CCTV camera lenses News

Vari-focal lenses from California-based Rainbow CCTV are being installed at petrol filling stations throughout South Africa. The units employed are the 3-8mm and the 5-50mm models, the larger lens being used predominantly on entrance and exit lanes.  They are functioning from Security Evidence cameras employing a Sony Super HAD chip and working at 480 TV lines.The lenses have been implemented by Johannesburg-based Spidereye, an installer covering high end industrial, leisure and infrastruct...

IR illuminators and vari-focal lenses from Rainbow CCTV are being used to monitor child development at a clinic in Minneapolis.The University of Minnesota is internationally respected for its childcare work, which includes analysis of cognitive development and reactions to visual stimuli in the young, particularly infants with attention deficit disorders.For the analysis to be valid the youngsters need to concentrate fully on what is presented to them from a computer screen and staff have create...

Varifocal lenses from Rainbow CCTV are being used on the Irish rail network by the country’s railway authority Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail). As part of its “On Track” initiative the authority is investing over EUR1.3 billion in its service with co-funding from the Irish Government under the National Development Plan. There is also financial involvement from the European Union.Many of the Rainbow units have been installed at level crossings. The lenses are operatin...

Zoom lenses from Rainbow CCTV are being deployed following the development of previous camera usage at Oldbury, a nuclear power station in Gloucestershire. As part of its remit to ensure that the plants work properly and are safe to operate, British Nuclear Group Reactor Sites perform detailed observations inside nuclear reactors using specially-built manipulators and robots. The procedures allow the company to meet criteria set by an external body, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate. The 8-...

Zoom lenses from Rainbow CCTV are being deployed following the development of previous camera usage at Oldbury, a nuclear power station in Gloucestershire. As part of its remit to ensure that the plants work properly and are safe to operate, British Nuclear Group Reactor Sites perform detailed observations inside nuclear reactors using specially-built manipulators and robots.  The procedures allow the company to meet criteria set by an external body, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate....

Vari-focal lenses from US manufacturer Rainbow CCTV have been installed at Woolworths stores including Liverpool, East Ham and Egham. The lenses are 3-8mm varifocal models and are operating within dome camera assemblies supplied by Mark Mercer. The client is recording digitally using DVRs by Dallmeier. The systems have been implemented by Bedfordshire-based CSG, a design and installation company who have also created tailor-made matrix managers for the sites.  CSG has niche expertise in ret...

Rainbow CCTV’s 8.5-85mm varifocal lenses have been installed for long-range observation at Marine Terminals in Dublin Port. The units are being used at the “lift on/lift off” container section of the docks complex at Dublin Bay.  They are assisting the client, Marine Terminals Limited, to comply with the increasingly rigorous homeland security requirements of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS), created after the September 11th attacks.The aims of...

Lenses from Rainbow CCTV are being used at Watford Football Club’s Vicarage Road ground. The model being employed is a 6.5-65mm focal length zoom which is compatible with 1/3” and ¼” cameras. The lenses are sited on one of the stadium’s main gantries in PTZ mounted cameras and are used predominantly to monitor crowd behaviour on the other side of the pitch. Watford FC’s CCTV systems are maintained by Strood-based Ewatch Limited who will be helping the client...

Zoom lenses from Rainbow CCTV have recently been installed at the Monroe Power Plant on the shores of Lake Erie in Michigan.This 3,000-megawatt facility run by DTE Energy is America’s fourth largest coal-fired plant and is at the forefront of President Bush’s initiatives for clean coal technology. The site has been visited by the President who addressed staff and local community leaders about ongoing work to modernize the electricity grid, create conditions for job growth and ensure...