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Leading edge CCTV manufacturer AD Group - the parent company of Dedicated Micros - has received the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category, for its advanced TransVu system, which is helping to tackle crime on the move.The compact TransVu is a sophisticated multi-camera digital CCTV recorder, which can be fitted to a wide range of vehicles including: trains, buses, taxis, vans and heavy goods vehicles.  Its key feature is total network integration that autom...

Vista, Europe's premier brand of CCTV equipment, has had its eclipse camera and DVR selected for use in the making of "Inside a Perfect Bank Robbery", a Sky One television program.  The documentary examines how individuals could pull off a daring and flawless heist, exploring the methods employed by raiders in the £53million Tonbridge theft.The show looks at all aspects of a bank robbery from how the criminals take on such a task to the terrible effect it has it on its victi...

When twenty-ton coils of cold metal steel are being processed, despite stringent quality control procedures, there is always the possibility of a fault occurring that could result in costly delays.The Corus Colors production lines convert the coils, which are each two kilometres long, into pre-finished steels for applications as diverse as roof and wall claddings to consumer products.  To understand the reason for any fault and to ensure it does not reoccur, Corus Colors at Shotton, North W...

ACTi's Video Server, SED-2100R, and Transcoder, SED-3200, has enabled Bari Soccer stadium in Italy to incorporate IP based CCTV systems.  Incorporating with EL.MO's DVR, Matrices and monitoring solutions, the new system allows centralized control and high integration of different CCTV systems.  The use of wireless AP's also allows long distance transmission of video & control data, providing simple & cost effective solution over LAN environments. The CCTV system includes 2...

BackgroundThe James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, named after one of Teesside's most famous sons, is a major tertiary care centre providing leading edge acute hospital services. Part of South Tees Hospital NHS Trust, it opened as South Cleveland Hospital in 1980 and, in the last few years it has gone through a four-year PFI development to double in size to 145,000 sq m and house all of the Trust's specialties on the one Middlesborough site. The hospital now serves around 300,0...

The ChallengeThe Heartlands Hospital, a 900 bed acute teaching trust hospital in central Birmingham and Solihull Hospital, a 400 bed operation 12 miles further south both lost their existing CCTV coverage in December last year due to system failure.Solihull and Heartlands NHS Trust had been operating a combination of a PC-based digital recorder and a number of traditional analogue multiplexers and VCRs.  The system was becoming less reliable, so the decision was made to upgrade to a ne...

Dome cameras, colour monitors and quad processors from Rainbow CCTV have been installed at a leading medical facility, the Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Florida.The CCTV installation includes the QPCF quad processor.  These connect up to four cameras and one VCR, offering quad and switching video output.  Users benefit from real-time, high-resolution images, independent full screen and auto sequential switching, video loss detection, and video adjustment for all channels.Health Cen...

Stafford General Hospital selected Axis Communications for the provision of network cameras and video servers in order to extend and update its surveillance system.  The selection of a networked surveillance solution rather than a traditional analogue-based Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) system saved the hospital more than £42,000 in installation costs alone. A total of five Axis video servers have been deployed to enable 14 existing analogue cameras to be attached to the network.&n...

MAXIMUM Security (1984) Ltd. will launch their new outdoor/indoor intrusion detector OUTLOOK at the IFSEC 2006 security show in Birmingham coming May 8, 2006.As usual this is a most innovative and high quality product of Maximum Security with a 3-Dimensional Microwave detection, a combined PIR & Microwave technology, Waterproof, Anti-Masking, Pet Immune with Adjustable Pet Creep Zone and Anti-Vandalism (Shock & Vibration Sensor).This intrusion detector can be applied for industrial, comm...

Counters repetitive movements, small animals and ‘over-ranging' issues Continuing its drive to reduce and possibly eradicate false alarms even in the most demanding environments, Optex Europe - leaders in detection technology - has launched REDWAVE, a new external detector that combines several technologies in a single unit to provide the optimum installation performance.The product has been designed specifically to counter the three major headaches for installers-remote monitoring cen...

