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By John Adams

BEST NEW PRODUCTS AT SECURITY 2017 ECURITY 2017 gave electronic security people plenty to think about – not just in terms of products but also in terms of overall technological strategy. There’s nothing unexpected about the seeping penetration of cloud management solutions but the depth and breadth of these solutions is noteworthy as is the market route of such products.

There’s an unwillingness to talk about grey or black-market imports of security devices for fear it will encourage installers and integrators to jump on the bandwagon but in my opinion, cloud has far more potential to disrupt the vertical. If you think of solutions like SecureGO from 3Crowns Technologies, NCrypt Cellular, Eagle Eye from ISI, SCSI’s plans to expand customers’ exposure to Bold Technologies, SkyGuard from CSD, you can see the huge potential for cloud solutions to grow business from any point in the vertical. Cloud is not just disruptive, it’s also capable of massively increasing operational capability – think Genetec Clearance, HID Location Services and Connected Buildings, and HillsTrak and SecureGO. The latter offers 31 days storage of 1080p image streams at 25ips for $A9 per day, per camera, using a 4G link that simultaneously offers users unlimited data at 50Mbps.

And these are just the solutions that spring immediately to mind.

Judges of the Best Product Awards at Security 2017 gave best product to Dahua’s NVR522424P-4KS2 NVR, which offers 800m transmissions per input, with runners up being Avigilon

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A product we thought excellent was Osprey, which detects items thrown over prison perimeters ... for Appearance Search, which increases the speed of video data searches in real time and Amaryllo International’s ATOM AR3S, which has too many features to be called a PTZ – it really is a security robot. The judges had more than 50 products to select from, making the task none too easy.

So, what did SEN like most at Security 2017? We liked Hikvision Darkfighter X, as well as Hikvision’s mobile solutions and its ANPR dome camera. We liked the Dahua X820 drone, 4K box camera, as well as the NVR5224 NVR, and we admired ievo biometrics on the Security Distributors stand. I was impressed with the performance of the TVT video surveillance cameras on the CSM stand, we also liked HillsTrak, which was strong operationally and as a business model. On the CSD stand EyeLok brought high end authentication to the wider market. Elite X and SIFER keypad were good expansions on Integriti and Inception. On the FLIR stand we liked the power of Cameleon teamed up with FLIR thermal, which is a real-time surveillance solution of enormous power. FLIR makes lovely gear and we look forward to testing that 12MP hemispheric.

A product we thought excellent was Osprey, which detects items thrown over prison perimeters and was locally developed in partnership with the NSW Department of Corrections. Products like Osprey, which have a very pointy operational focus and successfully resolve an issue which has plagued law enforcement agencies for hundreds of years are hard not to love. Osprey is likely to become a benchmark technology, in our opinion.

Uniview’s 2000-input Unicorn NVR was something else that impressed

us. A lot of users still love the potential for secure isolation and the simplicity of NVRs, which incorporate PoE, management solutions, IVA, redundant power supplies and redundant storage arrays in a single rack-mount housing. Of course, with 2000 inputs, Unicorn takes the NVR to a whole new level.

If bigger is better, Seagate’s 12TB enterprise HDD deserves a mention.

Will flash ever dominate well-designed HDDs or will the 2 technologies exist side by side? We tend to think the latter. In any case, a 12TB drive is really taking things to the next level.

ATOM AR3S from Amaryllo shows what’s possible with field devices mustering more serious processing power – pretty much anything you like. Bosch was showing its muchloved controllers, as well as new Vera hub and peripherals. Alongside was a new CCTV range of compact cameras we liked the look of, too. Bosch MIC – well, you know what we think of that camera – good things in small packages.

We liked Mobotix MX6, Nx Witness and its new cloud functionality, Vanderbilt access control, which is not new but new to us – it looks robust and it’s proven. Avigilon’s Face Appearance Search - we rated this up near the top of the list for 2017. There was Sony SNC-VB642D with IR and white light support in a bullet, Dallmeier low light and the latest Panomera, Klacci locks, Axxon VMS, Axis radar, WCCTV body worn cameras - AMC’s Unika keypad/touchscreen from LSC was cool, too. Installers and integrators loved LockVue, which allows remote management of smart locks. There was so much we did not see, it’s tough to call a winner in 2017. Hell, let’s go out on a limb. The best new producttechnology at Security 2017 was cloud. n

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AUG 17 24: SENSATEK LAUNCHES A NEW national electronic security distribution company, SensaTek, has been launched in Australia, with staff, offices and warehousing in each state.

26: ACCELERATIONISM Security 2017 was the perfect chance to get our heads around the latest security systems, as well as getting a feel for industry trends – a sense of where the industry is heading in the future, how far down the path of that development we really are and how fast our industry is changing.

40: BRIGHTON TOYOTA Logical Services has installed an 80-camera Mobotix video surveillance solution, supported by MxManagementCenter and MxActivitySensor for Australia’s largest Toyota dealership, Brighton Toyota.

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As networking technology charges ahead it’s getting more difficult to categorise groups of networked things. Is there a difference any longer? Let’s find out.

52: X MARKS THE SPOT Darkfighter X is a new 2MP 1080p surveillance camera range from Hikvision that features a new sensor design that allows much improved low light performance in colour. If what we saw on the Hikvision stand at Security 2017 was anything to go by, then this camera might take the market to another level.

54: RE-EMPOWERING PROCESSORS Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have developed a method to increase by a factor of 5 the computing power of a standard algorithm when performed in one type of standard chip, FPGA. The new method is both simple and smart.

56: EVENT HISTORY The history of access control in Australia is a long and fascinating one and no one is better equipped to fill in the gaps that electronic security consultant, Roger Pearce, who has

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60: WI-FI CCTV FOR ACT ACT Government is reported to be considering a plan that would allow CCTV cameras to leverage Canberra’s CBRFree Wi-Fi network. The possibility is being trialled using 4 mobile cameras at Floriade.

48: MONITORING Alarm monitoring continues the process of change and announcements from SCSI that will more aggressively pull customers forward into a post-rebate future suggest that process is about to speed up – big time.

62: SECURITY 2017 THE PEOPLE In SEN’s big show pictorial we take a look at the faces and spaces at Security 2017, Australia’s biggest security exhibition.

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VISION-Box has entered into a contract with the Australian Government to deliver the world’s first automated ‘contactless’ traveller clearance processes for people arriving in Australia by air at all international airports.

This contract is part of the Seamless Traveller program, which began in 2015 after the Australian Government selected the company to provide biometric border control SmartGates at all Airports’ departures.

The 3-year contract will deliver the next generation of Automated Border Control passenger-processing technology. Vision Box’s latest innovations will assist the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection to collect and verify biometric data

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from all passengers arriving at Australian International Airports.

It will also deliver a new capability that will enable known travellers to self-process through the border without the need to physically use a passport (contactless),

entirely relying on facial recognition technology.

“This contract represents an unparalleled milestone in the history of automation at the border, since it is the first time a government will implement biometric

identification through contactless services,” said Miguel Leitmann of Vision-Box. “By selecting VisionBox, the Australian Government once again puts its trust in us, to build their leading ambition, which is an

amazing recognition to our commitment to society in this respect.

I am very proud of what our people have achieved for our customer and how they feel being part of something bigger: making the world a better place.”

NAS APPOINTED AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR FOR WAMA CCTV PRODUCTS n WAMA has announced the appointment of NAS Australia as its security distributor in Australia and parts of the Oceania region.

According to WAMA, the partnership with NAS

marks “the beginning of a new CCTV ecosystem in the land Down Under, bringing in cuttingedge video surveillance technologies and competitively priced solutions that will greatly

benefit the security industry and end users in the market”.

“Entering the Australian market is certainly a significant step towards achieving our goal of becoming a global brand,” said Dr. Wallace Ma, Chief Executive Officer of WAMA Technology.

“NAS Australia has many years of experience in the industry and we share the same vision of delivering high quality products and excellent services to the market. I am confident that our cooperation

will bring many new opportunities to the WAMA ecosystem.”

David Dargie, product director of NAS Australia, said the NAS team was also excited about the partnership.

“NAS Australia is thrilled to distribute WAMA products into the Australasian region,” Dargie said. “Pairing cutting edge electronic technologies with oldfashioned support and service is what we do best.

We look forward to leading future developments of

the IP CCTV technology as customers look to get smarter with their CCTV systems.”

Established in 1982, NAS Australia is an Australian family-owned and operated wholesaler of cutting edge TV reception, custom installation and security products.

Meanwhile, WAMA is a CCTV technology company incorporated in Hong Kong, which offers a comprehensive range of video surveillance solutions that cater to the needs of the mass market.

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BEHAVIOUR ANALYTICS TECH HOUSE SECURONIX EXPANDS INTO AUSTRALIA n USER Behaviour Analytics security firm, Securonix, has expanded into Australia with the opening of its first operational base in Sydney.

The company’s marketleading technology detects malicious behaviour within an organisation or network in real-time.

The launch in Sydney follows on the heels of the company launching in Singapore as part of a concerted global expansion.

Founded in 2008, Securonix pioneered the use of user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA). It is the only purpose-built Security Intelligence Platform that relies on signatureless technology for the detection, monitoring, investigation and management of malicious behaviour within an organisation and/or its network in real-time.

It analyses user behaviour, log irregularities and next-generation security information and event management (SIEM), and can connect the dots from the full range of data available, develop profiles based on that data, and identify where a threat may come from and what level threat it poses before the damage is done.

“Some of the world’s biggest security breaches happen not from the outside, but from within.

Fraud, leaks and insider theft are on the rise in Australia and firms need to act to protect themselves,” said Chris Poulos, vice president for Asia-Pacific and Japan, Securonix.

The most recent KPMG ‘fraud barometer’ found that the total value of frauds rose by 16 per cent during a 6-month period in 2016 to $442m, and that those most likely to be engaged in fraud were from company

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management (36 per cent of cases).

“It’s why analysing user behaviour should be part and parcel of a security posture and until now Australian organisations have been unable to do it effectively,” said Poulos.

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The Securonix platform can be delivered as a managed service or through the channel in Australia, with the company having established partnerships with more than a dozen resellers in the region.

AUSTRALIAN GAS LIGHT PUSHES INTO CONNECTED HOME SPACE n AUSTRALIAN Energy utility AGL has made a strategic US$10 million (A$12.5 million) investment in a US smart home lock maker, partially to understand broader opportunities in the connected home market.

It’s only a toe in the water for now but don’t be fooled - AGL is a very big dog, with annual revenues of $A14 billion, 3500 staff and a foot in every door thanks to its vast power supply business.

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known for its smart door locks and doorbell camera technology that operate using the proximity of your smartphone.

The AGL investment forms part of a Series C fundraising round by August Home, which raised a total US$25 million (A$31.25 million).

Other investors of note include Comcast Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.

Executive general manager of new energy at AGL, Elisabeth Brinton, said in a statement that AGL was interested in exploring opportunities across the spectrum of the connected home market.

“We know the connected home is a major area of

interest for our customers and we’re focused on how we can give our customers greater control of their energy management,” she said.

“As we continue to innovate, we’re thinking of the home as a whole ecosystem – connected by smart technology. For us, this is just the beginning.”

AGL’s new energy business unit was formed in 2014 and comprises rooftop solar, commercial energy services, energy storage, electric vehicle services and the company’s digital metering business, ActiveStream. Connected homes now also appear to be on AGL’s horizon.

SECURITY 2017 Best New Products Awards, sponsored by Sony, are a celebration of the most innovative products to hit the Australian market over the last 12 months. Winners were Dahua, Avigilon and Amaryllo, in that order.

Products were judged on originality, impact of innovation, measurability of the benefits, and applicability to the Australian market by a panel of leading security experts.

Dahua Technology took out this year’s Best New Product Award from over 50 entries. The Dahua NVR5224-24P-4KS2 is a 24-Channel NVR capable of transmitting over cable distances of up to 800m between the camera and NVR, which is a huge increase in distance compared to the current 100m limit of Cat-based IP networks.

1st Runner Up was awarded to Avigilon for Appearance Search technology, a sophisticated deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) search engine technology.

Appearance Search sorts through hours of footage with ease, to quickly locate specific people and vehicles across an entire site.

2nd Runner Up was awarded to Amaryllo International’s ATOM AR3S, the world’s first professional IP66-certified outdoor robot. The ATOM AR3S recognises faces as well as deciphering militarygrade 256-bit encryption.

The AR3S is also fast to set up as it can be powered from a standard Edison light bulb socket.

“The standard of entries for this year’s awards was second to none, making the judging decision harder than ever and therefore a special mention goes out to all entries,” said ASIAL’s John Fleming

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HILLS AND GENETEC PLANNING GENETEC AUSTRALIAN APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT CENTRE n THE Genetec Australian Application Development Centre will focus on expansion into application solutions for the retail, banking, public safety, government and transport sectors.

Hills Limited and Genetec have announced plans to create the “Genetec Australian Application Development Centre to support the ongoing growth of both companies’ joint security integration business in the Australia and New Zealand market”.

Genetec has a broad solutions portfolio that encompasses security, intelligence, and operations, with its flagship product, Security Centre, being a unified IP security platform that blends security systems within a single intuitive interface to simplify the management of access control, video surveillance,

automatic license plate recognition (ALPR), VoIP communications, intrusion, and analytics.

The company says its open architecture “enables organisations to customise their security and operations using the Genetec software developer’s kit (SDK) with support from trusted partners like Hills.”

Hills Limited was named

by Genetec as Best Distributor and Best Development Partner in Asia Pacific and Genetec praises Hills as “one of a few strategic Genetec partners worldwide that has been selected to support systems integration and delivery services”.

According to Hills chief executive, David Lenz, based on the success of the partnership to date, Hills and Genetec are keen to announce this

David Lenz of Hills (left) with Phillipe Ouimette and Charles Cousins of Genetec

new initiative which will accelerate growth across ANZ. “Our focus will be on expansion into application solutions for the industry verticals of retail, banking, public safety, government and transport,” Lenz said.

“By collaborating with Genetec to develop a strategic plan that drives sales growth for the next three years, with a strong focus on pre-sales

capabilities, we’ll be able to provide a state-of-theart, purpose-built security solution for the diverse markets we serve.”

Meanwhile, Philippe Ouimette, Genetec country manager for Australia and NZ, said Genetec and Hills share a common vision for delivering unified, innovative security solutions that help ‘Protect the Everyday’.

“We are excited to open the

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“Together with Hills, we will be very well positioned to cultivate and win new business opportunities in ANZ.

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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DEPT OF CORRECTIONS SEEKS SECURITY SUPPLIERS, INTEGRATORS n SOUTH Australia’s Department for Correctional Services is seeking to establish a panel of suppliers and integrators to manage its electronic security systems.

