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...
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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...
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...
Take a Deep Breath
The Micro IV single-gas detector is the successor to the proven Micro III. The key features of the previous model have been retained, and there is now some impressive added functio...
Crime on TV
Villennes-sur-Seine lies about 30 kilometers west of Paris, in the middle of a protected nature reserve. With 4,788 inhabitants, the small and prosperous city offers its population...
Reliable Perimeter Protection
Outdoor security systems detect intruders as soon as a protected area is entered and before intruders are able to gain access to people or valuable objects and assets. Sensors can ...
Seeing in the Dark
Today, the challenge to CCTV professionals is to make sure that video footage is effective on a 24/7 basis, 365 days a year. Securing an area during the daytime is one thing. But w...
Emergency Evacuation
In the event of an emergency, employers and building managers have a legal responsibility for the safe and swift evacuation of every person in the building; this will include emplo...
How to Dam Out Unauthorized Access
The Nam Theun is a tributary of the Mekong and flows through Laos. Its role as an energy source will become more significant in the next few years. The completion of the second bar...
Under Lock and Key
Keys are used to control access to so many things these days that there can be serious consequences when one is misplaced or has been taken without authority. Managing who is autho...
A City of Dreams
The „City of Dreams" is a massive new casino project currently under construction in Macau - an integrated urban resort in which there will be exciting entertainment, elegant night...
Creative Monitoring
Visitors who cannot restrain their desire to touch, art thieves who are becoming more refined in response to rising prices on the art market, and acts of vandalism are increasingly...
Interfaces, Integration and Interoperability
If you are only interested in a stand-alone CCTV system for screening and recording video - full stop - then this article is probably not for you. However, most CCTV users these da...
Chipset Evolution - Is the Key
In years gone by, purchasers of CCTV systems would perhaps have looked no further than the outline description of a camera to decide if it was suitable for a specific project. The ...
Largest Ever HD IP Video System
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has deployed what is believed to be the largest ever High-Definition (HD) IP Video surveillance system to monitor its customs operation on the ...
Securing a Modern Metropolis
At the moment there are are lot of discussions about an internal report by the Metropolitan police in London about the use of CCTV in city centers. The effectiveness of CCTV as a w...
Samsung Techwin plus Samsung Electronics equals Samsung
Since the spring of 2009 there have been reports surfacing that the management of Samsung Group had been discussing the company's strategy for their professional security businesse...
Machine and System Safety: Ready to Go?
As the European Union has grown closer together there has been increasing harmonisation of laws, regulations and provisions. The Machinery Directive has special significance in ter...
Bluehill ID and SCM Microsystems
SCM Microsystems, provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange, and Bluehill ID AGannounced that the transaction to combine their respective busines...
Taking Care of Evacuation
Most employers are already highly aware of the need to provide a safe and healthy workplace to protect their employees against potential health and safety risks. But the responsibi...
Partners for Video Surveillance
In October the two companies Cisco and Pelco surprised the market with an extensive cooperation in the field of IP video cameras. Now, Siemens Building Technologies Division and Bo...
