IP Video Secures Eurotunnel Terminal
In a major CCTV upgrade, Eurotunnel's French passenger terminal has deployed a widely distributed IP Video solution from IndigoVision. Used for security, traffic management and imm...
Sony´s HD PTZ Cameras: Simon Nash Explains Details
Ifsec 2010 (May 10-13): Sony will show latest developments and applications. The curtain will raise again for the network HD PTZ dome cameras. The company showed first versions las...
Video Surveillance for Sparda-Bank
“Friendly fair” – True to that motto the individual private customer is the centre of attention for the Sparda-Bank. In order to ensure that customers feel comfortable and safe a ...
All about Unmanned Aircraft, Robots and Active Laser Technology
Civil danger management, where accidents or natural catastrophes occur, but also terror attacks or for frontier security - that is the business of the "Homeland Security" division ...
Milestone Secures Malmo CityTunnel
When the Swedish national railway began major construction of the Malmo CityTunnel Project in 2005, workplace security was of utmost concern. Now the tracks are almost ready, and i...
New Security Systems for Weeze Aiport
The Weeze airport is anything but a travel lightweight in the region: it is reachable within one hour by no less than 10 million potential air travelers. The heart of the western R...
Samsung United
It is almost a tradition that very early in the year Samsung Techwin is inviting its partners to the annual Vision Day conference. This year the conference took place in Antalya, T...
Keeping an Eye on the Ski Slopes with CCTV
With the perfect slope, the perfect snow, and the perfect location; The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead is Britain‘s newest indoor snow sports destination. The design for the CCTV s...
Security and More for Vancouver
Set in the diverse landscape of the west coast of Canada, Vancouver hosted the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010. The Olympic Games have been a successful global sporting event sinc...
Perimeter Protection for Critical Sites
Fibre Optics are an ideal perimeter protection solution for many critical sites. Often a fence mounted fibre optic detection system, linking back to the main security centre and id...
Using Infrared Illumination in an IP Surveillance Environment
There is a simple premise that impacts the performance and effectiveness of any camera installation: if there is no light, there can be no picture. But since today's security syste...
Fundamental Questions Concerning Aviation Security
Once again it has become apparent that airports need a closer network of security measures, since aircraft remain a possible target for terrorists and can quickly become bombs. Air...
Return on Security Investment
Investments in security not only protect companies from break-ins and theft but also monitor and improve critical processes, such as the availability of communications networks or ...
Starring role at Universal Studios
Hikvision's H264 compression cards are being used in Florida at Universal Studios, an amusement park themed on the entertainment industry where six million visitors a year are invi...
High-tech CCTV solutions
Leading surveillance solutions provider CBC (Europe) is celebrating a surge of interest in its ground breaking Ganz CCTV systems and Computar lenses, experienced during the recent ...
Network Camera Installation at Hongkong Port
Hong Kong is one of the world's busiest ports, as well as one of the most dynamic business, capitals and is governed under a "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement by the People's ...
How and Why to Select Megapixel, IP and Analog Security Cameras
No matter the type of video software, transmission, storage and management, no matter what kind of application ranging from a school hallway to an airport check-in, the heart of th...
Large Screen Systems For Control Rooms
eyevis is a leading manufacturer of large screen systems for control rooms, monitoring centres, information, communication, simulation and virtual reality. Whether in control rooms...
IP Based RF Reader/Controller
Suprema launches Xpass access controller, an IP based RF reader/controller. Packed in a sleek and compact black body, the Xpass features PoE (Power over Ethernet), waterproof, netw...
Intersec 2010: Success, Sun and Security
Epoc Messe Frankfurt, the event organiser of Intersec 2010 in Dubai reports an17% increase in visitors over the three days of Intersec 2010. The show wasa huge success for most com...
Sentries at the Limits of Science
A particle accelerator is used for fundamental scientific research at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. Nobody is allowed to be in the tunnel while e...
A Front-Row View
The new Central de Emergencias 112 de Cantabria, inaugurated on March 3rd 2009, is part of a larger effort undertaken by the government to improve emergency services for the citize...
25 Years of Pioneering Video Security
Now more than a quarter of a century has passed since Dallmeier was founded in 1984. In the meantime, the Regensburg based company has built up an international reputation and is k...
Outdoor Surveillance
Outdoor security is essential for many businesses, with the outdoor perimeter of a site often representing an important security gateway. The threshold between the company's land a...
Always In Focus
EverFocus with their latest CCTV product developments - video recorders, conventional and IP cameras as well as management software. The new Paragon MPEG-4 DVR series by Everfocus...
Axis expands its product portfolio: Thermal Network Cams
Axis is starting the second decade of the century with a big surprise: they have announced the first true network-capable thermal camera worldwide – and at a particularly attractiv...
Sniffing Out Gases
With ever more improved sensors, modern detection technology for flammable and hazardous gases enables the design of highly reliable gas detection systems. The foundation for plann...
Securing Security against the “Triple Threat”
Even the best IT security technologies are useless if someone possesses the "triple threat" - the will, the means and the access to compromise sensitive company data. And, as stati...
Safeguarding Your Reputation
In this article David Tomlinson, managing director for leading data security company, Data Encryption Systems (DES), takes a detailed look at how encryption can safeguard a company...
Integrated Total Solutions
The world is affected by the four megatrends demographic change, urbanization, climate change and globalization. Building Technologies Division provided answers at the Siemens Airp...
Integrated, Open and Future-proof
Within the Siemens Building Technologies Division, the business unit Security Solutions offers customers integrated security solutions ranging from the analysis of requirements and...
10 for 2010: Top Video Surveillance Industry Predictions for the Year Ahead
Alastair Hayfield, Research Manager at IMS Research comments "2009 was not a stellar year for the video surveillance industry. Most companies felt the pinch of the global recession...
On the Right Track
Thanks to their strength and resilience, polyester-glass and epoxide-glass laminates have become extremely popular with yacht manufacturers. Working with these materials, however, ...
Seamless Changeover to Wireless Detectors
Since the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order came into force in October 2006 guesthouses and hotels in the Southwest have had to bring their Fire Protection up to scratch and Ar...
Residential Fire Sprinklers
The majority of fire deaths in the United States, about 85%, occur in the home - the place where we feel the safest. Adding to this tragedy is the astounding property loss. The tot...
