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AD Group - the parent company of Dedicated Micros - has concluded a deal with the administrators of Baxall Limited, KPMG Corporate Restructuring, which will secure the ongoing supply of the Baxall ICE range of mini-domes and cameras.  The Daresbury-based CCTV specialist has acquired the intellectual property, current inventory, as well as the production equipment, ensuring the smooth transition of the range into AD Group and, specifically, the Dedicated Micros CCTV product family. &nbs...

With the dark, long, winter nights fast approaching, CCTV systems will come under increasing pressure to perform in low light conditions.  Some systems may not be up to the task and will fail to achieve the effective night-time images required.  With this in mind, Raytec have developed a "CCTV Lighting Pack" which is available to all installers, consultants and end-users.  The pack includes a complete set of CCTV lighting tools to help you achieve effective night-time im...

Dowshu, the world's leading 32 and 64 channel DVR manufacturer, is pleased to announce the opening of its new research and development facility.  Located next to the company's manufacturing site in Cork, the new facility provides the company with even more scope to develop, build and test CCTV equipment prior to delivery to customers.  The new 90m² facility includes a technically advanced test area and extra manufacturing space.Cork Managing Director, Joe Leen, commented,...

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.&...

Panasonic are exhibiting at Leisure Industry Week this year and will be showcasing its extensive product range.   As well as CCTV, Panasonic also offers a wide range of solutions ideal for the leisure and sporting industry including its digital signage software, NMstage, through to EPoS and till integration software. Retail outlets and sporting venues can protect their profits by utilising Panasonic's WINICS Retail software program that synchronises Epos transactions with CCTV footage t...

IPCCTV.COM has become only the fifth distributor in the UK to be appointed by Milestone Systems, the global leading provider of open platform IP video surveillance management software.IPCCTV.COM is the IP division of Y3K (Europe) Limited, a name which reflects a very forward-thinking company and one of the most pro-active in the security products market today.  From humble beginnings in 2000, the company has grown into one of the largest independent CCTV companies in the world. Behind the s...

COE Ltd, the UK-based developer and supplier of advanced video surveillance systems, is delighted to announce two further high quality arrivals in its UK field sales team.Richard Allen-Miles has joined as Global Account Manager, based in the UK.  Richard brings significant experience in the surveillance industry gained from a career with Mitsubishi, Richardson Electronics, TAC and others.  He will focus on global Systems Integrators and selected other major accounts.Neil Smith has also...

When it comes to safety in the skies while the primary focus must be on the heightened terrorist threat, the same CCTV solutions can also be applied as a powerful tool to deal with a much more common and extremely disruptive problem, namely 'air rage' which can, in the worst cases, lead to physical assault and aircraft having to be diverted.Most of us on our travels will have come across examples of ill tempered, abusive, intoxicated and out of control passengers, for flight attendants a...

Fire UK, the fire systems division of Bell Security Ltd, has attained LPS 1014-certified status.  Bell regards this important third-party recognition of the quality of its installations - from the certifying audit group BRE, for the LPCB (Loss Prevention Certification Board) - as the attainment of a further goal in a strategy to help expand its portfolio of major customers nationwide.  Fire UK already holds BAFE/NSI Fire Gold accreditation and in recent months has made project wins in...

Axis Communications UK, the global leader in network video, has welcomed Daren Lang into the position of Business Development Manager.Daren will be responsible for developing Axis' sales activities with installation and integrator partners and to spearhead the Axis Architecture and Engineering (A&E) programme.  The recently launched A&E programme is designed to support network architects, engineers and consultants who are responsible for designing and specifying IP-based securit...

CCTV transmission veteran Digby Hardy has launched a new company, VIOTRAN, offering a broad range of transmission products for both Coaxial unbalanced and Twisted Pair balanced video signal transmission.With over 10 years specialist experience in the transmission business, Hardy comments, "We have identified a growing demand for specialist providers of transmissions solutions in the CCTV sector.  VIOTRAN's comprehensive range of passive baluns, video launch amplifiers, high gain li...

Raytec are once again holding a series of test nights during October and November, which will be open to all.The test sessions will be held at Raytec's facilities in Northumberland and Tavcom's facilities in Hampshire, and are open to all CCTV installers, specifiers and camera manufactures wanting to test the performance of a CCTV system with Infra-Red or White-Light.The test evening will be a practical test of CCTV lighting with different camera and lens combinations.  The test age...

Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, announced recently it has signed an agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to renew its Official Worldwide Olympic Partnership for a further eight years through to the 2016 Olympic Games.  The signing ceremony, held at The Banqueting House in London, was hosted by IOC President Jacques Rogge, and Fumio Ohtsubo, President of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Under the terms of th...

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...

