Architects and engineers first envisioned "smart buildings" about 20 years ago. In these structures, access and safety alarms, heating and ventilation, lighting and elevators all would be controlled from a common point. Among the potential payoffs, promoters said, would be streamlined management of subsystems, lower costs, more efficient use of energy and greater convenience for tenants and visitors.
- By John W. Verity
- Jun 16, 2008
Integrated IP video technology has been providing multi-site CCTV surveillance for St Joseph’s Health Care’s four facilities in and around London, Canada since 2001.
Sheriff’s deputies at Century Station, part of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, are now using “digital eyes” to protect citizens on the streets of Lynwood, Calif. and the surrounding unincorporated areas.
In a recent report from IMS Research, the U.S. market for network cameras, video servers and NVRs is estimated to have increased by a massive 45 percent in 2007. However, the market has got off to a slower start in 2008 and it seems unlikely that the market will grow as fast this year as it did last year.
When Mike Howard became director of corporate security for Microsoft in 2003, he had to upgrade the company’s global security monitoring hub. Microsoft wanted effective, integrated security and life safety monitoring -- watching cameras and access control events, performing dispatch, enabling seamless emergency response and continuity -- to protect corporate assets and nearly 80,000 employees around the world.
- By Marleah Blades
- Jun 03, 2008
BridgeWave Communications recently announced the city of Southlake, Texas has selected the company's FE80U point-to-point wireless links to provide the backbone for its crime prevention video network.
While every individual and organization that provides security products or services will have their spin on what security is and how to achieve the desired level, the truth is, security is essentially an unachievable outcome. A common definition of security is, “freedom from danger, fear and anxiety.” Security defined as such is, therefore, unattainable.
- By Kevin McDonald
- Jun 02, 2008
Montebello, situated between East Los Angeles and Whittier, faced a graffiti and vandalism problem in its central business strip and surrounding public parks. City officials in the town of 50,000 residents -- whose daytime population swells to 110,000 -- feared the pervasive vandalism was driving away commercial traffic and eroding quality of life.
- By Steven Titch
- Jun 02, 2008
• The Smart, Secure Building: Planners seek to tie security systems to building automation<Br />
• Healthcare Data Security: Why it’s in need of care<br />
• Cleaning up Montebello: Wireless surveillance erases a graffiti problem
Transportation affects people every day. They depend on the safe and efficient operation of airports, mass transit systems and roadways for work, personal travel and commercial business.
- By Jack Smith
- Jun 01, 2008
An integrated IP video solution has been used to upgrade two Greek casinos to fully-digital CCTV surveillance, in full compliance with the demanding Greek gaming laws. The Casino Rio, located north of the Western port city of Patras and Casino Xanthi, which is situated in the Northeast city of the same name, are now both benefiting from vastly improved CCTV systems.
A new study forecasts a nearly fourfold increase in revenue from video surveillance software between now and the end of 2013, rising from about $245 million to more than $900 million.
To assist in protecting crowds during the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at the Phoenix International Raceway, the Glendale Police Department reached once again for a high-tech wireless video surveillance system from AgileMesh, a provider of rapidly deployable video surveillance, and Firetide, a developer of wireless mesh and access networks.
With a population of more than 35,000, the Belgium city of Geel is using IP network video surveillance from Milestone Systems and Axis Communications to protect numerous facilities in the town.
Event management, like social engineering, is one of those security terms whose innocuous name belies enormous significance of purpose, even moreso in the network-centric environment.
- By Steven Titch
- May 23, 2008
Harrah's Operating Company, a subsidiary of Harrah's Entertainment Inc., has signed a broad-based, 10-year global strategic agreement with Cisco.
Arteco recently announced the installation of IVS systems in The Columbus Division of Electricity utility substations, in Columbus, Ohio, for the purpose of preventing copper theft and other security related issues.
Axis Communications, Bosch Security Systems and Sony Corp. announced recently that the companies will be cooperating to create an open forum aimed at developing a standard for the interface of network video products.
A complete end-to-end IP video system is providing the CCTV surveillance for an impressive integrated security system for the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
It is a conundrum that enterprises and organizations that need to protect their customers’ secure information often must access that secure information to authenticate the identity of a customer. In other words, to prevent a breach, they must risk a breach.
- By Steven Titch
- May 09, 2008