Surveillance software applications
In Port Elizabeth in the United States, New Jersey-based Maher Terminals, one of the world's largest independent multi-user container terminal operators, relies on JVC to enhance traffic monitoring of the facility including loading areas and cranes loading containers on to ships.The company utilises JVC's VR-N1600U network video recorders (NVR) and VN-C655U high-performance IP-network based dome cameras. Here, Maher Terminals can easily provide access for up to 10 users to view terminal ac...
Enjoy Group has chosen IndigoVision's IP Video system to provide a complete digital CCTV surveillance solution for all nine of its casinos in Chile. The first 500-camera system has been completed at the casino complex in Coquimbo, which will shortly be extended to cover a new hotel and convention centre. Once complete, the entire project will have upgraded over 2,500 cameras to digital IP-CCTV surveillance. Fifteen casinos worldwide have now invested in complete digital CCTV so...
Friends and enemiesPlants, insects, and the variety of ways in which they communicate chemically are the primary focus of the research work conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena. This includes the chemical defense strategies plants use to protect themselves against enemies like caterpillars, from whom they cannot run or hide. Instead, they simply poison the greedy foes, mobilise winged assistants with scented signals, or inform neighbouring plants that m...
Extensive products and servicesSolid structural timber, boards, planks, wedge boards, floorboards, plywood, dimensional lumber and rough boards. Each day, approximately 300 cubic metres of cut lumber leave the some 45,000 m2 factory premises of Dickel-Holz in Schmalenberg-Bad Fredeburg in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The sawmill is able to respond quickly to even the smallest orders and special customer requests. Finishing processes like heat treatment, drying, imp...
With security the number one priority for UK airport operators, technology is continuing to play a key role in meeting strict government guidelines. A recent system upgrade at London Luton Airport by ICTS (International Consultants on Targeted Security) has demonstrated how the latest digital security solutions, including Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) from Dedicated Micros and associated NetVu ObserVer software, can be used to extend the capability of a system across multiple users to pro...
The Port of Grimsby & Immingham, the UK's largest port by tonnage is now taking advantage of the latest digital networked CCTV technology from Dedicated Micros, recommended by installer DJ Byers CCTV, to maximize both security and the port's operational and logistical processes.Owner and operator Associated British Ports (ABP) turned to DJ Byers CCTV to advise on how best to bring its existing under-utilised and cumbersome analogue CCTV system into the digital era.The initial installation ac...
Agent Vi, developers of enterprise video analytics software to improve security, business intelligence and operations, recently announced it has been selected by the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey to provide its video analytics technology to protect the historic facility. Built in 1853 and open to the public for tours today, the 11.2-acre complex includes a 285-room palace with the world's largest collection of Bohemian and Baccarat crystal chandeliers. It also features 150-y...
REMI Companies of Hoboken, New Jersey, have developed an upscale residential site for high-end luxury living, making the clientele feel safe in an effective but non-obtrusive way, to be protected in a newly refurbished neighbourhood of New Jersey, just minutes from New York City. During construction, they also wanted to show investors and project managers the progress on the job site. To do this, REMI is using Milestone XProtect from Milestone Systems open platform IP video managemen...
Huddersfield Technical College, situated in West Yorkshire, is starting to reap the practical benefits of an advanced NetVu Connected CCTV solution specified and installed by DM Fusion member Oracle Vision, to deliver effective protection for its 22,000 full and part-time students studying courses from GCSE to degree level.The geographically dispersed College has four key sites, all of which are now covered by the new digital CCTV solution which comprises two DS2 DVRs (Digital Video Recorders) f...
Low costs long-termWhat can communities do to avoid increasing costs of public services? As most communities are struggling to maintain balanced budgets, this is not an easy question to answer. And yet, there are promising concepts and solutions. Consider the WVE (Westpfälzische Ver- und Entsorgungs-GmbH) that has been founded in the Kaiserslautern area in 1994 as a public services company. The WVE provides fresh water, sewage treatment and zoning/development servic...
