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Teledyne FLIR launches the BFS-U3-50S4M-C and BFS-U3-50S4C-C USB3 Blackfly S cameras

Introducing the latest additions to the Teledyne FLIR Blackfly S UB3 camera line – the BFS-U3-50S4M-C and BFS-U3-50S4C-C. These 5 MP models are particularly well suited for integration into small handheld devices with their impressive low weight of 53 grams and high pixel density ideal for integrating with compact, less expensive lenses. Leveraging Sony’s IMX547 sensor, they deliver exceptional low-light performance with superior quantum efficiency and very low absolute sensitivity...

Collins Aerospace produces first prototype 500KW electric motor for Hybrid Air Vehicles’ Airlander 10 aircraft

Collins Aerospace has produced the first working prototype of its 500 kilowatt electric motor suitable for the Airlander 10 aircraft under a partnership with Hybrid Air Vehicles and the University of Nottingham. Collins has begun basic characterisation testing of the motor at the University of Nottingham. For the 2,000 RPM permanent magnet electric motor, Collins is targetting specific power density levels of 9 kilowatts per kilogram and 98% efficiency through the use of a novel motor topology...

Abloy Oy and ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions launch the jointly developed - new ABLOY Keyless Access Controller

Abloy Oy and ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions have announced their jointly developed, new ABLOY Keyless Access Controller. With the controller, businesses can upgrade their doors to be keyless - making most electric locks and other electronic door locking devices work with a digital key on a mobile app, instead of a physical credential. The new controller not only works with ABLOY products, but also with hardware of any brand using compatible wiring. ABLOY Keyless Access Controller The ABLOY Keyle...

Cohesity named a leader and outperformer in two GigaOm radars on hybrid cloud data protection

Cohesity, a provider of next-gen data management, announced it was named a Leader and an Outperformer in two GigaOm Radar reports: the GigaOm Radar for Hybrid Cloud Data Protection: Large Enterprises and the GigaOm Radar for Hybrid Cloud Data Protection: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. This is the third time Cohesity was named a Leader in the Large Enterprises report. Cohesity is acclaimed for offering “strongly differentiated cyber resiliency features,” “great data manag...

Vicon Industries appoint Diego Morales as the VP of Software Engineering to produce smart solutions

Vicon Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Cemtrex Inc., designer and manufacturer of video surveillance and access control software, hardware, and components, recently appointed Diego Morales as VP, Software Engineering. In this new role, Morales will lead the design, development, and management of Vicon’s next-gen products, while continuing to galvanise its current product line. Under his lead, Vicon’s research and development will be laser-focused on producing smart solutions, which...

3DX-Ray appoints Vincent Deery as CEO

3DX-Ray Ltd has announced the appointment of Vincent Deery as Chief Executive Officer, with effect from the 1st of July 2022. Vincent is a highly experienced professional whose successful career beginning at the General Electric Company has encompassed sales, marketing, and business development across high technology sectors (both public and private) including security and defence, power control, oil and petrochemical, and metrology. Vincent's experience After joining 3DX-Ray in 2008 Vin...

Avolon welcomes government support for innovate for Ireland programme

Avolon is delighted that An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, and Irish Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation, and Science, Simon Harris, TD, have announced government support for Innovate for Ireland, a transformative, globally unique doctoral scholarship programme originally conceived by their CEO, Dómhnal Slattery. Through a partnership between the Irish Government and the private sector, Innovate for Ireland will position Ireland as a global innovation leade...

Mouser Electronics is focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies

As an authorised distributor, Mouser Electronics, Inc. is focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies, giving customers an edge and helping speed time to market. Over 1,200 semiconductor and electronic component manufacturer brands count on Mouser to help them introduce their products into the global marketplace. Mouser's customers can expect 100% certified, genuine products that are fully traceable from each manufacturer. Raw sensor applications Last quarter, Mouser la...

Security officers and businesses recognised as British Security Awards 2022 return to the live arena

The British Security Industry Association’s (BSIA’s) flagship event, the British Security Awards, returned to the live stage for the first time since July 2019 to recognise security officers and businesses working to keep people, property, and places professionally protected during the last 18 months. 25th BSIA awards In an emotional return to the live arena in its 25th year, the British Security Awards, held at the London Marriott Grosvenor Square in front of a sold-out audience,...

Camlock Systems launches ACS-200 lock system to simplify the control and installation of multiple locks

Camlock Systems have designed a Smart Integration Hub for controlling multiple locks. The new ACS-200 is the latest launch from their rapidly expanding access control range. The ACS-200 is a hardware system, designed to simplify the control and installation of multiple locks. It achieves this by enabling the user to control multiple locks and external devices from one single point. Up to 10 locks can be plugged into one Hub, freeing up space and time used for installation. Thanks to the enginee...

