Surveillance camera case studies
Dramatic in-car CCTV footage from the famous Le Mans 24 Hours race, which has just been released, demonstrates vividly the moment when AD Group CEO, and founder of Dedicated Micros, Mike Newton's challenge in the 2008 event came to an abrupt end as his car left the track and took flight at 270 kph.Mike Newton, who already has two class wins at Le Mans to his name, had been driving the powerful RML MG Lola EX264 race car for nearly an hour - after taking over from his co-driver Brazilian Tommy Er...
TSS (Traffic Safety Systems) - part of AD Group - has announced that the Bahrain Police Force plans to procure 19 of the company's advanced Radar AutoVision mobile CCTV systems.The new Radar AutoVision systems are to be installed in a variety of Bahrain Police Force patrol vehicles to assist officers in their roads policing duties. This order follows on from a successful in-vehicle trial, which began in December 2007, and to date has helped the Bahrain Police Force to obtain nearly 70...
The luxurious, 35 bedroom, Newcastle Quayside City AparthotelYorkshire-based, broadband specialists, Divine Internet, recently specified a range of VIVOTEK IP cameras to create a bespoke system at an exciting new building in Newcastle, Tyne & Wear. The four-star Newcastle Quayside Aparthotel is situated on an old brewery site on the banks of the River Tyne and offers all the luxury of an up-market hotel. Divine Internet was consulted during the build to do a retrospective fit of broadb...
March Networks™ - a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, recently announced that a large retail organization in the United States has selected the company's video management software and systems for a deployment covering approximately 100 stores. The initial orders are valued at U.S. $1.5 million and follow a successful rollout of March Networks business analysis software and professional services across more than 1,200 locations. The retailer...
Genetec is pleased to be in partnership with an integrator who values their pioneering qualities of IP security technology such as CBIAGenetec recently announced that the Canadian Bureau of Investigations and Adjustments (CBIA) has purchased and installed Genetec's integrated access control and video surveillance IP solutions at their new corporate office in Montreal. The Canadian-based company, which offers various security services such as protective, investigative, electroni...
Spirit Mountain Casino was built to serve the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, its members, and surrounding communities by promoting economic diversity through improved housing, educational investment, and cultural programs. And like so many gaming facilities around the world, the Spirit Mountain Casino campus has a need to grow. Their ‘South Expansion Project' began in early 2007 to add more than 130,000 square feet of space to include an events / entertainment centre, conf...
Visimetrics have recently provided the digital recording solution for the CCTV upgrade of the West Coast Main Line's 17 stations operated by Virgin Trains. The recording solution for the project is based upon the integration of FASTAR, VADER and OCTAR DVR systems tailored specifically to meet the recording profiles required at each station on the line.The national rail network effectively categorises each station depending on its use, footfall and importance to the network. With a va...
"Savoir vivre" in FrankfurtIn the middle of the hectic Frankfurt banking district, tranquility can be found at the traditional Le Méridien Parkhotel Frankfurt. Located in the idyllic Wiesenhüttenplatz, a street surrounded by trees, the hotel, which was built in 1905, offers its guests a superior standard of comfort as well as a discreet and courteous service with all the flair of a grand old establishment. Guests are guaranteed a haven of comfort and relaxa...
Waterland Hospital chooses IQinVision and Keyprocessor for integrated security.IQinVision, market leader in high-performance megapixel network cameras, smart IP cameras, and network video recording systems, today announced that the Waterland Hospital in Purmerend, the Netherlands, has deployed IQinVision megapixel IP cameras to achieve superior video surveillance results. Keyprocessor installed the security system in which video surveillance, access control, parking management, and interco...
In one of the most challenging CCTV projects anywhere in the country, one of CBC's Ganz C-Allview high-speed ruggedised PTZ cameras has been fixed to a 90ft vertical cliff-face to capture unique live images of nesting sea birds. The camera has been installed on a cliff-face 70ft above the sea at Portland, Dorset, with images of guillemots and other birds relayed back to a visitor centre at the nearby lighthouse. Jason Fathers, director of specialist wildlife-watching company Wildlife Windows, in...