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The tender closes on September 5.

MATT KELLY JOINS STANLEY SECURITY AS NSW STATE SALES MANAGER n MATT Kelly has joined Stanley Security as its new NSW state sales manager.

“We are very excited to have Matt join our team” said Stanley’s GM for Australia & NZ – David Galligan.

“Matt brings a wealth of experience in security from the banking and finance

sectors as well as working with large Telco’s to satisfy their requirements.”

Kelly is a 20-year veteran of the electronic security industry in NSW and has previously worked for TechGuard and SNP Security and is relishing his new role.

SURETEK has been appointed a national distributor in Australia for Canada-based surveillance manufacturer, Avigilon.

“We are excited to announce that Avigilon has appointed Suretek as national distributor for its entire range of cameras, NVRs and video management software,” said Suretek MD, Glenn Smith.

“Adding Avigilon to our stable is significant as it gives our customers access to an extensive range of worldclass security products.

Our installer partners will be especially impressed with Avigilon’s self-learning analytics and integrated video-to-access-control solutions.

“The new partnership with Avigilon re-inforces our commitment to providing Suretek customers with a comprehensive suite of innovative technologies,” Smith said.

BGW TECHNOLOGIES NOW DISTRIBUTING DSC INTRUSION PRODUCTS n BGW Technologies has signed an agreement for the distribution of DSC’s intrusion products to its portfolio. The full range of DSC intrusions products including NEO, PowerSeries, Impassa, all of which will be available from the BGW Technologies branch network across Australia including Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane.

“This is a growth initiative

for both our companies” says Robert Meachem, general manager for BGW Technologies. “The intrusion alarm market segment has always been of significant interest to me and is an exceptional fit with our long-term strategy at BGW Technologies. The current depth, breadth and the quality of DSC products is well known and with the future road map packed with new product lines it Rob Meachem

is evident that this is an outstanding addition to our product portfolio.

“What’s more, the mutual desire for DSC and BGW Technologies to increase exposure and sales of the DSC products to far more dealers was an instant attraction and one we will back up with significant investment in people and inventory.”

BGW Technologies specialises in value added distribution of word class products in electronic security products and technologies to the trade and has grown its brand significantly since it was established in 2010. BGW Technologies has fully operational branches with stock, demonstration facilities and training rooms in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and a recently opened office in Adelaide to service the needs of the security and technology industry.

“Our business has witnessed significant growth in customer

activity again over the last 12 months, which is endorsing our high levels of service, deep technical knowledge and national footprint all of which is underpinned by our talented team and the BGW Group financial strength,” Meachem said.

“It is these elements that intrusion alarm customers are screaming out for and are areas DSC and BGWT can make a real difference.”

BGW Technologies will announce the availability of products from its branch networks in the weeks ahead. BGW Technologies is a part of the private/family owned BGW Group of companies based out of Queensland Australia.

With more than 1100 staff and 100 branches across Australia and ASIA the BGW Group’s core business is based around providing electrical, plumbing and technology solutions to the trade.

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ADT MAY HAVE $US15 BILLION IPO IN 2018: REPORTS WALL Street Journal has cited anonymous reports that private-equity firm Apollo is planning a $US15 billion IPO next year after buying the company in 2016 for $7 billion.

Reuters said it would be the largest private equitybacked initial public offering since Hilton Worldwide Holdings went public at $19.7 billion in 2013.

ADT has 20,000 staff across nearly 300 locations and serves 7 million customers, with 2 million connected through the ADT Pulse app.

The blue-sky valuation of this IPO certainly suggests the cloud-based business model now has serious commercial traction.

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ARA GROUP DISTRIBUTING NX WITNESS IN NSW AND QLD n ARA Group reports it is now the exclusive distributor in Queensland and NSW of the NX Witness video management system, manufactured by Network Optix. ARA Products managing director Stuart Harmer said while VMS was not uncommon in the industry, Nx Witness took it to another level.

“I wanted something that set us apart from the rest,” Harmer said. “I really like products that are trusted technology and trusted brands, but specifically I don’t want to be a ‘me too’.

It must be something that sets us apart and give us some exclusivity.

“Nx Witness certainly does that for us. It’s a lot different to anything else out there in the way it works.”

One example of this is its ability to record a playback of footage and your voice giving the recipient instructions and details about a security instance.

“With Nx Witness you can for example click screen record and play back recorded footage of an event and talk the recipient through what happened, Nx also records your voice and lets you make notes on certain details, this is critical in loss prevention and other security applications. Nx Witness packages up the recorded screen footage and voice audio into a small file which can be

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emailed easily and played by the recipient without any special software,” Harmer said.

“Another great feature is Nx’s ability for storage analysis, so users can forecast the impact that adding Hard Drive storage to the Nx server will have on their storage duration.

“For example, liquor licencing may require storage of video footage for 30 days however if an operator changes a camera to record a higher resolution that can have a dramatic impact on the storage, meaning suddenly they are in breach of the law because the total days are reduced.

“With Nx Witness the storage analysis means you can determine the impact of any changes from days to minutes right down to seconds. That’s really

important for an end user.”

The system’s video wall capabilities mean it can display camera feeds from systems all over the world and the wall can be expanded to any capacity required.

According to Harmer, any desktop client can be switched into video wall mode enabling screening on plasma screens, ideal for use in a control room or corporate head office environment, for example.

Another benefit for integrators (the installers of CCTV and security protocols) is the system’s rapid deployment.

“It can be set up and configured extremely quickly which shortens the length of time the integrator and engineers are required on site,” he said. “It has super ease of use, visually it looks great

and has an extensive API to enable intricate and robust integrations with other systems.”

Nx Witness works across Apple Mac, Windows and Linux and uses metadata to enable the fastest incident searching capability on the market. It uses a grid interface to combine footage together and provides a clever resource tree to monitor the health of the system. Other features include a mobile app for Android or iPhone and the free NX Cloud service provided by Network Optix so systems can be easily grouped together all over the world.

“The system also has very good auto discovery and will look at the user’s network and find compatible hardware it can work with and add it to its system,” Harmer said.

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n IAN Fuller has joined Sektor Australia in the position of national systems manager.

“Ian’s deep industry experience adds a valuable dimension to Sektor’s security initiatives,” said Tom Kinkade, Sektor Australia’s security business manager. “With

his unique skills and experience, Ian will play a pivotal role in taking our business to the next level. We are proud to welcome Ian to the Green Machine!”

Fuller completed a bachelor’s degree (Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering) before commencing a 23-

year career in electronic security excelling in senior roles with Hills/ Pacific Communications and Q Security Systems.

Ian is widely recognised as the foremost expert on the FLIR Systems United VMS and is authorised to train and certify systems integrators on the platform.

GAVIN McSherry has joined BGWT Technologies QLD in a technical sale engineering role.

“It is very exciting to have a person of Gavin’s experience and outstanding customer service join the BGW Technologies team” said Alan Whitehead, state manager BGWT, QLD. “Gavin joins BGWT with nearly 20 years’ experience in sales and business development roles across the security industry. He has a deep knowledge of the CCTV industry in Qld and comes with a strong technical and outstanding customer service reputation.

Previously with Ingram Micro, McSherry has more than 18 years’ electronic security experience, mostly in distribution having previously worked for Hills Limited and most recently, Video Security Products.

“Gavin understands that strong technical knowledge and customer service are key elements to keeping customers happy, as he learned the value of this back from his time at Pacom,” said Robert Meachem, BGWT general manager.

“These are key values of BGWT and Gavin will fit right in with our culture and the QLD team.”

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INTELLIGENT SECURITY INTEGRATION ANZ DISTRIBUTOR FOR EAGLE EYE NETWORKS n INTELLIGENT Security Integration Australia has signed an ANZ distribution agreement with Eagle Eye Networks.

Physical security integration company, ISI Australia has previously been a reseller for the US based cloud video surveillance company’s

products. Based in Melbourne, ISI Australia now intends to roll out a nationwide channel partner network.

“Eagle Eye Networks developed the first cloud based video solution with open API,” said Stephen Bell, managing director of ISI Australia. “The

company was the first to address security and bandwidth management issues and following the acquisition of Panasonic Cloud Management Service Europe B.V. last month, Eagle Eye has cemented its place as the world’s first global cloud video surveillance company.

“With the company’s patented Camera Cyber Lockdown protocol, Eagle Eye products include a firewall to block cameras from external communication even if they have infections or trojans. This effectively makes all cameras secure from cyber-attacks regardless of the quality of their software or the regular application of software updates.”

Bell said Eagle Eye’s technology offers a great opportunity for integrators.

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“The cloud system really is the future of video surveillance,” said Bell. “It offers excellent picture quality, works with a large range of both analogue and IP cameras and offers integrators a new source of reoccurring revenue”.

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WITH THE COMPANY’S PATENTED CAMERA CYBER LOCKDOWN PROTOCOL, EAGLE EYE PRODUCTS INCLUDE A FIREWALL TO BLOCK CAMERAS FROM EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION EVEN IF THEY HAVE INFECTIONS OR TROJANS.

TERRY Corsar has recently joined the Team at CSM as branch manager for its Qld office. Corsar has been in the security industry for the last 23 years, initially as an owner-operator of his own electronic security installation company.

Corsar then moved into security wholesaling where he has worked for a number of major wholesale companies over the last 16 years. Corsar has worked with electronic security distribution companies including Crow, Alarm Parts on Line, Pacom, DAS and CSD. Prior to starting at CSM Corsar worked as a BDM at Telstra AFN for 6 months as an integrator.

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n HIKVISION has been named the number 1 CCTV manufacturer for market share in CCTV and video surveillance equipment worldwide by HIS Markit.

Hikvision has a total market share of 21.4 per cent for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment based on 2016 data. This is

an improvement over last year’s report, based on 2015 data, where Hikvision had 19.5 per cent market share.

In addition, IHS Markit ranked Hikvision No.1 for 2016 global market share in the categories of: security cameras (24.2 per cent), analogue +HD CCTV security cameras

(23.9 per cent), network security cameras (25.6 per cent), and recorders (25.3 per cent).

Hikvision said its continued growth and solid performance is driven by its commitment to R&D investment in new products, people and integrator partners.

n JOHN Gellel has been elected ASIAL vice president after an announcement by the Australian Electoral Commission.

“ASIAL congratulates John and looks forward to working with him on the board,” said ASIAL in a release.

ASIAL is the recognised peak national body for security professionals in Australia. It is dedicated to supporting members, promoting standards and safeguarding public interests.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES PLANS CCTV AND VMS UPGRADE n University of New South Wales is planning to upgrade its CCTV network and video management software.

Recent evaluations

by UNSW Security in consultation with staff and students, and external agencies (NSW Police and external consultants)

have identified gaps in the security monitoring network.

Further, the international student barometer has extensively surveyed overseas students and 92 per cent identified security as an important factor in choosing a campus to study. Security and

wellbeing are major contributors to a positive campus experience which is a critical factor in many international university rankings calculations.

According to UNSW, the university prides itself on providing a safe campus to its staff and students and has developed an effective security service to address security across the campus. Upgrades and improvements in security systems are required constantly and last month the company went to tender to focus on immediate and essential upgrades.

The university comprises 8 faculties, with the main campus located on a 38-hectare (94-acre) site in the Sydney suburb of Kensington. The creative arts faculty, UNSW Art & Design, is at Paddington, UNSW Canberra is

located at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra and there are sub-campuses in the Sydney CBD and in Randwick and Coogee.

Research stations are located throughout New South Wales. UNSW has an annual endowment of around $A1.7 billion, 6200 academic staff and around 55,000 students.

The CCTV tender closed on July 24.

ACCORDING TO UNSW, THE UNIVERSITY PRIDES ITSELF ON PROVIDING A SAFE CAMPUS TO ITS STAFF AND STUDENTS AND HAS DEVELOPED AN EFFECTIVE SECURITY SERVICE TO ADDRESS SECURITY ACROSS THE CAMPUS.

HID GLOBAL ACQUIRES ARJO SYSTEMS HID Global has acquired Arjo Systems SAS, a provider of physical and digital identity solutions for secure government ID applications.

The acquisition of Arjo Systems gives HID Global broader capabilities to deploy electronic identification (eID) and ePassport solutions for government programs.

“Our acquisition of Arjo Systems significantly advances our Government-to-Citizen ID business, broadening our geographical reach and giving us critical mass,” said Stefan Widing, President and CEO of HID Global. “Arjo Systems is a strong fit for HID Global, complementing our existing government ID offerings with an expanded range of capabilities for government agencies, state printers and local integrators.”

Arjo Systems boosts HID as an eID and ePassport solutions provider with complementary products and new software capabilities, one of the few proven eID/ePassport chip operating systems, integration services and market knowledge, expanding HID Global’s presence in select emerging markets, as HID looks to better support government customers and integrators alike.

Arjo Systems will be merged with HID Global’s existing Government ID Solutions business.

With approximately 100 employees overall, Arjo Systems will continue its operations in France, Italy and Hong Kong.

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NEW APPOINTMENTS SIGNAL HILLS NZ INTENT TO GROW n HILLS NZ has signalled its intent to increase its share of the New Zealand market with the appointment of 2 new BDM’s in Auckland and Christchurch as part of an accelerated recruitment drive, aimed at developing new business and capitalising on Hills’ extensive product range, with a strong focus on driving the Genetec solutions portfolio.

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of experience in new business acquisition and has an impressive track record of securing business, both in the commercial and government sector. His appointment is seen as a key component in the Hills NZ philosophy of solution selling to the end user and consultant market.

Returning to New Zealand after working for Hills in Australia, Richard Edwards has been appointed business development manager at the Christchurch office. With strong product knowledge and extensive network of contacts, it’s anticipated that Richard will have an immediate impact on the Christchurch bottom-line.

In addition, Josh Reynolds in the Auckland branch will move into a new role, focusing on the development of the company’s pre-sales capabilities, leveraging his expertise in Genetec system design as part of a strategy to grow the

Genetec business.

Hills NZ general manager, Chris Whiting, said that the new appointments would boost the company’s ability to provide true turn-key offerings to clients, consultants and end users.

“We’ve assembled a dedicated team of experts who can build solutions tailored to the customer’s requirements. We can still provide an off-the shelf solution, but we’re growing our pre-sales support to ensure we can provide a state-of-the-art, purposebuilt security solutions.

“With our key people in place, the focus is now on driving sales in FY18 to grow our share of the NZ market,” Whiting said.

Head of sales - security, surveillance & IT at Hills, Bill Sakellariou said the rapid evolution of the security landscape meant organisations were looking for integrated, future proof solutions.

