CCTV Today articles from September 2003

CCTV Today archives from September 2003

Behaviour analysis test on the tube.(NEWS)
September 1, 2003... A surveillance system that can alert operators to abnormal behaviour patterns is expected to be tested by London Underground, with Liverpool Street likely to be the 'guinea pig'. The Intelligent Pedestrian Surveillance System is designed to...

Survey shows tape knowledge gap.(NEWS)
September 1, 2003... MORE THAN four out of five users of CCTV systems practice incorrect tape management, either by not knowing how many times a tape has been used, or knowingly using tapes longer than recommend. The research, commissioned by Fujifilm, reveals...

Small surveillance manufacturers get smart.(NEWS)
September 1, 2003... TWO CCTV manufacturers have won government funding to help develop innovative surveillance products. Digital recording manufacturer PI Vision has won a Smart Award to help fund research into a secure digital video storage system. The...

Sky-high surveillance--it's all the rage: cameras are a runway success.(NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Aerospace has distributed more than 150 of its FlightVu aerospace camera security systems to commercial airlines in Europe and America, including easyJet and Britannia airways. The increased terrorist threat worldwide and a rise In air rage...

Cameras to shed light on red signal incidents.(NEWS)
September 1, 2003... A NEW CAMERA system to help train operators investigate incidents of trains going through red signals is being piloted on a stretch of track near London's Waterloo station. The effectiveness of signals on gantries over railway lines has...

School's surveillance proposals resisted by teacher unions.(NEWS)
September 1, 2003... PLANS TO INSTALL cameras at a city academy school in the North East have been attacked by teaching unions. According to its sponsor, The Vardy Foundation, the new King's Academy in Middlesbrough will use the cameras to protect teachers from...

Panasonic UK.(PEOPLE)
September 1, 2003... Panasonic UK has appointed Cyril Wood as managing director. He is the first ever non-Japanese MD of the company, which he joined In 1975. Most recently he was MD of the Panasonic's consumer electronics and business systems divisions. In his new...

Zoom CCTV.(PEOPLE)
September 1, 2003... Installation company Zoom CCTV has appointed Les Andrew as sales & marketing director. Les was previously business development manager with Panasonic UK and joins at a time when the company is winning major new contracts, including a 400-camera...

Synectics.(PEOPLE)
September 1, 2003... Synectics has expanded Its sales team with the appointment of a new area sales manager. Michael Gallagher. With ten years' experience in the CCW industry, Michael's role will focus on installation, consultant and specifier customers.

Baxall USA.(PEOPLE)
September 1, 2003... Network video specialist Baxall USA has appointed Gear Toner as its new vertical markets manager. He was previously with Cisco Systems, specialisation in transport and public safety solutions. Back in the UK, Baxall MD Dominic Oughton reached...

COE.(PEOPLE)
September 1, 2003... Another network video specialist, COE, has appointed Michael Sandperl as its new chief financial officer to steer the company's financial operations, now it is publicly-listed. Michael has worked with engineering and manufacturing companies...

Mark Lusby.(PEOPLE)
September 1, 2003... Mark Lusby has been promoted to product manager for the industrial products division at JVC Professional. He was previously exhibitions manager for the company, and will be responsible for new and existing products in the Europe.

VCL.(PEOPLE)
September 1, 2003... VCL has appointed two new staff far its High Wycombe Office. Natalie Sasso joins as internal new business developer, while Ed Smith is appointed junior account manager.

Simon Reeves.(PEOPLE)
September 1, 2003... Civil engineering firm Symonds has promoted Simon Reeves, a specialist in traffic and ANPR schemes, to the position of associate director. He will promote the use of technology for congestion charging systems in London and other cities In the...

The 'bible' goes live.(NEWS)
September 1, 2003... A NEW INTERACTIVE CD-ROM based on the leading reference book Principles & Practice of CCTV has been released by Constant Consultants. The Manual of CCTV allows you to enter your own requirements to work out key installation and user...

Hackney control room emerges from the wreckage of World War two.(NEWS)
September 1, 2003... A VIRTUALLY DERELICT Second World War bomb shelter and civil defence bunker has been transformed into a new CCTV control room and emergency planning centre for the London Borough of Hackney. The scheme, funded from several sources including...

