Network / IP security - Case studies

IndigoVision's IP Video technology is providing a unique re-deployable CCTV system for Swindon town centre.  The system is operated by the Swindon Town Centre Management Team, which assists the police and other partners in reducing anti-social behaviour, shop theft and other criminal activity.  Like many towns, their previous CCTV system did not provide surveillance of the more remote areas to which crime often migrated in order to avoid the cameras - a problem that the Swindon Tea...

ADT state-of-the-art security system gives retailers and visitors to a new South London shopping centre peace of mindThe ChallengeCroydon Centrale is a £200 million retail centre with 74,000 square metres of shopping featuring some of the UK's leading fashion and lifestyle stores and a 950-space shoppers' car park.International property development and investment company St Martins Property Corporation - owners of the old Drummond Centre - redeveloped and extended the site to provi...

USA based, Kansas City International Airport utilizes a fully digital IP network video surveillance system, which encompasses 161 JVC VN-C655U digital IP PTZ dome network cameras.  Each camera is strategically placed throughout the airport to monitor passenger loading areas, holding rooms, jet bridge doors and ramps. The VN-C655U cameras work alongside 220 existing analog cameras where video is stored and accessed using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) via JVC manufactured network video reco...

COE Group plc, the developer and supplier of advanced video surveillance systems, and Agent Video Intelligence™ Inc., the global leader in enterprise-grade video analytics, today announce that COE has integrated Agent Vi’s patented video analysis range into COE’s X-NET MPEG-4/MJPEG codec platform.  This will enable COE to offer its customers the option of additional video intelligence across its core products. COE believes that this application will be particular...

Company's smart video solutions help secure over 6 million annual visitors NICE Systems, the global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to extract Insight from Interactions™ to drive performance, today announced that it has received a follow-on order for its smart video solutions to help secure the Eiffel Tower.With real-time, distributed digital video security solutions and advanced video analytics, NICE helps streamline security operations and protect the Eiffel Towe...

IndigoVision's advanced IP Video system has been installed at Munich Airport as part of recent security enhancements.  Munich is one of Europe's fastest growing airports with nearly 30m passengers expected through its two terminals in 2006.In accordance with new EU regulations requiring that all airport employees undergo the same security checks as passengers when entering the secure airside area, Munich Airport undertook a security reconfiguration of its staff access poin...

High impact dome cameras from Rainbow have been installed at a flagship leisure venue in Cardiff.  Technology at the Liquid Nightclub allows managers to transmit aromas onto the dance floor and create computer graphics, which transform the building into a swimming pool or the Albert Hall.The site is using 60 of the dome cameras on dance floors and in bar areas.  These 1/3" cameras use a DSP image sensor and are available as colour or black and white models.  The monochrome un...

Flexible solution aids transition to new space and makes day-to-day management effortlessBrivo Systems, the leader in Web applications for access control and security systems, today announced that 3H Technology uses Brivo's ACS WebService to secure the premises of their rapidly growing company.  The Brivo® econtrol Online Access Control™ system secures external and internal doors and manages access for more than 250 employees, sub-lease tenants, vendors, and visitors.  3H has...

Just imagine medieval knights battling in the courtyard, Kings and Queens overseeing their subjects, jugglers performing, fire-eaters, sword fights and incredible food and drink; all that a renaissance festival should be.  The Louisiana Renaissance is not much different, offering an authentic medieval experience with Louisiana flair.  Held annually between November and December, the festival entices patrons with fine food, exciting activities, action-packed events and great shopping.&n...

Herries Preparatory School in Cookham Dean, Berkshire has utilised an AXIS 214 PTZ Network Camera from the global leader in network video, Axis Communications, to help its pupils further develop their renowned studies on the habitat of the stag beetle.Herries School teaches around a hundred children up to the age of 11.  In 2002, their science co-ordinator Anne Sweeney was looking for ways to bring to life the teaching of conservation for her Year Four pupils (aged 8-9).  Rather than s...

