The use of rugged mobile devices in production and services industries allied with the cloud and RFID are contributing to major advances in industries from food to pharmaceuticals and fashion beating the threat of counterfeit goods.

Clonmel-based VisionID is joining forces with tech giants Motorola, Microsoft and Zebra Technologies and its independent software vendor partners to study the impact of cloud and mobility on service-based industries at a conference in Dublin.

That's the shocking revelation by rural insurer NFU Mutual which is warning farmers at the Balmoral Show of the need to boost security measures to protect themselves from the thieves that are costing the agri-food sector nearly £4m a year.

As the PSA have now announced the date for CCTV and Access Control licensing, the obvious questions are:

What will that mean for existing intruder alarm installers?

What do I need to do if I currently install CCTV and/or Access control systems but do not install intruder alarms?

Product Manager at Axis, Andres Vigren presents a seminar on "Challenging lighting Conditions" at IFSEC.

The purpose of choosing the right camera should be considered on which goal the surveillance would achieve, such as in which scene it is usable and how to handle the mounting.  Is the camera meant to overview, go into detail or identify, recognize and detect the object? Would you like to use it during day time or night? Indoors or outdoors?  The big challenge is the lighting conditions that can range from blending light to no light.

Gardai have arrested three men and a woman in connection as part of investigations into a raid on a cash-in-transit van in Dublin earlier this year.

The four arrested people, all in their 20s, were arrested in areas around Dublin this morning by Gardaí attached to Bridewell station, supported by the Organise Crime Unit.