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NFC pilot project by LEGIC®, Swisscom and Selecta enables an easy way to pay for refreshments with NFC mobile phones at Swisscom.Since May 2007, LEGIC, the leading manufacturer of contactless smart card systems for personal identification applications has been involved in a joint NFC pilot project with Swisscom and Selecta.  An NFC-enabled mobile telephone and the embedded LEGIC solution make payments at Selecta vending machines child's play: easy, safe, and contactless.Mobile tele...

Celebrating a 50% increase in both exhibitor numbers and visitor attendance, the Integrated Systems Roadshow has completed its tour of duty for another year.  Beginning in the Danish capital Copenhagen on 17 October, this year's Roadshow went on to visit the cities of Warsaw (Poland), Prague (Czech Republic) and Vienna (Austria), before winding up in Zagreb (Croatia) on 26 October.                  &nb...

If you happened to read my recent article referring to my passion for the motorcar, you may be surprised to learn that I ever walk anywhere.  However, it is often necessary to put the car keys away and opt for a more environmentally friendly mode of transport to travel the few hundred yards from car to shop, cinema, restaurant or similar establishment.When walking in our town and city centres on a Friday or Saturday night, it is hard not to be struck by the level of anti-social behaviour -...

Frankfurt Commerzbank Tower: Zelaris IP video management software monitors 800 branches for failure and sabotage  The bold architecture of the Commerzbank Tower is the source of fascination for many visitors to Frankfurt - behind the mirrored façade a complex software solution takes care of the security required in the Commerzbank network of branches. VIDEOR's partner, the Frankfurt system house Heer GmbH, realized this by using eneo Zelaris IP.  The system application...

Axis Communications, the global leader in the network video market, has reached a milestone in its business.  The company has now delivered one million network cameras since it launched the world's first network camera 11 years ago.  The market is showing increasing interest in network video products for various security installations.  In the first half of 2007, the company increased its sales in the video product segment by more than 40 per cent.Since the launch of the first...

Alert Services, the independent ARC division of Securitas, is encouraging security planners to make more use of the latest monitoring technology, with the introduction of new, low cost personnel protection, vehicle- and asset-tracking services."With our latest communications and trace-and-track techniques we can make it much easier for organisations to keep a watch on their premises, assets and people," says Bob Marston-Taylor, Alert's manager in the UK. "We have pioneered a n...

When it comes to remotely monitored CCTV, fact can often be stranger than fiction as the operators at one hardworking RVRC (Remote Video Response Centre) I talked to in the North of England can testify.One of the most blatant examples, captured by their cameras, concerns a mother and daughter who decided to stage a forecourt ‘incident' at a motor dealership.  While waiting for the daughter's car to be fixed an apparently dishevelled mother told garage staff that she had slipped on som...

Nicolas Richter, Head of Security Products for Siemens Building Technologies, looks at the increasing importance of interoperability in the security market. In trying to identify the greatest driver in the security market at the moment, I would have to say interoperability.  If you look at intrusion, for example, it is no longer just intrusion, particularly in the commercial sector.  The access control system operates during office hours but then out of hours, yes, you have the i...

‘Innovation, information, and inspiration' are the three themes for this year's Integrated Systems Roadshow, as it prepares to depart on a five-city tour of some of Europe's emerging markets for AV and Electronic Systems technology.With the support of over 25 sponsors and exhibitors - more than double last year's number - the Roadshow, powered by Integrated Systems Europe, begins in the Danish capital of Copenhagen on 17 October, before visiting Warsaw (19 October), Prague (22 October), Vi...

VSK Group, the Belgian subsidiary of Allied Defense Group, has been acquired for USD $49 million.  VSK designs, develops and markets sophisticated electronic security systems throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the United States.  Xtralis' globally recognised brands include ADPRO security surveillance systems, ASIM traffic detection systems, PROACTIV fire control and management solutions and VESDA very early warning smoke detection.VSK and Xtralis will be run by newly appoin...

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...

A revolutionary new online tool developed by Geutebruck promises to eliminate tedious paperwork and drastically reduce the time taken to produce tender documents for CCTV projects.  Their Interactive Specifier Library is now available free to planners, installers and architects at www.geutebrueck.com/isl/.In the Interactive Specifier Library you select system components from an extensive list.  As you click, the ISL collates the appropriate tender texts to generate a full tender specif...

Their head office may be in the UK but Frontline Security Solutions' ambition to be the leading electronic security integrator stretches far beyond the White Cliffs of Dover.Frontline have established a network of Local Service Providers (LSPs) across Europe and Scandinavia to ensure that their multi-sited, multinational clients' security systems are installed and serviced to the highest standards regardless of where the site is located."We have carefully selected and comprehensivel...

Reed Exhibitions, organisers of leading US events ISC West and ISC East, have selected SourceSecurity.com as sole European / EMEA news and content provider for their newly launched website, ISC365.com.SourceSecurity.com, the leading European portal and promotional medium serving the security industry, will be providing news and content on a real-time basis."We recognise that the security industry is a global one, and that there is an increasing need to provide our audiences with news and is...

