Case studies

Innovative wireless ‘BoundaryGard' intruder detection technology from Optex Europe is proving a major success in assisting a local healthcare trust in meeting its health & safety liabilities as the owner of a huge hospital block that has stood empty for the past four years. Local installer Dartline Security Systems Ltd was called in by a West Country-based NHS Trust to provide a solution for securing a specific block on a now defunct building on the hospital estate. Dartline in turn...

As the theft of metal continues to hit the headlines on a daily basis, with everything from statues to church roofs in the firing line, one company - Oldbury Aluminum Alloys, is fighting back.  This is thanks to the remotely monitored, detector activated, CCTV service provided by RemGuard Visual Management, part of AD Group, and its BS8418 compliant Remote Video Response Centre (RVRC).West Midlands-based Oldbury Aluminum Alloys is applying this sophisticated event-driven CCTV technology to...

ioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity, announced recently that the Shi Jia Zhuang High School in China has successfully completed installation of ioimage's video surveillance system to protect its 2,500 students, supervise the school's entrance and prevent theft.The Shi Jia Zhuang School campus covers an area of 45 acres and houses 13 educational buildings occupied by 2,500 students and 170 teachers.  ioimage's advanced video analytics were installed t...

North London-based IP consultancy UBIQZ has overseen a 50-camera Internet-addressable installation at a Church of England school on the southeast London/Kent border. The site is a significant case study in that it employs Power over Ethernet (PoE) from the Israeli manufacturer PowerDsine with both camera data and power being transmitted across CAT5 wiring from the principal server room.  The cameras monitor a range of situations and behaviour among pupils, staff and visitors. The school and...

March NetworksTM, a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, announced recently that the retail arm of a global consumer products organization is using the company's data analytics software in more than 150 US retail stores for advanced loss prevention.The organization, which operates nearly 500 retail locations worldwide, selected the March Networks LP Data Mining software suite to help reduce inventory shrinkage and improve overall store performance.  L...

Turnkey solution includes 10 million cards to be rolled out for the parliamentary elections in April 2009Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced that it has been selected to deliver the electronic ID cards solution commissioned by the Ministry of Interior of Yemen for the next national elections.  Under the contract, Gemalto will implement the whole solution including enrolment processes, creation of a secure biometric national registry, maintenance, local support, tr...

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that Community Hospice is using Schlage HandPunch terminals to record time and attendance information at its multiple locations throughout the greater Modesto (Calif.) area.  Depending on which of the locations are reporting, attendance data is transmitted via TCP/IP network or dial-up."Previously, our timekeeping was done manually, relying on handwritten time cards and then calculated," reports Elaine Orozco, payroll clerk for...

North London-based IP consultant UBIQZ has assisted a local installer with a £250,000 Internet-addressable camera surveillance project in Tripoli, Libya.   Forty Sony cameras have been installed over 11 floors of a finance tower block in a project that is one of the first instances of a Middle East building adopting IP on a significant scale.The location is the Dat el-Emad complex in the heart of Tripoli's financial district and near the site of the old city.  As with o...

Network cameras from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been installed by one of Ireland's premier network integrators, DNA IT Solutions, inside the Kaziranga Forest Trail Habitat at Dublin Zoo.  The birth, which is due to take place within the next few weeks, will be the second elephant birth ever caught on camera in Europe.  Traditional analog-based CCTV cameras have been replaced by Axis network cameras, because the old ones were not delivering the high qu...

12 Arthur Street, a multi-tenant building in London, has recently installed Fastlane plus turnstiles from Integrated Design.  The building is home to many prestige companies, including Prudential and Vanquis Bank that needed to be protected from unauthorized entry.Arthur Street Management Company, who looks after the building needed a solution to protect the clients in the building, and create a safe, secure workplace for staff and visitors.  As the system was to be installed covering...

Leaders in EuropeA total of more than one billion CDs and DVDs are being produced annually in the village of Dassow, Germany, population 4,000, making ODS Optical Disc Service GmbH one of the leading manufacturers of optical storage media in Europe.  ODS is also a leader when it comes to creating jobs in an economically underdeveloped region: with 1,300 employees, ODS is the largest employer in the district of north-west Mecklenburg.  With a second factory in France and distribution c...

