Fire Testing: IR Cameras – Promising Tools in Fire Research
Infrared cameras detect energy in the form of infrared radiation from hot bodies and create a thermal image of the temperature differences. The technology is currently used for man...
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Fire Safety – Safe Use of Multifunctional Buildings
SP and the Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety at Lund University recently finished a project investigating fire safety in multifunctional buildings. Sponsored...
Control Rooms – Eyevis Video Wall Enables Central Monitoring of Car Parks
SAEMES (the Société Anonyme d'Economie Mixte d'Exploitation du Stationnement), a semi-public parking system operator, operates more than 90 car parks in the city area of Paris. Ove...
Video for Retail: Highest Resolution for Fine Jewelery
It is truly a gemstone set in the heart of the historic district of Regensburg: the court jeweler Mühlbacher present fine jewelery and exquisite timepieces in their elegant showroo...
Video Surveillance: Certified Image Quality
Chinese IP video surveillance manufacturer Uniview is amongst the first companies worldwide that gained UL2802 certificate and the first manufacturer in the Asian-Pacific region. ...
When It Comes to HD Surveillance IDIS Is Rethinking the Approach
After years when only insiders knew IDIS, their big presence at IFSEC 2013 in Birmingham has brought the brand IDIS to the attention of a bigger audience. At Intersec in Dubai visi...
Vivotek Grows Business in the Middle East
Intersec in Dubai was a great chance for Vivotek to display their products and solutions to customers in the Middle East region. The Middle East market is one of the focus areas fo...
Hotel La Marvella Employs Axis Surveillance and Remote Monitoring Solution
La Marvella is a luxury boutique hotel located in the Jayanagar suburb of Bangalore. A part of the Best Western Premier group, the hotel prides itself for being an oasis of tranqui...
Security for Hospitals: Caring for Healthcare
Opened by Her Majesty the Queen in June 2012 as part of her Diamond Jubilee celebrations, the Western Health and Social Care Trust's South West Acute Hospital is a brand new, state...
Creating a Safer City: IP Cameras for Public Transportation Security
Not only will passengers feel safer but also the good citizens of Szeged will be thanks to the introduction of mobile network video recorders installed inside trams, trolleybuses, ...
Key Management: Securely Locked Away
At correctional facilities, the environment is highly structured to ensure that security, safety and order can be maintained. Security procedures are clearly defined and include am...
Hochiki Europe Gets Rave Reviews at the Kenneth More Theatre
Ensuring the safety of visitors is a top priority for the London Borough of Redbridge, which owns and maintains the Kenneth More Theatre. Its technical manager, Rob Mitchell-Gears,...
A Great Market for Heavy-duty Security Equipment
There are some characteristics for the Middle East market that are obvious. High temperatures and the harsh environment with dust, sand and often sea-water filled air is nothing st...
Video Surveillance: Dynamic Rangers
Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) technology offers an excellent solution to the real world problem in video surveillance of capturing crisp detailed images in varying lighting conditions. ...
Collaboration to Improve Security at Milan Cathedral and Museum
For more than six centuries, Milan Cathedral has been celebrated the whole world over as one of the finest examples of unique sculpture and architectural masterpieces, and as the v...
Salto to Offer Easy-to-use Access Control Solutions
Late in 2013 Salto Systems launched Clay by Salto a new IP door controller working wireless via 3G. The product was introduced first in the Netherlands and the UK, where Salto is t...
Security and Access Control - Trends 2014
Last year saw a big rise in integrated systems in the security sector and 2014 looks set to follow this pattern with a number of technologies and trends coming to the fore. With In...
The New Normal - A Risk Society: Lars Thinggaard’s Thoughts on Global Trends and Challenges
We live in a very different world today - a world of risks, a fast changing world - and looking ahead, such changes and risks will continue. I call it "the new normal" since this i...
City Surveillance: Geutebruck Video Is Preserving the Old and Securing the New in Prague
The iconic and world-famous Charles Bridge in Prague is a tourist attraction spanning the Vltava River and is a magnet for visitors but its popularity has given rise to concerns re...
Fire Protection: Hotel Fire Safety
Ensuring the safety of guests is naturally a fundamental requirement for all hotel owners, operators and licensees. The possibility of fire in any hotel should always be a concern,...
Airport Security: Interview with Erich Keil, Head of Corporate Security Fraport AG
Internationally, Fraport belongs to one of the leading companies in the airport business and operates Frankfurt airport, one of the most important air transport hubs in the world. ...
A Decade of Innovation - Arecont’s Approach to the EMEA Market
In 2013 Arecont celebrated its 10 years anniversary. Within these ten years the company was a major driving force in the industry‘s transition from analog to IP video surveillance...
Fire Detection: A Resolution to Reassess
Paul Pope, Business Innovation Manager EMEA at Apollo, suggests that while January might be the time for personal resolutions, building owners and those responsible for fire detect...
Security for Public Transportation: High Flying
King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) is Saudi Arabia's third largest airport and occupies an area of 105 square kilometers. Because of its proximity to the cities of Mecca a...
Disaster Prevention: Operation Taranis Monitored
Europe's Largest Ever Disaster Response Exercise Was Expertly Monitored by Grundig Salzburg in Austria recently played host to the largest disaster response exercise ever undertake...
Hikvision Provides Mac's Convenience Stores in Canada an Individualized Solution
For the past 50 years, Mac's Convenience Stores have served the needs of Canadian customers throughout a multitude of locations in Ontario and Western Canada. Mac's Convenience Sto...
To Be Forewarned Is To Be Forearmed - The Rise of Web Intelligence
Several weeks ago I was participating in local 10k run made even more challenging by the wind howling off of the Solent! Much of the talk amongst the crowd and runners afterwards w...
Focus on Quality in Projects – and Video Security
The Exhibition Centre Nuremberg becomes a security zone again: On 14-15 January 2014, top speakers from industrial companies and planning consultants meet for the second time to di...
China Public Security Export: Successful Ending
The 14th China Public Security Expo (CPSE 2013) came to a successful conclusion on November 1st. According to the latest statistics released by the Organizing Committee, there were...
Control of Key Possession Ensures High Security
At one time, keys were kept in boxes or drawers with little or no control over who had access to any given key. Even as security systems entered the digital and then the networked ...
Videowall Equipment for Lugano Police Control Room
Lugano is situated in the very south of Switzerland idyllically at the shore of the lake that owes his name to the city. As with everything else, people in Switzerland place great ...
Bosch Celebrates 10 year Cooperation with Wagner
Bosch and Wagner celebrated 10 years of successful cooperation in air sampling smoke detector systems on 23 September 2013 in Langenhagen. The program also included the presentatio...
Video Surveillance: CCTV Upgrade at the University of London
Students and local residents will feel safer as Samsung Techwin DVRs are at the heart of new CCTV systems installed by Link CCTV Systems at eight University of London Halls of Resi...
Security for Public Transportation - Advances Through Intelligent Systems
Public transport has long been identified as a favoured target for terrorists. The Madrid train bombing in 2004, in which 191 people were killed and 1,800 were wounded, is one rece...
Perimeter Protection of Solar Parks: Cost-Saving with Thermal Imaging Cameras
Spanish security specialist Omega Seguridad has already secured over 20 solar parks across Spain and its neighboring countries. The company always tries to convince its customers t...