IndigoVision's integrated IP Video solution has been used to upgrade two Greek casinos to fully-digital CCTV surveillance, in full compliance with the demanding Greek gaming laws. The Casino Rio, located north of the Western port city of Patras and Casino Xanthi, which is situated in the Northeast city of the same name, are now both benefiting from vastly improved CCTV systems. The two projects, totalling nearly 300 cameras, were installed by IndigoVision's local partner ILKA S.A., who wor...
Siemens Building Technologies Security Systems has completed a £400 thousand pound refurbishment and upgrade of a unique control room, which provides Enfield Council, along with other organizations in the area, with all their monitoring, alarm and response needs. The Enfield Public Safety Centre (EPSC) in Edmonton was officially opened in May 2003 providing a combined CCTV control, traffic enforcement and alarm receiving base 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Bringing together First...
Network cameras from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been installed by integrator Encom, to support Park West Enterprise Centre Management Company (PWEC). PWEC manages the Park West Enterprise Centre in West Dublin, Ireland, which contains more than 80 companies and is set within the Park West Business Park which itself is home to more than 240 companies, employing more than 8,000 employees. PWEC called upon the services of one of Ireland's leading IP-Sur...
TSS (Traffic Safety Systems) - part of AD Group - has seen increased demand for its in-vehicle roads policing CCTV solutions in the lucrative Middle East region over the past 12 months, with enquiries up by an impressive 70%. The company is currently undertaking a series of intensive trials with police forces in the region and expects to be able to announce a major order for its mobile RadarAutoVision system later this month.Julian Cooke, International Sales Manager for TSS, believes that...
WHSmith has employed an innovative CCTV system, SentryVision® SmartTrack™, at their distribution centre in Swindon. Brian Cottrell, WHSmith's Crime and Facilities Manager said: "Our distribution centre in Swindon covers an area of over 250,000 sq. ft. During the year, we pick approximately 94 million items and dispatch 6 million packages. With a building of this size and with the amount of activity that goes on, there is no way that a conventional CCTV system woul...
Genetec announced recently that the City of Manchester has selected Omnicast 4.1 for a major system upgrade project. With approximately 700 analog cameras spread throughout the city, Manchester is gradually migrating to IP, and all cameras will eventually be managed by the IP platform.Working with C-ways Limited, a UK-based IT Integrator, Omnicast was selected for the flexibility and benefits offered by its new Federation feature. "Where before we could only use either unicast o...
Sony recently revealed how it has met one of Europe's most complicated security challenges by creating and delivering an intelligent and efficient security system for Spain's Line 9. The system will provide reassurance and protection for the 90 million passengers that use Line 9 every year by connecting more cameras than the rest of the Barcelona's underground lines put together, to guarantee constant, blanket surveillance. Altogether, 2937 SNC-CS50P IP network cameras are insta...
Safety is a vital concern for the energy industry. When potentially flammable materials such as oils and natural gas are used in generating power, the need to maintain all plant, equipment and machinery to the highest level of excellence is an absolute priority.At the same time, the hazardous environment created while a plant is operation can make it difficult or impossible for engineers to check equipment and track down any faults - and remote monitoring devices can often give insufficien...
CCTV cameras utilising SANYO's unique Pan-Focus technology are helping to create a safe and secure environment at the new Docklands Light Railway, Langdon Park Station.30 SANYO cameras have been located at the station, the majority incorporating PAN-Focus technology, which ensures that the camera lens keeps all objects in focus no matter how close or far away they are from the camera. The x2.6 lens depth of field is such that it does not require any manual focus adjustment to deliver clear...
IndigoVision's complete end-to-end IP Video system is providing the CCTV surveillance for an impressive integrated security system for the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The metro area is home to over 1.3 million people, covers an area of 2000 km² and includes the towns of Uitenhage and Despatch, together with Port Elizabeth which will be a host city for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.The IP-CCTV system, which was supplied...
