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American goes IP with Iveda |
| Deal brings video surveillance capabilities to guard firm, ‘crafts a better solution’ |
By L. Samuel Pfeifle, editor - 10.2008 
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ST. PAUL, Minn.--American Security & Investigations, a security
guard firm, has partnered with IP video monitoring provider Iveda
Solutions to offer real-time and remote camera access to its customers.
“It’s
very uncharacteristic” for a guard firm, agreed Tim Kingsley, director
of special projects and government affairs at American. “But one of the
things we’re realizing is that the way things are done is starting to
change.” Kingsly called the installation of IP cameras “pretty simple,”
with power over Ethernet and wireless technologies allowing for a
camera “pretty much anywhere you want.”
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The
business case makes sense, as American is often brought in for risk
assessment and it can now keep the CCTV work it used to farm out, but
it’s also part and parcel with the company’s forward-looking
philosophy: “The end user is expecting more out of their security
system and their security provider,” said Kingsley. “We are a people
company ... [but] ... The end user is tired of the lump that sits at
the desk and doesn’t understand the idiosyncrasies of the security
program.”
For the time being, all video will be monitored at
Iveda’s data center, “but, in the future, there might be some
interesting developments,” Kingsley said.
Important to the
partnership was both organizations’ familiarity and work with the
public-safety community, he said, and it was through a police-based
relationship that American came across Iveda. “Agencies need to access
data and video,” Kingsley said. “How do they do it, and how do they do
it simply? I saw so many limitations with other companies, and the
creativity of Iveda’s platform is very exciting.”
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