Digital video recorder (DVR) case studies

 ChallengesTianJin BinHai International Airport, one of the most important airline terminals in China, set up an analog surveillance system many years ago due to security concern.  However, with the completion of an expansion project in May 2008, which boosts airport capacity to 10 million passengers per year, coupled with an increasing number of tourists traveling to China, the original surveillance platform is becoming insufficient.  Airport staff found it difficult to track pas...

The Italian port of San Giorgio di Nogaro has installed IP video surveillance management software from Milestone Systems with License Plate Recognition to help manage busy shipping and transit traffic, security of goods, and people safety.  The system is scalable for expansions in the three-port area, with an open platform for best-of-breed hardware support with flexible central and remote operations.The port of San Giorgio di Nogaro situated near the city of Udine, Italy, is a large river...

Lord and Company Technologies has implemented Milestone XProtect™ Professional IP video surveillance management software and easily upgraded to XProtect Enterprise as a central operational monitoring interface for the Madison Crescent complex. Located in Gainesville, Virginia, Madison Crescent is a 43-acre, mixed-use village providing residential, retail and office opportunities within a unique community environment.  From the key intersection here of James Madison Highway (Rt. 15) an...

CCTV specialist Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - reports that the work of Spectre, a DM Fusion programme installer, to secure Little Aston Primary School in Sutton Coldfield has been spotlighted in an extensive three-page feature in the latest issue of Security Installer magazine. The article, entitled 'Spectre Helps School Play Safe', appears in the magazine's August edition as part of its 'Network Solutions' supplement and highlights how Little Aston Primary School, which has the UK's fir...

Axis network cameras for surveillance of Benetton's megastore in Vienna's Kärntnerstraße. MissionIn keeping with the local ambience, Benetton's megastore in Vienna's Kärntnerstraße offers sophisticated shopping.  However, with brisk customer traffic, its operator is very concerned about protecting the store against shoplifting and attacks.  With four floors totaling over 1,200m2, Benetton's megastore in Kärntnerstraße offers the Italian fashion house's...

ioimage intelligent appliances stop intruders in their tracks:A dramatic rise in theft and vandalism is costing car dealerships worldwide huge amounts in damages and increased insurance premiums.  Often sprawling, these outdoor sites offer intruders many potential hiding places.  Savvy thieves also take advantage of the fact that continuously moving stock can block traditional sensors, making their job that much easier.The challengeThe  was only too familiar with the problem. ...

March Networks® (TSX:MN), a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, announced that the Ministry of Public Security for the Federal District of Mexico City has selected the Company's mobile video management software and systems for installation across its fleet of 500 tow trucks.  The solution will help the government authority resolve customer disputes more efficiently and ensure that operational processes are properly followed.The Secretar&iacu...

CEM AC2000 SE security management system installed at Hong Kong's new Shaw Studios Movie City complex. CEM® Systems, a leading access control brand of Tyco International, recently announced that Shaw Studios has implemented the CEM AC2000 SE (Standard Edition) security management system to provide security at their new Hong Kong movie city complex.  Forming part of a central building management system, the AC2000 SE access control system was installed by ADT® Hong Kong and secures a...

IndigoVision's IP Video technology is providing a new state-of-the-art digital CCTV system for Wythenshawe Shopping Centre in the south of Manchester.  The surveillance system has been upgraded from an old analogue matrix system to the latest distributed IP network solution that provides significant benefits for the Centre's operators.As with many of the older shopping centres around the UK, Wythenshawe has both internal and external retail units and a complex perimeter area to monitor.&nbs...

 Octavian Security, the security company that famously placed former Ghurkha soldiers on patrol at an IKEA store in Nottingham, is now helping to provide a safe, enjoyable shopping environment for staff and customers at the Swedish company's first city centre store in Coventry.In its latest major retail security operation, the industry-leading security firm is supporting the IKEA risk team at the outlet, which boasts more than 50 room settings and a 455-seater restaurant.  In addition...

