The Role of Radar and Thermal in Enhancing Perimeter and Area Security

Nature often provides the best inspiration for new solutions. For example, some animals have developed different types of vision to match their environment – from a racoon’s night vision to a snake’s infrared sensors and a bat’s echolocation. These enhancements allow them to understand what is happening around them and detect threats. This approach works well in nature and is equally useful in protecting sites from intruders.

Flexible Fire Protection with Bosch Wireless Detectors

With its new generation of wireless detectors, Bosch Building Technologies offers a flexible fire protection solution that works almost entirely without cabling. It is therefore ideally suited for installation in historical buildings, for retrofitting to and the expansion of existing buildings, and also for temporary installations.

Access Control: A Lesson In School Security

The concept of learning at schools is one of openness and having one’s own sense of responsibility. With regard to entrances, corridors, doors, lockers and cabinets however, supervision is unavoidable in these times because it concerns the security of everyone present in the building. An intelligent lock and access management system, such as the 3060 system from SimonsVoss Technologies, secures the entrances, documents all entries and exits, assigns temporary authorization and protects teachers and children in an emergency.

Master Of Observation: A conversation with Dieter Dallmeier

When you think about video technology from Dallmeier, you first of all think of the multifocal technology of the ‘Panomera’ cameras. Very large areas and views can be covered by this technology with comparatively few cameras – and it is a significant contributor to the success of Dallmeier. The cameras and ­recording systems as well as all the relevant software elements are manufactured in Regensburg, Germany. GIT SECURITY spoke with the company’s founder and its CEO, Dieter Dallmeier.

Grundig Security is Celebrating an Anniversary – and is Still Producing Innovations

The Grundig brand has been around for 70 years – it is found all over the world today. One of the new products in Corona year 2020 is an IP camera. It knows when faces come into view and, for example, can measure the temperature of the person’s brow. Matthias Erler of GIT SECURITY asked Ludwig Bergschneider of Abetechs (Grundig-Security) about it.

Reliable Motion Detection with Radar Sensors

A significant aspect of security surveillance is motion detection. With a small movement, people or vehicles reveal their presence. Their movement makes them stand out from static objects, installations, and the environment. This way, a movement can be clearly identified in an area meant to be protected. In ­order to expose burglars, it is also important for monitoring to be as inconspicuous as possible – and for it to preferably go completely unnoticed. This can be achieved through the use of sensors that monitor the activities invisibly and without contact. They provide the digital movement information conveniently from a distance and serve as triggers for automated security measures.

Nedap Launches OSDP Enabled ANPR Reader for Secure Vehicle Access

Nedap has upgraded its ANPR Lumo license plate reader for vehicle access control with Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) ensuring a greater site security.

Video Surveillance: Lock Down Your Security

Raytec introduces new features for their Vario2 IP PoE illuminators. ­Already delivering high performance and reliability, the latest upgrades provide an even greater level of control and security.

Off the Record with Dr. Anja Opitz

Get to Know Inspirational Characters of the Security Industry in GIT SECURITY’s Series

Three Questions for Five Experts: High Resolution Cameras

In this series, GIT SECURITY EMEA ask three questions to three industry experts about the issue's special focus. This time we asked five experts for their view on high resolution cameras.

Two Strong Partners: An Interview on Workwear with BASF and Timberland

Who said work boots must be boring and uncomfortable? Bert Spiller, Vice President Product Creation at Timberland Pro and Dr. Mark Zhu, Market Segment Manager for Footwear, Sports and Leisure for BASF Performance Materials talk to us about the new Timberland Pro Reaxion safety shoe and help us understand how they are bringing comfort, durability and performance to safety footwear.

A case history with Micro-Ray linear barrier from CIAS

CIAS and the company G&G Electric S.r.l. have secured the production site of a major Italian television station: a complex and highly articulated perimeter, over 2km long, which includes recording studios, warehouses and offices. The Security Manager of the structure made it a condition that the system must implement the most advanced technologies and guarantee maximum site security.

Intersec Saudi Arabia moves to September 2021

Intersec Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom’s largest trade fair for security, safety, and fire protection, will take place in September 2021, organiser ACE Group announced today (15 December).

Exploring interoperability with Onvif

For the last decade, Onvif has produced interoperability standards that have increased freedom of choice between software and hardware from different manufacturers, enabling end users and systems integrators to build better systems for their applications.

Sleep Well And Safe: Hotel Security Solutions 2020

Security is brought sharply into focus at the latest whenever an incident occurs and the press report extensively on the event, the background to it, the people affected by it and, quite often, the political consequences. What is not in the public eye is that thousands of well-thought-out security systems around the world are quietly doing their job and preventing many more incidents from happening in the first place. The hotel environment poses its own particular set of challenges to effective security, and the manufacturers of systems tailor-made for this industry have the corresponding answers. GIT SECURITY looks at just some of the many solutions on the market today.

Security You Can Bank On: A Look at the Latest Banking Security Solutions in 2020

It happens in every cops and robbers film at some point: the detectives assigned to find out who robbed the bank scan through the CCTV recording to get their first clue on who the bandits might be. The older the film, the more grainy, and useless, the images are, which is in stark contrast to the high standard of today’s HD images. But looking after the event is only half the story – today’s systems can to some extent even predict a crime about to happen. Without touching on the subject of IT ‘cyber’ security – with which we could easily fill a whole issue of the magazine – GIT SECURITY takes a look at video surveillance and also other physical security solutions specifically conceived for the banking industry.

