The security market it clearly sold on the value of video, but customers shouldn’t depend solely on video to protect their premises. Rather, they should implement a combination of video systems and other sensors for a more effective approach overall.
That’s a message I heard when I visited the Optex booth at the IFSEC show. The supplier of many different types of sensors says a “deeper and wider” integration of video with sensors provides a higher level of security required by end users in critical infrastructure protection applications, such as power plants and telephone infrastructures. Optex also employs its technology at railroad crossings, tunnels, and canals, among other places.
Even in residential applications, sensors add value, for...