Suprema has integrated its latest facial recognition devices into Nedap’s access control system, AEOS, enabling organisations around the world to manage access control by making use of Suprema’s latest facial recognition technology.

“The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken up the security and building management industry, resulting in a surge of interest in contactless access control. Thanks to the flexibility of our open platform, we have been able to quickly adapt to these changing customer requests. We have a great partner in Suprema who stands at the forefront of biometric innovation,” said Ruben Brinkman, alliance manager at Nedap.

For the past years, Suprema and Nedap have continuously released new integrated solutions. Suprema achieved this facial recognition integration by using Nedap’s Bio-API,.specifically developed to enable biometric solution integration into AEOS.

“The addition of Suprema’s face recognition devices with Nedap AEOS will allow customers to take advantage of a wider variety of Suprema’s biometric solutions. Suprema and Nedap will continue to strengthen our collaboration to bring new innovative solutions to quickly adapt to market needs, such as the recent demand for contactless security solutions,” said Hanchul Kim, the CEO of Suprema Inc.

The integration utilises a ‘single platform’ approach, meaning that there is no need for operators to switch screens. They can continue working in AEOS to manage enrolment and biometric identities. The biometric profiles are stored in Suprema’s security platform Biostar 2 and are constantly synchronised with AEOS. an information exchange safeguarded through SSL certificates, which provides strong encryption.

Both Nedap and Suprema are strongly committed to maintaining the integration, ensuring future backward compatibility and adding new functionalities along the way.

The new ETSI TS 119 182-1 is a specification for digital signatures supported by PKI and public key certificates which authenticates the origin of transactions ensuring that the originator can be held accountable and access to sensitive resources can be controlled.

This standard is a major achievement for interoperability of digital signatures for a range of applications in today’s digital economy including the banking and financial world where so far, some 4,000 banks were using various signing algorithms for their APIs to secure their online transactions.

Called JAdES, ETSI TS 119 182-1 comes in support of secure communications fulfilling the requirements of the European Union eIDAS Regulation (No 910/2014) for advanced electronic signatures and seals and regulatory requirements for services such as open banking.

This JAdES digital signature specification is based on JSON Web Signature and contains the features already defined in the related ETSI standards for AdES (advanced electronic signature/seal) applied to other data formats including XML, PDF and binary. The standard was developed with contributions from a number of stakeholders including representatives from the banking sector who, through Open Banking Europe, have brought their operational requirements to align European APIs onto one security model.

Nick Pope, Vice-Chair of the ETSI technical committee on Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI) comments: “The ETSI JAdES standard builds on ETSI’s decades of experience in defining standards for applying digital signatures to a variety of document formats to provide evidence of their authenticity supported by European Regulations. Working with Open Banking Europe, ETSI has developed a solution which matches the requirements of Open Banking APIs whilst assuring the authenticity of financial transactions.”

ETSI TS 119 182-1 can be used for any transaction between an individual and a company, between two companies, between an individual and a governmental body, etc. applicable to any electronic communications.

Electronic commerce has emerged as a frequent way of doing business between companies across local, wide area and global networks. Trust in this way of doing business is essential for the success and continued development of electronic commerce. It is therefore important that companies using this electronic means of doing business have suitable security controls and mechanisms in place to protect their transactions and to ensure trust and confidence with their business partners. In this respect digital signatures are an important security component that can be used to protect information, provide trust in electronic business and prevent tampering.

The series of significant integrations with Partizan Security participation are continued. Now our IP CCTV cameras are compatible with CathexisVision software.

Cathexis is an electronic and software systems development and manufacturing company, specialised in video management solutions (VMS) for the international market.

The company has been developing solutions for the industry for more than 20 years and has significant blue-chip and governmental customers in European Union, USA, South Africa, Great Britain, Australia, India, Africa and Middle East. Cathexis’ video surveillance solutions can be found in all vertical markets.

The capability of the software to easily integrate deeply with 3rd party products, like network I.P Surveillance Cameras, Access Control, Intruder and Fire panels and many other digital products enables it to supply systems that offer holistic solutions beyond security. This increases the customers return on investment, as they see the Cathexis video management solutions adding value in many aspects of their business.

In 2020 it was awarded by the Benchmark Magazine Best VMS for ease of operator use, simplicity of configuration and rich feature set. CathexisVision is a powerful yet highly cost effective and exceptionally stable VMS.

We are confident that our high-tech CCTV cameras with CathexisVision software will provide users with even more functionality for high-quality video surveillance of open areas and premises.

London Ambulance Service has experienced 529 violent incidents between April 2020 and January this year, and so to protect their frontline workers, the Ambulance Service has begun to roll out Motorola Solutions´ VB400 body-worn video solution to help their frontline workers to deal with assaults and threats.

“The health, safety and wellbeing of our crews are of utmost importance. We want to take every precaution possible to ensure that our frontline people are safe whilst at work”, said Garrett Emmerson, chief executive officer at London Ambulance Service. “We are confident that video security will deter abusive and threatening behaviour and improve the safety and confidence of our emergency medical crews.”

Medics can rely on the Motorola Solutions VB400 body camera to record incidents when patients or members of the public become aggressive or abusive. The footage will allow for ‘independent witness’ evidence, providing transparency and accountability for the public and ambulance crews. The new body-worn cameras will be used alongside a back-office evidence management software from Motorola Solutions to securely manage and process captured video footage.

London Ambulance Service is the busiest emergency ambulance service in the U.K., serving one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities. The Ambulance Service covers an area of 620 square miles, with 8000 people who work or volunteer for the service.

“It’s vital to ensure the safety of citizens and ambulance crews alike. This investment in video security will play a crucial role to protect communities and London Ambulance Service crews who are on the frontline every day, saving lives”, said Mark Schmidl, senior vice president at Motorola Solutions.

Motorola Solutions has opened a new Video Security & Analytics (VS&A) manufacturing facility in Richardson, Texas.

The 136,000 square foot building represents the company’s continued investment in North American manufacturing and the expansion of its production and shipping capabilities to further the growth of its video security portfolio which serves customers around the world.

“With this new, state-of-the-art facility we will be manufacturing critical, NDAA-compliant safety and security video solutions on the doorstep of American public safety agencies and businesses,” said John Kedzierski, senior vice president, Video Security & Analytics at Motorola Solutions.

Over the last few years, Motorola Solutions has made a number of significant acquisitions domestically and internationally in the video security and analytics space. Now, the facility will be the central hub of production and will integrate the company’s wide-ranging portfolio of mobile and fixed video offerings. These solutions are designed to increase visibility, accountability and safety for communities, businesses and first responders.

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