Intrusion Detection: Photo Alarm Verification

Each time home security ­system is triggered, there is a large chance for it to be just a false alarm, and if such alarm is not verified as false in short time, there is a high probability the emergency responders get to the place to see nothing ­happened. Not only such situations are ­embarrassing for everyone involved, they are also costly and overall troublesome.

Ready for IoT: Bosch and S&ST Count on Open Platforms as Driver of Innovation

GIT SECURITY spoke with Tanja Rückert, CEO Bosch Building Technologies, and Hartmut Schaper, CEO Security and Safety Things about the trend towards collaboration with other manufacturers, ‘thinking buildings’ and security cameras that work like a smartphone.

Salto and Gantner Form a Global Leader in Electronic Access Control

In October Salto has acquired Austrian vendor Gantner. The combination of Salto and Gantner will form a company with a strong position in cloud, mobile access, and customer-centric solutions such as ticketing systems and cashless payment.

Security for Banking: Safe Cash Flow

In the banking sector, video technology has played a pivotal role in helping financial branches protect ­assets, prevent losses and enhance security as a whole.

Detect security threats faster

Security teams using traditional motion detection technologies regularly experience false alarms caused by everything from heavy rain to falling leaves, flowing water, or even passing wildlife. To help teams identify and respond to real security breaches faster, Hikvision has embedded its flagship AcuSense technology in its Motion Detection functionality, which supports identification of human and vehicle targets, and take security teams straight to the video evidence they need.

Going Farther with Cable Infrastructure

The evolution of infrastructure transmission technology continues to drive the expansion of networks and security systems, allowing edge devices to be located at much greater distances from headend operations. With the fast pace of new technologies and migration to the IoT, understanding cabling infrastructure will help ensure that the best solutions are deployed securely and cost-effectively. We’ve witnessed the expansion of networked systems over the past 35 years, and with the ubiquitous landscape of Internet Protocol (IP) standards now propelling even more connected functionality, the demand for faster, more expansive cable networks continues to grow.

Assa Abloy: Education Sector Security with Smartair

Every place of education owes a duty of care to its users. This raises the stakes for security. Add the valuable equipment and personal data held on-site and this becomes one of schools’ and universities’ biggest challenges - and choosing the right access control solution is critical. Wireless locking like Assa Abloy's Smartair system can be a cost-efficient solution.

Assa Abloy's Aperio: One device, multiple applications

Network Solutions: Save Time

During the lockdown, Slat not only continued to manufacture its products, but also maintained ­development at full speed.

AndroVideo and the OSSA Spotlight First Cameras Built According to OSSA’s Technology Stack

The AndroVideo Smart Edge Camera Earns the “Driven by OSSA” Seal as the Security Industry Embraces Open Ecosystems for a Prosperous Market

Fire and Smoke Protection at Football Club FC Bayern Campus

The FC Bayern campus integrates all of the functions of a modern sports academy. Individual requirements for transparency, functionality, design, ventilation as well as fire and smoke protection have been achieved both visually and homogeneously throughout with Schüco system solutions. When it came to fire protection, the central, multifunctional academy building in particular required special conceptual solutions.

Three Questions for Three Experts: Fire Detectors

In this series, GIT SECURITY EMEA ask three questions to three industry experts about the issue's special focus. This time we asked experts for their view on fire detectors.

Lightweight Respiratory Protection During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Due to the global spread of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus, the demand for suitable personal protective equipment has risen sharply and, as a consequence, FFP masks are particularly sought after. Previously used mainly in industrial applications, they nowadays first and foremost serve to protect medical staff during the coronavirus pandemic.

Next Generation Security for Smart Cities with Intelligent Lidar

IoT solutions are rapidly expanding to improve infrastructure, ­efficiency, convenience and quality of life for residents and communities throughout the world. Society has grown to rely on ­connected devices like smart doorbells, door locks and security systems to keep their homes and families safe. However, many security systems lack the proper features to be feasible for commercial and municipal use cases. Lidar technology has the potential to tackle today’s pressing security challenges and open the door for many exciting new possibilities for smart cities.

Lidar At Its Best

Whether for monitoring areas, facades or perimeters, when it comes to security-related building automation, SICK laser scanners (such as the LMS141) have established themselves as dependable sensor systems to detect persons and to monitor buildings. In addition to use in video management systems, in this time of the coronavirus pandemic, they also support the counting of persons and detection of their direction, as well as checking that they maintain social distancing.

Stadiums: Video Monitoring Solution for Ipswich Town FC

Before the 2019 season ­Ipswich Town Football Club was faced with an ultimatum: Upgrade their CCTV system or risk not being able to play at their Portman Road headquarters.

Pandemic Solutions: AI To The Rescue

Surveillance systems might not immediately spring to mind when thinking about the first defenses that communities can use against the spread of Covid-19.

C-Tec creates new Evacuation Alert Video

Assa Abloy's Aperio Secures Dutch University