● Special Report
Products 2020 Part 1
BEST PRODUCTS OF 2020 2020 has been a year like no other, with challenges aplenty. But security people can take heart from the fact their rapidly evolving solutions have proved central to managing the COVID-19 pandemic – not only this, the pandemic has turbo-charged acceptance of technologies that have been knocking on the door for decades, including face recognition, analytics, cloud, and remote management functionalities. OU might think a year like 2020 would impact negatively on R&D, stemming the flow of new electronic security technology as manufacturers, end users and security integrators sought refuge in familiar solutions but that’s not been the case at all. Instead this intensely challenging 9 months has not only stimulated manufacturer creativity but opened the minds of users and integrators to whatever might be possible. There were plenty of COVID-19 specific solutions released in 2020 but what was interesting was
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how many other clever solutions were released. The nature of these products suggests the electronic security market’s future remains bolted to the operational outcomes of end users and their security integrators – outside of this fundamental, almost anything goes. This year Inner Range released the Inception 3.2 firmware update which allows users to present biometric credentials, including face recognition, as well as traditional access cards to gain entry. With Inception 3.2 facial recognition, fingerprint scans and iris scans can all now be used as access credentials and this allows for more advanced security configurations for clients. Nirovision was one of the first to integrate its solution with Inception. Inner Range’s new Multipath-IP T4000 Lite includes all the features of the original T4000 in a small form factor, with additional inputs and outputs. Connecting to the IR smartphone apps which provide push notification services, the T4000 Lite is bundled with a dual 4G SIM card on the Telstra and Optus networks, providing an additional layer of security if one network was to go down. The SkyCommand app allows the end user to control 3 built-in outputs which can be programmed to control areas in an alarm panel. BriefCam released v5.6 of its video content analytics platform in 2020, which offers license plate
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