ActivEye Receives Prestigious Funding from NIST for $1.8M

Briarcliff Manor, New York. – September 2003 — ActivEye® Inc., a leading provider of automated video security solutions, has been awarded a $1.8M grant from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP). This highly competitive award was given to only 44 companies.

"To be recognized by the US Department of Commerce to develop a next generation security surveillance system underscores our technical leadership and the strength of our team", said Carolyn Ramsey, President and CEO, ActivEye®. "With this prestigious award, we will continue to address today’s most pressing security problems by melding the best of CCTV and Access Control."

With this opportunity, ActivEye® will develop an automated security surveillance system that combines closed circuit video cameras, radio-frequency identification technology, and computer modeling and analysis of human behaviors, with the aim of achieving rapid, reliable detection of suspicious events warranting the attention of security personnel. This next generation technology is expected to increase by a factor of five the effectiveness of operators to recognize and respond to security issues in real-time by significantly reducing the tedious job of watching multiple CCTV monitors.

The ATP provides cost-shared funding to industry-led teams to help advanced projects that have the potential to spark important, broad-based economic or social benefits for the United States. ATP awards are made on the basis of rigorous, competitive peer review of both scientific and technical merit and the prospects for broad-based commercial deployment. Further information about ATP is available at www.atp.nist.gov.

ActivEye® is a leading provider of smart solutions for automated video surveillance. Our products not only detect motion, the presence of people, vehicles and other objects of interest, our solution actually analyzes the scene and automatically reports suspicious events via audio, graphical, email or text messaging alarms — all in real-time.

Come see ActivEye® at Booth #4545 at the 49th Annual ASIS Security Show in New Orleans from September 15 through 17.




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