Surveillance & Security News for November 2006

Optelecom-NKF, Inc., a leading global provider of advanced IP-video network solutions, today announced it received a contract valued at $410,000 for an advanced IP-video network for use in urban warfare training.The advanced video network utilizes the Company's high capacity C-20 codec to aid the military as it develops new centers for realistic joint urban operations training."There is no let-up in the need to provide our armed forces with advanced, realistic training conditions,"...

The Interactive Multimedia & Collaborative Communications Alliance (IMCCA) will be hosting a Collaborative Conferencing Pavilion at Integrated Systems Europe 2007.The Pavilion is the ideal platform for companies to showcase solutions and technologies in video conferencing, audio conferencing and data/web conferencing in a dedicated area.  The pavilion will encompass a presentation room where participating companies will also have the opportunity to be included in the scheduled programme...

A CCTV system from Vicon is contributing to improved traffic management in Durham City Centre. Vicon's Surveyor dome cameras and Kollector DVRs are assisting the local authority to encourage visitors to use the centre's shopping and recreational facilities while discouraging them from travelling in their cars. The CCTV system is contributing to the security of vehicles in Park and Ride facilities at three locations on the outskirts of Durham.  It is considered particularly important that...

ALLIED TUBE & CONDUIT, a Tyco International Company, is the world's leading manufacturer of barbed tape products such as RAZOR RIBBON, INSTABARRIER, and DETAINER HOOK BARB.  These products are supplied to facilities that require fail-safe physical barriers to ensure confinement or prevent intrusion on any security level.  Barbed tape coils are available for permanent placement or rapid deployment in an evolving crisis situation.  Additionally, Allied Tube manufactures high str...

New item-level combination EAS and RFID solution offers a range of benefits ADT, Europe's leading provider of electronic fire and security solutions, has installed a new item-level radio frequency identification (RFID) solution at the METRO Group's RFID Innovation Centre in Neuss, Germany.  This installation is part of an advanced item-level combination electronic article surveillance (EAS) and RFID concept solution from ADT. The RFID Innovation Centre enables the METRO Group's partners a...

Video Domain Technologies has been chosen to provide solutions for securing 55 Public Medical Centres spread over the Canary Islands.When the Centro de Salud Primaria de Canarias (Primary Health Centre of Canary Islands) decided to install a centralized security system including remote video monitoring for all of their 55 public medical centres spread over the islands, Video Domain's solutions were chosen."Up until then, the Health Centres Administration had been using security guards to se...

"The corporate accounts have insurance requirements we couldn't meet before our force came on board and this system was installed.  So we have lured business into this airport because of the new technology.  As a matter of fact, the FAA is bringing other people in to see this system because they want to make other airports aware of its capabilities."  Joe Johnson, Chief of Public Safety at the Smyrna/Rutherford County Airport Authority in TennesseeChallengeSmyrna Airport...