Case studies

IndigoVision's IP Video technology is helping local residents in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, USA, fight violent crime through an innovative CCTV solution.  The area around the WCCNPAC Community Center and Adams 4 Shopping Center is benefiting from a remote surveillance solution that has been implemented using standard Internet communications.  Video feeds from the remote cameras are digitally compressed and transmitted via cable modems across the Internet to the security control...

The Jewish Museum in Frankfurt is one of the three major Jewish museums in Germany.  It traces the interrelationship between Jews in Germany and their environment based on the example of Frankfurt.  Prior to World War II the city of Frankfurt had the highest percentage of Jewish inhabitants with over 26,000 Jewish citizens.  The building is secured today by 360° video surveillance.  Its open character was intentionally selected, as the changing exhibitions are to be acces...

Built in 1912, TianJin Polytechnic University is a well established full-time tertiary educational institution in China with 14 colleges, about 25,000 students, and 1300 lecturers and tutors.  The University has a spacious and harmonious campus equipped with top-notch educational equipments and is further expanding and constructing a new campus session of around two million square metres. Saving resource and energy, improving management efficiency and providing a comfortable learning enviro...

To monitor traffic conditions and maintain safety at distant locations, transfer of video images of exceptional quality is crucial.  A SISTORE CX video-over-IP solution from Siemens integrates analogue cameras with an intelligent digital video codec, providing outstanding image quality of the Gotschna Tunnel at a superior cost/performance ratio.The Gotschna Tunnel, opened in Switzerland at the end of 2005 with a length of 4.2 km, and is part of the Klosters by-pass and the federal highway A...

Sophisticated digital video surveillance technology and long-range passive infrared detectors from ADPRO™ are at the heart of a major security and health & safety installation for the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA).  They have been installed to protect people and equipment at the IAA's Air Traffic Control Centre (ATCC) in Shannon and six remote locations housing essential radar and communications infrastructure across the region. The IAA is a commercial State sponsored organisatio...

Jacksons Fine Fencing's latest project proved slightly more hazardous than normal - the site on which they planned to install boundary fencing also included twenty unexploded World War 2 pipe bombs.The Coastguard and Hampshire Police air unit recently acquired the former Navy airfield, HMS Daedalus, in Lee on Solent in Hampshire.Jacksons were given the mammoth task of installing Euro-Guard Extra boundary fencing to secure the site that is 400 acres with three multi-directional runways - a ta...

The National Institute for Aviation Research is using Milestone Systems' open platform IP video management software with Axis network cameras to increase visibility in tests, provie remote access to monitoring tests, save on night staffing needs, and improve personnel safety.The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University integrates academic, government and business entities in cooperative efforts to advance technologies for aviation and other industries.  It...

MITIE was recently appointed to provide aviation guarding services during the recent high profile visit to the UK by the Emperor and Empress of Japan.A team of 3 officers from MITIE Security's specialist aviation and transportation division were assigned to provide a dedicated 24-hour guarding service to protect and secure the Imperial flight during its three-day stop over at London Heathrow Airport.This short-term agreement builds upon a 12-year relationship between Japanese Flag Carrier JA...

AlertSystems originally installed Net2 in 2005 at the then newly-built facility of KBRS in Melksham, Wiltshire, UK.  "It has developed from there," says Alert Systems' IT manager Phil Davies.  Net2 is now used throughout the KBRS site, with access control units fitted to gates and barriers as well as doors.  Access to all areas is controlled using the system.AlertSystems originally installed Net2 in 2005 at the then newly-built facility of KBRS in Melksham, Wiltshire, UK...

ACTi's IP Camera CAM-5320 and IP Speed Dome CAM-6610 have provided a clever solution to support traffic statistics recording and accident monitoring in Thailand.  On the Phapradang Ring Road, all cameras are connected by fibre optic cable within a LAN environment.  At the side of the camera, customers just plug the network cable into the media converter then the video will be transmitted via the fibre optic cable. In the central control building, the system integrator is setup with thr...

‘Just in time' is one of the most important standards used to evaluate logistics services.  Raw materials have to be at the production location, products have to leave the production halls, and the goods have to be delivered to the customer, right on time.  The requirements can only be met by the most modern logistics and warehousing systems, which also have to guarantee maximum availability. Leading supplier With more than 700 reference facilities throughout the world, MAN L...

