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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Exacq makes 2011 Inc 500 list
Inc. Magazine just announced their 2011 Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America. We are very pleased to announce that Exacq Technologies has made the list again, our second year in a row.
Our 2011 listing has us at #401, reflecting an 851% growth between 2007-2010. Making the list two years in a row reflects continued, sustained growth. We are certainly grateful to our entire customer base: our Certified Resellers, our Distributors, and the end-users who have adopted Exacq products in their facilities, for enabling this growth rate.
To qualify for the Inc. 500 list, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2007, they had to be based in the United States, privately held, for profit, and independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – as of December 31, 2010, with a minimum required revenue for 2007 of $100,000 and a minimum for 2010 of $2 million.
The Inc. 500 website gives an analysis of companies by categories. Exacq is in the Security category. We are the only physical security vendor in the top 500, and the highest-ranking physical security vendor in the entire 5000 list.
The Inc. Magazine profile of Exacq is here. Our Press Release on the 2011 Inc. 500 listing is here.
Exacq debuted on the Inc. 500 list last year, and our report on that is here.
Thanks again to all of the Exacq employees, resellers, distributors, and customers, for your continued support.
Building A Safe Community – a Case Study
The cover story in this month’s Network-Centric Security magazine is Building A Safe Community.
It is an interesting case study, detailing the unique security challenges facing Northridge Cooperative Homes, a non-profit housing development in the Bayview-Hunters Point area of San Francisco. The article starts out:
The community campus is located next to a decommissioned naval shipyard, Hunters Point, and near San Francisco’s downtown area situated in one of the city’s prime hilltop locations. However, the area surrounding the community contains some of San Francisco’s rougher neighborhoods.
It’s a security struggle that many condo associations and housing authorities endure: safely managing their interior grounds while holding at bay outside threats with no ties to the community.
They started out with just 24-hour guards, but:
What they didn’t account for at first, however, was that, as a large open site with multiple buildings that lacked any secure perimeter, the property presented substantial opportunity for trespassing, illegal dumping and general criminal activity. With only street lighting in place, perpetrators could use the low-light conditions at night to their advantage, as most criminals do.
After repeated incidents, NCH realized it needed a surveillance system in place—and fast—to establish safer grounds for its community members and help reduce the crime, vandalism, violence and illegal drug activity. Specifically, NCH sought out a system that would monitor vehicles and their occupants entering the community and capture vehicle license plate numbers.
NCH chose San Francisco-based integrator Applied Video Solutions:
NCH enlisted the expertise of local integrator Applied Video Solutions to provide a full security and system needs analysis at the property. The integrator completed a full site survey and needs assessment, and designed a tailor-made video management solution that would aid in tackling the various challenges of the community and help manage the specific issues of the property’s aesthetic layout.
Applied Video Solutions’ analysis provided NCH with a clear understanding of what it would need to control when it came to physical security. The question then became, given the challenges of the site, what technology should NCH use in order to deliver the desired outcomes?
After significant lab and field testing, including a wireless interference survey, products from Axis Communications, Exacq Technologies and Hautespot Wireless Networks were selected for their performance and reliability.
The full article makes great reading and is available here. This installation was also highlighted in a case study done by Applied Video, available here.
This installation will also be featured in the seminar entitled "Run a Tight Ship: New Tools to Enhance Site Security" at the upcoming AHMA-NCNH Conference in Santa Clara, Sept 15-16.
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Tagged "case study", Applied Video, Axis, Hautespot, Housing Development
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Securitronics secures LPGA championship
This week’s Security Systems News has a detailed story on the security and surveillance system installed at this year’s Wegman’s LPGA Championship in Rochester, NY, by exacqVision integrator Securitronics.
Organizers of the Wegman’s LPGA Championship decided to augment their security operations with electronic security this year for the first time in the history of the 35-year-old event.
Wegman’s brought in the Securitronics Company to secure the event. Owned since 1997 by Jeff Heath and Terry Rivet, Securitronics is an 18-person systems integrator with offices here and in Syracuse and a remote location in Buffalo. Rivet, Securitronics’ EVP, said the bulk of the company’s work is in card access and IP camera installations. It also does some intrusion, intercom and emergency phone work. It focuses on the health care, financial and education verticals across its statewide footprint.
The article goes on to describe the installation, which includes exacqVision servers, Axis Communications IP cameras, and a Fluidmesh 10-node network:
Securitronics installed eight Axis cameras, (two thermal cameras, two interior fixed dome cameras and four fixed-position day/night cameras) which were used to watch the delivery area, operations area (where all the maintenance people resided), a carts storage area, the medical area (where drugs were stored), and the expo tent—inside and out.
“The thermal cameras were used in the areas of the golf course that are accessible at all hours and completely dark at night,” explained Mark Robinson, Securitronics director of operations.
The cameras were monitored via an ExacqVision server at a portable mobile security office that was set up in an RV.
Security personnel could watch the video from the security trailer and from a smartphone while onsite or offsite. “This system greatly increased [the security operation’s] eyes on the site,” Rivet said.
The full article can be read here.
The National Center for Spectator Sports Safety & Security recognized Wegman’s LPGA for their achievement in security this year at an awards ceremony yesterday at the NCS4 Conference in New Orleans.
"The reason for this new award is to allow professional leagues, NCAA member institutions and amateur organizations to honor outstanding safety and security achievements," NCS4 Director Dr. Lou Marciani said in a statement. "These achievements involve actions above normal operational activities whereby a safety or security issue may have been tackled."
We want to thank Securitronics for their excellence in deploying this security system. Pictures of the Securitronics booth in the registration tent at the event are below.
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Tagged "case study", Axis, Fluidmesh, LPGA, NCS4, Securitronics, Sports Security, Wegman's
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