IP Camera applications

Students in the Dallastown Area School District near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, are learning their actions speak louder than words.  The district's IT department recently installed video surveillance technology from Bosch Security Systems in the area's high school and middle school.  Now, more than 70 Bosch FlexiDome IP cameras monitor the hallways and cafeterias, and the school district plans to add 50 more cameras to the facilities by the end of the 2007-2008 school year.  Using...

The Buffalo Athletic Clubs (BAC) are using powerful, easy-to-manage Milestone IP video management software with Axis network cameras for improved security and protection of assets, employees and members.  The system's scalability supports the company's progressive business model for energetic expansion plans.  The BAC (Buffalo Athletic Clubs) is a dynamic chain of seven fitness centres in Buffalo, and the RAC (Rochester Athletic Clubs) is a chain of five locations in Rochester, New Yor...

Network cameras and blade servers from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been installed by one of the UK's leading IT equipment distributors, Micro-P.  The distributor recently embarked on an extension and upgrade of its ageing CCTV system following a review of security inside the 120,000 square foot warehouse in Altham, near Accrington, Lancashire.Micro-P has deployed a total of 10 new Axis network cameras and moved 14 existing external CCTV cameras onto a...

IndigoVision's IP Video CCTV system is providing the technology behind a Fabricom-GTI integrated security solution for the new courthouse in the Belgium city of Ghent.  This innovative project integrates CCTV, video-intercom and access control into a single IP-security system.  By using the IP Video system to provide fully featured video-intercom facilities IndigoVision has created a truly scalable and cost-effective solution by eliminating traditional intercom switching hardware.The n...

Joining forces to improve CCTV surveillance of Aylesbury town centre, Thames Valley Police and Aylesbury District Council have chosen the latest Ganz C-Allview high-speed ruggedised PTZ cameras from CBC to monitor two key road intersections.  In the first installation of its kind for the town, the cameras have been set up using a wireless link.  Telemetry signals are transmitted to receivers on the police station roof, 1 km from the monitored site.  "We're very pleased with t...

Siemens Building Technologies' integrated approach to fire safety and security has been illustrated in a project to protect the premises of a leading international insurance company.Siemens SRL Romania installed a SiPass access control system, integrated with a Synova fire detection system, allowing all doors to open automatically plus provide control of the building's elevators in the event of a fire, in the Bucharest Head Office of Generali Asigurari SA.  In addition to the access control...

Network cameras from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been deployed by construction security specialist SecureIt to secure six sites managed by leading regional homebuilder, Llanmoor Homes.Three AXIS 211A network cameras and an AXIS 211M were commissioned, installed and are now monitored by SecureIt, a company specialising in construction site security.SecureIt worked with Llanmoor Homes to trial a network surveillance system involving Axis network cameras at their c...

The City of Irvine, incorporated in 1971, is, according to their website, "...one of the United States' largest planned urban communities and encompasses more than 65 square miles."  Part of Orange County in Southern California, Irvine is populated by more than 200,000 people making between 10,000 and 70,000 average daily travel trips.   One of the primary ways the city is keeping its citizens moving is through the use of traffic surveillance cameras and advanced traffic controllers d...

With the need to protect pupils, staff and property high on the national curriculum, Manor High School in Leicestershire has turned to local CCTV specialists Tranter Fire & Security for the answers, and Tranter has in turn specified a solution based around sophisticated technology from Bosch Security Systems (BSS). The system comprises more than 40 cameras - a mixture of Bosch Dinion and Flexidome devices - installed at various strategic points around the school including entry/exit poi...

IQinVision, market leader in high performance megapixel network cameras, smart IP cameras, and network video recording systems, recently announced that the Warsash Maritime Academy in Southampton has deployed IQinVision IQeye 700 Series megapixel cameras to improve the effectiveness of its simulator training for students entering the shipping and oil industries.  Design and installation expertise was provided by InCam Digital Surveillance and Smart CCTV Ltd.Warsash Maritime Academy provides...

