Surveillance & Security News for November 2007

Premier Waste (UK) Ltd has adopted the latest remotely monitored, detector activated, CCTV service from RemGuard Visual Management - part of AD Group - to secure its extensive waste management and recycling site in Hyde, Greater Manchester.  The facility hit the headlines in September when CCTV images were shown in the media of a teenager aiming what appeared to be an AK47 rifle from the adjacent Newton Railway Station.            ...

IndigoVision's IP Video technology is providing CCTV surveillance for Edinburgh Castle, Scotland's number one tourist attraction and part of Edinburgh's World Heritage site.  Historic Scotland operates and maintains the Castle and the associated exhibitions but part of the castle continues to be occupied by the army.  This dual role means the Castle has to be open to over 1 million visitors a year, but still maintain the levels of security expected on a site with military presence.As p...

Frost & Sullivan will host a conference call on Tuesday 4 December 2007 at 14.00 GMT to provide industry participants with an overview of the recently published study focusing on Convergence of Physical Security with IP in the European Market.As technology advances in the security industry from analogue to digital, and to IP, vendors and customers are reviewing opportunities to secure facilities more comprehensively through multi-layered or integrated technology instead of isolated security...

March Networks™, a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, announced recently that Stephen Nicolle has joined the March Networks senior management team in the position of acting Chief Operating Officer (COO), reporting directly to Peter Strom, President and CEO.                      Mr. Nicolle has more than 22 years of experience working in the comm...

SANYO Security Systems, a division of SANYO Fisher Company, has announced the appointment of Mr. Robert Schindler to the position of Regional Sales Manager for the Northeast region.Mr. Schindler brings more than 25 years of security industry experience in managing sales and market development for Toshiba, Sony and Panasonic.  Robert's appointment, which is effective immediately, was announced recently by Mr. Frank Abram, Vice President and General Manager, SANYO Security Products Division.&...

The challenge  Boots is one of the best-known names on British high streets.  In recent years there has been a move to retail parks situated on the edge of towns.  As a result thieves have targeted the stores seeking to steal well-known brands of perfume and cosmetics. Options Stores have been fitted with ‘conventional' security; CCTV, monitored alarms and physical security such as shutters and grilles.  These have failed to stop the increasing losses to burgla...

BT Redcare provides comprehensive security solutions for retailers - helping them protect premises and stock, reduce theft and shrinkage, and improve operational efficiency. BT Redcare provides a range of secure alarm signalling and CCTV solutions appropriate to the level of customers' risk and specific business problems.  Our Loss Prevention Solution has been specially developed to help retailers reduce shrinkage and improve profitability. We can help retailers reduce theft & fraud b...

Vari-focal lenses from US manufacturer Rainbow have been installed at thirty Holland and Barrett stores including sites in London, Birmingham and Amsterdam.  The lens is Rainbow's 3-8mm model, which is notable in that as a day-night unit it corrects the focus shift that occurs when using IR lighting. At the Holland and Barrett stores the lenses are operating within Rainbow's own dome camera assemblies.  The client is recording digitally using DVRs by Videoswitch with removable trays a...

Axis network video provides a solution for the small business owner needing to keep control  Mission HiQ Lifestyle is a fitment centre in Germiston, South Africa fitting tires, batteries, shock absorbers and exhausts.  Like most such centres, it is wide open to the public and a hive of activity most of the day, with customers coming and going and staff constantly handling stock that has wide appeal and is highly tradable.  Also like most such centres, control of stock to prevent...

Control room furniture specialists Winsted announce that they have retained the services of PhD student Hina Keval. Hina will act as a consultant on all new major projects to ensure that advice offered to Winsted's clients in respect of the design of their control rooms takes into account important ergonomics issues."We have always taken great pride in our ability to offer our clients expert advice on how control rooms can be customised to meet specific operational requirements," said...

ProblemExpansys are Europe's largest online retailer of PDAs and accessories.  One of their warehouse became a target for persistent through the wall break-ins.  Each break-in resulted in an approximate loss of stock in excess of £80,000.00.  The ‘risk' area is absolutely enormous and measures some 100m x 100m x 15m.OptionsThe site had tried upgrading to monitored CCTV with audio challenge, manned guarding and concrete barriers at likely points of entry.  Things d...

Brivo Systems, LLC, the leader in Web applications for access control and security systems, today announced that The Village of Breckenridge Homeowners' Association (HOA) is employing the new Brivo-developed OnPark™ online parking reservation system to improve parking management, increase revenues to the HOA, and enhance security.  The new OnPark system uses Brivo's XML Application Programming Interface (API) to connect with the community's existing ACS WebService™ online access...

Presented with the challenge of installing and adapting security systems to keep pace with the sustained business growth of Rathbone Brothers Plc (Rathbones), one of the UK's leading providers of investment and wealth management services, security expert Raysil has chosen to rely exclusively on equipment from Siemens Building Technologies Security Products.The most recent phase of Raysil's ongoing work for Rathbones was the completion of a contract for entry control systems at the organisat...

Innovative external detection technology from Optex Europe, manufacturers of the award-winning Redwall range, is being deployed by South Lanarkshire Council to combat crime and reduce costly repair bills from vandalism at two primary schools in its area.In these two schools alone, graffiti and outbreaks of fire had caused an estimated £500,000 of damage.  Protecting these sites was crucial to prevent further incidents, and so Ian Porteous, CCTV Development Manager at South Lanarkshire...

