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The Aqaba Water Company (AWC), the official water treatment and management company of Aqaba-Jordan, needed a high performance network that could cost-effectively connect the many components of their water wells network. After evaluating the cost and performance of wireless versus wired solutions, the AWC deployed Proxim's wireless equipment to connect their critical network. AWC is utilising both Proxim's point-to-multipoint (PtMP) and point-to-point (PtP) wireless equipment to create a private...
TKH Security Solutions supplied complete iProtect Security Management System Diakonessenhuis Utrecht occupied a proud first place in the hospital top hundred for 2008. It is a progressive hospital with three locations in the Netherlands: Utrecht, Zeist, and Doorn. It has 627 beds, admits over 24,000 patients a year, and provides outpatient clinics that are visited by almost 370,000 patients a year. Diakonessenhuis employs 2640 people, including 150 specialists. Since the quali...
Macdonald and Mackay bridges have more than 100 surveillance cameras installed with intelligent video analytics PureTech Systems announced the installation of its PureActiv wide area video surveillance system has been completed on both the Macdonald and the MacKay Bridges. The bridges, maintained and operated by Halifax Harbor Bridges (HHB), accommodate almost 34 million crossing each year. They provide transportation between Halifax and Dartmouth and are a critical part of th...
Bob Brown, senior specialist for Continuous Improvement at the United facility with an open keywatcher Key control and management systems from Morse Watchmans are used in corporate and educational facilities, museums, hotels and more to safeguard and track the use of door keys. The breakthrough engineering of the Morse Watchmans system also lends itself to other innovative applications including that of the United Airlines Jet Rebuild and Test Facility in San Francisco. ...
The Basler BIP2-2500c-dn IP cameras used can easily monitor three lanes so that no violation goes unnoticed Redflex Traffic Systems, a leader in road safety technology, has chosen Basler IP Cameras for their new Student Guardian system protecting children around school buses. The system is intended to deter drivers in the United States from illegally passing stopped school buses, or to hold them accountable if they do. Student Guardian uses two cameras per school bus, one on...
The number of solar parks in Europe is increasing as the demand for renewable energy is rising. Many of these solar parks are in remote locations, so protecting them properly can be a challenge. One of the security companies that have come up with an answer to this challenge is Reading, UK, based Westronics Fire & Security Ltd. To ensure good visibility of intruders in the surveillance system, even at night or in adverse weather conditions, Westronics includes thermal imaging cameras in its...
Security personnel will be relying on Samsung video surveillance cameras to help them maintain a safe and secure environment at Manchester Metropolitan University’s new Business School when it opens in September 2012.The new Business School will be located in an architecturally stunning £75 million building located on the University’s All Saints campus. 4,000 undergraduate and 1,000 postgraduate students will be able to enjoy the ultra modern facilities of the new buildin...
As higher education facilities’ professionals look for innovative ways to fund campus refurbishment programs and upgrade building systems, performance contracting is becoming an increasingly popular means through which efficiencies can be achieved with a budget-neutral approach. Administrators at West Virginia University (WVU) chose this option to address their eight million square foot built environment, significantly improving facilities and increasing energy efficiency, while at the sam...
Visonic's visual alarm verification solution, RealAlarm, is a powerful tool that enables monitoring stations to avoid unnecessary responses to false alarms and to remotely assess the situation when an alarm is real. PIR cameras installed in strategic locations on the premises immediately turn on when alarm is activated. Monitoring facility personnel can review images taken by the cameras prior to notifying the authorities and provide detailed information to respondents about the emergency. Arme...
The Air@-EL100 from Qccess has been installed at shopping centres in the UK Nowadays, CCTV cameras in elevators are not optional but essential especially at the crowded buildings such as shopping centers. In order to protect elevator passengers from crimes, it is very popular to install a CCTV camera in the elevator cars all over the world. Qccess’s partner in the UK has recently completed several projects with the Air@-EL100. Air@-EL100 is a LED optical wireless video...
