Case studies

IndigoVision's IP Video technology is providing a new state-of-the-art digital CCTV system for Wythenshawe Shopping Centre in the south of Manchester.  The surveillance system has been upgraded from an old analog matrix system to the latest distributed IP network solution that provides significant benefits for the Centre's operators.As with many of the older shopping centres around the UK, Wythenshawe has both internal and external retail units and a complex perimeter area to monitor. ...

The Lake Constance thermal baths spa opened its doors at the end of July 2007.  The new baths now boast a sauna wing, thermal baths and an outdoor pool which together provide a water surface area of over 3,000 square metres which invites guests to swim, bathe and relax.  BGK Bädergesellschaft Konstanz, a subsidiary of the Constance public utility company, operates the Lake Constance thermal baths and all the other swimming pools in Constance. In 2006, n-tree installed a multisite...

Xtralis, a leading provider of intelligent fire detection and security solutions, recently announced that its VESDA Aspirating Smoke Detection (ASD) system has been deployed in a variety of locations across the city of Beijing to help protect athletic venues, mass transit systems, tourist attractions and critical infrastructure facilities designed for use in the 2008 Olympic Games.The Xtralis VESDA system combines advanced, proactive air sampling smoke detection technologies to ef...

La PanièreThe chain of bakeries established in the Rhône-Alpes region has upgraded its analog video surveillance system into a network video solution.The mission for Axis CommunicationsAs a family-run business, La Panière, a chain of bakery and pastry stores, employs 300 people in 30 stores distributed throughout the towns of the Rhône-Alpes region in France.  Between 1998 and 2000, following numerous cash robberies, Pascal Cantenot, the CEO of the company, decided...

The capital's premier exhibition venue ExCeL London is pushing ahead with an ambitious upgrade programme, installing advanced electronic access control technology from SALTO Systems to improve their on-site security control.Located just five minutes from London City Airport and close to Canary Wharf and the Docklands Light Railway, ExCeL London is the capital's largest conference and exhibition centre offering an impressive 90,000m of display space.  It is home to 8 out of 10 of London's to...

The AXIS 209FD-R, Axis's network camera specifically designed for use in transportation applications, has been installed by Axis partner PC-1 and Secure-IT on behalf of EST Buses based near Bridgend, South Wales.PC-1 was approached to partner Secure-IT and installed a solution comprising three AXIS 209FD-R network cameras per bus operating on public routes between Cardiff and Llandow.  As part of the solution one camera is installed looking out through the front windscreen to capture the dr...

 Octavian Security, the security company that famously placed former Ghurkha soldiers on patrol at an IKEA store in Nottingham, is now helping to provide a safe, enjoyable shopping environment for staff and customers at the Swedish company's first city centre store in Coventry.In its latest major retail security operation, the industry-leading security firm is supporting the IKEA risk team at the outlet, which boasts more than 50 room settings and a 455-seater restaurant.  In addition...

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."Manpower and visible presence will always be the foundation of our business," explains Ricky Croock, Business Devel...

Queen Mary, University of London, one of London and the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions, has begun work on a three year grant-funded research project to gather real world data and build models and algorithms for software application development relating to BEWARE.  This stands for Behaviour based Enhancement of Wide-Area Situational Awareness in a Distributed Network of CCTV Cameras, and has important implications for security in the UK.  Running from 2007 t...

PAK Supermarkets, Europe's largest Asian supermarket chain, and a favorite for ethnic cuisine lovers across the Midlands, is benefiting from the latest NetVu Connected CCTV technology developed by Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - and installed by DM Fusion installer Security Direct.Since opening in April, PAK Supermarkets' new £7 million store, based in Washwood Heath, Birmingham, has been attracting a plethora of shoppers from as far afield as Leicester and Banbury.  With a vast...

The 34th G8 summit which took place in Toyako on the northern Island of Hokkaido, Japan from July 7 - 9, 2008, brought together heads of the world's most wealthiest and most industrialised countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA, Canada and Russia. The G8 summit is a forum for these countries to discuss issues of a worldwide concern and negotiation of topics such as climate change, intellectual property rights, political issues, world economy and food shortages. Forming part of...

