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The Detektor International
Award ceremony was held at the
Skydd-dinner at Stockholmsmäs-
san in Stockholm September 19th.
The twelve products awarded as
finalists were chosen on the basis
of both innovation and customer
orientation. Sony won the Best
CCTV Product Award, HID
won the award for the Best Access
Control Product and Cias won
the award for the Best Alarm and
Detection Product.
The Detektor International
Award was introduced in 2000 to
reward manufacturers of products
and services that stand up to the
criteria of outstanding innovation
and contribution to the advance-
ment of the security industry. The
Detektor International Award
is an independent prize and as
such companies cannot nomi-
nate their own products. Instead,
the nomination is conducted by
the editorial board of Detektor.
This selection criteria is the main
reason why it has become one of
the most prestigious awards in the
global security market.
The jury consists of nine
members from three continents:
Europe, Asia and America. The
criteria for a product to be nomi-
nated for a Detektor International
Award encompasses not only the
technical solution but also the
packaging and over all presenta-
tion of the product, which actually
could equally as well be a service.
The three product categories for
the awards are Access Control,
Alarm and Detection, and CCTV.
The overall winner in each cat-
egory received the award for "Best
Product", the second received the
"Highly Commended Award" and
third place winners were presented
with the "Innovative Achievement
Award".
The Access Control category
The "Best Product Award" in the
Access Control category went to
HID
from the USA for its Iclass
SE Readers
, multi-functional
readers which can be updated
with software in order to meet
the demands for different card
technologies such as EM, Mifare,
Desfire, HID Prox, Indala,
Iclass, etc.
"These multifunctional readers
demonstrate HID's commitment
to taking access control to new
heights based on customer demand",
declared the panel of judges as the
motivation for selecting the Iclass
SE Readers as the overall winner
in the Access Control category.
The "Highly Commended
Product Award" was awarded
to Assa from Sweden for the
UDC500I,
a gateway unit and an
intelligent connection terminal
block. It allows a Hi-O door
environment to be connected to
a traditional non-Hi-O access
system (integration with access
control systems from other manu-
facturers).
The "Innovative Achievement
Award" in the Access Control
category this year was shared by
Suprema
from South Korea for
Facestation
, an IP based biometric
access control terminal featur-
ing facial recognition technology
which identifies individuals from
their facial image features with a
matching speed of less than one
second and Idesco from Finland
for The Aesco module, part of
the The Aesco package, which is
the industry's first card-reader-host
encryption solution.
The Alarm &
Detection category
The "Best Product Award" in the
Alarm and Detection category
went to Cias Elettronica from
Italy, for the Sioux, a fence
mounted perimeter intrusion
detection system which comprises
a multitude of mems type tri-axial
accelerometer sensors. The motiva-
tion of Detektor International's
panel of judges was: "Sioux marks
a giant leap in today's modern tech-
nology for fence mounted perimeter
intrusion detection systems".
The "Highly Commended
Product Award" in the Alarm and
Detection category was given to
Tyco
from the US for Visonic
Powermaster-30 G2
, a wireless
alarm panel with PowerG technol-
ogy. The system can handle some
120 wireless detectors with 64
groups, 32 control panels, 8 sirens
and 4 radio repeaters.
The Alarm and Detection
"Innovative Achievement Award"
was shared by Optex from Japan
for the Redwall detector bundled
with PIE-1 Alarm IP Encoder, an
encoder which provides the dual
functions of PoE power delivery
to remote Optex devices and
conversion of alarm signals to an
IP protocol for delivery to video
management systems or network
video recorders and Risco
Group
from Israel for its Wireless
Video Verification.
The CCTV category
The "Best Product Award" in the
CCTV category went to Sony
from Japan for the Ipela Engine,
an integrated signal processing
system for high picture qual-
ity. It is capable of the industry's
first 130dB wide dynamic range
in full HD quality at 30 fps.
The shooting of high-resolution
images in full HD (1920x1080)
is now possible through high-
speed recording at 60 fps, double
that of the standard number of
frames until now. This choice, by
Detektor International's panel of
judges, was explained by the fol-
lowing motivation: "Ipela Engine
is the outstanding highlight of video
surveillance products in 2012. A
sensational improvement of picture
quality and an essential contribu-
tion to image usability".
The "Highly Commended
Product Award" in the CCTV
category was given to Axis from
Sweden for the Axis Camera
Companion,
a video surveillance
solution for small systems up to
16 cameras. All video is recorded
on SD memory cards in the
cameras. No central DVR, NVR,
PC or server is necessary making
each camera an independent video
recording device.
The "Innovative Achievement
Award" of the CCTV category
was shared by Merit Lilin from
Taiwan for VD022, a real-time
video decoder used for decoding
H.264 streaming from full HD
IP cameras and NVR's cameras. It
enables full screen or quad viewing
of HD IP cameras streamed di-
rectly to a monitor without a PC
and Raytec from the UK, for
Vario
, a LED lighting solution for
CCTV systems with interchangea-
ble lensing and hot-spot reduction
technology. n
The Detektor International Award ceremony was held
at the Skydd security show in Stockholm on Septem-
ber 19th, the Best Product winners were Sony, HID
and Cias.
By Henrik Söderlund
detektor international award
The winners.
Raffaele de Astis from Cias (Alarm and detection), Björn Adméus from Sony (CCTV)
and Robert Jansson from HID (Access control).
Detektor International Awards winners announced
2012
See the Detektor International Awards presentaion video