Queen's Award presented for DM's TransVu system

The compact TransVu is a sophisticated multi-camera digital CCTV recorder which can be fitted to a wide range of vehicles including trains, buses, taxis, vans and heavy goods vehicles. Its key feature is total network integration, automatically downloading images and incidents, and eliminating manual archiving.

Status reporting immediately highlights any tampering with the system, such as masking cameras, and also assuring operators that the system is always fully functional. GPS capability allows the vehicle to report its position immediately to base, while intelligent power management controls system operation without intervention by a driver.

AD Group's CEO Mike Newton said: "The Queen's Award is a great honour for AD Group and we are particularly delighted that it reflects our position as a real pioneer in the CCTV industry. Our business thrives by being ahead of the competition, when we innovate - with TransVu being a prime example - it's not simply by adding a bell or whistle to a box but by introducing something genuinely new. "

TransVu has already been applied with impressive results in a wide range of applications, worldwide, including an award winning railway project where it was able to dramatically reduce vandalism on trains for Netherlands Railways.

TransVu units were installed in Sprinter type trains on the busy Zoetermeer Stadslijn (City Line). The outcome was extremely positive - 60 per cent of commuter train passengers felt safer with the digital recorders and cameras installed and vandalism fell by 45 per cent.. It is helping trap car thieves as part of a new Covert Capture Car initiative launched by Avon and Somerset Constabulary in Bristol area and bus operators have been able to use it to identify fraudulent compensation claims, thanks to its internal inertia circuit logging vehicle movement.

l Vista has won a prestigious industry award for its 360 deg eclipse camera. The award was presented to Norbain's Polish distributors, Wizja, at the Securex Gold Medal award ceremony in Poland. Robert Jakubowski, director of Wizja's CCTV department, said: "We were delighted to receive the award". He expected the eclipse to do "extremely well" in Poland.

l Axis Communications has won the American Security Industry Association Product Achievement Award: Digital Video Device for its 214 PTZ network camera. The presentation took place at ISC West, Las Vegas.

l Intruder security manufacturer DSC has been presented with the Securing America Award from SDM Magazine for its false alarm prevention programme and role as leading industry educator.