“Organisations don’t want to monitor and

CORPORATE SECURITY MANAGERS WANT TO CONSOLIDATE ALL THE DISCONNECTED SECURITY AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS - AND THAT’S WHERE HILLS HAS THE ADVANTAGE.

manage separate access control, fire alarm, video surveillance and intrusion systems,” Sakellariou said. “Corporate security managers want to consolidate all the disconnected security and facility management components - and that’s where Hills has the advantage.

“Partnering with leading global technology providers like Genetec – and supported by Hills expertise and technical support – we can create unified security solutions that are future proof and ensure best practice.”

“Axis recognises Fredon Security’s ongoing commitment to the quality installation of Axis product on major projects throughout New South Wales and the ACT with this striking glass award for Solution Provider of the Year,” said Axis country manager, Wai King Wong.

Fredon’s trophy cabinet is filling up. The integrator has scored ASIAL Excellence Awards for integrations in Sydney and then ACT in consecutive years, and was also presented with a Performance Excellence Award from Tyco Security Products after upgrading the C.Cure solution at Canberra Hospital in 10 days.

“I’m really proud of the culture of excellence that is continuing to grow in the business,” said Danny Berkovic, managing director, Fredon Security recently.

Danny Berkovic, managing director, Fredon Security (left) receives the award from Sargon Yousif of Axis.

PERTH ARENA INSTALLS FIXED AND AUTOMATIC BOLLARDS, PLANS SECURITY UPGRADE n PERTH Arena has enhanced its security solution with the installation of 40 fixed and 8 automatic J275 bollards, featuring blue bodies and blue LED lighting.

Recently, counter terrorism expert and federal MP Anne Aly said Perth Arena would be a prime target for a terrorist attack on

the city and Premier Mark McGowan promised a security upgrade at the venue in the wake of the deadly Manchester bombing in which more than 22 died and 59 were injured by an Islamist suicide bomber.

Dr Aly said she had been “taken aback” by the way Perth Arena managed

people leaving the venue after events.

“Thousands of people are streamed through a single point and congregate at one point, all moving in a single direction,” she said.

“There is no security and there is no management of people.

“This is exactly the kind of opportunity that somebody seeking to do us damage would look for - people congregating en masse.”

Dr Aly said there were 3 main reasons terrorists might choose a particular target — for the symbolic value, for easy access and to kill the most number of people.

“If we can understand that we can start looking at what venues and what places might be vulnerable to an attack,” Dr Aly said.

Meanwhile, VenuesWest

chief executive David Etherton told ABC Radio Perth that security staff would be wearing high-vis vests at future events at the arena so they were more visible to the public.

“We have exceptionally safe venues in Western Australia and we have a great record,” he said. “We have great people running the venues and people will be safe when they come to events.”

Perth Arena is an entertainment and sporting arena in the city centre of Perth, Western Australia, used mostly for basketball matches. It is located on Wellington Street near the site of the former Perth Entertainment Centre, and was officially opened on 10 November 2012.

The Perth Arena is the first stage of the Perth

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With its design based on the Eternity puzzle, the venue will hold up to 13,910 spectators for tennis events, 14,846 for basketball (the arena’s capacity is capped at 13,000 for National Basketball League regular season games) and a maximum of 15,000 for music or rock concerts. The venue has a retractable roof, 36 luxury appointed corporate suites, a 680-bay underground car park, 5 dedicated function spaces, and touring trucks can drive directly onto the arena Chris Whiting floor.

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SENSATEK LAUNCHES A NEW national electronic security distribution company, SensaTek, has been launched in Australia, with staff, offices and warehousing in each state.

CCORDING to Bill Barbagiannakos, managing director, SensaTek is a boutique electronic security distribution company that will offer a quality range of electronic security and data networking solutions, as well as a high level of support to integrators, resellers and design assistance to consultants.

“Forming a partnership with APCD has given SensaTek nationwide coverage in all states,” Barbagiannakos said. “The collaboration is a perfect fit for IT enterprise and security surveillance industry converging to form the total solution.

“SensaTek has warehousing, configuration facilities and offices in every state and there are now SensaTek staff in each state – one in each initially and this will grow quickly. They are all senior people from the industry and will take on roles in their speciality fields.”

With product range, Barbagiannakos says there’s plenty to look forward to across multiple market segments.

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“We will carry brands in each of the market segments we support, for their respective characteristics to offer optimal choice for the integrators and resellers,” said Barbagiannakos.

“We are in surveillance and video management, as well as access control and intrusion. We will also carry IP intercoms and loads of IT products – servers, workstations, storage, etc. We are taking the IoT message to the market with proficiency and capability.”

“We have Vivotek in IP surveillance,” Barbagiannakos said. “I know my cameras and have always considered Vivotek to be the equal of the best cameras – it’s manufactured and designed in-house in Taiwan and the company is one of digital video’s true pioneers. We will also have a third brand in video surveillance yet to be announced.

“Alongside CCTV we will also distribute Vicon’s complete portfolio. The range is revamped and includes the new Valerus VMS. We also have the Aimetis VMS and IPConfigure’s Orchid, which is a federated web client VMS that can be federated across multiple browser platforms, including Safari – it works on anything. It’s a real disruptor.

“With access control, we are offering VAX from Vicon. Vicon’s VAX access control system features an over-the-door controller with an embedded request-to-exit motion sensor, status LEDs and onboard communications that simplify installation and troubleshooting. The browser-based VAX Valerus access control software is packed with management and reporting features, formatted for quick viewing and intuitive operation. There will be another access control solution we will announce soon.”

According to Barbagiannakos, SensaTek will also offer access readers, IP intercoms, a variety of leading brands of servers, storage, networking gear, including ruggedized industrial switches – from Antaira and Vivotek, a huge range of IT and networking hardware.

“SensaTek is highly committed to building itself into a strong and capable distribution business and I am extremely excited about the future,” Barbagiannakos said. “We will be leveraging all our skill and all our considerable experience on behalf of our customers and we are looking forward to speaking with you very soon.” n

WE WILL CARRY BRANDS IN EACH OF THE MARKET SEGMENTS WE SUPPORT, FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE CHARACTERISTICS TO OFFER OPTIMAL CHOICE FOR THE INTEGRATORS AND RESELLERS.

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ACCELERATIONISM Security 2017 was the perfect chance to get our heads around the latest security systems, as well as getting a feel for industry trends – a sense of where the industry is heading in the future, how far down the path of that development we really are and how fast our industry is changing.

HAT was new at Security 2017? Plenty and across all market segments – surveillance, access control, intrusion, networking and the physical security components that support them. What stood out most? It was the acceleration of fundamental change, the ongoing process of integration and the recognition by many vendors

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of the lateral sprawl of technologies with the capacity to enhance multi-stranded operational outcomes that most struck me. On many stands, I heard a similar refrain: We are selling solutions to users’ problems, not products and features.

This position might seem to strike a false note but on deeper thought, it’s the right position.

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BY J O H N A D A M S

THERE IS A GROWING EMPHASIS ON MANAGING DEVICES/INPUTS, RATHER THAN JUST BUILDING OR ENHANCING DEVICES.

Selling complex security solutions is fundamentally about educating the market and as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out during a Think Inc keynote speech at the ICC the night after Security 2017, the most important aspect of education is not projecting what you know but establishing how others learn best. At the professional security level, that means discovering end users’ operational challenges then explaining how your technology can be their solution.

This was the exhibition of a mature industry – polished, well managed and strongly supported.

The floor space was unquestionably the largest I’ve seen at an Aussie security show and the traffic flows were solid, especially on day 1 and for the first 2 thirds of day 2. Diversified, the organisers of Security 2017, managed the event seamlessly, though some of the credit for the slickness of this event accrues to the design of the new purpose-built ICC building.

The exhibition space, its operational functionality and the much enhanced Darling Harbour precinct combined to make Security 2017 arguably the best local security event we’ve attended. Most exhibitors were happy, too.

As every visitor would have found, it’s tough to see everything at any exhibition – there are the distractions of catching up with people on every booth and the difficulties of side-stepping one’s internal biases. In my case, those biases tend towards devices rather than software. Then there’s the lack of time to spend getting a summary of every new product on display – some bigger companies had dozens of new things on their stand, many of them of considerable complexity. This made it difficult to genuinely expose the mind to a balanced cross section of the security technology available to the market.

Despite these challenges, there was much to be learned at Security 2017. The security industry is, more than ever, about relationships between people and between companies. This has always been a tight industry and the relationship game is more vital than ever. Change is getting faster and more profound. There is a growing emphasis on managing devices/inputs, rather than just building or enhancing devices. IVA – at all levels it’s growing and companies are leveraging it in lateral new ways.

And there’s a growing fatalism about the power of the big Chinese manufacturers. Hikvision, Dahua and to a somewhat lessor extent, Uniview, threw a huge weight of product at the market. As these new players have increased their market share at the expense of traditional manufacturers we see fewer new releases from more mature players and in some cases, these releases are of lower quality than we’d

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THERE’S ONE AREA GLOBAL MANUFACTURERS ARE CLEARLY AHEAD – SOFTWARE – THEY HAVE DECADES OF EXPERIENCE AND IT SHOWS.

have seen in the past. Some seem to be competing at the low end, others at the upper end. Meanwhile, the Big Three compete with unparalleled vigour at the lower end, the middle and the top end of the market.

I looked for short cuts in their respective ranges but saw few. They seem to build powerful, yet affordable solutions just to prove they can and the speed with which they’ve got their engineering teams around complex technology is breathtaking.

This is not to say there are not brilliant products coming from other manufacturers – there are and many of them are the best performers on the market, though at a higher price. But these players are going to need to be very competitive in features, quality and price to keep up. What is clear is that they won’t keep up for long by comprising quality and slashing R&D investment to defend margin.

There’s one area global manufacturers are clearly ahead – software – they have decades of experience and it shows. At Security 2017 software was more dominant than it has ever been and none of that clunky-looking MS root directory stuff, thank you very much. The latest solutions are not just slick, they are simple and by that I don’t mean they aren’t clever. Instead they have very pointed operational focus. Even relatively modest solutions are backed by sweet management solutions the explaining of which was never so easy.

Last year in this feature I waxed lyrical about the wave of connectedness that is sweeping up behind us to overwhelm electronic security – that wave is

moving through the market in ways it’s hard for any commentator to predict. During a conversation on the show floor, I think it was with Mobotix’ engaged and engaging CEO, Thomas Lausten, the word chaos came up to describe the utterly disrupted state of the market. We agreed that this state of technological frisson may be the new normal – anything and everything may increasingly be possible on the back of powerful infrastructure, elevated user expectations and the willingness of manufacturers and integrators to test every potential niche in every possible market.

On the first afternoon of the show I spoke with Dale Acott and Chad Wright of SCSI, whose plans for the future of their company include engaging with the vertical in profound and disruptive ways that they argue are the only means of ensuring the survival of their entire market segment. Will solid state alarm panels survive the coming networking shift – a change governed by loss of rebates, changing user expectations and growing possibilities? Acott and Wright argue that ultimately, they will not, and the SCSI team is adjusting its business model to meet this future.

On the Genetec stand, Lee Shelford observed the company was not a security company but a networking company – what he meant by this was that Genetec’s often brilliant operational applications of management software have lateral applications that apply to almost any challenge input sensors might deliver on behalf of customers.

In the case of Genetec, these solutions include Retail Sense, which allows leveraging of retail video systems, Genetec Clearance, which supports law enforcement investigations and Mission Control, which is a management cockpit from which situational awareness is established and all connected systems managed.

The key thing about Retail Sense and Genetec Clearance is not only that they are devoid of flummery and utterly operational but that they are cloud-based. This should come as no surprise to

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Genetec users – Pierre Racz has been preaching the doctrine of cloud for many years. For the longest time, no one quite believed Racz but he was right after all. At Security 2017 people on unassuming booths in far corners were unveiling cloud stuff with the exultant airs of those who yesterday fused atoms at room temperature.

Something Racz has always pointed out is that cloud is simple at heart - a label for services provided via the internet. Bosch’s James Layton describes cloud in another way – someone else’s computer.

But this simple thing also offers the potential for total disruption. Considered in this way, perhaps it’s this disruption that makes cloud seem opaque.

It’s not the technology we don’t understand but our own cognitive dissonance we struggle to penetrate.

We know cloud works, we know it is the lord of all acronyms, including important little ones like TCO and ROI. But we can’t accept a cloud shift that means stepping away from so much of the physical stuff we think of as being integral to electronic security. Our mental struggle seems to be played out in business plans as well – so many companies have a foot in technologically disparate camps - very few of our cloud providers have let go of the past and struck out into the vast possibilities of the deep water.

Of course, there are some companies who are making core changes – I’ve mentioned SCSI – but they are a comms outfit and for them devices are a means to another end. One big hardware maker really in on cloud as a whole-of-business strategy is Bosch, which has teamed up with AWS and is driving cloud not just from the point of view of its security business but as an integral part of its entire

business. Bosch talks cloud in a profound way, an IoT way – controllers, appliances, the components of cars. When you talk with some Bosch people about the possibilities of cloud and IoT you can almost hear the thrumming of an electronic hive mind.

Although the company has a long history of software development, Bosch is an interesting case given the company makes such sweet devices in so many industries – controllers, cameras, sensors, a multiplicity of industrial components – and from the point of view of the market, paying attention to the way Bosch moves forward is likely to pay dividends. There’s no chance that implementation of connectivity to all Bosch devices is not going to catapult the company’s technology forward at an exponential rate. Accelerationism? I think it is but more on that later.

Talking about cloud reminds me of a conversation I had with Uniview’s softly spoken and thoughtful vice president, Ximen Yan on the SEN stand. It’s important to bear in mind here that Uniview is a networking company which also makes excellent surveillance cameras. Will Uniview out-compete the big device builders, Hikvision and Dahua? Probably not. But its primary strength lies in networking, meaning it is free to take the market in new and disruptive directions. Asked about the importance of cloud to Uniview’s future, Yan quietly observed: “Cloud is very big in China, much bigger than it is here in Australia.”

We are used to thinking of cloud as the support infrastructure for what pros think of as toy systems – little collections of cheap security devices often bought from retailers that are monitored by Jane Citizen on her iPhone to make her think she has a smart home. But cloud, real cloud, is about professional services – secure, reliable, redundant.

If you have any doubts about the veracity of the model consider the U.S. Army has a $US50 billion contract to take its networked infrastructure into the cloud and it’s one of dozens.

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TELSTRA IS CREATING A ROCKETPROPELLED WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL LEAVE NBN CORP HOLDING A VERY LARGE BABY DINOSAUR... solutions of all types is such that they are no longer about what the provider can offer but what the end user requires at any given moment. Today, a smart software team can tweak and upgrade code with minimal operational latency, responding to changing needs with unprecedented speed and power. And systems are built with integration in mind – you’re not calling in an engineering team to create code to support your sub-systems but ticking checkboxes from your laptop, which could be anywhere in the world.

