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ISS — more than video.
What is the business history of ISS?
It's 15 years of work in the security market, it's a constant evolution of the product line products: from simple boxed systems to software platforms for creating large-scale distributed video surveillance systems, this is the development of technologies for analytical processing of video streams and the release on their basis of unique intelligent systems for recognizing car numbers, numbers of railway cars and containers, faces, and detecting abandoned objects.
The history of the ISS Company is the development of an international Partner Network, uniting real professionals who create real projects and unique solutions on the ISS technology platform.
The result of the ISS Company's activities in the security market is thousands of industrial, transport, and social infrastructure facilities, entire cities, long highways, the control, protection, and security of which are ensured by means of ISS systems.
15 years of history, active development, dynamic work and a well-deserved, in the opinion of the professional community, status of an expert and technological leader in the field of video surveillance.
15 years is a serious period during which the ISS Company has confirmed its efficiency, competitiveness in a wide variety of conditions of development of the domestic and foreign security market and economic environment.
According to some reviews, all this time the ISS Company lacked information initiatives or, as they say now, PR events around itself and its own innovations and projects.
But in the style of work of the ISS Company, the main emphasis, the main bets have always been on business: improving the product line, software developments, increasing the professionalism of the team, establishing effective ways of working with the Partner Network.
All these years, much attention has been paid to promotion on the international market. Numerous foreign projects have allowed us to gain invaluable experience and ensure technological cooperation with global participants in the security and information technology market.
ISS is an international structure, a world-class player in the security market.
A good illustration is cooperation with global vendors (manufacturers) of IP and other specialized equipment, joint work with large IT integrators and, of course, successfully completed real projects.
IP equipment manufacturers supply «native» software, but often its capabilities are not enough to implement a specific project.
The customer of the IP system undoubtedly receives high-quality video recording, while solving problems related exclusively to monitoring, video control, but is faced with limited functionality of the entire solution.
ISS Company offers a multifunctional SecurOS system as a tool for creating IP solutions for all occasions, for any object, for various purposes of security, safety, automation.
The SecurOS system developed by ISS Company is video analytics functions in IP systems, intelligent data search by events, construction of multi-server distributed IP solutions, creation of «combined» systems from IP and analog video cameras.
Creation of mutually beneficial tandems is a new format of relations with the world's leading manufacturers: IBM, Cisco, Panasonic, Mobotix, Axis, Pelco, Bosch.
Only in cooperation with them, in joint work with customers, is it possible to implement complex interesting projects, where the customer's tasks go beyond the capabilities provided by even the most modern equipment.
In turn, technological partnership with market leaders and luminaries is of great importance for
ISS companies: this is not only participation in significant projects that are important for the «portfolio» and business history, this is not just receiving feedback and international recognition. Cooperation with vendors and IT/security integrators is a serious incentive to develop our own technologies, to improve the product line and to improve each system. Numerous projects implemented by ISS together with leading global manufacturers and integrators have allowed us to gain valuable experience in the conditions of high global standards.
The current situation is such that new technologies are especially in demand in developing markets.
This is partly why ISS has focused its attention on the Latin American market, primarily Brazil and Colombia, where, thanks to the established system of infrastructure investments, the most modern security systems are being installed at facilities.
According to the International Company IMS Research, which published the official report for 2010 on the video surveillance systems market in Latin America “Latin America CCTV and Video Surveillance – 2010 Edition”, the ISS Company took 2nd place in terms of sales of video surveillance systems in this region.
It is the demand on the world market that is the best indicator of the correctness of the chosen development strategy.
Among the completed projects, we would like to highlight the road video monitoring system in Brazil, the installation of the “SecurOS Cargo” container number recognition systems in major ports in Brazil (in the cities of Natal, Recife, Maceio, Vitoria), Chile, South Africa, the creation of security systems at such facilities in Colombia as the power plant in the department of Cundinamarca, Marriott hotels, the city hall of Medellin, the “Bimbo Colombia” chain of stores, the Cartagena seaport, the “Safe Cities” projects in Recife (Brazil) and Cape May (New Jersey, USA).
The domestic security market is just beginning to turn to innovative solutions.
Interest in modern technologies, abundance of interesting projects – conditions that today promote the advancement of ISS Company in the Russian market.
World-class solutions are simply obliged to appear in our country: priorities of safety and work efficiency have become more important than formal execution, thoughtless savings on the most important things.
Requirements have increased, customers’ tasks have become more complicated, but the main thing (and this is demonstrated by the implementations and operating experience) is that developments
ISS companies correspond to these established realities.
The Russian market is becoming interesting.
And in these listed conditions of its dynamic development, ISS Company offers its own experience, knowledge, developments, obtained and, what is especially valuable, already tested at the global level.
For successful work throughout Russia, for the convenience and development of the Partner Network business, ISS Company opened regional representative offices in St. Petersburg, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Almaty (Kazakhstan).
Improving the quality and efficiency of interaction with partner companies directly on the ground is the main goal of each representative office.
Their specialists ensure prompt receipt of any ISS systems and necessary equipment from a regional warehouse, highly qualified technical support, marketing assistance, participate in work with potential customers in negotiations, in the development of technical specifications and equipment specifications, in the technical development of the project.
What does the ISS Company offer today, what are the plans for tomorrow?
First of all, a complete update of the product line: in accordance with new market criteria, current threats.
The place of «old» products with simplified functionality and low video recording speed (the criteria of the domestic consumer have increased) will be taken by new systems.
The ISS company will offer the market a new line of real-time products with expanded functionality, technical characteristics at the level of the latest world standards, a large number of video channels per server.
Analog solutions will also be preserved, but with significantly improved characteristics, primarily for those customers who want to get maximum opportunities when organizing video surveillance in a limited budget.
The new version of the SecurOS 6 platform has now become the basis for all ISS systems.
And this is a single high standard of quality, reliability, performance, this is a full range of functional capabilities for effectively solving the problems of any user, for a wide variety of objects and projects, this is maximum automation of the work of the created systems and many other user benefits.
SecurOS series video surveillance systems (Xpress, Professional, Premium) are a universal offer for all consumer groups.
Using them, it is possible to implement a project of any configuration: the system can consist exclusively of analog or IP cameras, or it can be «hybrid».
Development of the video analytics direction is a special strategic direction of activity of the ISS Company, its distinctive feature.
This sector of the security industry is currently characterized by the most dynamic development; intelligent systems are seen as a qualitatively new level of solving various user problems of ensuring security, control, and automation. ISS systems are more than just video.
Therefore, much attention will be paid to further improvement of intelligent modules for recognizing license plates of cars, wagons, and containers.
The «Auto-Inspector» license plate recognition system showed the best results in the test competition held last year as part of the «Security Technologies» forum on the initiative and with the support of the Traffic Safety Research Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
The work planned for the new year should lead to even higher results.
Active development is also expected for traffic and traffic violation control systems, which should take their rightful place in the system of measures to ensure transport security.