Dallmeier has introduced a new Privacy Mode feature to enhance the data protection capabilities of its video solutions, allowing system operators to easily and temporarily stop image capture, recording, and image output either for the entire network or specific areas. This privacy feature is indicated directly on the camera units whenever it is activated.
The latest update focuses on simplicity and user control. Operators can disable video capture and recording system-wide or on individual cameras through a single command using the SeMSy® Compact client software. Traditionally, interrupting surveillance required disabling various components separately, but now authorised users can achieve the same results quickly without dismantling the system.
Data privacy compliance
Once activated, Privacy Mode halts image capturing and immediately stops recording, replacing video outputs with a static image instead. This feature assists operators in complying with internal data privacy mandates and legal obligations by preventing unnecessary data recording while minimising storage use.
Once activated, Privacy Mode halts image capturing and immediately stops recording
Importantly, system functionality remains active during Privacy Mode, negating the need for shutdowns and enabling surveillance to resume promptly once the feature is deactivated. This capability is particularly advantageous for facilities such as airports, stadiums, and critical infrastructures, where swift adaptation to changing situations is imperative.
Visible indications for enhanced trust
A utility model protects the Privacy Mode feature, ensuring its status is visibly displayed on the camera units. Depending on the camera model, this may involve lowering a Privacy Shield, flashing indicators, or adjusting to a preset position. Such transparency reassures individuals that their privacy is being respected, promoting trust among employees and visitors.
Privacy Mode activation is restricted to authorised users, incorporating security features like dual-login procedures to maintain strict control over its usage. This functionality supports operators in aligning with GDPR requirements and adhering to data protection authority guidelines such as data minimisation and recording limitations.
Commitment to innovation
Dallmeier electronic has evolved into a key player in video information technology
Since its inception in 1984 by Dieter Dallmeier in Regensburg, Germany, Dallmeier electronic has evolved into a key player in video information technology. With operations spanning over 60 countries, the company's comprehensive solutions span diverse sectors, including casinos, smart cities, and logistics.
Dallmeier’s advancements, ranging from the first digital image storage system with motion analysis to its latest Domera® camera family, demonstrate a commitment to technological leadership. The company's German-made products are known for high standards of data protection, cybersecurity, and ethical responsibility, offering customers sustainable solutions with a favourable Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI).
Conducting all manufacturing and research from their Regensburg headquarters, Dallmeier ensures superior quality and short supply chains, underscoring their dedication to environmental protection and process optimisation.
With the new Privacy Mode, Dallmeier is expanding its video solution with a powerful data protection feature: Operators can centrally and temporarily disable image capture, recording, and image output – system-wide or in defined sub-areas. At the same time, the activated Privacy Mode is clearly indicated directly on the cameras.
With the new Privacy Mode, Dallmeier is focusing above all on ease of use: The feature allows operators to temporarily disable image capture and recording for the entire system or individual cameras – quickly, in a controlled manner, and without having to switch off individual components separately. Until now, completely interrupting video surveillance often required various system components to be specifically disabled. In the future, a single command will be sufficient: Authorised users can activate Privacy Mode directly via the SeMSy® Compact client software.
Interrupting video surveillance
As soon as Privacy Mode is activated, the affected cameras immediately stop capturing images. At the same time, recording is stopped and the video output is replaced by a static Privacy Mode image. This means that no personal image data is captured or recorded while Privacy Mode is active, eliminating unnecessary use of recording capacity.
For operators, this makes it significantly easier to implement internal data privacy policies and comply with legal requirements.
Data privacy policies
While Privacy Mode is active, the system components remain active and fully operational, eliminating the need to shut down and subsequently restart the system. Once Privacy Mode is deactivated, video surveillance becomes available again within a very short time and can return to regular operation with virtually no delay.
This offers significant advantages particularly for critical infrastructure, airports, stadiums, and public facilities. Operators can respond flexibly to different situations without compromising the rapid availability of their security system.
Building additional trust
A special feature of Privacy Mode, which is also protected by a utility model, is the externally visible indication of its status directly on the cameras. Depending on the model, this can be achieved, for example, by lowering the Privacy Shield of a Panomera® camera, flashing a privacy indicator, or moving Domera® cameras to a defined privacy position.
This allows employees, visitors, or event attendees to immediately see that no images are currently being captured. It enhances transparency for affected individuals and helps build additional trust.
Practical and convenient solution
Privacy Mode can only be activated by authorised users. In addition, the feature can be protected by appropriate authorisation concepts and security mechanisms, such as a dual-login procedure. This ensures that operators retain full control over the use of the data privacy feature at all times.
Privacy Mode helps operators more easily meet the requirements of the GDPR as well as principles defined by data protection authorities, such as data minimisation, recording limitation, and transparency. Requirements for privacy-compliant video surveillance continue to increase. The new Privacy Mode provides operators with a practical and convenient solution for meeting these requirements.
Video information technology
In 1984, Dieter Dallmeier founded what is now Dallmeier electronic – not in the proverbial garage, but in a garden shed in Regensburg, Germany. Today, the company, which can justifiably call itself a hidden champion for video information technology "Made in Germany", has several hundred employees worldwide, more than 250 of them at the company headquarters in the center of Regensburg alone.
Dallmeier's camera, recording, software, and analysis solutions optimise security and processes for B2B end customers in a wide range of industries in over 60 countries. The focus is on users from the casino, smart city, airports, logistics, stadiums, and industrial sectors. But also, banks, critical infrastructure facilities as well as medium-sized companies from all sectors.
Tangible customer benefits
With pioneering innovations, Dallmeier has succeeded time and again in placing itself at the forefront of technology: From the world's first digital image storage system with motion analysis in 1992, the patented "multifocal sensor technology" Panomera® with its "Mountera®" mounting system, to the latest Domera® camera family, which allows up to 300 camera variants with only 18 components. These and many other innovations provide real, tangible customer benefits. And with a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and a high Return on Investment (ROI) they can easily compete with systems produced and supplied from low-wage countries.
With "Made in Germany", they also guarantee the customers the highest standards in data protection, cybersecurity, and ethical responsibility. With high quality and short supply chains, they also ensure – almost incidentally – sustainability and environmental protection. From their prestigious headquarters in the center of Regensburg, Dallmeier not only carries out its own research and development but also the complete manufacturing process – from component to product to solution.