Looked at in this way, we really have come to a new place – not all systems at once but all systems inevitably – a place in which orchestras of electronic security controllers, field devices and integrated sub-systems can be ‘conducted’ by management solutions and their providers in a way we’ve never seen before. And having reached this place, change is likely to gather momentum in unexpected, unprecedented, unstoppable and for many competitors, utterly necessary ways.

In the days after Security 2017, I reflected on the conversations I’d had and concluded that the electronic security industry is in a position that

might be loosely compared to the plot of Roger Zelazny’s techno-religious novel, Lord of Light. In the 1967 book, the uptake of technology must be driven forward at an unprecedented rate to give the characters any hope of survival. The role of distributors and integrators somewhat mirrors the eventual position of the central character, Sam, who fights to bring the newly developed technology to the masses.

Undoubtedly the most interesting aspect of this book is that it’s considered seminal to the development of the technological epistemology of accelerationism – simply, the notion that computer technology, including infrastructure, storage, processing, management solutions and their intrinsic useability and reliability (think power, maintenance, security), must accelerate – massively – if the global business model is to survive. And this acceleration creates a feedback loop into surrounding areas of technology - think centralised automation and lateral and vertical connectedness that amplifies the larger process in the same way the application of a small voltage massively increases a larger voltage in a transistor.

The attractiveness of accelerationism as a way to think about the electronic security market is that it enables a whole-of-technology mindset, rather than trapping the thinker in a pond of natural selfabsorption in which one’s own solutions comprise the lens through which all technology may be viewed. Through the prism of accelerationism, we can better understand Telstra’s supercharged release of as-yet undefined 5G wireless, slated for 2020. Whether the Australian Government realises this or not, Telstra is creating a rocketpropelled wireless infrastructure that will leave NBN Corp holding a very large baby dinosaur and the Australian taxpayer clutching a bill for tens of

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billions in exchange for a contention-riddled service worth half its cost none of us will want to use.

Thanks to accelerationism we can understand Hikvision’s seemingly off-beat release of a 4G-enabled PTZ camera that offers users a 50MB wireless pipe and dispenses with cabling altogether.

Sure, the camera is for mobile applications but why not for every camera? And if for every camera, why would it not be managed by secure cloud?

Now it’s possible to see that the SCSI boys aren’t just echoing the pioneering spirit of founder Steve Acott when they talk about the finish of solid state alarm panels but are themselves hammering out a new technological breach.

Accelerationism explains why integrator and technology developer 3Crowns Technologies (a spin-off from highly respected tech house and integrator, Coastal Comms), is planning to bureau cloud-based video surveillance for third-party installation companies using its own proven and highly-evolved network infrastructure.

Accelerationism fleshes out the notion of Dahua’s unitised solar-powered wireless solution, supported by long-range wireless and compatible with cloud. It embraces automated drones driven from anywhere, Bosch’s decision to run hard with AWS, Genetec’s arrowhead software solutions, each precisely engineered for the mark. It underscores Seagate’s new constant duty 12TB enterprise-grade drive, explains why Dahua is releasing industrialgrade networking devices and wireless comms, why Hills has released a lateral cloud solution like HillsTrak, why HID keeps driving ahead with its agnostic IP-based VertX access control solution and mobile device authentication solutions, why CSD is leaning in hard with SkyGuard, why ISONAS is having success with Pure IP and Pure Access Cloud and the new RC-04 reader controller.

It also explains the driving force behind Nx Witness’ new Cloud-enabled architecture, which offers the ability to connect from anywhere to your system with just an email address and a password.

Nx Witness was always a clever system that actively worked to support operators and investigators and the new architecture and what the company describes as a screamingly fast mobile app (pared back for maximum operational efficiency and bearing compression), and now it’s smarter still.

The race to the future is also behind Avigilon’s increasing push into intelligent video analytics – the company’s Appearance Search took out second place in ASIAL’s Product of the Year Award – a worthy winner, in my opinion. The ability to get value out of all these billions of electronic security inputs globally is going to be central to the technological challenges that are ahead. Avigilon makes quality surveillance cameras and management systems, no doubt, but the potential of Appearance Search and its variations are enormous – bigger than security applications could ever be.

The trouble with listing the ways the electronic security industry is experiencing its very own

version of accelerationism on a product-by-product basis is that they never end – almost every company is in on the act in some way, driving technology forward at an ever-increasing rate and in doing so, shifting user expectations forward from old ways as they battle for growth and for future survival.

What were the other trends at the show? I think the price falls in video surveillance are going to be realised in the access control market over the next 5 years. Access control is a nebulous beast. Major end users with serious and intricate needs are not going to be attracted to low end gear – they want absolute surety their chosen solution will deliver across multiple primary and vital sub-systems.

Having said this, at the lower end, smaller enterprises are likely to be drawn towards lower cost controllers if they are distributed from a national footprint and given proper support. What this shift may mean is that users get more features for the same money but I’m not certain there’s not going to be a significant price breakthrough at the lower end of the access control market. What that means for installers is that they’ll have more options to choose from and an enhanced margin.

Biometrics was another trending technology at the show and what was notable was that it wasn’t just coming from higher end providers but there were suppliers of affordable biometric solutions, too. I liked the solutions I saw from CSM and Security Distributors Australia, as well as EDS’ proven Morpho gear and the sweetly designed stuff from NetDigital.

The siloing of days gone by – yes, that is still going on. Sure, everyone is building ‘open’ systems and many have a cloud-based solution but these systems sheet the money trail home to one provider, whether it’s cloud-based or not.

Business is business after all. What this means is that interoperability, while it’s improving, remains in short supply outside of co-dependent providers like camera makers and VMS developers.

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Security 2017 FLIR ARIEL 3MP CORNER CAMERA HAS A IS DESIGNED TO SLOT INTO CORNERS AND FEATURES AN EXTENDED FOV LENS THAT PROVIDES CEILING-TO-FLOOR AND WALL-TO-WALL COVERAGE WITHOUT BLIND SPOTS.

STUFF WE LIKED AT SECURITY 2017 One of the hard parts of laying out the kit you liked at a big tradeshow is knowing in your heart you didn’t see everything. There were corners of the hall to which I never got and who knows what marvellous contrivances were displayed there. Taking this into account the crosshead above should read “Stuff we liked of the little we saw at Security 2017”. And you could be forgiven for thinking there were no devices at Security 2017 after reading that intro – there were devices – constellations of them, better and more capable than ever before.

I might as well get the big one out of the way – Hikvision Darkfighter X – I don’t really understand how dual sensor technology works just yet and nor did I see what was in the box in-back of the stand but if Darkfighter X is really that much better than the current model Darkfighter Hikvision aficionados are in for a real treat. Typical with Hikvision, the X comes in multiple form factors at once on first release – you’re not going to be waiting around years for the PTZ version to show up after the bullet camera hits shelves. I think it’s instructive that Hikvision has released this important new camera as bullet and PTZ, not box. That decision must be based on weight of sales.

Hikvision showed a ton of new stuff – cameras in all shapes and sizes and targeting all sections of the market – tiny pinhole cameras, transport cameras, people counting cameras, thumping great explosion-proof cameras and loads more besides. I was especially attracted to the new range of transport solutions on the Hikvision stand, as well as a magnetic Darkfighter PTZ with a 4G slot which you pop onto the top of an emergency services vehicle to give a high quality live video feed. Oh, and the ANPR dome camera – very nice indeed.

Another strong new release at Security 2017 was the Australian-developed Osprey radar system, which is designed to detect all attempts to get

contraband into the prisons by throwing or slinging it over walls or fences. The management solution is a highlight of this clever solution. Up until now there has been no way to detect and monitor small packages containing tobacco or drugs passing from the public side to the sterile side of prison perimeters. Osprey is the answer – importantly it’s fully supported by NSW Correctional Services.

Dahua showed a bunch of cool things at the show, including Best New Product Award winner, the NVR-5224, which features 800m range, 24 PoE inputs and offers H.264 and H.265 compression options. Particularly neat from Dahua was a carbon fibre drone, the X820, which is designed to be used for surveillance tasks, from checking alarm events to monitoring developing fire fronts in rugged terrain.

Perhaps what was most interesting was the spec.

This drone is a monster with a potential 1500m ceiling (where authorised), nearly 40 mins of flying time, a 10km remote control range and a top speed of 90kmph. The X820 has a 6MP Sony Starvis CMOS sensor and an optional thermal camera, ideal for monitoring outbreak of fire or searching for lost hikers in tough terrain. It will also broadcast its video feed live at 1080p resolution if locked to hover above an incident or threat. Dahua’s stand was all about solutions – it included the solar camera mentioned earlier, as well as a smart city emergency phone tower, industrial-grade networking gear, a thermal PTZ, a thermal and optical bullet, 4K HDCVI and plenty more besides.

At the Consolidated Security Merchants stand I liked the new TVT gear. CSM has already put together a nice suite of intrusion panels, access

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control gear and has the affordable new InBIO biometric solution for small business applications.

TVT gives the company an excellent CCTV range at pointy prices – 1080p and 4K in all compact form factors, including domes and remote varifocal bullet cameras. It’s hard to break into the market with new CCTV cameras but I think TVT will manage it.

Panasonic was showing its Aero PTZ, locally distributed by BGWT – it’s a great pedestal PTZ designed to handle severe weather conditions while retaining situational awareness. Panasonic also had a new rugged PTZ on its stand – the spec is similar to Aero optically – and the build quality looks extremely good. Panasonic also played up its strengths on the management side.

As mentioned, Uniview showed a bunch of new things in partnership with local distributor, C.R.

BIOMETRICS WAS ANOTHER TRENDING TECHNOLOGY AT THE SHOW AND WHAT WAS NOTABLE WAS THAT IT WASN’T JUST COMING FROM HIGHER END PROVIDERS BUT THERE WERE SUPPLIERS OF AFFORDABLE BIOMETRIC SOLUTIONS, TOO. Kennedy. There were plenty of new cameras, some of which we saw at SecTech – the Starlight with a beautiful, fast varifocal lens was my personal favourite, though many users will prefer domes and bullets. Then there was Uniview’s UNV Unicorn – a 2000-channel VMS server. With 16 HDD bays expandable to 48, and support for 100 online users at a time, the UNV Unicorn is a serious but of kit that might be perfect for many quite large applications.

ATOM AR3S from Amaryllo International took third place in the Best New Product Award at Security 2017.

It’s a very compact PTZ camera with a size that belies its functionality. Using powerful onboard processors and smart software, it can proactively recognize faces, has duplex audio, and auto-tracks intruders in 360-degrees without the need for remote computers.

Having IP66 rating means the camera is capable of external application. Embedded with dual-core CPU, ATOM AR3S can decipher military-grade 256-bit encryption offering the highest privacy protection in the world.

Mobotix released its M16 Thermal Radiometry camera at Security 2017. We like thermal cameras and with Mobotix well and truly hooked up to open platforms, it’s hard not be warm further to the

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company’s robust surveillance offerings. Teamed up with MxActivitySensor, thermal is a killer for serious surveillance applications. The newly open Mobotix is a company to watch in my opinion. We’re going see some clever things from Mobotix in the future.

Sony showed some things we love – the VB770 – and some things we think we will come to love – in the latter case, the Exmor R CMOS sensor-powered SNC-VB642D. This camera is a robust and compact external bullet camera with integrated IR that looks like it would be at home in multiple applications. It has remotely switchable white light at the top of the array and IR at the bottom – fantastic. Sony’s new G6.5 range includes 4K in an affordable form factor and the on-screen performance looks great.

FLIR is a company that’s easy to underrate when it comes to security gear. This is a beast of an organisation with serious mil-spec pedigree and deep R&D pockets. FLIR considerably increased its CCTV range in the recent past through acquisition and showed a heap of new stuff. I was particularly impressed with some of the new surveillance form factors, with excellent bullet cameras having shrunk to less than half their former size with no impact on specification or performance.

I got a quick look at the FLIR Cameleon Tactical system, which is designed to provide security and surveillance applications in a highly customizable and user-friendly environment. Cameleon is designed to control any number and combination of analogue and IP devices from different manufacturers with point and click simplicity, ensuring retention of those costly investments in security and surveillance equipment.

FLIR Ariel 3MP Corner Camera has a is designed to slot into corners and features an extended FOV lens that provides ceiling-to-floor and wall-to-wall coverage without blind spots. It can handle low light and has IR support. Most of all, it’s handsome and purposeful-looking in the flesh, same as most the FLIR hardware. When I was going through the images I took on the FLIR stand it was tough to curate them – I liked everything I saw – the Quasar 4K, the thermal bullets, the 12MP hemispheric.

Something at the show I paid more attention to than usual were bollards – brands on display included BFT and FAAC’s J275HA Automatic retractable traffic bollard, which is not new but we will see more bollards and this is one of the best. The J275HA is designed for applications where there’s a need to raise and lower serious barriers in order to allow access but it also means the bollards can be lowered until raised in the presence of material threat by the operators in a smart city control room.

On the Gallagher stand, the Class 5 systems provide high security protection against sophisticated attacks to intruder alarm system.

Gallagher also showed its powerful access controllers and powered fencing solutions.

Gallagher exhibits have long tended towards solutions and this one was no exception to that rule.

CSD and Inner Range had a combined display.

I liked SIFER keypad, EyeLok biometric reader, the EliteX RAS, the Paradox-powered SkyGuard solution. Inner Range has also been working on software upgrades to pivotal products like Inception.

The CSD-Inner Range display was arguably the heart of the show in my opinion and the performance of the display, which combined product demos and a break-out area to meet and greet underscored the relationship-centricity of our industry.

Security Distributors Australia showed many new things alongside the still quite new Net10 controller. These included a handsome Paxton door station and biometrics from ievo. I was also taken

by STid Mobile ID, an authentication system based on smart devices. It includes a free mobile app, latest generation multi-technology Architect Blue readers, and online and offline configuration tools.

Especially cool was the way you drive the reader without getting out your phone by running your hand down the face of the reader.

Hills showed a typically wide spread of products and these reflected the company’s strengths as well as its anticipation of where the market will go. I saw the latest things from Kantech, Ruckus, Vivotek, Hills’ own Pacom-branded solutions, as well as intercoms, access control, management solutions – it goes on and on. Of special note was HillsTrak, a cloud-based asset tracking solution with whole-of-business, as well as security, applications. I got a quick demo of this solution on Day 1 and liked what I saw. As a manager, you might worry a comprehensive asset tracking and asset management solution of

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Security 2017 On the Alarmcorp stand, I liked the Vanderbilt AC5102, which supports 500,000 cardholders and 96 doors, and offering proximity and keypad reader options. The AC5102 has 6 separate field level network (FLN) channels. Each FLN can host up to 16 local devices for access control‚ monitoring input devices or controlling output devices.