IKEA France has invested in IndigoVision's complete IP Video solution for CCTV surveillance in its new 20,000 m2 flagship store in Grenoble.  Swedish-based IKEA is one of the largest and best-known home furnishing retail groups in the world, with stores in 36 countries.  IKEA invests heavily in CCTV technology in their stores to ensure their customers and staff are safe and secure at all times.  The new store, which opened in October 2007, is seen as a test site for the adoption o...

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology had suffered serious material loss due to theft, burglary and vandalism, leaving personnel and students feeling unsafe as a result.  An extensive computer theft justified installing a new video surveillance solution.  However, creating such a solution was challenging, as the university area consists of nearly one hundred buildings.The open platform Mirasys V series, featuring local data acquisition, analysis and recording, combined wit...

NVT's UTP transmission technology provides clear surveillance images for a safe SharjahThe emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of a union of seven sovereign sheikhdoms, each comprising its own unique mix of Islamic culture and Arabian lifestyle. Throughout its current period of prosperity, Sharjah has taken the protection of its affluent city centre and residents very seriously. Since 2002, it has entrusted the installation, expansion and maintenance of the city's co...

Sony has announced a groundbreaking application of its leading IP Network Video products with Experian FootFall's counting solutions.Using IP cameras for the first time, Experian FootFall, the market-leading pedestrian counting services provider, has chosen a range of Sony's mini-dome, fixed and pan-tilt intelligent network cameras, supported by Sony's Distributed Enhanced Processing Architecture (DEPA) technology, to strengthen its current sensor-device line-up which includes traditional therma...

IQinVision, market leader in high performance megapixel network cameras, smart IP cameras, and network video recording systems, recently announced that the Livingston Mall in Livingston, New Jersey has deployed IQeye megapixel IP cameras from IQinVision to improve security at the super-regional shopping centre.  Supreme Security Systems, Inc., Union, NJ, designed and installed the integrated, IP-based video surveillance system and is overseeing its continued expansion.The Livingston Mall in...

Leicester-based De Montfort University has adopted an advanced NetVu Connected surveillance solution from DM Fusion member Security Design Services, featuring CCTV systems from Dedicated Micros - part of AD Group - to maximise the safety and security of its 20,500 students and 3,240 staff.                  Key elements of the ambitious scheme include the linking back, over fibre, of 21 geographically dispersed c...

MissionAfter the University of Aberdeen conducted a strategic review of security, the university decided to rationalize four stand-alone analogue CCTV systems and establish a central control room for the entire university.  The four systems varied in age and the university wanted a single system, which would feature new cameras as well as including existing analogue cameras.  The system would have to offer the flexibility to cope with future expansion, and to eliminate stand-alone prop...

IP-Surveillance system pays for itself fast, after theft caught on camera Mission Fast-growing microbrewery chain Zerodegrees was dissatisfied with the limitations of the analogue-based CCTV cameras and digital video recorders installed in some of the sites it acquired in London.  For its new restaurant and microbrewery sites, chief executive and co-founder of Zerodegrees, Nick Desai, wanted the ability to ensure evidence caught on camera was usable for police identification purposes. ...

MissionThe Shipton Group, which owns and manages Douglas Court Shopping Centre in Cork, Ireland, required a surveillance solution to cut crime, gather video evidence to dramatically cut slip and fall injury claims, reinforce tenants' health and safety obligations, and even improve customer experience to deploy support staff more effectively around Douglas Court.SolutionThe Shipton Group worked with Irish IT consultancy RPC Consultants, a leading Axis Communications partner in the region, to deli...

Data Electronics Group opts for Axis Communications' IP-Surveillance solution to provide additional layer of physical security in its Dublin-based data centre.Data Electronics Group (DEG) was founded in 1974 as a field engineering-based business installing, integrating, maintaining and carrying out network administration for computer equipment used by airport and airline staff for key activities such as tagging bags and checking in passengers.  Today one division of DEG still provides...