User-friendly integrated systems boost remote surveillance usageEasier operation and reduced price levels are some of the reasons why video surveillance systems are increasingly being installed in small shops, petrol station stores and private houses. After all, video surveillance makes a real contribution to crime prevention and court prosecutions. New Plug and Play systems are ideal for entry-level networked video surveillance, are flexible and offer user-friendly operation.With its 30 years o...

Frankfurt’s skyline is famous worldwide, and it has boasted another eye-catcher since November.  The recently opened 4-star hotel “Blue Heaven” will surely be an attractive centre of attraction for trade-fair visitors from around the world.  This is not only due to the building’s 87-metre height, but above all the blue silhouette and striking window architecture of the Radisson SAS Hotel.  Everything is also an all-round success when it comes to security, w...

A “business meeting in the night club” is what Videor General Manager Phil Wilkinson recently experienced in Barrow-in-Furness (County of Cumbria), North England.   The Princess Selandia is permanently moored at the Town Quay as a floating entertainment complex to offer its guests a special type of leisure experience.   Trelore Alarms took on responsibility for the specified security and safety technology, and installed an eneo CCTV integral solution supplied by V...

Videor delivers CCTV technology for the Metro in RotterdamA safe and high-capacity public transportation system that is accepted by its passengers brings success.  The Rotterdam Electric Tramway (RET) – operating company for a well-balanced network made up of buses, trams and metro trains – plans for tomorrow’s requirements, and is investing in upgrading its CCTV system. The components installed by the Dutch companies CTC and Imtech have ensured that all incidents hav...

eneo dome cameras from Videor secure the site premisesAround 130 dealers in the new Perishables Centre at Frankfurt turn over 440,000 tons of goods annually, and these supply up to five million consumers in the Rhein-Main area.  Heer GmbH decided to choose equipment supplied by Videor for the surveillance of the spacious premises. The new site of the Perishables Centre Frankfurt was built when the Frankfurt Großmarkthalle, the central covered market, was converted to become the new ho...

Real-time CCTV system operates around the clock to provide vehicle ID using ANPR and IVI at UK Ports Tyco Traffic and Transportation of Cambridge, part of Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions, were the main system integrators and prime contractors for the Bluebird Phase 1 project ,which is a vital component in the success of both the regional and national approach to controlling the UK's Borders.  This CCTV project is recognised nationally as a lead Benchmark standard for Automatic...

Octavian Security has won the contract to provide store security at IKEA Nottingham - and will be utilising a number of its Ghurkha officers to ensure that the highest retail security standards are met. The Nottingham based, nationally operating Security Company has devised a store security strategy in conjunction with the leading home-wares retailer that will utilise up to ten guards at any one time, with 60% of the guards working on the contract being ex-Ghurkha regiment soldiers.Working along...

Capture OmniScape took top honours in the Security Industry Association New Product Showcase (NPS) at the International Security Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas, April 5-7, 2006.  Eighteen judges, representing various segments of the industry, viewed a daylong series of presentations by manufacturers of the 94 NPS entries.  SIA President Bill Gorski, Siemens Building Technologies, NPS Committee Chair Sandra Jones, Sandra Jones and Co., and SIA Executive Director Richard Chace pr...

Worldwide cash machine fraud is one of the fastest growing forms of card fraud.  By their very nature ATMs are in place to provide a service to the public and it is this accessibility which makes them a convenient target for hardened and opportunist criminals alike.  Criminals, often in organised gangs, are applying various methods to obtain card details in particular card skimming where a card reading device is secretly fitted to an ATM.  Add to this the perennial problem of stra...

Company's advanced real-time digital video solution to be deployed in preparation for the 2008 Olympics NICE Systems, the global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to extract Insight from Interactions(tm) to drive performance, today announced that it has been selected by Beijing Metro to supply its next generation security solutions to help enhance the safety and security at more than 20 stations of the city's subway system.  Following mounting security concern...

