Edinburgh adds CCTV to bus lanes to catch drivers
Story link: Edinburgh adds CCTV to bus lanes to catch drivers by Brian Turner
Edinburgh has installed CCTV cameras along the city’s bus lanes, in order to capture and prosecute drivers who use them illegally. Ten specific routes have been initially targeted, with the CCTV cameras recording the number plates of any vehicle using the bus lanes. All registration plates captured are then compared to a database of allowed [...]
New MOBOTIX D14 DualDome Camera
Story link: New MOBOTIX D14 DualDome Camera by Brian Turner
The new weatherproof and shock-resistant MOBOTIX D14 DualDome camera with 6,2 megapixels is a more powerful successor model of the D12 camera. With the two separately adjustable camera modules, each with 3,1 megapixels, the D14 offers a variety of ways to examine a scene since the two modules can be combined to create one image. [...]
St. Nicholas Church uses MOBOTIX to protect and serve its congregation
Story link: St. Nicholas Church uses MOBOTIX to protect and serve its congregation by Brian Turner
MOBOTIX AG, a leading manufacturer of digital high-resolution, network-based video security systems has released details of a project at the parish of St. Nicholas, one of the UK’s oldest churches, that has deployed CCTV technology to protect against theft and vandalism while offering access to special services via the internet. The parish of St. Nicholas [...]
Pendle man sets up SIMCAM remote camera business after stroke
Story link: Pendle man sets up SIMCAM remote camera business after stroke by Brian Turner
A Pendle man has launched an innovative new remote camera telemetry business after having a stroke two years ago. Stan Glover had led an active and healthy life, having previously been a market manager, but he suffered a massive stroke in July 2008. He was told he would probably never regain his mobility, but plucky [...]
Security Reaches a New Level at Scott County Jail
Story link: Security Reaches a New Level at Scott County Jail by Brian Turner
Scott County Jail sought a real-time video analytics solution for the detection of unauthorized people in restricted zones. Automatic detections serve their security needs due to the substantial size of the site, which otherwise would demand a large number of staff physically patrolling the restricted zones, or a Corrections Officer keeping watch and picking up [...]
Vemotion supports wide range of CCTV cameras
Story link: Vemotion supports wide range of CCTV cameras by Brian Turner
Vemotion Interactive, specialists in live video transmission over low bandwidth connections, today announced the completion of development work to enable the Vemotion technology to be used with a wide range of cameras now available on the market. This development extends the use and value of Vemotion technology as it enables customers to use their existing [...]
Companies call for smarter surveillance
Story link: Companies call for smarter surveillance by Jan Harris
A group of London bar and shop owners have launched an online crime-fighting initiative after an increase in bag snatchers and shoplifters. The Facewatch website allows them to share CCTV images of thieves as soon as a crime is committed and also enables them to send the image to the police. Facial recognition software is [...]
Genetec appoints Chief Operating Officer
Story link: Genetec appoints Chief Operating Officer by Jan Harris
Genetec announces that Bill Nash has joined Genetec in the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Mr. Nash will augment Genetec’s existing executive team with his experience in successfully mentoring fast-growing high tech companies and he will help formulate policies and procedures needed to proactively manage the growth Genetec is anticipating for the coming years. [...]
MOBOTIX AG announces sales growth of 42%
Story link: MOBOTIX AG announces sales growth of 42% by Jan Harris
MOBOTIX AG system provider of high-resolution and network-based video security systems, announced the preliminary financial results for the first three months of the fiscal year 2010/11 ending on September 30, 2010. The MOBOTIX Group (IFRS consolidated statements) successfully begins its new business year and achieved a sales growth of 42% to €15.1 million (previous year: [...]
Vemotion CCTV deployed by Leedswatch
Story link: Vemotion CCTV deployed by Leedswatch by Jan Harris
Vemotion Interactive today announced that its real-time video solution has been successfully deployed by Leedswatch, the CCTV operation run by Leeds City Council, Community Safety, to enhance is support of West Yorkshire Police operations at key football matches. Vemotion video compression and transmission equipment has been installed in the latest Leesdwatch mobile CCTV vans which [...]
