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Secure Logiq at IFSEC

by Mark Rowe

A manufacturer of high definition (HD) surveillance servers Secure Logiq, for the first time is showing at IFSEC, which runs on June 17 to 19, 2014 at ExCeL, London. As well as showcasing its latest servers, workstations, client machines and support software, the company will also launch a new crowdfunding based initiative.

Formed in 2011 by managing director, Hamish Johnson, and technical director, Aleksander Uzunov, Croydon-based Secure Logiq offers high specification servers that are purpose built for use with HD surveillance use. Up until now, installers and end users have tended to use traditional IT servers that simply do not offer the level of processing, storage and throughput required by these ever more sophisticated systems, according to the firm.

Secure Logiq says that its offering is based on four core principles – to provide the fastest performance, the biggest storage, the most resilience and the best value. Visitors to stand D410 will get to see first hand how this is achieved, and why its products maximise the potential of HD CCTV by processing up to three times as many cameras as some of the most commonly used servers.

Twelve off-the-shelf server solutions include a top-end server configuration that is 4U high and can continuously record 1000 HD CCTV cameras (1080p) at full frame rate and store the images for 30 days. The product range also comprises 1U, 2U and 3U servers using the makers say the highest specification components and optimising them for HD video, enabling the recording of more channels at a faster rate and the ability to store it for longer than comparable equipment.

According to the firm the servers’ compact size and ability to do ‘more with less’ makes them more energy efficient by using less electricity and generating less heat. To illustrate the point, the entry level product – the 1U server – has up to 12TB storage and over 500Mb/s processing power. Also, recognising the mission critical nature of surveillance, all of the company’s servers ensure maximum uptime through dual redundant hotswap power supplies and RAID 5 plus hot-spare giving an extra layer of resilience.

And new software is the Camera Replicator, a tool that allows the virtual design, configuration and test of a system that comprises any number of third party cameras and equipment. Designed to provide a real time overview of a Secure Logiq server’s ability to accommodate any specific requirement, the company’s stand will feature a live working demonstration of a 4000Mb/s camera system through a single server.

Not just a server manufacturer, Secure Logiq’s multi-monitor HD client machines can power eight 4K video displays, also on display, as will its enterprise HD workstation range, which combines full server and client hardware in a single 1U unit.

Having concentrated on its research and development activities over the last three years, Secure Logiq relaunched in February 2014 to take its products to market. The company made £850,000 of sales over the last 12 months and to expand its production and sales and marketing operations it will officially launch a crowdfunding initiative at IFSEC. With the aim of raising £450,000, the scheme is designed to appeal to installers and end users, with those that invest benefitting from special ‘owner’ pricing on all purchases.

Robin Hughes, Secure Logiq’s sales director, said: ‘The only thing more data hungry than video is HD video and, given that 2014 will be the first year that IP surveillance deployments overtake those of traditional analogue equipment, Secure Logiq is the right company at the right time. We’re confident there will be exponential demand for our UK manufactured best-in-class specialist server technology and we are thoroughly looking forward to demonstrating to those at IFSEC International 2014 how we can help them maximise the effectiveness of their IP based surveillance systems.’

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