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A University of Bath student has taken a prize in a prestigious European scientific and engineering award for designing a locking system to stop the theft of valuable paintings. Tom Howard, a student in Mechanical Engineering, won third prize in the Scientific Award BMW Group 2005 prize for his design of an anti-theft device for art galleries.He was one of only six students out of 230 entrants from 26 countries to receive a prize, and he will share part of the 70,000 Euros (£47,700) prize...

BP upgrades from analogue to digital CCTVHoneywell today announced that Honeywell Video Systems has been specified for the supply of all CCTV equipment for the BP owned petrol station forecourts in the UK.  This is a two phase project that involves the upgrade from analogue to digital video systems, followed by the upgrade of the original digital systems to the Honeywell Digital Video Recorder (DVR).Phase one was completed in July.  Phase two will happen, over the next 18 months, on a...

JVC’s TK-WD310E camera used in difficult lighting conditionsFour JVC TK-WD310E cameras have been installed inside the fish market at Newlyn Harbour, the Main Fishing Port in England and Wales.  They are used to monitor the reflective delivery and pick up areas for the fish.  The cameras were specified and installed by Cornwall based, CCTV specialists, Perspective CCTV for Newlyn Harbour Commissioners. The TK-WD310E camera is especially designed to capture clear, easy-to-view imag...

Xstrata Copper's emergency and protective services superintendent at Mount Isa Mines, Darren Bracey, says Cardax FT, as a tool, provides better control of access management health and safety systems and he wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.Tracey: "The powerful software leads itself well to integration with other third party software applications to allow better management of security, health, safety, access control and contractor management".Mines present numerous challenges when it c...

A range of surveillance equipment has been supplied by leading specialist supplier CBC (Europe) to improve security for one of the largest Ford car dealerships in north-east England. In total, five sites, owned by the Patterson Motor Group, have benefited from this additional protection.The CCTV measures have been introduced to combat a number of different problems the company had experienced at the sites. These included break-ins, as well as thefts of vehicles at storage compounds and otherwise...

One of UK’s largest Train Operators installs ADPRO Remote Video Monitoring solution to monitor 77 train stations across South Wales 24/7 from one central locationThe ChallengeArriva Trains Wales needed a remote CCTV solution to detect and deal with a range of issues, from thefts from car parks, vandalism and graffiti, staff or passenger assaults, and ticket avoidance.  “One of the problems we encounter is that no stations are identical yet many aspects look similar,” says...

Digital System enhances security and helps resolve day-to-day issuesOutstanding customer service has helped make DHL one of the world's most recognised name brands. From its early days shuttling merchandise receipts between San Francisco and Honolulu, to its current status as a global express provider, DHL has focused on ensuring immediate, reliable and secure customer service.  To support that primary objective, the company has often turned to technology to improve efficiencies and conveni...

Video security helps retailer cut losses by 50 percentThe old adage about never judging a book by its cover is uniquely appropriate in the case of Stella & Rose's Books in Monmouthshire, Wales.Book-lovers wandering through its doors might soon find themselves infused with a feeling of old-world charm.  Not only would they be surrounded by the sights and smells of thousands of books - many of them rare or out of print - but they would receive the kind of one-to-one service many consider...

The ChallengeThe retailer was looking for a way to combat the growing problem of internal cash theft and consulted Kent-based CCTV specialists Intime Security Ltd.  Tracey Boulton, sales and marketing director at Intime Security said: "This chain of twelve high street shops, one based in Croydon's busy Whitgift Shopping Centre, was losing money through staff theft."  The staff would keep the till drawer open for long periods of time without ringing up.  The managers were...

New CCTV system with 100 Bosch cameras provides high quality image coverage right across the airport Integration with Access Control And Praesideo Voice Alarm/PA Systems for improved airport safety and security. An integrated CCTV system from Bosch Security Systems has been chosen for one of the UK’s newest international airports – the Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield airport.The approach taken in designing security for modern Airports has radically altered following the...

