IFSEC in photos: Day 2
Oops, I guess we’re a little slow on the Day 2 IFSEC photos, but yes, the camera was still working. Tuesday packed a real punch, allowing me to get much deeper into the aisles of the tradeshow floor and to meet with some scheduled press appointments. Here’s a look at the technology and flavor of the show.
JVC’s IP camera line is getting stronger, and in the top of this photo, you can see an as yet unreleased camera that provides megapixel imaging, so I’m told.
Simon Jerome, V.P. of sales and marketing (Europe and Canada) for Visual Defence was demonstrating their 3C (Command and Control Centre) video and integration platform.
I popped by the Stanley booth to have a look at their iPAC system, a nifty acess control system for up to 16 doors. Simplicity is the key here.
See Tec had an eye-grabbing metal robot-like structure at their stand. The company provides video surveillance management software.
An afternoon press conference at Axis Communications highlighted this can-style camera that snaps into a hole in a drop ceiling and can be installed in less than a few minutes.
Keri Systems’ NetXtreme access control system
Slowly, I’m giving up my biometric information to every firm on this planet. At tradeshows, I’m always being enrolled as a test subject as part of a demonstration of on-display biometric systems. Who knows how many companies have my fingerprints now… And after stopping by Hitachi’s demonstration of the VeinID finger vein recognition solution, I can proudly say that my veins are now on file in some random computer. Neat system, though.
Kicking back at DualCom’s booth playing Sega Rally. Surprisingly, I came across another booth that had a full-size video game console for weary tradeshow attendees…
More to come from Day 3…stay tuned.
-Geoff
Great photos, Geoff. And yeah, I’d like to play Sega Rally too.
Greg, I actually didn’t get a chance to play it… looked like fun, though.
A lot of people back in the U.S. have asked to compare IFSEC to ISC West, so here goes: The show has a much more relaxed feel than ISC West; I’m not sure why that is, maybe a cultural difference. Unlike ISC West, they don’t treat the Asian manufacturing vendors as second tier, either. These companies were mixed right in with the big booths on the main level, not pushed off on an unattended second level. And while there seems to be less international parity at ISC, ISC really shines in that it offers better education tracks. At IFSEC, the education sessions I saw were being held in open meeting areas that are mixed amid the show floor. The content was repeated some, and was typically vendor/product-driven. All in all, I wasn’t particularly impressed by the education offerings, and the attendees didn’t seem very interested in those sesssions either. In fact, when I stopped in at a couple sessions, there were hardly any attendees at all. On the other hand, I did see folks like Dr. Bob (of Bosch) packing the upstairs education area of their booth with a session on video. Dedicated Micros also had packed their booth for a big session, and I saw this at a couple other video companies’ booths. These seemed to be more product specific sessions, done by actual product managers — not by a hired-gun spokesperson. In sum, the shows are are a bit different, but the overall value is very similar. In terms of size, they are hard to compare. I think there is a similar number of exhibitors and the density of traffic (attendees) seemed about the same.