changing to this new company, or a combination of deceptive misinformation. There have even been allegations of salesmen not leaving until contracts are signed and other hard sell tactics being ... >> Read more
H.264 is an open standard that utilizes the most efficient video compression techniques available today. This standard follows the successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers advantages in video quality and compression.
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During last fall, the Canadian Security Association (CANASA) conducted a comprehensive survey of its members and recently released its findings. One main objective of the survey was to help us improve the various products and services we currently offer and help in the launch of a new Affinity Program for our members in the early part of 2011. While providing even more value to members is very important, the most interesting results of the survey were to be found elsewhere, showing that the concerns of our members have remain the same over ... >> Read more
With the endless capabilities and advantages of IP connectivity, organizations have been able to create mega security systems that span across several buildings, or even cities, with centralized monitoring at one location. But this makes it challenging for security guards who are now responsible for monitoring hundreds of cameras and doors. This is where the concept of metadata becomes ... >> Read more
There are a variety of solutions for recording video available today. The options include cameras and encoders with built-in storage, embedded or PC-based digital video recorders, network video recorders, and cameras and encoders that stream direct to storage without any intervening hardware.... >> Read more
