Video surveillance - Case studies
St Pancras International, Eurostar's new central London home, is using leading edge IP CCTV technology from Bosch Security Systems.St Pancras International is part of 'High Speed 1' - the UK's largest ever single construction project and the first major new railway for over a century. The £5.8 billion high speed rail line from the mouth of the Channel Tunnel to St Pancras International is being delivered by London & Continental railways. It will make it possible to run twice the...
COE Limited, the developer and supplier of advanced video surveillance systems, recently announced it has completed the supply of a major upgrade to the video surveillance system for the Trinidad Library in the Caribbean. Operated by the National Library and Information System Authority, the Library provides online and centrally managed library services for schools and the public. The CCTV upgrade consists of 132 PTZ cameras on 9 floors located across the building complex transmitted back...
Spirit Mountain Casino was built to serve the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, its members, and surrounding communities by promoting economic diversity through improved housing, educational investment, and cultural programs. And like so many gaming facilities around the world, the Spirit Mountain Casino campus has a need to grow. Their ‘South Expansion Project' began in early 2007 to add more than 130,000 square feet of space to include an events / entertainment centre, conf...
"Savoir vivre" in FrankfurtIn the middle of the hectic Frankfurt banking district, tranquility can be found at the traditional Le Méridien Parkhotel Frankfurt. Located in the idyllic Wiesenhüttenplatz, a street surrounded by trees, the hotel, which was built in 1905, offers its guests a superior standard of comfort as well as a discreet and courteous service with all the flair of a grand old establishment. Guests are guaranteed a haven of comfort and relaxa...
Waterland Hospital chooses IQinVision and Keyprocessor for integrated security.IQinVision, market leader in high-performance megapixel network cameras, smart IP cameras, and network video recording systems, today announced that the Waterland Hospital in Purmerend, the Netherlands, has deployed IQinVision megapixel IP cameras to achieve superior video surveillance results. Keyprocessor installed the security system in which video surveillance, access control, parking management, and interco...
The city of Geel in Belgium near Antwerp has a population of 35,000. Their Tourism Center exhibits art in a renovated historical building, and a new community sports hall is actively used. Here they are setting a good example with modern technology: a scalable, centralized approach to security and safety in public facilities using IP network video surveillance from Milestone Systems and Axis Communications. The Tourism Center in Geel has changing external exhibitions with insurance r...
ioimage, the pioneer of intelligent video appliances designed for simplicity, announced recently that Trusal S.A., a leader in the Chilean aquaculture industry, has implemented ioimage video analytics to protect its salmon pools in Puerto Montt from threats approaching from sea and land.The second largest producer of farmed salmon after Norway, Chile experiences up to $2 million a year in theft of salmon and salmon eggs. With 28 salmon pools and a total perimeter of 8,000 square meters, Tr...
IndigoVision's complete end-to-end IP Video system is providing the CCTV surveillance for an impressive integrated security system for the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The metro area is home to over 1.3 million people, covers an area of 2000 km² and includes the towns of Uitenhage and Despatch, together with Port Elizabeth which will be a host city for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.The IP-CCTV system, which was supplied...
NICE Systems Ltd., a leading global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to extract insight from interactions to drive performance, recently announced that Transnet Freight Rail, the leading provider of logistics and the largest rail operator in South Africa, has decided to standardize on NICE, undertaking a multi million-dollar project to implement NiceVision Net, NICE's end-to-end solution for IP video security. The NICE intelligent security solution will enable Trans...
REMI Companies of Hoboken, New Jersey, have developed an upscale residential site for high-end luxury living, making the clientele feel safe in an effective but non-obtrusive way, to be protected in a newly refurbished neighbourhood of New Jersey, just minutes from New York City. During construction, they also wanted to show investors and project managers the progress on the job site. To do this, REMI is using Milestone XProtect from Milestone Systems open platform IP video managemen...
At 50 km long with 37.8 km running underneath the English Channel, the Channel Tunnel is the longest underwater tunnel in the world. It is hailed by international civil engineering experts in the US and Europe as "the greatest infrastructure success of the 20th century." Eurotunnel owns the concession to operate it until 2086. 212 million passengers and 196 million tonnes of merchandise have passed through the Tunnel since the commercial opening in spring 1994.So it w...
"We have a stable, leading-edge technology system that is helping our fight against criminal activities very successfully. We would recommend this system to everybody." - Ashley Willoughby, Computer and Security Manager for Three Counties ShowgroundThe challengeBecause of the sheer physical size of the Three Counties Showground with numerous entranceways and public access areas, vandalism was becoming a major problem. After normal closing time people could still wander into...
Genetec recently announced that the Office of Housing in Victoria, Australia, has adopted Omnicast, Genetec's IP video surveillance solution, to protect the residents of approximately 7,000 dwellings within the city's affordable housing development projects.Currently, 72 individual sites are being monitored by over 700 cameras, which function over a wireless Ethernet network, linking all buildings back to a central monitoring station. By the end of the project, the Omnicast system is expec...
The Buffalo Athletic Clubs (BAC) are using powerful, easy-to-manage Milestone IP video management software with Axis network cameras for improved security and protection of assets, employees and members. The system's scalability supports the company's progressive business model for energetic expansion plans. The BAC (Buffalo Athletic Clubs) is a dynamic chain of seven fitness centres in Buffalo, and the RAC (Rochester Athletic Clubs) is a chain of five locations in Rochester, New Yor...
With the need to protect pupils, staff and property high on the national curriculum, Manor High School in Leicestershire has turned to local CCTV specialists Tranter Fire & Security for the answers, and Tranter has in turn specified a solution based around sophisticated technology from Bosch Security Systems (BSS). The system comprises more than 40 cameras - a mixture of Bosch Dinion and Flexidome devices - installed at various strategic points around the school including entry/exit poi...
