Sanyo’s REHD (Realising Education in High Definition) training program has been designed to provide distributors, installers, system integrators and consultants with a ‘complete understanding of how to obtain maximum benefit’ from Sanyo’s full HD cameras.
Scandinavian electronic security product distributor, Teletec Connect, has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, and offices in Denmark, Finland and Norway.
David Hammond, Sanyo’s European sales manager, said: “We believe that if our business partners take on board the required level of sales and technical training, they will be able to meet, if not exceed, their customers’ expectations of what a full HD camera can do for them.”
Around 20 representatives from commercial and technical teams participatedin the training programme which was conducted at the company’s Stockholm offices at the end of April.
‘Training will enable HD to be embraced more readily than IP‘
Hammond said: “I am delighted that a highly successful company such as Teletec Connect had been prepared to commit so wholeheartedly to a training programme which has resulted in it achieving professional level accreditation.”
It is hoped that Teletec will be joined later this year by other European distributors seeking to attain Sanyo’s professional level accreditation status.
As part of the professional level training programme, participants receive a demonstration kit to take away with them which includes a VCC-HD2300P full HD day/night camera, 6mm lens, tripod Ethernet switch and cables.
The company also said it was keen to see that the pace at which full HD camera technology is picked up by end users is not affected by the lack of training by those involved in the sales channel, such as installers, distributors and consultants.
“In the past when a new technology has been launched with much fanfare,” Hammond said, “such as video over IP, there has been a general reluctance to recommend or install products incorporating the new technology when the implications of doing so have not been fully understood.
“We are endeavoring to ensure that this does not happen with full HD camera technology by providing high level training to all those involved as well as providing demonstration equipment which is easy to set up and use.”