CCTV among failing systems at Windsor.(NEWS)
September 1, 2003... A POLICE REPORT into the breach of security at Prince William's 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle has put forward 28 recommendations. Met Commissioner Sir John Stevens has described the findings as "disturbing reading" and highlighted...

Abingdon's brave new world: market town shows it's not just a pretty face.(NEWS)
September 1, 2003... A PICTURESQUE market town in Oxfordshire is the setting fur a new, digitally-recorded system, which uses touchscreen technology for the control of its 32 cameras. The control room fur the expanded Abingdon and Wontege scheme is housed in...

Intelligent images.(BSIA)
September 1, 2003... CCTV IS ONLY LIMITED BY OUR IMAGINATION Surveillance systems are no longer just about transmitting pictures to a control room, argues Adam Wiseberg chairman of the BSIA's CCTV section. We have entered a dramatic new era of intelligent video...

Thriving on diversity?(USER GROUP)
September 1, 2003... HIT AND MISS APPROACH Peter Fry director of the CCTV User Group No one user should ever declare himself to be the font of all knowledge, no matter how wide his experience of different CCTV applications. Engaging with diverse users can...

We've got your number: the days when automatic number-plate recognition was confined to high security sites and slow-moving vehicles are over. Now, local authorities and police forces are using the technology on multi-lane roads with fast-moving traffic. Mike Constant brings us up to date with the latest technology.(ANPR)
September 1, 2003... Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is becoming a growth sector for installation companies, Unlike other high profile areas--such as network video systems which have yet to realise their potential--ANPR technology is completely within the...

You can park ... but you can't hide.(ANPR)
September 1, 2003... ANPR is not just for the police and government agencies. The private sector is embracing the technology, especially for 'intelligent' parking and access control applications. A car park in London's Chinatown, for example, has recently...

Automatic recognition rolls out: now we've looked at the technology behind ANPR, how is it being applied in the UK? With the Home Office in the driving seat, our report shows that automatic recognition is on a roll.(ANPR)
September 1, 2003... Although it was already being used in car parks, ANPR came to our notice in the UK as an anti-terrorism measure for the City of London in the 90s. A so-called 'ring of steel'--sometimes unkindly referred to as a ring of plastic--surrounded the...

Look--no wires.(WIRELESS IP)
September 1, 2003... We've heard a lot about the potential of IP video including its flexibility and ability to slash transmission infrastructure costs. Now we take things one step further and cut out the cable--with wireless IP. Over the last few years, the...

Leading manufacturers to debut at London's new-look event.(SECUREX 2003)
September 1, 2003... Catering for diverse end-user groups as well as the traditional installer and distribution audiences, Securex 2003 has been repositioned to offer a more accurate reflection of the current security market Securex 2003 will reflect the...

What you see is what you get.(MACHINE VISION)
September 1, 2003... Cameras are not only for security and surveillance, as many different industries use them to check for defects in products and systems. With the help of Matrox Imaging which supplies equipment to both sectors, we explore how the specification...

The work of analysing art and detecting forgeries is being helped by a digital imaging system.(MACHINE VISION)
September 1, 2003... The work of analysing art and detecting forgeries is being helped by a digital imaging system, developed by three graduates of the Courtauld Institute. The technique uses a camera to detect the infrared light reflected from the surface of...

For machine eyes only.(MACHINE VISION)
September 1, 2003... Extreme Vision Systems (EVS) specialises in putting cameras in hazardous or inaccessible places--anywhere from blast freezers to transatlantic kayaks! One of its most recent projects has been to supply vision for the motor industry, where...

Small cameras for a variety of visions.(MACHINE VISION)
September 1, 2003... Tell Japan's range of analogue colour and mona cameras are now available from Multipix Imaging. For progressive scan machine vision, Teli has a broad range which is said to be easily integrated with various applications. The CS8550 is the...

Compact and flexible package.(MACHINE VISION)
September 1, 2003... Leutron Vision's micro PC or LVmPC--a modular compact PC system suitable for all kinds of vision applications--is now available in the UK and Ireland from Multipix Imaging. With a footprint of just 91 x 92 x 182mm, applications include...

