A Video Surveillance Upgrade Reduces Losses
The owner management of Mr. Smith, a company that manufactures and sells gardening tools, is in the fourth generation. Young visitors of the discotheque in the neighboring industri...
Security Solutions for the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
The chemical and pharmaceutical industries have survived the commercial and financial crisis well. These companies are enjoying a strong tailwind behind their business and, through...
Interview with Lucas Lee, the New Managing Director for Samsung Techwin Europe
At the beginning of 2010 Samsung Techwin took over responsibility for the supply and support for both Samsung Techwin and Samsung Electronics electronic security product ranges. Du...
Interview with Dieter Dallmeier: How Hard- and Software Interact in an Optimal Way
The Regensburg company Dallmeier has always been well known for pioneering spirit and innovations. Dallmeier now presents a new Video appliance. We interviewed Dieter Dallmeier, ch...
CCTV: Addressing Security at Photovoltaic Power Plants
Photovoltaic plants are steadily gaining popularity as an environmentally friendly means to generate power. One related question is how the vast outdoor installations can be protec...
Modern Fire Detection Technology Provides Safety in Solar Valley
Alongside other renewable (and/or alternative) sources of energy such as wind, water or geothermal heat, solar energy belongs to those that will play an increasingly larger role in...
Considering the Transition from Analog to IP-based Surveillance
When it comes to new security installations, Internet protocol (IP)-based systems are growing in prevalence as viable options alongside traditional analog-based approaches. IP is h...
Pelco video analytics for enhanced security
Security camera systems don't have human intelligence - but intelligent video analytics are the next best thing. Few new technologies have excited the imagination of video security...
Ifsec, International Firex and Safety & Health Expo 2011
The diverse, complex and constantly evolving safety and security markets mean that senior security professionals and decision makers need to ensure they remain that one step ahead ...
Perimeter Protection: Intuitive Control
As different security systems are added and grow over time, a confusing mix of separate control systems each with their own proprietary method of displaying information to the oper...
Study: Access Control Best Practices
A white paper from RWE is currently causing more than a few waves in the access control market (you can download it here). Together with the Security Research Lab in Berlin, the co...
Stadium Safety and Security Is Custom-made
It is inevitable that safety and security problems will arise when many people come together in a confined space. This is especially true for sports stadiums, where emotions often ...
Camera test: Ganz ZN-DWNT 350VPE
In cooperation with Seetec, GIT SECURITY tests current and new video cameras under standardised conditions in the test laboratory of the SeeTec Hardware Competence Center. The Hard...
Camera test: Bosch NDN-498
In cooperation with Seetec, GIT SECURITY tests current and new video cameras under standardised conditions in the test laboratory of the SeeTec Hardware Competence Center. The Hard...
Coastalwatch Safeguards Shorelines and Beaches with Hosted Milestone Video
When you picture some of the world's most beautiful beaches, you're no doubt envisioning long, curving expanses of white sand, clear blue waters and the soundscape of rolling waves...
Video: Coastalwatch Safeguards Shorelines and Beaches with Hosted Milestone Video
When you picture some of the world's most beautiful beaches, you're no doubt envisioning long, curving expanses of white sand, clear blue waters and the soundscape of rolling waves...
Control Rooms: Long Roads and Big Screens
Acesa‘s Operations Centre has modernised its facilities, incorporating the latest technology to deal more effectively with road conditions on its 542 km motorway network, where...
A New Type of Camera with a PC CPU
Eyewatch, a company belonging to the Deister Electronic Group, had a truly good idea for a new product and, with it, blurred the distinction between previously separate technologie...
A Comprehensive CCTV Solution for APC Overnight
APC Overnight is the UK's largest next day delivery network with more than 125 local depots covering all areas of the country. The network specialises in timed deliveries, offering...
Kiev Intersections under Control with Video Management
Kiev is a large city with a population of around three million people. Like any metropolis, the regulation of traffic flows in the urban center is an important task. Its solution h...
IP Video Supports Quality Management
Kian Cord Company (KCC) is a private sector manufacturing company located about 400 km south west of Tehran in a suburb of Malayer city in the Hamedan province. The main product of...
Security for Public Transportation: Take the Bus
The Transportation Department of Ningbo in China faced many of the common problems with security on their buses. They needed to protect their assets and provide for the safety and ...
Information Security in the Age of WikiLeaks
Protecting against the weakest linkWikiLeaks has come to international prominence (or notoriety, depending on your perspective) for its work in publishing private, secret and class...
CCTV: Safe Study
Students and staff at the new West Herts College campus in Watford town centre are now under the protection of a comprehensive security package specified and supplied by AIS, that ...
Transport Surveillance Is Rapidly Changing
Axis Communications has been very succesful with public transportation projects and offers products specifically designed for this sector. Patrik Anderson, Director of Business Dev...
Security Solution for Corporate, Critical Infrastructure and Intervention Forces Segments
As part of an ongoing programme of security solutions launches throughout the world, the business unit Security Solutions from the Siemens Building Technologies Division has report...
2011: A Cornerstone in Samsung's Security Business
At the beginning of 2010 Samsung Techwin took over responsibility for the supply and support for both Samsung Techwin and Samsung Electronics electronic security product ranges. Du...
The US 100 % Air Cargo Scanning Deadline Has Now Past
The 2007 US law called for 50 % of air cargo on passenger aircraft to be screened by February 2009, and 100% by August 2010. The Act defines screening as "a physical examination, o...
When Religion Becomes Lethal
Daily headlines remind us that violent extremism in the name of Islam, the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, and the violence perpetrated or advocated by religiou...
Fire Protection: Ready for the Olympics
Surrey Sports Park, a new £36 million sports facility built to international standards, has been equipped with an Apollo-based fire detection system. Designed by internationally re...
New Generation Video Surveillance System
AxxonSoft is launching the first Product of this new generation - Axxon Smart Pro. This Professional video monitoring system for small to medium facilities incorporates a number of...
Airport Security: Hands Up! A close look at Bodyscanners (Part 2)
Part two of our article on body scanners looks at them through the eyes of those who are being scanned. These devices have been given various nicknames in different languages, not ...
Cyberattacks against global oil, energy, and petrochemical companies
Starting in November 2009, coordinated covert and targeted cyberattacks have been conducted against global oil, energy, and petrochemical companies. These attacks have involved soc...
Infinova Video System Protects Romania's Rompetrol Rafinare SA Refinery
Rompetrol Rafinare SA, Romania's second largest oil company, is using an Infinova fiber optics video system to watch over its multiple facilities inside the 480 hectares (1,186 acr...
Enjoy the Quality, Take Care of the File Size
The quality of the images that can be captured by Full HD cameras is truly amazing compared to even the very latest analogue or standard resolution IP cameras but there is a price ...