PAK Supermarkets, Europe's largest Asian supermarket chain, and a favourite for ethnic cuisine lovers across the Midlands, is benefiting from the latest NetVu Connected CCTV technology developed by Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - and installed by DM Fusion installer Security Direct.Since opening in April, PAK Supermarkets' new £7 million store, based in Washwood Heath, Birmingham, has been attracting a plethora of shoppers from as far afield as Leicester and Banbury.  With a vas...

All that glitters in the ironworksMagnificent crowns, expensive jewellery, precious tiaras - surrounded by huge, slightly oily, black machines made of iron: that is what an exhibition of glittering gold looks like in a closed-down ironworks.  Exhibition expert and General Director of the Völklinger Ironworks World Cultural Heritage Site, Dr. Meinrad Maria Grewenig, recently succeeded in bringing 120 masterpieces from the Larco Museum in Peru and 50 other exhibits from the Linden-Museum...

  ioiamge PTZ cameras installed in spanish suburb to curb crimeioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity announced today that its video analytics solution has been implemented to prevent urban crime in the Spanish city of Alcorcón, located 13 kilometres from Madrid.With a rapidly growing population of 165,000 people, Alcorcón law enforcement groups realized that in the war against urban vandalism, intelligent automation tools were n...

PAK Supermarkets, Europe's largest Asian supermarket chain, is benefiting from the latest NetVu Connected CCTV technology developed by Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - and installed by DM Fusion installer Security Direct.Since opening in April, PAK Supermarkets' new £7 million store, based in Washwood Heath, Birmingham, has been attracting a plethora of shoppers from as far afield as Leicester and Banbury.  With a vast 80,000 sq ft of ground to cover across the store it was imper...

DM Fusion security installer Crimewatch Systems has rolled-out an advanced, remotely monitored, detector-activated CCTV solution - built around Dedicated Micros NetVu Connected CCTV systems and NetVu ObserVer management software - to provide out-of-hours protection against vandalism and criminal attack for 15 widely dispersed sites in Cheshire, England, operated by HW Martin Waste Ltd.The sites secured by Crimewatch Systems - and its associated SSAIB accredited RVRC (Remote Video Response Centre...

Multi-layered security is becoming an ever increasing focus for retail operations worldwide as they seek to combat crime which can have a significant impact on profitability.  A new shopping centre in Austria has demonstrated how an interoperable approach, combining video surveillance, access control and intrusion technologies, has been used to address loss prevention.The centre, which features some 83 shops and restaurants over an area of almost 40,000 square metres, is operated by two com...

DM Fusion security installer Crimewatch Systems has rolled-out an advanced, remotely monitored, detector-activated CCTV solution - built around Dedicated Micros NetVu Connected CCTV systems and NetVu ObserVer management software - to provide out-of-hours protection against vandalism and criminal attack for 15 widely dispersed sites in Cheshire, England, operated by HW Martin Waste Ltd.The sites secured by Crimewatch Systems - and its associated SSAIB accredited RVRC (Remote Video Response Centre...

Revolutionary video analytics deters theft by publicly projecting real-time footage of tracked suspectsioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity, announced today that its intelligent video solution has been implemented in two 14-storey apartment buildings each housing 400 families in Tokyo, to prevent theft and criminal activities. In a ground-breaking application of video analytics, images of suspicious people are projected onto a large screen on the buil...

Airport owner BAA has agreed a £3.6million contract with Siemens Building Technologies to design the entire information and communications system for the planned new Eastern Terminal at Heathrow.Heathrow Eastern Terminal will replace Terminal 2 and the Queen's Building and will be used by the Star Alliance, the global group of more than 20 airlines. Siemens, as Master Systems Integrator (MSI), is responsible for the end-to-end delivery, from concept design to operational readiness of the I...

Europe's largest lime works7 million tons of lime are needed in Germany each year and approximately 25 % of this demand is met by Europe's largest lime plant in Wülfrath.  This is where Rheinkalk GmbH, a member of the Belgian Lhoist Group, quarry some 8 million tons of limestone in their Flandersbach plant each year and use it to produce 1.8 million tons of burned and more than 3 million tons of unburned lime products.  The plant's biggest customer is the German steel industry, w...

