£30,000 CCTV camera to protect Godmanchester lock
Story link: £30,000 CCTV camera to protect Godmanchester lock by Jan Harris
The Environment Agency is installing a £30,000 CCTV camera with infra-red, night vision capabilities, to monitor Godmanchester Lock.
Godmanchester is a hotspot for anti-social behaviour, where vandalism to the lock has necessitated £20,000 of repair work being carried out.
It is hoped that the new camera, which will operate 24/7, will deter further vandalism. The [...]
Experian FootFall adopts Sony mini-domes
Story link: Experian FootFall adopts Sony mini-domes by Jan Harris
Experian Footfall, which counts pedestrian footfall for retailers and other organisations, has enhanced its ability to remotely monitor in-store activity through the integration of a counting system and video image reporting.
Sony’s mini-dome, fixed and pan-tilt IP cameras, have been used with the company’s Distributed Enhanced Processing Architecture (DEPA) technology, to strengthen Experian Footfall’s sensor-device [...]
Vehicle Occupancy develops skin-detecting CCTV
Story link: Vehicle Occupancy develops skin-detecting CCTV by Jan Harris
Vehicle Occupancy, a Loughborough University spin off, has developed CCTV technology, called dtech, which can detect human skin.
The infrared CCTV system can be used to scan car windscreens and detect how many people are in the car. The company believes it could help with the enforcement of traffic regulations, such as the London Congestion [...]
ICO bans CCTV voice recording
Story link: ICO bans CCTV voice recording by Jan Harris
Hidden microphones mounted on CCTV cameras are to be banned under a new code of practice being launched by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas.
The Information Commissioner believes that the camera microphones, some of which which can listen in to private conversations up to 100 yards away, are a serious breach of civil liberties.
The new code [...]
Ubiqz pioneers IP security in Tripoli
Story link: Ubiqz pioneers IP security in Tripoli by Jan Harris
Ubiqz Ltd, a London-based security systems integrator, has worked with a local installer in Tripoli, Libya, on a £250,000 Internet-addressable camera surveillance project.
The project involved the installation of 40 Sony cameras over 11 floors of a brand-new finance tower block in the Dat el-Emad complex, in Tripoli’s financial district.
IP security networks have [...]
UBIQZ installs IP monitoring system at C of E school
Story link: UBIQZ installs IP monitoring system at C of E school by Jan Harris
Ubiqz has overseen the installation of an Internet-addressable monitoring system, including 50-cameras, at a Church of England school on the south-east London/Kent border.
The system uses Power over Ethernet (PoE) from Israeli manufacturer, PowerDsine. Camera data and power are transmitted across CAT5 wiring from the principal server room.
The Sony cameras are ruggedised day/night mini [...]
UK citizens monitored more than rest of Europe
Story link: UK citizens monitored more than rest of Europe by Jan Harris
Privacy International’s 2007 ‘International Privacy Ranking’ places the UK as the worst surveillance society in the European Union, and one of the worst in the world.
The UK’s citizens are the most monitored in the whole of Europe, according to the report by the civil liberties group.
Privacy International used data on how 47 countries [...]
Centralised networks from Bosch’s new management system
Story link: Centralised networks from Bosch’s new management system by Lin Freestone
Bosch Security Systems has launched a new management system which aims to provide centralised management and monitoring of video servers, cameras and iSCSI storage units on IP-based CCTV networks.
Called the Video Recording Manager, the system should make it easier to manage storage capacities by treating data logically or virtually, instead of at a physical level.
Bosch [...]
Be home monitor service launched
Story link: Be home monitor service launched by Jan Harris
Be, a subsidiary of O2, has launched the Be home monitor service, a broadband-ready CCTV security system for the home or business.
The service combines digital network cameras, high-speed broadband and mobile communications technology.
Users ‘arm’ a wireless indoor camera when they leave their premises, simply by pressing the “Armed” button on a keyfob remote [...]
Rapid growth predicted in global CCTV market
Story link: Rapid growth predicted in global CCTV market by Lin Freestone
The worldwide CCTV market is expected to grow by 13% every year until 2011, according to research conducted by RNCOS. The growth is expected to cover both IP-based CCTV and conventional systems.