Milestone Systems, the global leader for open platform IP video management software, maintains strong momentum with continued rapid growth in the IP video surveillance industry, announcing several important new appointments and strategic organizational expansions.  Milestone Systems plans to grow from the present 117 employees to a conservative projection of 160 by the end of 2008. To support the continued fast growth, Milestone Systems has been consistently expanding its staff - almost dou...

AES Corporation is pleased to announce that Martin Tee, of European Sales Office in Belgium, will be supporting and expanding AES-IntelliNet sales in the Western European region.  Mr. Tee was brought onboard to address an increasing need for centralised alarm monitoring which has amplified the popularity of the AES-IntelliNet 'MultiNet' mesh radio alarm communications system.The AES-IntelliNet's system is a long-range wireless mesh radio communication network that provides Central Monitorin...

Milestone Systems, the global leader for open platform IP video management software, last week held its fourth international partner conference, called MIPS, the Milestone Integration Platform Symposium.  The event gathered over 200 participants in Denmark, coming from 27 countries and representing 85 companies: distributors, system integrators, solution partners and manufacturers of IP network surveillance systems. Designed to build knowledge and increase business skills for the Milestone...

Milestone Systems, the global leader for open platform IP video management software, intends to continue driving global business growth by appointing high-technology veteran Eric Fullerton to a new position as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer.  This expands his role beyond the Americas to have a global impact on new business expansions for Milestone. "We're extremely pleased to have Eric as the CS&MO for Milestone Systems.  His success in building our business in the Amer...

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.&...

IPCCTV.COM has become only the fifth distributor in the UK to be appointed by Milestone Systems, the global leading provider of open platform IP video surveillance management software.IPCCTV.COM is the IP division of Y3K (Europe) Limited, a name which reflects a very forward-thinking company and one of the most pro-active in the security products market today.  From humble beginnings in 2000, the company has grown into one of the largest independent CCTV companies in the world. Behind the s...

When it comes to safety in the skies while the primary focus must be on the heightened terrorist threat, the same CCTV solutions can also be applied as a powerful tool to deal with a much more common and extremely disruptive problem, namely 'air rage' which can, in the worst cases, lead to physical assault and aircraft having to be diverted.Most of us on our travels will have come across examples of ill tempered, abusive, intoxicated and out of control passengers, for flight attendants a...

Milestone Systems, the global leader in open platform IP video surveillance management software, has signed a Milestone Solution Partner agreement with OPAX, a video analytics developer based out of Norway.OPAX develops software with unique detection technology, a type of Video Content Analysis (VCA) that is one of the fastest growing segments in the security market at the moment.  With Research & Development conducted since 1974, OPAX is a pioneer in this rapidly growing video analytic...

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...

Pelco is pleased to announce an exciting new collaboration with Milestone Systems, the world market leader for open platform IP video management software. The partnering of these two global industry leaders has resulted in the development of a software management platform that allows Pelco Camclosure IP and IP3701 cameras to work with Milestone's XProtect family of software.  It allows users to seamlessly integrate Milestone XProtect to Pelco Camclosure IP and IP3701."We selected M...

A leader in the manufacture of video security equipment, Pelco is pleased to announce several exciting new additions to its product line, which will be exhibited at the ASIS 2007 annual seminar and exhibits in Las Vegas next month. "We pride ourselves on consistently demonstrating excellence - with our fanatical customer service, on-time delivery, and by offering the broadest product line in the industry," says Scott Schafer, Pelco Sr. Vice President, North American Sales and Mark...

SourceSecurity.com took the time to catch up with the CEO and President of the company that invented the network camera more than 10 years ago, Axis Communications, to ask him whether the era of IP-based surveillance had arrived and what obstacles remain in the way of more widespread adoption. SourceSecurity.com: Do you think IP-Surveillance has finally come of age? Ray Mauritsson: Yes and it is not just Axis saying this.  You only need to look at the growth of sales of the network...

Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - has launched a new CCTV Solutions guide to deliver in-depth details of the company's entire product range, from entry level to high performance enterprise systems.The landmark 44 page guide, which coincides with Dedicated Micros 25th Anniversary, represents the first time that the company has published a comprehensive overview of its CCTV products and their performance capabilities in one, convenient, reference guide. Crucially, the publication includes deta...

LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, world leader in contactless smart card systems for personal ID applications, announces its presence at the APS Fair on 25, 26 and 27 September 2007 at the Porte de Versailles in Paris.  This event allows LEGIC to present its latest items such as the card-in-card solutions for mobile phones and to demonstrate the total company security control thanks to its unique Master-Token System ControlTM (MTSC).For the first time, LEGIC will participate at the APS Fair 2007 spec...

Millions of pounds worth of equipment was deployed by the broadcasters and TV production companies covering the 2007 Open Golf Championship Carnoustie. To ensure that essential as well as extremely valuable equipment was not stolen or sabotaged, security was high on the agenda.  With millions tuning in to watch one of the most exciting Opens for many a year, it was essential that all of the broadcasting equipment was kept safe and secure and in good working order at all times. Man guarding...

Vigilant have further expanded their sales team with the appointment of Dave Markland as a Business Development Manager.David, who has worked within the electronic security industry for over 28 years, was until recently National Sales Manager for Cieffe.  Previously David was with Richardson Electronics where, as part of his responsibilities as Market Segment Manager, he was responsible for introducing the company's security products into new territories throughout Scandinavia and the B...