CCTV Doctor, and Swedish analytics

Hello. Our shapeshifting CCTV Doctor is back in action today – this time he’s answering a reader question on CCTV being used in a publicly parked car. Whatever next?

Video analytics and Sweden go together like trampolining dwarves and the avoidance of yawning hippopotami. So, unsurprisingly, here is a story about video analytics being used there – for the forces of good!

We’ve also got a story about the German embassy in Moscow; Advance Security’s work in Scotland; the Indian security spectrum; and remote monitoring with Crown and Siemens.

A reminder: enter the Security Excellence Awards. These awards are so prestigious that winning one – according to legend – allows you five magical wishes, redeemable with any supernatural being.

Come on! www.info4security.com and www.ifsec.co.uk. Thanks.

SectorGuard acquires Legion; and lampshade CCTV

You know how sometimes you’re standing in your living room looking at your lampshade and you’re thinking to yourself, “That’s a pretty good lampshade. I’ve done very well in putting that thing in my living room. Except… Except…” And the one thing you’d like to see changed is that instead of a lightbulb connected to the lamp, there was some kind of IP CCTV camera. That would really set the whole room off, you imagine. Well, dream on no longer, as this magical camera is here. It’s from Throughtek, and there’s a lady on a video telling you how to use it.

Speaking of videos, if you missed yesterday’s Samsung Techwin killing robot story, you should really check it out, as I’ve now inserted their amazing, ’24’-style promotional video. Wow.

The big acquisition news of the day is that Legion Group, the oldest security and parking services business in the UK, has been sold to SectorGuard.

In the interesting picture stakes, today we present Advance Security – they’re offering an enhanced key holding service.

The recording capacity of Bosch’s Divar DVRs is now up over four terabytes; and on our I4S India channel, there are calls for security providers to be exempt from service tax.

Please don’t forget about the IFSEC Conference 2009. That thing is gonna be off the dial, bro. Or something of that nature.

A long time ago, in a cyberspace thingo just near here, actually: www.info4security.com, and www.ifsec.co.uk.

The security week: The president, the chief exec, and the alliance

A momentous week of change and a new mood of global cooperation and alliance – that’s right, SIA chief Mike Wilson has been asked to step down, and Panasonic and Sanyo are looking into joining forces. Oh, and there was some election that happened in the US, too.

We’ve got all the latest on the Security Industry Authority story, where chief executive Mike Wilson has been shown the door after a couple of damaging reports showing security mess-ups within the Regulator itself, as well as the call for improvement from the National Audit Office. Our conference on The Threat Within seems more relevant and important by the day, wouldn’t ya say?

There’s up to the minute detail on the Panasonic and Sanyo ‘alliance’ discussion talks, and Brian Sims and John Honovich look into the potential security industry impact of the Obama presidency.

There are also the first two in a series of reports from the 2008 Skills for Security conference – and we’ll have all the coverage from our Next Generation CCTV conference as well.

The latest Bench Tests are available for your perusal – that’s the VDP20 dome from deView and the NVR-4000 from Plustek.

And in an effort to perk up the spirits of the SIA, this week’s Song About Security comes courtesy of smooth-voiced lotharios Warren G and Nate Dogg. Regulate.

In these economically-challenged times, having a job of employment is one of those things that is not only really great and cool, but also useful. Wonderful security jobs website Jobs for Security is here to help you in your quest to become great and cool and useful. One of the greatest, and coolest jobs available at the moment is our Job of the Week – it’s your chance to become a Training Officer with Advance Security, and it sounds excellent. Excellent!