Hughes and Hughes gains control of security monitoring and achieves remote visibility of in-store activityMission Hughes and Hughes, Ireland's fastest-growing bookstore chain, required a cost-effective surveillance system to provide easy access to high quality images which could be used as evidence in cases of theft, vandalism or fraud across ten airport-based outlets including six at Dublin Airport.  The system needed to be straightforward to install and integrate with the airport's existi...

Compelling technologyAt the start of the last century, when the Fendt brothers began building their first tractors in the forge set up by their father, Johan Georg Fendt, they made a commitment to create technical solutions that would be as cost-effective as they were reliable.  In 1930, they built Europe's first small tractor, with a 6HP engine, mounted plow, and independently-driven mower.  With the Fendt ‘diesel horse', the small and medium-sized farms had their first financi...

Intelligent, attractive and likeableIntelligence, good looks, dedication - these professed brand values of the Czech automotive manufacturer Skoda a.s. have made a major contribution to the fact that this car brand is becoming increasingly popular in Germany.  While ‘intelligence' reflects the claim of developing products with outstanding functionality as well as customer-oriented detailed solutions at excellent value for the money, ‘good looks' describes the pioneering design...

IndigoVision's complete IP Video solution has been installed to enhance the security at Royal Vopak's petrochemical storage terminal in West Thurrock, UK. With 347,100m3 of storage capacity in 125 tanks, Vopak's terminal is a very demanding environment with security and health & safety of paramount importance. The terminal provides independent storage and handling of liquid and gaseous chemical and oil products for Vopak's customers.  Products are transported from the terminal to the cu...

In today's world of convenience foods, the supply of high-quality food products, delivered on time and at a reasonable cost, is an extremely competitive market place in which to operate.  Standing out as market leaders in their field, Kepak Convenience Foods (KCF) began as manufacturers of frozen beef burgers for the Irish food-service market.  By the end of 1989, the company's business had grown to such an extent, that it supplied half of the retail frozen beef burgers sold on the Iri...

Controlware Communications has provided an IP CCTV transmission system to Aéroports de Paris Group for the new Galerie Parisienne terminal extension at Charles de Gaulle airport.Aéroports de Paris Group are Europe's second largest airport group, managing 14 airports, and aerodromes including Paris-Orly, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, and Paris-Le Bourget.  As the airport authority for the Paris region, Aéroports de Paris requires the highest level of security to safeguard pas...

Samsung Techwin CCTV cameras have been installed in over 200 Komercni Banka branches throughout the Czech Republic.Komercni Banka is one of the largest banking organisations in the Czech Republic serving approximately 1.5 million customers via a nationwide branch network.  It was founded in 1990 following the division of the former State Bank of Czechoslovakia.The cameras have been supplied via ADI-Olympo, Czech's and Slovak's leading CCTV distributor.  Zdenek Kubiczek, Product and Sal...

ACTi empower Nextan, a system integrator in Singapore, successfully enhanced the security system for NUS museum.  They installed a total of 50 channels in NUS museum. NUS museum was established in 1997, and was formerly called the National University of Singapore Museums.  Located in the University Cultural Centre in scenic Kent Ridge campus, it manages a growing number of collections housed under-one-roof.  The Ng Eng Teng Gallery, and the South & Southeast Asian Gallery...

At Chase Farms in Walkerville, Michigan, Milestone XProtect Enterprise IP video software from Milestone Systems is the powerful security platform chosen to manage over 100 surveillance cameras by this spring.  In the fall of 2007, over 60 Axis 223 M (2 megapixel) cameras from Axis Communications were already running at the full 1600 image size to deliver the exceptional clarity of true megapixel images. Chase Farms is leading the way in new technology for processing vegetables and frui...

Miami Miller School of Medicine as part of a campus-wide CCTV upgrade.  The University's medical campus spreads out over 45 acres in downtown Miami, Florida but it also has a number of remote sites, including one that is 100 miles north in Palm Beach County and another which is home to the new Miami Institute for Human Genomics, located 25 miles southwest of the medical campus.  This type of wide-area application was too demanding for the existing analogue CCTV system, leading to many...