Government & public services security applications - Case studies
Plymouth City Centre has upped its ‘Respect' agenda by combining the best CCTV with loudspeakers from Bosch Security Systems to quite literally speak to would-be lawbreakers and discourage anti-social behaviour, sometimes before it even happens.‘Talking' cameras have so far been installed in four areas of the City and are having an immediate effect, according to Mike Atherton, Community Safety Manager for Plymouth City Centre Company. The PCCC bid for Home Office funding f...
Ipsotek, a global leader in video analytics, is protecting armouries and perimeters at a key security base in Afghanistan. The company's video analytics suite is protecting over 300 expatriate, Gurkha and Afghan personnel by alerting the local guard force to threats including perimeter intrusion and loitering at ArmorGroup's Camp Anjuman, its forward operating base in Kabul. Protected by blast walls and with underground bunkers, Camp Anjuman is one of the only purpose-built commercial...
VIT Innovation recently worked with one of its local authority clients to catch a fly-tipper. Using bespoke state of the art GPS tracking hidden inside a glue tube, VIT Innovation was able to hide the glue tube amongst discarded waste that was due for collection by the suspected fly-tipper. The waste was due to be collected as part of a regular collection by a contractor who was supposed to be disposing the waste at a registered waste disposal site. The local authority suspecte...
DVTel, Inc., ranked number one in market share by IMS Research and multiple award-winning market leader in the development and delivery of intelligent security solutions over IP networks, recently announced the successful deployment of a highly ambitious city surveillance project with the Indian Police in the city of Delhi. Delhi-based Turbo Consultancy Services, Ltd. is the systems integrator on the project. Delhi is where an empire rose and fell before the dawn of civilization and today...
More than a hundred of Rainbow CCTV's lenses have been installed at the US Army’s Fort Leonard Wood complex in Missouri, USA. The vari-focal lens is designed for applications requiring an extremely wide field of view. The lens model L163VDC4P has a focal length of 1.6~3.4mm to provide a horizontal field of view of 180°. The DC auto-iris lens has an aperture of F1.4~360 and is compatible with 1/3” and 1/4” cameras. The units have been installed as part of an ex...
The Challenge Traditionally the CCTV infrastructure in Ipswich had been focused primarily on individual installations where, without integration, there was no potential to share images with other locations, so the adoption of the DV-IP Servers - offering a Video over IP network solution - represented a dramatic enhancement in capability for the council. In the lead-up and implementation stages of the project there was close collaboration between the local systems integrators, Ipswich Council an...
When you include the suburbs, the city of Lyon, France, with 445,452 inhabitants and a surface area of 47.87 square metres is the second largest city of France. Lyon was in need of a video surveillance system to monitor the access and exit of pedestrians and cars in the city center. Transmission of video, intercom and data over an IP network for opening fences were just some of the requirements. Siqura B.V. offered the complete IP-surveillance solution optimized to fit the purpose of...
BWA Tehnology's equipment is in use in many German enterprises and governmental agencies. Typical applications include long-term surveillance with independent power consumption for monitoring of entrances, inventory or investigations into corruption. DiREX-Pro DVRs are also ideal for military applications, as they can be used with night-vision equipment. With integrated support of WiFi/cellular data transmission, this solution is perfectly suited for covert deployment and...
Steve Cox, central services manager for the Unitary Authority of Blackburn with Darwen in East Lancashire, is delighted with the P3.net access control system manufactured by Lancashire based BSB Electronics and installed by Darwen based Atlas Alarms. He says, "Three major multi-user Borough Council buildings have the up-to-date P3 online, proximity card access system. Nearly 2,500 users now benefit from this very reliable and easy to use access control system."Steve, who is...
Siemens Building Technologies Security Systems, has been successful in winning an order worth £300,000 from Reigate and Banstead Borough Council for the complete refurbishment of the council's CCTV control room. The refurbishment will provide improved monitoring and recording facilities not only for Reigate & Banstead, but also for neighbouring Mole Valley Council. The procurement processes for this project took place under the terms of the framework established by OGC...