New research suggests general public support CCTV
Story link: New research suggests general public support CCTV by Jan Harris
CCTV systems representing a substantial IT investment have been under threat from myriad sources; from the Deputy Prime Minister through to Big Brother Watch, a perception has been created that the public does not want public space CCTV systems and that they consider them to be both intrusive and an infringement of civil liberties. Since [...]
Milestone Launches XProtect Go
Story link: Milestone Launches XProtect Go by Jan Harris
Milestone Systems announces the launch of XProtect™ Go free video surveillance software. With a wide set of features for one user to manage and view up to 8 cameras, XProtect Go is easy to learn and use and is suitable for small business and residential customers who want to secure their property with IP video [...]
MOBOTIX protects Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
Story link: MOBOTIX protects Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery by Jan Harris
MOBOTIX AG has released details of an installation of its MOBOTIX CCTV installation which is protecting The University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, the oldest public museum in Scotland, with a discreet, reliable and low cost system. Housed within four buildings on the main campus of the University in the west end of [...]
Leeds Community Safety CCTV Centre of Excellence
Story link: Leeds Community Safety CCTV Centre of Excellence by Jan Harris
Vemotion Interactive, provider of interactive high-quality, live and pre-recorded video streaming, today announced the successful deployment of its wireless CCTV solution by the Leedswatch Community Safety team. Leeds Community Safety CCTV provides and operates one of the largest CCTV camera networks in the Country with a network of over 385 cameras, covering 240 square miles, [...]
Vemotion and Helimedia in video demo at air show
Story link: Vemotion and Helimedia in video demo at air show by Jan Harris
Vemotion Interactive will be at Farnborough Air show this week in conjunction with their partner Helimedia. Vemotion technology is being demonstrated to show how real-time video can be beamed from helicopters and routed through the mobile network to mobile handsets. The product testing is based on a pole-mounted CCTV camera overlooking the runway at Farnborough [...]
Aceda becomes Mobotix partner
Story link: Aceda becomes Mobotix partner by Jan Harris
MOBOTIX AG, a leading manufacturer of digital high-resolution, network-based video security systems have announced Aceda Ltd, a highly respected IT and network services provider, as the latest member of the MOBOTIX Certified Partner Programme. With over 20 years experience in networking and IT, Aceda has selected MOBOTIX as the key platform for its expansion into [...]
Bold makes Runnymede safer
Story link: Bold makes Runnymede safer by Jan Harris
Revenue generation for the public sector control room is always a hot topic but never more so than at the moment with threats of serious budget pressure. This has meant for some control rooms a re-examination of their purpose and the scope of their activities. While a number of town centre CCTV monitoring schemes have [...]
Dublin Ohio adopts Milestone IP video system
Story link: Dublin Ohio adopts Milestone IP video system by Jan Harris
Milestone XProtect™ Enterprise Video Management Software (VMS) provides centralized management for the city of Dublin, Ohio. City management and IT staff built the installation on the unified Milestone platform with its open architecture running on an IT infrastructure. The ease of use for employees has reduced operation costs for the city and the wireless network [...]
Milestone partners with Connex International
Story link: Milestone partners with Connex International by Jan Harris
Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software, has invested in a partnership with Connex International, Inc. to deliver training and certification services to the company’s expanding global partner channel. The partnership is based on a global service agreement for Connex International, Inc. to provide security and surveillance training for certification in [...]
Mobotix protects Bromsgrove School
Story link: Mobotix protects Bromsgrove School by Jan Harris
MOBOTIX AG, a leading manufacturer of complete high-resolution IP video systems have released details of an installation of its MOBOTIX CCTV solution at Bromsgrove School that has helped protect pupils, staff and property across a 100 acre site for over seven years without fail. The project which was designed, implemented and maintained by NS Optimum [...]