Extended range by acquisition.(MACHINE VISION)
September 1, 2003... Following the recent acquisition of PULNiX America by JAI--the Danish manufacturer of machine vision cameras--Firstsight Vision has been appointed distributor of PULNiX camera products in the UK. This extends Firstsight Vision's existing...

Linux joins the eVision pack.(MACHINE VISION)
September 1, 2003... Distributor Multipix Imaging has announced Linux support to the Euresys eVision image analysis tools and Picolo series of frame grabbers. This is in addition to the existing support of Windows 98SE, NT, 2000 & XP. The cost-effectiveness of...

Is IP the new black? Judging by the number of network video products on show at this year's IFSEC, IP is on the up. Andrew Minton sheds some light among the heat being generated.(IFSEC 2003)
September 1, 2003... In some circles of the UK CCTV market, there is a lot of positive talk about IP (or 'network video' if you are a purist) and in others there is either negative talk or 'radio silence'. What can be in no doubt is that a sea change is under way...

A whole new ball game.(Multi channel DVRs)
September 1, 2003... In this issue, our reviewers at Tavcom Training take a further look at multi-channel DVRs. They discover that although there are major differences in approaches, these products bring a whole new world of possibilities to CCTV recording. Here we...

Dedicated Micros capture Dennard.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Dedicated Micros has acquired Dennard, the UK supplier of CCTV equipment including domes and associated peripherals. The acquisition includes the entire Dennard range of dome cameras and housings, pan and tilt mechanisms, controllers,...

Sky's the limit.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Intruder International has provided an integrated IP-based security system for TAG Aviation's facilities at Farnborough Airport. TAG Aviation required a security system that could be easily expanded in the future without the need for...

Double vision.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Security and access control specialist Cam-Tec Systems is reported to be on course to double its year-on-year turnover. Cam-Tec, which has installed CCTV surveillance systems for many blue-chip companies in the region, reported orders worth...

Storage capacity.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Said to offer more than three months on-board recording, a digital CCTV system has been selected by West Midlands Police to improve fire quality of city centre surveillance in Birmingham. Nine Dedicated Micros' highend BX2 digital video...

Landmark application of MPEG4 IP video.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... IndigoVision has achieved what it believes is the first deployment in the UK of the new MPEG4 standard for CCTV operating over IP networks. Monmouthshire County Council has deployed some 48 units of the company's VideoBridge 8000 MPEG4...

Ten out of ten for covert operation.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... A London borough has achieved ten successful fly tipping prosecutions in as many days thanks to the help of Petards' Swift Streetcoms. Concerns over fly tipping led the borough to install three Streetcams for a covert roadside operation....

Vandal surveillance.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Adding to the 144-CCTV cameras it already monitors, Burnley Borough Council has added 15 new installations in the town of Colne. The council opted against increased vandal-resistant housings, a decision Guy Nixon supports. "The impact of...

School's in for digital surveillance.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Shelby County School System, the seventh largest in Alabama, USA, is benefiting from increased protection for students and staff, thanks to a digital CCTV surveillance system in all 35 schools. By the end of the school year, all eight high...

Batt out of heaven.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... When the Glasgow-based Linthouse Housing Association decided it needed to replace its existing CCTV system, it opted for the Mobotix solution from Batt Networks. A 12-camera system was installed and linked into the Linthouse Housing...

Software support.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Produced by Milestone Systems, the Milestone Xprotect Business product has been developed especially for use with JVC's IP-based v-network camera range, such as the VN-C10U and VN-C30U cameras. The product also supports the VN-A1U network...

VCL welcomes Ademco purchase.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... As an Ademco subsidiary, VCL has welcomed parent group Honeywell's acquisition of Ultrak's CCTV operation. Managing director of Ademco International, Jeremy Hockham, said the acquisition had "provided new routes for the group to develop...

Signal of improved rail safety.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... In a bid to improve railway safety, Balfour Beatty's Signals and Telecommunications division has installed a camera monitoring system. NVT's surveillance system is used to monitor some 19 signals, located across four gantries on the approach to...

Italian job.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Florida-based Erdman Video Systems (EVS) will be distributing and supporting large parts of the Conway Security Products range in the USA and Italy. Recent joint projects include an installation in Tuscany at a nature park in the Apuane Alps,...