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enterprise scale would be fussy but with HillsTrak, that’s not so. This cloud-based system is thoughtfully conceived and has a fundamental simplicity designed to reduce the steps required to get any of the layers of a complex and demanding job done. When it comes to managing anything, this is very important. Of all Hills’ attempts to create a lateral cloud business, this one is by far the best.

LSC has been pushing into intrusion and access control this year and the company’s display reflected this – AMC controllers and multiple devices – wireless and hardwired – for a range of applications. These AMC controllers look well-made and they’re both large enough and affordable enough to apply to many applications. Importantly, LSC is one of the security industry’s oldest companies, guaranteeing that vital longevity of service and support.

ISCS had a big open stand towards the front of the hall and was showing off a diverse range of equipment, including ICT’s Protege access control system. ISCS is company that should not be underrated – it has a serious range of quality brands alongside ICT - Sony, Suprema, Salto, Nedap, NxWitness and a bunch of other cool manufacturers.

Bosch showed access and intrusion controllers, keypads and touchpads, Vera Z-Wave smart home devices, as well as a new CCTV range, which combine affordability and performance. Alongside the new things was Bosch’s MIC PTZ, which we loved so much last month. Mounted high above the stand, MIC undertook an automatic tour schedule but the space was too small to demonstrate just how capable this camera really is – you need to get the MIC outside for that.

EDS showed a new management solution that it’s offering alongside the software agnostic HID VertX access controller – we’re going to be reviewing that management solution in the near future. As mentioned, EDS also carries the Morpho range and there was plenty of that on show, very high end and more affordable solutions, as well as IrisAccess readers and the HID iClass SE platform.

This precis is mere fraction of what was new at Security 2017 – it was nigh on impossible to see everything. Regardless, we can draw some strong conclusions about our industry and its technology.

Relationships are everything, the underlying technology and the devices on offer are so flexible as to allow installers, integrators, end users and consultants supreme flexibility in applications large and small. There’s a reason consultant Doug Grant includes LPR, thermal, optical (fixed, bullet and PTZ) cameras in nearly all his applications – it’s because he can, and he can do so affordably in a way that gives customers a powerful sense of return on investment.

A single form factor and camera spec for every field of view in a sprawling application internal and external with multiple potential target forms? How could a clever salesperson ever sell so thoughtless a system design on any hook but lower cost?

There’s an overarching sense of change in our industry, regardless of the number of cool hardware devices on offer. You’d have to be blind not to see that even famous brands are leaning towards low cost ubiquity in many areas – alarms, access, CCTV. At the same time, people are talking about and thinking about the solutions stack in new and flexible ways.

When you are fundamentally an IT-based industry, you don’t have to go far down the path of change before everything looks completely different. That’s how Security 2017 felt to me.

It’s not all bad. Monetisation permitting, our technological future is going to be anything but boring and the chance the operational imperatives of security teams will alter in any small way are zero. But suppliers are going to be meeting expanded threats in new and more flexible ways. Thanks to what I think is a clear case of accelerationism, it’s hard to know exactly how the future will play out, only that change will snowball and happen faster - where we will end up in a future of automation and AI is extremely difficult to say.

I think back to those conversations with Thomas Lausten, Lee Shelford, Dale Acott, James Layton, Ximen Yan and many others - conversations about our runaway future - then consider us as we are.

A technology-based industry with a vital social and civic role - pulling in multiple data strands to deliver intelligence in real time. It’s hard to argue that the application of Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law is not appropriate when thinking about the future of the electronic security industry: “Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic.” n

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Logical Services has installed an 80-camera Mobotix video surveillance solution, supported by MxManagementCenter and MxActivitySensor for Australia’s largest Toyota dealership, Brighton Toyota.

RIGHTON Toyota is Australia’s largest Toyota dealership. The purpose-built facility sits on 7.25 acres of land in the bayside suburb of Elsternwick, in southern Melbourne, Australia. With more than 600 cars on site, the majority of which are outside, theft and vandalism are always a considerable risk.

Perpetrators can also cause significant damage to a vehicle in order to steal car parts.

“They may steal wheels, number plates or even smash a tail light to get a replacement light globe,” explains Brendan Bain from Logical Services. “This kind of damage can be just as great a problem as theft of actual cars, and costs the business time and money.”

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THEY MAY STEAL WHEELS, NUMBER PLATES OR EVEN SMASH A TAIL LIGHT TO GET A REPLACEMENT LIGHT GLOBE.

When Bain approached general manager John Forbes, to quote an upgrade to the showroom’s analogue CCTV system, he looked at the problem with prevention in mind.

“Capturing great footage of the thieves in action still costs the company money because they have to spend time and money dealing with the incident,” Bain explains.

The aim of Bain’s engineering and proposal was to attempt to stop the crime from occurring in the first place. While he knew he was competing against lower priced product quotes, he was confident he could demonstrate that a preventative security solution would bring far greater savings for the long term. MOBOTIX cameras were an ideal choice, as

they are easy to install, configure, and integrate with other systems.

More than 80 MOBOTIX M15 cameras were installed to monitor the large site, with lens angles of view ranging from a narrow 15-degrees right through to hemispheric. MOBOTIX hemispheric technology, which can cover an entire room with no blind spots, reduced the number of cameras required overall and provided optimal coverage for the whole site.

Meanwhile, the MOBOTIX MxManagementCenter (MxMC) VMS can handle unlimited cameras and users, so was ideal for this large site. Intuitive drag and drop functionality and intelligent sorting of parameters offered by the VMS meant set up was fast and easy. It is also very straightforward for the customer to use.

MOBOTIX M15 CAMERAS The M15 modular camera chosen for the site comprises an integrated housing, front element, and day-and-night 5MP sensor modules. The housing includes integrated camera electronics, flash memory, external ports (Ethernet, MxBus, and mini USB), and preinstalled VarioFlex mount for wall or ceiling mounting. The front element accommodates

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a pair of 5MP sensor modules, microphone, speaker, passive infrared sensor, outside temperature sensor, and status LEDs. The camera comes with connection cables for sensor modules and the network. The sensor modules are directly screwed into the camera housing. The visible external part of the sensor module comes in a white finish, which enables it to blend into most indoor and outdoor installation environments.

Day (colour) and night (B&W) sensor modules come with a 25mm super wide-angle lens with an 82-degree horizontal field of view. This modular system, which provides maximum flexibility when configuring the camera, can also be easily reconfigured or repaired by simply replacing a sensor module using the special tools shipped with the system.

MxActivitySensor software included free is an activity-controlled image analysis tool for detecting movement of people and objects in a monitored area (full image or section). It is easy to configure and delivers reliable results, even in applications with large amounts of external interference. For example, the camera distinguishes between movements of vehicles, people, or objects that trigger an alarm and movements that are not relevant for alarms, such as shadows, changes in illumination, trees swaying in the wind, or rain directly at the lens.

The M15D camera is IP66-rated and can withstand a temperature range of -30 to 60C. The camera software is pre-installed, so it is ready for use without any additional configuration. The camera is suitable for video security applications in commercial, private, and public-sector environments, as a surveillance or weather camera, webcam, indoors or outdoors, day or night.

At Brighton Toyota, additional functionality was achieved by customising the embedded audio technology, which comes with all MOBOTIX cameras as standard. With MxActivitySensor, smart motion detection in each camera triggers an event in response to a person arriving, or perhaps moving in a certain way. Depending on the time of day and the location of the camera, various audio messages are played back through the camera’s in-built speaker. These can vary from welcome messages to warnings that visitors are under surveillance.

THE SECURITY SOLUTION DESIGNED AND INSTALLED BY LOGICAL SERVICES HAS SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED INCIDENTS AT BRIGHTON TOYOTA

BY CREATING THE AWARENESS OF BEING WATCHED.

If multiple events are triggered indicating an incident, the 24-hour control room is immediately on guard to monitor and react to the situation. There is also the possibility for authorised managers to login remotely to view footage via a web browser or the MOBOTIX app.

The security system does far more than just deter crime and has been integrated into a number of other processes: MxAnalytics’ powerful people counting and heat mapping technology provides valuable business intelligence, enabling more effective targeting of sales; in the workshops there is now verifiable trail of all work carried out, including a record of each vehicle’s condition upon arrival, along with footage throughout its time on premises; and the risk of damage to cars being test-driven is now considerably lower, with an image captured of every car and driver as they leave and enter the site.

The security solution designed and installed by Logical Services has significantly reduced incidents at Brighton Toyota by creating the awareness of being watched. By configuring the cameras to broadcast time and location specific, and even movement-specific audio messages, they have successfully prevented crimes from taking place.

It has been so successful as a deterrent that where once as many as 4 incidents were occurring a week, the average is now less than 1 per month.

According to Bain, Brighton Toyota is delighted with its new video surveillance solution.

“They love it, with 80+ cameras it’s so easy authorised staff can just pick a camera from the integrated pictorial site map to view or retrieve footage,” he says. “The key to this system’s operational capability was to go beyond simple video surveillance to make visitors aware that they are being watched.” n

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BLURRED ON THE WIRE As networking technology charges ahead it’s getting more difficult to categorise groups of networked things we think of as IT, OT, and IoT. Is there a difference any longer? Let’s find out.

IVEN the many recent cyber security incidents involving non-traditional computing, and the propensity to call anything that’s not a computer IoT, it seemed timely to write an article discussing the 3 different classes of technology, their key differences, and their differing vulnerabilities and security management requirements. There are many reasons for this blurring, not the least of which is that many technologies that traditionally operated on a ‘dumb’ machine now run on a computer, and that there’s a lot of uncertainty about what’s under the hood of these devices.

I want to highlight up front that the comments in this article are broad generalisations and intended to drive thought and contemplation of one’s

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specific environment rather than to suggest how we fix the world. Let’s begin with the easy part – information technology. IT can be broadly thought of as traditional computing – servers, workstations, applications, networking, laptops, smart phones etc. It’s generally well understood with regards to security, management, etc.

Business IT teams are typically mature, most modern applications and operating systems having mechanisms for protection, detection, and updating. As much as there are people who object to mechanisms such as forced automatic updates in Windows 10, operating system updates are part of the ASD top 4, now the essential 8, for a reason.

There are so many good resources for information security management, if you’re not

IF WE CONSIDER IOT TO BE CHALLENGING TO SECURE BECAUSE OF ITS NEWNESS, OT IS SIMILARLY CHALLENGING TO SECURE BECAUSE OF ITS AGE.

reading or learning from them, it’s unlikely that anything I write will make a difference either, so I shan’t comment on IT security much further.

Next comes the Internet of Things. NIST recently released its Network of Things definition document (Special Publication 800-183) for IoT devices. It’s tricky to compress a 25-page document to a few lines, however, the essential aspects of IoT are that they consist of: l Sensors that communicate with each other and a central data platform l A software service that analyses data from these devices l A decision process or trigger based on the data analysis.

They’re typically sold as ‘smart’ thingies and would include devices such as smart thermostats, smart watches, fitness trackers, and smart lights. There is also a raft of smart stuff that has me ask myself ‘what on earth were they thinking?’ such as internet-connected sex toys. IoT devices have some degree of on-board computing capability, and are designed to be part of a broader ecosystem to function effectively. From a security perspective, there is a very broad attack surface to be managed, much of it often outside of the user’s control.

The device may be susceptible to a variety of attacks including physical attack, or a direct remote attack on the device via its communications channels. The communication between the device and the network may be susceptible - the Bluetooth communication between a fitness tracker and a smart phone could be eavesdropped or intercepted; the Wi-Fi communication between a smart light globe and a wireless router could be compromised.

The network devices that control the communication channel could be compromised many routers allow you to monitor all traffic or a smart phone with spyware installed that would let an attacker view anything on your device. There’s the communication back to the cloud service which may operate across a variety of platforms or mediums. Finally, there’s the cloud service itself over which we typically have no control. IoT devices send data to the cloud services where it is typically stored and analysed.

Even if we have good security controls for our smart devices, how do we ensure adequate

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security from the cloud providers? Alternatively, our smart devices mostly become dumb devices if we opt out of the cloud service.

Security literature is full of vulnerability disclosures (responsible or otherwise) of compromised IoT devices & systems. The main limitation is the attacker’s imagination.

Lastly, there’s Operational Technology (OT) which can be thought of as IoT without the smarts or dumb connected devices. This typically comprises of more traditional technology devices which have connectivity to a central server and are largely non-reliant on cloud services. This includes technologies such as basic IP video systems, building management systems, older smart home, or automation systems, as well as manufacturing equipment, power production, traffic lights and other critical infrastructure (CI).

Unlike IoT, which has computing all the way to the edge, OT typically either connects dumb sensors to a controller as is the case with programmable logic controllers (PLC’s) used for manufacturing equipment or building automation; or have networked devices connected to a command and control server such as IP video systems, or access control systems. That doesn’t mean, there’s no computing power in the networked devices, but they’re largely set and forget. A notable exception would be a CCTV camera with edge analytics which sits closer to the IoT side of the fence.

If we consider IoT to be challenging to secure because of its newness, OT is similarly challenging to secure because of its age. When much of this technology was designed, network connectedness was never considered and security has by and large been bolted or layered on rather than built in. Protocols in the OT world are mostly unencrypted, and frequently lack any authentication mechanisms or similar security

Figure 1 – Network of Things Decision Tree – From NIST Special Publication 800-183

features. PLC’s haven’t changed all that much since they were programmed via a serial cable, yet they are now connected to IT networks where the level of risk to which they are exposed is greatly increased.

Mechanisms to update firmware on these devices are typically manual, and carry a very real risk of ‘bricking’ the device. Securing OT is unarguably challenging, but increasingly important both for the protection of the OT as well as for the protection of the IT environments to which they are connected.

The increasing publicity around and frequency of attacks on critical infrastructure, OT, and IoT all increase the likelihood of these systems being attacked.

The key aspects of securing OT are the same as securing any other environment: l Understand your threats and your vulnerabilities.

- Evaluate the threats and vulnerabilities against your risk appetite l Patch the unacceptable vulnerabilities that you can l Deploy controls to mitigate those that you can’t. l Monitor the environment for anomalous behaviour l Repeat the process.

Finally, it’s important to consider security with respect to the OT environment, not only as the target or victim network, but also as the attacking network. With OT environments often far more poorly secured that IT environments, it’s possible an attacker may hack into your OT environment to launch an attack on your IT environment. n Views expressed in this article are those of the author only and do not represent those of any organisation, or necessarily reflect the position or policies or any organisation or entity. Simon Pollak is a security professional with more than 25 years’ experience in physical and cyber security, smart buildings and automation systems. A licensed security consultant and CISSP, he holds a Masters of Cyber Security and a Masters of Business Administration (Technology).