The challenge Verbania, the capital of the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, was created when the towns of Intra and Pallanza merged. As one of the most idyllic and famous tourist destinations on Lake Maggiore, the town relies heavily on holidaymakers to fill its streets and generate income. The regular influx of visitors means greater attention must be given to the security of people as they go about their business, whether recreational or professional. This was the motivation beh...
BS 8418 compliant TeleEye transmission equipment has enabled CCTV monitoring station, iWatch UK, to prevent the theft of temporary road panels used by heavy lorries delivering effluent sludge fertiliser on to muddy, slippery fields. 350,000 tonnes of sludge, a bi-product of sewage processing, are spread on fields across the South East of England every year.Each road panel is made from aluminium and has a scrap value of £450 or more. With upwards of 50 panels laid at each site,...
MissionAfter the University of Aberdeen conducted a strategic review of security, the university decided to rationalize four stand-alone analogue CCTV systems and establish a central control room for the entire university. The four systems varied in age and the university wanted a single system, which would feature new cameras as well as including existing analogue cameras. The system would have to offer the flexibility to cope with future expansion, and to eliminate stand-alone prop...
MissionThe Shipton Group, which owns and manages Douglas Court Shopping Centre in Cork, Ireland, required a surveillance solution to cut crime, gather video evidence to dramatically cut slip and fall injury claims, reinforce tenants' health and safety obligations, and even improve customer experience to deploy support staff more effectively around Douglas Court.SolutionThe Shipton Group worked with Irish IT consultancy RPC Consultants, a leading Axis Communications partner in the region, to deli...
Data Electronics Group opts for Axis Communications' IP-Surveillance solution to provide additional layer of physical security in its Dublin-based data centre.Data Electronics Group (DEG) was founded in 1974 as a field engineering-based business installing, integrating, maintaining and carrying out network administration for computer equipment used by airport and airline staff for key activities such as tagging bags and checking in passengers. Today one division of DEG still provides...
Intelligent, attractive and likeableIntelligence, good looks, dedication - these professed brand values of the Czech automotive manufacturer Skoda a.s. have made a major contribution to the fact that this car brand is becoming increasingly popular in Germany. While ‘intelligence' reflects the claim of developing products with outstanding functionality as well as customer-oriented detailed solutions at excellent value for the money, ‘good looks' describes the pioneering design...
In today's world of convenience foods, the supply of high-quality food products, delivered on time and at a reasonable cost, is an extremely competitive market place in which to operate. Standing out as market leaders in their field, Kepak Convenience Foods (KCF) began as manufacturers of frozen beef burgers for the Irish food-service market. By the end of 1989, the company's business had grown to such an extent, that it supplied half of the retail frozen beef burgers sold on the Iri...
Using Axis video servers, Biarritz Airport migrated its video surveillance system to IP.MissionThe Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne Airport is located 75% in the town of Anglet and 25% in that of Biarritz, in the French Basque Country. Approximately 500 people work at the airport, which welcomes 865,000 passengers per year. In order to strengthen the airport's security measures, management decided in March 2006 to upgrade its video surveillance system. The airport had an installed base...
Advanced monitoring and analytics capabilities enable more effective law enforcement and cost savings. With the rising crime rates in Savannah, GA, beginning to have a tangible impact on the safety of residents, tourists and the local economy, local government and law enforcement officials sought new solutions to their growing problem. Like many cities across the country, Savannah turned to public video surveillance systems as a counter measure. They selected Tropos® Networks as the wi...
FLIR thermal imaging cameras helped to assure a safe meeting of world leaders in Germany The Group of Eight (G8) is an international forum for the governments of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The European Commission is also represented at all the meetings. Together, these countries represent more than half of the world economy. It is one of the most important forums for dealing with global issues. Heads of State and G...
Meeting needs within public transportation - fixed and mobile. Verint highlights concepts and offers the practical example of BOGESTRA in Germany, to show how these systems can achieve outstanding and measurable results.Whilst Video security systems cannot prevent malicious defacements, aggressive vandalism or criminal behaviour by passengers, if integrated into comprehensive security strategies and partnerships, they can contribute toward improving employee and passenger safety and reduci...
IndigoVision's complete IP Video solution has helped transform the local policing of a small town in Northern Italy. Sergnano has a population of just 3,000 and employs only two law enforcement officers to police the town. The installation of an IndigoVision IP-CCTV system has enabled the police officers to cover a much larger area more effectively, reduce vandalism and respond more quickly to incidents and crime.The cost effective IndigoVision solution was the key to the success of...
Presented with the challenge of installing and adapting security systems to keep pace with the sustained business growth of Rathbone Brothers Plc (Rathbones), one of the UK's leading providers of investment and wealth management services, security expert Raysil has chosen to rely exclusively on equipment from Siemens Building Technologies Security Products.The most recent phase of Raysil's ongoing work for Rathbones was the completion of a contract for entry control systems at the organisat...
Network cameras from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been installed by Ely Telecom, working alongside Education ICT's server engineers to deliver a modern IP-Surveillance solution at Witchford Village College, near Ely. This village secondary school, which serves 900 11-to-16-year-olds in this predominantly rural area, originally installed an analo...
IndigoVision's complete end-to-end IP Video solution is helping global logistics specialist Kühne+Nagel to streamline and secure its distribution network in Austria. The new networked digital CCTV system provides both security surveillance and a video record of truck and parcel movements throughout their five Austrian distribution centres in Vienna, Schwechat Airport, Port Enns, Salzburg and Linz.As a truck arrives at a distribution centre an operator tracks its movement with a PT...
