The Melbourne City Council has revealed its latest tool to try to improve safety in the city.
Lord mayor Robert Doyle has unveiled two security vehicles fitted with CCTV cameras that have 360 degree views.
Councillor Doyle says they will patrol city hotspots over six months.
“These vehicles will patrol Friday and Saturday nights from 10 pm until […]

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Distributor Ingram Micro Inc. last week inaugurated a new business unit for physical security products, anticipating that segment’s inevitable convergence with the adjacent IT security market will boost its attractiveness to value-added resellers and managed service providers.
Ingram’s physical security group will make available solutions in alarm and fire, monitoring services, access control and video surveillance […]

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Next-generation 911 (NG-911) architectures based on Internet Protocol (IP) promise to present security challenges to public-safety answering point (PSAP) directors, but those threats are manageable, according to panelists participating in a webinar last week hosted by the National Emergency Number Association (NENA).
Although timetables may be sketchy, the movement of 911 networks to an IP-based platform […]

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