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How Smart Video Helps Employees Return Safely

How Smart Video Helps Employees Return Safely

The workplace has forever changed. What began as an unprecedented, global work-from-home (WFH) experiment has now become the new normal for many employees. A Gallup poll of 9,000 American workers reports nine in 10 remote workers want to maintain remote work to some degree, and that 76% of remote workers say their employer will allow […]

March 16, 2022 • 7 min read Data

Ready for the Rise of Smart Fleets?

Ready for the Rise of Smart Fleets?

Does your fleet have a digital co-pilot? Here's how fleet management is moving to smart fleets to drive safety and reduce liability.

March 6, 2020 • 5 min read Data

How Smart Video Surveillance is Changing Edge Architectures

How Smart Video Surveillance is Changing Edge Architectures

It’s exciting to witness the innovation happening in the video surveillance industry. Technological advancements continue at a very fast pace, driven by the desire to get more return of investment from surveillance solutions.  The past year has seen a lot of buzz around A.I. and smart video, because both promise to extract more from surveillance video […]

October 23, 2018 • 7 min read Data

Top 5 Surveillance Industry Trends from IFSEC International

Top 5 Surveillance Industry Trends from IFSEC International

A few weeks ago our team traveled to London to join the 600+ exhibitors and over 27,000 security professionals at IFSEC International. In addition to launching the industry’s highest capacity, deep-learning-capable, surveillance-class drive, Western Digital® Purple 12TB drive, I was able to walk the show floor. Here are the top 5 surveillance industry trends and takeaways for […]

July 13, 2018 • 8 min read Data

Western Digital® WD Purple 12TB Drive Enables AI-Capable Video Surveillance

Western Digital® WD Purple 12TB Drive Enables AI-Capable Video Surveillance

Today at IFSEC London, Western Digital expanded its surveillance portfolio with the introduction of the industry’s highest capacity, deep-learning capable surveillance-class drive: Western Digital® WD Purple 12TB with HelioSeal™ technology. This new surveillance-optimized drive provides the capacity and performance to access and transform recorded video data into valuable insights. What’s Driving Data Growth in Surveillance? […]

June 19, 2018 • 4 min read Data

Introducing the Western Digital® WD Purple™ microSD card, Purpose-built for Surveillance

Introducing the Western Digital® WD Purple™ microSD card, Purpose-built for Surveillance

Today, we’re pleased to introduce our first memory card storage device specifically designed for the surveillance edge: the WD Purple™ microSD card.  If the name sounds familiar, it should be. This new product leverages experience from over 20 years and 2 billion microSD cards shipped, along with over three years’ history of delivering award-winning hard […]

April 11, 2018 • 6 min read Data