Remote monitoring offering more than just security...

Remote monitoring technology can offer significantly more than the security associated with traditional surveillance in shops, offices, train stations, banks etc.  Today, remote monitoring appears in non-security applications everywhere in people’s everyday life from traffic information made available on the internet to nurseries using webcams for parents to observe their children remotely.  For the security industry, convergence means not only harnessing the functionality of CCTV, access control, and alarms - but also integrating non-security applications which can be delivered through the same technology.

Remote monitoring in action

Networked Neighbourhood Watch: Axis video servers enable Shoreditch community TV Video servers from the global leader in network video Axis Communications were selected  ...more>
Firm foundations for CCTV Pennine Housing upgrades to new centralised advanced IP-enabled CCTV monitoring solutions from Dedicated Micros ...more>
Network cameras save lives Mobotix cameras withstand extreme weather conditions in Dillingham, Alaska ...more>
Verint NextivaTM remote monitoring and motion detection - raising security standards at school proactive movement-triggered monitoring of potential intruder events works to reduce theft, arson and criminal damage  ...more>
Bewator and Shield Security Limited - a crime fighting partnership Shield Security teams up with Bewator for a new age of security ...more>
NICE IP-based video content analysis solution to enhance security at the Belgian railway network NICE solutions to extract Insight from Interactions™ at 50 sites across Belgium ...more>
IndigoVision monitors network of hydroelectric power plants IP Video technology is providing remote monitoring for Verbund Group hydroelectric power plants along the River Danube in Austria  ...more>

Surveillance of the general population

There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain - about one for every 14 people - and the UK also holds 3.6 million DNA samples, which is the world's biggest database.

    BBC World