Simon contributes to SEN discussing all things cyber and converged security. Follow him on https://twitter. com/SimonPollak or https://au.linkedin.com/in/ simonpollak

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No Limit Alarm monitoring continues the process of change and announcements about faster wireless technology, as well as new services from providers like SCSI, will more aggressively pull customers forward into a post-rebate future. And recent developments suggest that process is about to speed up – big time.

S readers will be aware, there was plenty of change evident at Security 2017 but the broader monitoring industry was where the greatest part of that change seemed to be. From the point of view of monitoring providers, SCSI’s announcement that it intends to engage more tightly with the monitoring vertical was a big thing.

It’s not the newest of news – SCSI and Bold Technologies already have a relationship – but it’s the implicit recognition of the ramp up in comms that’s as noteworthy as the drive towards symbiosis. As a wireless company, SCSI has a strong sense of 4G and is keeping a weather eye on 5G as well.

According to SCSI’s Dale Acott, 4G can give 80-90MB downloads,

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which is miles faster than any cabled service and a game changer for the entire concept of monitoring. Will the future be about fast, secure alarm communications? Not only. It’s going to be about great big pipes from anywhere to everywhere that will allow security installers, integrators – and let’s be honest, telcos and utility providers, and anyone else who can get a foot into the market - to take monitoring to a whole new place. It’s hard to know what that place is going to look like because any organisation with the appropriate network infrastructure can get into it. From the point of view of a wireless-centric provider like SCSI, the best way to manage an uncertain future is to invent it.

We’ve gone on about comms, video monitoring and all the rest of it so long

it feels like crying wolf to talk about the lateral potential of the monitoring market in the short term but nevertheless, that potential is there and the only thing that has really held back massive change has been holistic bandwidth. Frankly, with 4G offering such furious speeds (upload is more important than download for many applications), NBN is starting to look yester-tech, fibre notwithstanding.

Telstra’s 4G is a partnership between itself, Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies and Netgear and it’s the potential in the pipe that offers such endless scope for disruption. For instance, Telstra’s Gigabit LTE network has a laboratory-tested download of 1GB and an upload of 150MB per second – it’s about a third of this in the wild but it’s still miles better than

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WHAT DOES THE FUTURE OF MONITORING LOOK LIKE? IT’S BLOODY HARD TO SAY. THE ONLY SURE THING IS THAT IT’S GOING TO LOOK NOTHING LIKE THE PAST.

NBN. According to Telstra, Gigabit performance will improve access to high-quality video streaming, and facilitate emerging mobile virtual reality applications and experiences, and is a key step towards 5G. This Gigabit LTE service is possible because of LTE Advanced features such as 4x4 MIMO, 3CA (3 Carrier Aggregation) and higher order modulation (256QAM).

Mike Wright, group managing director, networks, for Telstra said earlier in the year that Telstra’s customers with a Gigabit-capable device could now enjoy a faster mobile experience for both downloads and uploads.

“Gigabit LTE is also an important step on our journey to 5G and demonstrates Telstra’s commitment to delivering Australians a world class network now

and into the future.”

5G is like 4G only faster and better – it’s more than a statement of intent than anything else – there’s no actual standard for 5G – just a commitment to better, faster, stronger (there’s that accelerationism again). 5G aims to offer much more than 4G capacity with device-to-device comms and ‘massive machine communications’.

In a sense 5G is device-based comms management between all devices in a network – they will use whatever is the best and most efficient and most reliable route to best performance. But there’s a technical side to it as well - in software and directional comms.

If Telstra was not working with Ericsson – they recently achieved a download speed of more than 20Gbps on a test bed – it would be hard to credit

this stuff as feasible. But not only is 5G feasible, Telstra will go to trial with it on the Gold Coast next year, though what form the service will take – it’s scope and the nature of access - is hard to say.

According to Telstra, the company has already started the process of modernising its wireless core network in preparation for 5G with training of engineers, network function virtualisation (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN) technologies being put into place.

The company’s engineers say this will allow Telstra to support increased network configuration and deployment flexibility to different market segments, and to tailor wireless connectivity through a concept called network slicing.

From a technical point of view,

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FROM TELSTRA’S POINT OF VIEW, 5G WILL CHANGE THE WAY THINGS LIKE AUTOMATION, PROCESS CONTROL AND MONITORING OF ALL TYPES ARE HANDLED, AS WELL AS FACILITATING FUTURE-TECH LIKE AUTONOMOUS DRONES, SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES AND CHANGING THE DELIVERY OF SERVICES LIKE EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE AND PLENTY MORE network slicing is a form of virtual network architecture that allows multiple virtual networks to be created on top of a common shared physical infrastructure. Once this is achieved, virtual networks are then customised to meet the needs of applications, services, devices, customers or operators. As you can imagine, with 5G the physical wireless network will be divided into multiple networks able to support different radio access networks – it’s a splintering of the core network – through use of different frequencies or layers of the radio spectrum.

From Telstra’s point of view, 5G will change the way things like automation, process control and monitoring of all types are handled, as well as facilitating future-tech like autonomous drones, self-driving vehicles and changing the delivery of services like education, healthcare and plenty more. IoT – well, 5G will be needed for IoT. Or 5G will drive IoT, whatever that is – because IoT is another conceptual beast no one has entirely come to terms with yet.

5G testing in a real-world environment will include looking at expected high speeds and ultra-low latency, as well as multi-user MIMO

(multiple input multiple output) capabilities, which involve multiple antennas carrying data to and from the end user to improve performance.

Telstra’s 5G demonstration will also test beam-steering technology, where the beam-steering antenna array tracks a user’s location and directs a mobile signal straight to a device rather than sending it out in all directions or to a particular sector as it does today. The advantage of beam-steering is that the mobile signal to each user is optimised with less interference resulting in better network performance and more capacity.

What does the future of monitoring look like? It’s bloody hard to say. The only sure thing is that it’s going to look nothing like the past. n

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X MARKS THE SPOT Darkfighter X is a new 2MP 1080p surveillance camera range from Hikvision that features a new sensor design that allows much improved low light performance in colour. If what we saw on the Hikvision stand at Security 2017 was anything to go by, then this camera might take the market to another level.

DARKFIGHTER X is available in 2 form factors on release – a bullet camera and an attractive and rugged-looking PTZ dome. At the heart of this technology is what I am going to describe as a new camera engine, though I may be going too far – I’ve not seen a white paper on the technology and the camera is so new the local Hikvision team doesn’t know all there is to know about it yet.

According to Hikvision, Darkfighter-X delivers the best possible colour images in low light by

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employing techniques used by human eyes, which use different groups of cells to collect signals generated by the reflections of colour and brightness from surfaces in the scene being viewed.

These are then merged within the brain to create an enhanced composite image. In the case of Darkfighter X, the camera takes information from an IR sensor (for brightness) and a visible light sensor (for colour) and combines them to provide a bright image in full colour without blur or extremes of noise. According to Hikvision, Darkfighter X technology can provide colourful, sharp images down at 0.001 lux – that’s half starlight.

The demo on the stand has 3 cameras setup – the new Darkfighter X bullet, the current Darkfighter and another Hikvision camera. Because the team only has one Darkfighter bullet – the one in the cloth-swathed box – I don’t get to see this camera – instead I took some images of the Darkfighter X pendant PTZ, which is a handsome half stainless and half poly unit that looks as though it would be at home in applications as rugged as they come. For reference, the lenses in the bullet Darkfighter X and PTZ are the same – the only difference is the form factor.

According to Hikvision, typically cameras in low light will offer blurry images if brightness is required (due to a slower shutter speed), or sharper images in monochrome. With Darkfighter X, these 2 images are combined to create a bright image that is also sharp. There’s obviously some work going on in the processor to acheive this.

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WHAT WAS CLEAR FROM THE DEMO AT SECURITY 2017, DARKFIGHTER X CONSIDERABLY OUT-PERFORMED CURRENT-GEN TECHNOLOGY FOR COLOUR RENDITION, SHARPNESS, NOISE AND BLUR. OUT-PERFORMED BY HOW MUCH? IT LOOKS AS IF BY MULTIPLE TIMES ON THE MONITOR AND THAT IS LIKELY TO BE MIRRORED IN APPLICATIONS. “It’s a fact that 70 per cent of crimes happen at night, but with Darkfighter-X, that’s no problem”, says Peter Guan, Hikvision’s channel sales director.

“Faces are sharper and easier to recognise and the surroundings much clearer to see, even in the lowest light. All of this makes images much more valuable for evidence collecting and case solving.”

The Darkfighter-X series includes a PTZ and bullet camera. Both come with optical defog, 25x optical zoom, 2MP resolution and smart detection. They also include the new H.265+ codec and are weatherproof to IP66 standard.

How does it look in the demo? Looking at the image stream coming from the black box on the Hikvision stand, I don’t think the Darkfighter X image is brighter than the current Darkfighter image – the colour temperature looks different – less the

product of digital rendering and more the slightly warm yellow/green expression of actual colour temperature reflecting off the target. What looks much better is colour rendition and control of amplification noise. Sharpness and contrast – the drivers of detail – are all much improved with Darkfighter X. Colour – the more you look at it the more you can see the vast improvement. Every single tile in the colour pallet is well defined and distinctly different in tone from its neighbours. With Darkfighter, there are generalisations of colour which will rob scenes of detail in the real world. Interestingly, it looks like the shutter speed is about double the speed of the current model, which seems to be dragging a noise trail most the way around the target. How much light was in the box? It can’t have been zero because that would mean all these cameras were defying the laws of physics. Given what we know of the performance of the current Darkfighter camera, join at such close range, perhaps sub-3 lux.

The wider image from the Darkfighter X, which is viewing the exhibition hall, is instructive, too. Low light cameras can give away some performance during daylight hours, typically with blooming of backlight and through over-exposure of lighter parts of a scene. In the case of Darkfighter X, areas of light and dark are well handled and depth of field looks very strong at the wide end of this 25x optical zoom lens. There’s mild purple fringing around bright points. What looks exceptionally good is colour contrast, which is rich and strong.

According to the official release, which is pretty much all the specification detail I could get at press time, the camera handles faces much better in the ‘lowest light levels’ but exactly how low in real world applications, it’s tough to say. What was clear from the demo at Security 2017, Darkfighter X considerably out-performed current-gen technology for colour rendition, sharpness, noise and blur. Out-performed by how much? It looks as if by multiple times on the monitor and that is likely to be mirrored in applications. Better low light performance through increased sensor sensitivity means less ISO and faster shutter speeds, which mean sharper images and more chance of court admissible faces in support of criminal investigations. Good things! n

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RE-EMPOWERING PROCESSORS Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have developed a method to increase by a factor of 5 the computing power of a standard algorithm when performed in one type of standard chip, FPGA. The new method is both simple and smart.

HE new algorithm applies to programmable integrated circuits known as FPGAs, which is an abbreviation for field-programmable gate array. This consists of a matrix of logical gates that can be programmed in situ, and can be reprogrammed an unlimited number of times. The first FPGAs came onto the market in 1985, and sales since then have increased dramatically. The market is now dominated by a couple of major players, and is expected to amount to $US10 billion by 2020.

Linköping University researchers have increased in these chips the speed of an algorithm known as the fast Fourier transform, which is used in spectral analysis, radar technology and

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telecommunication. It’s a development that has positive ramifications for the underlying technologies that support electronic security technology.

“Until now, people have believed that once an FPGA is full it cannot accommodate more and if you want new functionality you must completely rebuild the hardware, which is expensive,” says Oscar Gustafsson, senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Engineering at Linköping University.

But Carl Ingemarsson, a PhD student at the department, had other ideas. As an undergraduate several years ago, he was challenged to increase the speed of calculation in an FPGA. If the lab group could manage to reach a frequency greater than 450 MHz, they wouldn’t have to carry out the final lab in the course. It was a great incentive for the student researchers.

“This was what was needed to convince me to examine in depth the way the logic is represented inside the chip,” he says.

Ingemarsson achieved the frequency, skipped the final lab, and at the same time laid the foundation for his doctoral project. The result is that FPGAs today can be made to work 5 times as fast, or to deal with 5 times the number of calculations. While it’s true that Ingmarsson has only confirmed this in 2 families of FPGA, there is no reason to believe that it is not also the case for all other families.

“This advance will save huge sums for demanding calculations in industry, and will make it possible to implement new functionality without needing to replace the hardware,” says Oscar Gustafsson.

Carl Ingemarsson’s method is based on ensuring that the signal takes a smarter route through the various building blocks inside the chip.

“Normally, you choose an algorithm that can carry out the desired calculations, and then build up the structure, the architecture, using the required blocks. This is then transferred to the FPGA. But we have also looked at how the logic is built up, the routes the signals take, and what happens to them inside the chip. We have then adapted the architecture and the mapping onto the chip using the results of this analysis.”

A clever change in the signal routes gives the chip a capacity that is 5 times greater for each hardware unit.

“It should be possible to automate this optimisation of the chip,” says Ingemarsson. n

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Roger Pearce

Event History The history of access control in Australia is a long and fascinating one and no one is better equipped to fill in the gaps than electronic security consultant, Roger Pearce, who has been working in access control since 1974. He speaks with SEN editor, John Adams.

JA: You’ve been an independent security consultant for more than 20 years, held the ASIS CPP qualification, been SCEC-endorsed and last year you were awarded an OSPA for Outstanding Security Consultant of the Year. You’re also one of the longest serving members of the electronic security industry with first-hand experience of the development of access control. It’s a unique perspective.

RP: Hi John, yes - I was thinking as I walked around the recent SecTech

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JOHN ADAMS WITH ROGER PEARCE

THE SALES MANAGER FAXED AN EXAMPLE OF A CLOSELY TYPED PAGE TO ME IN SYDNEY AND I SIGNED IT AND FAXED IT BACK. BINGO - GOUGH HAD TO HAVE ONE!

needed a job. I saw a position as a sales engineer with Voca Communications Voca and 3M were the first companies to develop and sell fax machines in Australia. The first units were about the size of a IBM Selectric typewriter (some of you will know what that is) and you had to talk to the person on the other end before transmitting the fax. No one really understood what you were talking about most of the time. “We have a telex machine. Why would we want a fax?” they’d say.

It was a hard slog. However, our national sales manager did have a win. He was drowning his sorrows in a pub in Canberra and got chatting to a journalist who asked if he would like Gough Whitlam’s direct line. After an explanation on the phone, his staff came to a demo. The sales manager faxed an example of a closely typed page to me in Sydney and I signed it and faxed it back. Bingo - Gough had to have one! Next thing I was delivering the newly released auto-receive model to Kirribilli House so Gough could send faxes back from anywhere in the world even if there were no staff up to receive it. It was about the size of a large

photocopier and just fitted into the back of my station wagon.

