Surveillance & Security News for June 2007

‘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...

Bosch Security Systems and Milestone Systems have strengthened their strategic alliance by extending the range of integrated hardware and software products. Bosch Security Systems is a global leader in IP cameras and encoders.  The IP cameras are based on the award-winning Dinion, FlexiDome and AutoDome Modular cameras.  Milestone's XProtect IP video management suite is one of the market-leading open platform IP video management system, with an extensive global presence. ...

Bosch Security Systems today announced that Frost & Sullivan, a global growth-consulting organisation, has awarded the company its 2007 Video Surveillance Emerging Technology of the Year Award.  Bosch's Direct-to-iSCSI RAID recording solution received the award because of its value to customers and IT personnel and its competitiveness against the networked video recorder (NVR).  Bosch is a foremost pioneer in iSCSI-based recording technology, which uses the IP-based storage sta...

Privately funded CCTV systems in public areas are gaining increasing acceptance, with more and more neighbourhood or special-interest groups pooling funds to install cameras.  Eureka (California), Zurich in Switzerland, the London Borough of Enfield, and Belfast in Northern Ireland have all seen surveillance equipment sponsored by businesses and neighbourhood watchdogs.A current example is occurring in south side Milwaukee where a major thoroughfare, National Avenue, is benefiting from day-...

Group 4 Technology (G4Tec), a world leading manufacturer of security management systems for the commercial market, welcomes Kevin Anderson to the marketing department.  Kevin is the new UK Head of Marketing, and is responsible for the strategic and tactical execution of all UK marketing activity within G4Tec and G2IS.  He reports to Vice President of Marketing, Kim Loy.His responsibilities include a plethora of activities to drive the business forward including:Identifying an attractiv...

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...

It is encouraging to see that remotely monitored, detector-activated, CCTV is really taking-off in other parts of the world.  One Australian supplier I spoke to recently, who was visiting the IFSEC exhibition in May, reported an upsurge of interest resulting in a doubling of connections year-on-year - and with 60% of business coming from customer recommendations -  this ties in with what I have been saying for over a decade now regarding the real benefits of this technology for site sa...

Sutton and Birmingham based JLG Security were awarded the accolade of UK Installer of the Year.  West Country Security, whose head office is in Plymouth, was chosen as the southern region Installer of the Year with the same award being given to Manchester based Fibre Optics UK Ltd for the northern region."The judging was carried out by an independent panel of judges," said Mark Hagger, Urmet Domus's Sales Director.  "The judges told us that it proved to be a major ch...

Harry Whale, Winsted's recently appointed General Manager, played in a charity rugby match on the 16th June to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Falklands War and managed to tear two hamstrings and acquire some broken ribs in the process."Like most ‘friendly' rugby matches, this one was competitively fought, and perhaps fittingly ended in a draw of 33- 33," said Harry.  "We did however achieve our objective of commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Falk...

One of the world's finest cricket coaching venues, the MCC Indoor Cricket School, is capitalising on the very latest CCTV technology from SANYO to help future Test and County stars hone their skills. The SANYO technology is a part of the School's Performance Analysis Suite, which was recently completed and has already been used by top cricketers including England's Alastair Cook.Founded in the 1970s, and re-built in the 1990s, the School, which is situated within Lord's Cricket G...

IndigoVision's complete IP-Video system is providing a comprehensive CCTV surveillance solution for the Police Service in Macau, one of the two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China, along with Hong Kong.  The new system has revolutionised how Macau Police monitor their operation and has provided them with faster video analysis and improved incident response.  IndigoVision was chosen following a successful test evaluation of competing systems by techn...

Mirasys Ltd, a leading provider of video surveillance software for the security industry is this year celebrating its ten year anniversary.Since its founding as a small IT startup in 1997, Mirasys Ltd has grown to become the Scandinavian market leader and a leading provider of surveillance software in Europe and North America.  Today, Mirasys software is used to monitor sites ranging from New York State school districts to holding cells in Queensland, Australia, and from diamond m...

Twenty members of the Frontline team recently took part in the 2007 London to Brighton Bike Ride and in the process raised over £6,000 for the British Heart Foundation."Members of our team individually raised many of hundreds of pounds through the support of their family and friends," said John Bryan the Director.  "The sponsorship provided by a number of our key suppliers, which included Boon Edam, DvTel, Norbain, Specialized Security Products, Barclays Bank, Devine an...

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...

Retailers have been warned that they are not taking security seriously enough to tackle the rising amount of retail crime.Security specialist TAC says that retailers are seriously damaging their bottom line profits by not addressing crime properly.The claim comes after research carried out by TAC revealed that only nine per cent of retailers nationally treated security as a priority - even though crime cost the industry £2.5bn in 2005.TAC asked managers from leading high street stores and...

Forward Vision's Mic1-400 was recently tested head-to-head against high pressure water spray from a fire hose.  The test was conducted to confirm the Mic1-400's performance under extreme conditions well beyond its stated environmental specifications.  Constructed of CNC-milled 6mm-thick aluminium or 316L stainless steel, Mic1-400 is IP68 sealed for total protection against ingress and periods of immersion under pressure, providing absolute performance in extreme conditions such...