IndigoVision's integrated IP video system is providing high-security CCTV surveillance for the Madhya Pradesh State Mansion in India's capital New Delhi. India has 28 states and 7 union territories each run by its own state government and each has their own representation in New Delhi, including Madhya Pradesh, the largest state in India. Madhya Pradesh's political office in New Delhi is the Bhawan Mansion, which is overseen by the state's Commissioner of Police. This very important...
Genetec recently announced that the Office of Housing in Victoria, Australia, has adopted Omnicast, Genetec's IP video surveillance solution, to protect the residents of approximately 7,000 dwellings within the city's affordable housing development projects.Currently, 72 individual sites are being monitored by over 700 cameras, which function over a wireless Ethernet network, linking all buildings back to a central monitoring station. By the end of the project, the Omnicast system is expec...
To help better control and manage its citywide wireless video surveillance system during Super Bowl XLII, the Phoenix Police Department relied on its best-in-breed IP video management solution from OnSSI. The OnSSI solution controls and manages over three dozen video surveillance cameras in and around downtown Phoenix, providing law enforcement officials with the ability to closely watch over the 200,000 spectators, citizens and dignitaries in town during the weekend of Super Bowl XLII.The...
IndigoVision's integrated IP video solution is being used to provide the CCTV surveillance system for a Community Safety Vehicle operated by the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The vehicle is a joint initiative between the Borough, the Metropolitan Police and NCP, the council's parking enforcement contractor. The vehicle is equipped with five fixed cameras and two fully functional Forward Vision MIC cameras mounted on a six-metre hydraulic mast and an ANPR system connected to t...
Genetec recently announced that within the last four months, five independent police departments within the State of Texas selected AutoVu, Genetec's advanced license plate recognition (LPR) solution, to automate the recovery of stolen vehicles. Currently, Houston PD, Corpus Christi PD, Del Rio PD, El Paso PD and Montgomery County Sherriff's Department, all located in Texas, have each equipped their team of officers with AutoVu.Previous to the automation of checking license plates, of...
Sophisticated equipment from Bosch Security Systems (BSS) is playing a central role in a major security system installation by UK based Sicura Systems Ltd, and its partner Pro Security Ghana Ltd, at the major stadia for the recent Africa Cup of Nations football. The biennial football tournament for nations affiliated to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) was staged at various venues across Ghana in January and February, and wrapped up in the Ghanaian capital Accra with a thrilling...
MissionThe local police of the Fossanese Municipalities realised the need to implement a video surveillance system to combat petty crime and maintain control over areas that are difficult to monitor with police presence. SolutionSystem Service implemented an IP-Surveillance system based on Axis network cameras. The system consists of thirty-seven AXIS 221 Network Cameras deployed in various critical areas, and seven AXIS 233D Network Cameras. All the network cameras were installed in...
ioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity, announced recently that it has been selected to provide a video analytics solution for a Texas hospital to ensure 24-hour operation and security at its emergency room.The hospital recently deployed the solution at its emergency room in conjunction with surveillance cameras to alert nursing staff when patients arrive at the entrance or if someone should slip and fall outside the building. The system automatically...
One of the UK's largest IT equipment distributors Micro Peripherals, better known simply as Micro-P, recently completed a major upgrade from an analogue-only external Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) system to create a comprehensive Internet Protocol (IP)-based surveillance system covering both the inside and external perimeter of its 120,000 square foot distribution centre in Altham, near Accrington, Lancashire. The result has seen the creation of a security system in and around its wareh...
Students in the Dallastown Area School District near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, are learning their actions speak louder than words. The district's IT department recently installed video surveillance technology from Bosch Security Systems in the area's high school and middle school. Now, more than 70 Bosch FlexiDome IP cameras monitor the hallways and cafeterias, and the school district plans to add 50 more cameras to the facilities by the end of the 2007-2008 school year. Using...
