Alarm.com announced the acquisition of substantially all assets of Vintra, a software provider of award-winning AI-powered video analytics for the enterprise commercial market. Integrating Vintra’s software capabilities and its experienced science and engineering teams will expand Alarm.com’s deep learning program and accelerate deployment of advanced video analytics solutions for the Alarm.com and OpenEye platforms.
Launched in 2016, Vintra’s cloud platform transforms data from any video management system into actionable and trusted intelligence that can improve how organizations monitor and search for critical security events. Vintra’s AI models can track a range of objects and events, including a specific person, two or four-wheeled vehicles, bags, or a person-down situation. Its re-identification algorithm can track a person of interest across hundreds of cameras in real-time and can search large amounts of video recordings to find video clips of the person of interest within minutes.
“The Vintra team adds to Alarm.com’s science and engineering expertise in the field of AI and machine learning, and we’re excited to welcome them on board,” said Jeff Bedell, Alarm.com’s President of Ventures Business and Corporate Strategy. “The acquisition expands the specialization of Alarm.com’s AI team and will extend our leadership in this important domain. Our goal is to deploy market-defining video analytics solutions, scale them across the Alarm.com and OpenEye platforms, and open new areas of growth for our service provider and integrator partners.”
Alarm.com acquired Vintra’s core intellectual property, its research scientists, software engineers, and technical services teams as part of the acquisition.
NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc., is pleased to appoint Michael Venoit, as the New Napco VP of Sales, Fire & Security, managing all Napco Security Regional Sales Managers and accounts. Venoit, who joined NAPCO, as the Continental Access Division VP of Sales in 2021, is a proven leader, and additionally has decades of experience growing revenue in the commercial fire and intrusion categories, as well.
Reporting to Stephen Spinelli, SVP of Sales for all NAPCO divisions, Stephen said, “Michael, has proven himself as an effective sales leader for NAPCO Security Technologies, and he’ll be an ideal fit for growing the Napco Security Division business and managing that team, at a particularly exciting time, with the nationwide rollout of StarLink MAX 5G Universal Cell Communicators, the expansion of FireLink Commercial Fire FACP line, and the debut of Napco Prima Residential All-in-One Super Panel, early this summer.”
Based in greater Boston, Michael’s career spans decades in the electronic security industry. Feel free to reach out and/or congratulate Michael Venoit, Napco VP of Sales, Fire & Security directly at MVenoit@napcosecurity.com or cell 631-275-2784 or stop by for a visit at the ESX or NFPA Shows coming this June.
Continental Access, a division of NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc., is pleased to introduce Aaron Black as the new Continental Access Vice President of Sales, replacing Michael Venoit, who is moving to head up the NAPCO Security Division. Aaron comes to Continental with a successful track record of driving sales and meeting or exceeding goals, for ROI and customer satisfaction. Having worked for several well-known industry manufacturers in access control, video, and security, Aaron will now report to Stephen Spinelli, SVP of Sales for all NAPCO divisions. Aaron will be charged with managing the Continental Access accounts and the full sales team, including the Division’s Regional Sales Managers & VP of Business Development.
Spinelli added, “Aaron will be great for the Continental Sales Team, he has a lot of experience in the marketplace, and will be spearheading the creation of a brand new Napco Access Pro Dealer Program, benefitting our current and new integrators’ businesses with new excitement, options & value across the board.”
Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Aaron’s career encompasses decades of success in access control, video, and electronic security technology. Reach out to Aaron Black, VP of Sales, at Continental Access directly at ABlack@napcosecurity.com or cell 817-888-4872.
TMA President Morgan Hertel was inducted into Security Sales and Integration Magazine (SSI) 2023 Hall of Fame at ISC West in Las Vegas. According to SSI Editor-in-Chief Scott Goldfine, “the SSI Hall memorializes those whose work is in fact connected with life-and-death outcomes. Everyone in the security and fire/life-safety industry plays a part in the grand scheme to protect people, property, and assets.” As of today, more than 120 high achievers have been elected to the SSI Industry Hall of Fame.
Goldfine further states, “Those chosen for this special recognition often demonstrate coveted qualities such as talent, vison, passion, skill, dedication, focus, tenacity, and intuition. However, rising to the lofty level of all-time greatness also brings into play admirable characteristics like integrity, honesty, humility, ethics, and philanthropy. Those attributes embody the exemplary persons who since 2004 have been inducted into the SSI Industry Hall of Fame — including this year’s heroic half-dozen.
In his profile, Morgan shared his biggest wish for the industry change as, ““I would like to change people’s attitude toward change itself. It’s a human trait to push back against change because it can be scary. But it’s necessary in our industry.”
Read Morgan’s full profile on the SSI website.
The Security Industry Association (SIA) announced the 2023 winners of its SIA New Products and Solutions (NPS) Awards, the flagship awards program presented in partnership with ISC West recognizing innovative security products, services and solutions.
Top among the winners recognized March 29 during an award ceremony on the ISC West show floor, was Alocity, which received the 2023 Best New Product Award for its Alocity Access Control Platform product, submitted in the Access Control Devices and Peripherals – Wireless category.
“[Alocity Access Control Platform] is an intelligent security platform to manage access control with video and connected sensors, a multifunction reader with 3D face verification, mobile credentials over Bluetooth and NFC,” notes Alocity. “Video intercom with remote unlock. Onboard zigbee module provides integration with zigbee motion, door/window contact, lights, locks and environmental sensors with automated workflows.”
The Judges’ Choice Award was presented to IPVideo Corporation for its Sentry ERS product, submitted in the Emergency and Mass Communication Systems category.
