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The French leader in electrolytic coating has chosen Axis Communications to equip its production sitesMission:The Technical Director of SAPEC was constantly on call to deal with false alarms from a system installed several years ago. The goal was to limit the time made for troubleshooting, while also focusing on the fight against industrial espionage and theft at three production sites. Solution:On the advice of its local integrator, SAPEC opted for a network video solution consisting of A...
Box-It Central - located at Bishops Tachbrook near the historic towns of Warwick and Leamington Spa offers a document collection, storage and next day delivery service to businesses throughout Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Leicestershire. In 1996 the company founder, Les Evans hit upon the ingenious idea of converting redundant farm buildings owned by their family agricultural business into modern storage units.A new type of outsourcingThe founders had realised that the storage and managem...
During its voyage across the high seas monitoring climate change, the safety of the Danish Galathea 3 expedition was monitored by Solaris™ high-speed dome cameras. The end of April 2007 saw the return to their native soil of the 35 scientists who had set to sea the previous August for an eight-month research trip around the globe. The aim of the expedition was to gain new insights into climate change as well as investigate marine animal and plant life.In addition to being docum...
At Toyota's production line in Taiwan, there are 5 production lines that assemble the popular Corolla sedan, Camry sedan and Wish MPV automobile vehicles for sales in the Taiwan market. Toyota's aim was to clearly identify the status of each production line, so Toyota chose to deploy video surveillance on each line in order to monitor the production volume, time taken for each production stage and confirm the procedure at each manufacturing stage. Live video streaming at each line will all...
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...
Europe-wide usage of varifocal lenses from SENKOADL includes a recent project at a leading university in Poland.The University of Lodz to the south-west of Warsaw has increased campus security with the installation of 50 cameras - predominantly Samsung and Bosch - fitted with 3-8.55mm 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 A...
Fixed focal length lenses from SENKOADL have been installed recently in a major traffic observation exercise being conducted by Edinburgh City Council. The 2/3" format lenses are 35mm and 50mm models that are being used predominantly from USB board cameras. Over 50 of the lenses have been deployed. The camera/lens assemblies are mounted on traffic light poles at major roads leading in and out of the city with images being recorded digitally for review by Council traffic managers...
Axis network cameras installed in the Durant, Broken Bow and Pocola casino locationsAxis Communications recently announced that more than 300 of the company's network cameras have been installed in three casinos owned by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The Axis network cameras will be used in conjunction with the Universal Video Management System (UVMS) solution from Petards, Inc., a developer of advanced video surveillance systems and one of the leading security supplier...
Innovative IP-based CCTV technology is at the heart of a new contract worth £140,000 recently awarded to Siemens Building Technologies Security Systems, by DTZ, managing agents on behalf of PRUPIM, one of Europe's largest real estate investment companies. This new security system is being installed by Siemens at The Heights in Weybridge, UK a prestigious campus-style business park development on the site of the historic Brooklands motor racing circuit.Exeter based consultants, Pe...
AMG Real-time CCTV Transmission System will cover new residential buildings at Downtown Burj Dubai.AMG Systems announces that it has been contracted by Specialized & Interactive Systems L.L.C. (SIS) in the UAE to supply its innovative fibre optic transmission system, Guardian-Lite 4600, for the security & surveillance system of the new residential area at Downtown Burj Dubai.Initially, AMG will supply CCTV transmission systems for 13 new buildings and a further 13 buildings being built l...
The Web Broadcast Corporation is using Derwent's infrared illuminators to enable live webcam broadcasts of some of Britain's most elusive nocturnal animals. Red squirrels, pine martins and badgers are among the species filmed in the dead of night in their wild habitats, and broadcast live on http://www.wildlifetv.co.uk, thanks to Derwent IR. The Web Broadcasting Corporation streams real-time live video from all over the world, for both educational and entertainment viewing. The compa...
Britain's biggest tile retailer, Topps Tiles, has adopted Europe's fastest growing IP alarm transmission and monitoring system. The specialist supplier of ceramic tiles, wood flooring and related products is protecting its national network of stores with the Iris alarms-over-IP system from Chiron Security Communications.Joining fellow High Street retailers Halfords and Thomas Cook in their own decision to upgrade to Iris, Topps Tiles has already equipped over 100 of its 274 branches around...
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....
In large public sports venues where emotionally charged crowds gather, there can be civil disorder, especially with intoxicated people and over-zealous fans. The Charles Koch Arena at Wichita State University has more than 10,000 seats, and regularly draws full capacity crowds from both the university and the surrounding community. The mix of campus and urban area also has the potential to involve more risk of assaults or theft. The campus police wanted to ensure the best safet...
Regional Transportation District (RTD) of Denver is a public transportation district that provides transit services to 8 counties and 44 municipalities, with 85 million annual passenger trips aboard light rail, bus, access-a-Ride and call-n-Ride services. With 1300 buses, 16 miles of light rail and another 19 miles to be added within a year, the RTD's Treasury handles millions of dollars in collected transit fees per year.The Treasury is secured by a "man-trap" with a Lenel c...