New reader to launch at IFSEC  A4Vision Inc. announced it would make the European launch of its new Vision Access 3D Face Reader with optional touch screen at IFSEC in Birmingham.  The Vision Access 3D Face Reader, the world's first sub-second facial identification/verification reader, now incorporates a touch screen option that accommodates PIN and 3D facial biometric access in one device.  The reader's LCD screen provides active feedback to users indicating optimal positioning f...

Preventative measures in and around the Berlin Olympic StadiumWorld Cup 2006 means an increased operations level lasting several weeks for the security agencies in Germany.  Over 3 million football fans are expected at the 64 matches between 9 June and 9 July. Players, fans and journalists should feel secure while hooligans, terrorists and thieves are to be kept away.  This is why the twelve German World Cup stadiums have been equipped, at the cost of millions, with CCTV tech...

Dowshu, the digital recording company, has taken its comprehensive DVR range another step forward, maintaining its lead in this competitive market.  Not only do they offer 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 channel, stand-a-lone, machines but with their NDMS (Network DVR Management System) up to 100 machines can be controlled via one DVR from a single location.  That means the potential to control 6,400 channels of video!Central to DOWSHU's success has been their DVR's unprecedented recording and liv...

Pauline Norstrom, Vice-Chairman of the BSIA’s CCTV Section discusses the newly published Code of Practice for Digital Recording Systems and the excellent advice it offers security professionals in relation to the admissibility of digital evidence in the judicial system.  The prolific uptake of digital video recording by the CCTV industry has led to a pressing need for definitive guidance where digital video images are being used as evidence in the criminal justice system.  This...

Detroit stadium used the latest video technology from Vicon Industries to make sure this year's All-Star Game went off without a hitch.At this year's All-Star Game, held in Detroit, security ran exceptionally smooth, thanks in part to updated video equipment from Vicon Industries Inc.Comerica Park security is handled through Detroit Tigers, Inc (DTI), a division of Ilitch Holdings Inc. (IHI), the company that manages several sports team's venues, as well as some theatres and a food distribution...

Annual gathering of security industry offers commerce, content and communityThis year's ISC West 2006 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center, Las Vegas has once again exceeded the expectations of the security industry.  With many new programming and product offerings, a world-class educational program, and the numerous networking opportunities both on and off-the show floor, ISC West continues to surpass others as the premier, annual gathering of security product manufactu...

RFID viruses pose no threat for Access Control applications"RFID is a broad term that encompasses everything from simple devices that contain a few thousand transistors and feature little or no security to contactless smart cards which are tiny computers that contain several million transistors and incorporate military grade security," said Peter Lowe, Chief Technology Officer for HID Global, the premier manufacturer of contactless access control cards and readers for the security indu...

Company will showcase leading-edge digital video surveillance solutions at IFSEC 2006 in the UK.March Networks™, a leading provider of Internet Protocol (IP)-based digital video surveillance solutions, announced today that as part of its international expansion plans it has appointed Michael Rack as Vice President of UK Sales.Mr. Rack joins March Networks following a total of eight years at security provider Senstar-Stellar Ltd.  At Senstar-Stellar, Michael held various senior leaders...

New system will protect 100,000 square-meter Israel Assembly Plant and enhance loss-prevention program ioIMAGE Ltd., a leading provider of intelligent video security solutions, has announced today that Merkavim, one of the largest transport vehicle manufacturers in the Middle East, is deploying ioIMAGE systems to enhance its loss-prevention program in order to prevent scrap metal theft and unauthorised removal of materials from the factory site.The video security system is to protect the 100,000...

American Fibertek (AFI) manufacturer of point-to-point fibre optic transmission products is launching its revolutionary new "Open Path" network systems at IFSEC 2006, Stand Q118.The company is using IFSEC to showcase its innovative V'NES (Video Network Enterprise Solution), a product range capable of providing seamless integration of IP and analogue fibre optic systems.Additional AFI products to be launched include the Afinety web-based remote monitoring system for AFI digital fib...