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IFSEC REVIEW
IFSEC 2018 IN FOCUS
This year IFSEC International was held at London ExCeL from 19th to 21st
June. Here we look back at a selection of some of the new products and
services showcased and talk to a range of exhibitors
IFSEC 2018 was a mix of all aspects of
technology for the security industry, not
forgetting the fire safety systems on display in
Firex International too.
Every year there is a theme with the main
topics for 2018 being GDPR, cyber security and
also artificial intelligence. Most companies made
PURPOSE-BUILT SURVEILLANCE STORAGE
Western Digital
Corporation is a data
technology company
which provides a variety
of data solutions,
purpose-built for today’s
surveillance needs
On the final day of the show,
PSI caught up with Brian
Mallari, Director of Product
Marketing for surveillance and
enterprise products at WD to find
out how the event had gone.
What has been popular on the
stand this year?
It has actually been two
products! Firstly is the WD Purple
microSD card for cameras with
on-board storage. The use case
for this card is consistent storage
for when you don’t have an NVR -
or if you do have an NVR but experience the
network fail, when your stream would not be
recorded but the card will provide storage until
the network is back up and running.
some reference to at least one of these on their
stands with some covering all three.
Of course, in between the security and fire talk
there was plenty of positive banter about the
World Cup and fortunately none of the dates
clashed with vital matches! Plus there were no
floods or Brexit votes to keep people away this
year.
The connectivity, make that expected
connectivity, of security technology is what was
apparent when talking to manufacturers. Today
people expect their systems to be able to
communicate with all components in the set-up,
on site and remotely, and this is why the cyber
side of the function was so widely in focus. Given
the nature of this market and the rapid
development of software for analytics and AI it is
likely that the subject of cyber security will remain
a topic for at least the next two years as we
continue to connect and fully integrate the various
disciplines of security.
Overall a busy show, lots to see and plenty of
interesting people to talk to, many of whom are
featured over the next few pages.
See you next year!
The second product that has been popular is
the 12TB WD Purple hard drive which we launched
at the show. This is the highest capacity hard drive
in the industry, special because we have bumped
up the capability from 180TB per year to 360TB
and our MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) went
from a million to 1.5 million hours. This supports
64 cameras per drive plus an additional 16 AI
streams. It is intended for systems such as the
Hikvision Deep in Mind system that features deep
learning. You are now not just streaming video to
the box but doing facial recognition searches and
people counting.
Cameras don’t just capture video these days, so
how are you keeping on top of innovation?
When you think about the surveillance of twenty
years ago the majority of video was not even
watched. Today it is not only looked at but kept to
satisfy the need for data for deep learning. You
need hours of footage to be able to program
cameras to recognise specific behaviour. It is
wonderful because surveillance was always
looking in the rear view mirror but now we can
look forward with analysis to generate value from
that data.
Because of this higher retention we are seeing
the need for storage going up and raising the
capacity requirements of hard drives.
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