The technology event IIPSEC has announced the show will now feature a comprehensive VCA (Video Content Analysis) education programme and the latest solutions through a series of seminars, conferences and product demonstrations. Commenting on the news, Event Director Kevin Fagan stated, "Analytics is an ideal fit and complements the shows visitor profile and current need to provide ‘intelligent systems'.  IIPSEC is an established and trusted brand and has an excellent reputati...

The Mercia Technology Seed Fund has completed an investment in Scyron, the security and surveillance services company.  The Mercia Technology Seed Fund, a leading provider of venture capital to early stage technology in the West Midlands, invested alongside Datasat, the global turnkey communication solutions company, and management.  Scyron will reinvest use the funds from the additional stake to support its further growth further into the commercial sector within the UK as well as ove...

IndigoVision, a leading provider of IP Video security solutions, has appointed Gavin Richardson to the new role of Group Sales Director, with full responsibility for the company's global sales operation.Gavin brings to IndigoVision more than 20 years of sales and account management experience, with the last 12 years in senior sales management roles with companies such as QinetiQ and BT.  He has managed large global teams that have delivered exceptional sales growth, an attribute vital t...

Leading security solutions provider Adams Rite has opened what is believed to be one of the first facilities in the UK able to test products to the highest grades of European lock durability and safety performance standards BS EN 1125 and BS EN 179.Simon Guy, Technical Manager at Adams Rite, explains, "The Test Room is an important part of Adams Rite's extensive and ongoing European product development program.  We use this state-of-the-art facility to rigorously evaluate locking produ...

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...

A leader in the manufacture of video security equipment, Pelco is pleased to announce several exciting new additions to its product line, which will be exhibited at the ASIS 2007 annual seminar and exhibits in Las Vegas next month. "We pride ourselves on consistently demonstrating excellence - with our fanatical customer service, on-time delivery, and by offering the broadest product line in the industry," says Scott Schafer, Pelco Sr. Vice President, North American Sales and Mark...

One of the most challenging areas for security technology has to be providing effective protection for banks and their associated infrastructure, such as cash machines (ATMs), given the fact that they are constantly in the sights of ever more audacious criminal gangs.The extreme lengths to which the criminal fraternity are prepared to go has been underlined in recent weeks with the discovery by workmen of a large 40 foot tunnel in Manchester, England - including electric lighting - which it is t...

SourceSecurity.com took the time to catch up with the CEO and President of the company that invented the network camera more than 10 years ago, Axis Communications, to ask him whether the era of IP-based surveillance had arrived and what obstacles remain in the way of more widespread adoption. SourceSecurity.com: Do you think IP-Surveillance has finally come of age? Ray Mauritsson: Yes and it is not just Axis saying this.  You only need to look at the growth of sales of the network...

Dean Coombes has joined technical furniture specialists Winsted as Sales Manager for the south of England. Dean, who has worked within the security industry for over ten years, was previously with ADT.  He will be responsible for promoting Winsted's full range of control room solutions to end-users and consultants as well as providing pre and post sales support for Winsted's nationwide network of installers. Commenting on the appointment, Harry Whale, Winsted's General Manager s...

Two Norwich security officers, Richard Markham and John Disspain, have been highly praised for the exceptional service they provide to the general public, customers and staff at Norwich Union's prestigious Marble Hall building in the centre of Norwich.  Richard and John work for Reliance Security Services and have been presented with a special recognition award by Mark Hughes, Norwich Union Operations Services Director.Richard and John have been working at Marble Hall since September 20...

A Formula Palmer Audi race car driver is using Senstar-Stellar's Repels portable perimeter security system to protect his car from the crush of spectators and inquisitive rivals at top venues across the UK including Brands Hatch, Silverstone and Donnington.Russell Small's 1.8 litre 300 break horsepower Audi has a top speed of 170 mph and is worth in excess of £150,000.  The security of the car has been entrusted to Senstar-Stellar's Repels portable outdoor sensor which ope...

The University of Manchester has recently completed upgrading its entrance security with Fastlane plus barrier arm turnstiles from Integrated Design Ltd.  The University of Manchester is Britain's largest single-site university, situated in the heart of the city with over 5,000 staff and 35,000 students to keep secure.The University had originally installed Fastlane plus R200 AS barrier arm turnstiles, the first generation of the Fastlane plus range, over five years ago.  With thi...

Paxton Access, the UK market leader in the design and manufacture of electronic access control systems, has teamed up with Secure Yacht Ltd to promote Net2 Marine to the luxury yacht market.  Combining Paxton Access' leading network access control system, Net2, with its new Marine Reader, Net2 Marine is the world's only dedicated marine access control system specifically geared for all marine access control applications.  Paxton Access and Secure Yacht Ltd will officially prese...

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 Made Computer So...