Secure Logiq made quite the impression with its latest innovation – Logiqal CORE Architecture, which it launched with some fanfare at Intersec in January. In this exclusive interview, we speak to the creator of the platform and the company’s new Director of Global Services and Innovation, Franck Martinaux about his background and how he came to the role, about the new Logiqal CORE Architecture and about what else might be in the pipeline for the HD surveillance specialists.
Franck Martinaux brings with him 25 years of experience, which is well-suited to his new role at Secure Logiq. He spent a large chunk of his career at DataDirect Networks (DDN) and subsequently went on to found Capsule Technologies (Pty) Ltd in 2014, with “the idea of bringing innovative network video recording server concepts to the video surveillance market through a software layer combining hyper-convergence and accelerated RAID technology”.
“The evolution towards the role with Secure Logiq was a very natural evolution for me,” Martinaux explains. “Secure Logiq are leaders when it comes to servers and storage within the CCTV industry, so this role enables me to bring my ideas and innovations and develop them for a much bigger audience. So, while this is first and foremost about what I can do with Secure Logiq, and for Secure Logiq, it will also allow me to express what I’ve always wanted to express in terms of innovation, and that’s a great opportunity for me, and hopefully a great opportunity for Secure Logiq as well.”
Next, we get onto the topic of the new product launched at Intersec 2026 – Logiqal CORE Architecture. This technology was developed by Martinaux and began its life as Loqiqal CORE in 2022. Although Martinaux didn’t work for the company then, Secure Logiq had some of his products within its portfolio, he explains.
“Logiqal CORE was a software layer that has been designed to provide tailored redundancy for security industry applications and offers benefits to users in two main areas, virtualisation and resilience. Logiqal CORE Architecture broadens the scope of the original software, taking into consideration storage, and obviously offering more features such as resilience modules – failover redundancy, and that kind of thing,” Martinaux says.
At the core of the platform is Logiqal CORE, Secure Logiq’s purpose-built operating system for video surveillance applications. Logiqal CORE provides a hypervisor and advanced data-handling capabilities tailored specifically for security workloads, enabling virtualisation, automated failover and failback, and intelligent resource optimisation at a scale suited to large deployments, while offering excellent value compared to traditional IT alternatives.
Logiqal CORE Architecture delivers high performance using standard off-the-shelf hardware, lower upfront capital expenditure, reduced operational costs, faster deployment times and comprehensive in-house product support from experienced electronic security specialists. (Read more on the technicals, here)
As we mention in the introduction, this platform launched with some fanfare during Intersec 2026, with Secure Logiq hiring a super yacht on which to entertain a selection of local consultants, dignitaries and important integrators and end users, Ben Yoxall, Secure Logiq Managing Director says.
“We demonstrated the technology to the attendees there and we also had an impressive trade stand with the entire focus on the Logiqal CORE Architecture. On the stand we didn’t demonstrate it as such, but we had a giant four by three-metre image of a system, showing exactly how the various components of the system work together, so that when we were explaining it to customers, it was very visual in front of them. It was a really successful launch.”
In terms of what this solution offers the channel and why Secure Logiq felt the need to launch this system into the market now, Martinaux explains that it really answers a lot of the challenges facing the surveillance industry right now.
“It is about scalability. There is a demand for more cameras, higher-resolution, higher-storage capacity, and better performance – a greater level of computational workload, and it is about how we store all of this extra data, especially efficiently managing the additional metadata created due to AI, which is increasingly becoming specified into mission critical electronic security systems.”
“At the end of 2025 we reached a real pivot point where we had to think about what we offer as a server company, and obviously we had to go beyond the point of offering a bill of material with this CPU, that memory, etc. This is more about providing an entire ecosystem.”
Martinaux adds that the launch of Logiqal CORE Architecture also happens to coincide with a time when the industry is facing a global component shortage, and this solution makes better use of resource allocation to make for a much more cost-effective integrated solution, as there is no need to keep adding more and more hardware, as your systems requirements grow.
“With the volatility of the component market, minimising the hardware footprint by consolidating applications can offer significant savings in the overall system price and ongoing running costs” adds Yoxall.
So, this new solution, which as Martinaux says, “opens up a new way of designing surveillance architecture” is great news for Secure Logiq end users.
The response to Logiqal CORE Architecture has been “extremely positive,” Martinaux comments, “It addresses and solves problems, that we have never addressed before. The key functionality is that it addresses the challenges for about 99% of our customers, and that’s very exciting. It also addresses how we can easily and seamlessly implement failover solutions into any surveillance infrastructure.
“Given the new geopolitical context this will be more and more relevant, people will want to have more effective redundancy, failover, continuity of services on premises in case of critical incidents. There is definitely a need to rethink more globally, the way we implement CCTV.
Secure Logiq is already rolling out the system in a big way, with a large project in the Middle East, featuring the platform across 120 sites, and a prestigious project specified in France, which will be deployed soon.
Looking ahead at what further innovations are coming down the pipeline, Martinaux enthuses on several ideas he has, and which he might develop, around the concept of storage, some of which will be an extension of Logiqal CORE Architecture.
Yoxall adds that customers will also see “a drastic expansion of our professional services, as our specific skill set with a real focus on video security allows us to offer specialist industry focussed professional services – everything from pre-staging to system health assessments and advanced resilience solutions, but with us managing them, allowing us to offer extended warranties, which will ease the pain of inevitable price increases that are happening because of the component market which we don’t expect to end anytime soon.”
“We can offer security solutions that IT companies simply cannot offer our industry.”
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