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ASSA ABLOY PULSE brings access control to more than just doors, without batteries or wires

London, May 2022 – Business often face limitations when they try to bring all access points inside and outside their building into an access control system. Gates, remote sites, cabinets and other points are a specification challenge. Now the new DIN-range of PULSE self-powered electronic cylinders and keys allows businesses to overcome this hurdle, without any need for drilling during installation.

 PULSE key-operated access control is self-powered using energy harvesting technology: Devices run without any external energy source at the door, neither wires nor batteries. The PULSE cylinder range includes door locks, cam-locks, furniture locks and padlocks which can operate outdoors in the harshest climates. Almost any cylinder can be switched for a PULSE device and connected without wires or drilling.

To unlock, a user simply inserts and turns their programmable PULSE key. The power generated is harvested to energize the lock’s encrypted electronic security. Once authorized by the Incedoä Business management system, the lock opens.

Managing PULSE devices is straightforward. From the Incedo interface, a facility manager programs each PULSE key with the exact unlocking permissions the keyholder needs. If a key goes missing, a few clicks cancels it and restores site security.

Convenient, scalable and easy to manage

Users find PULSE easy, because on the surface, a PULSE lock appears to work just like any other — with a major benefit: Their single PULSE key unlocks every opening where they are authorized. One key pre-programmed carries all their cleared permissions, no matter how many doors they need to open.

For maximum convenience, a PULSE key is equipped with two authentication technologies. It may be used, like a traditional key, to turn in the PULSE lock and generate power. The same key also doubles as an RFID credential, able to unlock doors equipped with a wireless or wired RFID reader. For users and building managers, this is much more convenient than carrying or issuing two separate credentials.

Businesses have the option to start small — with a handful of PULSE cylinders, padlocks and cabinet locks, for example — and grow an Incedo Business system as their needs change. The initial investment in hardware or software is always protected, because Incedo is built to expand on demand, rather than to replace.

PULSE locks with energy harvesting technology provide this gateway to a flexible, scalable system controlled from one Incedo Business interface. They can meet the needs of a moving organization — without compromises, now or in the future.

Control PULSE locks — and more — from a single, flexible system

Security managers and company directors can be confident their investment in PULSE is future-proofed. Choosing PULSE devices does not lock anyone into a single electronic access technology: PULSE is just one hardware option within the Incedoä access control ecosystem.

For example, at one site, PULSE devices can lock server rooms, cabinets and outdoor storage facilities, while AperioÒ wireless locks secure offices and meeting rooms and Signo wired readers secure the main entrance.

“By connecting Pulse to the Incedo Business platform, we offer our customers a unique choice,” says Henrik Degn, Business Development Manager, PULSE at ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions EMEIA.

“Based on their needs they can manage energy-harvesting electronic locks, wireless locks and wired readers within one access control solution. Everything is controlled together from a single Incedo interface, with the option to scale up or down, adding cloud management or software services.”

To learn more about the ASSA ABLOY PULSE cylinder range, download a digital brochure at https://campaigns.assaabloyopeningsolutions.eu/pulse

iLOQ enhances partnership with National Hockey League

Before the onset of the pandemic, Iloq signed a framework agreement with the National Hockey League (NHL). The first phase of the cooperation was to promote Iloq and its products during the 2021 Stanley Cup playoff games broadcast in Europe. Prominent branding in broadcasts with the use of ‘virtual blue line’ advertising brought unprecedented visibility for the company.

Now, as we ease our way back to ‘normalilty’ after the pandemic, the second wave of the partnership can be fulfilled. This is the promotion of Iloq during the NHL Global Series games to be played in Finland in November this year.

“The goal of our initial partnership with the NHL was to maximize awareness of the Iloq brand in key European markets as we continue to extend our market reach. With ice hockey, and particularly the NHL, being one of the most popular global sports leagues around the world, we have already successfully reached a large audience. With the Global Series games bringing some home-grown talent to Finland, we will attract worldwide media interest and ensure that Iloq’s brand is visible front and center bringing us many more ‘fans’ and unlimited business opportunities,” states Joni Lampinen, Iloq’s Chief Marketing Officer.

Siemens pulls out of Russia after 170 years

Siemens will exit the Russian market as a result of the Ukraine war. The company has started proceedings to wind down its industrial operations and all industrial business activities. The financial impact of this decision is reported as part of the organisation’s regular disclosure on its second quarter results.

After the start of the war, Siemens put all new business in and international deliveries to Russia and Belarus on hold. The comprehensive international sanctions, as well as current and potential countermeasures, impact the company’s business activities in Russia, particularly rail service and maintenance.

Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens AG, said: “We condemn the war in Ukraine and have decided to carry out an orderly process to wind down our industrial business activities in Russia. This was not an easy decision, given our duty of care for our employees and long-standing customer relationships, in a market where we have been active for almost 170 years. We are evaluating the impact on our people and we will continue to support them to the best of our abilities.”

