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NVT's UTP transmission technology provides clear surveillance images for a safe SharjahThe emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of a union of seven sovereign sheikhdoms, each comprising its own unique mix of Islamic culture and Arabian lifestyle. Throughout its current period of prosperity, Sharjah has taken the protection of its affluent city centre and residents very seriously. Since 2002, it has entrusted the installation, expansion and maintenance of the city's co...
Background The Møller Center in Cambridge is a leading residential training and conference center, owned by Churchill College and designed by Danish architect, Henning Larsen. The AP Møller Foundation of Denmark funded the building to promote continuing education and to encourage links between the college and the industrial world. The center has 16 training/conference rooms and 67 bedrooms and, like all residential centers, there is a requirement for effective, but discrete secur...
Europe-wide usage of varifocal lenses from SENKOADL includes a recent project at a leading university in Poland. The University of Lodz to the southwest of Warsaw has increased campus security with the installation of 50 cameras [predominantly Samsung and Bosch] fitted with 3-8.5mm lenses from SENKOADL. A major textile town dubbed the Manchester of Eastern Europe, Lodz has a student population of 42,000 whose safety on campus has been improved by local distributor and systems consultant ASD Se...
When the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department decided to obtain a new central dispatch facility, they also realized it was time to make some changes to their CCTV. "We were fragmented," says Frederick Gardy, Assistant Police Chief for the University. "Each individual college and department was purchasing its own CCTV equipment and there was not one purchasing standard." In 2003, the university began the process of reviewing different manufacturers. "We formed a committee...
The challenge At Warsash Maritime Academy, their ship's engine room simulator for student stress testing had an old analog system with image quality in low light levels that was unacceptable. Each camera had its own monitor able to switch to a VHS tape recorder, which meant that only one camera's output could be recorded at any given moment. With the high levels of background noise in the test environment, audio capture was very challenging and recorded results far below the high sta...
Leicester-based De Montfort University has adopted an advanced NetVu Connected surveillance solution from DM Fusion member Security Design Services, featuring CCTV systems from Dedicated Micros to maximize the safety and security of its 20,500 students and 3,240 staff. Key elements of the ambitious scheme include the linking back, over fiber, of 21 geographic...
For most schools, reports of campus shootings from across the country seem a distant nightmare. Sadly, that nightmare became a recurring reality at Grossmont Union School District, an 11 high school system with 24,000 students in San Diego County. In 2001, two separate shooting incidents happened back-to-back over a two-week period. That started Grossmont's search for an economical way to protect their campuses. The district turned to Sony, a leader in audio-visual and se...
Mission After the University of Aberdeen conducted a strategic review of security, the university decided to rationalize four stand-alone analog CCTV systems and establish a central control room for the entire university. The four systems varied in age and the university wanted a single system, which would feature new cameras as well as including existing analog cameras. The system would have to offer the flexibility to cope with future expansion, and to eliminate stand-alone propri...
Sony has announced a groundbreaking application of its leading IP Network Video products with Experian FootFall's counting solutions.Using IP cameras for the first time, Experian FootFall, the market-leading pedestrian counting services provider, has chosen a range of Sony's mini-dome, fixed and pan-tilt intelligent network cameras, supported by Sony's Distributed Enhanced Processing Architecture (DEPA) technology, to strengthen its current sensor-device line-up which includes traditional therma...
IQinVision, market leader in high performance megapixel network cameras, smart IP cameras, and network video recording systems, recently announced that the Livingston Mall in Livingston, New Jersey has deployed IQeye megapixel IP cameras from IQinVision to improve security at the super-regional shopping centre. Supreme Security Systems, Inc., Union, NJ, designed and installed the integrated, IP-based video surveillance system and is overseeing its continued expansion.The Livingston Mall in...
Wimbledon-based Ipsotek installed its video analytics software on a trial basis after motion detection and a competitor's analytics proved unable to cope with the demanding conditions at the site. Using thermal imaging cameras, Ipsotek provided scenario-based detection software which met the client's stringent service level agreements (SLAs), particularly governing detection accuracy. Phil Foreman of Universal Security, the installation company for the project, described the unusual challe...
On 08.08.08, the Olympic flame will be lit in Beijing's National Stadium, known as the "Bird's Nest". The expected arrival of 91,000 spectators will be regulated and controlled by 138 Kaba turnstiles. Kaba won this prestigious contract in the face of tough international competition. When the Summer Olympics are opened in the People's Republic of China on 8 August 2008, Kaba will be at the party. The National Stadium, popularly known as the "Bird's Nest", is...
When Tilbury Container Services invested in a new computerised check-in system, they set a specification for the vehicle barriers which very few gate automation manufacturers could aspire to.With a constant stream of vehicles accessing the site, the barriers would be expected to work 24/7. Fibre Options Ltd, who had supplied and installed the site's CCTV fibre infrastructure, were therefore asked to recommend barriers that could reliably withstand a continuously high workload.After extensi...
Leicester-based De Montfort University has adopted an advanced NetVu Connected surveillance solution from DM Fusion member Security Design Services, featuring CCTV systems from Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - to maximize the safety and security of its 20,500 students and 3,240 staff. Key elements of the ambitious scheme include the linking back, over fibre, of 21 geographically dispersed c...
MissionAfter the University of Aberdeen conducted a strategic review of security, the university decided to rationalize four stand-alone analog CCTV systems and establish a central control room for the entire university. The four systems varied in age and the university wanted a single system, which would feature new cameras as well as including existing analog cameras. The system would have to offer the flexibility to cope with future expansion, and to eliminate stand-alone propriet...
