Surveillance software applications

McDonald's restaurants in Scandinavia are now using an integrated Point Of Sale and IP video surveillance system called CheckViewTM, which uses the powerful and easy-to-manage XProtectTM software from Milestone Systems, the global leader for open platform IP video management software.  The flexible and scalable solution installed by MDIS and IT Gruppen has been developed for the retail sector to help manage shrinkage. The old surveillance system at several McDonald's locations in Denmark on...

Exceeded all expectations"I am a businessman at heart - and that's why I like to get down to business!"  Just one look at Franz Schreyer will have you convinced.  After all, with all his hard work, his innovative nature and his entrepreneurial spirit, this businessman has managed to build up a very respectable corporate group in just about 30 years.  In 1977, he first founded Schreyer Haustechnik GmbH Markt Indersdorf, just 30 km south-east of Munich, population 10,000.&...

Billion euro investmentThere will always be paper.  Despite the digital, or so-called ‘paperless' age, the paper industry is still booming in Germany.  This means that bleached long-fibre cellulose, which is used to produce fine and printing paper as well as high-quality sanitary paper, also remains very much in demand.The high demand induced Mercer International Inc., an American-Canadian pulp and paper manufacturing company, to set up a new cellulose plant in the north of the G...

Video servers from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been deployed by security installer King Communications (working in partnership with security distributor ADI-Gardiner) to help modernise The Lighthouse's CCTV system and protect some of Scotland's finest design treasures.  A total of four AXIS 241Q Video Servers have been used to convert analogue images (from the 16 existing cameras already positioned throughout the six-floor building) into digital video strea...

The companyRedstone Federal Credit Union is the largest credit union in Alabama and one of the 30 largest credit unions in the United States, with over $1.7 billion in assets and over 245,000 members.  In June 2006, Redstone earned its 41st consecutive 5-Star rating for financial safety and stability from BauerFinancial Inc. Operational overviewThis full-service financial institution offers retail and commercial banking, securities brokerage, mortgage, and insurance products and services, w...

ACTi's PCI encoder cards and video servers are fully integrated with Ortega's VideoSm@t software, enabling a Canadian entertainment centre to incorporate IP based CCTV systems.  The new hybrid DVR system integrates the analog camera and IP camera on the same server.  Using the hybrid DVR system enables simple control interface and effective management over a wireless environment.There are 13 apartment buildings, a mall, commercial buildings as well as an entert...

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 analogue 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...

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...

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,...

  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...

In large public sports venues where emotionally charged crowds gather, there can be civil disorder, especially with intoxicated people and over-zealous fans.  The Charles Koch Arena at Wichita State University has more than 10,000 seats, and regularly draws full capacity crowds from both the university and the surrounding community.  The mix of campus and urban area also has the potential to involve more risk of assaults or theft.  The campus police wanted to ensure the best safet...

The National Institute for Aviation Research is using Milestone Systems' open platform IP video management software with Axis network cameras to increase visibility in tests, provie remote access to monitoring tests, save on night staffing needs, and improve personnel safety.The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University integrates academic, government and business entities in cooperative efforts to advance technologies for aviation and other industries.  It...

‘Just in time' is one of the most important standards used to evaluate logistics services.  Raw materials have to be at the production location, products have to leave the production halls, and the goods have to be delivered to the customer, right on time.  The requirements can only be met by the most modern logistics and warehousing systems, which also have to guarantee maximum availability. Leading supplier With more than 700 reference facilities throughout the world, MAN L...

The coastline of Dubai is rapidly changing as The Palm islands emerge from the sea.  Today, the city of Dubai, currently the fastest growing metropolis on earth, and holds approximately 1.5 million people.  By the year 2015 this number is expected to have increased to 3.0 million.  To promote tourism, three Palm islands are being built by Nakheel in the waters of the Arabian Gulf.  Construction on The Palm Jebel Ali will begin this year.  Reclamation of The Palm Deira...

The Department of National Palaces in Turkey has installed the first in a series of new security systems using Milestone open platform IP video management software and Axis network cameras.  This advanced solution provides an effective yet discreet implementation to protect the historical architecture, and the ability to easily expand in future.  Integration of the video surveillance with access control and fire alarms is also planned.One million tourists from all over the globe annual...

ACTi IP cameras and Milestone XprotectEnterprise were successfully installed in Wodzislaw Slaski, in Poland's first IP surveillance project for city monitoring.  The installer was SUMA, a Polish professional surveillance distributor in.  This project was for improving safety of citizen and reducing defect of road offences with the development of this city.Because of critical bandwidth and good video quality demand, SUMA chose ACTi products as the best solution to fulfill the city requi...

Network cameras and video management software from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video have been installed in popular Borough Market restaurant Roast.   The IP-Surveillance deployment followed production of a feasibility study by security integrator and Axis partner, AMW Security Technologies Limited.   AMW advocated upgrading to a highly comprehensive IP-Surveillance system in order to get much better coverage in the back and front of house areas of Roast...