ECTOCRYP® Black uses a common commercial off-the-shelf hardware architecture The National Security Agency (NSA) has approved ECTOCRYP® Blackvoice encryption device to encrypt secure voice calls up to and including those classified as top secret on U.S. government communications networks. EADS North America has been working with NSA and the device recently underwent NSA evaluation and received its Approval to Operate, which is equivalent to the agency’s Type 1 des...
Hallbergmoos High School is an educational site, a meeting place and a workplace for 15 teachers, more than 120 students and many participants of evening classes. The Hallbergmoos community in Upper Bavaria set a great example with their investment. The trend-setting Bosch security technology installed at the site soon proved its worth when young intruders were identified from recorded video images, allowing them to be apprehended just a few days later. Faced with such strong evidence, the culpr...
City of Chomutov chose IndigoVision for its low bandwidth requirements and excellent picture quality The city of Chomutov in the Czech Republic has chosen a new wide area surveillance system, based on IndigoVision’s IP Video technology, to replace its ageing analog CCTV system from the 1990s. The new wide-area system is part of the city’s strategy to reduce crime and improve traffic flow monitoring across Chomutov. It provides the city of 50,000 (80,000 in th...
Part of the Atholl Estate, the castle isrenowned for hosting annual horse trialevents and Highland Games events ASSA has helped restore the historic clock tower at Blair Castle to its former glory with the specification of its masterkey suite and ASSA ABLOY Door Closers. Having been devastated by a blaze last year, the 13th Century clock tower, which forms part of the iconic Blair Castle in Perthshire, has been fully restored and continues to attract visitors from all over the...
Arecont Vision AV2100-AI cameras with auto-iris lenses are positioned at parking entrances Arecont Vision megapixel cameras newly installed at Lotte Department Store in Busan, Korea, now enable store management to control liability costs by refuting claims that customers' cars were damaged while in the store's parking area. Arecont Vision AV2100-AI cameras with auto-iris lenses are positioned at parking entrances to provide clear 2 megapixel images, despite variable lighting c...
With rapid expansion achieved mainly through acquisitions, the Danish De Sammensluttede Vognmænd (DSV) company is one of the largest and most profitable transportation & logistics companies in Europe. Their commitment to sustained expansion has recently been underlined with the construction of a major new distribution hub, secured, using a NVT UTP video transmission based CCTV system. From the expansive facility located in the Belgian city of Ghent, DSV's European distributio...
VideoIQ adaptive analytics and remote video monitoring gives K-12 and higher education institutions the real-time surveillance needed to provide a safe and secure environment for their students, faculty and staff. Institutions today need both an easy to implement solution as well as an intelligent one, one that can proactively and remotely monitor facilities and campus environments. VideoIQ provides both. Whether a campus is self-contained or a large multi-site environment, VideoIQ video...
The Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (UNACH) is a leading independent university in Mexico (www.unach.mx). Founded in 1975, it offers courses including law and sciences with campuses in nine different communities, 2,500 faculty and administrative staff, and has more than 21,000 alumni. The Virtual University, also part of UNACH, is a primary supplier of distance education services within the region. Faced with a growing demand for distance learning, access to digital education tools a...
CBC supplies C-AllView cameras to monitor activities at a nature reserve in Hampshire Leading surveillance solutions provider CBC (Europe) has assisted natural history/wildlife production company Carynx Wild at two outdoor filming sites, helping to observe and protect potentially vulnerable birds. CBC recently supplied its versatile and optically powerful C-AllView cameras to monitor activities at an RSPB Reserve in north Wales and a nature reserve in Hampshire. Independent s...
The Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama is Scotland's international conservatoire and the only one in the UK to offer music, drama and dance to degree level. With around 800 students from 45 countries, the Academy offers a performance-based training where excellence and the student experience are at the heart of every-thing they do. It was here Kaba Ltd was invited to undertake a security survey to identify, provide and install a fully integrated solution that would meet all their secur...