Video servers from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been deployed by security installer King Communications (working in partnership with security distributor ADI-Gardiner) to help modernise The Lighthouse's CCTV system and protect some of Scotland's finest design treasures. A total of four AXIS 241Q Video Servers have been used to convert analog images (from the 16 existing cameras already positioned throughout the six-floor building) into digital video streams...
The performance of CCTV systems in Chatham, Rochester, Strood, Gillingham and Rainham town centres is being improved using the latest C-Allview high-speed, ‘ruggedised' PTZ cameras from Ganz. In an ongoing series of upgrades being handled by leading local installer TJW Electrical Ltd, Medway and Maidstone local authority has specified the C-Allviews because they offer improved range, durability and quality of images."We are using the C-Allviews as an alternative to traditional P...
Juvenile Justice Centre uses CEM solution for state-of-the-art securityCEM Systems, a leading access control brand of Tyco International, announced recently that it has partnered with systems integrator ADT to supply a highly secure, fully integrated solution for the new £16.8m Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre in Bangor, Northern Ireland. To create a secure environment, ADT installed a CEM AC2000 SE (Standard Edition) security management system with CCTV, digital video recorders...
In the Am Bachgraben retirement home in Allschwil and Schönenbuch (AZB), Interflex AG uses an extensive online and offline security solution for both time & attendance recording and staff rostering as well as to provide efficient access control for residents and staff alike. Attendance time recording and rostering is handled perfectly for all employees. A LEGIC badge is used as the ID medium for both residents and staff. Two hundred residents are accommodated at t...
The Imperial War Museum (IWM) has awarded Bell Security the contract to provide 'next generation', networked and integrated security and fire systems across its estate. The scope includes the main site in London, Duxford Aviation Museum, Churchill Museum & Cabinet War Rooms, HMS Belfast and IWM North in Manchester. The project embraces CCTV, access control, intruder and fire alarms, voice alarm and emergency lighting systems, along with provision of a new fibre optic comm...
BT Redcare's i-Witness digital CCTV data storage technology was chosen by Sussex Police because of its ability to efficiently store, retrieve and output evidential quality image data.Problems with analog Sussex Police's Eastbourne CCTV control room is the monitoring centre for the community safety CCTV systems at 12 towns and villages across East Sussex. The CCTV monitoring runs 24/7 and involves a total of 80 cameras. Before its upgrade to digital, the Eastbourne monitoring centre used an...
Broadcast PixTM Inc., an exhibitor at this year's IBC convention in Amsterdam this September (Hall 7; Booth 116) announces the recent instalment of its Slate™ 1000 digital production switcher within the newly upgraded television studio at Police Headquarters in Lincolnshire, UK. Located in the East Midlands of the UK, the territory patrolled by the Lincolnshire Police Force represents one of the largest police force areas in England and Wales. The Slate 1000 was sold through th...
TeleEye RX Series Video Recording Server guarded a large shopping mall in the Philippines and assisted in catching the perpetrator in a recent murder case.On June the 30th, a 22-year-old father asked his former wife and his three-year-old daughter to go to a shopping mall with him. In the mall, the couple went separate ways, the father with the daughter. When the couple met again, the father claimed that the daughter went away and he lost his daughter. A few days later, the dau...
Dorset-based security installer Secure Alarms is using the new Ganz C-Allview high speed PTZ domes in a number of high security coastal sites."The cameras offer important advantages over traditional domes," says Secure Alarms engineer-supervisor Rob Cutler, "including their built-in wipers.""The wipers are a huge bonus for the locations where we are using them, as the wet conditions can be a real problem. The models also stand up well to the corrosive coastal atmosphere....
IndigoVision's IP Video technology is helping local residents in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, USA, fight violent crime through an innovative CCTV solution. The area around the WCCNPAC Community Center and Adams 4 Shopping Center is benefiting from a remote surveillance solution that has been implemented using standard Internet communications. Video feeds from the remote cameras are digitally compressed and transmitted via cable modems across the Internet to the security control...