Parking patrol.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... APCOA Parking UK has completed a 2 million [pounds sterling] refurbishment of a seven-storey car park situated in the centre of Bournemouth. St Albans-based company, Case, installed 40 ptz cameras and linked them to the car park's call...

Digital delights.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... One of the largest council-monitored digital CCTV systems has been installed in Thurrock. All images feed back to a central monitoring station using the council's existing broadband computer network. Live and recorded video pictures are viewed...

On the rails.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... RemGuard Visual Management is installing its NetVu Vantage CCTV system in more than 80 of Scotrail's railway stations. The digital video technology, comprising up to 64 cameras per station, should provide fast, up-to-the-minute visual and...

Moving house.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Tyco Integrated Systems, a division of Tyco Fire & Security, has re-located its Cambridge-based headquarters and main operations centre to a new facility at Bar Hill, about 5 miles outside of Cambridge. The new location provides easier...

Security and entertainment.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Host to celebrity clientele, the new city centre nightclub in Manchester, Lucid, features a networked digital CCTV system to offer security coverage and live networked images of clubbers across the venue's three entertainment levels. ...

DMs gig at Glastonbury.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... CCTV played a large part in helping to provide security and safety in and around this year's Glastonbury music festival. Due to the size and nature of the site, six mini independent systems were created with a total of ten dome cameras...

Hardware stores get kitted out.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Homeware retailer Robert Dyas has awarded installation company Stillframe 'preferred supplier' status for the supply of CCTV systems. Installations have already been completed in Bournemouth, Brighton, Bexley Heath, Bristol and in Putney...

Message for the Midlands.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... At Birmingham Citywatch's recent AGM, held in July, guest speakers including the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, councillor John Alden and chief constable Paul Scott-Lee from West Midlands Police outlined a number of ways to tackle crime. In his...

Bridging the security divide.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... The new Golden Jubilee Bridges include a monitored CCTV system designed and installed by Atec Security--one of the system integrators responsible for the main West End CCTV scheme. The installation features four, high-speed ptz cameras...

Irish eyes are smiling.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... A fully integrated building and security management solution is being installed at the Central Park commercial development just outside Dublin. The contract includes the installation of an Integral digital CCTV system and a Continuum building...

Multiple monitoring.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Essa Security Group has provided video communication company Motion Media with the latest in video transmission equipment for the launch of a remote video monitoring centre for Southern Monitoring Services. Based in Waterlooville, near...

Stronger alliance.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Under a new agreement PAC International will supply its new range of EasiNet access control software and door controllers to Bosch Sicherheitssysteme GmbH. This alliance follows an agreement made in March by the two companies, in which PAC...

Cameras make a 'pit-stop'.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... In a contract worth 110,000 [pounds sterling] Siemens Electronic Security Systems has installed security equipment to protect Siemens' 25 million [pounds sterling] Traincare Facility at Northam, Southampton. The facility will adopt a 'pit-stop'...

Classroom monitors.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... To avoid vandalism and monitor activities in schools, the Aveley School in Essex, has deployed TeleEye III+ Network CCTV to provide real-time video of the school hallways, corridors, playgrounds and public areas. A TeleEye III+ VRVideo...

Beauty of broadband.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Used to monitor Sheffield's main transport depot, Sheffield City Council has invested in a CCTV network to be transmitted over wireless broadband. The system was designed and installed by Premlink, with cameras and wireless network devices...

Garden grandeur.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... As part of a 6.75m [pounds sterling] restoration project, Altron Communications Equipment has supplied its AW2181 poles for the external cameras to monitor the new refurbished glass pavilions and the cafe/restaurant area in the historical...

Picking up Blick.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Global logistics and transportation management services company, GeoLogistics, has acquired Blick NetView, a digital CCTV solution developed by Blick UK and IndigoVision. As the NetView solution operates over an IP network, all sites are...

Mobile capture.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
September 1, 2003... Police in Surrey have chosen Videoswitch equipment to record and store video evidence captured by their rapid deployment mobile CCTV systems. Whenever a crime hotspot is identified, Surrey Police rapidly deploy one of their six mobile CCTV...

Going solo.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... Described as an affordable, high quality alternative to traditional analogue VCR recording for the smaller CCTV user, the Solo Digital Video Recorder is a single channel DVR from Vista. Said to offer recording speeds of up to 50 images per...

