Physical Security Information Management, or PSIM, is the rapidly-growing new technology category that marries physical security device management with the automation and reasoning capabilities of computing. 

Growing world threats are spawning rapid growth in requirements for electronic security technologies of all types - video surveillance, sensor detection, access control, RFID tagging, and others. 

This is driving growing requirements to collect and analyze a potentially overwhelming amount of data in order to dictate the right response to any given security situation.  Information technology is increasingly required to effectively manage the sheer volume of security-related information being generated across most large organizations today and into the future.  

At the same time, security practitioners have begun to recognize incremental benefits achievable through increasing use of information technology (IT) for intelligent correlation and analysis of multiple security inputs that comprise a more complex situation.

Automation of device management means that less energy needs to be focused on management of the devices themselves.  Tying together disparate systems with intelligent correlation and rules-based processing enables security personnel in operations centers to more efficiently understand and manage complex situations that often trigger input from many different security devices. 

VidSys has led the creation and development of the PSIM category through the introduction of a unified software platform for comprehensive, multi-dimensional situation management. 

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