Surveillance & Security News for November 2007

Pelco is pleased to announce a new collaboration with SmartConnect, a software development leader in 'Video-Centric Business Intelligence®' security applications.  The partnering of these two industry leaders has resulted in the development of a software management platform that allows Endura, the Pelco enterprise-class IP-based video security system, to work with the SmartConnect 'CasinoVision™ POS Version 4.1' security software application.  This solution en...

The Shasta Union High School District in California needed a surveillance solution to help improve school security for the students and staff, managing theft and vandalism.  Milestone Systems' open platform IP video management software provides a powerful and easy-to-manage solution for their needs here and now, as well as in the future. The Shasta Union High School District includes four high schools in different locations with more than 6,000 students and 540 faculty members.  Th...

Fargo Electronics, Inc., a global leader in secure technologies for ID card systems, announced it has signed a joint marketing agreement with UK-based Optaglio Ltd., a leader in security microstructure technology.  The agreement will provide the framework for secure solutions utilizing Fargo's High Definition Printing™ series in conjunction with Optaglio's E-Direct® high-security holograms in Fargo overlaminates.Specifically aimed at government and financial markets, the a...

Chubb Electronic Security has used its experience working with major high street jewellers to develop a bespoke CCTV surveillance and recording package specifically for the independent sector.  Chubb Electronic Security is part of UTC Fire & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp."The benefit of CCTV today is that it is more flexible and more affordable than it has ever been before," explains Colin Walters, Head of CCTV at Chubb Electronic Security.  "This mean...

When tickets for the Spice Girls' December concert at The O2 arena in London went on sale, all 20,000 were snapped up in 38 seconds.  Each and every one of the concert-goers will be counted in and out of The O2 by video analytics software from Ipsotek.The O2, owned and operated by AEG Europe, has installed Ipsotek's people-counting system across dedicated cameras at its main entrances so that AEG's management and tenants benefit from hour-by-hour, day-by-day analysis. ...

The Coliseum Leisure and Retail Park on the outskirts of Elsmere Port is one of the real success stories of the out of town leisure phenomenon.  Constructed on a brown-field site in 1998 the Leisure Park is owned by The Leisure Fund Ltd and complements the retail side of the Coliseum owned by Equitable Life. The Ellesmere Port facility comprises a large leisure park on one side, with the UK's largest designer outlet village on the other.  With over 140 shops, it features a wide range o...

Axis Communications, the global leader in the network video market, teamed up with wireless applications market leader Proxim Wireless Corporation, on a joint stand at the Transport Innovations exhibition held at the NEC in Birmingham (10 -11 October).  Both companies were attracting interest from the transport sector to the benefits of network video.The Transport Innovations exhibition is a showcase of the latest technological innovations within the passenger transport sector, bringing tog...

The Government should be doing more to encourage the use of energy-efficient lighting in the security sector, says a leading manufacturer.Raytec has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the issue, which could potentially cut thousands of pounds from individual electricity bills and across the whole country make a significant contribution to reducing CO2 emissions.A number of organisations have already joined the campaign and installers, specifiers and end-users are being urged to add their...

IndigoVision has been awarded another prestigious contract to upgrade two casinos to fully digital CCTV operation with a virtual matrix.  This firmly establishes the company's integrated IP Video system as the market leader for complete digital CCTV solutions in casinos.  IndigoVision believes this will be only the third casino complex in the US to go fully digital, the other two also being IndigoVision installations and follows on from a recent contract to upgrade a chain of 9 cas...

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...

With great honour, VIVOTEK is pleased to announce its receiving of the 16th Taiwan National Outstanding Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Award, the highest honorary recognition for SMEs in Taiwan.  The awardees were all praised by Taiwan's Vice President on the award ceremony held at the Grand Hyatt Taipei Hotel on October 30, 2007.The National Outstanding SMEs Award is bestowed on small and medium size companies that are stable and have an extremely promising future.  After a r...

Zebra Technologies, a worldwide leader in card printing, specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, recently announced its participation at Cartes 2007, the world leading event in digital security, smart card and identification at the Paris-nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre from November 13th-15th.  Zebra will be displaying a wide range of card printers in Hall 3 at Stand number E044, including the new P100i, P630i and F680 digital photo printer.  Also showing on the Ze...

Genetec announced recently that it ranked Number 180 on Deloitte's 2007 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in North America.  Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth over five years, from 2002-2006.  Genetec grew 897% percent during this period.Genetec's CEO, Mr. Pierre Racz, credits the fact that Genetec took a software-centric approach in a hardware-centric ind...

Winsted, the leading control room furniture specialist, has promoted Terry Shough to the role of Contracts Manager.Terry, who joined Winsted 16 years ago as a designer, now has responsibility for all aspects of Winsted's pre-installation design service including the customisation of Winsted's control room furniture range to customers' specific requirements.Commenting on Terry's appointment as Contracts Manager, Harry Whale, Winsted's General Manager, said,  "Terry&#...

March NetworksTM, a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, announced recently that the Bank of New Zealand has selected its R5 Visual Intelligence management software and networked video systems for more than 170 retail banking branches throughout New Zealand.  The rollout is expected to be completed by the end of 2008.  Approximately 80 units have already been installed.Headquartered in Auckland, the Bank of New Zealand is the country's third...

LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, the leader of 13.56 MHz contactless smart card technology for personal identification applications, and MCX Systems Sp. zo. o., provider of comprehensive ICT solutions, signed a licence agreement in Poland.  The partnership strengthens LEGIC's position in the Polish market and enables MCX to implement state-of-the-art technology in its terminal card systems. MCX was established in 1988 and since its foundation has enjoyed a dynamic growth, keeping pace with the t...

Fighting the complex problems of anti-social behaviour challenges district and borough councils the length and breadth of the country. While the term in itself covers a multitude of different problems there is a range of pro-active techniques that can be implemented to tackle many issues that if left unchallenged cost councils and therefore taxpayers' unnecessary money. VIT is a specialist security solutions provider and innovator of bespoke security solutions who have an excellent record of...

Bell Security has launched a new range of four service programme options - Argentum, Aurum, Platinum and Platinum5 - as part of a restructuring of its approach to providing ongoing service support for security systems.  Bell claims this represents a radical re-think of the way security systems service is delivered in the UK.  The programmes are available to both existing Bell customers and other organisations seeking an alternative to their current service provider.The programmes are b...

The upcoming IIPSEC 2008 exhibition will see the biggest ever line-up of IP equipment on offer from JVC Professional Europe.Yash Patel, Executive Director, CCTV Europe at JVC Professional Europe takes up the story, "JVC's current strategy is that all of their acquisition, network video recording and monitoring products operate using an open architecture over a network.  This means that any installation company is able to seamlessly integrate our products with third-party equipment...

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...

Idesco will be exhibiting the latest version of their passive long range UHF-reader IR 9000, as well as presenting the new UHF tag option in credit card format at CARTES 2007 in Paris.  The IR9000 reader in combination with a windshield tag has been proven as an ideal solution for automated vehicle identification in parking applications.  The new UHF card tag enables usage also in Access Control applications, where identification distances of more than one metre are required....

The pioneering Octavian Group has announced the launch of a door supervisor training centre in South Africa - the first time a UK qualification in this field will be available overseas.Octavian Security Training, a division of Octavian Security, has established the training centre in Pretoria to provide the National Certificate for Door Supervisors Qualification.Jot Engelbrecht, Octavian's operations and training director, is himself from Cape Town in South Africa.Jot commented: "This i...

Emizon has appointed Glyn Rogers as Sales Director to support the company's rapid expansion into the UK signalling market. Glyn brings over 25 years experience in the alarm industry to his new role.  He started as an Engineer, and then progressed into sales where he has held a number of roles covering both installers and ARCs as well as launching new products. Prior to joining Emizon, Glyn was National Account Executive at SECOM, a role which provided invaluable experience in deali...

Vigilant Technology Limited, the global provider of intelligent video solutions for the high-end CCTV security and surveillance market, announces recently that it has won an agreement to be the sole supplier to a gaming corporation which currently has six casinos in the USA amounting to approximately US$4 million over the next three years.The contract includes design, installation and maintenance of IP video surveillance & security systems for three years in addition to existing and future c...

Pelco is pleased to announce that Mr. Dean Meyer has joined the management team of Pelco as its new Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Mr. David L. McDonald, Pelco CEO.  Meyer comes to Pelco from TAC Americas in Texas where he was President. "Dean's addition to our Pelco management group will bring us invaluable TAC / Schneider insight, along with his very impressive general management expertise," says McDonald.  "I have known Dean for some time and feel very...

In Holland, Maat Transport is the first company that is offering a high secure Truck Parking for regular clients and trucks passing by.  Recently, an IP surveillance solution with ACTi hardware was deployed in this transportation company.As an experienced company in the world of logistics and transportation, Maat is aware of the big problems with stolen cargo and therefore saw the need in building this automated truck parking.  In order to make the parking profitable, the par...

CEM Systems, a leading access control brand of Tyco International, announced recently that it will showcase its latest industry innovations at Intersec Middle East, (Stand 4116C) during 13 - 15 January 2008. "As the largest security event in the Middle East, Intersec offers CEM the ideal platform to launch its latest and industry leading access control innovations," commented Philip Verner, Sales & Marketing Manager of Tyco International's CEM products.  "The new S610 mul...

Network cameras and video servers from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, will be installed to improve public transport security in a project being undertaken by Switzerland's largest transport operator - Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB).  SBB has decided to install the recently launched AXIS 209MFD Network Camera in double-decker commuter trains serving Zürich to improve safety and security for passengers and personnel.The total installation order is estimat...

Bioscrypt Inc., a leading provider of identity and access management solutions, recently announced that Bioscrypt's VeriSoft access manager received the Best Buy award in SC Magazine's Biometrics Tools 2007 review, and its V-Station fingerprint reader and VisionAccess 3D Face Reader also received five out of a possible five stars in all categories. SC Magazine declared that "(VeriSoft) is an excellent product, well priced and full of features," and gave the software top marks i...

Hirsch Electronics' Learning Center Manager, Scott Chillemi, has been appointed to serve a two-year term as Chair of The Security Industry Association's (SIA) Education & Training Committee, a non-voting vice president position on SIA's Board of Directors.  The Education & Training Committee Chair is responsible for overseeing efforts and guiding the strategic path in order to provide professional development and training programs for SIA's member companies and the broader security...