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 Barco security products responsible for surveillance in the Bird's NestBarco, a world leader in visualisation and display solutions, has become the leading supplier of visualisation equipment to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.The 8 August Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games, at Beijing's celebrated ‘Bird's Nest' stadium, was by and far the most coveted ticket of this year's Olympic program.  The stellar event was attended by some 90,000 spectators, including a large contingent of w...

Mayflex, the cabling infrastructure, networking and IP physical security solutions distributor, continues the recruitment drive that began at the start of the summer months, despite recent press reports that six out of 10 channel firms feel that headcount is unlikely to rise this year. The distributor has expanded its internal sales teams by welcoming on board two new recruits: Alan Gardner joins the company as Internal Sales Executive for the Mobotix brand and will primarily focus on new busine...

March Networks® (TSX:MN), a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, announced that the Ministry of Public Security for the Federal District of Mexico City has selected the Company's mobile video management software and systems for installation across its fleet of 500 tow trucks.  The solution will help the government authority resolve customer disputes more efficiently and ensure that operational processes are properly followed.The Secretar&iacu...

IndigoVision's integrated IP Video technology has been deployed as part of a massive CCTV central monitoring and recording project for First Capital Connect (FCC), one of the UK's newest train operating companies.FCC operates trains between London, Brighton, Bedford, Peterborough, Cambridge and King's Lynn over the UK's busiest rail network.  As part of its five year, £8 million, network-wide Station Improvements Programme, FCC selected IndigoVision and its partner ATEC Security to in...

CEM AC2000 SE security management system installed at Hong Kong's new Shaw Studios Movie City complex. CEM® Systems, a leading access control brand of Tyco International, recently announced that Shaw Studios has implemented the CEM AC2000 SE (Standard Edition) security management system to provide security at their new Hong Kong movie city complex.  Forming part of a central building management system, the AC2000 SE access control system was installed by ADT® Hong Kong and secures a...

  Siemens has won one of the largest security contracts in Norway with SpareBank1Siemens has won one of the largest security contracts in Norway - a complete security and services solution agreement with SpareBank1, an alliance of 23 banks and 350 franchised offices that together make one of the largest providers of financial products and services in the Norwegian market with 460 branches.The bank wanted a fail-safe and sophisticated security solution with a central system operation an...

  Intronics signed a European distribution agreement to offer EVT's video surveillance solutionsIntronics, member of TKH Group, selected EVT's video surveillance platform to complete their offerings in the video surveillance arena. EVT, a developer of video management and NVR video management software, announced that it has received a large license order to deliver its networked video management and recording software to Intronics B.V. Holland, a member of the TKH Group.  The TKH...

IndigoVision's IP Video technology is providing a new state-of-the-art digital CCTV system for Wythenshawe Shopping Centre in the south of Manchester.  The surveillance system has been upgraded from an old analogue matrix system to the latest distributed IP network solution that provides significant benefits for the Centre's operators.As with many of the older shopping centres around the UK, Wythenshawe has both internal and external retail units and a complex perimeter area to monitor.&nbs...

La PanièreThe chain of bakeries established in the Rhône-Alpes region has upgraded its analogue video surveillance system into a network video solution.The mission for Axis CommunicationsAs a family-run business, La Panière, a chain of bakery and pastry stores, employs 300 people in 30 stores distributed throughout the towns of the Rhône-Alpes region in France.  Between 1998 and 2000, following numerous cash robberies, Pascal Cantenot, the CEO of the company, decid...

The AXIS 209FD-R, Axis's network camera specifically designed for use in transportation applications, has been installed by Axis partner PC-1 and Secure-IT on behalf of EST Buses based near Bridgend, South Wales.PC-1 was approached to partner Secure-IT and installed a solution comprising three AXIS 209FD-R network cameras per bus operating on public routes between Cardiff and Llandow.  As part of the solution one camera is installed looking out through the front windscreen to capture the dr...