Spanish government approves Vaxtor acquisition by Mobotix

Mobotix has been working successfully with the Vaxtor Group as a Technology Partner over the last few years, therefore, the acquisition of the Spanish company who develop automatic character recognition software, using video technology, was a logical consequence of this intensive cooperation.

The strategic expansion was already announced on January 17, 2022, after the purchase agreement for 100% of the company shares was signed.

Due to the exceptional importance of Vaxtor’s technologies, the Spanish licensing authorities requested a judicial review of the acquisition, which has now been positively decided and the Spanish Ministry of Industry and Trade has approved the takeover. The closing is now officially completed and the legal transfer of the company shares has taken place.

Mobotix AG strengthens its operating business with the strategic acquisition of the Spanish Vaxtor Group from Tres Cantos, Madrid. The acquisition is an essential building block for Mobotix in its positioning as a high-end solution provider based on video and artificial intelligence technology. It will also strengthen the development cooperation between Vaxtor and the Mobotix development office in Madrid, allowing both companies to be able to address emerging growth markets and future requirements even more effectively. According to the company, Market Intelligence estimates that the global market for automatic license plate recognition solutions alone will grow from $2.3 billion to $3.8 billion by 2025.

“Video technology has long gone far beyond just security applications. Data is the key to the future. Collecting, analysing, and connecting vast amounts of data open up new possibilities for our customers,” explains Mobotix CEO Thomas Lausten. “Video technology with artificial intelligence will help protect, support and preserve values and will make life more pleasant, easier and better. With the combined expertise of Mobotix and Vaxtor, we are ideally positioned.”

Vaxtor is a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-based video analytics software, specialising in optical character recognition (OCR) and deep learning technologies. Vaxtor’s 100 percent in-house development, technical vision, expertise, continuous R&D investment, and product quality have enabled it to achieve growth and positive operating results.

SALTO successfully passed ISO 9001 & 14001 certification audit

SALTO has approved one more year of the quality audits for ISO 9001 (Quality Management System Certificate) and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System Certificate), passing the audit with 0 non-conformities.

These certification renewals guarantee quality as a permanent and priority objective and ensure a commitment to customers regarding the implementation and maintenance of integrated Quality and Environmental Management Systems.

“The fact that SALTO has renewed this double ISO 9001/14001 certification has made us a benchmark in our commitment to the quality and sustainability of our products and processes,” said Ricardo Garcia, SALTO Sustainability and Quality Manager. “Our commitment to continuous improvement propels us to go beyond what is required by international certification standards to include things such as ODS, compensation for our carbon footprint, and eco-design.”

SALTO maintains its commitment to the quality, continuous improvement, and sustainability of its products and processes. With the management of integrated Quality and Environmental Systems, SALTO’s policy is consolidated in order to achieve the required level of quality and continuous improvement in each of the activities carried out by the company. The purpose of this commitment helps SALTO achieve both customer satisfaction and environmental protection.

ISO 9001 and 14001

ISO 9001 quality management means that the organization works to: develop a management plan based on strategic guidelines framed in a global sustainability strategy and focus on minimizing risks and continuous improvement of processes and products, and measure customer and partners’ satisfaction to answer and fully meet customer needs.

ISO 14001 quality management means that the organization works to: conform to legal requirements, have a commitment to the life cycle of products and services in its processes, try to minimize the environmental impact caused by the activity carried out, and seek continuous improvement of its environmental performance.

Igigi: Path to Innovation and synergy of marketing and security industry

Representatives of the G4S company and Igigi startup held a presentation as part of a series of a&s Adria webinars on the marketing platform, and a virtual character called Igigi.

Igigi character uses artificial intelligence algorithms based on which it is able to interact with the approaching people, monitor the behavior of people, and based on that give recommendations for further action.

The Igigi is mostly in shopping malls or in banks where it can provide certain information on request.

In addition to the above possibilities, Igigi is an ideal security solution with regard to the possibility of acting in emergency situations through automatic incident detection.

Ajax Systems opens plant in Turkey

Ajax Systems, the Ukrainian developer and manufacturer of professional security systems, opens its first plant abroad — in Istanbul, Turkey.

The new 8300 m² plant will produce the entire lineup of Ajax devices, duplicating the current production in Ukraine. Ajax Systems has already started to form a local manufacturing team. At the first stage, it is planned to hire at least 400 people. The plant expects to produce at least 150,000 devices per month.

The company was planning to launch new production facilities abroad long before the war; it is the logical continuation of production scaling.

“The opening of a new plant in Istanbul is a strategic step planned by the company and aimed at diversifying production facilities. Turkey was chosen based on a combination of factors: the availability of manufacturing professionals, infrastructure, the free economic zone conditions, the level of taxes, the quality of contractors, and proximity to our major markets. The new production will strengthen the Ajax product development and accelerate access to new markets. We strongly believe that the diversity of talents and cultures creates the best products and solutions. And we have always counted on local teams. Therefore, we are pleased to announce that today we are opening our first manufacturing vacancy in Turkey – General Manager, Manufacturing Plant Operations,” said Aleksandr Konotopskyi, CEO of Ajax Systems.

