Ignore the Smoke and Detect the People
Fire barriers such as fire doors and flaps are designed to prevent fires from spreading along corridors, passages or chutes. This kind of barrier usually remains permanently closed...
The Success of HD?
Whilst high definition cameras have been available for some time, the remarkable quality of the images which can be captured by the latest generation of Full HD cameras do truly ne...
The US 100% air cargo scanning deadline has now past...
The 2007 law in the United States called for 50 percent of air cargo on passenger aircraft to be screened by February 2009, and 100 percent by August 2010. The Act defines screenin...
Urs A. Lampe: Contactless Card Technology
The name Legic is synonymous worldwide with quality contactless ID technology and smartcard systems for person-related identification in both business and leisure applications. Mul...
Siemens Reshaping the Security Products Business Segment
Within the Siemens Building Technologies Division, the business segment Security Products offers a broad range of products for access control, intrusion detection and video surveil...
Modern CCTV: Back on the Rails
A lot has happened as a result of the Fifa football world cup in South Africa. But the country at the southernmost point of the black continent is still plagued by a high rate of c...
Displays: Built First to Last
Eyevis has introduced numerous features to prevent so-called ‘image sticking' effects which are likely to occur on LCD monitors when static content is displayed over prolonged time...
Camera test: Samsung SND 5080
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...
No Place to Hide
Our article ‘Please Remain Seated'reported on Secura's system for scanning passenger vehicles and lightweight goods vans for contraband and/or dangerous goods. One key aspect was k...
Please Remain Seated
Frequent flyers don‘t think twice about walking through an archway at the airport to detect any metal that they are carrying. They are also used to handing over their hand luggage ...
Back on Track
Within the Siemens Building Technologies Division, the business segment Security Products offers a broad range of products for access control, intrusion detection and video surveil...
HDcctv: The Third Way
HDcctv is a new digital camera interface technology bringing uncompressed HDTV to surveillance monitors for the first time. HDcctv joins CCTV and IP network video as a third camera...
A Security Checklist
Europe seems for the most part to be a blissful island of peace and harmony. Paying continuous attention to personal safety is not an issue for most of the European Union's 830 mil...
Access Control: Putting the Face to the Name
Combining access control and digital video in a single system is easy with Bosch's new generation of access controllers. The controllers support direct integration with the company...
Take a Good Look
A burglary takes place and there is a great deal of anger about the resulting damage. Fortunately the premises are equipped with a video system which enables the incident to be ana...
Behind the Scenes at Uniqlo
A classy gala party marked the opening of Uniqlo's European flagship store in the trendy Opera District of Paris, on Rue Scribe only steps away from the famed Paris Opera House, Pa...
GIT SECURITY Wall Calendar
The 2011 edition of the GIT SECURITY wall calendar. If you click on the pdf version, you can see it in a higher resolution.
Cisco presents innovations for urban safety and security
Ciscoannounced at ASIS 2010 a series of product innovations that expand the core capabilities of its open-platform safety security solution that helps communities transform the wa...
Bosch Security Systems Chairman Gert van Iperen with positive outlook
In the press conference at Security Essen show 2010Gert van Iperen, Chairman of the Board of Management of the Robert Bosch GmbH Security Systems Division gave apositive outlok for...
VideoNetBox: The versatile video all-rounder for your network (chapter 1)
The VideoNetBox is a compact full HDTV hybrid server. Besides full HDTV cameras it is also capable of managing conventional IP cameras and analogue cameras. The VNB can be used as ...
Lasers in Security
Protecting persons, securing valuables, preventing (or at least the early detection of) crime, electrical and electronic systems for secure building automation are increasingly gai...
Unseen Until Needed
Stöbich has installed its textile fire protection closures in the world's most spectacular new museum building. ‘Invisible' fire protection systems were used to satisfy the extreme...
Sicurezza: A Secure Date in November
Sicurezza is the international safety and security trade show that will be held in Milan, Italy in halls 1, 2 and 4 at the Fieramilano Rho from 17 to 19 November (new dates). The e...
Happy Birthday!
There is good reason to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of Geutebruck, the German video security system producer. The company has grown literally from a garage busin...
The World of Security and Fire Protection
This year, the organisers of Security Essen promise more area for concepts from fire protection and IT security. During the show more than 1,100 exhibitors from 40 nations will pre...
Camera test: Basler BIP-D1300
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: Sanyo VCC-HD2500 and Axis P1346
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: Arecont Vision AV1305DN
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...
HDcctv: The Third Way
HDcctv is a new digital camera interface technology bringing uncompressed HDTV to surveillance monitors for the first time. HDcctv joins CCTV and IP network video as a third camera...
Finding the right security camera for every application
Finding the right security camera for every application is a challenge for system integrators, installers, end users, and even manufacturers. Arevolutionary new camera chip, the Se...
GIT Security MesseGuide
Vorab-Informationen / Sonderpreisliste zum GIT MesseGuide SECURITY 2010
GIT Security MesseGuide
Vorab-Informationen / Sonderpreisliste zum GIT MesseGuide SECURITY 2010
Wider World: Ultra Wide Angle Surveillance
While megapixel IP surveillance cameras are now in mainstream use, a new category of cameras developed specifically to cover ultra wide scenes with fewer cameras is also becoming i...
Storage Solutions for Video Surveillance
Video surveillance storage is different from standard IT data storage. First, it is important to realise that video surveillance data is fundamentally different from IT data and ye...
All Sorts of Sports
The Arena Zagreb is a new multi-purpose sports center with a seating capacity of around 16,000. Located in the south west of the Croatian capital, it was completed in 2008 in time ...
