CCTV Today articles from July 2004

CCTV Today archives from July 2004

Cameras track traffic offenders to cut jams.(News)
July 1, 2004... DRIVERS in London caught on camera ignoring road signs could receive a 100 [pounds sterling] fine under a new pilot scheme designed to reduce congestion on the capital's roads. Historically, enforcing London's road signs has been the...

Siemens Building Technologies.(People)
July 1, 2004... Siemens Building Technologies has appointed Peter Wingard as its new managing director. He moves from the company's Switzerland operation, where he was responsible for international management and business development for HVAC and fire &...

Checkpoint Systems UK.(People)
July 1, 2004... Retail security solutions company, Checkpoint Systems UK, has appointed David Nuttall as its new managing director. He succeeds Neil Matthews who has been promoted to head up Europe-wide shrinkage management solutions for Checkpoint.

Quadrant Video Systems.(People)
July 1, 2004... Formerly with Sensormatic and ADT, Scott Smith has been appointed to the position of business development manager at Quadrant Video Systems. His role will focus on expanding the company's installation business, as well as supplying CCTV...

Visimetrics (UK).(People)
July 1, 2004... Covering Scotland and Ireland, Steve Cruickshank has joined Visimetrics (UK) in a new technical sales role. Steve has more than 20 years' experience in integrated systems end CCTV sales, most recently working with Initial Systems.

Visionlinkplus.(People)
July 1, 2004... Martin Butterworth is the new northern sales director at Visionlinkplus and will be based at the company's new Rochdale sales office. Martin played a key role in setting up the CCTV distribution organization Network Video Centre over nine years...

Sanyo.(People)
July 1, 2004... Sanyo has secured the services of Nigel Austin who joins the company as regional account manager, CCTV north. Nigel has been involved in the electronics security industry since 1988, most recently working as technical sales manager at Plettac.

From 1 July until 18 October, there are a couple of temporary changes to the editorial team of CCTV Today.(News)
July 1, 2004... From 1 July until 18 October, there are a couple of temporary changes to the editorial team of CCTV Today. Ron Alalouff has been seconded to act as news editor for the weekly title Printing World, also part of the CMPi stable. Assistant editor...

ANPR is coming to America.(News)
July 1, 2004... UK AND international provider of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR/ALPR) solutions, CitySync has launched its Mark III Jet Recognition Engine, specifically developed to read US, Canadian and other challenging number plates. ...

Direct selling point for TeleEye products.(News)
July 1, 2004... REMOTE monitoring manufacturer TeleEye Europe is to sell its range of products and supported peripherals directly to the UK and European markets. The company is to sell directly to installers, in addition to its existing distribution...

CCTV company tops fastest-growing league.(News)
July 1, 2004... CCTV SECURITY specialist AD Holdings has topped the Deloitte Indy 100 awards for the UK's fastest growing companies, with a compound growth rate of 170% over the past four years. Run jointly by Big 4 professional services firm Deloitte and...

Flower power over Ethernet.(News)
July 1, 2004... SCIENCE and nature have traditionally enjoyed an uneasy relationship but they came together in harmony at the Chelsea Flower Show at the end of May. Two Axis 2120 network cameras were installed inside the Show by network specialist i-dash,...

Police take stiff measures to curb phoney claims.(News)
July 1, 2004... POLICE OFFICERS in Bristol are cracking down on people who have made false claims of robbery after footage from cameras in the city revealed that a large number of reports of robberies, often involving mobile phones, were bogus. Chief...

NSI sees growth in approval schemes.(News)
July 1, 2004... MORE THAN 1000 companies operating from over 1500 locations are now approved under the National Security Inspectorate's (NSI) Gold, Silver and Bronze schemes. According to the NSI, this growth means that around 80 per cent of electronic...

