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Security planners at the new Heathrow Terminal 5 have specified Forward Vision's Mic1-400 PTZ cameras for surveillance of key external areas, in a project being handled by NTL Business. Forty-six of the rugged speed domes, also known as 'Metal Mickeys', are being used as part of the £70m security and telecommunications network at airport. Previously, 20 MIC1-400s - featuring high-precision resolver technology for pin-point accuracy and 18X optical zoom (12X digital) - had...
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...
DVTel, Inc., ranked number one in market share by IMS Research and multiple award-winning market leader in the development and delivery of intelligent security solutions over IP networks, recently announced the successful deployment of a highly ambitious city surveillance project with the Indian Police in the city of Delhi. Delhi-based Turbo Consultancy Services, Ltd. is the systems integrator on the project. Delhi is where an empire rose and fell before the dawn of civilization and today...
Rushden and Diamonds Football Club were formed at the end of the 1991/92 season following a merger between Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds. The brainchild of Max Griggs, a local businessman and owner of Dr. Martens, millions were spent bringing the ground, Nene Park, up to and beyond the required standards.Since the club gained promotion to the Football Conference in 1996, Rushden and Diamonds have risen through the leagues reaching Division Two in 2003. Following a period of tur...
More than a hundred of Rainbow CCTV's lenses have been installed at the US Army’s Fort Leonard Wood complex in Missouri, USA. The vari-focal lens is designed for applications requiring an extremely wide field of view. The lens model L163VDC4P has a focal length of 1.6~3.4mm to provide a horizontal field of view of 180°. The DC auto-iris lens has an aperture of F1.4~360 and is compatible with 1/3” and 1/4” cameras. The units have been installed as part of an ex...
The Challenge Traditionally the CCTV infrastructure in Ipswich had been focused primarily on individual installations where, without integration, there was no potential to share images with other locations, so the adoption of the DV-IP Servers - offering a Video over IP network solution - represented a dramatic enhancement in capability for the council. In the lead-up and implementation stages of the project there was close collaboration between the local systems integrators, Ipswich Council an...
When you include the suburbs, the city of Lyon, France, with 445,452 inhabitants and a surface area of 47.87 square metres is the second largest city of France. Lyon was in need of a video surveillance system to monitor the access and exit of pedestrians and cars in the city centre. Transmission of video, intercom and data over an IP network for opening fences were just some of the requirements. Siqura B.V. offered the complete IP-surveillance solution optimised to fit the purpose of...
BWA Tehnology's equipment is in use in many German enterprises and governmental agencies. Typical applications include long-term surveillance with independent power consumption for monitoring of entrances, inventory or investigations into corruption. DiREX-Pro DVRs are also ideal for military applications, as they can be used with night-vision equipment. With integrated support of WiFi/cellular data transmission, this solution is perfectly suited for covert deployment and...
Steve Cox, central services manager for the Unitary Authority of Blackburn with Darwen in East Lancashire, is delighted with the P3.net access control system manufactured by Lancashire based BSB Electronics and installed by Darwen based Atlas Alarms. He says, "Three major multi-user Borough Council buildings have the up-to-date P3 online, proximity card access system. Nearly 2,500 users now benefit from this very reliable and easy to use access control system."Steve, who is...
High impact dome cameras from Rainbow have been installed at a flagship leisure venue in Cardiff. Technology at the Liquid Nightclub allows managers to transmit aromas onto the dance floor and create computer graphics, which transform the building into a swimming pool or the Albert Hall.The site is using 60 of the dome cameras on dance floors and in bar areas. These 1/3" cameras use a DSP image sensor and are available as colour or black and white models. The monochrome uni...
Situated in Sheffield, in the heart of the Don Valley, the Valley Leisure Park complements the adjacent Sheffield Arena and Don Valley stadium, as one of Sheffield's premier leisure facilities. Attracting thousands of visitors each week, the leisure park boasts one of the UK's largest multiplex cinemas with over 20 screens, a large Hollywood Bowl complex, and multiple restaurants, including Old Orleans, Frankie and Benny's, Chiquito, The Boardwalk and a Burger King.As part of t...
Salford Rugby Club has completed an upgrade of its security system, based on DS2 digital technology from Dedicated Micros.Staff at the club's retail unit decided to invest in the latest digital video recording technology following problems with the quality of images from the old analogue system. A DS2 digital multiplexer has been installed in the club's on-site offices, housing the ticket office, the stock warehouse and the Reds' popular shop, selling t-shirts, rugby balls and...
Network cameras from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been installed in The Rose Bowl, home to the Hampshire County Cricket Club and the venue for the first day of the recent England versus India one-day series. AXIS 214 PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) Network Cameras have been installed by iCode Systems Limited as part of a comprehensive upgrade of the stadium's surveillance system over the last year. The upgrade, which was installed by Taylor Ma...
Häfele supplied the Schlosshotel in Kitzbuhel (Austria) with 220 door terminals for guests‘ rooms and administrative areas plus emergency escape door furniture, 25 wall-mounted terminals for the wellness area and the main entrance door plus 90 changing room locks for the SPA area. All these locking and access authorisations are operated by the LEGIC transponder system which functions as a key in this case. In addition, other services such as the thermal baths, ski lift and indoo...
Exotic environmentThe jungle paths wind their way through the rainforest, round 500 different types of plants, 14-m high trees, under waterfalls and over a mangrove swamp in temperatures of 28 °C with close to 60 % humidity. In the world's largest freestanding hall, 66,000 m² and five million m³ of interior space, the Tropical Islands Resort Berlin-Brandenburg is an authentic man-made tropical landscape. The huge hall with its 10,000 m² of rainforest and housing Euro...
