“During my 21 years as a publisher and editor within the security industry I have followed, with great interest, a variety of different attempts to create standards to harmonise the security technology market.
In Europe this complex task has been taken up on the whole by CENELEC and their different multi-nationality working groups.”

Read the whole comment by Lennart Alexandrie, Editor-in-Chief of Detektor International.

Coming through a disappointing 2009, the China market is expected to exceed 20% revenue growth in 2010 and be the solid core of the recovering global video surveillance equipment market.

Over 750 dinner guests attended at the prize ceremony when the Detektor International Award dinner was held in conjunction with the second day of SKYDD 2010 on the 15th of September.
The twelve award ed finalist products were chosen on the basis of both innovation and customer orientation.

Winning products need to be smart as well as useful, as Lennart Alexandrie, the publisher of the security technology magazine Detektor, explained previously during a presentation.

Detektor International met up with Jonas Andersson, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the industry forum for the standardisation of physical IP security products, ONVIF.

Read the whole interview in the last edition of Detektor International.

Imagine that you are responsible for the overall security on the public buses in a major city. You have thousands of buses in your fleet, operating day and night.
The society’s crime trends are against you, showing increasing numbers each year, and your budget makes it impossible to have security guards on board.
Still, your main goal is to create a safe working environment for the drivers and an attractive transportation option for the city’s commuters, citizens and tourists.

What would you do, and where would you start?

New solid-state lighting technology delivers added benefits and opportunities to the security industry by allowing lighting used for CCTV to be combined with general safety lighting, thereby dramatically cutting installation, maintenance and operating costs.

Read the article by Ian Crosby, Product Marketing Manager, Bosch Security Systems.