VideoIQ's iCVR(TM) Wins 'Best in Video Analytics' Award at Security Industry Association's New Product Showcase

April 14, 2008

BEDFORD, Mass. , April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- VideoIQ today announced that the VideoIQ iCVR (intelligent surveillance Camera with Video Recording) won the Security Industry Association's (SIA) New Product Showcase (NPS) Video Analytics award at ISC West. The VideoIQ iCVR is the world's first high performance day/night IP camera with content aware storage, intelligent networking, analytic detection, and object search built right into the camera.

"This is a significant advancement," said Sandy Jones , SIA NPS Chair and president of Sandra Jones and Company. "VideoIQ's intelligent video analytics, remarkable storage capacity and flexibility combined into an IP camera captured the attention of the NPS judges and made VideoIQ the winner in this category."

This SIA New Product Showcase was established 29 years ago to recognize outstanding innovative achievement in the design of electronic security products, systems and services. Products and technologies showcased in the program are utilized in the protection of life and property in residential, commercial and institutional settings. The SIA New Product Showcase recognized the VideoIQ iCVR for its breakthrough advancement s in the video analytics category.

The VideoIQ iCVR family of products builds advanced video analytics, content aware storage and intelligent networking into high-quality security cameras and encoders. The iCVR solves the bandwidth and storage problems with traditional IP network cameras, while turning video into a proactive security solution. It sets a new benchmark for security performance, scalability, ease of use and total cost of ownership in video surveillance systems. Unlike conventional systems in which analytics are an add-on, VideoIQ's advanced analytics are a part of the core platform. Networking, storage, alarms and search have been designed as a complete system using the over 100 million hours of analytic protection delivered by VideoIQ products to date.

"We're honored that VideoIQ's iCVR has been selected by 19 leading industry experts as one of the best products in the industry," said Scott Schnell , president and CEO of VideoIQ. "With the iCVR, VideoIQ delivers a major step forward in security and value, while actually reducing the cost of owning the system. "

About VideoIQ

VideoIQ(R), Inc. is the technology leader in intelligent video surveillance solutions. VideoIQ uses superior analytics to transform video surveillance into a dynamic, real-time system that delivers early warning of security breaches, fast appearance-match video search, and new levels of video quality, network and storage efficiency. The VideoIQ iCVR is the industry's first intelligent Camera with Video Recording - with advanced video analytic detection and search, content-aware storage and intelligent networking embedded inside a state of the art security camera. Additionally, the VideoIQ HD family of video analyzers delivers the industry's best detection accuracy for conventional analog cameras of all types, requiring human response only when a real event takes place. The company is backed by top-tier investors Atlas Venture and Matrix Partners.

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