The most spectacular architecture and the most prestigious names came together to this rendezvous in the Emirate of Qatar, which in recent years has become a new Dubai.  Fermax is present in these new city planning landmarks along with the engineers and consultants who are making them a reality.Fermax, together with the prestigious companies Cooper (dedicated to fire fighting systems) and RoomWithNet (specialist in interactive digital systems) took part in an interesting seminar in Qatar de...

MOBOTIX becomes first video security system vendor to bridge the gap between traditional Security Installers and IT systems integrators with network friendly technology and training.MOBOTIX AG, a leading manufacturer of digital high-resolution, network-based video security systems has announced its tiered channel programme which was launched last year and now boasts over 70 accredited regional partners.  The MOBOTIX UK channel is the fastest growing of any CCTV vendor and ranges from tradit...

Basler Vision Technologies has concluded a distribution agreement with Videor, one of the leading providers of professional video technology throughout Europe.  The distribution extends to the regions of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and therefore covers all of Basler's important target markets.  Basler Vision Technologies, based in Germany and one of the world's leading image processing companies, recently entered the video surveillance market with its innovative IP camera...

  e-Convergence Solutions to market off-the-shelf intelligent solution from ioimageioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity,  recently announced  that it has signed an agreement with e-Convergence Solutions, a specialised distributor of presence, security and convergence technologies, to distribute ioimage products to data networking VARs in North America.As a result of this partnership, e-Convergence Solutions will market off-the-shelf int...

 Octavian Security, the security company that famously placed former Ghurkha soldiers on patrol at an IKEA store in Nottingham, is now helping to provide a safe, enjoyable shopping environment for staff and customers at the Swedish company's first city centre store in Coventry.In its latest major retail security operation, the industry-leading security firm is supporting the IKEA risk team at the outlet, which boasts more than 50 room settings and a 455-seater restaurant.  In addition...

IndigoVision's integrated IP-CCTV solution is helping to dramatically reduce crime in the suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa, through an innovative security initiative.  CSS Tactical, a company that provides mobile security patrols, is breaking new ground with the delivery of security services in South Africa by integrating CCTV surveillance with its area patrols."Manpower and visible presence will always be the foundation of our business," explains Ricky Croock, Business Devel...

Queen Mary, University of London, one of London and the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions, has begun work on a three year grant-funded research project to gather real world data and build models and algorithms for software application development relating to BEWARE.  This stands for Behaviour based Enhancement of Wide-Area Situational Awareness in a Distributed Network of CCTV Cameras, and has important implications for security in the UK.  Running from 2007 t...

PAK Supermarkets, Europe's largest Asian supermarket chain, and a favourite for ethnic cuisine lovers across the Midlands, is benefiting from the latest NetVu Connected CCTV technology developed by Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - and installed by DM Fusion installer Security Direct.Since opening in April, PAK Supermarkets' new £7 million store, based in Washwood Heath, Birmingham, has been attracting a plethora of shoppers from as far afield as Leicester and Banbury.  With a vas...

ioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity, recently participated in the third Global Digital Surveillance Forum (GDSF) China, held at the Sheraton Hotel in Shenzhen, July 2-3, 2008.Organized by A&S Group as part of SecuTech Expo, GDSF showcases the latest global security and IT technologies and solutions for the Chinese security market.  This year's forum focused on ‘intelligence' in security and examined CMS (Central Management Systems) in diffe...

Cisco's Director of Product Management and Marketing is to present the company's thoughts on the future of IP networks at the Chicago IP Security Conference.  Charlebois' presentation, ‘Issues Deploying Physical Security on IP Networks', will address some of the truths and myths of deploying video surveillance on IP networks; how to prepare networks for supporting video; bandwidth considerations; scalability; application interoperability; and a vision of the network as an application...

