Knowsley in funding bid for £32.7m CCTV scheme
Story link: Knowsley in funding bid for £32.7m CCTV scheme by Jan Harris
Knowsley Council has been invited to bid for Government funding to deploy hi-tech CCTV-equipped street lamps across the Knowsley area of Liverpool.
The £32.7m scheme would involve replacing around 14,000 lampposts with the new equipment. Most of the street lights in Knowsley, many of which have been in place for over 40 years, would be [...]
Axis network cameras deployed at Witchford college
Story link: Axis network cameras deployed at Witchford college by Jan Harris
Ely Telecom has installed a modern IP-Surveillance solution at Witchford Village College, a secondary school near Ely.
Despite already having an analogue CCTV system in place externally, the school had a problem with the theft of IT, music and science equipment from school buildings.
Ely Telecom, in partnership with Education ICT, installed a total of 28 [...]
Optex technology deployed at South Lanarkshire schools
Story link: Optex technology deployed at South Lanarkshire schools by Jan Harris
Optex Europe has enhanced existing CCTV systems at Lanarkshire primary schools, with innovative external detection technology designed to prevent vandalism occurring.
Vandalism at the two schools, including graffiti and outbreaks of fire, had caused around £500,000 worth of damage.
Mr Ian Porteous, CCTV Development Manager at South Lanarkshire Council, looked to Optex for a system which [...]
Scyron intelligent surveillance available to private sector
Story link: Scyron intelligent surveillance available to private sector by Jan Harris
Scyron Ltd, an Edgbaston-based security and surveillance services company, has made its intelligent, incident-based surveillance system available to the private sector.
The company has successfully deployed the system to 48 UK police forces where the innovative technology has improved the efficiency of evidence gathering from CCTV footage. The technology is also used by foreign police [...]
ID Technology provides security for Begbies Traynor
Story link: ID Technology provides security for Begbies Traynor by Jan Harris
ID Technology Group has enhanced security at corporate rescue firm, Begbies Traynor.
The company installed an integrated surveillance, access control and alarm security system in Begbies Traynor’s head office in Manchester.
The system provides both internal and external security, at the 7-story building, via 35 discrete dome cameras and a smart card access control system. [...]
Data Select announces mobile CCTV system
Story link: Data Select announces mobile CCTV system by Jan Harris
Data Select is distributing Second Sight, a CCTV system for the home, or small business, which allows live camera footage to be accessed via a mobile phone.
The system, which was developed by Surelabs, comprises a Webcam and Software which connects to a PC to deliver the service. The Webcam is dormant until either motion [...]
Forward Vision MIC1 cameras feature brushless motor
Story link: Forward Vision MIC1 cameras feature brushless motor by Jan Harris
Norbain has announced the availability of Forward Vision’s ‘Metal Mickey’ cameras, now with brushless motors as standard.
The MIC1 series of PTZ cameras now offers virtually silent operation, ensuring that sound does not resonate through buildings and support poles, which can happen with other PTZ cameras.
Forward Vision has introduced the brushless motors after a [...]
Ipsotek software installed at O2
Story link: Ipsotek software installed at O2 by Jan Harris
The O2 arena in London, which is owned by AEG Europe, has installed people-counting software from Ipsotek.
The software counts people in and out of the venue, through dedicated cameras at main entrances, providing hour-by-hour analysis of visitor numbers.
The software provides an accurate, automated headcount of either a steady-stream of day to day visitors, [...]
BAE Systems develops smart CCTV
Story link: BAE Systems develops smart CCTV by Jan Harris
Defence company, BAE Systems, has developed a smart CCTV system which it claims can track a person in the crowd, even if they try to disguise their appearance.
BAE researchers analysed images from a single, standard pan/tilt/zoom camera, from which software produced templates comprising four by four pixel squares.
The template shows as coloured dots [...]
JVC equips Treloar College with IP security system
Story link: JVC equips Treloar College with IP security system by Jan Harris
JVC Professional Europe has installed an advanced IP security system at Treloar College in Hampshire, a specialist college for students with physical disabilities.
The IP security systems is designed to meet the college’s future security needs, and further security cameras can be added when required.
Seventeen security cameras have been deployed around the college, and [...]
