Long Circle Announces Development Partnership with VideoIQ

PR Log (Press Release) – Sep 03, 2008 – Long Circle, a provider of outsourced engineering services to companies whose products rely on embedded technologies, today announced a strategic development partnership with VideoIQ for VideoIQ's 800HD video surveillance system. The VideoIQ 800HD is a dynamic, real-time intelligent video analytic solution for guarding against intruders, and gaining early warning of security breaches in nearly every environment.

As one of Long Circle's ChinaPartner customers, VideoIQ is leveraging Long Circle's China Engineering Center of Excellence and VideoIQ's own dedicated engineering team in Shanghai to develop key enhancements to the VideoIQ 800HD Analytic system. Long Circle's contributions to VideoIQ's products are scheduled to be included in future releases.

"Long Circle has proven to be a good development partner in understanding our requirements, putting plans in place to meet our requirements, and delivering quality solutions," said Sergio Parise, vice president of engineering, VideoIQ.

"We are proud that Long Circle's ChinaPartner team was chosen by VideoIQ to help accelerate their product calendar. The Long Circle team in China has been able to rapidly go through a single development cycle, including requirement gathering, system analysis and architecture design, project planning, feature designs, module implementation, integration, and testing," said Hayden Hong, president and CEO of Long Circle.

About VideoIQ

VideoIQ,(R) Inc. is the technology leader in video analytics. VideoIQ acts as a digital guard that transforms video surveillance into a dynamic, real-time, intelligent system for guarding against intruders, and gaining early warning of security breaches. It delivers the industry's best detection accuracy and far fewer false alarms than conventional systems, requiring human response only when a real event takes place. VideoIQ is the only company to offer plug-and-play installation and self-learning capabilities that enable systems to automatically learn and adapt to their environment. The result is rapid implementation and lower total cost of ownership for customers.

VideoIQ is backed by top-tier investors Atlas Venture and Matrix Partners.

About Long Circle

Long Circle provides outsourced engineering services to companies whose products and services rely on embedded software and hardware technology. Long Circle and the Long Circle China Center of Excellence in Shanghai, China enables U.S. companies to reduce costs, increase engineering bandwidth, and broaden market reach by providing low-risk, strategic access to China's engineering talent, manufacturing industry, and emerging markets. Long Circle's series of industry leading SolutionReady platforms for customers in the security and surveillance, tele- and data communications, and mobile and wireless industries provide complete OEM applications, as well as an open platform that can be customized according to the customer's requirements.