Daily Archives: April 8, 2008

We were once again at the big ISC West tradeshow last week.  Our booth was absolutely packed with people all three days.  We were showing the new features of the upcoming Version 3.0 of exacqVision software, which include:

Mac Client – Continuing our open platform, open operating system quest, we introduced our exacqVision Mac client, a native application to the Apple Macintosh which looks and functions exactly like the Windows and Linux counterparts.  All exacqVision platforms are completely interoperable with one another: you can have Windows and Linux servers, and connect to them all via Windows, Linux or Mac clients.  Mix and match.

The education market has been the primary push behind us developing the Mac client.  The school IT departments may be running the exacqVision servers under Windows or Linux or in virtual environments, but the school resource officers, security directors, principals, and others who need to view the video all have Macs on their desks.  Now they can fully use the surveillance system without the need for special computers.

Browser and Mobile Viewers – We also introduced our new exacqVision browser capability, which allows for viewing the surveillance video within any browser, whether it be IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, or any mobile browser.  Now video can be viewed anywhere.  The iPhone capability attracted the most interest, showing live multi-camera views in the iPhone Safari browser.  With this capability, an alarm in the system can send a text message with a link to a mobile device.  The user clicks on that link and watches live video to assess the situation.

H.264 Support – We had one of the new Arecont Vision H.264 megapixel IP cameras in the booth.   Other vendors showed or announced H.264 versions of their IP cameras, including Axis, ACTi, Sony, and others.  exacqVision is compression-independent, and supports any standards-based compression, and when these new cameras start shipping, we will have support for them.

exacqVision API – The Version 3.0 release will also see the release of the exacqVision API, a full interface software developer kit that allows us, or others, to fully integrate the exacqVision VMS systems into third-party access control systems, retail tracking systems, or other products.  We were showing the interface we wrote for the Lenel access control system.

Version 3.0 will be released by the end of April.

In addition to all of the new announcements, we once again hosted our Manufacturer Reps and International Distributors at the Gordon Biersch Brewery in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, where we discussed our sales and product plans for the next few months.  Good meeting, good food, good beer, good turnout.  A special thanks to all of you who attended.

We also had a great deal of press interest at this show.  SecurityDreamer blog highlighted us in their best-of-show seminar, Security Systems News did a blog post about us, and we met with almost every publication at the show.

Below are some pictures from the show.  Click on any picture for a larger view, or click here for more pictures.