Surveillance software applications

Huddersfield Technical College, situated in West Yorkshire, is starting to reap the practical benefits of an advanced NetVu Connected CCTV solution specified and installed by DM Fusion member Oracle Vision, to deliver effective protection for its 22,000 full and part-time students studying courses from GCSE to degree level.The geographically dispersed College has four key sites, all of which are now covered by the new digital CCTV solution which comprises two DS2 DVRs (Digital Video Recorders) f...

Low costs long-termWhat can communities do to avoid increasing costs of public services?  As most communities are struggling to maintain balanced budgets, this is not an easy question to answer.  And yet, there are promising concepts and solutions.  Consider the WVE (Westpfälzische Ver- und Entsorgungs-GmbH) that has been founded in the Kaiserslautern area in 1994 as a public services company.  The WVE provides fresh water, sewage treatment and zoning/development servic...

IndigoVision's integrated IP video system is providing high-security CCTV surveillance for the Madhya Pradesh State Mansion in India's capital New Delhi. India has 28 states and 7 union territories each run by its own state government and each has their own representation in New Delhi, including Madhya Pradesh, the largest state in India.  Madhya Pradesh's political office in New Delhi is the Bhawan Mansion, which is overseen by the state's Commissioner of Police.  This very important...

Genetec recently announced that the Office of Housing in Victoria, Australia, has adopted Omnicast, Genetec's IP video surveillance solution, to protect the residents of approximately 7,000 dwellings within the city's affordable housing development projects.Currently, 72 individual sites are being monitored by over 700 cameras, which function over a wireless Ethernet network, linking all buildings back to a central monitoring station.  By the end of the project, the Omnicast system is expec...

To help better control and manage its citywide wireless video surveillance system during Super Bowl XLII, the Phoenix Police Department relied on its best-in-breed IP video management solution from OnSSI.  The OnSSI solution controls and manages over three dozen video surveillance cameras in and around downtown Phoenix, providing law enforcement officials with the ability to closely watch over the 200,000 spectators, citizens and dignitaries in town during the weekend of Super Bowl XLII.The...

IndigoVision's integrated IP video solution is being used to provide the CCTV surveillance system for a Community Safety Vehicle operated by the London Borough of Waltham Forest.  The vehicle is a joint initiative between the Borough, the Metropolitan Police and NCP, the council's parking enforcement contractor. The vehicle is equipped with five fixed cameras and two fully functional Forward Vision MIC cameras mounted on a six-metre hydraulic mast and an ANPR system connected to t...

Genetec recently announced that within the last four months, five independent police departments within the State of Texas selected AutoVu, Genetec's advanced license plate recognition (LPR) solution, to automate the recovery of stolen vehicles.  Currently, Houston PD, Corpus Christi PD, Del Rio PD, El Paso PD and Montgomery County Sherriff's Department, all located in Texas, have each equipped their team of officers with AutoVu.Previous to the automation of checking license plates, of...

Sophisticated equipment from Bosch Security Systems (BSS) is playing a central role in a major security system installation by UK based Sicura Systems Ltd, and its partner Pro Security Ghana Ltd, at the major stadia for the recent Africa Cup of Nations football. The biennial football tournament for nations affiliated to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) was staged at various venues across Ghana in January and February, and wrapped up in the Ghanaian capital Accra with a thrilling...

MissionThe local police of the Fossanese Municipalities realised the need to implement a video surveillance system to combat petty crime and maintain control over areas that are difficult to monitor with police presence. SolutionSystem Service implemented an IP-Surveillance system based on Axis network cameras.  The system consists of thirty-seven AXIS 221 Network Cameras deployed in various critical areas, and seven AXIS 233D Network Cameras.  All the network cameras were installed in...

ioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity, announced recently that it has been selected to provide a video analytics solution for a Texas hospital to ensure 24-hour operation and security at its emergency room.The hospital recently deployed the solution at its emergency room in conjunction with surveillance cameras to alert nursing staff when patients arrive at the entrance or if someone should slip and fall outside the building.  The system automatically...