Siemens Building Technologies has supplied and installed a danger management system to protect a series of refineries and harbour dockside areas in the port of Algiers.The installation for petrol refinery specialists Naftec saw a Siemens MM8000 danger management station used to manage a range of different sub-systems which contribute to the protection of two harbours and three refineries - Alger, Arzew and Skikda. MM8000 provides a clear and concise method of dealing with an emergency situ...
When the Japanese Embassy in Cairo moved to its new building on the banks of the Nile recently, it chose a Geutebruck CCTV monitoring system despite fierce international competition - especially from Japanese manufacturers. The Embassy's hundred-camera, five-workstation system is based on the GeViScope digital CCTV platform which has a dedicated digital signal processor for each video channel, and hence the capacity to process large amounts of data and the flexibility to process each signa...
The Buffalo Athletic Clubs (BAC) are using powerful, easy-to-manage Milestone IP video management software with Axis network cameras for improved security and protection of assets, employees and members. The system's scalability supports the company's progressive business model for energetic expansion plans. The BAC (Buffalo Athletic Clubs) is a dynamic chain of seven fitness centres in Buffalo, and the RAC (Rochester Athletic Clubs) is a chain of five locations in Rochester, New Yor...
Network cameras and blade servers from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been installed by one of the UK's leading IT equipment distributors, Micro-P. The distributor recently embarked on an extension and upgrade of its ageing CCTV system following a review of security inside the 120,000 square foot warehouse in Altham, near Accrington, Lancashire.Micro-P has deployed a total of 10 new Axis network cameras and moved 14 existing external CCTV cameras onto a...
Ipsotek has provided video analytics to Cadogan Estates, the property investment company responsible for running the Cadogan family's Chelsea estate, which features London locations including Sloane Street, Cadogan Square and Duke of York Square.Ipsotek's analytics modules are alerting the client to abandoned packages, vagrancy, vehicle theft and loitering as well as intrusion into sterile zones at Duke of York Square, which is a 10-acre site in the heart of Chelsea. Ipsotek's software is...
IndigoVision's IP Video CCTV system is providing the technology behind a Fabricom-GTI integrated security solution for the new courthouse in the Belgium city of Ghent. This innovative project integrates CCTV, video-intercom and access control into a single IP-security system. By using the IP Video system to provide fully featured video-intercom facilities IndigoVision has created a truly scalable and cost-effective solution by eliminating traditional intercom switching hardware.The n...
March Networks™, a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, recently announced that Coppel S.A.B. de C.V. has standardized on the company's digital video software and systems for advanced security in more than 650 department stores.Coppel is one of the largest department store chains in Mexico, operating under the brand name Tiendas Coppel. The retailer specializes in the sale of household furnishings, appliances and clothing.The rollout follows a...
Luton Borough Council has upgraded to digital video recording. Luton's Town Centre CCTV system, which was installed in 1998, plays a major role in helping Luton Borough Council achieve its crime reduction objectives. Jason, who has managed the Town's Central Monitoring Centre for 10 years, said: "We have been successfully using analogue recorders to capture video from our Town Centre CCTV system and it has worked extremely well. We became aware however that we were missing...
IQinVision, market leader in high performance megapixel network cameras, smart IP cameras, and network video recording systems, recently announced that the Warsash Maritime Academy in Southampton has deployed IQinVision IQeye 700 Series megapixel cameras to improve the effectiveness of its simulator training for students entering the shipping and oil industries. Design and installation expertise was provided by InCam Digital Surveillance and Smart CCTV Ltd.Warsash Maritime Academy provides...
IKEA France has invested in IndigoVision's complete IP Video solution for CCTV surveillance in its new 20,000 m2 flagship store in Grenoble. Swedish-based IKEA is one of the largest and best-known home furnishing retail groups in the world, with stores in 36 countries. IKEA invests heavily in CCTV technology in their stores to ensure their customers and staff are safe and secure at all times. The new store, which opened in October 2007, is seen as a test site for the adoption o...
