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Paxton Access, the manufacturer of the Net2 access control system, has opened a  to satisfy the increasing demand for their products.  The news highlights Paxton Access' continuing success story and the popularity of their systems amongst installation companies and system users. The company's philosophy of producing high quality systems that are straightforward to install and easy to administer is paying dividends.  Their flagship system Net2 has been highly praised for providing...

Arecont Vision enhances surveillance monitoring at College World Series for Hawkeye Vision, Inc. Every June, close to 300,000 fans make their way to Omaha, Nebraska for one of the high points of college sports - The College World Series. The top 8 teams in Division 1 Men's collegiate baseball can command over 23,000 fans at game time, filling Omaha's Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium to maximum capacity. Since 2007, safety and security of the games has been managed using megapixel cam...

Axis Security, one of London and the City's fastest growing security service providers, has appointed Roy Hudson as Account Manager.Roy has 17 years experience in the security industry and will have responsibility for operational and fiscal management of a portfolio of contracts.  He will also be taking over as line manager to two account support managers and will be based at the Wharfdale Road offices, London.  As Roy explains:  "I left the army after 16 years and the securi...

The 34th G8 summit which took place in Toyako on the northern Island of Hokkaido, Japan from July 7 - 9, 2008, brought together heads of the world's most wealthiest and most industrialised countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA, Canada and Russia. The G8 summit is a forum for these countries to discuss issues of a worldwide concern and negotiation of topics such as climate change, intellectual property rights, political issues, world economy and food shortages. Forming part of...

For more than twenty years, Dallmeier has been developing and manufacturing high-quality products and comprehensive solutions for the CCTV/IP area. As a provider of complete systems, the company offers perfectly integrated components, ranging from cameras, recorders and video analysis systems up to individually adjusted management systems.  Everything from one source, according to the motto:  "Quality made in Germany - Quality made by Dallmeier."At this year's Security 2008 i...

  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...

AD Group has announced that, as of 1 July 2008, the President and CEO of US-based Dedicated Micros Inc., Dr Alan Calegari, has transitioned to a new role as Non-Executive Chairman to DM Inc., providing strategic support to the Executive Team."We are very grateful to Dr. Calegari for his significant contribution to Dedicated Micros," said Nigel Petrie, AD Group Chairman.  "In this new role, he will continue to provide strategic support to the Dedicated Micros Executive Team in...

  Genetec expects that its local presence in the market will help build solid partnerships Genetec recently announced that the company has opened a sales office in Spain as part of its European growth strategy.  Due to increasing demand in the Iberian market, Genetec selected one of Madrid's most popular business centers as the hub for its new regional office. With over 2000 installed cameras already being managed in Spain by Genetec's revolutionary IP video surveillance solution,...

Buoyed by the burgeoning demand for security products and surveillance solutions across China, New York-listed China Security & Surveillance Technology, Inc. (CSST) is anticipating to hit its revenue projections of US$380 to $400 million for the full year 2008.  Besides capitalising on robust domestic demand, CSST is also leveraging its growing reputation to establish its footprint in highly promising international markets. "We are quite well positioned to enjoy a period of sustain...

When it comes to the application of sophisticated security techniques in the banking environment - to keep assets, staff and customers safe and secure - financial institutions are looking carefully at how they can seamlessly integrate advances, such as High Definition CCTV and the monitoring of their cash machines, into their existing infrastructure.  Pauline Norstrom, Director of Worldwide Marketing at Dedicated Micros, discusses the challenges. A key issue for banks is to ensure that the...

Panasonic System Solutions Europe (PSSEU) has selected five new work placement students to join the EU marketing team on a year long placement to build upon its business growth overseas. The placement students will be working alongside professionals on projects including events and exhibitions, website and portal design, advertising, and media relations to support and strengthen the existing central marketing team.  The newly appointed recruits include Luke Hansford who will be responsible...

LEGIC provide state-of-the-art chip-in technology.Après ski in the thermal baths; both these leisure pursuits can now be combined very conveniently at the Bad Kleinkirchheim resort in Carinthia, Austria. The operators of the mountain railways and the Roman thermal baths have now opted for a hitherto unique access control solution which uses the very latest transponder technology to link up two different leisure worlds. Here, the slogan: "From the piste to the thermal baths" is t...

Sony recently revealed how it has strengthened its market-leading security offering through a re-evaluation of its distribution network that sees Norbain SD, one of Europe's most successful distributors of electronic security systems, become one of two key distributors in the UK.  The announcement will place Sony at the forefront of Norbain SD's network of specialist dealers. Building on its extensive IP and analogue line-up, which recently saw the introduction of nine new cameras including...

 Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, has published financial results for the first six months of 2008, which confirm the company's leadership position globally, with strong sales growth of 37 per cent in local currency up to SEK 882 M (£73.4m) in its core network video market and in the EMEA region, where net sales amounted to SEK 469.5 M (£39m).Highlights for the period include Axis' announcement of its expansion into Russia with the opening of a new sales...

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...

 HID Global, the trusted leader in providing solutions for the delivery of secure identity, recently announced that the EDGE™  family of IP-based access control products will be incorporated into the eAXxess™ security system by MAXxess, creating a complete open architecture system that extends the IP network all the way to the door.The IP-based EDGE™ provides a complete access control hardware infrastructure with contactless smart card capabilities.  eAXxess...

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...

  Oliver Vellacott, IndigoVision CEO, giving the keynote speech at the launch launch conferenceIndigoVision, a leading supplier of integrated IP video security solutions, has opened a new regional sales and support centre for the Middle East in the Dubai Internet City, a free economic zone for Information Technology companies in the United Arab Emirates.  The opening ceremony was attended by local businesses and members of the press and was followed by a conference for IndigoVisio...

 Milestone has consistently grown 40-60% per year  Milestone Systems, a global developer of open platform IP video management software for surveillance systems, today announced $27 (€17) million in growth stage funding from Index Ventures, one of Europe's top venture capital firms.  This is the first ever external investment into Milestone, after nearly a decade in business, and marks the latest investment from Index Ventures' €400 million growth fund, which closed...

ioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity, announced recently the appointment of Ethan Vons as Director of Global Customer Services responsible for US, EMEA and APAC support centres.  ioimage is currently doing business in 35 countries and maintains a global network of over 100 business partners.Vons has a proven track record of managing global customer service departments and establishing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs and technical servi...

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...

Siemens Building Technologies has announced a new partnership with Texas Instruments, which will see a whole range of new products developed for the video surveillance market.The first products to be launched were on show at the recent IFSEC 2008 exhibition as part of Siemens' Innovations Wall feature.  The popular SISTORE range of digital video recorders, manufactured in Germany, is the first to benefit from this technology partnership, with four new versions of the SISTORE MX hybrid recor...

  NiceVision analytics solutions can be used to address a variety of security and operational needsNICE's intelligent video security solutions with content analytics, will be used to enhance the safety and security of commuters by monitoring and alerting security threats in the two tunnels under Beijing's main Olympic Stadium and the Olympic swimming pool in Beijing, named ‘Bird's Nest' and ‘Water Cube'. The two tunnels, which run on Da Tun Road and Cheng Fu Road, are each...

Crowds in public venues create special demands for safety that are being addressed by the Rhode Island Convention Centre complex.  They are undergoing renovations that allow them to upgrade from a system of mixed and outdated analog surveillance equipment to a networked open platform to integrate all the elements of their security and add better technologies.  Milestone IP video management software plays a pivotal role in this migration."We're in a planning phase to go for the one...

Fastlane Glassgate speed gates were used as part of CMP & HID Global's RFID & Smartcard feature stand at this year's IFSEC exhibition.CMP worked with HID to bring together the market leaders in a variety of sectors to demonstrate the latest technology working seamlessly with Smartcards and RFID.  Fastlane turnstiles from Integrated Design were the entrance control solution of choice.Billed as ‘a day in the life of a card' the stand functioned as a demonstration pavilion for re...

In a market segment where analogue technology is quickly being replaced by IP video systems, Mobotix, a leading international manufacturer of digital, high-resolution and network-based video security systems, has far better growth prospects than most of its competitors since Mobotix decided not to offer any standard IP cameras, but to focus exclusively on high-resolution, complete systems. In the decentralised system structure established years ago by Mobotix, the intelligence resides in th...

Bosch Security Systems and NetApp have formed a global partnership.  Under terms of the signed agreement, Bosch will sell and support co-branded NetApp storage devices as part of its CCTV portfolio.  Bosch Security Systems is a worldwide acting company for security systems, NetApp is a creator of innovative storage and data management solutions.  The agreement is a strategic move anticipating continued rapid development of the IP video surveillance market."...

  Axis network cameras installed in Toba AquariumMission Toba Aquarium is built in scenic Iseshima, in Mie Prefecture, Japan. This aquarium is a world leader in terms of its size and exhibition content.  In twelve zones that recreate the natural environment, the denizens of the oceans and rivers are cared for and exhibited. The aquarium is designated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as a centre for social welfare and education. T...