Westminster Abbey has become the first of the major heritage sites to opt for Monitor AFx Wireless Integrated Security Management (ISM) technology from Chubb Electronic Security (CES) - a method of combining and controlling the data from two or more previously independent devices onto one software application, with one database, using an existing IT network as host.  Chubb Electronic Security is part of UTC Fire & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX)This means that t...

Wireless IP technology from Bosch Security Systems (BSS) installed by Central Security Systems (CSS), a leading specialist in local authority CCTV solutions, is proving a winning combination for Gedling Borough Council in protecting local residents from petty and serious crime as part of a much wider crime and disorder partnership initiative.Four town centres - Arnold, Mapperley, Carlton and Netherfield - will be making maximum use of some of the latest camera, encoder, recording and video manag...

Kazan, the capital of the republic of Tatarstan, Russia, is one of the largest economic, scientific and cultural centres in Russia, as well as the oldest city with over 1000 years of Russian Federation history. The challenge The evolution of modern Kazan requires a pleasant ambience to live in.  First of all, arrangements have to be made for public safety, law and order, prevention of criminal activities, vandalism and terrorism.  The integration of an urban video surveillance syste...

"Value Place can record all transactions and also use it for training to assist the front-office people with any questions they may have.  The corporate office can log on remotely if there are incidents or events to check, make sure the standard processes are following the corporate quality requirements, and if any modifications are necessary."- Steve Johnson, Account Manager at ISG Technology Inc. Security challenges There is a small number of staff at each hotel which keeps the...

During the German Democratic Republic (GDR) times, enormous housing complexes often sprang up overnight - buildings that in their original condition today would be neither architecturally appealing nor offer tenants an attractive environment in which to live.  However, it does not have to be this way, as proven by the residential complexes at Györer Straße 1-4 and 5-7 in the north of the Thuringian regional capital of Erfurt.  After the fall of Communism, the buildings were...

  Moscow Underground receive security upgrade from Axis network video productsAxis Communications recently announced that Moscow Underground has installed Axis network video products as part of an integrated security system aimed at improving safety and security for passengers and staff on its subway trains.  The initial installation consists of around 1 000 network video products, with the potential for additional installations.The installation on the main subway line Moscow Unde...

ACTi IP surveillance system is successfully installed in Galabar Dam in Iran.  Under PFN Technology's consultancy, planning and implementation, the IP surveillance system enables Zanjan Water Authority to remotely monitor the construction of Galabar Dam project from the 500Km-away headquarter office in Tehran.For project management and security reasons, ACTi's IP speed dome, CAM-6220PE, is implemented at Galabar Dam to provide video monitoring of the construction activities and progress in...

Axis cameras are used to optimise the logistics processes MissionMigros Verteilzentrum Suhr AG, a distribution company based in Switzerland, was looking for a video monitoring system to supervise its automated conveyor system.  The company intended to use the system to remedy - and if possible prevent - frequently recurring faults. SolutionThe key requirement for Migros when choosing the video monitoring system was an ability to support subsequent modification and expansion.  The compa...

The Springfield Water and Sewer Commission (SWSC) serves the City of Springfield, and the communities of Ludlow, Agawam, Longmeadow, and East Longmeadow in Massachusetts.  Post-9/11, the SWSC sought a more effective means to ensure protection of the water supply for the more than 250,000 people in these communities.  While there has been a much sharper focus on better protecting water supplies, at the same time, advances in security technology offer organizations cost-effective choic...

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...

Network cameras from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video have been installed in 10 Hughes and Hughes bookstores - Ireland's fastest-growing bookstore group.  Working with IT consultancy and Axis Partner, OmniSys, Axis network cameras are being rolled out to its bookstores across Ireland and the UK.  A driving force in airport book retailing, Hughes and Hughes currently has 10 airport stores including six at Dublin airport, one at London's City Airport.  It has...

To help improve the safety and security of its premises and computer systems, Microgaming, the world's leading creator of software systems, has chosen to install Siemens Building Technologies Security Products' latest access and CCTV security systemMicrogaming is the world's leading creator of software systems for the rapidly expanding on-line gaming business.  It developed the first online casino software more than a decade ago and has retained its market leading position by cont...

Cablecom Networks Co., Ltd, a system integrator in Thailand, successfully implemented 14 units of ACTi CAM-6110, MPEG-4 IP high speed dome camera in Chiang-Mai tunnel.  Cablecom chose ACTi's IP speed domes, because of the superior video quality and high zooming power.  To monitor traffic situation in the tunnel, good video quality, high zooming together with day night function are the necessary requirements.  In remote control centre, ACTi's Streaming Activator offers 16-Channel r...