Arteco US Partners with ABP Technology

Arteco US is proud to announce our partnership with ABP Technology.   Based in Dallas, Texas, ABP Technology is a division of ABP International , Inc. and is the leading specialty distributor for high-end technology products in the fields of Information Technology and Telecommunications. ABP Technology concentrates on :

-IP Surveillance solutions based on Open Standards compliant High-Definition Video cameras and monitoring solutions.

-IP Telephony solutions based on Open Standards based suppliers for Vendor Independent Voice over IP systems.

-IP Paging , IP Access Control and IP Peripherals for IP PBX's, IP Phone system, IP based public addressing and much more.

ABP is committed to IP solutions over Open Standards and works with vendors that support interoperable solutions in a multi vendor environment. ABP represents world class companies from the US and around the world and markets products in the US and the rest of the Americas to service providers, carriers and the enterprise market through specialized reseller channel partners.

• Access to the latest in VoIP technology
• Intelligent and scalable Megapixel IP camera solutions
• IP Voice and Video storage in state of the art high-perfomance NAS
• High performance Ethernet and POE switching Infrastructure
• Technology Expertise
• One stop purchasing
• Technical Support
• Interop Tested products
• Full Distribution Services

ABP is a value added Distributor that truly help and supports resellers grow their business by giving them one stop procurement of selected world class products in IP communications coupled with technical support, training, marketing, pre-sales support functions, sales resources and access to many partnerships in the areas of financing IP connectivity, reseller insurance and more.

ARTECO Integrates Sentry360 Complete Line of Megapixel Cameras

ARTECO is excited to announce our recent integration with Sentry360 and their innovative line of Megapixel  standard, 180 degree, and 360 degree panoramic cameras.  With one Sentry360 Fullsight (360 degree) camera you can save multiple views to your display grid in ARTECO-LOGIC with 1.3, 2, 5, or 10MP varieties.   Please contact us for more information on this innovative camera line and to set-up a live demo with our staff.

Sentry360 5MP Quad View in ARTECO-LOGIC

Official Press Release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                        

For More Information,

contact Kristina Seger

(314) 434-5331

           kseger@artecous.com

Arteco and Sentry360 Partner to Deliver Video Analytics Based Hemispheric Megapixel Solution for Complete Situational Awareness

St. Louis, MO (August 23, 2012) – Arteco, an industry leader in the field of Intelligent Video Solutions (IVS) products for the security industry, and Sentry 360, the leader in Multi-megapixel and hemispheric camera solutions for the security industry have announced a joint integration partnership. 

The complete Insight camera line from the Sentry 360 including the 5, 10 and 14 megapixel IP cameras are now available for use on the Arteco VMS platform with integrated area analytics, object analytics and traffic analytics.  The Sentry 360 Fullsight camera line including the 5 and 10, megapixel hemispheric IP cameras with patented software dewarping technology are also available on the Arteco VMS platform with analytics.

“We are very excited to announce the release of Arteco software with a complete Sentry360 integration,” stated Steve Birkmeier, VP of US Operations for Arteco. “We can now deliver a full array of multi-megapixel and hemispheric cameras with accurate analytics for proactive situational awareness at an attractive price-point to the market. ”

Arteco and Sentry360 began discussions in late January 2012 based on requests from common enterprise customers who were interested in the powerful combination of the two solutions.  “The Arteco solution delivers an extremely powerful, straight forward VMS that was purpose-built around the unique analytics engine they pioneered over 10 years ago,” said Tom Carnevale, President of Sentry 360, “The accuracy and broad array of  relevant breach and traffic analytics combined with Arteco’s aggressive per channel price strategy and Sentry 360’s family of multi-megapixel cameras offer affordable access to a world class solution that was, until now, out of reach to most video surveillance users.”

Arteco and Sentry360 will be showcasing their product integration at national and regional events continuing through 2012. 

About Sentry 360 Security, Inc.

Sentry 360 is a developer of application driven multi-megapixel network cameras. Sentry 360 has two families of products: The FullSight™ is our 360-degree Immersive camera series with discreet mounting options to extreme temperature Vandal dome models ranging in resolution from 1280×1024 (1.3 megapixel) to 3856×2764 (10 megapixel). The InSight™ series has a vandal dome, miniature dome and box style models ranging in resolution from 1280×1024 (1.3 megapixel) CCD or CMOS to 4376×3280 (14 megapixel). Sentry 360′s Less is More® system architecture takes fewer cameras to buy, install, record and review while delivering more forensic detail and more situational awareness www.sentry360.com.