The Challenge The company provides specialist aviation services to regional airlines, business and commercial aviation companies, including fueling, ground handling, maintenance and fuel purchasing. The operation manages in excess of 13,000 air traffic movements annually - comprehensive and reliable security is therefore a major requirement. Martin Gould of system installers CAMS Fire & Security PLC explains: "The new aviation hangar has allowed the flight support operator to meet in...
Motorized zoom lenses from Rainbow have been installed at Bogotá Airport, Colombia. The 15-300mm units were selected for the quality of their telephoto performance, compact size and ability to operate amid high levels of dust and fumes. The lenses are allowing air traffic control and security staff to follow vehicle and passenger movement on aprons and runways as well as monitoring for intrusion through the perimeter fence. In several sectors the Rainbow units are being used...
The reality of our vulnerability after the terrorist attacks on America and more recently in London caused people to rethink the safety of travel. Since then the airline industry and airport authorities have implemented radical changes to ensure everybody's safety.The job of Mr. Huw Davies, Head of Security at Bristol International Airport, has become more important than ever, as he is responsible for the safety of thousands of people every day. Bristol International Airport is the S...
NIAR uses IP video as a powerful monitoring tool in aviation testing - saving time, night staffing needs, and physical risks to personnel."I appreciate the Milestone-Axis IP video surveillance solution because it is a 300% improvement on the visual monitoring capabilities in our work. The off-shift test monitoring is the number one usage for us. It can also be dangerous for the operators when they are looking at windshields or fuselage under pressure. So instead of risking...
"Due to heightened security measures..." This, sadly, is becoming an all too familiar announcement at airports, train stations, ports and harbours all over the world. In light of recent events in Glasgow and London authorities are forced to take an even closer look at the systems providing security and safety for the passengers and workers within the airport terminals. A very good example of ensuring passenger safety using the latest technology in high resolution digital imaging wi...
Keflavík International Airport, Iceland has chosen the CEM AC2000 access control system to provide advanced security management. The airport awarded the contract to approved CEM reseller, Securitas HF. Keflavík is the main international airport for Iceland and required a highly secure and reliable solution that could be customised to meet their specific environment."As the only supplier of airport-tailored access control solutions, the CEM AC2000 system was ideal for K...
Frequent travellers from the UK and abroad can benefit from a faster, simpler way to pass through immigration control as new technology is launched at Heathrow Terminals 1-4, Manchester Terminals 1 and 2, and Gatwick North. Panasonic's Iris Recognition Camera System, the BM-ET330A Series utilizes biometric technology enabling registered passengers to pass through passport control quickly and easily in a more secure way than ever before. The BM-ET330A provides high-precision individual aut...
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...
The Jewish Museum in Frankfurt is one of the three major Jewish museums in Germany. It traces the interrelationship between Jews in Germany and their environment based on the example of Frankfurt. Prior to World War II the city of Frankfurt had the highest percentage of Jewish inhabitants with over 26,000 Jewish citizens. The building is secured today by 360° video surveillance. Its open character was intentionally selected, as the changing exhibitions are to be acces...
Built in 1912, TianJin Polytechnic University is a well established full-time tertiary educational institution in China with 14 colleges, about 25,000 students, and 1300 lecturers and tutors. The University has a spacious and harmonious campus equipped with top-notch educational equipments and is further expanding and constructing a new campus session of around two million square metres. Saving resource and energy, improving management efficiency and providing a comfortable learning enviro...
To monitor traffic conditions and maintain safety at distant locations, transfer of video images of exceptional quality is crucial. A SISTORE CX video-over-IP solution from Siemens integrates analog cameras with an intelligent digital video codec, providing outstanding image quality of the Gotschna Tunnel at a superior cost/performance ratio.The Gotschna Tunnel, opened in Switzerland at the end of 2005 with a length of 4.2 km, and is part of the Klosters by-pass and the federal highway A28...
Sophisticated digital video surveillance technology and long-range passive infrared detectors from ADPRO™ are at the heart of a major security and health & safety installation for the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA). They have been installed to protect people and equipment at the IAA's Air Traffic Control Centre (ATCC) in Shannon and six remote locations housing essential radar and communications infrastructure across the region. The IAA is a commercial State sponsored organizatio...
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...
The National Institute for Aviation Research is using Milestone Systems' open platform IP video management software with Axis network cameras to increase visibility in tests, provie remote access to monitoring tests, save on night staffing needs, and improve personnel safety.The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University integrates academic, government and business entities in cooperative efforts to advance technologies for aviation and other industries. It...
MITIE was recently appointed to provide aviation guarding services during the recent high profile visit to the UK by the Emperor and Empress of Japan.A team of 3 officers from MITIE Security's specialist aviation and transportation division were assigned to provide a dedicated 24-hour guarding service to protect and secure the Imperial flight during its three-day stop over at London Heathrow Airport.This short-term agreement builds upon a 12-year relationship between Japanese Flag Carrier JA...
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