The only problem was Doug McClelland the Minister for Media - if anyone needs a fax it would be the Minister for Media, surely - had bought a 3M machine. 3M and Voca were not compatible (ring a bell anyone?). He was told to switch to Voca as 3M did not have an auto-answer machine. Despite this little win, it was too early to disrupt the telex machine. It was another 10 years before the telex machine was pushed back into the corner behind our fax machine at the DKS office. Certainly, this theme of having to convince clients that new technology sometimes had many advantages over doing things the old way continued throughout my career - faxes over telex and then in my next role, electronic access control over metal keys.

JA: That was your break into electronics – how did you jump across to electronic security?

RP: Luckily Chubb had just picked up the sole agency for Rusco Electronic System (RES) (now Casi-Rusco, GE Interlogix). When I arrived for my

Those of you who have sold or are selling new technology will empathize with our salesman below.

show that some of the young guys were not even born when I started in the industry. Today, they are reaping the rewards of the way we pioneered the industry – it’s certainly a topic of interest, those early days in access control.

JA: How did you get started in the security industry?

RP: In 1974, my wife and I had just returned from a 2-year working holiday in the UK, a common rite of passage in those days, and with funds tight, I

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interview at Chubb Lock & Safe the receptionist asked me to wait in the showroom. They had a Rusco R40 system set up there and I was able to figure out what electronic access control was! The manager, David McLaren, had been recruited for his experience in office machines sales and had no technical knowledge, which was a relief for a new recruit – it made me Marrickville factory in 1980s

look like an expert and I got the job.

I was issued with a car (no mobile phone, not even a beeper) and I was sent out to sell access control. No one in Chubb knew much about it so I was on my own. Metropolitan Alarms, Chubb’s alarm company was a separate division and did not want to get involved in case the high tech new division failed. The Chubb managing director of the time, Stanley Masters, was of the view that the only real security was a strongroom door or some species of huge safe. He once said: “Electronic security is a flash in the pan, it won’t last”.

Fortunately for the longevity of my career in electronic security, I ignored the lot of them and pressed on.

The Rusco range included the R10 standalone single code card reader.

We sold an installation of reader, lock, electric strike and power supply for $A1600 ($11,000 in today’s money), including supply, install and commission. This solution did have ‘door ajar’ local to the door if you wired it up. The reader had no time zones and changing the code meant all cards had to be re issued.

The on-line reader (Weigand) was a lot more - around $2000 in yesterday’s money – try selling one reader for the equivalent of $12,370+GST nowadays!

Today, an intelligent reader with encryption and all alarm functions, as well as programmable reader attributes and even remote management, installed with a lock and strike, sells for between $2000-3000. That’s amazing.

Around 5 years later I had introduced electronic access control to heaps

of clients including probably one of the largest access control systems in Australia in 1978/1979 (about 40 readers) and the largest Rusco system of the time. This application was Channel 7’s Epping studios. The Rusco R40 had a reader capacity of 40, so this became a problem at the time. The site was later taken over by SNP (now, Telstra SNP) and expanded further with CASI-Rusco.

JA: After doing time at Chubb you moved to one of Australia’s earliest access control specialists, DKS. How did that come about?

RP: It was at a security show at the end of 1979 that I went on to the DKS stand and saw for the first time the CCU20 Access Control System DKS had developed here in Australia. The idea of getting in on the ground floor of an Australian company developing this technology had a lot of appeal. The CCU20 was a 20-reader, 4-time zone, 4000-key capacity system.

Prior to this model, DKS had developed the revolutionary 50-code unit. This reader, sold between 1976 and 1979, allowed 50 individual key codes to be validated/invalidated. The unit came with all 50 keys valid and you blocked the one(s) you did not want (or any lost keys) with a diode plug which was stuck into the corresponding hole for that key number. Thank God I didn’t have to sell any of these!

By end of January 1980 I started at DKS working out of the factory in Marrickville Rd Marrickville. Although my wife was not pleased we had to mortgage the house to get into the business, it was still a lot of fun. The DKS culture was fantastic. We had a marvellous team of dedicated staff. We were on a mission to put Australian access control on the map.

JA: How did that progress – how fast was the market taking up access control? How many units did you sell?

RP: The numbers tell the story. Our sales for the whole of 1980 were $40,000. All 3 shareholders of DKS survived on this (less costs) that year. But by 1991 when we sold DKS to James Hardie Building Automation (JHBA), turnover was $18 million.

JA: That’s huge growth trajectory over a 10-year period - what were the systems over that time?

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RP: Our breakthrough product was probably the ENSENN 2000 and ENSENN ECS (Elevator Control System). Developers in the early 80s were trying to squeeze maximum floor space out of the buildings they were developing, so lobbies and foyers were really a loss of lettable space. We worked closely with the lift companies to come up with a panel that fitted into the lift car and did not need a trailing cable. This was a world first.

At the time, lift companies were charging $10,000-$20,000 (Google says that’s $25,243 - $50,487 in today’s money) for a trailing cable. We managed to save this cost with the ECS. The lift companies were also happy to promote it, because the cost of a trailing cable was a negative for them with building owners and developers.

So successful was this product during the period when places like North Sydney were booming that access control people used to call Walker St and Arthur St DKS row.

Every DKS salesman was issued with the ECS demo unit in a brief case.

This was the best way to illustrate something that people could not quite believe could work without trailing cable.

JA: That product really must have put DKS on the map.

RP: Yes it really did. Although we went on to develop other ground-breaking products (enough for another article) this was the bread and butter product that was the foundation for future growth.

Locksmiths before they sold DKS to us.

Then the early members of my team at DKS, John Perram and Brenton Jones.

(Apologies to anyone I have missed out.

If you want to be included in my History of Access Control in Australia do get in touch).

JA: What’s the most significant change you have noticed since the early days of the industry?

JA: It’s a fascinating story – and I get the feeling we’ve barely touched the surface. What are you doing at the moment?

RP: As I walk around the big Security Exhibition these days I am amazed.

The first one I went to was at a small venue in Milsons Point and organised by industry association, ASIAL. There were probably no more than 20 stands. Now there are hundreds of stands, thousands of sales people selling millions of dollars’ worth of access control equipment. I think of the characters that prior to 1985 helped turn what was a cottage industry into the billion-dollar business it is today.

Guys like Jack Staniforth (Card Key), Brian Wapshot (Schlage), Geoff Pagewood (Kastle), Steve Mills, and Brian Wakelin (Mil), Roger Whyborn and Phillip Knowland (ASCO) and Steve Mills (second go), as well as Peter Rodger promoting DKS at North Shore

RP: I still have security consulting to do.

Also I have just been asked to serve on the IEC TC79 WG11 Electronic Access Control Systems Standards Australia/ IEC committee Scope (as defined in ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2, 6.2.1) This standard shall define a protocol for configuration of an electronic access control system. I will be joining industry icons Vlado Damjanovski, Les Simmons and Will Yeadon for this task.

As Chairman of the Membership Committee of ASIS NSW I am also trying to encourage senior members of our industry to give back to the industry that has grown so much over the last 40 odd years. And there is still the History of Electronic Access Control In Australia to write. This is what they call a work in progress, I think! n

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WI-FI CCTV FOR ACT ACT Government is reported to be considering a plan that would allow CCTV cameras to leverage Canberra’s CBRFree Wi-Fi network. The possibility is being trialled using 4 mobile cameras at Floriade.

EVERAGING existing infrastructure is good thinking if bandwidth and security can be maintained. Canberra’s CBRFree is Australia’s biggest and fastest free WiFi network and includes 60 wireless hotspots around Belconnen, Dickson, Kingston, Manuka, Weston Creek, Woden, New Acton, Tuggeranong and most of Civic. CBRfree dishes users up around 250 megabytes per day over a fast broadband connection – that’s plenty.

The CBRfree backbone is serious stuff – Cisco’s Aironet AIR-CAP1552E-N-K9 units with dual SFP fibre or Ethernet backhaul, and dual radios, which costs around $A6000. The units are fitted with AIR-ANT2547V-N omni antennas which offers 4dBi gain at 2.4Ghz and 7dBi gain at 5Ghz. The radios are capable of mesh network operation with 28dBm (~631mW) power output and N300 2-stream legacy beamforming. The K9s offer GPS positioning and support a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem.

At present, the Justice and Community Safety Directorate’s Public Safety CCTV System comprises

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72 cameras that leverage the ACT government’s ICT network to transmit remote video signals to a control room but the limitations of the network limit the expansion of the in-ground infrastructure that’s too expensive to expand simply to install a small number of additional cameras.

ACT Government allocated $376,000 to upgrade the CCTV system in its budget and this money was spent on a camera in Green Square in Kingston and 2 cameras in Franklin Street, Manuka, which were replaced with multi-lens, high definition cameras giving 360-degree coverage. Another 3 cameras in Civic were upgraded to multi-lens high-definition cameras and 7 more others were replaced with HD PTZ cameras.

A more flexible system able to move video signals over wireless or Wi-Fi has its benefits. This year’s Floriade will be monitored by mobile CCTV cameras and this trial may see expanded use of mobile/portable CCTV cameras across ACT. The 4 solar-powered mobile cameras are supported by back-up batteries and will report to police using Canberra’s free Wi-Fi network or via 4G. Same as all public surveillance solutions in Australia, protocols surrounding monitoring and retention are strict. Staff at the Winchester Police Centre in Belconnen monitor the Public Safety CCTV system on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and access to the CCTV system is restricted to dedicated workstations and authorised staff.

Footage is retained for 30 days and then written over unless its required for police investigations.

Canberra’s overall CCTV coverage is comparatively large - the Transport Canberra and City Services Directorate manages a CCTV network of more than 2400 cameras which monitor libraries, cemeteries and bus stops for security and safety purposes.

Police minister Mick Gentleman said the trial at Floriade was not prompted by safety concerns or antisocial activities in the past, but rather as a way to make punters feel more secure.

“It’s more a feel about better public safety, showing people we’re being cautious about public safety in those bigger events. Most people feel safe and it’s a good idea to keep that safety going,” Gentleman said.

Gentleman said the government could roll out more CCTV cameras if requested by police.

“We’ll see how these ones go and if police request some more then I’ll go to budget and get some more money for them,” he said. n

“IT’S MORE A FEEL ABOUT BETTER PUBLIC SAFETY, SHOWING PEOPLE WE’RE BEING CAUTIOUS ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY IN THOSE BIGGER EVENTS.

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SECURITY 2017 FACES AND SPACES ECURITY 2017 was a highly successful event – we think it the best exhibition we’ve attended in Australia – and the new ICC at Darling Harbour impressed exhibitors and visitors alike.

Around 4500 visitors streamed in over the 3 days. As our pictorial shows, the security industry is about relationships and Security 2017 was a great opportunity to build and renew relationships, whether inside the exhibition hall during working hours, or outside at one of the multiple events and gatherings that orbited around the show. Security 2018 will be back in Melbourne but this year’s event has really raised the bar. Well done, everyone!

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CSD held an after-show party at Doltone House on the first night. We heard a great speech from Ash Ramanayake and were thoroughly uplifted by some unexpected operatics.

THE EXHIBITION HALL IS A BIG SPACE BUT TRAFFIC FLOWS WERE STRONG.

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Editor’s choice

What’s new in the industry.

HIKVISION RELEASES ANTI-CORROSION RANGE l HIKVISION introduces its new tough and robust, anti-corrosion range of cameras.

Built with 304L and 316L grade stainless steel for maximum corrosion resistance, these cameras are designed to effectively combat and neutralise acidic and salt fog conditions that cause corrosion. This range has an IP67 rating which is ideal for coastal regions where salt corrosion is a major concern.

Hikvision also offers anti-explosion cameras which have an IP68 rating that are capable of enduring extreme environmental conditions that have exposure to gas, oil or harsh chemicals. The anti-explosion cameras are perfect for high risk areas where explosives could be used and other arrangements such as marine projects, chemical plants or deep mines.

Distributor: CSD Contact: 1300 319 499

OMGATE APP-BASED AUTOMATION FROM CSM l OMGATE is a gate automation system managed by a dedicated mobile app for remote opening of electronic gates. Omgate detects your phone as you approach sending a pop-up alert to the app and providing facility to open the gate.

OmGate system installation is fast, simple and pain-free. It is compatible with any gate that has an electrical connection and wireless control. For example, garage doors, security gates, barrier gates, and so on. An authorized technician installs the OmGate device on your gate without any need for complex infrastructure. All you have to do is download the free iOS/Android app to control the gate.

The app’s user-friendly interface allows you to define an Admin for each gate who can then remotely authorize multiple additional users to open the gate. Users receive invitations via SMS to access the app. When each authorized user approaches the gate an alert will pop up on their smart phone too. A quick tap on the alert will open the gate.

Admin can also add or remove gates or change any gate name if necessary.

Omgate can manage up to 20 different gates from a single phone and the system is compatible with garage doors, security gates, and barrier gates based on an electrical connection from controller to Omgate and wireless connection from a smart device to Omgate.

Distributor: Consolidated Security Merchants Contact: +61 3 8545 9813

BOSCH IN-STORE ANALYTICS l BOSCH has released In-Store Analytics, a solution to provide retailers with valuable insights on store traffic for improving operations, customer engagement and sales. As part of the solution, Bosch IP panoramic cameras are installed to provide high visibility of the retail floor. The cameras use onboard IVA to create position data of shoppers’ movements. This data is then sent direct to the cloud where it is further processed without video streams ever leaving the retailer’s premise, thus maintaining shopper’s privacy. Unlike many systems that need on-site PCs to pre-process the video streams, limiting their performance to a few cameras per site, Bosch’s solution easily scales to cover even the largest retail stores with a high camera count and large multi-store chains.

In the cloud, position data is mined into performance results and visualizations that are shared with the retailer through customized web interfaces for merchandisers and operations managers. For merchandisers, In-Store Analytics delivers shopper behavior insights to enable more informed decisions.

Sales of retail products often depend on their placement within the store and at what point shoppers see the items on their journey through the retail floor.

Distributor: Bosch Security Systems Contact: 1300 1 BOSCH (26724)

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HID LOCATION SERVICES l HID Global released HID Location Services for Workplace Optimisation for the first time in Australia at Security 2017. HID Location Services for Workplace Optimisation is a new solution designed to address a growing market need for accurate, real-time location of an organization’s workforce. By combining innovative Internet of Things (IoT) technology with the power of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Wi-Fi and cloudbased solutions, organisations can gain increased visibility into the location of their workforce in a facility. This makes it possible to analyse room usage for better building management and increased operational efficiency. Future use cases can include building automation capabilities, rich security features and capabilities that facilitate life safety management and compliance.

