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BT Redcare's i-Witness digital CCTV data storage technology was chosen by Sussex Police because of its ability to efficiently store, retrieve and output evidential quality image data.Problems with analog Sussex Police's Eastbourne CCTV control room is the monitoring centre for the community safety CCTV systems at 12 towns and villages across East Sussex. The CCTV monitoring runs 24/7 and involves a total of 80 cameras. Before its upgrade to digital, the Eastbourne monitoring centre used an...
Siemens Building Technologies Security Systems has won a contract worth in excess of £550,000 to provide Hertfordshire Constabulary with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) solution at sites throughout the county. The contract includes the design, supply, installation and commissioning of the systems, as well as associated work such as traffic management, obtaining planning permission, and liaison with the numerous third parties that have an interest in the project.The success...
TDSi has provided access control solutions to many of the world's leading banks and financial institutions, having developed systems for companies including HBOS, Royal Bank of Scotland, AIG and the Anglo Irish Bank. The company has earned an enviable reputation for the design and supply of high volume door systems across security-critical, multi-site applications, with experience across a wide range of projects. In 2003, TDSi developed a mantrap solution for the Bank of China, providing prote...
Lenses from US-based Rainbow CCTV are being used by a leading foreign currency provider to optimize client service. Rainbow varifocal lenses are part of an innovative solution whereby the accuracy of tellers at branches of FX Currency Services are monitored by a digital recording system. The FX Currency Services locations may be highly populated, with offices often having 50 cameras in an area of 200 square feet. The application uses a pair of color cameras operating at 16 frames pe...
What if you could use your existing CCTV equipment and network infrastructure to create a modern, state-of-the-art surveillance system that could... • monitor activities at any number of branch offices from a central location? • visually verify alarms to your security staff? • enable bank staff to install and maintain without receiving special training? With an Axis...
Partnership and Obligation Mutual trust, a customer-friendly approach and close ties to the public administration are the columns on which the success of the Kaiserslautern municipal savings bank (Stadtsparkasse) is based. Customer-friendliness in this context not only means competent and face-to-face consulting services, but also omnipresence: 20 branch offices and six self-service terminals all over town guarantee fast service virtually around the corner for every one of the more than 1...
Three Predator VC12 MultiViewers from Zandar Technologies are helping drivers and passengers on a New York railway line to ‘mind the gap'. The MultiViewers are part of a $1.3million CCTV system that has been installed at Syosset station on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in Nassau County, to improve passenger safety and reduce the risk of accidents.Each of the station's two platforms has been fitted with 12 CCTV cameras and three 46-inch LCD flat-screen monitors that receive...
Largely unheard of before the 2002 release of the Jodie Foster-starring thriller with the similar name, panic rooms are becoming increasingly popular domestic security features with UK celebrities and the super rich.Security consultants representing a number of high profile sports and entertainment celebrities approached Adams Rite's Tina Ainsworth recently, enquiring about the potential application of the company's HS range of ultra-high security locks in panic rooms for their clients' residenc...
IndigoVision has been awarded a prestigious multi-million dollar contract to upgrade two casinos to a fully digital CCTV operation using the company's complete end-to-end IP video solution. The Casino del Sol and Casino of the Sun in Tucson, Arizona, which are operated by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, will have their current analog/VCR CCTV systems completely upgraded. The system will be deployed in full compliance with local Gaming Board regulations. IndigoVision believes this t...
Broadcast PixTM Inc., an exhibitor at this year's IBC convention in Amsterdam this September (Hall 7; Booth 116) announces the recent instalment of its Slate™ 1000 digital production switcher within the newly upgraded television studio at Police Headquarters in Lincolnshire, UK. Located in the East Midlands of the UK, the territory patrolled by the Lincolnshire Police Force represents one of the largest police force areas in England and Wales. The Slate 1000 was sold through th...