Jacksons Fine Fencing's latest project proved slightly more hazardous than normal - the site on which they planned to install boundary fencing also included twenty unexploded World War 2 pipe bombs.The Coastguard and Hampshire Police air unit recently acquired the former Navy airfield, HMS Daedalus, in Lee on Solent in Hampshire.Jacksons were given the mammoth task of installing Euro-Guard Extra boundary fencing to secure the site that is 400 acres with three multi-directional runways - a ta...
Privately funded CCTV systems in public areas are gaining increasing acceptance, with more and more neighborhood or special-interest groups pooling funds to install cameras. Eureka (California), Zurich in Switzerland, the London Borough of Enfield, and Belfast in Northern Ireland have all seen surveillance equipment sponsored by businesses and neighborhood watchdogs.A current example is occurring in south side Milwaukee where a major thoroughfare, National Avenue, is benefiting from day-ni...
IndigoVision's complete IP-Video system is providing a comprehensive CCTV surveillance solution for the Police Service in Macau, one of the two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China, along with Hong Kong. The new system has revolutionised how Macau Police monitor their operation and has provided them with faster video analysis and improved incident response. IndigoVision was chosen following a successful test evaluation of competing systems by techn...
Bikes belonging to MPs and Peers were visibly marked with a permanent security marking before they set off on this year's All Party Parliamentary Bike Ride.As politicians and Lords gathered recently on College Green, in front of the Houses of Parliament, a total of 85 bikes were marked by security company Selectamark. All of the bikes belonged to parliamentary employees who use their bikes to cycle to work, including Lords, MPs and even House of Commons catering staff. T...
Town centre managers in Swindon have developed a unique solution to the problems of camera positioning using MIC1-400 cameras from Forward Vision. Working with installers ATEC, the Swindon Crime Reduction Partnership has developed a tripod-style deployable camera-unit, which can be re-positioned in less than an hour to meet new operational requirements as they arise.The custom-made units are designed to sit on the flat-roofs of shops and other town centre buildings. The MIC1-400 cameras or...
AMG Systems Ltd. today announced that it has been contracted by Specialized & Interactive Systems L.L.C. (SIS) in the UAE, to supply its new innovative fibre optic transmission system Guardian-Lite™ 4600 for the security & surveillance system of the new Museum of Islamic art in Doha, Qatar. Today's announcement follows AMG's breakthrough announcement in spring 2006, launching the world's first fibre optic transmission system to integrate Ethernet with high quality uncompressed vide...
The Department of National Palaces in Turkey has installed the first in a series of new security systems using Milestone open platform IP video management software and Axis network cameras. This advanced solution provides an effective yet discreet implementation to protect the historical architecture, and the ability to easily expand in future. Integration of the video surveillance with access control and fire alarms is also planned.One million tourists from all over the globe annual...
ACTi IP cameras and Milestone XprotectEnterprise were successfully installed in Wodzislaw Slaski, in Poland's first IP surveillance project for city monitoring. The installer was SUMA, a Polish professional surveillance distributor in. This project was for improving safety of citizen and reducing defect of road offences with the development of this city.Because of critical bandwidth and good video quality demand, SUMA chose ACTi products as the best solution to fulfill the city requi...
TSS (Traffic Safety Systems) - part of AD Group - has supplied its latest PatrolVu mobile digital CCTV system to equip two new patrol vehicles in support of Barnsley's multi-agency Safer Neighborhood Teams (SNTs). The solution is being used primarily to help tackle anti-social behaviour and reduce crime and disorder in the local area.The new vehicles, which TSS has fitted out, feature low light CCTV cameras on the front and also roof mounted; an on-board monitor for image review; advan...
TSS (Traffic Safety Systems) - part of AD Group - announces that its Radar Autovision mobile CCTV technology has been selected by the Kuwait Police Department for a roads policing trial in their patrol cars.Julian Cooke, International Sales Manager at TSS, comments: "The evaluation of Radar Autovision by the Kuwait Police began at the end of March and follows on from interest expressed by Injifa Security Services, part of the Al Wazan Group of companies, based in Kuwait City who speci...
