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April 2022 6 Super boutique hotel choses Wisenet to protects high-value assets

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Having worked with Hanwha Techwin for several years, with the Wisenet X series and Wisenet WAVE VMS tested in other hotels in the Edwardian Hotels London portfolio, the team decided that the Wisenet X series 5MP network cameras and Wisenet WAVE were ideal for protecting The Londoner

8 News 9 Texecom launches Premier Elite V6 and SmartCom V4 Firmware Texecom announced the release of the Premier Elite V6 firmware and SmartCom V4 firmware. These versions will be in products manufactured on or after the 22nd February. Updates will be available via the Texecom Cloud service from the same date for remote upgrade of existing systems.

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10 Innovators – Paxton – Developing talent and technology Paxton, the Brighton-based access control company, is a British, all-encompassing designer and manufacturer of IP access control, door entry, video management systems.

12 Business News 21 High quality video security images can help the evening economy flourish All urban landscapes have areas that are better avoided at night. Places designed with little light and poor environmental quality; such as multi-story car parks, or bus stations; can cause anxiety at night.

However, sometimes opting to take a long way round instead of crossing a railway pedestrian bridge can add precious time to a journey.

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April 2022 Welcome to Benchmark Magazine April’s edition. Are you ready for your Easter break? This month, we have an exclusive Profile interview with Paxton’s CEO, Adam Stroud.

Having played several roles at Paxton since he started as newly graduated student – 25 years ago, Adam has seen the company grow and evolve. In the video interview he tells us about the company’s journey from being a manufacturer of battery operated keypads for access control, to today’s range of products and solutions from single door units to enterprise-wide systems.

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dam also shares how Paxton empowers its people to develop and achieve their highest potential and is an essential insight into how the company has grown but also maintained its local roots and values.

LATEST NEWS As we go to press, Ajax has made an announcement assuring the industry that, despite the Ukrainian conflict, the company is carrying out business as usual and has plans to announce new releases in the near future following the relocation of its employees and families into safety.

Don't forget you can now nominate for the Benchmark Innovation Awards!

Anyone can nominate a security company or solution provider by completing a nomination form on our website so if you have been particularly impressed by innovative technology recently now is the time to let us know.

Nominations will be open from March 1st and will close on April 25th. Finalists will be announced in May when we will be asking readers to vote for their favourites.

The winners will be unveiled at a special Awards Dinner in September.

We have ten categories this year, including the new Innovation Company of the Year award: 1. Video Management Software innovation 2. Surveillance innovation (CCTV) 3. Visitor Management innovation 4. Alarm/detection innovation 5. Analytics and software innovation 6. Security analytics innovation 7. Business Intelligence analytics innovation 8. Cloud/SaaS innovation 9. Network & connectivity innovation 10. Innovator (company) of the year Award Your nominations, as our readers, are needed to highlight companies, services or products that you think merit a special recognition. Be sure to act before the deadline of April 25th.

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TECHNOLOGY

Super boutique hotel chooses Wisenet to protect assets The Londoner Hotel heralds a new kind of hotel.

Dubbed the ‘super boutique hotel’ The Londoner is situated on one of the world’s most iconic squares, a true London landmark, with high calibre guests to match. The building spans 16 storeys, with five different restaurants and bars, a subterranean wellness floor with spa and gym, and 350 rooms and suites.

High value, high stakes The hotel features many high-value pieces of artwork and furniture located throughout its communal and guest spaces. Many high profile guests also frequent The Londoner.

This poses some unique security challenges for the Edwardian Hotels London security team. Not only do physical assets need to be highly protected, but the team needs a quick way to investigate events, and for the surveillance system to seamlessly fit in with The Londoner’s discerning interior design.

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NEWS

Videx launches door entry video monitor

2N Indoor View upgraded to provide surveillance Designed for high-end residential projects, the 2N Indoor View now plays a dual role as a surveillance device and a control panel for complex home automation systems.

2N’s new firmware allows up to four IP cameras to be connected to the answering unit. These IP cameras do not even need to be connected to the intercom – they only need to be in the same local network as the answering unit. In this way, the resident can use the 2N Indoor View’s 7” colour touchscreen display inside their home to see what is going on in the hallway, behind the house or in the garage.

Photos can be taken from each intercom call – including missed calls. Imagine, for example, that there has been a spate of burglaries in your area and you are worried about burglars trying the intercom to see if anyone is at home. The 2N Indoor View now automatically captures snapshots from each call – including missed calls – and adds them to the call log. The unit takes more than one picture in case the person at the door has turned sideways or had their hand in front of the camera at the key moment.

The unit can also act as the home automation control panel: HTTP commands can now be sent from the 2N Indoor View, meaning that it is possible to control home automation functions – such as turning on the lights, opening the blinds and calling the lift –

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Videx’s latest video , coupled with the 6wire VX2200 or 2-wire VX2300, is entry solution designed for smaller installations, such as apartments and houses, as well as multi-story apartment or office blocks.

