SnapAV has acquired Visualint, a maker of surveillance cameras and DVR/NVRs with video analytics for more intelligent security monitoring.
Visualint has been a rising star in the security channel, while SnapAV has become one of the most important distributors and product developers in the professional-installation channel over the past decade, with a wide range of products sold only through authorized dealers – never direct to consumers.
Acquiring Visualint is “a great way to get into a subcategory in surveillance that we weren’t already in … in addition to our existing line of Luma products,” SnapAV president Adam Levy tells CI sister site CE Pro.
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“Cameras are booming and dealers need differentiation. That’s where we’re winning – opening up new opportunities for dealers.”
One of the hottest of these “new opportunities” is simply the reduction of false alarms in video detection.
Visualint technology allows cameras to distinguish between people, pets, cars, and swaying trees, for example, so it doesn’t trigger alerts on false positives.
Commercial Applications for Visualint Technology
Commercial applications, where Visualint thrives, are numerous:
- Assessing traffic patterns in retail environments
- Monitoring the time that vehicles are parked in restricted spaces
- Capturing faces for a visitor database
- Determining if items are left outside a loading dock or construction site
Levy says the Visualint products will begin to appear on the SnapAV dealer portal in Q1 2017. Initially, they will remain independent of SnapAV’s existing product lines, including Luma products as well as Snap’s OvrC remote-monitoring platform.
Eventually, however, they will merge into a single ecosystem that includes other SnapAV solutions.
“Over time, the lines will become one family, but we really see it as an application-based story, not a good-better-best scenario,” Levy says. “It’s a great product lineup. We’re going to have a lot of happy dealers.”
For more on SnapAV and Visualint, check out this article from CEPro.com.
