CCTV surveillance for Trinidad’s carnival
Story link: CCTV surveillance for Trinidad’s carnival by Lin Freestone
The Trinidad Government and security forces will use closed circuit television for the first time to help police carnival activities during the two-day festival at the beginning of February.
Thousands of visitors from around the world have been drawn to Trinidad and the efforts are being made to ensure that there is no major violence associated [...]
Wireless CCTV launches covert surveillance device
Story link: Wireless CCTV launches covert surveillance device by Jan Harris
Wireless CCTV Ltd has launched a covert, one-box surveillance device, which can be quickly deployed, even in extreme conditions.
The device’s case and connectors are fully waterproof, and can even be buried underground without compromising performance, making the system ideal for environmental monitoring.
Both a wired and wireless set up is available, with the suitability [...]
Middle East target for DynaPel’s video surveillance systems
Story link: Middle East target for DynaPel’s video surveillance systems by Lin Freestone
DynaPel Systems, a leading US developer of digital video analytics appliances, smart cameras and networked digital video recorders, is targeteting the fast-growing Middle East security sector and expanding its dealership network in the region and North Africa.
In order to meet this potential market and establish a network of certified dealers, DynaPel has shown its [...]
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 [...]
Linden launches covert surveillance vehicle solutions
Story link: Linden launches covert surveillance vehicle solutions by Jan Harris
Linden Specialist Vehicles has launched a new covert surveillance vehicle service designed to reduce the cost of mounting covert surveillance operations.
The service provides vehicles equipped with the latest surveillance technology on a rental basis. The vehicles can operate in a range of environments and include cameras, digital transmission links and DVRs.
Using the [...]
Greece rated top EU nation for privacy protection
Story link: Greece rated top EU nation for privacy protection by Lin Freestone
Greece has come out on top for privacy protection and respect for privacy in a survey conducted by Privacy International. The survey, which measured the extent of surveillance and privacy in the EU and the world, placed Greece at the top of the list of EU nations.
Privacy International’s survey scored on Constitutional and Statutory protections, [...]
Moray Council deploys covert CCTV cameras
Story link: Moray Council deploys covert CCTV cameras by Jan Harris
As part of a £250,000 investment in CCTV, Moray Council has purchased hi-tech mobile radio cameras which can be hidden in fake rocks and plants.
The cameras will be deployed at troublespots in order to help prevent anti-social behaviour and fly-tippers, and to help catch offenders. Moray Council is the second local authority [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Software turns cellphones into surveillance network
Story link: Software turns cellphones into surveillance network by Jan Harris
Software that turns groups of ordinary camera phones into an intelligent surveillance camera network, has been developed by researchers at the Institute for Pervasive Computing in Zurich, Switzerland.
Philipp Bolliger, Moritz Köhler and Kay Römer developed the software, called Facet, and plan to release it as an open source project for programmers to experiment with.
To [...]
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 [...]
Planned expansion of CCTV network in Paris
Story link: Planned expansion of CCTV network in Paris by Lin Freestone
The French government is planning is triple its CCTV network over the next two years as part of the fight against terrorism and street crime.
By 2009, it is estimated that Paris will have 6,500 CCTV cameras on the public transport systems alone.
It is also proposed to introduce flying spy drones as a crime prevention measure. [...]
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 [...]
Advances in CCTV surveillance
Story link: Advances in CCTV surveillance by Lin Freestone
Sagem, a French telecoms company, has collaborated in the development of a CCTV surveillance system that is making advances in tracking.
The new system would enable an operator to choose a suspect and follow him through dense crowds, despite any subsequent changes in appearance. The system has been developed by scientists at the defence company BAE [...]
Derwent introduces night-time surveillance products
Story link: Derwent introduces night-time surveillance products by Jan Harris
Derwent Systems Ltd of Cramlington, has launched AEGIS Intelligent IR Illuminators for CCTV night-time surveillance.
AEGIS features Derwent’s Constant Light technology, which compensates for the degradation of LEDs over time.
AEGIS is an LED based IR illuminator and therefore subject to LED degradation, which can lead to poor infrared performance, grainy snowy images and [...]