The video monitor boasts a 3.5” TFT LCD monitor and eight soft-touch controls, four of which are programmable for features such as activating additional outputs or intercommunicating with other devices in the same apartment or other apartments.

There are several different formats of the video monitor available such as hands free and those with a handset. The handset version includes hands free as well. A desk mount kit is also available for the handset version while the hands free version can optionally be flush mounted.

“The new range of video monitors are easy to use and enable intuitive entry management across a wide range of properties and buildings making them an attractive choice for door entry, both for small and larger installations.

Up to 10 monitors can be installed in the same apartment on the VX2200 system while the VX2300 supports up to four per apartment.

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TECHNOLOGY

Texecom launches Premier Elite V6 and SmartCom V4 Firmware Texecom announced the release of the Premier Elite V6 firmware and SmartCom V4 firmware. These versions will be in products manufactured on or after the 22nd February. Updates will be available via the Texecom Cloud service from the same date for remote upgrade of existing systems.

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hese firmware updates simplify the setup process of SmartCom communicators, and prepare for the upcoming release of Texecom Monitor, our

new integrated primary alarm signalling service, due to be released to the UK market at the start of April 2022.

Premier Elite systems now include a new communications menu item – ‘Monitor Mode’.

Monitor Mode simplifies the SmartCom communicator setup process. Monitor Mode can be used to setup a SmartCom for:

Texecom Connect – end user app Texecom Cloud – remote management and maintenance Texecom Monitor – new primary alarm signalling service (once available) On entering the UDL/Digi Options menu – ‘Monitor Mode’ is the first option. Pressing 0 or down arrow will move to the next menu option. All the other indexes are the same as previous software versions.

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INNOVATORS

Paxton – Developing talent and technology Paxton, the Brighton-based access control company, is a British, all-encompassing designer and manufacturer of IP access control, door entry, video management systems.

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he 37-year-old company was established in East Sussex by founder Anthony Brotherton-Ratcliffe, who is still involved today. With its HQ in Brighton and its manufacturing facilities just down the road in Eastbourne, Paxton currently employs 356 people.

Paxton trades worldwide; however, the company’s roots in the community are cornerstones of its ethos around nurturing and developing talent and developing innovative solutions.

Paxton prides itself on the company culture at its HQ, offering a modern working environment and an extensive benefits

package. These include complimentary breakfast, subsidised lunches and gym membership, free yoga classes, monthly ‘Fun Fridays’ – giving employees a chance to have some fun together, six months’ maternity leave at full pay and four weeks’ fully paid paternity leave. All of which led the company to be named in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list three years.

However, it is not just the current employees that benefit from the Paxton approach to making people the centre of its business.

In n 2021/22, the technology manufacturer has partnered with the LoveLocalJobs Foundation and Local schools. Previously it also collaborated with The Girls’ Network to help mentor young people.

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Paxton has also been working with The Clock Town Sanctuary and raised £5k for them.

Another people-focused campaign is Paxton’s Scholarship programme, first launched in 2017. Since then, Paxton has been working closely with the Universities of Brighton, and Sussex, offering three-month paid summer placements for their secondyear STEM students and a £10,000 contribution to the cost of their final year of study. They support candidates studying product design, electronics, mechanical engineering, computing, maths, and physics.

This focus on people is not a new direction for Paxton. Chief Executive Officer Adam Stroud has been at the company for 25 years.

Starting as a Product Assembly Operator, Adam has held several roles at Paxton, where he’s gained a deep understanding of what customers need. He now leads the business with a firm determination to make a difference in today’s and tomorrow’s security industry.

As CEO, Adam leads the board of directors in managing the company and establishing the strategy. His leadership role includes the key business areas of product development, sales, manufacturing, logistics, customer support and finance. He is also responsible for overseeing the strategy for all companies in the Paxton Group, including Gendis, an

Read the full article here engineering company specialising in bespoke projects and niche markets; Paxton Inc, the US sales and support office; and Paxton GmbH, the German sales and support office.

When asked to describe Paxton in three words, Adam said: innovative, different, ambitious.

“Company culture is something that we take very seriously and is subject to continuous nurturing,” he says. “For Paxton, culture is the key to its long-term success, not about any individual things, but as a sustained and broad effort across many areas.”

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BUSINESS NEWS

Quanika partners with Data Installation & Supplies Network infrastructure and security systems integrator, Data Installation & Supplies (DIS), has formalised its working relationship with Quanika in a partnership deal that will drive advanced integration projects in high demand sectors including logistics and online retail warehousing and e-commerce services.

