Fibre optics, telemetry receivers, transmitters, transceivers case studies

Combining video surveillance with fibre technology to support Spirit Mountain Casino’s expansion

Spirit Mountain Casino was built to serve the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, its members, and surrounding communities by promoting economic diversity through improved housing, educational investment, and cultural programs.  And like so many gaming facilities around the world, the Spirit Mountain Casino campus has a need to grow.  Their ‘South Expansion Project' began in early 2007 to add more than 130,000 square feet of space to include an events / entertainment centre, conf...

Greek casinos turn to IndigoVision's IP-video for high-stakes surveillance

IndigoVision's integrated IP Video solution has been used to upgrade two Greek casinos to fully-digital CCTV surveillance, in full compliance with the demanding Greek gaming laws.  The Casino Rio, located north of the Western port city of Patras and Casino Xanthi, which is situated in the Northeast city of the same name, are now both benefiting from vastly improved CCTV systems. The two projects, totalling nearly 300 cameras, were installed by IndigoVision's local partner ILKA S.A., who wor...

Wind farm system excels at remote monitoring and control

Moxa Technologies, a leading manufacturer of wind power systems that use wind energy to generate electricity, is using Ethernet technology to better maintain and control their installations.  The company is an innovator in wind technology and a driving force in the development of the wind power industry, with installations all over the world.  The customer has developed numerous "wind farm" sites and relies on the benefits efficient and reliable networks bring to managem...

COE equipment supports safety for motorway improvements

COE Limited, the UK based developer and supplier of advanced video surveillance systems, has completed the supply of a major system to DW Projects for safety monitoring on the M1 widening scheme near Watford, London, UK.  The 10-mile-long Motorway widening scheme is planned for completion in December 2008 and will add a fourth lane to this southern section of the M1 between J6A and J10 that links to the M10 and M25 London orbital.  Principal Contractor Balfour Beatty Skanska JV (BBS JV...

AMG watches over Dublin

The City Council (DCC) has selected AMG Systems to provide its fibre optic transmission network for traffic management and controlAMG Systems Ltd. has been contracted by Dublin City Council (DCC) to supply its new innovative fibre optic transmission system Guardian-LiteTM 3700 for traffic management and control of Dublin City and surrounding motorways.This announcement follows AMG's breakthrough in launching the world's first fibre optic transmission system to integrate Ethernet with high qualit...

Thailand traffic management is empowered by ACTi's IP surveillance solutions

ACTi's IP Camera CAM-5320 and IP Speed Dome CAM-6610 have provided a clever solution to support traffic statistics recording and accident monitoring in Thailand.  On the Phapradang Ring Road, all cameras are connected by fibre optic cable within a LAN environment.  At the side of the camera, customers just plug the network cable into the media converter then the video will be transmitted via the fibre optic cable. In the central control building, the system integrator is setup with thr...

COE X-Net® supports incident detection in Italian road tunnel upgrade

COE Group Plc, the developer and supplier of advanced video systems, has been selected supplier of choice by Distelco, Italy, for the supply of high resolution video codecs for the Martignano Tunnel project in the Trentino region.  The COE X-Net® G3 MPEG4 codecs form the core of the video encoding and transmission system and will make up part of the overall safety system which also incorporates Citilog's MediaTunnel automatic incident detection across 26 of the 43 cameras located within...

AMG selected to supply CCTV transmission system to Museum of Islamic Art

AMG Systems Ltd. today announced that it has been contracted by Specialised & Interactive Systems L.L.C. (SIS) in the UAE, to supply its new innovative fibre optic transmission system Guardian-Lite™ 4600 for the security & surveillance system of the new Museum of Islamic art in Doha, Qatar. Today's announcement follows AMG's breakthrough announcement in spring 2006, launching the world's first fibre optic transmission system to integrate Ethernet with high quality uncompressed vide...

COE completes far-reaching CCTV system upgrade for Malaysia Airlines

COE Ltd, the UK designer of advanced video surveillance systems, has completed a project to extend and update the control and transmissions systems for a 300 camera upgrade for Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia.  This upgrade is based on COE's high capacity fibre optic video transmission and CCTV control technology.  The contract, won through competitive tender, included additional cameras and strategic Control Rooms to ensure continuous monitoring throughout the airport.COE...

COE completes major High Speed European rail system upgrades using X-Net product range

COE Ltd, the developer and supplier of advanced video systems, has just celebrated the completion of two major rail upgrade projects in Spain with its X-Net transmission system.  Both projects are part of the high speed rail system upgrades currently in progress across the country.The Barcelona to Madrid high speed rail link is 300Km long and continuous monitoring of the rail link is provided by more than five hundred COE Series 300 and X-Net OPT-1 long haul fibre video links.  This is...

COE X-Net® at the core of Spanish metro video system upgrade

COE Limited, the developer and supplier of advanced video systems, has completed the supply of COE X-Net® to Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) for the Valencia Metro video monitoring system upgrade.  Against strong competition COE X-Net® was selected for new station upgrades.  Valencia Metro consists of four lines and serves over 61 million passenger journeys a year from its 116 stations.COE has for several years supplied multi-channel video transmission technolog...

COE and ADT announce trial of innovative graffiti detection system

COE Group plc, the developer and supplier of advanced video surveillance systems, has partnered with ADT, the UK's leading provider of electronic fire and security solutions, to conduct a trial of COE's X-Net VI analytics and scene analysis software at Clapham Junction railway station, South London, to detect graffiti and other specific events.  The system operates on COE's X-Net G3 IP video codec.  Detection areas will be set up to cover the areas of highest crime and the results moni...

COE supplies digital video system for Iarnród Éireann (Irish rail) level crossing management

After twelve months of intensive engineering trials, Iarnród Éireann has approved the COE X-NET® MPEG4 video codec system for rail level crossing surveillance across the country.  Each system delivers high quality real-time images to the operation centre and is a critical element in the management of the many remote crossings on the rail system.COE Group Plc, the developer and supplier of advanced video surveillance systems, has many years' experience of designing and manu...

Using Artificial Intelligence for Airport Security

The ChallengePort Macquarie Airport is located along the coastal region 420kms north of Sydney, Australia.  The airport caters to around 2,500 passengers a week, including scheduled flights to major cities throughout Australia.  The airport is also home to aircraft, which are kept at the airport every night. According to the airport's manager, Lane Dechaineux, it's an extremely busy airport with many third party services using their facilities including air charter operations, flying s...

Siemens secures the Quay

A major upgrade to security and public information systems, provided by Siemens Business Technologies, is helping Exchange Quay in one of Salford's premier business districts to retain and enhance the enviable reputation which has allowed it to attract a host of blue-chip tenants.Originally built in 1989 using futuristic building designs and strategically located at the entrance to the Salford Quays business area, the 12-acre Exchange Quay site has, since its opening, made effective use of CCTV...

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