Security concerns over a rising threat of terrorism, together with increasing retail activity, has driven the demand for low-cost, reliable and innovative technology. However, [...]
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, [...]
IPCameraSupply.com launched by leading US retailer
Story link: IPCameraSupply.com launched by leading US retailer by Lin Freestone
A leading Internet retail of VoIP hardware in the US, VoIP Supply, has launched IPCameraSupply.com, an internet retailer of IP/CCTV surveillance and recording hardware including IP cameras, digital video recorders, network video recorders, and CCTV systems.
IPCameraSupply.com is VoIP Supply’s first entrance into the IP/CCTV surveillance and recording marketplace and the third Internet retailer it has [...]
CCTV cameras installed to improve port security at Mombasa
Story link: CCTV cameras installed to improve port security at Mombasa by Lin Freestone
Following an audit undertaken by the US-funded National Terrorism Centre based in Nairobi, with the US State Department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Office playing an advisory role, the Kenyan government is urgently improving security at the port of Mombasa.
As part of the initiative, Kenya Ferry Services has installed closed circuit television cameras in all its five ferries [...]
Pennine Housing 2000 launches IP CCTV system
Story link: Pennine Housing 2000 launches IP CCTV system by Jan Harris
Pennine Housing 2000, the Yorkshire-based social housing manager, is now benefiting from the installation of an advanced IP-enabled CCTV monitoring system.
The solution, which took 18 months to come together, was the result of a collaboration between Pennine, consultants Faber Maunsell, integrators BBV and CCTV solutions providers Dedicated Micros.
It provides Pennine with a central control [...]
BAE Systems develops face tracking CCTV
Story link: BAE Systems develops face tracking CCTV by Jan Harris
Researchers at BAE Systems have developed a CCTV system which can track a face moving through a crowd, even if the individual hides beneath a hat.
The system, which was developed as part of the Integrated Surveillance of Crowded Areas for Public Security (Iscaps) project, uses computer software to monitor and break down live television [...]
Low cost camera provides 3-D monitoring
Story link: Low cost camera provides 3-D monitoring by Jan Harris
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS in Duisburg, Germany, have developed a 3-D CMOS camera which could help to prevent traffic accidents by monitoring blind spots.
The compact, low-priced device is based on a high-performance light sensor. The device emits rapid, short laser flashes. The camera can determine how far [...]
Fine imposed on Greek police for illegal monitoring
Story link: Fine imposed on Greek police for illegal monitoring by Lin Freestone
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority, an independent administrative body, has been operating in Greece since November 1997.
The mission of the Authority is to supervise the implementation of acts and regulations imposed in Greece for the protection of the individual with respect to the processing of personal data.
The Authority has imposed a fine of €3,000 [...]
LILLIN installs CCTV system at Nene Park
Story link: LILLIN installs CCTV system at Nene Park by Jan Harris
CCTV manufacturer LILLIN has installed a new CCTV system at Nene Park, the home of Rushden and Diamonds Football Club in Irthlingborough, Northants.
The existing system at the ground had been installed in 1992 and was unable to meet current CCTV standards.
The club required a new system which would monitor activities both within the [...]
New CCTV cameras for hazardous areas
Story link: New CCTV cameras for hazardous areas by Lin Freestone
ProDetec, an Australian supplier of high quality equipment and systems, has released new CCTV cameras for hazardous areas and marine environments. These high-resolution cameras create images with crystal clear detail that is absolutely essential when applying CCTV in high risk environments.
The COEX CCTV cameras are manufactured from high grade electro-polished 316L stainless steel for maximum [...]
CCTV analysis could predict and prevent disasters
Story link: CCTV analysis could predict and prevent disasters by Lin Freestone
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has studied CCTV footage of disasters as it is believed that CCTV analysis could spot and warn of dangerous tensions to prevent them happening.
The team studied footage of the stampede on Saudi Arabia’s Jamarat Bridge during the Hajj of 2006 and found that crowds can experience sudden [...]