Siemens announces the launch of Building X, an open AI-enabled smart building suite for net zero buildings

Siemens Smart Infrastructure (Siemens) has launched Building X, a new smart building suite that is open, interoperable and fully cloud-based. The Building X suite is the first next generation offering that is built on the design principles of Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform launched to accelerate digital transformation and value creation across industry, transportation, grids and buildings. Building X, smart building suite It acts as a single source of truth to eliminate...

OPTEX opens a new headquarters’ located in the Netherlands to support security customers throughout Europe

OPTEX has opened its new headquarters’ for mainland Europe located in the Netherlands to better serve and support security customers throughout mainland Europe. The new facility, located under 10 miles from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, was opened with a launch event attended by OPTEX senior management including CEO Toru Kamimura and Executive Officer and Head of Security business Mac Kokobo, as well as sales, marketing, and technical teams from across Europe. Provide account management T...

Xydus appoints top technology talents - Jos Aussems and Chris Covell, in order to solve the digital identity crisis

Xydus, the company fixing identity for an expansive world, has announced two key technical leadership hires, following a record-breaking 600% revenue increase in 2021. Ensuring its identity solution is ready to flex to any challenges that the future throws at it, Xydus brings in technical professionals - Jos Aussems as the Chief Information Security Officer and Chris Covell as the Senior Vice President (VP) of Engineering. Modernising the IT department Xydus spent the past six months re-organ...

Siemens and NVIDIA to enable industrial metaverse

Siemens, a front-runner in industrial automation and software, infrastructure, building technology and transportation and NVIDIA, a pioneer in accelerated graphics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), announced an expansion of their partnership to enable the industrial metaverse and increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology that will help bring industrial automation to a new level.  As the first step in this collaboration, the companies plan to connect Siemens Xcelerator, the open dig...

Securitas becomes the first global security company to sign the commitment letter for the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)

Securitas, the security solutions partner with world-renowned technology and expertise, has signed the commitment letter for the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and will begin the process of developing and validating targets, in order to reduce the Group’s climate impact. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a collaboration between CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project), the World Resources Institute, Worldwide Fund for Nature, and the UN Global Compact. Science Based...

Zenitel announces integration of their ICX-AlphaCom platform with Feenics cloud-based access control solution

Zenitel and Feenics announce the integration with Zenitel’s ICX-AlphaCom platform and the Feenics cloud-based access control solution. The integration is the enhancement and extension of a long-standing partnership between both companies. The integration provides security teams the ability to both speak and listen and allow access to facilities and unmanned entry points, while optimising processes and their actionable responses to incidents. Intelligent critical communication This produ...

Johnson Controls named as Microsoft’s Global Sustainability Changemaker and US IoT Partner for 2022

Johnson Controls, the globally renowned company for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, was named Global Sustainability Changemaker and U.S. IoT Partner of the Year at the Microsoft’s annual awards. The Sustainability award was made for the significant societal impact that Johnson Controls OpenBlue Enterprise Manager is having on boosting sustainability in buildings, improving ESG scores and enabling data-driven decision-making by customers. IoT Partner award for Johnson Controls...

Safetyflex Barriers secures a patent for their surface mount security barrier Crashblock

A manufacturer of anti-terrorism bollards, barriers, and crash-rated street furniture based in Coventry has bolstered its overseas presence with a new Australia patent. Safetyflex Barriers has secured a patent for its surface mount security barrier Crashblock, which has been developed to provide instant hostile vehicle mitigation protection. The unique anti-terrorism block is completely free-standing, can stop an 18-tonne truck at up to 50mph, and has been crash-tested to industry standards BSI...

Trackforce Valiant announces the acquisition of TrackTik Software to provide visibility and control for the physical security workforce

Trackforce Valiant, a provider of security workforce management solutions, announces the acquisition of TrackTik Software, one of the most innovative and fastest-growing cloud-based security workforce management providers. The combination of these two companies has created a new pioneer in providing visibility and control for the physical security workforce. “We are very excited to welcome TrackTik into the Trackforce Valiant family,” said Trevor Campion, CEO of Trackforce Valiant....

HID Global and Hubert Curien Laboratory launch joint research endeavor for secure citizen identity documents

HID Global, a pioneer in trusted identity solutions, announces a joint research laboratory with France-based Hubert Curien Laboratory, named the Lasers, Materials, and Colors for Citizen Identity Documents Laboratory, or LAMCID. The Hubert Curien Laboratory is a joint research unit of Jean Monnet University, the National Research Centre, and the Institut d’Optique Graduate School. Improve identity documents LAMCID will host experts from HID and Hubert Curien to conduct a variety of join...