The OJSC Progress Plant (Protvino, Moscow region) has been manufacturing low voltage complete devices for nuclear industry facilities and fuel-energy complex since 1967. In accordance with the Order No. 158-p dated March 5, 2000 of the Ministry of the Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, the plant was assigned head enterprise of the industry for developing, manufacturing and supplying of low voltage electrical equipment. Some of the plant's major clients include Rosenergoatom, RAO UES of Ru...
IntroductionThe University of Applied Science for Technology, Economy and Media in Offenburg is one of the most renowned educational institutions in the southern Upper Rhine region, and is divided into two campuses: Offenburg and Gengenbach. Founded as a state college of engineering in 1964, the university now has faculties including technical business administration and, more recently, media and information sciences.The briefThe university needed an electronic access control system to provide a...
Security and high-quality images is of premier importance at Arriva Midlands Ltd’s bus depots Covering an area that stretches from Birmingham to Wrexham, through to Derby and Leicester, Arriva Midlands Ltd is a major provider of public bus transport in the midlands region. Securing both company assets and staff, Arriva Midlands Ltd recently embarked upon a major security programme at their newly built Shrewsbury bus depot. The comprehensive surveillance system’s sp...
With the new campus recently constructed, the Affiliated Kindergarten of Renhe Elementary School in the suburb of Tainan, Taiwan was looking to deploy an improved network video surveillance solution from the school's original analog system. The new system not only had to provide video images in high definition, it also had to be a cost-effective solution that could be easily installed, operated and maintained. To address the school's requirement, CoreNet Technologies, a system integrator specia...
SALTO Systems has launched a brand new electronic escutcheon designed for use in the educational environment. It ensures schools, colleges and universities are a secure and safe place to learn by enabling buildings and facilities to be quickly locked down during a security or other emergency event.In such a situation it could be safer for students and staff to remain in a classroom, securely locked in until the emergency is over. SALTO AMOK escutcheons enables authorized users to put the electro...
Standard Water Control integrated MobileCamViewer into its multiple camera brands and micro DVRs The benefits of mobile surveillance have come into focus for the business community: reduce theft, keep staff on task, and evaluate potential security situations for appropriate response from afar. It’s now getting to the point where those who first discovered the technology for business are adapting it for residential spaces. An executive at Standard Water Control, a...
Installers Ninehundred Communications are securing The Sheffield College with door controllers and software from Access Control Technology (ACT).This is a multi-site campus with a student population of 23,000 spread over three locations with courses including entry level and higher academic education as well as vocational study. The ACTpro 3000 controllers have been installed on more than 150 doors, primarily in building entrances. ACT has not only shown their open-system credentials by integrat...
Harper Chalice's PulseSecure electrified perimeter has been installed by Advance Yorkshire Ltd. The UK’s largest vehicle dismantling and salvage company is using the latest PulseSecure electrified perimeter security technology from Harper Chalice to protect its Huddersfield site. The system, which was installed by Harper Chalice Accredited Dealer, Advance Yorkshire Limited, has proved totally effective in deterring intruders with a one hundred per cent success reco...
AMG's 3700 series solution allows for smoother traffic flow and time savings AMG, the world leading manufacturer of transmission solutions, has supplied their AMG3700 series transmission solution for the integrated security & surveillance solution at the newly opened Woodsville Tunnel in Singapore. The solution has been implemented by Guthrie Engineering (S) PTE Ltd on behalf of the Land Transportation Authority. Guthrie is Singapore’s oldest Engineering Company with...
Proxim Wireless products support all the data and voice connections Proxim Wireless Corporation, a leading provider of complete outdoor wireless backhaul systems, announced recently that Oceanic Broadband Solutions Pty. Ltd., a leading telecommunications service provider in Asia Pacific, has deployed Proxim’s wireless backhaul solutions to provide connectivity for the National Bank of Vanuatu (NBV). Oceanic deployed Proxim’s Tsunami® QuickBridge MIMO Integrated...
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