Milestone Systems, IP video management software firm, held its bi-annual MIPS event in Puerto Rico.
Several hundred security industry professionals gathered to learn about the digital surveillance solutions and future strategies. Network camera manufacturers and integrated software solution partners were honoured with awards, and the company’s 35,000th customer installation was celebrated.
The Milestone Integration Platform Symposium (MIPS) is a twice-yearly event to hear industry speakers, take interactive workshops and training certifications, see exhibitions from manufacturers and integrated solution partners, and network with IP video systems integrators, resellers, distributors, consultants, and hardware producers.
Analytics
The event unveiled the first offering in a new series of Milestone XProtect Analytics: License Plate Recognition (LPR). XProtect Analytics LPR 1.5 is a system that detects, reads, and stores license plate information from a digital video stream. It is designed to control vehicle access, as in traffic surveillance and law enforcement, toll and parking management, gas stations, and transportation.
“The true value from video analytics is derived through a video management system like XProtect with an open framework that can correlate feed from multiple video analytics with different behaviors ˆ regardless of whether the video content analytics are performed in a camera – at the edge – or server based,” said Eric Fullerton, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Milestone. “Best-of-breed analytics can be integrated with the Milestone open platform to allow a combination of license plate, facial recognition and object tracking, for example, from three different vendors to be used as one comprehensive solution.”
The firm invited end users to the event. Sessions were targeted to their interests, and the new Milestone Users Group website with blogs and discussion forum was introduced. The Moore Public School District of Oklahoma was honored for being Milestone Systems‚ 35,000th Customer Installation. The school district‚s implementation of XProtect Corporate IP video management software by ISG Technology began at the end of 2007, with a mix of almost 1,000 Axis and IQinVision cameras eventually expected for the total system.
At the evening dinner ceremonies, the following annual awards were presented:
Milestone Solution Partner of the Year for 2007: S2 Security Corporation develop a line of open architecture, scalable, network-ready products that integrate access control, alarm monitoring, video, and temperature monitoring – all with a web-based user interface. The S2NetBox integrates access control with Milestone XProtect IP video management.
Manufacturer Alliance Partner of the Year for 2007: There was a tie between Axis Communications and IQinVision, two of the industry pioneers in IP video cameras. Axis leads in market share and IQinVision leads with innovation in megapixel technology.
Partner of the Year for 2007: ISG Technology, an IT integrator and services provider for 25 years with nine offices throughout the Midwest, epitomizes the success to be gained with IP convergence.
Other activities at the event included Milestone Masters Class Certification training, workshops in IP surveillance and video analytics, and developer training for solutions integration with the XProtect Software Development Kit (SDK).
An industry panel discussion was led by Keven Marier (IPVS) with panel members Paul Bodell (IQInvision), Eric Fullerton (Milestone), Fredrik Nilsson (Axis), and Mike Sherwood (Vidient). The next MIPS event in 2008 will be held the first week of October in Copenhagen, where Milestone Systems has their headquarters.