IndigoVision secures IP-CCTV casino contract
Story link: IndigoVision secures IP-CCTV casino contract by Jan Harris
IP video and alarm management company, IndigoVision, has secured a further contract to upgrade two US casinos’ analogue CCTV systems to digital.
The contract follows two similar casino installations by IndigoVision in the US and a recent contract to upgrade a chain of 9 casinos in South America.
The latest contract involves providing IP-CCTV at [...]
Chubb develops CCTV system for jewellers
Story link: Chubb develops CCTV system for jewellers by Jan Harris
Chubb Electronic Security has developed a CCTV surveillance and recording system designed specifically for independent jewellers, who are particularly vulnerable because of the value of their stock.
The basic package includes a mini-dome camera, a 15-inch flat screen monitor and on-site digital recording for up to 31 days.
Off-site monitoring can be added to the [...]
Wavelet Technology announces mobile hybrid DVR
Story link: Wavelet Technology announces mobile hybrid DVR by Jan Harris
Wavelet Technology, the digital recording specialist, has announced the world’s first mobile hybrid DVR.
The DVR is part of Wavelet Technology’s Little Gem range of compact digital video and audio recording solutions.
The Little Gem range provides a real-time and time-lapse recording solution which can record up to eight analogue cameras at 100 ips global [...]
BT and Intamac develop IP security system
Story link: BT and Intamac develop IP security system by Jan Harris
Telecom group BT and Northampton-based Intamac Systems Ltd, a specialist in Internet accessed monitoring and control, have developed an IP security system with optional CCTV, for the home.
The system, called BT Homesafe, uses Intamac technology to provide a security system for people with a broadband connection, which costs significantly less than conventional alarm systems. [...]
Transport for London stops live CCTV trial
Story link: Transport for London stops live CCTV trial by Jan Harris
Transport for London (TfL) has decided to halt a six-month trial of a live CCTV streaming system on London buses.
The technology was supplied by Integrated Security Solutions Ltd (ISS), which approached TfL and asked them to test the system.
The system streams live CCTV footage from London buses, to a central control room and [...]
Covert CCTV equipment deployed in Broxbourne
Story link: Covert CCTV equipment deployed in Broxbourne by Jan Harris
VIT Innovation Limited, a Hertford-based specialist security systems designer and equipment manufacturer, has supplied covert surveillance cameras to Broxbourne Council, to help solve the problem of youths throwing stones at passing vehicles.
A number of bus windows were smashed as a result of the behaviour, resulting in the bus service on the route being withdrawn, [...]
Maxim introduces on-screen-display generator
Story link: Maxim introduces on-screen-display generator by Jan Harris
Maxim Integrated Products has introduced the MAX7456, a single-channel on-screen-display (OSD) generator with integrated nonvolatile memory (EEPROM).
MAX7456 allows user-defined text and graphics to be overlaid onto a video-image and is compatible with composite NTSC and PAL video standards.
Conventional CCTV systems usually include a number of cameras routed through a video switch matrix. The cameras are [...]
Norbain offers Active Tampering Alarm feature
Story link: Norbain offers Active Tampering Alarm feature by Jan Harris
Norbain SD Ltd, a distributor of CCTV, Access Control and Intruder Detection equipment, is now offering Active Tampering Alarm, a new feature from Axis.
Active Tampering Alarm is an intelligent video function, which is integrated into network cameras.
It automatically alerts security staff if a camera in manipulated or re-positioned in any way. It also [...]
ConnectVu offers CCTV on mobiles
Story link: ConnectVu offers CCTV on mobiles by Jan Harris
Wireless video monitoring service, ConnectVu, is offering CCTV or video feeds directly to a mobile phone over GSM/GPRS/3G and other mobile networks.
The Video is streamed at up to 10 frames per second providing a good view of a house or other location.
To use the service, software is installed on the mobile phone to connect [...]
West Norfolk benefits from £150,000 CCTV investment
Story link: West Norfolk benefits from £150,000 CCTV investment by Jan Harris
West Norfolk Council has upgraded its CCTV system with an investment of £146,500.
The Council first installed CCTV in 1992. The new investment has included the conversion of the control room monitors to 19 and 40-inch flatscreens.
The Hardware has been upgraded to digital, to speed up the process of retrieving images. Recording is now possible [...]