CCTV on wheels is more popular than we thought! Since we featured one installer's mobile CCTV system a couple of editions ago, other companies have been contacting us with their wheelie successful ideas.

It all started rolling in our January edition when we featured Nationwide Security's compact trailer which they rent to customers who want to protect construction and other vulnerable sites when guarding is not affordable.

In response last month, Acorn Fire & Security told us about their prototype for a mobile camera unit designed to catch trespassers around quarries or landfill sites.

Now we hear of a West Wales CCTV specialist who has teamed up with a lighting tower supplier to develop a compact mobile surveillance and lighting unit.

cctv4u joined forces with GenSet plc to create the SiteEye VTi. This will be used for construction sites, event management, concerts, outdoor exhibitions and other vulnerable areas. The digital recorder can be located in the locked canopy with all electrical components enclosed.

More information: www.siteeye.co.uk

Not a trailer but certainly on wheels is Genie CCTV's new mobile showroom to cope with demand for customer on-site demos. Customers can view images from more than 40 cameras as well as "test drive" Genie and LG DVRs (www. geniecctv.com). A 3-metre hydraulic pole gives a birds' eye view via two LG Speed Dome cameras.

But probably the one with the most "drive" is from a mobile surveillance specialist who is using CCTV cameras to validate a 'hole in one' golf competition by mounting them on golf buggies.

Organisers of the competition touring Portugal are using buggies developed by CRD Synergy Ltd that use Dallmeier's NVRs.

Adjudicators based in the UK view the images remotely over the internet to validate a competitor's prize claim. The buggy has four PTZ domes controlled by a unit in front of the buggy. A cabinet in the footwell houses the power supply, GPS transmission, wireless network and Dallmeier M-DMS4 recorders.

CRD ops director Jonathan Nash says there are many other applications such as outdoor public events. "and the small buggies take up much less room than a transit van. They can prove invaluable at entrances and in car parks or in the middle of large crowds."

More information: www.synergysystemsuk.com

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Security Installer