About Arteco Intelligent Video Solutions (IVS)

Located in Chesterfield, MO, Arteco US, Inc. is a member of the Arteco Global Family, headquartered in Faenza, Italy, and holds exclusive rights to market proprietary intelligent video solution (IVS) systems in the U.S. for both commercial and residential settings.  With more than 1000 installations globally, Arteco provides hybrid turnkey and software-only products to maximize the optimum performance of a balanced, customized system.  Its advanced system analysis enables users to move video surveillance from a reactive forensics tool to a pro-active, pre-emptive security measure that can stop violations as they happen.  The Arteco IVS is currently being used to increase security at subway stations, utilities, museums, hospitals, highways, manufacturing facilities, water treatment plants and city centers, as well as protecting national landmarks.  For more information about Arteco and its award-winning business service, training and support, visit www.ArtecoUS.com

ARTECO is excited to announce our new partnership with Security Marketing International (SMI).  Based out of Miami with offices in Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Columbia, Jamaica, and Panama, SMI is a leading sales and marketing firm for the Latin American market.  Headed up by Security Industry Veteran, Leon Chlimper, this extremely diverse and knowledgeable sales staff is already making a great impact for Arteco in Latin America.  Please join us in welcoming Leon and his team to the Arteco family.  

Read the official Press Release below.  For more information, GIVE US A CALL!!!  314-434-5331

Security Marketing International Partners with ARTECO

Miami, FL (August 17, 2012) - Security Marketing International, in partnership with Heitner Reps, announces a new partnership with Arteco US to sell their product line in an exclusive agreement for the South Eastern United States and Latin America.

Arteco is a worldwide leader in vision technology and has developed proprietary intelligent video solution (IVS) systems for both commercial and residential settings.  The core of the ARTECO IVS is the software, ARTECO-LOGIC, which is the Video Management Software, the User Interface, and the Analytics Engine that powers our intelligent applications.

Arteco provides hybrid turnkey and software-only products to maximize the optimum performance of a balanced, customized system. Its advanced system analysis enables users to move video surveillance from a reactive forensics tool to a pro-active, pre-emptive security measure that can stop violations as they happen.  The Arteco IVS is currently being used to increase security in subway stations, utilities, museums, hospitals, highways, manufacturing facilities, water treatment plans and city centers as well as protecting national landmarks.

PEER into the future of VMS where “EVERY CAMERA HAS A PURPOSE, SOMETHING YOU CARE ABOUT”

P- Price per channel must be competitive with standard IP video products

E- Easy to use, install and support

E- Event management is key, purpose driven, what is important

R – Resource management is the fundamental issue in IP video

For more information on Arteco, please contact SMI at info@sm-int.com or visit us on the web at http://www.sm-int.com.

Arteco Now Select Certified With Intransa

We are very happy to announce our recent Select Certification with Intransa and their wide array of video server and storage server product lines.  Special thanks to Randy Petersen and Sean Istre and the entire Intransa team who have been a great pleasure to work with throughout this partnership.

You can read the official press release below.  For more information please, as always, give us a call at 314-434-5331.  THANKS!!

ARTECO Video Management System Becomes SELECT Certified by Intransa

Cupertino, CA — August 6, 2012

Intransa, the physical security infrastructure and services company, announced that ARTECO, a market leader in video security applications, is Intransa SELECT certified and available as an option on its video-optimized server, storage and appliance platforms.

ARTECO's elite video management system (VMS), ARTECO-SERVER, has been tested and is INTRANSA SELECT certified for use on the Intransa EnterpriseServer and VideoAppliance. ARTECO- SERVER performs real-time event management and alerts users with visual, audible and remote notifications, organizes and stores vital event information in the event log and allows multiple users to acknowledge events on demand.

“Intransa's SELECT certification is synonymous with customer ease-of-use,” said Steve Birkmeier, vice president of U.S. Operations, ARTECO. “Being Intransa tested and certified allows ARTECO to provide new, reliable and scalable options for our customers who benefit from the many powerful features of the ARTECO-SERVER family of products.”

