by Rebecca Walker — September 25, 2009—G4S, a leading security company that runs guarding services, owns access control manufacturer AMAG, and performs integration services, says it now offers “the fusion of technology and manned guarding to a level that’s really never been done before in the industry,” according to company president Drew Levine.
The company has launched a state-of-the-art monitoring center, based outside of Boston, which will be used to leverage the company’s guard forces by incorporating video monitoring offerings, along with managed access control services, and any other services. The company says its ability to have guards on site, holding devices that are GPS-enabled, backed by operators employing video analytics to discern threats, results in a “true solution” to security directors’ problems, making real “a myth that’s been talked about for decades, but hasn’t been done with broad success.”
The company will be installing the systems, or upgrading systems, using its own internal integration business, and will partner with video analytics supplier VideoIQ to provide either analytics-enabled cameras on new installations, or analytics-enabled encoders on the back ends of analog cameras that are already installed.
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