From the editor's desk: A burning issue SMART Fire & Safety 2024, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the first publication from SMART Security Solutions devoted to the fire industry. In the BMI report, sponsored by the Elvey Group, released earlier this year, fire was the smallest component ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Keeping them out, keeping you aware SMART Alarm, Intrusion & Perimeter Detection, News & Events
Alarm, intrusion, and perimeter protection have been part and parcel of South African society for years. Many years ago, a home alarm consisted of wires covering one’s windows, which caused an alarm ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: AI and events SMART Surveillance 2024, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the 2024 edition of the SMART Surveillance Handbook. Reading through this issue will demonstrate that AI has undoubtedly made its mark on the surveillance industry. Like ‘traditional’ video ...
Read more...From the Editor's Desk: Something old and something new SMART Mining Security Solutions 2024, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the 2024 edition of SMART Security Solutions’ Mining Handbook. Mining is a challenging industry for security professionals, although security is a challenge on this continent, no matter your ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Securing your secure access SMART Access & Identity 2024, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to SMART Security Solutions’ first print publication of the year, the SMART Access & Identity Handbook 2024. In this issue, we cover various issues relevant to this industry, from digital to ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: A sad but exciting goodbye Issue 8 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the final monthly issue of SMART Security Solutions. This is the last issue of the year and the last monthly issue we will print. The SMART Security Solutions team wishes all our readers and advertisers a relaxing festive season and a peaceful and prosperous 2024.
Read more...From the editor's desk: Convergence is real Issue 7 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events SMART Security Solutions has been talking about convergence for a long time; in other words, the intersection and even integration between the physical and information security worlds. Before writing ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Security integration complexities SMART Estate Security 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the first issue of the SMART Estate Security Handbook. It’s not really the first handbook we’ve done on estate security, but the first under the new SMART branding. This handbook is slightly different, although still on the same topic, in that the focus is mainly on integration and the need for products and service providers that make it easy to connect whatever you want to whatever else you want to achieve a holistic solution.
Read more...From the editor's desk: Is security the new analogue? Issue 6 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events Back in the old days, when I started with SMART Security Solutions (or Hi-Tech Security Solutions, as it was known then), one of the major ‘revolutions’ of that time was the imminent demise of analogue ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Both sides of the coin Issue 5 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events
We live in a country with, at best, an unemployment rate sitting above 30%. At the same time, we continually hear about companies struggling to find skills or that are unhappy with the people they hire. ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: First cloud, then edge, but all AI SMART Surveillance 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the SMART Surveillance Handbook 2023. This is the first edition of the handbook under this branding, but regular readers will remember many issues of our ‘old’ CCTV Handbook. As it turns ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Get SMART Issue 4 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the fourth issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions for 2023, which is also the first issue of SMART Security Solutions. As noted in previous issues, Hi-Tech Security Solutions has been rebranded to SMART Security Solutions as the publication evolves to incorporate more of what makes up the security industry today.
Read more...From the editor's desk: Mining is the easy part SMART Mining Security Solutions 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the Smart Mining Handbook 2023. Security and risk management have always been an important component of extracting wealth from the earth, but mines today face an extraordinary onslaught from ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: The makeover Issue 2/3 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the latest issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions, which is also the last issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions (sort of). We are currently working on our next issue, which is the Smart Mining Handbook, after which there will be a bit of a surprise in Issue 4.