Tag: John Frazzini
Avigilon buys BRS patents, others for $13m
January 21, 2015Martha Entwistle
Updated Jan. 27 with an interview with BRS Labs president John Frazzini. VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Avigilon today announced it spent $13.3 million acquiring video analytics patents that extend into behavioral recognition, video segmentation and meta-data and more. This deal comes one month after the video surveillance provider spent $80 million to acquire patents from ObjectVideo.“Avigilon is clearly trying to lock in IP in a whole range of analytical algorithms,” Jeff Kessler,...
BRS Labs to get new CEO, build cloud facility, do IPO
August 13, 2014Martha Entwistle
BRS Labs has a full plate in the next month--it's working on finding a new CEO, finding a spot to build its own cloud facility, and it's prepping for an IPO.
BRS Labs is a provider of “self-learning behavioral recognition software," which its sells as an enterprise software solution, for monthly lease, or as "software-as-a-service. BRS Labs president John Frazzini recently announced during a Fox Business News interview that the company--(which he said he has a stake in) would be doing an IPO. ...
BRS Labs adds sales staff
January 21, 2014SSN Staff
HOUSTON—Behavioral Recognition Systems (BRS), a provider of behavioral recognition systems, has added five senior sales staff, according to a Jan. 21 news release.The veteran sales professionals will help BRS continue the growth it experienced in 2013 while expanding the presence of the company's AlSight platform, which monitors behavior and other sensors to generate real-time alerts, according to the release. “BRS Labs continues to expand its dominance in Intelligent Video Surveillance...
BRS Labs adds to leadership team
November 20, 2012SSN Staff
HOUSTON—Behavioral Recognition Systems today announced the addition of four new members to the company's leadership team to meet rising demand, according to a company statement.
The four new hires bring more than a century of combined industry experience. The group includes Rich Smith, vice president of federal government business development; Mike Austin, vice president for critical infrastructure and homeland security; Rob Clouse, director of sales; and Gary Thomas, Western director of sales.
“Our...
Interface buys Westec and other stuff I learned at ISC West on Day 1
March 29, 2012Martha Entwistle
Big news from yesterday was the acquisition of Westec by Interface Security Systems. The story is on our front page or click here . You can also see my video interview with Jeff Frye of Interface Security Systems about the Westec deal on our front page or by clicking here.
Winning the procrastination award for latest to announce a press conference at ISCWest� 2012 is BRS Labs. I got the announcement a little after midnight--8 hours notice!
It's not a strategy I'd recommend, but there...
BRS Labs awarded patent, $2m deal
March 14, 2012Martha Entwistle
HOUSTON—A new patent and a just-closed $2 million deal with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is proof that BRS Labs is doing something “truly unique” that the marketplace will value, John Frazzini, president of BRS Labs, told Security Systems News.BRS Labs on March 6 received an umbrella patent for its “artificial intelligence technology” on which the company's behavioral analytics product AISight solutions is based. This is the eighth patent issued...
Jaunty talk about behavioral analytics
February 14, 2012Martha Entwistle
Scanning my inbox, and my SIA update this morning, I saw this perky piece from the New York Post, talking about Port Authority "brass" secretly deploying "military grade" and "science-fiction like" security systems
Sounded so intriguing, but the only real detail in the story is that BRS Labs (purveyor of behavioral analytics) is apparently working with the Port Authority down at the new World Trade Center.
Coincidentally, I'm speaking with BRS Labs brass John Frazzini on Thursday--so will...
ASIS 2011: News and notes from the show floor
September 22, 2011SSN Staff
ORLANDO, Fla.—There was plenty of news being made at ASIS 2011, which took place at the Orange County Convention Center Sept. 19-21. Below are some editor round-ups from ventured out onto the show floor to collect news and other goings-on.
Here's Martha's round-up:
The ASIS news started rolling in well before the show floor opened with the news released around 7 a.m. yesterday that Tyco International plans to split into three independent, publicly traded companies.
Over...