Excellence Awards--the 'Oscars' of the security industry.(News)
July 1, 2004... Companies and individuals representing the very best in security technology and practice have emerged as finalists for the Security Excellence Awards. The sparkling black-tie event, organised by 'CCTV Today' and its sister publications,...

Congratulations Cougar: the National Security Inspectorate have awarded West Midlands based Cougar Monitoring NSI ARC Gold in respect of its operations throughout the mainland United Kingdom and Ireland.(Advertorial)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... The Joint Managing Directors of Cougar Monitoring a bespoke CCTV monitoring Company are Malcolm Griffiths a retired police superintendent and Mike Holder a retired Chief Superintendent were both operational police officers as opposed to "pen...

One year on from BS 8418.(BSIA)
July 1, 2004... AS we move closer to the first anniversary of the publication of BS 8418--the standard for detector activated CCTV--it is perhaps appropriate to lake a step back and consider, at a practical level, what progress has been made. When it...

Here, there and everywhere.(BSIA)
July 1, 2004... IF there is one thing that I will take away from this year's IFSEC it is just how much the show has come to be dominated by CCTV. At every turn visitors were assailed by the very latest in CCTV technology, whether it be number plate...

It's a question of licensing.(BSIA)
July 1, 2004... A RECENT development has placed the spotlight once again on the whole question of the licensing of CCTV operators, with discussions underway between the SIA (Security Industry Authority) and key bodies, including the BSIA. This process was...

Over there and over here.(User Group)
July 1, 2004... IN THE last issue I commented how, following pressure from many people about the treed for a user group in the USA, we incorporated a subsidiary group in Florida. Now, we have a regional office in Nebraska, from where we have just returned. ...

A plea to manufacturers.(User Group)
July 1, 2004... ELSEWHERE in this issue, there is a detailed review of the record-breaking success of IFSEC 2004, which saw manufacturers exhibiting all sorts of new whizzy products, accompanied by technical jargon that frankly loses me. But what does the...

Running on empty.(User Group)
July 1, 2004... THE OTHER day I read a local news item which detailed how some police officers had criticised the quality of images from one of the first town centre CCTV systems, still in operation. From reading the report, it seemed there was an urgent...

Video gets smarter: another record-breaking year at IFSEC saw the emphasis shift away from more technology for the sake of it, towards better images on the screen. Intelligent video analysis, camera quality and IP integration were just three of the themes that caught the attention of Ron Alalouff.(Exhibition & Conference Review)
July 1, 2004... One of the major themes coming out of this year's IFSEC was intelligent video, Manufacturers of digital video products have realised they need to differentiate their products from the hundreds out there, and one way of doing this is to offer...

Preaching to the converted.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... Sony's SNT-V501 and SNT-V504 video network stations make it possible to connect a traditional analogue video camera to an IP network. The units convert existing analogue video into digital MJPEG, providing a high-refresh rate of 25fps in...

Module gives ptz cameras an intrusion detection edge.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... iOIMAGE has added to its TotalTrack range with a smart intrusion detection modulo for ptz cameras. The module allows users to transform any ptz camera into a continuously scanning, radar-like device, with output displayed as real images rather...

Brainy box.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... Described as an intelligent camera, the seelector ICAM is available from hema electronic. According to the company, image compression, which occurs directly in the camera, offers more efficient data transmission. If necessary, the camera...

Gem of a receiver.(Product & Services)
July 1, 2004... A weather-resistant IP65 RFX-3 receiver with back and front tamper has been launched by G JD. This receiver is to work with the company's Opal RFX wireless passive infrared detector used in CCTV and event management applications. According...

Eliminating risk for integrators.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... Neurodynamics and NKF Electronics have formed a strategic alliance to develop a set of intelligent network video recorders. These NVRs will substantially increase the effectiveness of video applications over LAN/WAN networks and eliminate risks...

ANPR to headline at festival.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... Following the successful deployment of Derwent's REG Number plate capture system by police at the Renaissance Event at the Shugborough Hall Estate in May, the same system will be used to improve security at the 70,000-visitor, dual-venue,...

