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Intelligent ioimage

Ioimage has released the ioicam wdc100dn, a next-generation intelligent video IP surveillance camera that automatically detects intruders, suspicious baggage, stopped vehicles and removed items.

The new ioicam, an ultra-wide dynamic range IP colour day/night security camera, uses proprietary algorithms and Pixim video image processing to provide fine-tuned images for optimum detection and usable video, even in extreme lighting and harsh weather conditions.

The intelligent video technology of the wdc100dn is currently used for nuclear sites, borders, government buildings, industrial sites, and high-profile religious cities and sites. It is designed for simplicity in installation and operation, allowing setup within minutes of deployment via standard web browser.

Ioimage says the camera "offers panoptic line-of-sight detection capabilities that can watch hard-to-protect widespread areas and provide automatic alarm video, audio and dry contact responses".

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Boots safe online

Boots Group plc has implemented the internet monitoring software GenuNET Auctions Module to enable it to protect its intellectual property and sales channel from unauthorised commerce on the internet.

In partnership with OpSec Security Group, Checkpoint Systems has provided Boots with GenuNET, which allows companies to monitor the worldwide web, business to business and business to consumer trade boards, as well as auction sites. GenuNET is owned and licensed by OpSec.

Boots required a system that helped to protect its brands, which include No. 7 cosmetics, Soltan, Botanics and FCUK toiletries, in addition to fraudulent re-sale of gift vouchers and loyalty cards. GenuNET is a service that identifies and prioritises abuse of a company's intellectual property such as brand names, trademarks, product counterfeiting and theft or non-compliance of sales and advertising practices for regulated industries.

Checkpoint's Julie Cotterill said: "Boots' brands are extremely well known throughout the UK and just like any other large organisation, these brands are vital to the success of the organisation. Unauthorised selling, stolen or counterfeit goods are a massive issue for the industry and Checkpoint is working together with OpSec to help companies overcome this problem."

Eyes on the airport

Dynamark Security has installed a networked surveillance system at Smyrna Airport, just outside of Tennessee in the USA.

The new wireless security solution includes a mix of Panasonic KX series PTZ network cameras, with Pelco analogue cameras converted to digital images via Vivotek video servers, all managed by Milestone XProtect Enterprise IP video surveillance software.

Dynamark Security has also integrated the video surveillance with an access control system. The airport now has a camera at every gate entrance and two PTZs on the new terminal building. One PTZ is on top of the control tower and provides an overview of the entire sweep of the airport. Cameras can be moved around and new ones can be added at any time.

To server and protect

Axis Communications has introduced the Axis 243SA Video Server, which it says is the first one-channel video server that supports Internet Protocol version 6. IPv6 is the internet upgrade that will expand IP addresses from 32 bits to 128 bits, effectively increasing the number of IP addresses available by a massive amount.

The axis 243SA provides de-interlaced video at full frame rates in both MPEG-4 and MJPEG compressions, and the company says it is ideal for installations that require full-motion video, such as casinos, airports, traffic surveillance and prisons.

It has integrated two way audio functionality, which enables users to hear intruders and communicate orders. It supports dome cameras and PTZ cameras through a built-in serial port. It also features powerful event management tools, including video motion detection, pre and post-alarm buffering, and triggered event functionality with alarm notification.

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Wide area Axess

LookC has launched Instant Axess, which it claims is "the world's first wide area access control system".

It provides users with a single web page to control hundreds of thousands of doors spread over hundreds of thousands of sites. The controllers are fitted to each site and plug straight into the internet via an Ethernet router. Because there is no requirement to have a PC running Windows and an access control database application on site, the system improves the utility of access control whilst reducing the installation cost, LookC says.

The system is managed using a normal browser from a single web page. Doors are put together into groups and given a time profile. Tag holders are then associated with these groups, which gives them access through groups of doors within a time window. Tag holders can be associated with many different groups, whilst individual doors can also be in more than one group.

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Parisian dining safety

Wireless internet service provider Adael has chosen ACTi's IP surveillance products to enhance security systems at restaurants and cafes in Paris, including Café Madeleine Bastille, Restaurant Bebert, and Restaurant Yodes.

"Two of our clients asked us to install ACTi surveillance cameras," Adael's Mr Sebban said. "The safe of the first restaurant was stolen in the middle of the night, and the second was also robbed at gun point in the early morning."

ACTi offers a complete solution for retailers, including a fixed IP dome, the CAM-7100, and IP speed dome, the CAM-6200PN. ACTi says video streams from the cameras run smoothly, even when transmitted over the internet. The company says Activator, its free-bundle application, is a user-friendly program, enabling the café owner to monitor his premises while at home, and to use the speed dome's PTZ functions.

The Nextiva generation

Verint Systems Inc has introduced a number of new products in its Nextiva portfolio of video management technology.

The expanded portfolio includes Nextiva Video Analytics, a powerful suite of integrated video analysis applications that trigger alarms in real time and help prevent incidents, loss and damages.

Also on the market are Nextiva analytics-embedded edge devices, video servers and IP cameras, which apply video analytics at the point of capture instead of sending all the data to centralised servers. These devices include the S1900e-T-AS Ethernet video server, the S1704e-T-AS video server, and the S2600e, a professional IP camera with a super wide 102dB dynamic range and 0.5 lux sensitivity for low light conditions.

The Nextiva Intelligent Edge devices are integrated with Nextiva Control Center, a management portal that simplifies deployment and enables the devices to be configured and administered from a single location and application.