IP-Surveillance system pays for itself fast, after theft caught on camera Mission Fast-growing microbrewery chain Zerodegrees was dissatisfied with the limitations of the analog-based CCTV cameras and digital video recorders installed in some of the sites it acquired in London. For its new restaurant and microbrewery sites, chief executive and co-founder of Zerodegrees, Nick Desai, wanted the ability to ensure evidence caught on camera was usable for police identification purposes. H...
MissionThe Shipton Group, which owns and manages Douglas Court Shopping Centre in Cork, Ireland, required a surveillance solution to cut crime, gather video evidence to dramatically cut slip and fall injury claims, reinforce tenants' health and safety obligations, and even improve customer experience to deploy support staff more effectively around Douglas Court.SolutionThe Shipton Group worked with Irish IT consultancy RPC Consultants, a leading Axis Communications partner in the region, to deli...
Data Electronics Group opts for Axis Communications' IP-Surveillance solution to provide additional layer of physical security in its Dublin-based data centre.Data Electronics Group (DEG) was founded in 1974 as a field engineering-based business installing, integrating, maintaining and carrying out network administration for computer equipment used by airport and airline staff for key activities such as tagging bags and checking in passengers. Today one division of DEG still provides...
Hughes and Hughes gains control of security monitoring and achieves remote visibility of in-store activityMission Hughes and Hughes, Ireland's fastest-growing bookstore chain, required a cost-effective surveillance system to provide easy access to high quality images which could be used as evidence in cases of theft, vandalism or fraud across ten airport-based outlets including six at Dublin Airport. The system needed to be straightforward to install and integrate with the airport's existi...
Compelling technologyAt the start of the last century, when the Fendt brothers began building their first tractors in the forge set up by their father, Johan Georg Fendt, they made a commitment to create technical solutions that would be as cost-effective as they were reliable. In 1930, they built Europe's first small tractor, with a 6HP engine, mounted plow, and independently-driven mower. With the Fendt ‘diesel horse', the small and medium-sized farms had their first financi...
Intelligent, attractive and likeableIntelligence, good looks, dedication - these professed brand values of the Czech automotive manufacturer Skoda a.s. have made a major contribution to the fact that this car brand is becoming increasingly popular in Germany. While ‘intelligence' reflects the claim of developing products with outstanding functionality as well as customer-oriented detailed solutions at excellent value for the money, ‘good looks' describes the pioneering design...
IndigoVision's complete IP Video solution has been installed to enhance the security at Royal Vopak's petrochemical storage terminal in West Thurrock, UK. With 347,100m3 of storage capacity in 125 tanks, Vopak's terminal is a very demanding environment with security and health & safety of paramount importance. The terminal provides independent storage and handling of liquid and gaseous chemical and oil products for Vopak's customers. Products are transported from the terminal to the cu...
Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies recently announced that the company has become the preferred access control and security provider for CardSmith, which supplies colleges and universities with complete one-card transaction management solutions. CardSmith not only supplies campuses with card system technology for a host of on- and off-campus applications, but also manages the complexities of the resulting card system and program operations. To complement its card-based service suit...
CCTV evidence from Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - has helped to secure the conviction of five men at the Old Bailey who were involved in the high profile £53 million raid on a security depot in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2006.A series of high quality images recorded by Dedicated Micros BX2 digital CCTV recorders installed on the ground at the depot - and broadcast on TV nationwide - have proved invaluable in helping the Police to piece together the events which took place on the e...
In today's world of convenience foods, the supply of high-quality food products, delivered on time and at a reasonable cost, is an extremely competitive market place in which to operate. Standing out as market leaders in their field, Kepak Convenience Foods (KCF) began as manufacturers of frozen beef burgers for the Irish food-service market. By the end of 1989, the company's business had grown to such an extent, that it supplied half of the retail frozen beef burgers sold on the Iri...
Controlware Communications has provided an IP CCTV transmission system to Aéroports de Paris Group for the new Galerie Parisienne terminal extension at Charles de Gaulle airport.Aéroports de Paris Group are Europe's second largest airport group, managing 14 airports, and aerodromes including Paris-Orly, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, and Paris-Le Bourget. As the airport authority for the Paris region, Aéroports de Paris requires the highest level of security to safeguard pas...
One of the greatest challenges for any educational establishment is balancing the need to create an open and stimulating environment that encourages learning, whilst ensuring that the people and equipment within are protected from the threat of theft, vandalism, physical attack and abuse.With a wide product range including mechanical, mechatronic and electronic access control systems, Kaba has not just introduced standard solutions, but has created bespoke products specifically for the education...
Banking and finance organizations often require to manage business critical CCTV systems remotely across networks where bandwidth between sites can be limited or variable. A digital video surveillance system offers easier management of multiple locations, involving fewer personnel. It also eliminates the prospect of degraded tape quality or out-of-focus camera views. With a rich set of interfaces to ATMs, Verint's NetDVR™ range of embedded Video Recorders is an idea...
Presented with the challenge of installing and adapting security systems to keep pace with the sustained business growth of Rathbone Brothers Plc (Rathbones), one of the UK's leading providers of investment and wealth management services, security expert Raysil has chosen to rely exclusively on equipment from Siemens Building Technologies Security Products. The most recent phase of Raysil's ongoing work for Rathbones was the completion of a contract for entry control systems at the organization...
Samsung Techwin CCTV cameras have been installed in over 200 Komercni Banka branches throughout the Czech Republic.Komercni Banka is one of the largest banking organizations in the Czech Republic serving approximately 1.5 million customers via a nationwide branch network. It was founded in 1990 following the division of the former State Bank of Czechoslovakia.The cameras have been supplied via ADI-Olympo, Czech's and Slovak's leading CCTV distributor. Zdenek Kubiczek, Product and Sal...
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