Challenging Risk in a Dangerous World: the CRISYS Project View
The world has always been a dangerous place for Homo sapiens and it seems every time society finds what might be a comprehensive solution, some new threat or risk arises that chall...
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Video Analytics for Crowded and Complex Scenes
In November 2011 iOmniscient, pioneers of intelligent video analytics, celebrated their tenth year of trading. The company based in Sydney, Australia, specializes in providing vide...
Sick AG: How EU Directives relate to Machine Safety – Part 3
Sick AG: How EU Directives relate to Machine Safety - Part 3. Those who design, construct or bring into circulation machines in the European Union must comply with the applicable s...
Du Pont de Nemours: 40 years of innovations to protect people at work
Du Pont de Nemours: 40 years of innovations to protect people at work. DuPont Nomex, the heat resistant fibre used in products ranging from protective apparel to electrical insulat...
Bosch Sicherheitssysteme: precautions at AsiaWorld-Expo
Bosch Sicherheitssysteme: precautions at AsiaWorld-Expo. AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong-Kong’s largest and most modern exhibition, events, conference and entertainment centre, was officially...
Efaflex: high-speed doors for Ava
Efaflex: high-speed doors for Ava. Ava in Augsburg is a young company that operates one of the most modern recycling plants in Europe. The company has put together a remarkable new...
HID Corporation: smart access control for Asda stores
HID Corporation: smart access control for Asda stores. Recognised as the second largest supermarket group in Britain, and part of the Wal-Mart family, Asda stores have become a hou...
Senstar-Stellar: perimeter protection helps to secure facilities
Senstar-Stellar: perimeter protection helps to secure facilities. Perimeter protection is becoming a growth area for astute end-users in the security industry. The subject was a ho...
Axis Communications: monitoring patients and increasing security
Axis Communications: monitoring patients and increasing security. The Institute for Children‘s Emergency Surgery and Traumatology in Moscow needed cutting-edge technology solutions...
Genetec: IP video surveillance for Chodov shopping complex
Genetec: IP video surveillance for Chodov shopping complex. Genetec’s IP video surveillance solution Omnicast has been selected to secure the state-of-the-art Chodov shopping comp...
Artec Technologies: HD technology and video surveillance systems
Artec Technologies: HD technology and video surveillance systems. HD stands for High Definition and is used in conjunction with HDTV for high-resolution television that offers reso...
Panasonic: zooming-in on Manchester Arndale’s digital CCTV
Panasonic: zooming-in on Manchester Arndale's digital CCTV. Manchester Arndale is the largest ‘in-town’ shopping Centre in the UK. Boasting a huge selection of retail outlets from ...
Bosch Security Systems: system migration from analogue to IP at University of Glamorgan
Bosch Security Systems: system migration from analogue to IP at University of Glamorgan. Technology from Bosch Security Systems is playing a central role in a major new CCTv instal...
Pelco and Pixim: providing advanced imaging solutions
Pelco and Pixim: providing advanced imaging solutions. Dynamic range is the ratio of the brightest pixel that can be captured by the imaging system to the darkest pixel that can be...
Videotec: CCTV at rough conditions
Videotec: CCTV at rough conditions. The whole matter of so-called Maritime Security springs, as we are well aware, from the need, also through stricter legislation, of the USA to ...
Controlware: Aéroports de Paris enhances security with evolving IP CCTV solution
Controlware: Aéroports de Paris enhances security with evolving IP CCTV solution. Aéroports de Paris have been upgrading CCTV systems at Paris-Orly and Paris-Charles de Gaulle air...
Flir Systems: ultra long range surveillance
Flir Systems: ultra long range surveillance. Innovative, thermal imaging is Flir Systems’ constant goal. The HRC-59 x 735 and HRC-40 x 490 cameras are equipped with powerful optica...
IndigoVision: the technology behind Berlin’s new train dispatch system
IndigoVision: the technology behind Berlin's new train dispatch system. IP Video systems manufacturer IndigoVision is providing the technology behind a new train dispatch system th...