D-Tec - part of AD Group - announces that its partner in the Middle East region, BSS-ME, has supplied, tested, and commissioned seven advanced IP-based, NetVu Connected, FireVu units to provide a state-of-the-art CCTV-based VSD (Video Smoke Detection) solution for the main tunnel at the famous Palm Jumeirah man-made island in Dubai.Fast responseNow monitored around the clock by BSS-ME's supplied FireVu based solution - which has the ability to deliver a fast track response to potential fire dete...

D-Tec - part of AD Group - has announced that its partner in the Middle East region, BSS-ME, has supplied, tested, and commissioned seven advanced IP-based, NetVu Connected, FireVu units to provide a state-of-the-art CCTV-based VSD (Video Smoke Detection) solution for the main tunnel at the famous Palm Jumeirah man-made island in Dubai.The creation of the Palm Jumeirah, which has been dubbed the 'eighth wonder of the world', has dramatically changed the Dubai area, doubling the Emirates' beach f...

March Networks®, a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, announced recently that CIEFFE, a March Networks Company, has been selected to provide the Al Ain International Airport with an IP video surveillance solution for enhanced security in the authority's terminal and cargo facilities.Al Ain International Airport, located in the United Arab Emirates, chose Al Fahad Smart Systems, an experienced CIEFFE systems integrator, to deploy the solution as part...

Verint Systems Inc. recently announced that the University of Leeds has deployed the Verint® Nextiva® Enterprise IP video solution to enhance the safety of students and facilities across the university's campus and associated locations in West Yorkshire.The University of Leeds is the second largest university in the UK with 30,500 students and 8,000 staff, and is dedicated to ensuring the safety and well being of its community.  In support of this commitment, the university has...

Clear signalsGerman railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) gives high priority to keeping travellers informed.  This explains why 220 million euros were invested in a single ‘Traveler Information System' project.  The system is a technical and organisational platform that supplies consistent, reliable and up-to-date information about the current operating status to customers and employees alike.  Thanks to this system, on-board personnel can, for example, use text messaging tec...

A Vicon digital video management system is at the heart of the UK's largest entertainment centre's CCTV system. During 2008, Star City in Birmingham will be adding an indoor rock-climbing centre to its leisure attractions as part of a major refurbishment programme.  It already boasts a 30-screen cinema complex, a 36-hole indoor Adventure Mini Golf complex, along with numerous restaurants, bars and the UK's largest casino. Also opening soon will be Kebabish Original and Oodles &quo...

A Birmingham primary school is keeping the UK's first ever interactive playground safe and secure with the help of a CCTV system from Dedicated Micros, part of AD Group.Little Aston Primary School in Sutton Coldfield is nothing if not innovative.  The school is the very first in the country to have its own outdoor interactive playground that enables children to log onto a computerised system, collecting points from nine different pieces of apparatus around the playground as they play. ...

Tough demands are placed on the digital video recorders in McDonald's restaurants.  One of the Dallmeier units even survived being attacked by a burglar and dumped in a sink of water.  But there are also challenges in everyday situations, and the machines must be robust enough to operate in a catering environment and flexible to allow upgrading if requirements change.  They need to be easy to operate and, above all, they must provide evidence-quality recordings, with no risk of an...

A Birmingham primary school is keeping the UK's first-ever interactive playground safe and secure with the help of a CCTV system from Dedicated Micros.Little Aston Primary School in Sutton Coldfield is nothing if not innovative.  The school is the very first in the country to have its own outdoor interactive playground that enables children to log onto a computerised system, collecting points from nine different pieces of apparatus around the playground as they play.  "It's fun an...

ACTi Corporation and NetAware, a professional Internet solution provider in Holland, have successfully installed an IP surveillance system in Circuit Park Zandvoort, and enabled the world to join the car racing online in real time.At Holland's former Formula 1 racetrack, 19 analog high-speed day/night domes around the track were installed.  Redundant fiber rings have been put around the circuit, with a total of 500 single-mode fibers.  No circuits in Europe or even the world has this k...