The ARTECO VMS system has been engineered to maximize resources with 100 percent channel customization for frames per second and provides resolution across three completely independent video streams for acquisition, display, and recording. Its video architecture allows organizations to customize video security resources based on what is important instead of compromising to a one-size-fits-all approach.

“ARTECO offers a unique product offering that brings new opportunities to security integrators and the video network administrators who are deploying new video surveillance systems,” said Randy Petersen, manager, technical marketing, Intransa. “Intransa is committed to bringing solutions like this certified with our infrastructure platforms to make deployments easier and ongoing operation less complicated.”

Pretesting with 3rd party security applications, such as ARTECO's VMS, helps to identify interoperability, performance and integration challenges in advance of installation at a customer site. Intransa's video- optimized VideoAppliance, EnterpriseServer andEnterpriseStorage platforms are designed to eliminate the challenges of untested commodity servers and storage designed for IT. Each is built for the 24x7x365 world of video surveillance and other demanding physical security project requirements and integrate with the company's portfolio of cloud-based support and management services.

Proven by thousands of customers for their surveillance projects, Intransa's award-winning infrastructure platforms and cloud services leverage patented software technology, hardware tuning and video optimization.

Arteco Partners with Heitner Reps in SouthEast

Arteco US is proud to announce our partnership with Heitner Reps to represent the Arteco product line in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.  Heitner REPS is a Manufacturers’ Representative firm in its 26th year in business, representing leading manufacturers in Access Control, Audio, Burglary, CCTV, Fire, IP Video, Structured Wiring, and Wire & Cable. Started by distinguished Industry Vet Joel Heitner in 1986, Heitner Reps is well established in the distributing, systems integration, and end-user markets of the Physical Security Industry for the Southeastern United States.


"We are very excited to be partnered with Heitner Reps," said Steve Birkmeier, VP of US Operations for Arteco, "Joel and his team have an excellent foundation and reputation throughout the industry and a long history of success at bringing innovative products to the marketplace."


Please join us in welcoming Joel, Chuck, Shirley, Steve and Ansley to the Arteco team.  For more information on Heitner Reps please visit their website at www.heitnereps.com or give them a call at Office:  (770) 578-0102, Toll Free:  (800) 543-5248  

The PEER Test for Video Management Software with Integrated Analytics

We are asked all of the time, what makes your software different from every other VMS platform people see on the market.   It must be truly overwhelming to have so many choices for integrators let alone end-users who venture to walk the show floors at major industry events. 

Arteco takes a different approach in answering this question by asking to compare other VMS platforms to us to see if they pass our “PEER” test.  Here is how it goes:

P = Price per Channel has to be among the Lowest in Class for Industry

E = Easy to Use, Install, Support must be a central driver to the technology

E = Event-Management is Key, Purpose-driven, What is Important to security needs to be product focus.

R = Resource Management is the fundamental Issue in IP Video that products must address

Today we will cover the first Point in detail which is P = Price.  Future posts will cover the remaining components of the PEER System because A) It would be too long for anyone to read, and B) I am focused on selling for a living, not writing blogs!!

P:  Price is key to our product offering and we are 100% focused on offering the best price per channel in the VMS class with integrated Analytics (period).   Never differentiate on price you say? Not true, rather, differentiate on price only if it is a point of true differentiation.  Simply put: the value proposition for video analytics has been out of whack since the beginning.  Providers are still asking customers to pay double what a high-end VMS platform would cost without video analytics.  There should be a premium for the ability to do more with real-time situational awareness but to pay double is laughable.   No single issue has held back the progress and use of Video Analytics in the marketplace today than this pricing model.  The big VMS companies of the world use this practice to make the technology available so they can say that they do “everything” but in reality this practice slows down the adoption of video analytics.

Arteco is able to keep our prices commercially viable by focusing on the concept that “One Size Does Not Fit All” when it comes to video analytics.  Our studies show that 85% of all video analytics applications in the market fall under what we define as area analytics.  This is your Virtual Trip-wire, Loitering, and Violated Area applications.  This is to stop Trespassing.  It requires the least amount of time to set-up, very little tuning after the fact, and achieves very high accuracy (90-95%) in outdoor environments.  We recognize that this is the sweet spot for the Video Analytics market and we make it available on our PROFESSIONAL line at costs equal to or slightly higher than the major VMS providers WITHOUT ANALYTICS!     We reserve our Object Analytics (Speed, Counting , Abandoned/Removed) and Traffic Analytics (Vehicle Speed, Traffic Jam, Wrong-way) for our ENTERPRISE line at a premium price-point because these are niche applications.  Many analytics providers attempt to force advanced analytics applications on their customers in a one-size-fits-all approach.   Simply because they went through the trouble of developing them, they believe someone ought to pay.  Good luck with that approach ;-)