Network cameras from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been installed by Ely Telecom, working alongside Education ICT's server engineers to deliver a modern IP-Surveillance solution at Witchford Village College, near Ely.                     This village secondary school, which serves 900 11-to-16-year-olds in this predominantly rural area, originally installed an analo...

More than 100 security installers, end users and system designers took part in a practical test night with leading CCTV camera brands, at a golf driving range in Hampshire.Teams from Raytec, Tavcom and leading camera manufactures braved one of the year's coldest nights to demonstrate the different images captured by some of the industry's most popular cameras and raise awareness of the opportunities and challenges of night-time CCTV.The cameras were focused on rotakins and other targets at a ran...

Paxton Access Limited, the UK's market leader in the manufacture of access control is pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Cowling as Large Projects Manager.  With a degree in industrial design and over 6 years engineering and project management experience, Tom will support and manage large Net2 access control installations.                           A...

Colour cameras from California-based Rainbow have been installed at automotive stores throughout Sweden.  The client, Micro AB, sells car accessories and spare parts direct to motorists.  (In the UK the company would equate to Unipart and in the US the equivalent would be Pep Boys, Kragen Auto Parts or Trak Auto.)The stores are using Rainbow's 1/3" colour DSP 460 line cameras which can function at a minimum illumination of 0.3 lux in high gain mode at F1.2 and come as PAL or NTSC...

Norfolk based installer Check Your Security Ltd has won ADI-GARDINER's "NVIP Partner of the Year" award for its highly impressive 200% year-on-year growth since joining the scheme in 2005, and for a number of major projects including its recent upgrade at the University of East Anglia (UEA).    The award was presented to Check Your Security's Managing Director Carl Pace by ADI-GARDINER's Sales Director Hemant Trivedi at the distributor's latest NVIP Forum."We a...

ioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity, announced recently that it has signed a distribution agreement with CMI Inc., a leading Canadian channel management company of security and IT products throughout Canada.As part of the agreement, CMI Inc. will offer its customers ioimage's off-the-shelf intelligent video encoders and IP cameras with built-in video analytics.  CMI's client base spans Canada and includes security systems integrators, architects &...

Frost & Sullivan will host a free telephone and web briefing on Thursday 29 November 2007 at 14.00 GMT to provide industry participants with an overview of the recently published study focusing on the European Active RFID Market.The increasing need to track assets and people is creating tremendous opportunities for active RFID market.  Moreover, the ability to track in real time and the accuracy of the active RFID systems are driving the adoption in many end user segments such as h...

Ipsotek and Kingston University in southwest London, both leaders in visual surveillance, are working together to create advanced motion tracking and object classification modules. The project is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), a business support scheme run by the Technology Strategy Board.  A recent graduate is employed to work on a strategic project for a company, jointly supported by a company supervisor and an academic expert.  KTPs receive funding of up to 60% of the proje...

Unipart Security Solutions has been awarded a seven-year contract to provide a range of security services for shoe retailer Dolcis' new distribution centre in Baginton, Coventry.  Dolcis, which was sold in 2006 by Alexon Group to a team of investors headed by retail entrepreneur John Kinnaird, currently have 65 high street branches and 150 concessions across the UK.Dolcis IT Director, Nigel Hickman, said, "Our high quality merchandise is just as attractive to would be thieves as i...

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...

TeleEye Group sponsored a team of four to participate in Oxfam Trailwalker 2007, which was one of the largest fundraising sports events in Hong Kong.  The TeleEye team successfully finished the 100km MacLehose Trail in 26 hours and 28 minutes.Two TeleEye staff members and two volunteers formed the TeleEye team.  They started training with day and night trail routes a few months before the event in order to have better results.  Their effort was recognized with the successful compl...

JVC Professional Europe have provided Treloar College, a specialist college for disabled students based in the outskirts of Alton in Hampshire, with IP security cameras and security management software for a comprehensive IP security system.  The project is supported by the City Livery Company of Security Professionals, as well as by JVC.  Treloar College provides education, care, therapy, medical support and independence training to young people aged 16 and over with physical disabili...

Edward Troha, Director of Marketing for ObjectVideo, questions the actual intelligence of some video analytics packages. While roaming the halls of the seemingly endless stream of security and surveillance trade shows, have you ever asked yourself if all of the devices and software and solutions that claim to be "intelligent" really are?  No way.  Perhaps the more important question is "what can you do today to most effectively educate yourself on the fact and fict...

G4S Denmark is part of the world's largest security company, Group 4 Securicor, with 500,000 employees in more than 100 countries, and Milestone's powerful XProtect™ IP video management software is now an important part of the company's product offerings. The agreement in Denmark follows similar agreements between Milestone Systems and G4S in Belgium, France and Luxembourg.  The Nordic collaboration, effective as of November 2007, gives more than 80,000 Danish G4S customers the opport...

With the threat of intruders, or even worse, terrorist attacks, making sure that all passengers are safe within an airport is of the utmost importance to commercial airlines and airport authorities.  Yet not only passengers, but also personnel and valuable equipment, need to be protected.  FLIR Systems SR-100 thermal imaging cameras help to make Copenhagen Airport an even safer airport than before. Founded in 1925, Copenhagen Airport was one of the first civil airports in the world.&n...

Secure Design KK, the Japanese developer of biometrics fingerprint authentication technology, announces that it has reached an agreement to acquire 53.9% of Beyond LSI Inc ("BLSI"), a Japanese company which provides biometric fingerprint solutions for a wide variety of applications, such as cell phones, personal computers and physical access to its technologies for algorithms, LSI and embedded network systems.BLSI was established by members of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Under t...