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Milestone opens up in the Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley, Ca (USA) and Copenhagen, Denmark
Milestone Systems
will heighten
its focus on development by
starting up a new international
business unit, Incubation and
Ventures, with locations in Silicon
Valley, California, and at the Dan-
ish headquarters.
The goal is to develop new
products and services with high
potential for market superiority
and differentiation, to achieve
additional growth by cultivating
new Milestone ventures. To steer
the new initiatives, Milestone has
hired an experienced strategist, Lars
Nordenlund Friis, as Vice President
for Incubation and Ventures.
"The Incubation and Ventures
business unit will work with
groundbreaking innovations that
can extend Milestone's leadership
in the industry and accelerate our
growth. The team will work with
a portfolio process that covers new
business areas where we see high
potential and integrate these into
our main business broad view
across new technologies and busi-
ness segments that will continue to
build the Milestone vision to en-
able business optimisation through
open platform IP video surveil-
lance," says Lars Thinggaard, CEO
& President, Milestone Systems.
The term "Incubation" relates
to organic product innovations
that can be developed and taken to
commercial success, and "Ven-
tures" signals the intention to
build a portfolio of stand-alone
businesses, joint partnership
ventures or potential mergers
and acquisitions, with or without
external funding.
"Milestone has always had a
strong focus on long-term growth
and that is why we have been suc-
cessful the past 14 years. We will
now be investing in exciting new
initiatives," says John Blem, Chief
Product Officer and co-founder
of Milestone Systems. "We have
brought in an experienced person
to run the Incubation and Ven-
tures unit with knowledge of inter-
national business development and
global expansions; I believe that
Lars Nordenlund Friis is exactly
the right man to help Milestone
continue as the world's leading
provider of IP video management
software."
Lars Nordenlund Friis has been
Head of Strategy in Northern
Europe for PwC, a partner at PA
Consulting, and spent six years at
Microsoft in Seattle leading their
global ISV (Independent Software
Vendor) business, as well as being
responsible for global business
development at Columbus IT and
other technology companies.
The Milestone Incubation and
Ventures business unit will identify
new opportunities in the markets,
build up strategic partnerships and
take in the most lucrative potential
initiatives with the intention to
integrate with the core business of
the company.
"We are already looking at
undiscovered markets and innova-
tive technologies that can increase
Milestone's growth across software
and hardware, as well as exploring
the potential of cloud services. We
will also look at possible acquisi-
tions of exciting products or new
business areas for expansion," says
Lars Nordenlund Friis, Vice Presi-
dent for Incubation and Ventures.
The Milestone Incubation and
Ventures unit will also involve stra-
tegic collaborations on interesting
projects with business and finan-
cial partners. A new office location
in Silicon Valley will ensure access
to the world's high technology in-
novation centre with its networks
and resources drawing on the IT
industry's front-runners.
Lars Nordenlund Friis, Vice President
Milestone Systems, Incubation and
Ventures.
Mobotix helps judges at Olympics
London, UK
Mobotix AG
has released de-
tails of the use of its technology
by Polaritás-GM Ltd, a leader
in specialist sport measurement
systems to help ensure fair
play at water events during the
recent London 2012 Olympics.
Polaritás has provided
starter, course monitoring and
timing systems for three previ-
ous Olympics and developed
its new third generation system
to include video to help judges
evaluate events at the rowing or
canoeing start line. Following
extensive tests, Polaritás selected
Mobotix technology by assess-
ing reliability, image quality and
high ingress protection rating.
The third generation Polari-
tás platform includes Startvideo
software to collate video from
the Mobotix cameras at the
start line to help starter judges
detect false starts. To develop
this software, Polaritás used the
ActiveX controls embedded
within the Mobotix system as
a powerful interface between
the camera and the Startvideo
software.
Within a few seconds after
the start, the starter judges
can easily observe the events
through instant playback
including slow motion or even
frame-by-frame of the recorded
video clip. Using this interactive
tool, the starter has the oppor-
tunity to make a quick decision
about the start event and can
stop the race if necessary. The
recorded video clips are stored
on a hard drive, ordered by heat
number and marked as good or
false start.
As part of a continual ethos
of innovation, Polaritás has
upgraded its Mobotix cameras
to the new M24M platform
which offers a higher 30 frames
per second capture at megapixel
resolutions. The new camera
also has a 180 degree lens sys-
tem to allow a single camera to
cover more of the race area and
to allow detailed views of criti-
cal race events. The M24M has
up to 64 GB of internal storage
capacity to ensure that even if a
communication link is lost; the
event can still be recorded for
later analysis.
The third generation
Polaritás system including
the Mobotix M24M cameras
were used at the London 2012
Olympics with great success.
Working closely with Omega,
the Official Timekeeper for the
Olympic Games, the system
was used over 14 days assisting
in the adjudication across 26
medal events ranging including
Single Sculls, Eights featuring
teams of eight rowers plus a cox
and all single, double and four
paddler crews in canoe-kayak
events.
"Video is a real benefit
within the sport and we look at
how we can use it to continue
to innovate," explains József
Grand, owner and director
of Polaritás, "Our work with
Mobotix has been essential
in helping us deliver a world
class start system and we will
be working with them as a key
partner during our preparation
for the 2016 Olympic Games
in Rio de Janeiro."
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