One of the UK's largest IT equipment distributors Micro Peripherals, better known simply as Micro-P, recently completed a major upgrade from an analogue-only external Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) system to create a comprehensive Internet Protocol (IP)-based surveillance system covering both the inside and external perimeter of its 120,000 square foot distribution centre in Altham, near Accrington, Lancashire.  The result has seen the creation of a security system in and around its wareh...

Students in the Dallastown Area School District near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, are learning their actions speak louder than words.  The district's IT department recently installed video surveillance technology from Bosch Security Systems in the area's high school and middle school.  Now, more than 70 Bosch FlexiDome IP cameras monitor the hallways and cafeterias, and the school district plans to add 50 more cameras to the facilities by the end of the 2007-2008 school year.  Using...

Siemens Building Technologies has supplied and installed a danger management system to protect a series of refineries and harbour dockside areas in the port of Algiers.The installation for petrol refinery specialists Naftec saw a Siemens MM8000 danger management station used to manage a range of different sub-systems which contribute to the protection of two harbours and three refineries - Alger, Arzew and Skikda.  MM8000 provides a clear and concise method of dealing with an emergency situ...

When the Japanese Embassy in Cairo moved to its new building on the banks of the Nile recently, it chose a Geutebruck CCTV monitoring system despite fierce international competition - especially from Japanese manufacturers.  The Embassy's hundred-camera, five-workstation system is based on the GeViScope digital CCTV platform which has a dedicated digital signal processor for each video channel, and hence the capacity to process large amounts of data and the flexibility to process each signa...

The Buffalo Athletic Clubs (BAC) are using powerful, easy-to-manage Milestone IP video management software with Axis network cameras for improved security and protection of assets, employees and members.  The system's scalability supports the company's progressive business model for energetic expansion plans.  The BAC (Buffalo Athletic Clubs) is a dynamic chain of seven fitness centres in Buffalo, and the RAC (Rochester Athletic Clubs) is a chain of five locations in Rochester, New Yor...

Network cameras and blade servers from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been installed by one of the UK's leading IT equipment distributors, Micro-P.  The distributor recently embarked on an extension and upgrade of its ageing CCTV system following a review of security inside the 120,000 square foot warehouse in Altham, near Accrington, Lancashire.Micro-P has deployed a total of 10 new Axis network cameras and moved 14 existing external CCTV cameras onto a...

Ipsotek has provided video analytics to Cadogan Estates, the property investment company responsible for running the Cadogan family's Chelsea estate, which features London locations including Sloane Street, Cadogan Square and Duke of York Square.Ipsotek's analytics modules are alerting the client to abandoned packages, vagrancy, vehicle theft and loitering as well as intrusion into sterile zones at Duke of York Square, which is a 10-acre site in the heart of Chelsea.  Ipsotek's software is...

IndigoVision's IP Video CCTV system is providing the technology behind a Fabricom-GTI integrated security solution for the new courthouse in the Belgium city of Ghent.  This innovative project integrates CCTV, video-intercom and access control into a single IP-security system.  By using the IP Video system to provide fully featured video-intercom facilities IndigoVision has created a truly scalable and cost-effective solution by eliminating traditional intercom switching hardware.The n...

March Networks™, a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, recently announced that Coppel S.A.B. de C.V. has standardized on the company's digital video software and systems for advanced security in more than 650 department stores.Coppel is one of the largest department store chains in Mexico, operating under the brand name Tiendas Coppel.  The retailer specializes in the sale of household furnishings, appliances and clothing.The rollout follows a...

Luton Borough Council has upgraded to digital video recording.  Luton's Town Centre CCTV system, which was installed in 1998, plays a major role in helping Luton Borough Council achieve its crime reduction objectives. Jason, who has managed the Town's Central Monitoring Centre for 10 years, said: "We have been successfully using analogue recorders to capture video from our Town Centre CCTV system and it has worked extremely well.  We became aware however that we were missing...

