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Tyco Fire & Security today announced that Keflavik International Airport, Iceland has chosen its CEM AC2000 access control system to provide advanced security management. The airport awarded the contract to approved CEM reseller, Securitas HF. Keflavik is the main international airport for Iceland and features modern passenger and commercial facilities as well as extensive aircraft operation areas. Operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and servicing 1.8 million passenger...
In 2001 Brussels International Airport was a pioneer of IP Video when it installed what was then the largest networked video CCTV system in Europe. Based on IndigoVision's IP Video technology the 700+ camera system was installed using their existing LAN and interfaced to the Airport Management System. One of the main reasons for choosing an IP Video solution from IndigoVision was its flexibility and scalability which would accommodate the Airport's growth plans and allow a sm...
With the safety of students a primary concern at schools across the United States, administrators are faced with the task of finding security tools that fit within their ever-thinning budgets while helping them increase efficiencies. At Charlotte Country Day School in Charlotte, N.C., information systems personnel enhanced the school's security, increased efficiencies and provided a platform for further technological sophistication in the years ahead simply by upgrading the school's person...
Economical yet professional. That's the image the Metropolitan Council's Metro Transit staff want to portray with their Metropass cards. Metropass cards are used for riders of bus and light-rail transit in Minneapolis. Until recently, they were produced by an outside printing vendor, and the cost was becoming prohibitive. Metro Transit's decision to bring the production inside not only saved money, but also improved the security of the cards.Metro Transit is one of the la...
MITIE is pleased to announce that they have recently been appointed as the exclusive manned guarding supplier to HM Courts Service (HMCS) and the Tribunal Service nationwide, further enhancing the Group's position as one of the UK's leading service providers and as a principle supplier to the Wider Police Family.The seven contracts, which are worth in excess of £20 million, will commence on 1 April 2007 and will see the company providing security to the nation's magistrates, cr...
Hundreds of thousands of people attended Independence Square in Accra, Ghana to celebrate fifty years of independence from British colonial rule on 6 March, 2007. Designed by Pro Security Ghana Ltd, in what is understood to be the largest IP CCTV surveillance system in Africa, all celebration events were monitored and recorded for safety and security. "Being able to bring back high-resolution CCTV surveillance information from just about anywhere in the city has enormous benefits for...
Net2, the network access control system from Paxton Access Limited, a UK market leader in the design and manufacture of electronic access control systems, has been installed at the RAF Museum at Hendon.Opened in late 1972, the RAF Museum at Hendon attracts 180,000 visitors a year to the 15-acre site of former RAF Hendon Aerodrome. Currently the museum is home to over eighty aircraft, which will increase to more than one hundred later this year. It is the national museum of aviation a...
The Guildhall School of Music & Drama, situated in the heart of the City of London, impresses not only with its unique location, neighbouring the Barbican Centre, Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue, but is at the same time home to outstandingly talented teachers and students from around the world.Only a complete security system can ensure the smooth operation of the 100,000 square meters complex, spread out over 5 neighbouring buildings with currently around 2,000 peop...
The club provides a wide variety of facilities to delight members attending the ‘‘La Finca'' Reebok Sports Club in Madrid, Spain. To meet clients' needs to the full and to optimize all the equipment to the maximum, the club relies on efficient applications supplied by LEGIC based Gantner applications. Reebok Sports Club ‘La Finca' is located at Pozuelo de Alarcón and is considered to be one of the most prestigious sports clubs in Spain. Its sports faci...
Royal Academy of Arts uses Axis network cameras and video servers to secure priceless art works in its galleriesBackgroundRAA exhibitions attract more than a million visitors every year, putting the institution consistently amongst the top ten paying-visitor attractions in London. Amongst its ruling body of Academicians have been some of the country's leading artists over the years including Reynolds, Turner, Constable, Gainsborough and in more recent years Moore, Frink, Blake and Hock...
Dallmeier, one of the world's leading developers and manufacturers of CCTV systems and established specialist for top solutions in the field of casino surveillance is once again demonstrating its competence in a project of enormous scale and magnitude. The German company has joined hands with the Barona Gaming Commission in launching the first real-time CCTV/IP system with digital matrix in the United States. Since its commissioning in September 2006 the fully digital surveillanc...
The Nike Experience You are at the right place, but absent from view are glass-on-glass high-rises compacted together over the typical concrete and asphalt corporate terrain. But then, this is anything but typical. You are about to enter the hallowed halls of one of sport's holiest sites. You have arrived at Nike World Headquarters (WHQ). The 185-acre campus sprawls out in front of you and the size and complexity is staggering. Everything would have to be custom...
The ChallengeBradford's popular National Museum of Film and Photography has had a security facelift with the introduction of new networkable digital CCTV from Dedicated Micros. The museum is the only one of its kind in the UK and contains some valuable and unique exhibits. Security proved a key area to address during a recent relaunch and refurbishment.Faced with growing video tape management issues and problems with picture quality, museum management called in John Archbold, sal...
The 1,850 seat Birmingham Hippodrome, one of the largest theatre complexes in the UK, is upgrading to the latest generation of digital video recording using DVRs from the Vicon Kollector Elite range.The move to replace outdated first generation DVRs is part of a two and a half years long project being undertaken by national installer ADT. Birmingham Hippodrome Director of Operations Mike Bradford, said: "We wanted to modernise the way that CCTV at Birmingham Hippodrome was manag...
Cameras and zoom lenses from Rainbow are being used at freeway and intersection controls throughout the US by Florida-based Control Technologies who have chosen a modified version of Rainbow's 1/3" black and white 580 TV lines camera. Based on data from the cameras, civic authorities are able to calibrate the cycle of signalised intersections and where necessary speed up vehicle exits from congested stretches of freeway. The aim is not only to ease movement on freeways but minimize co...