Brivo Systems, LLC, the leader in web applications for access control and security systems, has announced that St. John's College High School in Washington, DC, has deployed the Brivo OnSite SE access control system in key locations throughout their 27-acre campus.  eVigilant of Arlington, VA, specified and installed the Brivo system.St. John's, an independent school with 1,100 students and 150 staff, formerly used a standard lock and key system.  The SJC Administration sought improved...

APT SkiData (part of APT Controls), the UK's leading parking systems business, has further extended its work for London Stansted by installing the very latest Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology at the mid-stay car park to enhance security and further improve the speed with which pre-booked visitors to the airport can access their parking. Giles Parry, Technical Director for Meteor Parking which manages the mid-stay car park, explains, "Meteor integrated our eparking.uk.com...

Vicon have manufactured video management solutions for airports and ports throughout the world.  For St. Paul International Airport, Minneapolis, simply wanting a high performance CCTV system wasn't enough.  They wanted a system that could be expanded over an extended period of time without replacing the existing infrastructure.  They found that solution in the Vicon family of video products and a business relationship that began almost 10 years ago is still going strong.Building...

Advanced monitoring and analytics capabilities enable more effective law enforcement and cost savings. With the rising crime rates in Savannah, GA, beginning to have a tangible impact on the safety of residents, tourists and the local economy, local government and law enforcement officials sought new solutions to their growing problem. Like many cities across the country, Savannah turned to public video surveillance systems as a counter measure.  They selected Tropos® Networks as the wi...

The latest NetVu Connected Digital Sprite 2 (DS2) DVRs from Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - are playing a pivotal role in helping US movie theatre managers and owners to effectively tackle real world activities away from the larger than life figures appearing on the ‘silver screen'.  These include anti-social behaviour, employee theft and the occasional faked slip-and-fall.A leader in the application of this CCTV technology is Muvico, which owns 13 theatres in Florida, Maryland...

The requirement - extending CCTV reachAs part of a wider regeneration project to encourage investment in the town, Medway Council decided to make substantial changes to the road network in Chatham.  Its one-way ring road system was identified as a restriction affecting inward investment in the retail centre of the town. The major road works involved upgrading the town's ring road system route to two-way traffic.Following a review it identified a gap in the CCTV coverage that it needed to fi...

As well as providing high quality digital storage and retrieval facilities, BT Redcare's i-Witness is a fully managed and future-proofed service which has significantly increased operational efficiency and enabled Fife Constabulary to bring more cases to court.The need for change from analog to digitalFife Constabulary undertakes the day to-day operation and management of the region's CCTV system on behalf of the Fife Community Partnership.  Fife was experiencing a range of issues with its...

ProblemA modern, two-storey office block located at the junction of two major motorways, crammed full of expensive computers and sensitive data.OptionsPhysical security to supplement the existing alarm system.SolutionMultiple Smoke Screens by Concept Smoke Screen.  Bars and grilles do have a deterrent effect, but they detract from the appearance of the building and turn the workplace into a virtual prison.  This type of physical protection can also increase the level of violence employ...

IndigoVision's integrated IP Video CCTV system is providing monitoring for a traffic calming system in the Belgian city of Antwerp.  The CCTV system monitors a series of automated bollards that regulate traffic on a number of the city's streets, alerting the Antwerp Police to malfunctions, accidents and acts of vandalism.The bollards can be lowered automatically during pre-determined hours or when buses and trams pass using on-board transponders.  Local residents and other authorized p...

VIVOTEK Network Cameras help farmers control birth cows day and night.PurposeGaec Bracquart, located in Crequy in northern France, is a farm that houses a herd of 150 cows and provides approximately 600,000 liters of milk each year.  The owner of the farm had constantly encountered the need to physically monitor the cows all night, in case the birth cows were in labour.  Wanting a way to remotely monitor the herd of cows instead, the farmer sought for a cost-effective solution that wou...

APT SkiData, the UK's leading Pay-on-Foot parking systems business, has won one of the largest refurbishment projects to be awarded this year, replacing the systems currently installed in four car parks at Southampton Airport with the latest APT 450 systems and integrated Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology.The contract, awarded through Meteor Parking with whom APT SkiData has successfully worked at Stansted Airport, includes replacing systems within four areas: the short-term;...