Other winners in the Technology category include: 3M Mobile Projection Technology, from 3M, OnStar Stolen Vehicle Slowdown Technology, from OnStar, and Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, from LiveScribe Inc.

Lextech Labs Founder, Alex Bratton, accepting the award from Debbie Adler Myers, General Manager of Discovery’s Science Channel.

About the Edison Awards (from Edison Award Press Release)
The Edison Best New Product Awards, presented last night by Discovery Channel, honored a wide range of new products and product innovations at an awards gala held at The Capitale in lower Manhattan.  New and innovative products in eleven categories, from high-tech gizmos including a mini-car and a high performance electric motorcycle to consumer packaged goods such as the world’s first mass market gluten-free mixes, were recognized for innovation and invention in the spirit of Thomas Alva Edison, America’s greatest inventor and innovator.

Edison Best New Product Awards are given annually.  The Award was founded 23 years ago by the American Marketing Association.

The Edison Awards, a peer-review honor similar to the Oscars (one newspaper called them the “Oscars of Innovation”) is voted on by roughly 2,000 members of the not-for-profit Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), an association of America’s top executives and academics.  The awards symbolize the persistence and excellence personified by Thomas Alva Edison, America’s premier inventor, inspiring America’s drive to remain in the forefront of innovation, creativity and ingenuity in the global economy.

More information can be found at www.edisonawards.com.

We would like to congratulate two Lextech Labs Channel Partners for outstanding recognition at MIPS. Milestone’s Partner of the Year was announced to be Digital Surveillance Solutions based out of Buffalo, New York. The President, CTO and Founder, Michael Blumenson, accepted the award. In addition, we congratulate Pro-Tec Design based in Minneapolis, Minnesota for Milestone’s Most Explosive Growth for the year. Tom Hagen, President and Steve Washburn, Vice President of Sales Operations accepted this award.

Additional press releases regarding Milestone and Lextech are available on the Milestone website.

• Solid understanding of C3 and its value to their customers
• Actively promoting Lextech Labs and C3 to their customer and prospect base
• Actively growing, managing and communicating C3 pipeline with Lextech Labs
• Demonstrated ability to sell C3
• Commitment to excellence in service delivery
• Promote increased awareness in the real-time video surveillance/mobility marketplace

We are pleased to announce that Triangel from Norway is the Partner of the Month for March 2010. One of their exciting projects is enabling a local port authority to secure their perimeter and cargo while providing situational awareness for the security teams.

“Triangel has established itself as a valued Channel Partner,” says Jeff Gibson, President of Lextech Labs. “We are very impressed with their knowledge of the video surveillance industry and their focus on providing solutions to critical infrastructures such as port authorities. We look forward to great mutual success in the future.”

The event spans from February 15th-19th and is an educational and networking event for Milestone’s IP Video Surveillance and Integration Partners. Lextech Labs will be demonstrating iRa C3, the intuitive video command center that allows the user to configure, view, and control an unlimited number of live camera feeds through a web interface or on an iPhone or iPod touch.

For more information on this event, visit Milestone’s website.

To make an appointment to meet with us while we are in the Hollywood area, please email info@lextechlabs.com.

Associate Editor, Heather Klotz wrote the article, titled “Lextech Labs’ iRa Pro Makes Mobile Video a Reality.”

See the full article below.

When I flew to Las Vegas to attend the Milestone Integration Platform Symposium (MIPS 2009), I never expected to be looking at live camera feeds from the Chicago suburbs I’d just left. But during a demonstration of iRa Pro, Lextech Labs’ new mobile surveillance application that allows users to access and control security cameras on an iPhone or iPod touch, the iPhone in my hand was showing me live video of cars moving along Ogden Ave. in Lisle, Ill., a road I drive on all the time. Better yet, I could use the finger controls of the iPhone and remotely use the pan, tilt and zoom controls on the cameras to see anything I wanted to see.

The application allows users to define multiple camera groups containing as many video feeds as desired, and painlessly switch between them when managing multiple facilities or areas. As you jump from camera to camera quickly, you can snap photos at any point and save them or e-mail them.

Having access to the camera feeds in a mobile format is something that’s critical for first responders, a group of security professionals Lextech Labs specifically had in mind while developing the software.

“We see mobile security Professionals as the third and newest kind of video security user, in addition to the dispatchers or security directors who are in the booth or the group of IT directors or executives who area accessing deeper, management-related information,” Alex Bratton, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Lextech Labs, said. “Our goal was to extend the security world into this brand new group of users and with true mobility, get the information in the hands of people who need it.”

The technology has been in development for about three years, but it was missing the platform to bring it to life. When Apple announced the iPhone in January 2007, Bratton knew he’d just heard about the platform he’d been looking for to give first responders live video.

“When the iPhone was introduced, we knew we had our Platform because of the combination of the cell phone networks, and the WiFi that goes with it,” Bratton said. “As soon as the SDK was released, we dove in and started working. Overnight, we had people from the industry contacting us because we had finally broken through the usability and portability barrier.”

Since then, Lextech Labs, which focuses on mobility solutions for the surveillance industry and real time video, has “been on a rocketride” according to Bratton, as support for the mobile video technology software has swelled. At MIPS 2009, Milestone, CoPenhagen, Denmark, announced the integration of iRa Pro with the Milestone XProtect Enterprise seryer and JVC, Wayne, N.J., announced integration with its network video recorders.

For dealers and integrators, this software presents an opportunity to add return on investment for many potential clients. As Bratton pointed out, “Our goal is to help integrators grow their business by serving their users even better and offering them more. This one addition can double the value of a system and get video into the hands of a new breed of user who is craving that capability.”

by Alex Bratton, Lextech Labs CEO

We just got back from an amazing trip to Reston, Virginia where we had a chance to present iRa C3 at two separate briefings to leaders in the enterprise and government sectors.  Apple and AT&T put on a great iPhone briefing event and asked a few enterprise solution focused teams to present, including Lextech Labs. The iRa C3 Mobile solution really helped show the iPhone’s ease of use and the power of the platform.

Alex (behind monitor far left) and Jeff (presenting just to the left of the screen) demonstrate iRa C3 to an eager audience.

I’m very excited by what our team has continued to deliver in usability and innovation and the excellent feedback we regularly receive from the community of first responders and others needing mobile operational video. It was very flattering to hear from one government user, “that solution is the reason I’m here today”.

In the article MIPS event gives inside look at Milestone Systems by Geoff Kohl, editor-in-chief of SecurityInfoWatch.com, he writes the following about the interaction between JVC and Lextech Labs at the Milestone Integration Platform Symposium (MIPS) in Las Vegas Nevada: