Thank you 2015, in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,600 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 60 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […]

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Hikvision virtual host feature

One of the most important feature of Hikvision’s NVR represents the built-in PoE switch, available for models that contains “P” in suffix.  The PoE functionality combined with the “Plug and Play” IP camera adding method makes any small surveillance setup very easy to install and operate. Generally, one of the most important selling points in […]

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Genetec AutoVu Patroller 6.2 is now available

Genetec  announced the general availability of AutoVu Patroller 6.2, an in-vehicle application for mobile automatic license plate recognition (ALPR). Patroller 6.2 supports new enforcement rules and, includes several new features and usability enhancements. What’s new in Patroller 6.2? User-Selectable Hotlists: Users can now manually select the hotlists against which ALPR reads will be compared, directly […]

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Hikvision Dual Lens Thermal Cameras

Hikvision, one of the giants surveillance solution manufacturer, launched a new IP product line. It is about three new outstanding dual lens IP thermal cameras. Why dual? Comparing with conventional thermal cameras, able to provide additional details for intrusion detection purposes and often doubled by a standard CCTV camera, Hikvision’s dual lens IP thermal cameras represents […]

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Grain Media GM8287 Cost-Effective Solution for H.264 Multi-Channel DVR/ HD DVR/NVR Application

Grain Media’s DVR SoC GM8287 embedded with an optimum FA626TE ARM® CPU core and a comprehensive kind of peripheral controller, targeted on middle-range multi-channel D1/960H DVR, DVS and NVR surveillance system applications. The video codec engine of GM8287 provides H.264 HP/MP/BL encoder and decoder, it delivers high-quality video performance with low-bandwidth requirement. The wide range of system peripheral elements, […]

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Axis introduces its first PTZ dome camera with 4K resolution

Designed for top performance, AXIS Q6128-E combines award-winning design with ultra-high image resolution, four times greater than HDTV 1080p. Compact and suitable for both outdoors and indoors, the camera provides full scene fidelity and sharp images in all directions. Axis Communications, the world leader in network video, today presents the latest addition to its AXIS […]

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Western digital HGST Ultrastar HE10, first 10TB Hard Disk

A couple of days ago, Western Digital, made available the first 3.5″ 10TB HDD. It is about the  HGST Ultrastar He10, characterized by a extremely high storage capacity, high reliability, very low power consumption, developed under PMR(Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) technology. Comparing with conventional HDD, where the platters are functioning in an aired filled case, the […]

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Made in Ro:License Plate Recognition from Metrici

MetriciLPR is a Romanian software solution for auto traffic analytics. It provides maximum accuracy regarding the traffic around your business. Their main product is Metrici LPR, an integrated Automatic Number Plate Recognition, based on Linux operating system and a variety of compatible IP cameras from manufacturer such as Hikvision, Axis, Sony, Mobotix and Acti. Furthermore, almost […]

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