At the recent GE Interlogix “Realizing the Vision” conference in Miami, Fla., industry experts from Casi, Kalatel and Fiber Options all echoed the importance of integrating security systems. “The conference highlighted providing total integrated solutions to end user customers by truly integrating video, alarm systems and access control in a seamless fashion,” says Jiri Modry, executive management, GE Interlogix, Kalatel Division, Corvallis, Ore. Bill Zalud, editor of SECURITY Magazine, a keynote speaker at the event, emphasized the importance of video surveillance in the total security package. His valuable research concluded that 2002 numbers reveal that there has been an increased budget in security spending with over $580,000 per average spending on electronic security systems. Of the electronic security systems, video surveillance is ranked the No. 1 effective security technology, registering nearly 25 percent of end users polled. With security budgets increasing, coupled with CCTV as the most effective, end users should invest in the most effective and efficient systems available. The perfect solution is digital video and recording.
“With the use of digital video, we have the ability not only to record the information, but search through it later by time and camera name. We can now analyze the content of the recorded data and turn it into valuable information,” says Frank Abram, general manager, Panasonic Security & Vision Systems Group, Secaucus, N.J.