Government Security News April May 2015
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AXIS introduces new launches–and new ownership<br />
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workable video door station for indoor and/or<br />
outdoor use, adding two-way audio communications<br />
typically not found with door alarms to<br />
the high-definition video. The station provides<br />
a means to open the door remotely<br />
for invited visitors or to initiate<br />
a lockdown in case of emergency.<br />
It has PoE available for easy installation<br />
and can be integrated<br />
into VMS and SIP systems.<br />
Nilsson discussed the importance<br />
of Axis’ background<br />
noise-cancelling algorithms to<br />
boost audio quality, overcoming<br />
compromises such as banging delivery gates,<br />
highway and rail noise, and loud diesel truck<br />
engines in this system. This multipronged<br />
product, available in <strong>May</strong> and retailing at<br />
$1,249, was Nilsson’s favorite.<br />
Axis and Canon<br />
The unanswered question: What will be the<br />
favorite of Fujio Mitarai, CEO of Canon?<br />
Canon’s acquisition of the Swedish company is<br />
under way, with neither Axis nor Canon offering<br />
much in the way of details. Axis co-founder<br />
Gren admitted that he often said in the past<br />
that he wouldn’t sell the company, but said he<br />
saw “the industry changing with consolidation.”<br />
“Canon could provide benefits because<br />
it’s so much bigger, and had solely focused on<br />
camera lenses, folio patents, processing, production<br />
and long-term technology,” Gren said.<br />
Axis, meanwhile, always has outsourced<br />
production and could tap<br />
into resources of a company that<br />
Gren called “100 times bigger than<br />
Axis.”<br />
Axis essentially will continue<br />
to operate as it has, Gren and Nilsson<br />
said, with Gren reporting to<br />
Canon instead of the existing Axis<br />
board.<br />
On the Canon side, when asked about<br />
the acquisition, Ricardo Chen, director of<br />
B2BMarketing & Integration Support, Imaging<br />
Technologies & Communications Group,<br />
Canon USA Inc., said only that the move with<br />
Axis, as well as the purchase of Milestone<br />
Systems, a specialist in IP video management<br />
software, illustrates Canon’s “commitment to<br />
the security industry.”<br />
Both he and Scott Burkhardt, Canon’s<br />
marketing manager for B2BMarketing, pointed<br />
out that Canon has been one of the top five<br />
patent producers in the sector for the last two<br />
decades. “We know the area we want to be in,”<br />
Chen said.<br />
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