CCTV News

Ottawa-based network management specialists and DVR manufacturers Mach Networks have been specified to provide mobile video surveillance systems for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in California. March Networks' reseller and channel partner Diversified Security Solutions Inc. secured the contract through its Viscom Division in a deal worth $1.5 million, that includes a three-year maintenance agreement.  The programme will see some 80 light rail vehicles (LRVs) equipped...

The Tulsa Creek Nation Casino is one of Oklahoma's premier gaming destinations.  The casino, open around the clock and seven days a week, offers a unique brand of entertainment with an array of over 1400 casino games, including blackjack, poker, slot machines, and many others.  With the completion of a $4.6 million expansion project in December 2005, the casino increased to a total size of 81,000 square feet.  Creek Nation Casino has 650 employees, and over 300,000 visitors from 4...

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....

AirAsia, the Malaysian Low Cost Carrier pioneer, has selected FlightVu Cockpit Door Surveillance Systems (CDSS) for seven Boeing B737-300 aircraft. As a forward looking innovative airline AirAsia is taking this important step to increase the safety and security of its passengers.With this order FlightVu CDSS can now be truly said to be aiding aircraft security worldwide with airlines using the systems in Asia, Europe and America. AD Aerospace of Manchester, UK and Aircraft Engineering & Inst...

Videoswitch have come to the aid of the Bracknell branch of the Samaritans by donating one of their VDC-4 digital video recorders. The VDC-4 DVR forms part of a security system installed by the Samaritans to ensure their volunteers can care for callers and visitors in a safe and secure environment.  Roland Simmons, Managing Director of Videoswitch said: "We are very pleased to be have been able to help this very important voluntary organisation.  The work that they do is universal...

Varifocal lenses from US manufacturer Rainbow CCTV are being used in dome camera units at major Boots stores throughout the UK.  The sites include the company’s flagship operation in Oxford Street, London.The 3-8mm direct drive Rainbow lenses are operating from Mark Mercer QuickSwitch fixed domes and are used internally.  The client is recording digitally at its large stores and there is ongoing migration to DVRs from analogue equipment.  Monitoring is currently performed on...

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...

“We’re a compact urban area and some sections of our road network have become oversaturated.  To ease congestion we want to give people travel information that allows them to make informed choices about their mode of transport and the route and timing of their journey.”Siemens Traffic Controls’ innovative traffic management and information system forms the hub of Reading’s control centre.Its principal features include a common database and co-ordination facilit...

North American Video, a leading security systems integrator, has been awarded a $1 million expansion to the video surveillance and security system at the Tulalip Casino in Marysville, Washington. The focal point of the extended system will be the capability to record and control up to 612 cameras over a digital network within the 227,000 square-foot facility.Owned by the Tulalip Tribes, a federally recognized Indian Tribe, the Tulalip Casino, opened in early 2002 and is one of the largest gaming...

Monitors from Rainbow CCTV are being used for surveillance on the Thousand Islands Bridge between north-western New York and Ontario.The bridge which is in fact a series of spans across the St Lawrence River ultimately connects both banks.  The international border crossing is between Wellesley Island in the United States and Hill Island in Canada.Rainbow monitors are being used by the Thousand Island Bridge Authority to assess traffic flows throughout the 8.5 mile crossing which extends fr...

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...

New Zealand city brings new life to troubled neighbourhoodsA crime prevention video surveillance network deployed by New Zealand's Manukau City Council is proving to be an effective means of reversing urban blight.Crime rates have been slashed, drug dealing and other illicit activities have been curtailed, and real estate values are staging a comeback in four commercial areas subject to video surveillance.  Located on New Zealand's North Island within greater Auckland, Manukau is the countr...

Dome cameras, colour monitors and quad processors from Rainbow CCTV have recently been installed at a leading medical facility, the Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Florida.Health Central offers 171 beds, a 24-hour emergency room, special delivery maternity unit, paediatric unit and helipad.  Current expansion is adding an advanced cardiac care unit with 30 beds. The CCTV installation includes the QPCF quad processor.  These connect up to four cameras and one VCR, offering quad and sw...

