Various examples of content written, edited, and published by Sigfrid (Sig) Rydquist
Blogs / Articles

4 reasons to move to cloud-based video surveillance (Eagle Eye Networks)
As organizations continue to embrace the advantages of cloud-based operating systems for critical functions such as email, phone, and backup services, it’s only natural to extend these benefits to their surveillance systems. Many businesses ask “What are the benefits of cloud video surveillance?” While cloud surveillance video management systems provide many advantages, read on for the four major benefits of cloud video surveillance for businesses and organizations.

Typeset Pro Adds Features To Make Businesses More Efficient (Typeset)
Professionals across nearly every industry share a common problem—the need to create visual content like presentations, ebooks, reports, and charts and graphs without the time or expertise to design the content. Typeset’s generative AI solves this problem by automatically designing the content so that users can focus on their message.

ParkStash integration generates 10X ROI in six months (Eagle Eye Networks)
Case Study: ParkStash, an automated parking platform, needed accurate license plate recognition to track payment and enforce parking, so they turned to Eagle Eye Networks. ParkStash integrated Eagle Eye LPR (License Plate Recognition) with their parking management platform. This integration has added an extra layer of security to their parking system through better enforcement while also generating significant additional revenue for their customers.

Revolutionizing Visual Content Creation for Small Businesses with Generative AI (Typeset)
Published on Martech Zone: The demand for businesses to create captivating visual content is at an all-time high. Typeset’s AI-powered design platform is empowering small businesses to create stunning visual assets effortlessly. From sales presentations to marketing collateral, businesses of all sizes need branded assets to engage their audience and drive results.

Holon Publishing: The bright side of AI—The 7-figure creative (Typeset)
Case study: Holon Publishing, an established branding and marketing agency and book publisher, serves authors—including industry and world leaders—plus digital creators, coaches, consultants, and companies of all sizes. Founder Jeremy Gotwals is focused on the future of creative agencies and has adopted AI tools to expand his output. Holon uses Typeset to efficiently create more digital content for clients to help them build their audience.

Improve parking security with cost-effective surveillance (Eagle Eye Networks)
More than 75% of prospective video surveillance customers want to improve their parking security and/or operations according to a recent Eagle Eye Networks survey. Too often, though, businesses look to improve the safety of their parking areas after an incident has occurred. The reality is that proactive measures can prevent these incidents from happening in the first place.

Case Study: Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas (Eagle Eye Networks)
Cloud video surveillance provides security and support for families who are away from home and caring for critically ill children

Virtual Learning Interactive Guide (CBS News Austin)
School districts are offering different learning options as the start of school approaches and COVID cases increase. To understand and compare the virtual learning programs and limitations across various school districts in central Texas, CBS Austin put together and updated an interactive guide.

Five Benefits of Recurring Monthly Revenue (Eagle Eye Networks)
Businesses of all kinds are adopting cloud technology in some way, including email, phone, and backup services. As businesses embrace these new technologies, they are seeking out security solutions that match the benefits of other cloud-based tech. Integrators that develop a strategic business plan to sell recurring monthly revenue (RMR) subscriptions will secure future opportunities and grow their business.

Four Key Ingredients to Improve Restaurant Efficiencies and Security (Eagle Eye Networks)
Most restaurants do not use their video surveillance systems to their full potential. But modern, cloud-based video management systems (VMS) can help improve restaurant business operations as well as proactively prevent safety and security incidents. Cloud-based systems, like Eagle Eye Networks Cloud VMS, are easy to access and use, provide data and insights, and are more secure than traditional on-premises systems.

Amazing survival story raises awareness on brain aneurysms (CBS News Austin)
One in fifty Americans have a brain aneurysm and will never experience any symptoms or know that they have one. The danger comes when one of these brain aneurysms rupture. Oscar Martinez survived a ruptured aneurysm and another dangerous aneurysm and shared his story to raise awareness.

5 Ways to Prevent the Spread of COVID with Cool Graphic Tees (SolidThreads.com)
Our thoughts are with the families fighting the deadly coronavirus and the global community struggling to live their lives as businesses close and isolation becomes the new norm. So as you “work from home”, self-quarantined without any toilet paper, we wanted to share five helpful ways that our super-soft vintage SOLID THREADS T-Shirts can help you prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Hall of Fame plans gone awry: Faces reunion ruined by strep throat (CultureMap)
Rod Stewart was a last minute scratch from the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, squashing excitement of the first Faces reunion with Stewart in nearly two decades.
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Cybersecurity Guide (Eagle Eye Networks)
Eagle Eye Networks published a guide to cybersecurity for video surveillance. Over 400 people downloaded the ebook in the first two weeks after it was published.
A companion Cybersecurity Infographic was also created for this project. You can view that here.

2023 Trends in Video Surveillance (Eagle Eye Networks)
The Eagle Eye Networks 2023 Trends in Video Surveillance ebook forecasts what will impact the video surveillance industry in the coming year and suggests ways business leaders can take advantage of industry shifts to improve their operations. This latest guide will examine the five most significant video surveillance trends impacting how organizations choose, deploy, use, and manage their security. Additionally we share two ways security integrators can help prospective customers and themselves get ahead in this evolving industry.

2023 Cloud Video Surveillance Camera Worldwide Statistics Report (Eagle Eye Networks)
Eagle Eye Networks, the global leader in cloud video surveillance, released the 2023 Cloud Video Surveillance Camera Worldwide Statistics report, delivering data about security camera usage and insight into how AI is used in cloud video surveillance across the globe. The report analyzes aggregate data from a sample set of 200,000 security cameras, in 100 countries, connected to the Eagle Eye Cloud VMS (video management system).

Recurring Monthly Revenue Guide (Eagle Eye Networks)
Recurring monthly revenue (RMR) offers many benefits for integrators, including more consistent cash flow, a higher valuation, better ROI, lower total cost to serve (TCS), and higher customer retention. This four step guide provides a road map to creating a new business plan and simplifies the process of adding additional revenue with RMR to your business portfolio, plus tips from industry insiders and integrators who have already made this move.
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