Getting ready for ISC West 2010

With just three business days before ISC West 2010 kicks off in Las Vegas, the SecurityInfoWatch.com team is scrambling to post information on scores of new products being launched at the show and related industry news. On the product side, we're closely watching the SIA New Product Showcase (see our article about the New Product Showcase), and we've done a video run-through of some of the hot products in the competition (watch video).

In terms of training, we encourage you to check out BP.IP, the "Best Practices for IP" technology lab that Security Technology Executive magazine contributing editor Ray Bernard is hosting every afternoon of the show. For more information, visit their website, read our article, or listen to our 10-minute podcast on the same subject.

You can track all of our ISC West 2010 coverage at our ISC West 2010 coverage page (Live from the Show Floor: ISC West 2010), but you're also invited to tune in for our live video broadcast of the ISC West 2010 keynote panel featuring Sandy Jones, Bill Bozeman, Richard Chace, Ed Bonifas, and Lynn Mattice on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at 9 a.m. PT/12 noon ET. We'll be streaming web-quality video of this keynote panel via our website at our newly launched SIW TV web page.

A lot of people use our industry's top tradeshows as barometers for the health of the industry, and while that may be a very inexact science, we're seeing a lot of new products coming out this year at the show. ISC West's origins are in the alarm systems market, and that hasn't changed based on the pre-show news we're hearing in terms of product launches. Video surveillance certainly has eclipsed alarm systems as the product focus of this show, and the product news we are being piped from the manufacturers certainly reiterates that point. The focus seems to be on 2nd and 3rd generation IP camera releases, expanded VMS offerings, and a host of offerings related to video surveillance as a service (VSaaS).

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