The DFDS Transport headquarters cover 150,000 square meters in a suburb of Copenhagen where 11-12,000 shipments occur daily. Customers demand the highest security for their goods, but DFDS’ old analog CCTV system could not archive recordings long enough, it sometimes crashed and data was lost.  Hundreds of drivers traffic the area round the clock, which makes the surveillance even more critical should any lost or stolen goods need to be investigated.  Proof of handling is also ne...

The ChallengeThe Heartlands Hospital, a 900 bed acute teaching trust hospital in central Birmingham and Solihull Hospital, and a 400 bed operation 12 miles further south both lost their existing CCTV coverage in December last year due to system failure.Solihull and Heartlands NHS Trust had been operating a combination of a PC-based digital recorder and a number of traditional analogue multiplexers and VCRs.  The system was becoming less reliable, so the decision was made to upgrade to a new...

Dedicated Micros has delivered the main CCTV element for DangerPoint, an innovative safety education centre created by the Police and the key agencies responsible for safety in North Wales.  The centre at Talacre, Flintshire, is targeted at school children across the region and is scheduled to open to the public this September.Dedicated Micros has delivered the main CCTV element for DangerPoint, an innovative safety education centre created by the Police and the key agencies responsible for...

Zoom lenses from Rainbow CCTV are being deployed following the development of previous camera usage at Oldbury, a nuclear power station in Gloucestershire. As part of its remit to ensure that the plants work properly and are safe to operate, British Nuclear Group Reactor Sites perform detailed observations inside nuclear reactors using specially-built manipulators and robots. The procedures allow the company to meet criteria set by an external body, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate. The 8-...

Zerodegrees, the expanding microbrewery and restaurant chain, has installed a new IP-Surveillance system at its Bristol-based restaurant in response to local authority licensing requirements for 30-days of high quality recording in public entertainment facilities.  A total of 16 Axis Communications network cameras, two Axis video servers and Milestone XProtect software has been deployed at the restaurant.Following completion of the trial this summer, Zerodegrees is planning to replicate the...

Zoom lenses from Rainbow CCTV are being deployed following the development of previous camera usage at Oldbury, a nuclear power station in Gloucestershire. As part of its remit to ensure that the plants work properly and are safe to operate, British Nuclear Group Reactor Sites perform detailed observations inside nuclear reactors using specially-built manipulators and robots.  The procedures allow the company to meet criteria set by an external body, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate....

National Mini Storage is the largest self storage company in New Zealand, with six self storage facilities, each with up to 1 kilometre of perimeter that needs security protection.  Since 1993, National Mini Storage has been a strong advocate of the PowerFence™ system to assure customers their property is safely protected. The concept of a self storage facility was relatively new to New Zealand when National Mini Storage opened their first site in Penrose in 1991.  The site desi...

Videoswitch have come to the aid of the Bracknell branch of the Samaritans by donating one of their VDC-4 digital video recorders. The VDC-4 DVR forms part of a security system installed by the Samaritans to ensure their volunteers can care for callers and visitors in a safe and secure environment.  Roland Simmons, Managing Director of Videoswitch said: "We are very pleased to be have been able to help this very important voluntary organisation.  The work that they do is universal...

Varifocal lenses from US manufacturer Rainbow CCTV are being used in dome camera units at major Boots stores throughout the UK.  The sites include the company’s flagship operation in Oxford Street, London.The 3-8mm direct drive Rainbow lenses are operating from Mark Mercer QuickSwitch fixed domes and are used internally.  The client is recording digitally at its large stores and there is ongoing migration to DVRs from analogue equipment.  Monitoring is currently performed on...

Vari-focal lenses from US manufacturer Rainbow CCTV have been installed at Woolworths stores including Liverpool, East Ham and Egham. The lenses are 3-8mm varifocal models and are operating within dome camera assemblies supplied by Mark Mercer. The client is recording digitally using DVRs by Dallmeier. The systems have been implemented by Bedfordshire-based CSG, a design and installation company who have also created tailor-made matrix managers for the sites.  CSG has niche expertise in ret...