Optelecom-NKF, Inc., a leading global provider of advanced Internet Protocol (IP)-video network solutions, today announced the Beijing Metro System has selected its technology for a video surveillance and communication system serving Line 1 and Line 2 of the Beijing Metro System.  Terms of the contract were not disclosed.Beijing's two oldest metro lines are being renovated ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games at a cost of 3.7 billion yuan (US$450 million).  The move is aimed at meeting...

COE Group plc, the developer and supplier of advanced video surveillance systems, announced today that it has completed a major upgrade of the Bradford City Centre CCTV system using COE's X-Net and Network Recording systems.COE worked with Bradford's CCTV management team over several months to design and implement an IP-based digital video transmission network and digital recording solution for the several hundred cameras used in Bradford and the surrounding areas.  The existing COE...

IndigoVision's IP Video technology is providing remote monitoring for Verbund Group hydroelectric power plants along the River Danube in Austria.  Verbund is the largest power generation company in Austria and derives over 90% of its generating capacity from renewable hydropower.  Previously all power plants and facilities were monitored by local analog CCTV systems with continuously manned control rooms.  Within 5-6 years Verbund plans to convert all 88 hydroelectric power pl...

If you're the subject of a 999 emergency call to the ambulance service in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk or Suffolk you can expect one of 100-plus frontline vehicles operated by the East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust (EAAT) to come to your aid in double-quick time.  But the Trust also has a duty of care to its staff.  Around the clock, 24/7, staff at the Trust's new Norwich control centre respond to thousands of 999 and other calls.  Not before time, a new CCTV system now allows their move...

The Port of Turku, Finland's second largest seaport, has invested in IndigoVision's complete end-to-end IP Video solution to provide an innovative approach to site surveillance.  More than four million tonnes of cargo and over four million passengers pass through the port every year and safety and security are paramount to the port's operation. The CCTV system includes numerous dome cameras, providing high-quality digital images via a wireless WiMAX LAN, which spans an area arou...

ADT, the UK's leading provider of electronic fire and security solutions, is participating in an exciting new joint initiative to enhance the protection of schools in the London area.  The project involves the use of Internet protocol (IP) based closed circuit television (CCTV) technology, which enables schools to be monitored from the Bromley Council CCTV control centre.In partnership with Synetrix, a leading integration and managed services provider, and Redbridge CCTV, a leading CCTV con...

IndigoVision is providing wireless IP Video technology to protect the construction of the exclusive Sentosa Cove development in Singapore.  Originally conceived to emulate the waterfront resorts on the French Riviera, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, Sentosa Cove is an oceanfront enclave of 2,500 well-appointed residences expected to be completed by 2010.The construction of the first phase is due for completion at the end of 2006 and is protected by a mixture of 50 fixed and PTZ outdoor...

Milestone-Axis networked video surveillance solution protects people and property in 22 buildings.The nearby Fort Riley military post creates a transient - and growing - student population for United School District 475 in Kansas.  A security system was required that could scale with the demands to build new facilities, be cost efficient, effective, and provide both central and local management of multiple locations.  Open platform IP video surveillance software from Milestone Systems...

ACTi empower Nextan, a system integrator in Singapore, successfully enhanced the security system for the outlet.  They installed 125-channel surveillance sites in Malaysia.The outlet is through out Malaysia from Northern states to Southern states and owned by Dynasum Sdn Bhd.  They are the first privately owned company in Malaysia that introduces IP products in such scale to enhance their business operation.  The company chooses ACTI's products video servers instead of the convent...

All Change!After new standards of safety and operational efficiency were adopted by Network Rail, Pentax lenses have been selected as the eyes of the network's Driver Only Operation CCTV system.CCTV cameras acquire images from the length of the platform and project them onto a colour monitor on the platform next to the driver's cab.New rolling stock saw its introduction some 10 to 15 years ago.  In order for the new trains to be compliant with safety requirements, visual surveillanc...