Dallmeier electronic: GIT-Interview with Dieter Dallmeier about the latest developments
Dallmeier electronic: GIT-Interview with Dieter Dallmeier about the latest developments. Just two years after Regensburg-based company Dallmeier launched its first camera, its rang...
Zenitel: GIT-Interview with Erik Hoving about reliable communications for the management of vital activities
Zenitel: GIT-Interview with Erik Hoving about reliable communications for the management of vital activities. Zenitel is operating at the cross road of two worlds: communication on...
GE Security: Unix platform with web-deployable Java thin client cuts support costs
GE Security: Unix platform with web-deployable Java thin client cuts support costs. GE’s Security business announced that its Picture Perfect v4 Unixbased enterprise access control...
Cyber-Ark Software: a set of business practices to increase security
Cyber-Ark Software: a set of business practices to increase security. The World Cup seems to have consumed all of our lives for the past few months. Scapegoats have emerged and so ...
GIT-Interview with Bruce Schneier about Infosecurity
GIT-Interview with Bruce Schneier about Infosecurity. Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. His first bestseller, ‘Applied Cryptography’, ...
Ifsec 2007 with highest attendance ever
Ifsec 2007 with highest attendance ever. Organisers of this year´s Ifsec announced a record number of people attended the show, when it took place from 21–24 May 2007 at the NEC, B...
VIP-Couch: Erich Hoving, CEO of Zenitel Group
VIP-Couch: Erich Hoving, CEO of Zenitel Group. What made you take on a position in the security field? The business of security management is one of the most relevant businesses ...
Appear Networks: indoor platform for the Stockholm Metro
Appear Networks: indoor platform for the Stockholm Metro. Stockholm Metro, Part II: A joint solution that helps make frontline employees more productive, reduces the costs of opera...
Bosch Sicherheitssysteme: increasing effectiveness and reducing costs of CCTV-based security systems – Part I
Bosch Sicherheitssysteme: increasing effectiveness and reducing costs of CCTV-based security systems - Part I. In the first part of this article, Ruud Toonders looks at how simple ...
Reed Exhibitions UK: Infosecurity Europe 2007
Reed Exhibitions UK: Infosecurity Europe 2007. This year’s Infosecurity Europe will take place 24–26 April in the Olympia Grand Hall in London. The dedicated Information Security ...
Advanced Technologies: OCR imaging setup performs license plate verification
Advanced Technologies: OCR imaging setup performs license plate verification. Border crossings, secure areas, parking facilities, and even highway speed traps are all places where ...
Artec Technologies AG: Hybrid And Multieyed - digital video surveillance
Artec Technologies AG: Hybrid And Multieyed - digital video surveillance. Artec technologies develops, produces and distributes software based solutions including additional hardwa...
Axis Communications: video surveillance of public transport in Stockholm
Axis Communications: video surveillance of public transport in Stockholm. The Stockholm transport authority has installed a security system for the underground, local trains and bu...
How to integrate video over IP
How to integrate video over IP. Professor Albert Einsteiger and his assistant Alida Anfang are not only smart, they are also didactically trained. in GIT SECURITY+ MANAGEMENT, they...
Safety considerations for the protection of tall buildings from attack – Part II
Safety considerations for the protection of tall buildings from attack- Part II. Safety experts have known since before the 11 September 2001 that fires or the collapse of skyscrap...
VIP-Couch: Rainer Hannich, Central Safety Officer of Nord/LB (Norddeutsche Landesbank)
VIP-Couch: Rainer Hannich, Central Safety Officer of Nord/LB (Norddeutsche Landesbank) Your career ambitions at 20 were?To be a banker. What made you take on a position in the sa...
Innominate: safe and secure remote maintenance
Innominate: safe and secure remote maintenance. Remote maintenance is much more cost effective then on-site maintenance. However, to enjoy all the benefits, companies need to prote...