In Port Elizabeth in the United States, New Jersey-based Maher Terminals, one of the world's largest independent multi-user container terminal operators, relies on JVC to enhance traffic monitoring of the facility including loading areas and cranes loading containers on to ships.The company utilizes JVC's VR-N1600U network video recorders (NVR) and VN-C655U high-performance IP-network based dome cameras. Here, Maher Terminals can easily provide access for up to 10 users to view terminal ac...
CCTV specialist AD Group is sponsoring the ambitious "Vulcan to the Sky"' project designed to return an original Vulcan V-bomber to flight and allow the majestic delta-wing design to once again wow the crowds at public air displays. As part of its support for the project, AD Group plans to supply a state-of-the-art FlightVu digital video recorder - and associated CCTV cameras - from its subsidiary AD Aerospace to provide valuable in-flight footage of this historic aircraft.To rea...
The Port of Grimsby & Immingham, the UK's largest port by tonnage is now taking advantage of the latest digital networked CCTV technology from Dedicated Micros, recommended by installer DJ Byers CCTV, to maximize both security and the port's operational and logistical processes.Owner and operator Associated British Ports (ABP) turned to DJ Byers CCTV to advise on how best to bring its existing under-utilised and cumbersome analog CCTV system into the digital era.The initial installation acro...
IndigoVision was recommended because of its superior video quality and excellent compression technology IndigoVision’s integrated IP-CCTV solution is helping to dramatically reduce crime in the suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa, through an innovative security initiative. CSS Tactical, a company that provides mobile security patrols, is breaking new ground with the delivery of security services in South Africa by integrating CCTV surveillance with its area patrols. I...
Once complete the entire project will have upgraded over 2,500 cameras to digital IP-CCTV surveillance Enjoy Group has chosen IndigoVision's IP Video system to provide a complete digital CCTV surveillance solution for all nine of its casinos in Chile. The first 500-camera system has been completed at the casino complex in Coquimbo, which will shortly be extended to cover a new hotel and convention center. Once complete, the entire project will have upgraded over 2,500 cameras...
Agent Vi, developers of enterprise video analytics software to improve security, business intelligence and operations, recently announced it has been selected by the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey to provide its video analytics technology to protect the historic facility. Built in 1853 and open to the public for tours today, the 11.2-acre complex includes a 285-room palace with the world's largest collection of Bohemian and Baccarat crystal chandeliers. It also features 150-y...
At 50 km long with 37.8 km running underneath the English Channel, the Channel Tunnel is the longest underwater tunnel in the world. It is hailed by international civil engineering experts in the US and Europe as "the greatest infrastructure success of the 20th century." Eurotunnel owns the concession to operate it until 2086. 212 million passengers and 196 million tonnes of merchandise have passed through the Tunnel since the commercial opening in spring 1994.So it w...
The new Charlestown, Rhode Island police station was built just over a year ago, providing the opportunity to upgrade their surveillance tools with the latest technology, including scalable IP video software from Milestone Systems. The coastal community of Charlestown, Rhode Island, includes the largest camping grounds on the entire Eastern seaboard of the USA, and eight miles of beachfront. There are two state beach facilities and two town beaches, plus about six miles of unprotected beac...
A police force in South East England has chosen VIT's covert equipment for use in a number of vehicles to capture evidential images - in day and night conditions - of "smash and grab" thieves who break into parked vehicles to steal valuables.In ongoing operations, the unmarked vehicles will be placed in hotspot areas where vehicle break-ins occur regularly. Each one is equipped with up to 8 of VIT's covert ultra-low-light cameras.The disguised covert cameras are strategically pla...
For more than three decades, Erlich Protection Systems, Inc. has provided a variety of loss prevention and life safety systems for customers in the greater Detroit metropolitan area. When the company wanted to upgrade the security system at its own 8,000-square-foot facility, it turned to Bosch. Erlich needed updated security, access control, and video surveillance capabilities to protect its assets, employees, and the facility itself. With an integrated system, Erlich could als...
