Value-added technology distributor AMSTERGI, has appointed Rohit Khubchandani as Chief Sales Officer. He will be responsible for driving sales growth, expanding the company's reach in the African and Middle East markets. He will also be responsible for helping to solidify AMSTERGI's position as a leader...
Artificial intelligence is dominating headlines – with dialogue-based, AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT recently becoming the fastest-growing tech platform ever. And now Google has announced its intention to launch an AI-powered chatbot called Bard. The company has built Bard on its existing large language model, Lamda, and will...
South Africa is increasingly pushing for drones to be used for security and border control and now Milkor has plans to introduce the largest drone ever produced in Africa: the Milkor 380. Pretoria-based Milkor is currently testing its Milkor 380 with the SA Air Force in...
A new conceptual framework could provide vital steps forwards in the bid to improve fire forecasting globally. A paper on plants and fire modelling, published in New Phytologist, revealed that the water and carbon dynamics of plants provide the mechanism that links fire behaviour to plant...
The French government is trying to fast-track legislation in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics that could see artificial intelligence in video surveillance be approved. If approved, it would mark the first time that the country has allowed the use of automated video camera surveillance, where...
The region’s retailers may currently be under less pressure than their counterparts in Europe and America, but they still need video solutions to help them worker harder and smarter, writes Dennis Choi, General Manager, IDIS Middle East & Africa. With increased oil revenues insulating GCC economies...
VuWall is strengthening its TRx centralised video wall management software with continuous updates to meet evolving needs. The company’s TRx 3.4 was showcased for the first time at last month’s Intersec exhibition. It adds support for SDVoE Multiview mode, video wall mode and USB routing on...
Stewart Kidd, a loss prevention consultant with extensive experience of managing fire safety and security in the Middle and Far East and Chair of the British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association Water Mist Working Group in the UK, examines the concerns which may be inhibiting the...
Fire service experts at ESO have been looking forwards to the emerging trends in the fire industry and predicting what fire departments should be preparing for in 2023. Using the expertise of multiple expert team members and millions of data points, ESO has made four bold...
Iris ID has announced that its IrisAccess iCAM 7S series of advanced multifactor biometric iris readers are the first iris biometric devices tested and verified to meet the Security Industry Association (SIA)’s Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) Secure Profile communications standard for access control security...