By concentrating on backdoor threats (thieves, vandals & intruders) security systems often neglect the threat posed by visitors to a site. Net2 access control provides security against both, as well as helping a site to conform to health and safety regulations. An ordinary pass based visitor management system may be efficient at recording arrival and departure times, but it's limited to just that. Unlike Net2, it can't restrict visitors' movements ar...
Over the years, the BMW International Open in Munich has gained a reputation with the world's golfing elite as one of the most important golf tournaments in Europe. This year for the first time, Regensburg-based company Dallmeier participated, presenting its CCTV/IP solutions for major sporting events. As an organizer of amateur as well as professional golf tournaments around the world for 22 years, BMW recognises the growing importance of the sport for its target audiences. The...
Parking at Dublin Airport has just become easier for the estimated 320,000 customers who park their cars in the QuickPark car park at the airport each year. An innovative new online reservation system developed by ParkMagic, the Irish mobile payment and wireless technology company, integrated with the Net2 access control system from Paxton Access has transformed passengers' parking experience.www.quickpark.ie is a new online reservation system developed and powered by ParkMagic. Cust...
Exceeded all expectations"I am a businessman at heart - and that's why I like to get down to business!" Just one look at Franz Schreyer will have you convinced. After all, with all his hard work, his innovative nature and his entrepreneurial spirit, this businessman has managed to build up a very respectable corporate group in just about 30 years. In 1977, he first founded Schreyer Haustechnik GmbH Markt Indersdorf, just 30 km south-east of Munich, population 10,000.&...
IndigoVision, the leading supplier of end-to-end IP Video solutions, is providing its technology as a backbone for a new integrated traffic monitoring system for Bangkok's outer ring road network. Existing toll plaza CCTV surveillance systems located across 75km of the ring road have been integrated into a new central control room. Staff in the control room can now view high-quality video from inside and outside of the four toll plaza complexes, providing central monitoring for t...
Siemens Building Technologies Security Systems, has been successful in winning an order worth £300,000 from Reigate and Banstead Borough Council for the complete refurbishment of the council's CCTV control room. The refurbishment will provide improved monitoring and recording facilities not only for Reigate & Banstead, but also for neighbouring Mole Valley Council. The procurement processes for this project took place under the terms of the framework established by OGC...
Billion euro investmentThere will always be paper. Despite the digital, or so-called ‘paperless' age, the paper industry is still booming in Germany. This means that bleached long-fibre cellulose, which is used to produce fine and printing paper as well as high-quality sanitary paper, also remains very much in demand.The high demand induced Mercer International Inc., an American-Canadian pulp and paper manufacturing company, to set up a new cellulose plant in the north of the G...
Verint Systems Inc., a leading provider of analytic software-based solutions for workforce-enterprise optimisation and security, recently announced that Metro Transit has selected its NextivaTM Transit solution to enhance the security of passengers and operators on-board its buses in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Metro Transit manages an integrated network of buses and trains and is the 18th largest transit system in the US, with approximately 240,000 rides provided each weekday. As...
Axis Communications, a global leader in the network video market, has installed cutting-edge network video surveillance systems in the newly opened surgery ward at the Institute for Children's Emergency Surgery and Traumatology in Moscow. The equipment helps provide high-quality remote monitoring of patients, as well as ensures tighter security of the hospital premises. For the special medical video surveillance system, 119 Axis network cameras were deployed in all patient wards to e...
Video servers from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been deployed by security installer King Communications (working in partnership with security distributor ADI-Gardiner) to help modernise The Lighthouse's CCTV system and protect some of Scotland's finest design treasures. A total of four AXIS 241Q Video Servers have been used to convert analogue images (from the 16 existing cameras already positioned throughout the six-floor building) into digital video strea...
The companyRedstone Federal Credit Union is the largest credit union in Alabama and one of the 30 largest credit unions in the United States, with over $1.7 billion in assets and over 245,000 members. In June 2006, Redstone earned its 41st consecutive 5-Star rating for financial safety and stability from BauerFinancial Inc. Operational overviewThis full-service financial institution offers retail and commercial banking, securities brokerage, mortgage, and insurance products and services, w...
Treviglas Community College in Cornwall has saved thousands of pounds upgrading its surveillance systems by deploying Axis Communications Power over Ethernet-enabled (PoE) network cameras, as well as a range of other hardware from Axis. The upgrade followed an extensive review of the college's ten year old, analogue-based CCTV system which revealed major shortcomings. A total of 18 new AXIS 211 Power over Ethernet Network Cameras and one new AXIS 2130 PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) Network Camera ha...
Built in 1912, TianJin Polytechnic University is a well established full-time tertiary educational institution in China, with 14 colleges, about 25,000 students, 1,300 lecturers and tutors. The University has a spacious and harmonious campus equipped with top-notch educational equipment and is further expanding and constructing a new campus session of around two million square meters. Saving resources and energy, improving management efficiency and providing a comfortable learning environ...
Having supplied many schools, colleges and universities with a wide range of access control solutions, TDSi has developed particular expertise in the integration of access control and proprietary management information systems (MISs). Schools are increasingly incorporating sophisticated management systems covering enrolment, attendance records and academic performance. Such packages form an integral part of timetable planning and the development of curriculum courses, as well as linking t...
The Challenge The University of Oxford Security Services department has invested in a major overhaul of its CCTV system and upgraded to a networked digital system controlled by Dedicated Micros multiplexers. Four BX2 multiplexers support 60 cameras, which have been upgraded to digital to keep a watchful eye on the University estate that includes some of Britain's most valued historic buildings and museums such as the Radcliffe Camera, Sheldonian Theatre and the Bodleian Library. Demands on th...
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