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MAR 2015

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SEcUrITY SYSTEmS NEWS march 2015 www.securitysystemsnews.com suppliers 39 INTERNATIONAL CENTRAL STATION ALARM ASSOCIATION Co-owners: @esxweb #esxexpo facebook.com/esxweb LinkedIn group: Electronic Security Expo (ESX) June 24-26, 2015 Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore Convention Center ESXweb.com The Education and Networking Event for Security, Life Safety and Monitoring Companies IDEAS THAT BRING SECURITY TO LIFE. IDEAS THAT BRING SECURITY TO LIFE. Come to ESX 2015 to: Grow Professionally Networking events connect you with electronic security and life safety professionals to share solutions to common challenges. Discover Best Practices Peer-to-peer education from industry thought leaders focuses on strategies for growing your business and uncovering emerging trends. Be Relevant Exhibit hall links you with leading suppliers offering innovative products and services with the latest technologies. Register Now at ESXweb.com By Martha Entwistle BOSTON—She's been creating imaging systems for more than 25 years, but Scallop Imaging CTO Ellen Cargill says doing this kind of work in the security feld is different. Security video "needs to run flawlessly, 24-7. The reliabil- ity [requirement in security] is very different from other felds," Cargill told Security Systems News. "In security, imaging is informa- tion, and you want to maximize the informa- tion contained in the images," she said. "That is different." " Yo u h a v e to make sure everything is very rugged, and you need to be sensitive to the needs of users as well as those who are setting up and installing the cameras," Cargill explained. It needs to be "simple and straight- forward, something you can get going without having to read an instruction manual." Cargill leads all technology and product development at Scallop Imaging, a company that's under- gone a rebirth of sorts in the past two years. CEO Olaf Krohg and a group of investors purchased the assets of Scallop Imaging from Tenebraex, an optical technology company, about a year ago. Scallop Imaging offers digital and analog cameras that "stitch together" images from multiple sensors to form a high resolution, 180-degree-or-larger view (non fsheye) on a single video frame. Cargill has a BS in physics from Bridgewater State University. She put herself through undergradu- ate school working second-shift as an X-ray technician. She won a teaching research assistantship at the University of Arizona, where she earned a PhD in optical sci- ence and today holds 16 U.S. patents and patents pending. Before joining Scallop Imaging, Cargill created wearable video display glasses at a company called MyVu. Previously, she spent several years at Flextronic, where she developed the "frst cellphone camera modules … We really experimented with miniaturiza- tion. It was a wild ride. We went from [zero to producing] 150 million units a year in two years." Cargill also spent 12 years at Polaroid serving as vice president of consumer hardware develop- ment, where she led the devel- opment of camera and instant printer products. Cargill is excited about Scallop's Women in security technology: Ellen Cargill, Scallop Imaging plans to "expand the product and i m p r o v e t h e overall perfor- mance by making it more fexible." To do that "it's vital to have unfltered contact with the cus- tomers," something Cargill has sought out throughout her career. "A new line of prod- ucts will be delivered early this year. We'll e x p a n d t h e r a n g e o f products, have higher perfor- mance cameras, cameras for applications where it's a moving platform," Cargill said. "I love product development," Cargill said. "It's so satisfying to see a project [progress] from an idea to where someone is building it. It doesn't get any better than that." SSN This story is the first pro- file in a new Security Systems News series called "Women in Security Technology." Do you know a woman who works in a technical role in the security industry who would be perfect for this series? Please contact Martha Entwistle editor@secu- ritysystemsnews.com Ellen Cargill

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