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Towards S3000

IDCS has launched the S3000 Integrated IP Video and Security System, which it says "provides unrivalled possibilities in terms of communication security, scalability, redundancy and integration".

All S3000 components have native IP connections. These include a proximity reader, touch screen panel with integrated proximity reader, door controllers, I/O boxes, Local Processing Units, cameras, and video recorders.

Data communication over the IP network infrastructure is secured through SSL Encryption, and S3000 components support Power over Ethernet, which makes additional power cables superfluous.

"S3000 is fully integrated with IDCS networked video server/recorder for IP cameras," the company says. "All components are managed through a comprehensive management tool that handles access control, intruder detection, digital video, visitor control, elevator control, guard tour control and car park control."

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Sentinel integration

Video Domain Technologies says that NetiP, a new series of digital audio and video alarm panels, has achieved full integration with Sentinel Plus, the alarm monitoring software solution.

Michael Askew, managing director of Monitor Computer Systems, said: "We have been working in partnership with Video Domain for four years and the company is the first to achieve fully operational live sites through our Sentinel Plus alarm monitoring solution."

Video Domain's Clive Mason said: "NetiP adds eyes to the monitoring services delivered by Sentinel Plus. It provides a complete video and audio record of every intrusion activation event, adds unrivalled levels of functionality to monitoring stations and is infinitely scalable to meet the requirements of the largest applications."

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Making cameras smarter

Eptascape has launched its ADS-100 - embedded, plug-and-play MPEG-7 based video surveillance, which is designed to adapt any existing CCTV camera to perform event-based surveillance and real-time analytics, while providing privacy masking.

The company says ADS-100 is "quickly and easily integrated with commercial databases, rule-based decision systems, and custom-made software. Eptascape technology is infinitely scalable and cost effective, allowing multiple events with multiple schedules to operate on a single camera or across a network of cameras.

"Its leader/follower function enables a fixed camera to control other cameras, tracking moving targets exhibiting certain behaviours at high resolution, applying appropriate pan/tilt/zoom in real time, and cross camera tracking enables target hand-off from camera to camera without overlapping fields of view."

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Guardian angel

AMG Systems is offering the second generation of its Guardian Lite 3700/4700 series, which integrates Ethernet, low speed data, audio and high quality uncompressed video into a single fibre optic transmission system.

The company believes the technology is suitable for wide area CCTV systems, including highway incident management, transport infrastructure surveillance, campus environments and perimeter security.

"Our new systems eliminate the need for separate IP, voice or data networks and enable significant savings in infrastructure to be achieved," says AMG's Dr Alan Hayes. "In a highway situation, for instance, surveillance can be carried out on high quality, uncompressed real-time video images while the Ethernet carries IP traffic for variable message signs, phones, ANPR cameras and wireless.

"At the same time, the low speed data channels can carry the signals from road coils and other data systems used on modern highway systems."

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Milestone for truckers

Milestone IP video surveillance has been used to eliminate a US$500,000 (£260,000) security guarding bill for Transus Intermodal trucking. Its 12 trucking container yards are located throughout the Southeast USA, and were protected by guards, which the company felt was expensive and inadequate for its needs

It now uses an IP video surveillance system with Milestone software for protecting these locations, implemented by Atlanta-based Incom Interactive Surveillance.

It installed a mix of JVC network cameras, Pelco Spectra PTZ domes and Sanyo stationary colour cameras. Milestone XProtect IP video surveillance software is used to schedule the cameras, to record on motion detection, and to view or manage the images archived in its database.

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Tiny little NVR

Panasonic's WJ-ND200 network video recorder is "staggeringly" small, the company says, at just 270mm in width – but it's still capable of monitoring up to 16 cameras and up to four clients. This makes it suitable for high quality surveillance in small to medium sized shops and offices. It is both MPEG-4 and JPEG compatible, and offers versatile recording functions including multi-recording, scheduled recording, emergency recording, external timer recording and event recording functions. It can automatically detect cameras and enables users to set up IP addresses easily whilst continuously checking images. It also supports 'memory mirroring' – this enables image data to be stored in another HDD unit should one HDD unit fail.

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Three-way Axis

Axis Communications has introduced three new network cameras to the market.

The 209FD-R network camera is a palm-sized, rugged unit, designed specifically for use in buses and rail vehicles. It can resist vibrations and high humidity in mass transit vehicles, and measures only 4cm in height. Axis claims its 216FD-V is the market's first vandal-resistant indoor fixed dome network camera, and it says it's suitable for video surveillance in areas such as schools, stores, banks and prisons. It includes a built-in microphone as well as connection for an external microphone and speakers, enabling two-way audio communication. The company's 233M network camera is a high-end, two megapixel camera designed to provide exceptional image detail in demanding day and night surveillance applications.

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What's Cooking?

Travel company Thomas Cook has shifted over 600 sites to alarm monitoring across the IP network, where the IP system links to Scantronic alarm panels, which in turn are linked to its ARC.

Romec Electronic Security worked with Cooper Security to implement the IP monitoring strategy, and was involved in identifying a suitable product to provide the secure communication between site and monitoring station, which could also be made compatible with existing panels and systems. It eventually settled on a unit from Chiron, which connected to the Scantronic 8136 panels. Romec's Tony Cahill said: "The whole process has been a huge learning experience for everyone involved. But of course next time it will be much quicker and easier."