At this year's "Security Show" from 7th to 10th October in Essen - Germany, German CCTV manufacturer HeiTel Digital Video will present some amazing new products as well as extensive new features for existing products.A new network video recorder with megapixel resolution will be shown and for the existing product range the CamDisc-s series and CamServer machines (both real time recording machines) will have hybrid functionality added, giving them the ability to record both traditional...

Pauline Norstrom, the Director of Worldwide Marketing at CCTV specialist AD Group - the parent company of Dedicated Micros - has been re-elected as Chairman of the CCTV Section of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA).  The result will see Norstrom remain in this pivotal role allowing her to continue to oversee the development and promotion of CCTV best practice.Alongside being Chairman of the CCTV Section, Norstrom heads-up its technical committee, TC/10, which focuses on CCTV s...

Arecont Vision enhances surveillance monitoring at College World Series for Hawkeye Vision, Inc. Every June, close to 300,000 fans make their way to Omaha, Nebraska for one of the high points of college sports - The College World Series. The top 8 teams in Division 1 Men's collegiate baseball can command over 23,000 fans at game time, filling Omaha's Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium to maximum capacity. Since 2007, safety and security of the games has been managed using megapixel cam...

Axis Security, one of London and the City's fastest growing security service providers, has appointed Roy Hudson as Account Manager.Roy has 17 years experience in the security industry and will have responsibility for operational and fiscal management of a portfolio of contracts.  He will also be taking over as line manager to two account support managers and will be based at the Wharfdale Road offices, London.  As Roy explains:  "I left the army after 16 years and the securi...

The 34th G8 summit which took place in Toyako on the northern Island of Hokkaido, Japan from July 7 - 9, 2008, brought together heads of the world's most wealthiest and most industrialised countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA, Canada and Russia. The G8 summit is a forum for these countries to discuss issues of a worldwide concern and negotiation of topics such as climate change, intellectual property rights, political issues, world economy and food shortages. Forming part of...

For more than twenty years, Dallmeier has been developing and manufacturing high-quality products and comprehensive solutions for the CCTV/IP area. As a provider of complete systems, the company offers perfectly integrated components, ranging from cameras, recorders and video analysis systems up to individually adjusted management systems.  Everything from one source, according to the motto:  "Quality made in Germany - Quality made by Dallmeier."At this year's Security 2008 i...

All that glitters in the ironworksMagnificent crowns, expensive jewellery, precious tiaras - surrounded by huge, slightly oily, black machines made of iron: that is what an exhibition of glittering gold looks like in a closed-down ironworks.  Exhibition expert and General Director of the Völklinger Ironworks World Cultural Heritage Site, Dr. Meinrad Maria Grewenig, recently succeeded in bringing 120 masterpieces from the Larco Museum in Peru and 50 other exhibits from the Linden-Museum...

  ioiamge PTZ cameras installed in spanish suburb to curb crimeioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity announced today that its video analytics solution has been implemented to prevent urban crime in the Spanish city of Alcorcón, located 13 kilometres from Madrid.With a rapidly growing population of 165,000 people, Alcorcón law enforcement groups realized that in the war against urban vandalism, intelligent automation tools were n...

PAK Supermarkets, Europe's largest Asian supermarket chain, is benefiting from the latest NetVu Connected CCTV technology developed by Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - and installed by DM Fusion installer Security Direct.Since opening in April, PAK Supermarkets' new £7 million store, based in Washwood Heath, Birmingham, has been attracting a plethora of shoppers from as far afield as Leicester and Banbury.  With a vast 80,000 sq ft of ground to cover across the store it was imper...

SALTO Systems has announced that, it has been selected by one of the largest luxury hotel operators in the Middle East, to provide an access control system to secure their new state-of-the-art 5 Star Ebla Cham Palace hotel in Damascus, Syria.The largest 5 Star hotel in Syria, the Ebla Cham Palace is a premier deluxe property located 9km from Damascus city centre and 13km from the International Airport.  It is located in 48 hectares of private gardens, adjacent to the convention centre,...