Transportation security applications - Case studies
Integra2 is a transport company for industrial and commercial package handling under controlled room temperatures (between +2° and 8°C) with branch offices in Spain, Andorra and Portugal. The company belongs to the Grupo Logista, the largest provider of total logistics services in Spain and Portugal as well as in Europe. In 2003, Integra2 handled more than 4.5 million shipments in total, and today the company has 3 million m3 of warehouse space. After more than 20 years of e...
The challenge Transports Metropolitan de Barcelona (TMB), the public company responsible for managing the bus network, metro line and other transport options in Barcelona, needed a modern security system to replace the old analogue installation in its Horta bus depot. Solution Sony worked closely with TMB and E-Solutions to install a security system bringing together SNC-RZ30P digital, IP network cameras and RealShot Manager. The SNC-RZ30P belongs to the latest generation of security monitorin...
For transport operators, protecting their passengers, staff and their assets is of paramount importance, and increasingly so. Whether on buses, trains or trams, indeed on any passenger transport, combating crime and dealing with the fall-out of crime is a major concern, fraught with challenges. For Eurotransport, Robert Wint, Marketing Director of EMEA Verint Systems interviewed Mr. Burkhard Eberwein, Head of Vehicle Management (Bus) Department at BVG, who examines the challenges and develo...
After installing security systems for the Marshall Group of Companies for almost two decades, integrated security installer and solutions specialist, Guardian Security and Communications Ltd, was invited to tender for a major upgrade and for the provision of systems to serve a new Forward Base Operations and Maintenance Repair Operations complex for corporate jets. After carefully analysing the requirements of this complex project - which involves widely separated multiple sites - the company d...
Mission Park West Enterprise Centre Management Company (PWEC) manages the Park West Enterprise Centre in West Dublin, Ireland, which is home to more than 80 companies and is set within the Park West Business Park, itself home to more than 240 companies and employing more than 8,000 employees. PWEC called on Encom, one of Ireland's leading IP-Surveillance solutions providers, to develop a solution to provide greater security for its members and reduce vandalism. Solution Encom's solution...
World-renowned Kruger National Park offers visitors among the best wildlife experiences in Africa. The park is home to an incredible number of species - 336 trees, 49 fish, 34 amphibians, 114 reptiles, 507 birds and 147 mammals - and chronicles centuries of human interaction with the Lowveld environment, including everything from bushman rock paintings to majestic archaeological sites like Masorini and Thulamela. The park grounds must therefore provide strict protection to all species. "We are...
Westcountry Security, a part of Chubb, assist Tally Ho! Coaches with protecting the company's assetsA sophisticated IP-based CCTV system from, has curbed the theft of expensive diesel from the yard of Devon-based coach and bus company Tally Ho! Coaches.A spate of thefts of fuel and other expensive commodities from transport depots and yards, often in remote locations, prompted Tally Ho! Coaches to take action. The company had been experiencing fuel theft sporadically for almost two years,...
Ravenhill Stadium is home to the Irish Rugby Football UnionThe CCTV system operators keep a watchful eye Winners of the Celtic Cup, and runners up in the Heineken Cup, the professional arm of the Irish Rugby Football Union, (Ulster Branch) which plays under the title Ulster Rugby (UR), is the foremost professional sporting club in Northern Ireland. Residing at the famous Ravenhill Stadium, the club plays host to competitions ranging from the finals of club and school competition...
AMG is supplying their fibre optic transmission system, which integrates ethernet and low speed data with high quality uncompressed videoAMG Systems Ltd. announces that it has been contracted by EFKON Group India - to supply its innovative fibre optic transmission system Guardian-Lite™ 3700 for traffic management and control on National Highways No 7 and No 47.Commenced in 1998 and aimed to create world class roads with uninterrupted traffic flow in a country where 80% of p...
