Without employing guards or owning patrol vehicles, RSPNDR partners with local licensed guard companies to deliver alarm response demand. By generating dispatch needs, guards spend less time waiting and more time serving customers, so guard companies that join the program become more productive and profitable. The app tracks, monitors and holds guards accountable while providing reporting and analytics.

Guards can arrive on site before a monitoring station can even connect to a traditional dispatch center by phone. The platform algorithmically pings the guard that will be able to respond first. As average response times have decreased, more monitoring and guard companies are requesting to join the program, according to RSPNDR.

“The value that we provide helps monitoring stations, alarm companies and guard companies generate more recurring revenue by adding guards as a service, while connecting active alarms with otherwise unoccupied guard units and giving end users a higher level of safety, security and peace-of-mind,” said Frank Pietrobono, senior vice president, sales and business development for RSPNDR.

Spencer Moore, vice president of the sales and marketing, Rapid Response Monitoring Services, Syracuse, N.Y., said the solution has a large value proposition to customers and alarm dealers. According to Moore, an alarm dealer typically sources their own guard service, and the monitoring center acts as a connector between the two parties. RSPNDR helps bridge that gap.

“They have a fantastic tech stack, a team that understands the industry and understands how to evolve the industry in a way that you can leverage technology to improve customer experience,” Moore said. “From us sitting in the monitoring center, having the integration and being able to provide that data at our fingertips to both the subscribers and the alarm dealers is really key.” To learn more visit https://www.rspndr.io/.

—Amanda Reed, Associate Editor, SDM //

Johnson Controls’ body-worn camera provides personal protection along with new methods for accountability, regulatory compliance and evidence management. Tightly integrated into Johnson Controls’ video management solutions, the body-worn camera offers optimized, live video streams using Wi-Fi or cellular networks for applications where real-time visibility is important. For recorded video, the body-worn camera automatically transfers its encrypted, secure recorded video into the video management platform. This allows operators to seamlessly search through body-cam footage as well as traditional camera footage for a more complete picture of their organization’s security.

Johnson Controls’ security robots powered by Ava Robotics are a workforce multiplier for an organization’s security staff, autonomously conducting event response along with routine patrols and inspections, providing 360-deg. video coverage and SIP audio communication capabilities. The robots improve situational awareness to security staff for diagnosis or diffusing an incident remotely. Equipped with video analytics that can monitor building occupancy levels, mask compliance, and object detection, the robots can promote a healthy and safe building environment by measuring temperature, humidity and air quality and combustible gases during inspections with solutions such as Johnson Controls C•CURE and Victor event alerts.

Physical goods and packages often enter premises unchecked — threats are now commonplace across many industries. RaySecur’s MailSecur all-in-one screening technology detects liquid, powder, weapons, explosives, radiation, and suspected materials with its safe millimeter waves. The integration with Johnson Controls’ security solutions means that scan results can now automatically trigger configurable responses across building systems to help mitigate incidents. For example, building lockdown or evacuation and communications with the building’s HVAC system to prevent potential spread of contaminants or smoke.

The combination of these innovations provides improvement to overall security management. Combining mail screening technology, robotics, edge intelligence and deep integrations into building systems improve an organization’s ability to dynamically respond to new threats while enhancing building security and building performance.

“Leveraging artificial intelligence, IoT and robotics in our security solutions enables us to provide our customers with new levels of operational visibility, situational awareness and autonomous operation,” said Osvaldo San Martin, vice president and general manager, Johnson Controls Security Products. “These technologies are among the first to be released from the OpenBlue Innovation Centers to accelerate bringing new technologies to market with our partners.”

The technologies are expected to be available from Johnson Controls by the end of 2021.

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“The demand for more standardized solutions that can solve a wide variety of use cases is only continuing to grow,” said Leo Levit, chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee. “As profile development can be a lengthy process, add-ons will allow ONVIF to more quickly offer additional capabilities and functionalities that carry the weight of ONVIF conformance to the market. We look forward to seeing development proposals from members for not only profiles, but also add-ons.”

An ONVIF add-on is one or more features that solve a particular use case; for instance, a need for standardizing file formats when exporting video. To conform to an add-on, a product must also conform to an ONVIF profile. The add-on concept enhances the ONVIF profile model by enabling conformance claims to additional features and capabilities that are not already included in ONVIF profiles.

An ONVIF profile involves a fixed and comprehensive set of features that enable a functional product to be developed solely on the profile specification. While the features included in profiles cannot be changed, add-ons are easily adaptable to evolving technology/specification requirements. Because an add-on supports version handling, it can be updated quickly to adjust for new technology additions or updates.

Extending ONVIF conformance tests to include optional add-ons ensures that an ONVIF conformant device, such as an IP camera, and an ONVIF client, such as a video management system, that conform to an add-on will work together regardless of the manufacturer.

ONVIF offers Profile S for streaming video; Profile G for video recording and storage; Profile C for physical access control; Profile A for broader access control configuration; Profile T for advanced video streaming; Profile M for metadata and events for analytics applications and Profile D for access control peripherals.

Further information about ONVIF conformant products, including member companies and their conformant models, is available on the ONVIF website. //

“Customers now have a choice; they no longer have to rip and replace their existing system but can manage all of their access control systems using Symmetry CONNECT,” said Jonathan Moore, vice president of product management, AMAG Technology. “Future company mergers and acquisitions are easily managed with CONNECT, which streamlines and simplifies security operations for enterprise users. This also demonstrates AMAG’s commitment to providing a completely open API for all Symmetry products, encouraging technologies from all industries, including our competitors, to integrate with our Symmetry Security Management System.”

Symmetry CONNECT meets Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) standards. The PSIA is a consortium of physical security product companies and system integrators who work together to deliver interoperable security products. The PSIA develops open specification standards, such as the PLAI (Physical Logical Access Interoperability) specification.

For more information visit amag.com/connect. //

ISS v3.5 also includes instant synchronized playback, which presents operators with precisely time-synched screen views of video streams across single or multiple sites, removing the need for manual configuration, and reducing stress and complexity for operators, particularly during time-critical investigations.

The new Event Notification Center enables centralized control of multiple audio devices, giving security teams mass and targeted communications capabilities, which can help them to pre-empt security or safety breaches, or to issue warnings in the event of an emergency.

IDIS Person Match speeds up investigations by extracting a person’s characteristics from multiple streams to present a clear timeline of events and last known locations.

“With our latest version of IDIS Solution Suite, we are making it easier than ever for users to manage an unlimited number of devices and sites, giving them enterprise performance without the usual associated price tag or ongoing lifecycle costs,” said Andrew Myung, president, IDIS America.

For more information go to https://www.idisglobal.com/index/iss. //