Would you like to discuss further?  Please call us at 314-434-5331 and we can set-up a time to run through our Sales Training WEBEX at your earliest convenience.  For more info visit us at www.ArtecoUS.com 

Arteco US Signs Deal with Stenarco Solutions

Arteco is pleased to announce that Stenarco Solutions will represent Arteco in the Mid-South Region of the United States with exclusive selling rights to the Arteco product line in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.  Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Stenarco is Sales and Marketing Rep Firm headed up by industry veteran Stephen Homrighaus. 

We are very excited to be partnering with Stephen and Stenarco Solutions, his extensive background in all aspects of the security industry and the changes in IP based security solutions is a perfect fit for driving the adoption of the Arteco product line.  

Please join us in welcoming Stephen and his team at Stenarco Solutions!  You can reach Stephen at (817) 357-2829.  For more information on Stenarco Solutions, please visit www.stenarco.com  

Lunch and Learn in Jacksonville, FL

Arteco will be hosting a Lunch & Learn event in Jacksonville, FL at Maggiano's Little Italy restaurant in St. John's Town Center with our premiere partner Compass Tech Systems on March 8, 2012.

This is a great opportunity to share details on our application with the people in the field who deal with the types of real-world scenarios that Intelligent Video is helping to solve on a daily basis.  We love these events because it not only allows us to present and demo our product solution but it also provides great insight into the Manufacturer/Integrator/End-user dynamic that really drives success in our industry.  Without partners like Compass Tech Systems who are dedicated to service and perfection, and work every day to earn the trust of their valued customers, manufacturers are hard-pressed to be successful.

Please join us, we look forward to seeing you there for some great Italian food and insightful conversation.  For more information please contact Stephanie Evans at sevans@compasstechsys.com or by phone (904) 253-7960.  Reserve your spot today, SPACE IS LIMITED!!  

Analytics Use: What is the Purpose?

People always ask: “Where should I use analytics?”  Our answer: anywhere you hang a camera.  Listen, every camera that is ever installed should have a reason it was selected with that specific field of view.  We refer to this as the camera’s “purpose.”  The goal of analytics is to detect when the purpose happens while ignoring everything else. 

Roughly 85-90% of analytics applications used today fall under what we refer to as “Area Analytics” which can be defined loosely as “Something, some place, longer than you want it to be there.”  This means there is not only a size and shape of the object but also a temporal value to that object’s occupation of the space.  This could be 0.1 seconds or it could by 3 minutes for example and defines the type of event that the user is interested in.   We could not care about people walking up and down a path all day long but when they stop in a specific area for a significant time interval, we want to know.  Using built-in filters to the software allow you to shape and define what will create an event and what will be ignored. 

The key to understanding when, where or how to use analytics is rooted in understanding the purpose of the camera you have installed.   For the vast majority of real-world cameras, the purpose is to detect some form or trespassing.  This is a match made in heaven for a true video analytics-based solution.  Why do you ask?  Well I got into all sorts of trouble on another blog site (any guesses) a couple years ago when I stated that area analytics are the easiest to set-up, require the least amount of time for tuning, and give the most accurate detection of any analytics application on the market.  Now I was not referring strictly to Arteco, but to all true machine-vision based video analytics platforms on the market. My research came from speaking with various manufacturers as well as integrator technicians who have installed and set-up leading applications.  To anyone who has experience setting up applications, there is a tangible and significant difference between the time/complication to set up a violated area and speed threshold detection (for example). 

The reason I say this is a perfect match for analytics now is because it is an application that is commercially viable in the industry.  It is a marriage of what is needed in the market (a way to streamline video resources for trespassing) and an application that gives high rates of accuracy with the least amount of set-up pain.    There are all sorts of examples of in recent years of applications and sales models that do not work well when it comes to video analytics.  By focusing on understanding the purpose of the camera and what the customer’s expectation of what they are trying to achieve with that specific field of view , we easily understand how to use video analytics applications to help increase the efficiency and effectives of the security profile.