“[Sentry ERS is] a lockdown and emergency response system purposely built with schools in mind,” states IPVideo Corporation. “With a single button push, lockdown protocols are initiated and immediate alerts are sent to police providing superior incident awareness with live video, voice, text and GPS location data from areas where traditional video cameras cannot be deployed.”
A list of TMA member company winners includes:
SIA NPS Merit Award
Category Awards
Commercial Monitoring Solutions
Loss Prevention and Article Surveillance Solutions
Mobile Solutions (Connected)
Video Surveillance Cameras
Video Surveillance Management Systems
At ISC West, Security Sales & Integration announced the winners of its 2023 SSI Most Valuable Products (MVP) Awards, recognizing those manufacturers’ products and technologies that make a substantial impact on integrators.
This year awards went to 12 recipients in nine categories: Access Control, Business Operations, Fire/Life Safety, Home Controls, Installation Aids, Intrusion Detection, Miscellaneous Security Products, Security Apps and Video Surveillance. All entries for the Most Valuable Products Awards were judged on innovation, functionality, competitive advantages and benefits to the installer by industry leaders, along with the editors of SSI.
The purpose of the MVP program is to illuminate how important products and technologies are to the success of security integration companies. Judging criteria not only analyzed the technical merits of the products, but the ability of the devices to help integrators open up avenues to a potential new customer base, enable integrators to design and install systems faster and, thus, more profitably or help integrators gain a profitable margin on the equipment itself. All products must either have shipped in the past 12 months or by September 2022.
Winning TMA members include:
Home Controls – Alarm.com, Water Dragon, Alarm.com
Home Controls – NAPCO Security Technologies, Prima, NAPCO
Installation Aids – Axis Communications, Inc., Axis Device Manager Extend, Matter Communications
Security Sales & Integration held the 2023 SAMMY Awards, Most Valuable Product Awards and the Hall of Fame Inductee ceremony in a ceremony at The Venetian Hotel during ISC West.
The SAMMY Awards recognize installing security integrators, dealers and monitoring providers for their marketing, installation and overall business excellence. The SAMMYs program raises the bar for the entire electronic security industry by sharing the best ideas and practices with all.
A panel of judges selected the top nominees in each of 12 categories among security dealers and integrators that exemplify professionalism in their sales, marketing and installation efforts. Winners of this award receive exposure in SSI’s magazine, website and electronic communications.
Join in congratulating the following award-winning TMA members:
Best Overall Marketing Program
Community Outreach Program
Newsletter or Content Marketing
Social Media Campaign
Vehicle Graphics Design
Promotional Video or Audio
Best Sales Brochure
Integrated Installation of the Year
Click here for the complete list of SSI 2023 SAMMY Finalists.
Evolon Technology, Inc., a developer of proprietary software technology that takes surveillance video and turns it into real-time actionable information, today announced the market launch of Evolon Insites™, an innovative cloud platform that leverages computer vision, AI, and video analytics to quickly and accurately detect, classify, and verify potential threats. Evolon Insites debuts this coming week at ISC West 2023, the security industry’s most comprehensive and converged trade show occurring from March 28-31, 2023, in Las Vegas.
Providing real-time threat detection, insightful forensic searches, and long-term video archiving, Evolon Insites is delivered by securely connecting customer-premise video systems to powerful cloud-based analytics and video storage. Because it leverages a pure SaaS model, organizations can quickly scale and apply the service to cameras without the need for expensive AI servers, GPUs, and storage systems. Insites is designed to work in the most demanding outdoor environments, delivering alerts to security operation centers or central stations.
“We’re proud to offer Evolon Insites as a service that is natively integrated with our VMS partners to offer best-in-class perimeter security for challenging outdoor environments such as airports, electric utility facilities, government installations, and other critical infrastructure. Insites is a higher performing and lower-cost alternative to expensive premise hardware-based analytics or buried sensors that require trenching,” said Tom Galvin, Evolon’s President and CEO.
For information on pricing and availability, contact an Evolon representative at: sales@evolontech.com.
SightLogix’s new SightTracker PTZ is a smart camera with Edge AI that automatically zooms and follows outdoor intruders with fast, on-target responsiveness.
By embedding SightTracker™ software and AI classification analytics inside our high-performance PTZ, the camera automatically tracks targets without latency or the network delays inherent in other PTZ solutions, delivering unmatched situational awareness for outdoor sites.
SightTracker PTZ works with SightSensor thermal detection cameras, staying locked onto intruders as they move throughout the site, even beyond the field of view of the detecting camera. By re-centering the target up to 10 times per second, the SightTracker PTZ keeps the intruder in clear view with striking zoomed-in detail.
Powered by AI-based classification analytics, IR illumination, 33x optical zoom, 360-degree pan, and a 5MP imager with excellent low-light performance, SightTracker PTZ revolutionizes the outdoor PTZ market.
“SightTracker PTZ solves a big outdoor security challenge, which is keeping eyes on an intruder without manually steering a PTZ – instead, it’s all automatic,” said John Romanowich, SightLogix president and CEO. “With the SightTracker PTZ’s Edge AI, operators are unburdened from the critical task of tracking so they can focus on mitigating the threat, and achieve the highest levels of security.”
SightTracker PTZ is available to order now for protecting utilities and substations, data centers, transportation assets, or any commercial site vulnerable to outdoor theft and vandalism.
Learn more about SightTracker PTZ: https://www.sightlogix.com/products/sighttracker-ptz/
For more information on SightLogix perimeter security and outdoor surveillance solutions, call +1.609.951.0008, email info@sightlogix.com or visit www.sightlogix.com.