Distributor: Hills Contact: 1800 685 487

HANWHA TECHWIN H.265 WISENET X INTEGRATES WITH GENETEC SECURITY CENTER l HANWHA Techwin reports its flagship camera line, Wisenet X, is now certified with Genetec Security Center 5.6 SR1 utilizing H.265 and WiseStream technology. H.265, also known as HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), is a codec that was previously only used in the broadcast industry, however the demand for higher megapixel cameras and resolution resulted in its introduction to video surveillance.

“H.265 is an industry-leading codec that was developed for lower bandwidth video streaming while maintaining image quality,” says Ray Cooke, vice president of business development, Hanwha Techwin America. “This Genetec integration was driven by our customers’ increasing demand for high-resolution imaging formats including 4K Ultra HD.” Hanwha’s WiseStream compression technology enhances video streams by lowering bandwidth on high resolution cameras while maintaining image quality, according to the company. WiseStream works by using predictive bitrate control technology that knows when to decrease bitrates based on motion in the field of view.

This compression technology can be combined with H.265 and H.264 to provide more days of recording retention while decreasing network traffic, resulting in up to 75 per cent of bandwidth savings. Configuration of this technology is accessible via the Security Center config tool.

HILLS LAUNCHES HILLSTRAK ASSET MANAGEMENT SOLUTION l HILLSTRAK is a secure, easy to use asset management solution to track and trace assets within an organisation. Web-based and leveraging the latest mobile network platforms, HillsTrak promises to streamline business functions by automating complex asset management processes like stocktakes and preventative maintenance schedules. Staff can simply log onto an app on their smartphone or tablet to scan, record and manage assets.

HillsTrak also offers huge potential in the healthcare sector, not only to track medical assets, such as wheelchairs and medical aids, but also as a means to monitor patients from admission to discharge, providing a timeline of events and generating customised reporting to identify trends in patient flow, or even manage infection control. The technology will be especially relevant in the aged care sector, where in combination with specialised equipment, HillsTrak can be employed to safeguard people with dementia and other related conditions by creating personalised boundaries to prevent wandering.

Distributor: Hills Contact: 1800 685 487

Distributor: EOS Australia Pty Ltd Contact: +61 2 9749 5888

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PELCO VIDEOXPERT PROFESSIONAL l THE introduction of VideoXpert Professional rounds out Pelco’s offering of VMS solutions that meet customers’ needs—from small/mid-size applications to large-scale fully integrated applications across multiple locations and geographies. It provides SMB users with the ability to easily control and manage surveillance cameras with advanced features and capabilities and exceptional cost efficiency. And it’s also designed for easy installation, so users can be up and running very quickly.

VideoXpert VMS solutions also provide a level of scalability that is refreshing for users, allowing them to expand their systems as their needs grow. Equally important, users can augment and expand the functionality of VideoXpert to meet their specific surveillance and business intelligence objectives by integrating third party software and hardware.

This platform provides VMS users with the ability to control their surveillance systems with confidence.

Featuring Dell hardware, VideoXpert Professional users will have the added benefit of leveraging Dell support tools and apps. Advanced features include: hardware acceleration that allows users to more easily display high MP camera images; H.264 coding over WAN transport; anti-virus support on the ops center client; and simple export procedures that allow quick and easy handoff of video data to law enforcement agencies.

Distributor: Pelco By Schneider Electric Contact: +61 2 9125 8094

GENETEC DEVELOPS AUTOVU MOTOSCAN LPR SOLUTION l DESIGNED to help increase parking enforcement efficiency in the traditionally narrow streets of many cities, Motoscan is a lightweight, low-power, yet fully-featured license plate recognition unit that is designed to be easily mounted on a smaller vehicle such as a scooter or small motorbike.

Equipped with specialized ANPR cameras mounted on the scooter, the AutoVu Motoscan system automatically scans license plates and sends back the information to the parking authorities’ back-end system which will identify parking violations and issue tickets, as required.

The Motoscan unit is compact, measuring just 50cm wide x 39cm deep x 30cm high and it combines all critical components onto a single device to keep the weight low. The main unit is designed to meet the demanding automotive environment, making it able to withstand a broad range of harsh vibrations, weather and road conditions, including cobblestones, bumpy streets and smooth pavement.

In spite of its small form factor, Motoscan packs plenty of state-of the-art mobile ANPR features: this single, powerful ANPR solution automatically captures and reads thousands of license plates per shift. Thanks to the AutoVu SharpX ANPR highresolution cameras included with the unit, Motoscan will offer consistent performance day and night and in all weather conditions. It can accurately decipher plate numbers on vehicles parked in parallel, at 4590 degrees, and can read dirty or obstructed plates.

INNER RANGE INTEGRITI AIPHONE GT l INNER Range has released the IR-994210 Integriti Aiphone GT Apartment Series Interface. The unit interfaces the Aiphone 2-wire bus with an Integriti controller UniBus UART RS485 port. With this combination, the Integriti Aiphone Interface provides an optically isolated communication link between an Aiphone GT Apartment Series Intercom system and an Integriti controller. With this exciting interface comes the ability for Integriti to monitor and log events from intercom stations which can proceed to perform access control operations. Integriti Controller Firmware version 17 or later is required for the IR-994210 Interface.

For more information contact your local CSD branch.

Distributor: CSD Ph: 1300 319 499

Distributor: Hills Contact: 1800 685 487

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ICT RELEASES PROTEGEWX 4.00.292 OFFERING WIRELESS SUPPORT, AREA OUTPUT l JAMES Robinson reports ICT has released the ProtegeWX 4.00.292 update, which gives ICT’s ProtegeWX controller a suite of flexible new features.

“This update includes a range of new features and enhancements including email on event, support for the new Inovonics wireless receiver module, an area-ready output, functionality to export user records to a CSV file, as well as Russian and Greek user interfaces,” Robinson said.

ICT’S ProtegeWX is a modular, wizard-based security system that puts access control, intrusion detection, lift control and automation into the hands of installers in an affordable, expandable and easy to manage package.

ProtegeWX is fully scalable, offers browser and app-based management and supports 10,000 users, 50,000 events, 512 inputs, 512 outputs, 128 doors, 8 elevator cars and 32 floors per car.

Distributor: Integrated Control Technology Contact: 1800 428 111

MOBOTIX COMPLETES MX6 LINEUP WITH C26, I26, P26, V26 CAMERAS l MOBOTIX has introduced new compact indoor models c26, i26, p26 and v26, completing the Mx6 6MP camera line.

The new, higher performing processor in the MX6 range delivers up to twice as many images per second as before – at the same resolution. The video data is simultaneously offered in three formats (MxPEG, MJPEG and H.264), as well as in a range of different resolutions. RTSP/multicast makes the Mx6 cameras more flexible.

All of the models come standard with intelligent motion detection directly on the camera, and thereby offer more capacity for additional software applications.

As well as a more powerful CPU, Mx6 indoor models also offer an H.264 encoder. The new processor architecture significantly increases the frame rate, which allows the cameras to do an even better job of capturing fast movements. Moreover, intelligent motion detection is integrated as a standard, and more capacity is available on the camera for additional software applications. The new Mx6 camera system is far more flexible and higher performing, thanks to RTSP/Multicast. The video stream can be displayed on multiple clients simultaneously without reducing the frame rate.

Alongside the MxPEG video codec, which was specially developed for security applications, H.264 is available for the first time, ensuring compatibility with the industry standard. Depending on requirements, the focus can be set on high image quality with MxPEG, or the industry standard for video transmission and camera integration can be used. Mx6 cameras also offer basic ONVIF functions. The cameras are compact – 12cm in diameter and weighing only 200g.

AXXON FACE RECOGNITION FROM CSD l AXXON offers an extremely accurate Facial Recognition solution for live identification of a person of interest or for retrospectively searching to locate a person within the archived footage. Facial recognition can replace or work in conjunction with access control cards and other interactive identification methods, such as Biometrics.

Integrated with Inner Ranges Integriti system, Axxon’s Facial Recognition solution can be used for live warning of a person of interest, access control verification, demographic analytics, counting and security. Whether used as a standalone system for VIP entry notification or as part of a fully integrated system, Axxon’s Facial Recognition software provides an accurate identification solution.

Distributor: CSD Contact: 1300 319 499

Distributor: Mobotix Contact: +61 2 8507 2000

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Help desk ■ Below are the approximate recommendations for rest times (complete rest, that is) between sets according to your goal, per the National Streng th and Conditioning Association (NSCA). *Note that since fat loss depends primarily on diet, there is no official rest-period prescription for it, although we feel that both short and long rests work, depending on the program.

Q: We’ve been watching government departments installing concrete blocks and traffic crash barriers in pedestrian locations – would you recommend these as being secure and safe?

A: It depends. A concrete block would likely stop a car travelling at up to 60kmph without moving far – but it might move metres after the impact. In a truck strike, concrete blocks are likely to end up being shifted some way down the mall, though their shape and low centre of gravity will help minimise this.

Concrete crash barriers weigh about 2500kg so you’d think they would provide good safety.

However, they have a high centre of gravity and their relatively tall and flat facia means most the energy of an impact will be transferred to them. If a road barrier is struck square on by a heavy vehicle at speed it will become a 2500kg skittle that will definitely harm people on the sterile side. Worse, the nature of the impact would be unlikely to disable the truck.

Purpose-build embedded bollards designed to transfer all the impact of a strike back into the body of the vehicle that strikes them are by far the best. Water barriers work, too, but they are huge and painful to manage.

Our panel of experts answers your questions.

Q: We have a relatively complex integrated security solution on a site with multiple buildings and we’re working on a UPS solution that will cover all subsystems. Given the level of current draw what we are finding is that even a quite large and expensive UPS does not give us enough support – it’s fine for power outages but if there’s an unforeseen failure in power infrastructure such we saw in SA recently through a major weather event we can’t last long. What would SEN recommend? What should we be considering? We don’t have room or budget for large fuel generators.

A: Given the site will be unloaded in terms of power demand in the evening once staff head home, we’d give serious thought to an interconnected solar microgrid spread around the site and giving support to various buildings as they require power.

In a perfect world, every array in the microgrid would have battery backup and the microgrid controller would draw power from any generating panel array or any backup battery anywhere in the grid to provide supply to any systems connected.

You can build up a microgrid over time and use it to power vital subsystems – fewer at first and more as the grid becomes larger and more robust. Even a small microgrid comprising four 5kW arrays each supported by a single Tesla battery would give your site’s security and safety sub-systems serious resilience over extended periods. Obviously, arrays and storage batteries can be expanded, as can the total number of array and battery locations.

Q: As a long-term reader of SEN and a CCTV installer, I get the feeling you’re not in favour of wide angle lenses because of their negative characteristics. Are there conditions in which wide angle lenses are ideal?

A: A camera lens is ideal if it gives court admissible evidence such as face recognition, from the front to the rear of its assigned target area. Every lens is a double-edged sword. Long focal lengths concentrate pixels and give lovely compression at huge distances but you can rob some poor soul under the camera’s nose and it will not see you. A wide lens has a tiny hyperfocal distance and for half the distance on the lens side of hyperfocal and all the way past hyperfocal to infinity, everything in the scene will be more or less in focus.

However, the wide lens will spread pixels and this means that from a relatively close depth of field – say 12 metres – you’ll lose fine detail like faces, tattoos, shoe designs and other details investigators love. This is the anguish of lensing but you can manage your way around this. Scentre Group, the manager of Westfield shopping centres, spends serious money on cameras for the entrances of its stores and then economises a little in other areas. It does so because once you can associate faces and clothing in high resolution, it’s possible to do it elsewhere in lower res to create an investigative trail that is thoroughly court admissible.

So, no, we don’t dislike wide – it’s the best for situational awareness and storytelling, giving a good sense of depth of field. However, it will be a little soft on the

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monitor, softer on digital zoom and there will be distortions outside the centre that will make it softer still. It’s a balancing act. Something we would say is never go wider than you absolutely must in a video surveillance application – you’re throwing away detail investigators will later wish they had.

Q: Is it possible to paint PIRs, smoke sensors and internal screamers without impacting on performance?

A customer of ours is re-doing an interior and they want the décor to be uniform in colour.

A: Yes, just be very careful to tape or cover the lens of PIRs and the air intakes of smoke sensors – covering or blocking these will cause the device to perform below specification. Use a small brush, use water-based paint that won’t eat the poly housing of the device, take your time and be sure to walk test the PIR and use smoke in a can when the paint is dry to ensure the smokie is functioning properly Be more careful than this...

– PSA Lifesaver from Bunnings costs only $15 and will last you for years. Painting a piezo screamer is not going to cause any issues unless you trowel paint on and harm the electronics. Again, trigger the alarm once the paint has dried to be sure the screamer remains in full throat.

Q: Would Help Desk argue that wireless connections are now more reliable than wired connections for alarm monitoring?

A: We would argue that 2 paths or more are most reliable and we think these paths should include a high-poll wireless primary to remove the possibility of signal loss by cable cutting or failure of in-ground cabling through common events like flooding, which in many areas is impossible to avoid. A wireless primary should have a wired secondary to ensure comms in the event of failure of wireless links. Given dialler phase-out, we think the secondary should be an IP-based path but the nature of that path is a matter for installers and end users to decide based on the infrastructure in place. Higher security applications may have dual SIM wireless paths using separate providers, which will offer redundancy where separate wireless infrastructure is in place.

A: Firstly, establish which VPN features you need – for instance, which protocol.

What are you connecting and what sort of data will pass between connections? You will need some static IP addresses to build the link between so it does not have to be rebuilt each time there’s a transmission.

You also want to be sure you have the bandwidth to handle a VPN – they require more headroom than a standard link.

What will the security profile of the VPN be? Will it be behind the firewall at your central location and in front of the firewall or unsupported by a firewall at the remote location? Establish the link topology. Same as most cyber security solutions, a VPN client is not set and forget. You’ll need to update things like anti-virus and manage passwords, while static ports at either end should be monitored as far as possible against multiple unauthorised access attempts (port scanning). Managing VPN client passwords is important, too. You want to pull this functionality out of the VPN client and onto a secure workstation.

You can do this with a personal firewall or a BIOS password to prevent the VPN client being accessed in the event the appliance is stolen. Yes, you could use public WiFi as a link but be sure deploy a VPN like HotSpot which is designed to manage this securely. n

Q: Given the heat around cyber security at present, we are interested in setting up a VPN to secure a path from a central location to a remote site – what are the practical and security considerations in SEN’s opinion? What about using public Wi-Fi as a link? Yes or no?

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