Microsoft Ireland has recently installed Fastlane plus R400 MA turnstiles from Integrated Design Ltd.. The Campus, based in Sandyford, Dublin, first opened its doors in Ireland in 1985 with a small manufacturing facility employing just over 100 people. Since that time, Microsoft Ireland has grown to encompass 4 distinct operations, employing over 1,200 full time employees and 700 full-time contract staff.To protect this increased volume of employees, the security on site was upgraded...
Nighttime safety and security at a waterside leisure park in Gillingham, Kent, has been improved with a new lighting system that also reduces light pollution.The installation at the Gillingham Strand, carried out by TJW Electrical Ltd, uses a combination of Ganz IR infra-red illuminators and Ganz WL white light illuminators. The infrared models allow high quality black and white CCTV images to be captured without ‘spilling' visible light into neighbouring residential areas.Light pollution...
Located on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport, the Renaissance London Heathrow Hotel is a modern, elegant hotel. One of the largest hotels in the UK, it offers a wide range of facilities including 649 comfortable bedrooms, a 28 room dedicated conference centre catering for up to 700 delegates, Business Centre, health club, brassiere restaurant and lounge bar.Ensuring the smooth operation of the hotel’s day-to-day running requires a not insubstantial measure of professional management,...
Visimetrics Digital Video Recorders have formed part of the £15m refurbishment of the 55000 sq ft Casino at The Empire in London. Installed by London Clubs own Technical Security Department, the new surveillance system utilizes the Visimetrics FASTAR Real Time MPEG2 DVR for all gaming, reception and cash handling areas. Recording from the perimeter cameras is handled by the VADER High Speed Time Lapse DVR.Both machines use the highly robust Linux operating system and offer 8 ch...
The City Council (DCC) has selected AMG Systems to provide its fibre optic transmission network for traffic management and controlAMG Systems Ltd. has been contracted by Dublin City Council (DCC) to supply its new innovative fibre optic transmission system Guardian-LiteTM 3700 for traffic management and control of Dublin City and surrounding motorways.This announcement follows AMG's breakthrough in launching the world's first fibre optic transmission system to integrate Ethernet with high qualit...
Vari-focal lenses from SENKOADL are being used by one of Europe's largest automotive component manufacturers in south-western Germany on a machine vision application. The lenses, which have a focal length of 7.5~50mm, are from SENKOADL's "pro" series. They are being used here with 1/3" double progressive scan cameras from videotronic infosystems.The client,...
Smoke Screen Systems have been employed to defend high-risk property and premises as far back as 1974, yet they are often the last system considered, or even heard of. The idea behind them is a simple one...Remove a burglar's ability to see, and he will find his task, at best, a lot more difficult, at worst and in 99% of cases, impossible....The simplest way of removing the ability to see? Flood a protected area with an obscuring smoke! The idea did not really find much demand (other than...
Total Lindsey Oil Refinery (LOR) is currently Britain's third largest oil refinery with a processing capacity in excess of 10 million tonnes per annum (over 200,000 barrels per day). Since coming on-stream in 1968, the 500-acre site has recently received a £26m investment upgrade incorporating some of the most technically advanced refining and conversion processes available in Europe. The CEM AC2000 SE (Standard Edition) access control system has been securing LOR's 24-hour operatio...
Zoom lenses from Rainbow CCTV are being deployed following the development of previous camera usage at Oldbury, a nuclear power station in Gloucestershire. As part of its remit to ensure that the plants work properly and are safe to operate, British Nuclear Group Reactor Sites perform detailed observations inside nuclear reactors using specially-built manipulators and robots. The procedures allow the company to meet criteria set by an external body, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate....
Industrial Protection West Midlands-based Oldbury Aluminum Alloys is using event-driven CCTV technology to protect its two-and-a-half acre Halesowen premises against the ongoing threat of criminal attack. The company currently employs more than 20 people and has been operating successfully in the West Midlands for some 12 years. Its move to a purpose-built Halesowen site three years ago was designed to allow the company to considerably upgrade its ability to refine aluminum from scrap me...
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...
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...
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