IQinVision, market leader in high performance megapixel network cameras, smart IP cameras, and network video recording systems, recently announced that the Warsash Maritime Academy in Southampton has deployed IQinVision IQeye 700 Series megapixel cameras to improve the effectiveness of its simulator training for students entering the shipping and oil industries.  Design and installation expertise was provided by InCam Digital Surveillance and Smart CCTV Ltd.Warsash Maritime Academy provides...

IKEA France has invested in IndigoVision's complete IP Video solution for CCTV surveillance in its new 20,000 m2 flagship store in Grenoble.  Swedish-based IKEA is one of the largest and best-known home furnishing retail groups in the world, with stores in 36 countries.  IKEA invests heavily in CCTV technology in their stores to ensure their customers and staff are safe and secure at all times.  The new store, which opened in October 2007, is seen as a test site for the adoption o...

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology had suffered serious material loss due to theft, burglary and vandalism, leaving personnel and students feeling unsafe as a result.  An extensive computer theft justified installing a new video surveillance solution.  However, creating such a solution was challenging, as the university area consists of nearly one hundred buildings.The open platform Mirasys V series, featuring local data acquisition, analysis and recording, combined wit...

The US-based Western Virginia Water Authority, which provides a water service to 155,000 customers in Roanoke and Roanoke County, has adopted a NetVu Connected CCTV solution based around Dedicated Micros surveillance technology.Since 9/11, water authorities across the US have been duty-bound to re-examine whether their critical assets, such as dams, reservoirs, and water treatment facilities, are secure against threats.The Western Virginia Water Authority - which oversees assets including f...

Wimbledon-based Ipsotek installed its video analytics software on a trial basis after motion detection and a competitor's analytics proved unable to cope with the demanding conditions at the site.  Using thermal imaging cameras, Ipsotek provided scenario-based detection software which met the client's stringent service level agreements (SLAs), particularly governing detection accuracy. Phil Foreman of Universal Security, the installation company for the project, described the unusual challe...

Leicester-based De Montfort University has adopted an advanced NetVu Connected surveillance solution from DM Fusion member Security Design Services, featuring CCTV systems from Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - to maximise the safety and security of its 20,500 students and 3,240 staff.                  Key elements of the ambitious scheme include the linking back, over fibre, of 21 geographically dispersed c...

MissionAfter the University of Aberdeen conducted a strategic review of security, the university decided to rationalize four stand-alone analogue CCTV systems and establish a central control room for the entire university.  The four systems varied in age and the university wanted a single system, which would feature new cameras as well as including existing analogue cameras.  The system would have to offer the flexibility to cope with future expansion, and to eliminate stand-alone prop...

IP-Surveillance system pays for itself fast, after theft caught on camera Mission Fast-growing microbrewery chain Zerodegrees was dissatisfied with the limitations of the analogue-based CCTV cameras and digital video recorders installed in some of the sites it acquired in London.  For its new restaurant and microbrewery sites, chief executive and co-founder of Zerodegrees, Nick Desai, wanted the ability to ensure evidence caught on camera was usable for police identification purposes. ...

MissionThe Shipton Group, which owns and manages Douglas Court Shopping Centre in Cork, Ireland, required a surveillance solution to cut crime, gather video evidence to dramatically cut slip and fall injury claims, reinforce tenants' health and safety obligations, and even improve customer experience to deploy support staff more effectively around Douglas Court.SolutionThe Shipton Group worked with Irish IT consultancy RPC Consultants, a leading Axis Communications partner in the region, to deli...

Data Electronics Group opts for Axis Communications' IP-Surveillance solution to provide additional layer of physical security in its Dublin-based data centre.Data Electronics Group (DEG) was founded in 1974 as a field engineering-based business installing, integrating, maintaining and carrying out network administration for computer equipment used by airport and airline staff for key activities such as tagging bags and checking in passengers.  Today one division of DEG still provides...