All that glitters in the ironworksMagnificent crowns, expensive jewellery, precious tiaras - surrounded by huge, slightly oily, black machines made of iron: that is what an exhibition of glittering gold looks like in a closed-down ironworks.  Exhibition expert and General Director of the Völklinger Ironworks World Cultural Heritage Site, Dr. Meinrad Maria Grewenig, recently succeeded in bringing 120 masterpieces from the Larco Museum in Peru and 50 other exhibits from the Linden-Museum...

  ioiamge PTZ cameras installed in spanish suburb to curb crimeioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity announced today that its video analytics solution has been implemented to prevent urban crime in the Spanish city of Alcorcón, located 13 kilometres from Madrid.With a rapidly growing population of 165,000 people, Alcorcón law enforcement groups realized that in the war against urban vandalism, intelligent automation tools were n...

PAK Supermarkets, Europe's largest Asian supermarket chain, is benefiting from the latest NetVu Connected CCTV technology developed by Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - and installed by DM Fusion installer Security Direct.Since opening in April, PAK Supermarkets' new £7 million store, based in Washwood Heath, Birmingham, has been attracting a plethora of shoppers from as far afield as Leicester and Banbury.  With a vast 80,000 sq ft of ground to cover across the store it was imper...

SALTO Systems has announced that, it has been selected by one of the largest luxury hotel operators in the Middle East, to provide an access control system to secure their new state-of-the-art 5 Star Ebla Cham Palace hotel in Damascus, Syria.The largest 5 Star hotel in Syria, the Ebla Cham Palace is a premier deluxe property located 9km from Damascus city centre and 13km from the International Airport.  It is located in 48 hectares of private gardens, adjacent to the convention centre,...

IndigoVision's complete end-to-end IP Video solution is being used to provide event-wide CCTV surveillance for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, held each year in the grounds of Edinburgh Castle.  First staged in 1950, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo is the largest show of its kind in the world, attracting over 200,000 visitors each year and an international TV audience of around 100 million.As with any high-profile event the Tattoo is a demanding security environment, in which CCTV plays a very...

Bosch Security Systems' Digital Praesideo Public Address (PA) and Emergency Sound System is being installed in the prestigious new Shanghai World Financial Center.  At 492 meters, the center is currently the world's third tallest building.  The structure features three floors of underground parking and shops, a conference center on floors one to five, offices on floors seven to 77, a hotel on floors 79 through 93, and finally observation and exhibition areas on floors 94 to 100. ...

Axis partner Check Your Security has installed network cameras from Axis Communications, the global leader in the network video market, at the University of East Anglia based in Norwich. The University of East Anglia (UEA) has nearly 15,000 students and employs around 3,000 staff.  The campus is set in 320 acres of parkland and located just two miles west of Norwich city centre.  It was founded in 1963 as part of the ‘New Universities' government initiative, and has seen sig...

LEGIC provide state-of-the-art chip-in technology.Après ski in the thermal baths; both these leisure pursuits can now be combined very conveniently at the Bad Kleinkirchheim resort in Carinthia, Austria. The operators of the mountain railways and the Roman thermal baths have now opted for a hitherto unique access control solution which uses the very latest transponder technology to link up two different leisure worlds. Here, the slogan: "From the piste to the thermal baths" is t...

DM Fusion security installer Crimewatch Systems has rolled-out an advanced, remotely monitored, detector-activated CCTV solution - built around Dedicated Micros NetVu Connected CCTV systems and NetVu ObserVer management software - to provide out-of-hours protection against vandalism and criminal attack for 15 widely dispersed sites in Cheshire, England, operated by HW Martin Waste Ltd.The sites secured by Crimewatch Systems - and its associated SSAIB accredited RVRC (Remote Video Response Centre...

Following a spate of vandalism and cable theft within various parts of Network Rail's infrastructure, TEW Plus Ltd instigated a successful eight week trial of an intruder deterrent system using Derwent Systems' new AEGIS White Light LED illuminators.During the day intruders are detected by sensors which trigger a loudspeaker that issues a stern warning to trespassers to leave the site. At night the sensors trigger Derwent's powerful AEGIS UFLED White Light illuminators which flood the scene with...

Multi-layered security is becoming an ever increasing focus for retail operations worldwide as they seek to combat crime which can have a significant impact on profitability.  A new shopping centre in Austria has demonstrated how an interoperable approach, combining video surveillance, access control and intrusion technologies, has been used to address loss prevention.The centre, which features some 83 shops and restaurants over an area of almost 40,000 square metres, is operated by two com...