Motorists in the midlands look forward to a free-flowing future.(Product & Services)
July 1, 2004... Expected to provide a free-flowing alternative to the congested M6 in the West Midlands, the M6 Toll will be managed using the Wavestore Ruby Digital Video & Audio Recording and Management System (DVARMS). Several Wavestore Ruby DVRs will...

Bosch steps into the Bullring.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... The new Selfridges store in Birmingham's Bullring shopping centre has been equipped with a surveillance system, which includes more than 80 intelligent CCTV cameras and digital video equipment from Bosch Security Systems. The system...

Turn on the Wi-Fi? Just as you were getting to grips with the notion of IP video, we thought we'd go one step further. Here Simon Adcock pulls the wires out of the network and takes an installer's eye view of the pros and cons of Wi-Fi CCTV.(Wireless IP)
July 1, 2004... The current 'standard' for transmission of CCTV cameras in a town centre environment is fibre optic cabling. Because of the huge cost of laying dedicated fibre from camera to control room, such schemes often use BT's existing fibre network...

Wireless in Westminster: following Simon Adcock's analysis on the role of WiFi CCTV Ron Alalouff takes a closer look at a new system in Westminster which has already been dubbed the 'wireless city'.(Wireless IP)(Cover Story)
July 1, 2004... Central London came late to CCTV, with the first comprehensive city centre scheme--based at the Trocadero Centre in Piccadilly Circus--going live as recently as 18 months ago. But once it started, Westminster City Council has been pioneering...

Network video to spearhead European CCTV growth--one fifth of cameras will be networked by 2008.(Market Research)
July 1, 2004... Video over IP is set to increase its share of the CCTV market ever the next three years and may also threaten existing analogue formats and standards. Those are two of the conclusions that came out of a press conference held at the Swedish...

Focus on fibre: this issue sees our experts at Tavcom Training putting fibre optic systems under the microscope. According to the team, with these systems now much easier to use, installers and end-users should at least start to consider using them in long distance applications.(Fibre Optics)
July 1, 2004... OPTICAL FIBRES AND FIBRE OPTIC systems are not the black arts they have been painted by some. Indeed, over the last few years they have become simpler to deal with and to install. But if you cannot manage the installation and jointing of the...

Turning back the CCTV clocks: as CCTV Today celebrates a decade in print, we take a retrospective look at some of the headlines that were making the news ten years ago.(10th Anniversary)
July 1, 2004... Flicking through the first couple of issues of CCTV Today and the dramatic changes and advances experienced by our industry in just ten years begin to stare you in the face. But it is also evident how certain issues and ideas refuse to go away....

IP lands at Luton Airport.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... Intruder International plc has designed and installed what it claims is the UK's largest single-site IP-based CCTV system. London Luton Airport is using lndigoVision's VideoBridge technology to convert its analogue system to an IP-based...

Park and ride--not park and hide.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... Munich car park operator P+R Park & Ride GmbH is now cashing in on its new all-in-one car park management system, which comes complete with a fully integrated CCTV system from Geutebruck. The real-time provision of operational data,...

Network software solution helps Brazilian authorities to cut crime.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... The Brazilian city of Valinhos is protecting its people, property and businesses from robberies and vandalism using an IP video surveillance solution from Milestone Systems. Legal and court buildings, streets where hanks reside, and the more...

Poles protect financial hub.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... As part of the Glasgow City Council Street Watch CCTV Programme, Altron Communication Equipment has supplied nine AW1545 CCTV camera poles for The Financial Centre a new riverside location in Glasgow providing luxurious office accommodation....

Auntie's choice.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... Covering both the public and reception areas, Pelco 200 series cameras have been installed in the new BBC studios at The Mailbox, Birmingham. A Pelco DX 9000 digital recording system is also being used to record images from all 35 cameras,...

