Retail surveillance - Case studies

The shopping District, or Shoutengai, in Koto-Ku, Tokyo is located next to a busy train station that gathers many restaurants, shops, and sake bars together in this newly vibrant neighbourhood. As the area becoming more commercially alive, there was an increasing concern for crimes taken place within the district, especially during late nights. For the purpose of crime prevention, the Shopping District Association began to consider deploying surveillance cameras at the crime hot spots as a way...

The Pacific Place Jakarta shopping mall has dominated the middle of the Sudirman Central Business District in Jakarta, Indonesia, since 2007. The Dua Mutiara Group was initially operating more than 300 analogue CCTV cameras from different manufacturers for security within the shopping mall. However, maintaining and servicing these devices was costly and a drain on resources. Since problems also arose with the electric cabling, the company in charge of the mall decided to replace the existing set...

Customer Among the many tenants at “Las Américas,” the second largest shopping mall in Morelia, Michoacán, México, a jewellery retailer experiences the mall’s foot traffic, the highest in the area. Mallor Joyeria is a popular jewellery store in the upscale venue. Challenge The Mallor Joyeria had been robbed several times; however, with the low-quality resolution of the store's previous surveillance system none of the suspects were ever clearly...

Golden Triangle shopping centre is located in the vicinity of Relau, Penang, Malaysia and stationed with many popular brands along with a wide range of restaurants. LILIN has delivered a comprehensive 24-hour security solution for Golden Triangle shopping mall in Malaysia. Golden Triangle shopping centre includes retail shops, restaurants, service apartments, swimming pool, gymnasium, and an underground parking garage for more than 1,300 vehicles. Like any place where large crowds of people gat...

Introduction Century 21 opened its first store in downtown Manhattan in 1961 and now operates eight stores across the New York/New Jersey area. The stores are focused on high-fashion, low-price apparel for women, men and children, along with cosmetics, handbags, shoes, lingerie, housewares, luggage and more. Merchandise can range from less than $10 to more than $7,000. The newest Century 21 site, which opened in April 2013, is at Jersey Gardens: The Outlet Center in Elizabeth, N.J. The largest...

With over 40 years in the industry, Loon Fung has been providing oriental food to retailers, restaurants and cash and carry customers throughout London. In its new Stratford shopping centre store, opened in 2014, Loon Fung has installed a Sony video security solution to monitor its shop, warehouse and checkout area. Background When looking for a new video security solution for its Stratford store, Loon Fung made it clear that a robust video system was required which would offer the highest qua...

Some 600 employees enter and leave the premises each day at the headquarters of Marc O’Polo in Stephanskirchen. Steady growth over recent years made it necessary to improve the process of access control. A system was needed that provided multiple functions and met the requirements. Marc O’Polo wanted a user-friendly system to prevent people from accessing the premises unauthorised, without causing inconvenience to employees. Flexible working hours, flexible system Flexible and vari...

Customer Lauren Bright is a leading wholesale and retail enterprise that specialises in importing European apparel and operates more than 40 outlets in major Chinese cities. Lauren Bright's Pinko store in Harbour City, Hong Kong features the Pinko clothing line, an Italian fashion brand designed specifically for young women. Challenge When opening a new shop for the Pinko brand, Lauren Bright was looking for a video surveillance system to monitor internal staff and to provide anti-theft prot...

The integrator F & N Enterprises of Tucson, AZ is a low voltage systems integrator specialising in commercial/residential installation of burglar, fire and surveillance security systems. They are experts in the deployment of structured cabling, voice and data infrastructures, using UTP and Fiber Optics. Project background A leading grocery chain’s corporate security and loss prevention departments had requested an overall upgrade to the region’s facility surveillance systems...

Retail chain needs improved surveillance A major retailer required better surveillance video in many of its locations throughout the East Coast. Previously relying on a range of capabilities across its stores, the retail chain followed the recommendation of security integrator Setronics and now operates systems of similar design in approximately 25 locations in the region. The new blended systems feature numerous Bosch VEZ-400 mini-PTZ analogue cameras from the Advantage Line installed in the...

Building an impermeable security infrastructure for protecting consumers and employees The EDEKA Group is one of Germany’s most successful companies, with success attributed to the seamless collaboration between the three levels of the Group - management, wholesale, and retail. EDEKA Voth in Lemgo is one branch among several EDEKA’s retailers. EDEKA HQ is located in Hamburg, where strategies are formulated to create and maintain smooth IT structures throughout the entire organisatio...

Background Wangke Corporation selected LILIN cameras and NVRs to provide security at the Beijing ZhongLiang WanKe shopping mall and entertainment centre in Beijing, China. BeijingZhongLiangWanKe shopping mall is one of the largest shopping centres in Beijing city at 155,000 square metres, with more than 35 restaurants, 300 shops, office space, and cinemas. Mission BeijingZhongLiangWanKe shopping mall required a solid security presence in order to keep employees, the general public and prope...

Located throughout Persian Gulf countries is a quickly growing chain of stores known as Ramez Hyper Market. Currently there are 39 individual stores in this region. However, with an aggressive expansion strategy, this total is projected to balloon to 90 total stores within 5 years. Reflecting this is the chain's presence in the country of Bahrain. Currently, this island nation has three relatively new stores that were opened progressively, one shortly after the other. Additionally, the Ramez G...

The loss of inventory due to employee theft, shoplifting, paperwork errors, or supplier fraud – cost retailers more than $34 billion in 2011, or more than 1.4% of their total sales, with shoplifting accounting for 35% of those losses alone. Oncam's customised solutions are designed to meet today’s demanding security and operational requirements. We help retailers by first listening to their concerns and then developing a specific solution represented by our scalable technology that...

Milestone XProtect® Corporate open platform IP video management software (VMS) with XProtect® Smart Client and network cameras from Axis Communications are being deployed across all of Paul Smith’s 45 stores as part of the UK-based retailer’s first comprehensive, company-wide IT refresh. Initially the new digital video system is being used for loss prevention but once it is fully implemented worldwide by the end of 2015, Paul Smith plans to use i...

Despite tough worldwide trading conditions, Russia is enjoying strong growth in its economy and this is reflected in the increasing demand for office accommodation from international organisations, as well as locally based businesses in Moscow. Developers have responded to the shortfall in the availability of high quality commercial space with a dramatic acceleration in the number of building projects. By the end of 2014, Russia’s capital is expected to be able to boast four of the five ta...