Quanika technology is enabling a new generation of security and site management

solutions that leverage the power of corporate databases – including Microsoft Active Directory – helping customers to operate their sites more efficiently in increasingly competitive landscapes.

DIS reports that it is growing strongly in sectors including warehousing, logistics, manufacturing and retail, all of which have to manage high throughputs of staff, visitors and site users. The partnership with Quanika now allows DIS to deliver advanced – and increasingly customised – solutions integrating best-in-class video and access

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Transport for West Midlands S deploys IDIS A network of 200 IDIS cameras supporting ANPR image analysis software from 4Sight has been deployed to improve traffic management in the UK West Midlands region. Supporting efficient highways management and contributing to economic growth. The solution enables detailed analysis of traffic flows, helping to minimise congestion, reduce journey times, and improve safety.

ystems integrator Total Integrated Solutions provided Transport for West Midlands with an innovative solution combining high-performance specialist IDIS 3MP DC-B3303X cameras seamlessly integrated with 4Sight’s self-configuring adaptive appearance modelling software. The superior light handling performance of the IDIS cameras is optimised by the 4Sight software, ensuring reliable, automatic compensation for extreme variations in light levels. The tech combination delivers exceptional performance, with each camera capable of covering up to four lanes of bidirectional traffic with no lane overlap.

Independent comparative testing has shown the solution to be ten times more accurate than conventional systems.

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Optex ads functionality to Redscan Pro OPTEX has launched a new firmware update for its REDSCAN PRO LiDAR Series, featuring a number of additional features that further enhance the sensors’ functionality.

The ONVIF compliant REDSCAN Pro series – which includes two models, the RLS-3060V with a range up to 30x60m and the RLS50100V up to 50x100m – provides highly accurate detection outdoor and indoor, without any ‘gaps’ or the detection reliability ‘fading’ with range.

The upgraded firmware features dynamic event filtering, which allows for alerts to be configured to meet specific detection criteria or logic. Alarms can be raised based on the sequence of zone detection, such as a target entering a specific zone first then a second one. It allows to filter events and focus on what really matters to the security team.

In another scenario, for instance in a logistics or warehouse environment, an intelligent logic can be created based on the height of vehicles positioned by the loading bays. Delivery lorries or trucks entering the detection zones would not trigger any alarms, but smaller vehicles such as vans or cars would trigger the system.

A series of new modes have been added to the REDSCAN PRO panoramic assistance camera module. To help adapt to further applications and to varying privacy restrictions,

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Integrity on AI will provide a peaceful future Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous in almost every part of our lives and, in doing so, society is facing a challenge to keep pace with its advancements in a face of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It holds exciting potential for many aspects of our lives, from improving the safety and efficiency of our cities, and guiding autonomous vehicles, to understanding consumer behaviour in a store, and supporting public health measures.

But “with this potential, comes risk” notes Uri Guterman, Head of Product and Marketing, Hanwha Techwin. In this opinion piece, Guterman agrees with

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BUSINESS NEWS

VIVOTEK and Immix Announce Platform Integration IP surveillance provider VIVOTEK announced its partnership with global software automation provider, Immix, in providing back-end solutions on the Immix Platform.

This new integration offers Immix customers access to VIVOTEK NVRs and presents flexible and friendly operations on video and audio management solutions.

Immix is primarily focused on video integrations and support for intrusion detection and access control systems. With the rapid advancement in network technologies and IoT, VIVOTEK NVR support is groundbreaking for the monitoring platform.

It lays the foundation for accessing VIVOTEK’s industry-leading and affordable network surveillance technologies.

With the VIVOTEK integration, Immix customers can now expand their surveillance needs without breaking the bank. VIVOTEK NVRs are available in 4-, 8-, and 16-channel options with embedded PoE, requiring less hardware at each location. Moreover, the absence of license fees for pairing VIVOTEK NVRs with VIVOTEK IP cameras significantly lowers total ownership costs, putting VIVOTEK IP surveillance solutions at the fingertips of Immix platform integrators.

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AIMMO brings AIpowered data labelling technology to Europe South Korean-headquartered AI data labelling company AIMMO, has announced the opening of its new European operations in the UK, as part of its global expansion.

The company’s services power AI systems by collecting, labelling and curating image, video, sound, text and sensor fusion data that is used to train intelligent recognition processes.

AIMMO’s service removes time and cost from AI training processes, allowing customers to focus on the important

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NEWS

City of Edinburgh to invest £2.6m on CCTV

RISCO gets ECHO-ready supplier status

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loud-based professional security systems provider RISCO has attained ECHO-ready supplier status. ECHO (Electronic Call Handling Operations) was developed in conjunction with the BSIA, NSI, FIA and FSA, combining current call handling systems into one nationally recognised effective police response to emergency alarms.

