Dallmeier has introduced Privacy Mode, a feature that strengthens its video solution with enhanced data protection capabilities.
This feature permits operators to effectively deactivate image capture and recording on a centralized, temporary basis, whether system-wide or within specific areas. When activated, the Privacy Mode is visibly indicated on the cameras themselves, ensuring users are aware of its status.
Efficient Use of Privacy Mode
The newly launched Privacy Mode by Dallmeier prioritizes ease of use, enabling operators to disable image capture and recording for the entire surveillance system or select cameras efficiently and consistently, bypassing the need to individually shut down system components.
Traditionally, disabling video surveillance necessitated multiple separate actions; however, with Privacy Mode, a single command achieves this, manageable through the SeMSy® Compact client software by authorized personnel. When activated, cameras promptly cease capturing images, halt recording, and replace the video output with a static image, preserving storage capacity and ensuring compliance with privacy policies.
Meeting Data Privacy Needs
Additionally, a key feature of Privacy Mode is a visible status indicator on cameras
While Privacy Mode is operational, system components continue working efficiently without requiring full shutdowns, facilitating rapid resumption of normal operations post-deactivation.
This offers a substantial advantage for critical infrastructure, airports, stadiums, and public sector applications, allowing flexible operations while ensuring the system's quick readiness without sacrificing security measures. Additionally, a key feature of Privacy Mode is a visible status indicator on cameras—such as lowering or adjusting a privacy shield—signaling to staff and visitors that no images are being captured, thereby bolstering transparency and trust.
Controlled Access and Compliance
Only authorized users can enable Privacy Mode, which can be secured through authorization concepts and protective protocols like dual-logins, granting operators robust control over the data privacy feature's usage. The Privacy Mode aids in fulfilling GDPR requirements and addresses principles outlined by data protection authorities, such as data minimization and recording limitations, crucial elements amidst the growing demand for privacy-compliant video surveillance solutions.
Established in 1984 by Dieter Dallmeier in Regensburg, Germany, Dallmeier has expanded from humble beginnings to a formidable entity in video information technology. The company has retained its commitment to high-quality, ethically responsible "Made in Germany" solutions, delivering camera, recording, software, and analysis solutions across numerous sectors including casinos, smart cities, airports, and more, with a global presence in over 60 countries. Their innovative advancements, like the Domera® camera series, continue to provide customers tangible benefits through improved security processes and lower operational costs.
With the new Privacy Mode, Dallmeier is expanding its video solution with a powerful data protection feature: Operators can centrally and temporarily disable image capture, recording, and image output – system-wide or in defined sub-areas. At the same time, the activated Privacy Mode is clearly indicated directly on the cameras.
With the new Privacy Mode, Dallmeier is focusing above all on ease of use: The feature allows operators to temporarily disable image capture and recording for the entire system or individual cameras – quickly, in a controlled manner, and without having to switch off individual components separately. Until now, completely interrupting video surveillance often required various system components to be specifically disabled. In the future, a single command will be sufficient: Authorized users can activate Privacy Mode directly via the SeMSy® Compact client software.
Interrupting video surveillance
As soon as Privacy Mode is activated, the affected cameras immediately stop capturing images. At the same time, recording is stopped and the video output is replaced by a static Privacy Mode image. This means that no personal image data is captured or recorded while Privacy Mode is active, eliminating unnecessary use of recording capacity.
For operators, this makes it significantly easier to implement internal data privacy policies and comply with legal requirements.
Data privacy policies
While Privacy Mode is active, the system components remain active and fully operational, eliminating the need to shut down and subsequently restart the system. Once Privacy Mode is deactivated, video surveillance becomes available again within a very short time and can return to regular operation with virtually no delay.
This offers significant advantages particularly for critical infrastructure, airports, stadiums, and public facilities. Operators can respond flexibly to different situations without compromising the rapid availability of their security system.
Building additional trust
A special feature of Privacy Mode, which is also protected by a utility model, is the externally visible indication of its status directly on the cameras. Depending on the model, this can be achieved, for example, by lowering the Privacy Shield of a Panomera® camera, flashing a privacy indicator, or moving Domera® cameras to a defined privacy position.
This allows employees, visitors, or event attendees to immediately see that no images are currently being captured. It enhances transparency for affected individuals and helps build additional trust.
Practical and convenient solution
Privacy Mode can only be activated by authorized users. In addition, the feature can be protected by appropriate authorization concepts and security mechanisms, such as a dual-login procedure. This ensures that operators retain full control over the use of the data privacy feature at all times.
Privacy Mode helps operators more easily meet the requirements of the GDPR as well as principles defined by data protection authorities, such as data minimisation, recording limitation, and transparency. Requirements for privacy-compliant video surveillance continue to increase. The new Privacy Mode provides operators with a practical and convenient solution for meeting these requirements.
Video information technology
In 1984, Dieter Dallmeier founded what is now Dallmeier electronic – not in the proverbial garage, but in a garden shed in Regensburg, Germany. Today, the company, which can justifiably call itself a hidden champion for video information technology "Made in Germany", has several hundred employees worldwide, more than 250 of them at the company headquarters in the center of Regensburg alone.
Dallmeier's camera, recording, software, and analysis solutions optimize security and processes for B2B end customers in a wide range of industries in over 60 countries. The focus is on users from the casino, smart city, airports, logistics, stadiums, and industrial sectors. But also, banks, critical infrastructure facilities as well as medium-sized companies from all sectors.
Tangible customer benefits
With pioneering innovations, Dallmeier has succeeded time and again in placing itself at the forefront of technology: From the world's first digital image storage system with motion analysis in 1992, the patented "multifocal sensor technology" Panomera® with its "Mountera®" mounting system, to the latest Domera® camera family, which allows up to 300 camera variants with only 18 components. These and many other innovations provide real, tangible customer benefits. And with a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and a high Return on Investment (ROI) they can easily compete with systems produced and supplied from low-wage countries.
With "Made in Germany", they also guarantee the customers the highest standards in data protection, cybersecurity, and ethical responsibility. With high quality and short supply chains, they also ensure – almost incidentally – sustainability and environmental protection. From their prestigious headquarters in the center of Regensburg, Dallmeier not only carries out its own research and development but also the complete manufacturing process – from component to product to solution.