Avolon placed in the top 5% of the industry group with inaugural Sustainalytics ESG rating

Avolon, the international aircraft leasing company, announces that it has received its inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Risk Rating score of 16.0 from Sustainalytics, one of the ESG rating companies in the world. Low ESG risk rating Avolon has been recognised by Sustainalytics as being in the ‘Low Risk’ category, reflecting Avolon's strong performance across a broad range of ESG metrics. Based on a scale of 100–0, from highest to lowest risk, Avolon&rsquo...

StorMagic announces that Hermitage Solutions joins their distribution network

StorMagic®, provider of hyperconvergence solutions for edge computing, announces that Hermitage Solutions, distributor of IT security solutions and services, joined its distribution network. Hermitage Solutions selected StorMagic's offering to meet the need for corporate data protection and for the robustness, simplicity and cost-effectiveness of its products. Modern key management The contract provides for the distribution in France, Belgium and Luxembourg of ARQvault/SvSAN and/or SvKMS...

Hermitage Solutions expands its offering with a new distribution agreement with StorMagic

StorMagic®, solving the world’s edge data problems, announced that Hermitage Solutions, a distributor of IT security solutions and services, has joined its distribution network. Hermitage Solutions selected StorMagic’s offering to meet the data protection needs of companies and for the robustness, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness of its products. Contract details  The contract provides for the distribution in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg of StorMagic ARQvault, SvSAN,...

SailPoint’s stockholders voted to approve pending acquisition by Thoma Bravo

SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc. (SailPoint), the pioneer in enterprise identity security, announces that its stockholders voted to approve SailPoint’s pending acquisition by Thoma Bravo, a software investment firm, at SailPoint’s special meeting of stockholders, held earlier today. The final voting results on the proposals voted on at the special meeting will be set forth in a Form 8-K filed by SailPoint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, after certification by...

Carnegie Mellon’s school safety summit: “Face and object recognition tech can save students’ lives and maintain high standards of privacy when operating within ethical guidelines”

Golan was speaking at Carnegie Mellon’s school safety emergency summit alongside school security professionals and academics. Michael Matranga, M6 Global security, “No doubt that weapons detection technology in combination with facial recognition would have prevented the shooter in Uvalde.” Student safety and security tech Following the devastating Uvalde, Texas school shooting, Carnegie Mellon University’s Biometrics Center hosted an online forum of experts in school s...

Morse Watchmans to showcase their security products at the National Sports Safety and Security Conference & Exhibition 2022

Morse Watchmans, the provider of key control and asset management systems, is exhibiting at the 13th Annual National Sports Safety and Security Conference & Exhibition NCS4 2022 this year, highlighting their latest. For over a century, Morse Watchmans has been known as an innovator of high-quality, cost-effective security technology. Specialising in state-of-the-art key management, asset management, guard tour, and key ring systems, Morse Watchmans delivers reliable, easy-to-use products to...

HENSOLDT jamming system proves effectiveness against radars of various types

Sensor solution provider HENSOLDT has completed extensive ground and field tests with its "Kalaetron Attack" jamming system, confirming its effectiveness against enemy air defence radars of various types. Measurements in various operationally relevant scenarios show that "Kalaetron Attack" can detect even the latest air defence radars and interfere with them using precisely directed jamming signals. Artificial intelligence techniques The effectiveness and responsiveness of the system are also...

VITAPROTECH Group strengthens their smart monitoring division through the acquisition of FOXSTREAM

The VITAPROTECH Group continues to develop its security software solutions and strengthens its Smart Monitoring division through the acquisition of FOXSTREAM. Founded in 2004, FOXSTREAM is a French software publisher specialising in real-time video content analysis and video management system (COSSILYS21) in the banking industry. The FOXSTREAM solutions have the advantage of extracting, transmitting and storing relevant information from video images, for perimeter protection (intrusion), flow m...

Super Micro Computer announces a wide range of Supermicro servers will support the latest NVIDIA technologies

Super Micro Computer, Inc., a pioneer in enterprise computing, storage, networking, and green computing technology, announces a wide range of Supermicro servers will support the latest NVIDIA technologies. Both 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors or 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processor-based servers will be available that incorporate the new NVIDIA® A100 80GB PCIe Tensor Core GPUs. With these new technologies, Supermicro systems will speed up HPC simulations and analytics applications. More...

Innodisk showcases innovative edge AI computing capabilities at Computex 2022

Innodisk, the industrial-grade storage, and embedded peripheral manufacturer, is actively combining software and hardware integration, remote management, and data security to make a strong impact on the Edge AI computing market. At Computex 2022, Innodisk exhibited the world’s first industrial-grade PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe SSD with namespace technology, which delivers better read and write efficiency, and a longer lifespan. Offering a temperature tolerance of -40°, all the way up to 85°C...