School decides on image boost.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... Monitoring pupils' behaviour is a challenge for any secondary school, but Cliff Park High School in Gorleston, Norfolk, decided that this would be best achieved by investing in an ADPRO FastTrace CCTV system manufactured by Vision Fire &...

The answer to your security prayers.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... Some 15 fixed colour cameras, an outdoor ptz dome day/night camera, and a digital video multiplexer recorder (DVMR) are being used to monitor the church grounds of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church of Ft. Louderdale. Since implementing...

Out with the old, in with the new.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... Equipment front Network Video Technologies (NVT) is used at the Treasure Island Resort & Casino in Red Wing, Minnesota, to transmit video signals front an old surveillance room to a new facility located 600 feet away via unshielded twisted pair...

Keeping the ghost fanatics at bay.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... A village on the Essex/Suffolk border is benefiting from a digital surveillance system from Honeywell Security (formerly VCL) to protect its church and surrounding land from unwelcome attention arising from its proximity to 'the most haunted...

IP monitoring at every corner.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... A network of security cameras has been installed to bolster safely at Coventry Airport. Engineers from Active Communications have installed high-tech equipment to monitor every corner of the new departure and arrivals buildings at...

German football's video replay.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... Proving, perhaps, that security at football stadiums is a top concern, a club in Germany has installed a new dome-based surveillance system. Alemannia Aachen Football Club's Tivoli Stadium has installed all eneo system from Videor...

Lifting surveillance to new heights.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... The Falkirk Wheel is nothing to do with Ferris, but is in fact the world's only rotating boat lift, and the centrepiece of the 85 million [pounds sterling] Millennium Link restoration project. It joins canals from the east and west coast of...

Nurse--the screens please.(Industry News)
July 1, 2004... With the recent construction of a multi-storey car park and proposed 75m [pounds sterling] private finance initiative to build new facilities for surgery, endoscopy, diabetes and genetics on campus, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust Hospital in cambridge...

Rugged dome handles the pressure.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... The security business of GE Infrastructure has introduced a new PressureDome camera system. Described as a rugged ptz camera dome offering dry nitrogen pressurisation for protection in harsh environments, the PressureDome also features an...

Dial-up delight.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... Two four-channel all-in-one video and audio Dialup CCTV transmitters have been unveiled by TeleEye. The DT-103P and DT-103D run on PSTN and ISDN, respectively. Suitable for remote surveillance and alarm verification of remote properties,...

Mobile units north and south.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... A second mobile demonstration vehicle has been launched by Vista Described as a totally self contained mobile demonstration facility, the Vista Van is fully equipped to demonstrate all the key products in the Vista range. "With two vans in...

Three elements in one.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... Said to be suitable for most system applications, the compact and sleek Ganz Triplex DVR is an embedded DVR, multiplexer, and built-in coaxial telemetry matrix all in one box. The built in matrix enables up to 16 cameras to be switched to...

Meeting the streaming need.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... Designed to meet the increasing need for high quality, reliable real-time video streaming for surveillance and security, the SED-2100R is a high-resolution, Ethernet-ready digital video transmission device from ACTi Corporation. The...

Light relief.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... Part of its L3Vision camera portfolio, e2v technologies introduces its latest CCD product--a 24-hour video camera said to enhance target recognition and identification under extremely low light conditions. According to the company, the...

Images that stand up in court.(Products & Services)
July 1, 2004... The Divar range of digital versatile recorders from Bosch Security Systems has won approval from the Kalagate imagery Bureau--a UK consultancy for imaging analysis, processing and enhancement. According to Bosch, the Bureau's certification of...

Portwell.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... Get rid of the hang ups with Portwell's Industrial Grade Digital Surveillance System, Pvs-2420 Tired of conventional plain DVR devices? Do you have to put up with the frequent hang ups? they surely save your initial purchasing cost. But taking...

