Daily Archives: September 18, 2008

The ASIS 2008 tradeshow, held Monday-Wednesday of this week in Atlanta, has ended.  It was a great event for us and our resellers. We showed several new things this year:

exacqVision Version 3.2
This latest version of our software, out in a pre-release form now and final release in a couple of weeks, fully incorporates H.264 support from the newest IP cameras including Axis and Arecont Vision.  We had side-by-side comparisons of both Arecont and Axis H.264 models along with their mjpeg or mpeg4 counterparts running in the software.  We’re impressed with these new cameras, and see more server efficiencies, clearer video, smaller average file size (in some cases significantly smaller) and generally higher frame rates.  Version 3.2 also incorporates the new line of Sony IP cameras, plus several other new features and improvements.  Also connected to the exacqVision systems were the latest cameras from IQeye, ACTi, Panasonic and Vivotek.

Integration: ioimage and Lenel
We showed the ioimage analytics-based IP cameras integrated with exacqVision, a solution that provides analytics options as easily as adding another camera to the network.  A preview of the ioimage integration is here.  We also showed our new Lenel access control integration.

Windows, Linux, Mac
The use of the Macintosh in video surveillance applications has generated a lot of buzz.  exacqVision operates natively on the Mac, as well as Windows and Linux.  There was once again a great amount of interest in our Mac software.  We’ve seen significant adoption of exacqVision by educational institutions who cited the availability of a Mac client as a key factor in their decision.

iSCSI Storage & Serverless Computing
We showed exacqVision working with three of the leading iSCSI storage vendors: Pivot3, Intransa, and DNF Storage.  In the case of Pivot3, we were running our server software on their unit, creating an all-in-one storage/recording system.

While there has been some online chatter about this year’s ASIS traffic being lighter than normal, we saw the opposite.  We had a steady stream of visitors throughout all three days, and often were so busy that we spilled over into Axis’ booth right next to us.  We certainly appreciate our Rep, Distributor and Reseller channel partners who came by, who brought their customers and spent time with us in our booth.

A roundup of integration partner press releases from ASIS is here.  ASIS will be held in Anaheim in 2009 and we’ll be there.

Pictures from our booth are below, with even more pictures here.