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North has secured a £2.6m contract with the City of Edinburgh Council to update security and surveillance across the capital. The contract will see the build and management of Edinburgh’s new CCTV Control Centre and will form part of the Council’s vision to create a Smart City Operation Facility, providing a holistic view of the city by using the latest technology to drive operational efficiencies, improve security and analyse trends.

Set for completion in September 2022, the new Control Centre will see the provision of high-definition CCTV cameras, expanded security coverage, and the introduction of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence that can provide situational awareness and predict and alert new and existing threats.

The project will see North intelligently integrate the security system with traffic and transportation platforms to enhance the management of city operations. It will improve efficiency, quickly identify and address issues, provide simple and rapid retrieval of footage, and integrate with remote security systems that are currently not connected to the existing Control Room.

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High quality video security images can help the evening economy flourish All urban landscapes have areas that are better avoided at night. Places designed with little light and poor environmental quality; such as multi-story car parks, or bus stations; can cause anxiety at night. However, sometimes opting to take a long way round instead of crossing a railway pedestrian bridge can add precious time to a journey.

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here are also parts of a city where we find nightclubs, bars, Casinos and other ‘after dark entertainment,’ or even 24 hours gyms, that rely on functioning effectively and safely at night to continue their trade.

Nighttime or evening economy means more than just people going to a bar or club. It’s also about having a safe environment that respects those who work late shifts or want to quietly and safely roam the streets as well as those who like to go out in the evening.

How could citizens feel more reassured when transiting areas that might be a bit of a security ‘blind spot’? Can night vision cameras be as clear as daylight ones?

A good starting point is to use a security camera that can effectively and clearly record images even when the lighting conditions are not ideal. The footage could be needed to ascertain what might have happened in the case of an incident. Blurred and black and

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PRODUCT NEWS

VuWall Introduces Video Wall-Over-IP Solution VuWall, a technology leader in video wall control systems and unified visualization solutions, is launching PAK, an innovative solution for deploying and managing modular video walls in AV-over-IP environments.

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AK is a networked, multidecode node that can operate as a stand-alone device or be stitched with other nodes to build an IP-based video wall that is infinitely

scalable. It simplifies video wall project deployments by reducing the number of connections and eliminating a single point of failure, reducing project risk, and offering improved reliability.

“If we peek behind many of today’s video walls, we’d expect to see an incredible amount of expensive hardware and lengthy cable runs snaking from an overcrowded rack that takes many labour hours to deploy,” said Mark Schmidt, chief technology officer of VuWall.

“Unlike traditional video wall systems, it’s

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YU-Lite expands its alarm range GS Yuasa has added a new alarm systems range to its YU-Lite small battery offering.

Designed specifically for use in Hikvision and Pyronix security systems, the new range consists of seven battery types. It complements the already available YU-Lite CR-123A battery which is used in wireless security systems and other applications.

Exclusively available from GS Yuasa, YULite alarm system batteries are a new addition to the wider YU-Lite range which has fast become the go-to choice for electrical installers and alarm engineers. YU-Lite batteries are an original equipment quality product, designed for use in emergency lighting, wireless security, fire and other industrial applications.

Capacities range from 170 to 12,000 mAh with all options offering superior shelf life and minimal discharge. The latest additions join the established YU-Lite NiCd, NiMH and Lithium ranges, offering quality and reliability at a more competitive price point than other options on the market.

Pascal Marciano, Sales & Marketing Director at GS Yuasa Battery Europe Ltd said: “Our YU-Lite alarm system batteries are a welcome addition to the range and expand on our already wide offering of small batteries for the fire and security market.

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Hanwha doesn’t cut corners Hanwha has launched a 5MP anti-ligature corner mount camera. The compact and sleekly designed camera fits neatly into a corner of a room or lift offering a more attractive option to installing a dome camera in the same location.

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Ajax shows resilience despite current conflict Since the outbreak of war between Russian and Ukraine, Ajax Systems has taken steps to ensure the safety of its employees , and the continuation of business and supplies to partners.

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o far, Ajax Systems has relocated over 600 employees and their families to safe regions in Ukraine and Europe. The manufacturer also ensures that its own and partners’ businesses work as usual. Right now, the company is relocating the stocks of finished goods and relaunching its production facilities. The regular shipments to partners were renewed this week, on March 9.

Speaking of the existing systems, the Ajax server infrastructure function without interruption, so users and partners don’t have to worry about the stability of already installed systems. Ajax’s servers are geographically dispersed throughout Europe in Amazon data centres in Ireland and Germany. This is a proven, worldwide practice for large manufacturers and organisations.

The company also continues working towards launching new products. Ajax devices announced during the Special Event presentation will soon become available according to schedule. Here is the list of the company’s upcoming novelties and innovations.

Fibra wired line of security devices The new Fibra product line of wired devices embodies all the advantages of the wireless

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