Genie.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... Genie CCTV has launched a new range of high specification professional true day/night bodied cameras packed with a host of advanced surveillance features. The new high resolution cameras are available in two models, a Sony 1/3 inch colour...

Ultimate resources.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... 120km-range gigabit transceivers Ultimate Renaissance offers high performance, cost effective, modular interfaces fat optical communication systems. The first product available is the FTM-5012C-L120 small form factor pluggable (SFP)...

Siemens: Siemens web server delivers CCTV over Ethernet.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... Siemens Building Technologies has launched TELSCAN, bringing CCTV to the desktop. The System converts analogue video from CCTV cameras to TCP/IP over Ethernet so that all that is needed at the viewing end is a standard PC and web browser. ...

Hero Electronics: embedded Internet without tears.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... A new drop in module from the hardwired TCP/IP experts WIZnet is now available from Hero Electronics. The IIM7300 combines the power of a low cost AVR microcontroller with the revolutionary W3100A chip using Internet Inside TCP/IP transmission...

Genie CCTV has expanded its range of miniature cameras with the launch of a new feature packed high-resolution day/night bullet camera.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... Genie CCTV has expanded its range of miniature cameras with the launch of a new feature packed high-resolution day/night bullet camera suitable for use in a wide variety of surveillance applications. The Sony 1/3 inch colour super HAD CCD...

IFS: IFS Introduces CopperLine Series--high performance video over UTP.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... New IFS CopperLine Series Guarantees Medium-Haul Video Performance at 450metres. London, 4th May 2004 International Fiber Systems, has announced the introduction of a new series of transmission equipment with a difference. This time the...

Woods & Douglas.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... The dVMo digital video link provides a flexible platform for the transmission of video, sound and data signals either in point to point applications or for mobile to base. The dVMo uses advanced COFDM encoding techniques to ensure spectral...

Zandar.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... Get rid of the hang-ups with Portwell's Industrial Grade Digital Surveillance System, PV5-2420 Tired of conventional plain DVR devices? Do you have to put up with the frequent hang-ups? They surely save your initial purchasing cost. But taking...

Synelec.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... Specialists in mission critical, 24/7 display environments, Synelec have introduced the first generation of IndiSys Compact (Intelligent Display System) TF I LC [) products, combining slim design with superior image quality and high...

Intruder International: Luton Airport adopts large scale IPCCTV.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... Intruder International plc has designed and installed the UK is largest ever single-site IP based CCTV system. London Luton Airport has embraced IndigoVisionis VideoBridge technology to convert their entire analogue CCTV to an IP network based...

Indigo Vision: new features for IP-video software suite.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... IndigoVision has launched a new version of the VideoBridge Control Center software suite. As well as a host of new features, Control Center 2.3 now Supports both the VideoBridge 6000 and the new MPEG-4 8000 product ranges. Control Center...

Zandar DX and MX Series MultiViewers Image quality and live video monitoring are two of the most important requirements in today's demanding and legally challenging security management operations.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... DX and MX Series MultiViewers Image quality and live video monitoring are two of the most important requirements in today's demanding and legally challenging security management operations. This is a concern even for low-end security/CCTV...

E2V.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... e2v launches new "all light level" CCD camera: the L3C95 e2v technologies' new 24-hour video camera, the L3C95, is setting new standards in performance! The camera offers imaging capability across the entire light range, from bright...

Intruder International: prestigious BMW dealer embraces IP-video technology.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... Park Lane BMW is one of the UKis most prestigious car dealership groups. As well as the traditional Park Lane showroom, the group has three other new purpose built BMW facilities in and around central London. The group has embraced the latest...

Indigo Vision: IP technology provides backbone for integrated prison security.(Product Showcase)
July 1, 2004... IndigoVisionis VideoBridge IP technology is providing the backbone for an innovative integrated security system installed in a Dutch high security prison. The requirement was for a system that could cost-effectively control and monitor the...