ioimage recently announced that its video analytics solution has been installed to prevent theft at the Porsche car dealership and showroom in Sunninghill Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
IndigoVision’s end-to-end IP video system has been installed at Butlins, Bognor Regis to provide a site-wide integrated CCTV solution. This is the first project of a rollout across the United Kingdom of IndigoVision’s technology at many of the holiday resorts owned and operated by Bourne Leisure Group, which include the brands of Haven, Warner and Butlins.
To help protect and enhance the game-day experience, the NFL's Miami Dolphins recently turned to GE Security and Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies Integration Solutions to provide an advanced IP video surveillance system at Dolphin Stadium.
- By Brent Dirks
- Feb 05, 2009
Technology advances surround us: cell phones, iPods, flat-screen TVs, video games and so on. Consumers spend $700 billion every year on electronics. In response, manufacturers keep channeling enormous amounts of money into research and development to further satisfy a seemingly insatiable appetite for innovation. Video surveillance, being a significantly smaller market of around $10 billion per year worldwide, has been repurposing many of these consumer technologies for physical security applications.
- By Fredrik Nilsson
- Feb 05, 2009
Anyone who speeds past a red light in Sofia, the metropolitan capitol of Bulgaria, may find themselves facing irrefutable evidence of their traffic violation in the form of a crisp, clear image from an Arecont Vision AV3130 megapixel IP camera.
As a key vertical market in security and surveillance, the casino industry presents a dual personality.
- By Steven Titch
- Feb 03, 2009
Avigilon recently announced the company has been named to Rocket Builders’ 2009 “Ready to Rocket” list. Each year, based on analysis of trends that will drive growth in the information technology sector, Rocket Builders, a market strategy and consulting firm, identifies 25 private companies that are best positioned to capitalize on the trends for growth.
When a new Major League Soccer stadium and waterfront complex opens in 2010 just south of Philadelphia, along the historic Delaware River in Chester, Pa., it will incorporate a networked surveillance system based on Internet protocol from Panasonic System Solutions Company.
As global economies struggle, theft and crime tend to increase.
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- By Sherleen Mahoney
- Feb 01, 2009
IndigoVision’s integrated IP video security surveillance system has been adopted by Vienna Zoo for use in some ground-breaking research. Pandas, rhinos and penguins are being continuously monitored by CCTV cameras as part of an animal behavior research program. The system was designed and installed by IndigoVision’s local partner C&C Salzgeber GmbH.
As tall buildings, including high-rises, become more common, the security and the safety of their occupants merit attention. According to a new Connecting Research in Security to Practice (CRISP) Report, tall buildings are exposed to all the normal security risks -- crime, disorder and emergencies -- that threaten any street-level or campus-style building.
Pivot3 Inc. recently announced that the company has joined the Milestone Solutions Partner Program and the IP User Group as part of its international expansion.
Aimetis Corp., a provider of intelligent IP video surveillance software, recently announced that Aimetis Symphony will be installed as the video surveillance software platform in Munich Airport’s Terminal One.
A modern, new 250-bed jail will soon replace the currently overcrowded 98-bed facility in Midland County, Mich., and digital video surveillance technology from Panasonic System Solutions Company will boost security at the $25 million, 103,000-square foot facility.
Basler Vision Technologies has teamed with Milestone Systems to integrate the Basler IP camera series with Milestone XProtect open platform IP video surveillance management software.
MATE Intelligent Video recently announced that its Trigger analytic video encoder has been chosen by CCTV Center, a leading distributor in Spain, to protect several local solar fields.
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of security’s convergence with information technology is the arrival of open standards. For far too long, security systems have been dominated by proprietary equipment. This constrained the scope of product choice and limited what users could achieve with their security systems. could achieve with their security systems.
- By John Honovich
- Jan 23, 2009
The worldwide market for video surveillance cameras and software will reach $14.3 billion in 2012, according to a new research report. The total market was estimated to be worth $7.7 billion in 2007, according to “The World Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment,” published in November by IMS Research. The Wellingborough, U.K., firm forecasts the market to increase 13.4 percent per year between now and 2012.
- By Steven Titch
- Jan 23, 2009
California State University, Long Beach, one of the nation's largest public universities, is watching over its campus with a wireless video surveillance system similar to those used at Super Bowl XLII and in cities such as Chicago and Dallas.