Remote monitoring security applications - Case studies

Unipart, one of Europe's leading logistics businesses, with a £1bn turnover, has a portfolio of customers as diverse as Jaguar, Homebase, Halfords and Vodafone.  What these blue chip companies value about Unipart is not just its first-class performance, but its commercial agility.  Unipart has recently benefited from installing a Siemens access control system at its Oxford headquarters. Siemens access control system, Granta, is a PC-based security management system that allows u...

RemGuard Visual Management's RemVu Aquila transmission equipment, supplied through its franchise operation RemGuard Australia - part of AD Group, is playing a key role tackling out-of-hours crime at Stillwell Trucks based in Milperra, New South Wales. Stillwell is a Sterling, Freightliner, Mercedes-Benz and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck Dealership, specialising in new and used commercial vehicle sales, service and parts.  Prior to the RemGuard solution, Stillwell was experiencing repeated major th...

CCTV surveillance using IndigoVision's IP Video technology is being made available to London's schools via the London Grid for Learning's (LGfL) existing IT network.  The LGfL was established in June 2000 to provide capital-wide broadband Internet services to London's 33 Local Education Authorities (LEA).  The network, supplied by Synetrix, went live in 2002 and now covers over 90% of schools in London. IndigoVision's IP Video technology will allow any participating school to be monit...

"We have a stable, leading-edge technology system that is helping our fight against criminal activities very successfully.  We would recommend this system to everybody." - Ashley Willoughby, Computer and Security Manager for Three Counties ShowgroundThe challengeBecause of the sheer physical size of the Three Counties Showground with numerous entranceways and public access areas, vandalism was becoming a major problem.  After normal closing time people could still wander into...

Background The Junta General del Principado de Asturias is the autonomous parliament of Asturias in northern Spain.  The headquarters of the parliament are located in Oviedo. Customer challenge / business needs After 12 years, the technical services team of the Parliament of Asturias realised that the building's security system needed to be replaced.  As the headquarters of the autonomous parliament of the region, the tender required the most technically advanced, yet economical sol...

Introduction La Praille, adjoining the Stade de Genève stadium, is Geneva's second largest shopping mall - with 80 shops, 550 staff and an excess of 3.7 million customer visits a year.  The shopping mall occupies 33,300 square metres of floor space, with an additional 25,000 square metres allocated for parking.  When La Praille's doors opened in mid-November 2002 it immediately housed name brands such as Coop (a large food market), Zara, Oysho and Massimo Dutti.  The well...

RemGuard is hitting all the right notes with its remote CCTV monitoring service at this prestigious concert venue right in the heart of Manchester.Out of hours security The versatility of remote monitoring - especially for large high value sites out of hours - has already been demonstrated in numerous installations across the UK, protecting a multitude of premises including concert halls, and sports stadia against organised and opportunist attacks.A case in point is the approach taken to securit...

MissionHughes and Hughes, Ireland's fastest-growing bookstore chain, required a cost-effective surveillance system to provide easy access to high quality images which could be used as evidence in cases of theft, vandalism or fraud across ten airport-based outlets including six at Dublin Airport.  The system needed to be straightforward to install and integrate with the airport's existing IT network infrastructure.SolutionOmniSys is Hughes and Hughes' IT consultancy, responsible for supporti...

A major upgrade to security and public information systems, provided by Siemens Building Technologies, is helping Exchange Quay in one of Salford's premier business districts to retain and enhance the enviable reputation which has allowed it to attract a host of blue-chip tenants. Originally built in 1989 using futuristic building designs and strategically located at the entrance to the Salford Quays business area, the 12-acre Exchange Quay site has, since its opening, made effective use of CCT...

The customerStockton on Tees Borough Council delivers a wide array of vital services in a thriving area of the Tees Valley that includes Billingham, Stockton, Thornaby, Ingleby Barwick, Yarm and surrounding areas.  The Council works with many other organisations to deliver a full range of local services, such as education, social care, transportation, leisure and environmental services, for the benefit of around 179,000 residents and the many others who work here.Operational overview Stockt...

The increasing risk of attacks and vandalism affects car park users and operators equally.  The requirements are for a round-the-clock functional monitoring solution, a solution that builds on existing infrastructure at the same time as being economical to implement. According to a poll conducted by a market-research agency, the subject of security takes top priority in car parks.  Car park operators must increasingly fulfil these expectations.  With the "Sevis solution", t...

Video servers from the global leader in network video Axis Communications were selected as part of an innovative home digital television service called Digital Bridge, which was officially launched in Shoreditch this week. Video streams gathered from analogue-based Pan Tilt Zoom dome cameras are being routed into Axis 241S Video Servers by leading Axis solution partner CNL (Computer Network Limited).  CNL has also enabled video images from the Axis video servers to be routed to the Hackne...

Robert Wint of Verint Systems outlines how proactive movement-triggered remote monitoring of potential intruder events works to reduce theft, arson and criminal damage at schools.According to figures published by the Metropolitan Police recently (Crime in London schools 2000-2004), every week in the UK there are 2,100 arson attacks, 20 schools are damaged or destroyed by arson, two people die and 55 people are injured in fire-related incidents, and the (direct) cost of arson is put at somew...

IndigoVision's IP Video technology is providing remote monitoring for Verbund Group hydroelectric power plants along the River Danube in Austria.  Verbund is the largest power generation company in Austria and derives over 90% of its generating capacity from renewable hydropower.  Previously all power plants and facilities were monitored by local analogue CCTV systems with continuously manned control rooms.  Within 5-6 years Verbund plans to convert all 88 hydroelectric power plan...

Dillingham is a busy coastal community located on Alaska‘s Bristol Bay.  With a population of 2,300, the "Sockeye Salmon Capital" is best known for the abundance of salmon and its commercial fishing industry.  From May to August each year, between 5,000 and 8,000 tourists and fishermen arrive in Dillingham to work the summer fishing season.Security concernsThe large transient population in Dillingham during the summer creates additional security concerns for the city au...

For many years, manned guarding has been the mainstay of the security industry.  But the cost of manned guarding is rising fast, which is why Shield Security Limited of Port Talbot has worked with Siemens Building Technologies Security Products to develop a solution which is not only far less costly, but also much more effective. When it was founded twenty years ago as a provider of on-site guarding services, Shield Security Ltd. was typically charging clients around £250 per week fo...