Case studies

AlertSystems originally installed Net2 in 2005 at the then newly-built facility of KBRS in Melksham, Wiltshire, UK.  "It has developed from there," says Alert Systems' IT manager Phil Davies.  Net2 is now used throughout the KBRS site, with access control units fitted to gates and barriers as well as doors.  Access to all areas is controlled using the system.AlertSystems originally installed Net2 in 2005 at the then newly-built facility of KBRS in Melksham, Wiltshire, UK...

ACTi's IP Camera CAM-5320 and IP Speed Dome CAM-6610 have provided a clever solution to support traffic statistics recording and accident monitoring in Thailand.  On the Phapradang Ring Road, all cameras are connected by fibre optic cable within a LAN environment.  At the side of the camera, customers just plug the network cable into the media converter then the video will be transmitted via the fibre optic cable. In the central control building, the system integrator is setup with thr...

‘Just in time' is one of the most important standards used to evaluate logistics services.  Raw materials have to be at the production location, products have to leave the production halls, and the goods have to be delivered to the customer, right on time.  The requirements can only be met by the most modern logistics and warehousing systems, which also have to guarantee maximum availability. Leading Supplier With more than 700 reference facilities throughout the world, MAN L...

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...

COE Group Plc, the developer and supplier of advanced video systems, has been selected supplier of choice by Distelco, Italy, for the supply of high resolution video codecs for the Martignano Tunnel project in the Trentino region.  The COE X-Net® G3 MPEG4 codecs form the core of the video encoding and transmission system and will make up part of the overall safety system which also incorporates Citilog's MediaTunnel automatic incident detection across 26 of the 43 cameras located within...

One of the world's finest cricket coaching venues, the MCC Indoor Cricket School, is capitalising on the very latest CCTV technology from SANYO to help future Test and County stars hone their skills. The SANYO technology is a part of the School's Performance Analysis Suite, which was recently completed and has already been used by top cricketers including England's Alastair Cook.Founded in the 1970s, and re-built in the 1990s, the School, which is situated within Lord's Cricket G...

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...

The coastline of Dubai is rapidly changing as The Palm islands emerge from the sea.  Today, the city of Dubai, currently the fastest growing metropolis on earth, and holds approximately 1.5 million people.  By the year 2015 this number is expected to have increased to 3.0 million.  To promote tourism, three Palm islands are being built by Nakheel in the waters of the Arabian Gulf.  Construction on The Palm Jebel Ali will begin this year.  Reclamation of The Palm Deira...

Paxton's Net2 system has supplied award-winning food producer Bigham's with a flexible solution that controls access and records timekeeping for more than 200 staff working in kitchen, office and storage areas throughout two buildings in Park Royal, London. The easily-managed security system ensures that only authorized people can gain access to each area.  It takes just moments to issue a new staff member with a card tailored to their role or - equally importantly - to cancel the card if s...

Derwent's REG™ number plate capture cameras have been used to improve security at the Cheltenham Gold Cup, one of the British horse racing world's top annual festivals.The number plates of more than 15,000 vehicles entering and leaving during the two-day event were captured by Derwent's REG Dual cameras, installed by Special Events Communications."Our engineers were able to set the system up very quickly because the cameras are literally plug and play," explains Don Wetherell of...

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...

Rainbow's bullet cameras are monitoring some of the finest racehorses in the world at stables in Kentucky, USA.  The cameras are allowing breeders to observe mares during the crucial days of foaling and have been installed at several leading breeders by local integrator Barney Miller's.   A notable site is Glen Ridge Farm, Lexington, where a prominent breeder is using the cameras in nine stalls and reviewing images at night from the comfort of their home on a hard-wired system wit...

Vandal-resistant dome cameras from Rainbow are being used at BP petrol stations across the United Kingdom for general surveillance at the company's forecourts. Installers, Cambridgeshire-based AGE Electrical Services, report that the domes are compact and unobtrusive, meaning the units are unlikely to be struck by high-sided or unusually shaped vehicles as they move around the BP sites.  Use of these cameras forms part of BP's wide-ranging CCTV measures aimed at health & safety, logisti...

RemGuard's remotely monitored, detector-activated CCTV service is being applied at Rosehill Industrial EstateLarge scale protectionIn another Australian example, RemGuard's remotely monitored, detector-activated CCTV service is being applied to the large multi-tenanted $137 million Rosehill Industrial Estate, owned by ING Industrial Fund, situated in suburban western Sydney, where RemGuard provides overall 'perimeter estate monitoring'.The original intent was to employ after hours security guard...

IP Video systems manufacturer IndigoVision is providing the technology behind a new train dispatch system that improves passenger safety and speeds up operations for the Berlin S-Bahn in Germany.  The S-Bahn is a metro system that transports around 1.3 million passengers a day across a network consisting of 16 lines and 165 stations.  This innovative IP Video system allows the train driver to safely manage train dispatch via a CCTV display in the cab - the first installation of its typ...

 RemGuard Visual Management's remotely monitored CCTV protects Spinney Motorcaravans from unwanted intrudersControlling Caravan CrimeCloser to home, due to the growing threat of crime, Spinney Motorcaravans in Cheshire has moved from the early days in the 1970s of open frontage, with no walls in sight, to a situation now where the very latest remotely monitored CCTV, provided by RemGuard Visual Management, protects the site from unwanted intruders, particularly overnight.Said Nick Holland,...

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...