“We’re a compact urban area and some sections of our road network have become oversaturated.  To ease congestion we want to give people travel information that allows them to make informed choices about their mode of transport and the route and timing of their journey.”Siemens Traffic Controls’ innovative traffic management and information system forms the hub of Reading’s control centre.Its principal features include a common database and co-ordination facilit...

In the modern office building effective security and access control is paramount.  There are many solutions on the market to identify individuals, the most common being proximity card readers on all doors requiring day to day access, but with an added level of security.When circumstances require higher security, biometric readers, the newest leap forward in security, can be implemented.  These can include scanning a fingerprint or iris to replace the traditional access card. The benefi...

Lloyd’s has recently completed a significant security upgrade in their award winning building on Lime Street in London by installing Fastlane plus speedgates and Fastlane optical turnstiles, from Integrated Design Ltd.  Established in 1688 in a coffee house, Lloyds is now the world’s best known insurance market, home to over 44 managing agents and 62 syndicates.As Lloyd’s takes security very seriously and keeps the issue under constant review they required a solution that...

Reliance Group's revenue is equivalent to 3.5% of India's GDP.  The Group contributes nearly 10% of the country's indirect tax revenues and over 6% of India's exports. Reliance continues to go from strength to strength with Cardax as its integration platform.From late 1999 to 2002 Reliance Infocomm built the backbone for a digital India - 60,000 kilometres of fibre optic backbone, crisscrossing the entire country.The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's lar...

G1 won the contract to build a completely new security control room for The Mall Selborne Walk in Walthamstow, East London. The system went live in April, 2005.The Mall Selborne Walk has been operating for 18 years and is one of 22 malls operated and owned by the Mall Group in the UK. The new CCTV system includes the video monitoring of the interior of the shopping centre building, retail shop fronts and car park using Pelco Spectra III series high speed dome cameras.Inside the control room are...

Rainbow CCTV’s 8.5-85mm varifocal lenses have been installed for long-range observation at Marine Terminals in Dublin Port. The units are being used at the “lift on/lift off” container section of the docks complex at Dublin Bay.  They are assisting the client, Marine Terminals Limited, to comply with the increasingly rigorous homeland security requirements of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS), created after the September 11th attacks.The aims of...

Lenses from Rainbow CCTV are being used at Watford Football Club’s Vicarage Road ground. The model being employed is a 6.5-65mm focal length zoom which is compatible with 1/3” and ¼” cameras. The lenses are sited on one of the stadium’s main gantries in PTZ mounted cameras and are used predominantly to monitor crowd behaviour on the other side of the pitch. Watford FC’s CCTV systems are maintained by Strood-based Ewatch Limited who will be helping the client...

NS turned to Dedicated Micros and its TransVu digital video recorder - specifically designed for transport applications - to conduct a mobile CCTV surveillance trial.  Initially TransVu units were installed in 8 Sprinter type trains on the busy Zoetermeer Stadslijn (City Line), each featuring 14 cameras and 2 recorders. Said Frank Meeuwens, Account Manager for Scandinavia and Benelux at DM: “We are delighted to have secured the Award for the Netherlands Railways project. The results f...

Rainbow CCTV, the California-based CCTV product manufacturer, has announced its vendor partnership with ADI International.  ADI, the US’s leading security and low voltage distributor with more than 100 locations in North America, launched operations in 12 countries earlier this year, establishing its international presence across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Rainbow is pleased to be a part of this initiative.ADI offers a wide choice of established security and low voltage brand...

Zoom lenses from US security product manufacturer Rainbow CCTV are forming a key element in the complex security and management of the National Exhibition centre (NEC) in Birmingham. The lenses are being used predominantly with Philips cameras on PTZ assemblies throughout Britain’s leading exhibition and conference venue. The NEC stages more than 180 events a year, ranging from Crufts and the British International Motor Show to our own industry’s IFSEC trade fair. Up to four million...