With new security technology operating in its 68 stores, Myer - Australia’s largest department store group - has declared to shoplifters that their game’s now up. The use of radio frequency tags and a new Geutebruck digital CCTV system operated by well-trained staff has been proving extremely successful in enabling security staff to identify and report known shoplifters, suspicious behaviour and co-ordinated activity among groups of individuals on their premises. The result being that most shoplifting suspects are now apprehended before leaving the premises.
Myer is delighted with this success. The retailer’s previous video system had suffered from high fault levels and lower than expected performance, so this time Myer was determined to find one which would deliver on all its promises. Following several pilot installations, a number of technical shoot-outs and a great deal of evidence-gathering Myer’s final choice was a system using GeViScope-IP/SE platforms and around 6000 Sony 1.3 megapixel cameras. Myer judged the Geutebruck solution to excel particularly in its fast and responsive video management and its user functionality, with its quick search and edit tools such as the ‘cut list’ and ‘motion search’ being particularly impressive.