Casinos have always looked to take advantage of the latest advances in CCTV surveillance in order to provide a safe environment for customers and employees whilst deterring and detecting would-be cheats. It is therefore not surprising that the new CCTV cameras at the state of the art G Casino in Luton are equipped with SANYO's Pan-Focus technology.The sophisticated CCTV system was installed by ID Technology Group whose Sales Director, Matt Allen said: "One of the challenges...
IndigoVision's IP Video technology is at the heart of an innovative wireless CCTV system that's providing both security and operational benefits for an offshore fish farm.Acuicola Marina is one of the leading producers of farmed fish in the Spanish Province of Castellon on the Mediterranean coast. Their offices and warehouse are located at Burriana, 3 km inland, with the fish farm facilities sited 10 km offshore.The valuable fish stock is a target for poachers and Acuicola Marina h...
COE Group plc, the developer and supplier of advanced video surveillance systems, has partnered with ADT, the UK's leading provider of electronic fire and security solutions, to conduct a trial of COE's X-Net VI analytics and scene analysis software at Clapham Junction railway station, South London, to detect graffiti and other specific events. The system operates on COE's X-Net G3 IP video codec. Detection areas will be set up to cover the areas of highest crime and the results moni...
The new buildings that house the City of London Academy are truly impressive. Built with a contribution of £2 million from the City of London Corporation, the teaching facilities, assembly rooms, sports halls, dance and drama studios, dining rooms and teachers' accommodation are all fully equipped with the very latest equipment and technology. As a publicly funded independent comprehensive school, the objective of the Academy is to provide high quality education for u...
The HTW Chur is the only college in the Canton of Grisons (Switzerland) at which it is possible to study economics and technology. The college specializes in the fields of tourism, entrepreneurship, telecommunications, electrical engineering, building, design and information science. With the contactless LEGIC smart card for students, professors, employees, guests and visitors, the HTW Chur is emphasizing its innovation and securing its reputation for being up to date. It is possibl...
The ChallengeCambridge University's Wolfson College has completed a major upgrade of its campus security system. Dubbed 'the most cosmopolitan college in Cambridge', Wolfson was the first college to be established for both men and women. It has over 700 students, most of whom are post-graduate students with a focus on research and scholarship.Following a freak accident last summer when lightning struck at the heart of the previous surveillance system, the college was looking at more cost-e...
Knowsley Community College recently completed deployment of 263 Axis network cameras across its two main campuses in Roby and Kirkby, near Liverpool. The total contract was valued at approximately £450,000. MCW Group won a competitive tender to supply and install these cameras, integrating them back into the campus-wide network and configuring Milestone XProtect system to manage output from the cameras. This will also safeguard the new Management and Industrial Innovation Cent...
Access control specialist, TDSi, has developed a security integration module specifically to interface TDSi eXguard PRO access management software with School Information Management System (SIMS) from Capita. Such packages are increasingly being used in education to help establishments manage their student enrollment data, attendance records and academic performance more effectively. They also play an important role in the planning of timetables and curriculum courses, as well as in the m...
Bosch Security Systems, the UK's leading provider of high-quality security solutions, has supplied its proven EnviroDome cameras and its VIDOS Video Management System for an integrated CCTV system at Beardwood High School in Blackburn. Disruption to education is an ongoing and significant problem for schools across the UK but when Beardwood School, which is responsible for educating some 1,100 students, was experiencing disruptions from children setting off fire alarms during school time it deci...
Rifatron's digital recorder creates a safe and secure campus Rifatron's hexa-plex digital video recorder (DVR) has been chosen by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) as the recording system to provide a safe and secure environment for students, faculty, staff and campus visitors. The hexa-plexer is a Rifatron stand-alone DVR with 6 simultaneous operations: live display, recording, playback, network monitoring, back-up, remote data set-up. The 16 channel iMDVRS-1648 has up to 400...
DVRs used to record interviews of suspects and victims Heightened concerns over the safety of police officers and the need to defend officers against false allegations provided the impetus for Jacksonville State University (JSU) in Alabama to acquire March Networks video surveillance technology. With little more than hand-held audio tape recorders at their disposal, police officers were previously unable to record facial expressions and non-verbal behavior that could provide context for statem...
JVC VN-C20U IP security cameras are being installed in the initial phase of installation in a state-of-the-art security system for Scania Great Britain. The system is designed and integrated by SM Technology and is an on gong project On completion, the system will operate VN-C20U cameras across Scania service centres throughout the UK. Each VN-C20U colour network camera is powered using Power over Ethernet (PoE) for 24/7 monitoring. "This is the first large installat...
Innovative and technically challenging project demonstrates Tyco's ability to provide radio solutions for buildings and tunnels across Europe.Tyco Traffic & Transportation of Cambridge, part of Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions, has recently completed another successful installation of a radio re-broadcast communications system, this time for Warsaw airport's new Terminal 2 building. The new system is designed to support Warsaw airport's expansion - traffic has already i...
When you include the suburbs, the city of Lyon, France, with 445,452 inhabitants and a surface area of 47.87 square metres is the second largest city of France. Lyon was in need of a video surveillance system to monitor the access and exit of pedestrians and cars in the city centre. Transmission of video, intercom and data over an IP network for opening fences were just some of the requirements. Optelecom-NKF offered the complete IP-surveillance solution optimized to fit the purpose...
Cargo handler's commitment to security wins over international air carriersWhen Alliance Air sales representatives pitch to international air carrier users on the company's cargo handling and road feeder services, its commitment to security is one of the most persuasive selling points they can use.Alliance Air has more than one million sq. ft. (93,000 sq m) of air cargo handling facilities at international airports in Chicago, New York, Miami and Atlanta, and operates a scheduled road feeder ser...
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