Privately funded CCTV systems in public areas are gaining increasing acceptance, with more and more neighbourhood or special-interest groups pooling funds to install cameras.  Eureka (California), Zurich in Switzerland, the London Borough of Enfield, and Belfast in Northern Ireland have all seen surveillance equipment sponsored by businesses and neighbourhood watchdogs.A current example is occurring in south side Milwaukee where a major thoroughfare, National Avenue, is benefiting from day-...

COE Group Plc, the developer and supplier of advanced video systems, has been selected supplier of choice by Distelco, Italy, for the supply of high resolution video codecs for the Martignano Tunnel project in the Trentino region.  The COE X-Net® G3 MPEG4 codecs form the core of the video encoding and transmission system and will make up part of the overall safety system which also incorporates Citilog's MediaTunnel automatic incident detection across 26 of the 43 cameras located within...

One of the world's finest cricket coaching venues, the MCC Indoor Cricket School, is capitalising on the very latest CCTV technology from SANYO to help future Test and County stars hone their skills. The SANYO technology is a part of the School's Performance Analysis Suite, which was recently completed and has already been used by top cricketers including England's Alastair Cook.Founded in the 1970s, and re-built in the 1990s, the School, which is situated within Lord's Cricket G...

IndigoVision's complete IP-Video system is providing a comprehensive CCTV surveillance solution for the Police Service in Macau, one of the two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China, along with Hong Kong.  The new system has revolutionised how Macau Police monitor their operation and has provided them with faster video analysis and improved incident response.  IndigoVision was chosen following a successful test evaluation of competing systems by techn...

The coastline of Dubai is rapidly changing as The Palm islands emerge from the sea.  Today, the city of Dubai, currently the fastest growing metropolis on earth, and holds approximately 1.5 million people.  By the year 2015 this number is expected to have increased to 3.0 million.  To promote tourism, three Palm islands are being built by Nakheel in the waters of the Arabian Gulf.  Construction on The Palm Jebel Ali will begin this year.  Reclamation of The Palm Deira...

Paxton's Net2 system has supplied award-winning food producer Bigham's with a flexible solution that controls access and records timekeeping for more than 200 staff working in kitchen, office and storage areas throughout two buildings in Park Royal, London. The easily-managed security system ensures that only authorised people can gain access to each area.  It takes just moments to issue a new staff member with a card tailored to their role or - equally importantly - to cancel the card if s...

Derwent's REG™ number plate capture cameras have been used to improve security at the Cheltenham Gold Cup, one of the British horse racing world's top annual festivals.The number plates of more than 15,000 vehicles entering and leaving during the two-day event were captured by Derwent's REG Dual cameras, installed by Special Events Communications."Our engineers were able to set the system up very quickly because the cameras are literally plug and play," explains Don Wetherell of...

Bikes belonging to MPs and Peers were visibly marked with a permanent security marking before they set off on this year's All Party Parliamentary Bike Ride.As politicians and Lords gathered recently on College Green, in front of the Houses of Parliament, a total of 85 bikes were marked by security company Selectamark.  All of the bikes belonged to parliamentary employees who use their bikes to cycle to work, including Lords, MPs and even House of Commons catering staff. T...

Rainbow's bullet cameras are monitoring some of the finest racehorses in the world at stables in Kentucky, USA.  The cameras are allowing breeders to observe mares during the crucial days of foaling and have been installed at several leading breeders by local integrator Barney Miller's.   A notable site is Glen Ridge Farm, Lexington, where a prominent breeder is using the cameras in nine stalls and reviewing images at night from the comfort of their home on a hard-wired system wit...

Vandal-resistant dome cameras from Rainbow are being used at BP petrol stations across the United Kingdom for general surveillance at the company's forecourts. Installers, Cambridgeshire-based AGE Electrical Services, report that the domes are compact and unobtrusive, meaning the units are unlikely to be struck by high-sided or unusually shaped vehicles as they move around the BP sites.  Use of these cameras forms part of BP's wide-ranging CCTV measures aimed at health & safety, logisti...

RemGuard's remotely monitored, detector-activated CCTV service is being applied at Rosehill Industrial EstateLarge scale protectionIn another Australian example, RemGuard's remotely monitored, detector-activated CCTV service is being applied to the large multi-tenanted $137 million Rosehill Industrial Estate, owned by ING Industrial Fund, situated in suburban western Sydney, where RemGuard provides overall 'perimeter estate monitoring'.The original intent was to employ after hours security guard...