"We have a stable, leading-edge technology system that is helping our fight against criminal activities very successfully.  We would recommend this system to everybody."- Ashley Willoughby, Computer and Security Manager for Three Counties ShowgroundThe ChallengeBecause of the sheer physical size of the Three Counties Showground with numerous entranceways and public access areas, vandalism was becoming a major problem.  After normal closing time people could still wander into...

Locarno reacts to the problems of vandalism with Video-Over-IP solution using Milestone Systems software and Panasonic network cameras.  In addition to many technical benefits, the surveillance provides a feeling of personal safety without being obtrusive."Acts of vandalism no longer have any place in our town, thanks to leading-edge technology, which provides the requisite deterrence with the utmost discretion," says Clemente Gramigna, Ing. Dipl. EPFL/SIA, Centro Informatico Comu...

"All customers - and ourselves as well - have been screaming for a user interface where you can integrate all your security elements so you have an overview of all your buildings at once.  Milestone is the solution!" - Christian Larsen, Technical Director at installation partner Plahn Systems. ChallengesThe DFDS headquarters cover 150,000 square meters in a suburb of Copenhagen where 11-12,000 shipments occur daily.  Customers demand the highest security for their goods, but...

The Background Radiohead, an internationally recognized 5-piece rock band, have a reputation for innovative, creative music, selling millions of records worldwide.  Each new Radiohead album outlines a new direction, always achieving critically acclaimed success for the band.Radiohead are currently playing a number of European Festival dates before headlining the V Festival in Chelmsford and Stafford in August.  The tour will enable Radiohead to debut new material that the band has been...

Leading UK gaming operator Stanley Casinos has selected the Visimetrics range of FASTAR and VADER Digital Evidence Recorders as part of a UK wide CCTV upgrade.  The roll out, managed and supported by specialist integrator ID Technology Group, involves replacing the existing VCR based CCTV systems across the entire regional estate of over thirty prime gaming locations. An extensive on site trial was carried out, during which Visimetrics were able to modify the product based on feedback...

To solve distance problem and to save installation cost, EDS, the Turkey-based solution provider, decided to choose most advanced IP based CCTV systems, ACTi video server plus with Transcoder to enhance Turkey building security surveillance system.This building surveillance project uses 14 pairs of video server (SED-2100R) and Transcoder (SED-3200) for solving connection problem.  Since the security guards are used to operate the original DVR system or to use control panel to control PTZ ca...

Cega was founded in 1973 when two brothers, Graham and Clive Ponsford set up an aviation company at Shoreham Airport.  Operations soon moved to Goodwood, Chichester to meet a growing demand for repatriation of sick and injured holidaymakers.  By 1982 the founders decided to make Cega a dedicated air ambulance service, employing its own flight and medical crews.  Cega Group is in the top league of medical assistance companies globally, with a client list, which includes premier hou...

Inner city regeneration is believed to improve economic performance and tackle unemployment in our cities.  It also enables making the productive use of some of the brown field sites.  The Custard Factory in Birmingham is an example of how disused old industrial buildings can be brought back to life from what had seemed like terminal decline.  Sir Alfred Bird, who invented Birds custard powder, built the Custard Factory 100 years ago.  By the end of the 1800's Alfred Bird's s...

SCA Packaging is a leading provider in Europe of customer-specific packaging solutions with emphasis on state-of-the-art design and local service close to customer facilities.  SCA Aylesford is part of the Southern Region of SCA Packaging UK & Ireland and supplies industries such as consumer goods, produce, fmcg (fast moving consumer goods).  All products are produced from renewable and recyclable materials.  The Aylesford plant was opened in 1930 and the site also includes th...

The Sterile Services Unit at King George Hospital is responsible for cleaning, sterilising, checking, packing and distribution of hospital theatre and other equipment.  Their area spans Barking, Havering and Redbridge hospitals NHS trust.  TSSU also provides services for many private clinics and hospitals in the area.  The unit is extremely busy and in early 2005 the building was extended.  As part of the refurbishment project Jim Harold, Security Manager for Barking, Haverin...