Conquest Hospital in East Sussex Based on a gently sloping site in Hastings, the Conquest Hospital is a modern District General Hospital. Built over four levels, the hospital opened 16 years ago and in 2002 merged with Eastbourne Hospital to form East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust serving the population of East Sussex. The Trust employs over 5,000 staff and is an extremely busy hospital trust. In the last year the Trust's maternity teams delivered 3,835 babies; 95,393 people were tr...
Attractive and safeArrival and departure, welcome and farewell, staying and shopping - a train station is not just a traffic hub, a building or a site of transition. It is quite a complex operation designed to serve numerous interests, desires and functions. About 5,800 active train stations are located in Germany. Since Deutsche Bahn (DB, German Rail) was privatised in 1994, DB Station&Service AG has been in charge of operating the German train stations. In order to...
March Networks offers mobile video solutions to safeguard passengers and operationsMarch Networks®, a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, recently announced that the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) is using the Company's mobile video surveillance solutions for security and risk management on its para-transit and fixed route buses.RTC is the transit authority, the transportation-planning agency and the regional t...
IndigoVision supplies Hong Kong's Traffic Monitoring Centre with video IP solutionIndigoVision's complete IP-CCTV technology has been used to extend the capabilities of Hong Kong's extensive traffic surveillance system. The current analogue system has been expanded with the addition of 48 cameras using IndigoVision's IP Video system, creating a fully integrated 250 camera hybrid solution. The introduction of IndigoVision's IP-based distributed networked provides a platform for...
"De Fußball kummt hääm" - "Football is coming home" - this phrase uttered in Palatinate dialect is a clear indication of where the people here believe that the home of football is: in Kaiserslautern. Well, since the 1950s at least. During the 1950s, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, the city's football club, won the German championship twice (1951 and 1953). At that time, Fritz and Ottmar Walter, along with three other club members, formed the backbone of the legendary Germ...
IndigoVision's integrated IP Video technology has been deployed as part of a massive CCTV central monitoring and recording project for First Capital Connect (FCC), one of the UK's newest train operating companies.FCC operates trains between London, Brighton, Bedford, Peterborough, Cambridge and King's Lynn over the UK's busiest rail network. As part of its five year, £8 million, network-wide Station Improvements Programme, FCC selected IndigoVision and its partner ATEC Security to in...
La PanièreThe chain of bakeries established in the Rhône-Alpes region has upgraded its analogue video surveillance system into a network video solution.The mission for Axis CommunicationsAs a family-run business, La Panière, a chain of bakery and pastry stores, employs 300 people in 30 stores distributed throughout the towns of the Rhône-Alpes region in France. Between 1998 and 2000, following numerous cash robberies, Pascal Cantenot, the CEO of the company, decid...
The AXIS 209FD-R, Axis's network camera specifically designed for use in transportation applications, has been installed by Axis partner PC-1 and Secure-IT on behalf of EST Buses based near Bridgend, South Wales.PC-1 was approached to partner Secure-IT and installed a solution comprising three AXIS 209FD-R network cameras per bus operating on public routes between Cardiff and Llandow. As part of the solution one camera is installed looking out through the front windscreen to capture the dr...
Queen Mary, University of London, one of London and the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions, has begun work on a three year grant-funded research project to gather real world data and build models and algorithms for software application development relating to BEWARE. This stands for Behaviour based Enhancement of Wide-Area Situational Awareness in a Distributed Network of CCTV Cameras, and has important implications for security in the UK. Running from 2007 t...
Following a spate of vandalism and cable theft within various parts of Network Rail's infrastructure, TEW Plus Ltd instigated a successful eight week trial of an intruder deterrent system using Derwent Systems' new AEGIS White Light LED illuminators.During the day intruders are detected by sensors which trigger a loudspeaker that issues a stern warning to trespassers to leave the site. At night the sensors trigger Derwent's powerful AEGIS UFLED White Light illuminators which flood the scene with...
Clear signalsGerman railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) gives high priority to keeping travellers informed. This explains why 220 million euros were invested in a single ‘Traveler Information System' project. The system is a technical and organisational platform that supplies consistent, reliable and up-to-date information about the current operating status to customers and employees alike. Thanks to this system, on-board personnel can, for example, use text messaging tec...