ABC of CCTV.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... Free one-day sales and installation training courses are being offered by Panasonic. The courses, one product-specific, the other general sales and installation training, is suitable for beginners, Content includes an explanation of...

13D facial imaging--like it or not!(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... The latest 3D facial imaging and identification technology from A4Vision is now available from Premier Electronics. Benefits of the system include the fact that it is in real time, does not require cooperation from the subject and can be used...

Steel conduit system.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... A new overbraiding for its steel flexible conduit systems has been introduced by Adaptaflex. Developed originally for machining and OEM applications, Adaptasteel protective overbraided steel systems are suitable for harsh environments, or...

External force.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... An outdoor version of the TUB dome camera has been launched by TEB. The external TUB features a waterproof, high speed dome, travelling at a high-speed of 5m/sec. According to the company, the external TUB camera can resisT fierce weather...

New range of TFT monitors.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... A range of LCD monitors from Cornea Technology of Korea are now on the market in the UK. The monitors are available through Anders Electronics, which promises technical excellence, competitive pricing, guaranteed delivery schedules and...

Hall-effect joysticks.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... The new JC2000 compact joystick controller from Penny & Giles is available in one, two or three axis configurations. It can be supplied in three styles of handle, two of which can be fitted with a push-button switch in a choice of five...

Till data records in parallel with cameras.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... Featuring true text-searchable EPOS (Electronic Point Of Sale) integration, the latest OCTAR DVR has been launched by Visimetrics. The new EPOS integration function allows the data from up to 16 tills or POS (point of sale) systems to be...

New range of storage attached to networks.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... A series of Networked Attached Storage (NAS) units has been unveiled by AMC. THe AMC-4120A and the AMC-4120B are based on a 1U, 19 inch rackmount chassis and feature four hot-swappable IDE drives. These offer a capacity of up to 1Tb...

Smart cabling out of the bottle.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... Manufactured for use with Category 5 and Category 5e 4-pair unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable as the transmission media, a range of Unshielded Twisted Pair 'Smart Cabling' products has been launched by Genie CCTV. Available in a number...

Motion causes a commotion.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... Powerful new motion search and navigation functions are said to be the highlight of the latest version of IndigoVision's VideoBridge Control Center Software. The software links the benefits of VideoBridge IP-based compression and network...

Physical security at the network layer.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... Anixter Inc., has introduced to Europe a video surveillance system for connecting analogue and digital devices, which runs video, power and control signals over a single twisted pair cable. The Anixfer CCTP (Closed Circuit Twisted Pair) is...

Door opens for machine vision technology.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... Entering into the door security market, machine vision systems company Cognex has designed the CPS-100. The sensor, says Cognex, will detect and count people as they pass through an access-controlled doorway. The company will provide...

Improved delivery service.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... To enhance service to its Asia Pacific customers, Pelco has opened a new 20,000 sq. ft. distribution centre in Singapore. Located near the Singapore Airport, the distribution centre will service customers from as far north as China and...

Delivering picture quality.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... Sony has introduced a new range of multi-channel hard disk digital recorders. The HSR-X209P and HSR-X216P digital hard disk time-lapse recorders deliver high quality images, reliability and feature a larger capacity of 329Gb. Using...

See it, hear it and read it.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... An MPEG-2 video codec, which is said to offer the low latency and real-time performance needed for ptz camera systems, is now available from NKF Electronics. In addition to transmitting video images, the CD-20 codec sends and receives...

Forward with Metal Mickey.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... Forward Vision's MIC1 dome cameras--fondly referred to as Metal Mickeys--are now compatible with the Telecommand control system from COE. Telecommand features a dynamic privacy model which is said to offer an unlimited number of privacy...

DVR system at the hub.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... With the new DiBos digital storage and transmission system form Bosch Security Systems, users can integrate video with other applications, such as access control, alarm panels, barcode readers and bank ATMs. The system allows you to see or...

Improved image storage.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES)
September 1, 2003... Digital video compression has taken a leap forward, with the launch of Integral's iVEX system, says Andover Controls. According to the company, iVEX provides CCTV applications with a more comprehensive solution compared to basic 'off the...