Paxton's Net2 system has supplied award-winning food producer Bigham's with a flexible solution that controls access and records timekeeping for more than 200 staff working in kitchen, office and storage areas throughout two buildings in Park Royal, London. The easily-managed security system ensures that only authorised people can gain access to each area.  It takes just moments to issue a new staff member with a card tailored to their role or - equally importantly - to cancel the card if s...

Derwent's REG™ number plate capture cameras have been used to improve security at the Cheltenham Gold Cup, one of the British horse racing world's top annual festivals.The number plates of more than 15,000 vehicles entering and leaving during the two-day event were captured by Derwent's REG Dual cameras, installed by Special Events Communications."Our engineers were able to set the system up very quickly because the cameras are literally plug and play," explains Don Wetherell of...

Axis Communications, the global leader in the network video market, has reported record attendance levels at its stand at the IFSEC exhibition during May.Axis had its most successful IFSEC exhibition yet, with visitor numbers substantially higher than at any other previous year.  At the stand visitors were showing great interest in Axis' three new megapixel network cameras, launched at IFSEC, including the AXIS 211M, a 1.3 megapixel network camera which uses megapixel resolution in MPEG-4 a...

Bikes belonging to MPs and Peers were visibly marked with a permanent security marking before they set off on this year's All Party Parliamentary Bike Ride.As politicians and Lords gathered recently on College Green, in front of the Houses of Parliament, a total of 85 bikes were marked by security company Selectamark.  All of the bikes belonged to parliamentary employees who use their bikes to cycle to work, including Lords, MPs and even House of Commons catering staff. T...

Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - has appointed Carol Cope as Partnership Manager to head-up the company's DM Fusion programme, which has been created to deliver enhanced support for key security installers across the UK.Carol brings more than 20 years of business experience in sales and marketing to her new role.  She has worked previously for a market-leading engineering company and, most recently, for the blue-chip consumer electronics company Sharp.Already Carol has been instrum...

HID Global, the trusted leader in secure identity, today announced the EMEA region launch of HID Identity, a new organisation offering a comprehensive set of solutions for the deployment of contact and contactless smart card-based identity credentials.  Following the successful launch of HID Identity in the Americas, the newly formed service organisation will operate under the auspices of HID Global AG in Geroldswil, Switzerland. HID Global combined the talents and resources of Interlock AG...

Global market leader in video surveillance, TeleEye Group has appointed Diamond Computers and Software and Sumikawa Sdn Bhd as authorised distributor in Greece and Malaysia respectively. Both Greek and Malaysian security markets have high development potential.  Greece produced a GDP of US$251.7 billion in 2006.  The principal economic activities mainly include the tourism and shipping industries, banking and finance, manufacturing and construction, and telecommunications.  G...

Lenses from Rainbow CCTV are being installed by Tyco Integrated Systems (TIS) throughout the Dutch motorway network. The 10-100mm motorised zoom units are being mounted on purpose-built CCTV poles, gantries and bridges at motorway junctions in areas including Arnhem, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam and The Hague. The Rainbow lenses are part of pan & tilt assemblies and operate from IP67 housings created by TIS.  The units are being used with Bosch LTC0620 cameras while the telemetry contr...

IP Video systems manufacturer IndigoVision is providing the technology behind a new train dispatch system that improves passenger safety and speeds up operations for the Berlin S-Bahn.  The S-Bahn is a metro system that transports around 1.3 million passengers a day across a network consisting of 16 lines and 165 stations.  This innovative IP Video system allows the train driver to safely manage train dispatch via a CCTV display in the cab - the first installation of its type anywhere...

Verint Systems Inc., a leading provider of analytic software-based solutions for security and business intelligence, today announced that the City of San Antonio has selected its Nextiva™ Transit solution and that Verint has received a multi-million dollar order to enhance security and improve operations of its entire bus fleet, including fixed route and paratransit vehicles. VIA Metropolitan Transit serves San Antonio and the majority of Texas' Bexar County, spanning approximately 122...

How UK airline catering company FFL used Axis IP-Surveillance equipment to ensure compliance with tight UK Department for Transport security regulations.Unimpressed with traditional analog CCTV surveillance systems, FFL's managing director Mark Matthews turned to InCam Digital Surveillance for an IP-Surveillance solution."It was very clear what we were paying for and the additional benefits we were likely to gain from going the IP-Surveillance route," says Mr. Matthews.When InCam d...

A 450-camera Bosch IP surveillance system has been completed for St Pancras International station, part of the high speed Channel Tunnel rail link, which is due to open in November.Controlware Communications provided technical design, product supply, integration, commissioning and operator training services for the new integrated system.The new surveillance solution includes a mixture of static and dome cameras, IP codecs, networked storage and an advanced management platform, so that images can...

The pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity, ioimage, announced today that it is sponsoring and participating in the Video Content Analysis Conference organised by IMS Conferences.  In addition to helping professionals gain insight on how Video Content Analysis (VCA) can benefit their organisations, the conference will present case studies that highlight key issues related to this cutting-edge technology.Taking place in London on June 25th and 26th at the Hilton Padd...

Nortech Control Systems Ltd are pleased to announce their recent acquisition of proximity reader manufacturer JTI Technologies Ltd. JTI Technologies Ltd was established in 1998 and designed the ‘DualPROX™' family of readers.  The DualPROX™ family of readers offers the choice of flexibility and cost effectiveness whether it is for a new access control system, expansion of an existing system or simply replacement readers.The DualPROX™ readers read both old PAC (153...