Ajax Systems has completely resumed the existing manufacturing and product development in Ukraine. The company is actively hiring specialists for the plant and expanding its R&D team. This production facility remains in Ukraine. In addition, the company has its own logistics hub in Poland and develops its local teams in the strategic markets of Spain, Italy, the UK, Germany, France, UAE, South Africa, and other countries.

China shows fastest uptake in facial recognition technology

According to a recent study from Future Market Insights, the facial recognition market is expected to reach US$ 22.5 billion by 2032, up from US$ 5.2 billion in 2022, expanding at a high CAGR of 15.7%. This study explains that increased government investments in emerging technologies of CCTV cameras in most public places to minimize criminal activities and terrorist attacks, and to enhance public safety, is boosting the facial recognition market growth.

Factors such as the rise in demand for face detection systems to enhance safety and security, and increase in applications in physical security and intelligent signage are expected to propel the growth of the global facial recognition market during the forecast period. Further, the report opines that the technological advancements such as 3D recognition systems and cloud-based solutions are anticipated to augment the market growth in the coming years.

The key points suggested by the researchers show that by component, it is the software tools segment that has expanded strongly at a CAGR of 16.8% up to 2021; the law enforcement application was dominant in the facial recognition market with a CAGR of 16.7% to 2021; and in terms of geographical uptake of the technology, the analysts predict that it will be China that accounts for the highest value share of US$ 1.6 Bn of the global market demand for facial recognition market by 2032.

Increasing mobile transactions for banking in countries, such as India and China, coupled with their governments’ initiatives, are expected to be the major drivers for the facial recognition market in the region, suggest the research analysts.

Competitive landscape

Players in the global Facial Recognition market focus on expanding their global reach through various strategies. The players are also making a significant investment in R&D to add innovations to their products which would help them in strengthening their position in the global market. Some of the recent developments among the key players are:

In March 2022, Aware, a biometrics software and services company, partnered with Miracl to expand its cloud-based biometric authentication technology. The partnership is a through a mutual reseller arrangement whereby each company can both sell each other’s products and integrate them within their own product lines.

SALTO’s acquisition of Cognitec Systems is initiating strong partnership of business synergy and innovation. This acquisition is expected to meet market requests for adding face recognition and artificial intelligence technologies to the company’s electronic access control and ticketing solutions.

Key players mentioned and covered within the report include: NEC Corporation, Aware, Idemia, Daon, Innovatrics, Facefirst, Facephi Biometria, Sightcorp, Neurotechnologies, Technobrain, Smilepass, Stereovision Imaging, ID3 Technologies, Herta Security and Animetrics.

WEBINAR: The Evolution of Dual Vision Cameras for Automatic Incident and Fire Detection

a&s Adria magazine organized a webinar in cooperation with Zodax and Teledyne FLIR companies on the benefits of using dual vision cameras in surveilling critical infrastructures. Hesham Enan, Key Account Manager for the Middle East, focused on the benefits of using dual vision cameras in tunnels and highways.

Dual-vision cameras integrate thermal vision that is able to detect fire incidents and see through the smoke. These features make them more efficient in the early detection of fire incidents. Additionally, cameras are equipped with AI technology which enables them to easily create alerts, distinguish fire incidents from hot spots, and reduce false alarms. Full webinar recording is available in the video below.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P96T3z32-1w&t

Secure Logiq embarks on ‘Security Tour France’

Venturing on a unique opportunity to showcase its extensive product portfolio, Secure Logiq is taking part in a two-week ‘Security Tour France’ road trip this month.

From 23 May to 6 June, Secure Logiq, along with along with Cathexis, ZKTeco, Toshiba and Camect will be visiting 130 security companies between Paris and Lille, with a target of two site demos per day, driving the team’s reliable Niesmann+Bischoff iSmove motorhome.

Using the van’s live setup to provide real-time demos no matter what the weather brings, the team be showcasing CCTV system solutions, enhanced video security, integrated VMS solutions and positive ROI, accompanied by croissants and coffee.

“This is a really exciting opportunity to connect with the French security market,” says Ivan Sval, Regional Sales Manager EU of Secure Logiq. “When planning these types of visits, they are arranged well in advance, or it will just be cold visiting. The goal of this trip is to surprise the customer with our presence, and I think having our real-time demos on the road with us will provide a perfect chance not only to present our portfolio, but to network in a unique and memorable way.”

Demonstrating the power of an integrated security solution, the ‘Security Tour France’ team are excited to begin their journey – spearheading an innovative concept within the security sector that brings solutions directly to people’s doorsteps.

“It’s incredible to be involved in a road trip experience like this with a brilliant team of experts in their field,” says Robin Hughes, Sales Director, Secure Logiq. “No manufacturer in our business has ever done a trip like this before and with each site visit and demonstration, we hope to make a lasting impression on our customers.”

To request a visit, please contact: +33 78 423 5577 or france@security-tour.com.