Walk through of iRa Pro's key situational awareness functionality.

Something very obvious at the ASIS show this year was that technologies normally targeted at the consumer are making their way into the security space. Improvements in compression and video resolution that consumers demanded are now available for other industries to adopt. IP video, multi-megapixel cameras and H.264 compression were evident everywhere as companies scrambled to keep up with advances and position them for the security market. Each of those technologies really started focused on the consumer and until recently had not been available on a broad scale for security applications.

Speaking as part of a panel on future technology trends for security Fredrik Nilsson from Axis Communications summed it up very simply with "Consumers are driving high tech and we can piggy back on that" -- while proudly showing his iPhone.

Of course the next wave of consumer tech that we're expecting to enter the physical security market in a big way is mobile surveillance and situational awareness, starting with video applications like our iRa iPhone app. We're looking forward to empowering physical security teams as part of these new solutions.

As part of our integrated demo system with Quickset International at the ASIS show last week, Lextech Labs demonstrated iRa controlling one of their MSS mobile surveillance platforms that included advanced daytime, IR and radar capabilities.

(iRa on iPhone controlling the monster MSS unit)

Last week's ASIS show was a huge success for Lextech Labs and iRa. We had a chance to interact very closely with some of our launch partners, get to meet new partners and absorb a whole lot of industry trends first hand.

In the next couple blog posts I'll be expanding on some of the interesting items we identified and sharing knowledge we gleaned from the leaders present.

Christopher Rick writes of iRa in his post, "Lextech Labs is expanding what you can do on the iPhone or iPod Touch into the security realm with its new iRa high-end surveillance application. iRa allows you to view and control remote surveillance systems and even allows you to view multiple video feeds simultaneously." Read the rest of tihs article at http://www.newcooltech.com/feature/remote-surveillance-control-your-iphone.

Lisle, IL, August 6th -- Lextech Labs’ iRa earned the “Coolest iPhone App” award at iPhoneDevCamp 2 in San Francisco, CA on Sunday. The mobile surveillance application was selected from a pool of more than 40 applications submitted during the two day event.

Andrew Mager of The Web Life writes about iRa in his article "Top 5 apps from iPhone Dev Camp 2" (video inside)

"iRa: a high-end surveillance video system, with haptic control of direction and depth of field of the cameras! Absolutely mind-blowing. The demonstration drew 'ooh!s' and 'aaah!s' from the audience, and a thunder of applause." Read the full article here.

"iRa: Easily the most impressive demo at iPhoneDevCamp, iRa takes mobile control and viewing of surveillance systems outside of the windowless, multi-monitor command center and puts them in the palm of your hand." Read the full article here.

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"For an entry in the Serious Business category, iRa managed to pack in some serious cool. It’s an interface for viewing live video from remote surveillance cameras, with amazingly responsive video (motion JPEG apparently) over 3G. The best part of the demo was when he..." Read the full article here.