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...

Automated wireless download a key capabilityEfficiency is a way of life at San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni).  Each day, the public transit authority is responsible for the safe and on-time transport of more than half a million people, and the operation of a 1,000 vehicle fleet that includes light rail vehicles, electric trolley buses, diesel buses, historic streetcars and the city's world-famous cable cars. Muni staff is always looking for ways to work smarter and save time.  Tha...

Rainbow CCTV, the California-based CCTV product manufacturer, has announced its vendor partnership with ADI International.  ADI, the US’s leading security and low voltage distributor with more than 100 locations in North America, launched operations in 12 countries earlier this year, establishing its international presence across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Rainbow is pleased to be a part of this initiative.ADI offers a wide choice of established security and low voltage brand...

North American Video, one of the nation’s premier security systems integrators, has announced contract awards from the Atlantis Marina Village in the Bahamas and the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood located in Hollywood, FL. The announcement was made by Cynthia Freschi, President of North American Video from the company’s headquarters in Brick. NJ.  The two contract awards are valued at approximately $2 million.“The gaming market continues to be one of North...

Zoom lenses from US security product manufacturer Rainbow CCTV are forming a key element in the complex security and management of the National Exhibition centre (NEC) in Birmingham. The lenses are being used predominantly with Philips cameras on PTZ assemblies throughout Britain’s leading exhibition and conference venue. The NEC stages more than 180 events a year, ranging from Crufts and the British International Motor Show to our own industry’s IFSEC trade fair. Up to four million...

DVTel offers a comprehensive turnkey Network Video Management System (NVMS) Hospitals often have large geographically dispersed facilities and multiple perimeters for which they must provide rapid response to any security threats that may arise.  In addition to patients and staff working in these high pressure environments, healthcare facilities are like mini-cities complete with a constant stream of visitors, vendors, deliveries, repair work, and many other entries and e...

DVTel offers cost-effective, manageable migration to digital network-based security DVTel Inc., multiple award-winning market leader in delivering integrated IP security solutions for surveillance and monitoring, today announced that the Las Vegas Silverton Hotel Casino has chosen DVTel's Latitude Network Video Management System (NVMS) as a cornerstone of its security system upgrade.  System installation and project oversight is being managed by Augusta Electrical Systems, Inc. of Las Vega...

DSP colour cameras from Rainbow CCTV have been installed at the Milwaukee County Zoo, Wisconsin, in an area featuring warthogs and zebra. The CCTV installation is concentrated on the warthogs’ winter exhibit section which is underground and would not normally be visible to visitors. The cameras perform a valuable role in allowing curators to observe the animals from all over the complex in the run-up to their birthing cycle. The County Zoo has also used cameras to monitor storks from a dis...

MOBOTIX cameras offer high image resolution and are equipped with convenient recording functions All that glitters in the ironworks Magnificent crowns, expensive jewellery, precious tiaras – surrounded by huge, slightly oily, black machines made of iron: that is what an exhibition of glittering gold looks like in a closed-down ironworks. Exhibition expert and General Director of the Völklinger Ironworks World Cultural Heritage Site, Dr. Meinrad Maria Grewenig, rece...

Addenbrooke’s is the largest of the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with over 40 wards and 32 operating theatres. A centre for specialist care and a provider of local services, Addenbrooke’s has an established world-wide standing as one of the foremost university teaching and research hospitals in the world. G4Tec replaced the existing ESi system with Symmetry Access Control Having served the population of Cambridge and its surrounding areas for over 200 years, Ad...

The GNF has upgraded its security system with Avigilon HD surveillanceThe Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), a research arm of the multi-national healthcare products company Novartis, was founded in 1999 to better understand the underlying mechanisms of human illness and help prevent and cure diseases such as the flu, malaria, and cancer. To this end, GNF researchers rely on a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure to pursue innovative drug discovery research. To p...