St Pancras International, Eurostar's new central London home, is using leading edge IP CCTV technology from Bosch Security Systems.St Pancras International is part of 'High Speed 1' - the UK's largest ever single construction project and the first major new railway for over a century. The £5.8 billion high speed rail line from the mouth of the Channel Tunnel to St Pancras International is being delivered by London & Continental railways. It will make it possible to run twice the...
IndigoVision's complete end-to-end IP Video solution is helping global logistics specialist Kühne+Nagel to streamline and secure its distribution network in Austria. The new networked digital CCTV system provides both security surveillance and a video record of truck and parcel movements throughout their five Austrian distribution centres in Vienna, Schwechat Airport, Port Enns, Salzburg and Linz. As a truck arrives at a distribution centre an operator tracks its movement with a PTZ...
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) needed a system to give visual traffic updates to travellers in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, helping them make informed travel and route decisions. More than 60 Axis video servers were installed by the MnDOT Metro Traffic Engineering team, to digitize the feeds from its existing 238 analogue traffic cameras, enabling real-time traffic images to be distributed over the Internet. By using Axis video servers to digitize its existing cameras,...
Sony recently revealed how it has met one of Europe's most complicated security challenges by creating and delivering an intelligent and efficient security system for Spain's Line 9. The system will provide reassurance and protection for the 90 million passengers that use Line 9 every year by connecting more cameras than the rest of the Barcelona's underground lines put together, to guarantee constant, blanket surveillance. Altogether, 2,937 SNC-CS50P IP network cameras are inst...
Verint Systems Inc. recently announced the People's Republic of China Ministry of Railways has selected its Nextiva™ Critical Infrastructure IP video solution with integrated analytics to enhance the security of certain portions of the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed passenger rail system. The first high-speed rail system built in mainland China, the Beijing-Tianjin circuit will feature trains reaching speeds in excess of 300 kilometres per hour. The 120-kilometre rail system will connect...
New Jersey based Maher Terminals, one of the world's largest independent multi-user container terminal operators, relies on JVC's security systems to enhance traffic monitoring of the facility and loading areas and cranes loading containers onto the ships. Utilizing JVC's VR-N1600U network video recorders (NVR) and VN-C655U high performance IP-network based dome cameras, Maher Terminals can easily provide access for up to 10 users to view terminal activities simultaneously to assure effici...
Visimetrics have recently provided the digital recording solution for the CCTV upgrade of the West Coast Main Line's 17 stations operated by Virgin Trains. The recording solution for the project is based upon the integration of FASTAR, VADER and OCTAR DVR systems tailored specifically to meet the recording profiles required at each station on the line.The national rail network effectively categorises each station depending on its use, footfall and importance to the network. With a va...
"Savoir vivre" in FrankfurtIn the middle of the hectic Frankfurt banking district, tranquility can be found at the traditional Le Méridien Parkhotel Frankfurt. Located in the idyllic Wiesenhüttenplatz, a street surrounded by trees, the hotel, which was built in 1905, offers its guests a superior standard of comfort as well as a discreet and courteous service with all the flair of a grand old establishment. Guests are guaranteed a haven of comfort and relaxa...
Sony recently revealed how it has met one of Europe's most complicated security challenges by creating and delivering an intelligent and efficient security system for Spain's Line 9. The system will provide reassurance and protection for the 90 million passengers that use Line 9 every year by connecting more cameras than the rest of the Barcelona's underground lines put together, to guarantee constant, blanket surveillance. Altogether, 2937 SNC-CS50P IP network cameras are insta...
CCTV cameras utilising SANYO's unique Pan-Focus technology are helping to create a safe and secure environment at the new Docklands Light Railway, Langdon Park Station.30 SANYO cameras have been located at the station, the majority incorporating PAN-Focus technology, which ensures that the camera lens keeps all objects in focus no matter how close or far away they are from the camera. The x2.6 lens depth of field is such that it does not require any manual focus adjustment to deliver clear...
