IP Camera applications

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...

As the theft of metal continues to hit the headlines on a daily basis, with everything from statues to church roofs in the firing line, one company - Oldbury Aluminium Alloys, is fighting back.  This is thanks to the remotely monitored, detector activated, CCTV service provided by RemGuard Visual Management, part of AD Group, and its BS8418 compliant Remote Video Response Centre (RVRC).West Midlands-based Oldbury Aluminium Alloys is applying this sophisticated event-driven CCTV technology t...

North London-based IP consultant UBIQZ has assisted a local installer with a £250,000 Internet-addressable camera surveillance project in Tripoli, Libya.   Forty Sony cameras have been installed over 11 floors of a finance tower block in a project that is one of the first instances of a Middle East building adopting IP on a significant scale.The location is the Dat el-Emad complex in the heart of Tripoli's financial district and near the site of the old city.  As with o...

Network cameras from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been installed by one of Ireland's premier network integrators, DNA IT Solutions, inside the Kaziranga Forest Trail Habitat at Dublin Zoo.  The birth, which is due to take place within the next few weeks, will be the second elephant birth ever caught on camera in Europe.  Traditional analogue-based CCTV cameras have been replaced by Axis network cameras, because the old ones were not delivering the high...

Leaders in EuropeA total of more than one billion CDs and DVDs are being produced annually in the village of Dassow, Germany, population 4,000, making ODS Optical Disc Service GmbH one of the leading manufacturers of optical storage media in Europe.  ODS is also a leader when it comes to creating jobs in an economically underdeveloped region: with 1,300 employees, ODS is the largest employer in the district of north-west Mecklenburg.  With a second factory in France and distribution c...

Vicon have manufactured video management solutions for airports and ports throughout the world.  For St. Paul International Airport, Minneapolis, simply wanting a high performance CCTV system wasn't enough.  They wanted a system that could be expanded over an extended period of time without replacing the existing infrastructure.  They found that solution in the Vicon family of video products and a business relationship that began almost 10 years ago is still going strong.Building...

Advanced monitoring and analytics capabilities enable more effective law enforcement and cost savings. With the rising crime rates in Savannah, GA, beginning to have a tangible impact on the safety of residents, tourists and the local economy, local government and law enforcement officials sought new solutions to their growing problem. Like many cities across the country, Savannah turned to public video surveillance systems as a counter measure.  They selected Tropos® Networks as the wi...

The requirement - extending CCTV reachAs part of a wider regeneration project to encourage investment in the town, Medway Council decided to make substantial changes to the road network in Chatham.  Its one-way ring road system was identified as a restriction affecting inward investment in the retail centre of the town. The major road works involved upgrading the town's ring road system route to two-way traffic.Following a review it identified a gap in the CCTV coverage that it needed to fi...

IndigoVision's integrated IP Video CCTV system is providing monitoring for a traffic calming system in the Belgian city of Antwerp.  The CCTV system monitors a series of automated bollards that regulate traffic on a number of the city's streets, alerting the Antwerp Police to malfunctions, accidents and acts of vandalism.The bollards can be lowered automatically during pre-determined hours or when buses and trams pass using on-board transponders.  Local residents and other authorised p...

The latest Ganz C-Allview high-speed ruggedised PTZ cameras from CBC Europe have been chosen to secure Medway Council's new headquarters in Chatham, Kent.  The installation is a key part of a major, four-year upgrade contract, which the council has awarded to TJW Electrical.Medway, which is a unitary authority covering five major towns at the heart of the Thames Gateway development, has pioneered the use of microwave transmission to hub-sites, such as schools and council premises.  Fro...

PurposeBased in Markham, Ontario, Canada, mobile robot development company, Dr Robot Inc., was looking for a high performance IP camera for its new series of mobile robots, i90. i90 robots were developed for applications such as security, remote monitoring, automatic tour guides and academic research and development platforms.  i90 is a fully wireless robot, and operates as an autonomous mobile wireless device providing remote monitoring, control and communication.  i90 communicates wi...

The same technology behind the ICD-809P and the ICD-879P (two new Ikegami high sensitivity cameras), available exclusively through its long-term distribution partner ADI-GARDINER, have been successfully used to take moving images from the Japanese KAGUYA (SELENE) lunar explorer. It is the first time that such high definition images of the earth have been shot so deep in space - about 110,000 km away from the earth.  The explorer was developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...

IndigoVision's complete IP Video solution has helped transform the local policing of a small town in Northern Italy.  Sergnano has a population of just 3,000 and employs only two law enforcement officers to police the town.  The installation of an IndigoVision IP-CCTV system has enabled the police officers to cover a much larger area more effectively, reduce vandalism and respond more quickly to incidents and crime.The cost effective IndigoVision solution was the key to the success of...

Tradition obligates"We know most of our 800 car dealership customers personally.  As a result, we can offer them very individualised service, which distinguishes us from our larger competitors."  For Heinrich Krawietz, co-owner and managing director of Auto-Schöttle in Stuttgart-Botnang, consistent customer care is not just another slick marketing phrase.  In his dealership, word is worth just as much as a signed contract.  Hard work, cost savings, trust,...

Network cameras and video servers from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been installed by Arthur McKay at The University of Aberdeen- one of Scotland's premier universities with more than 500 years of history.  The university recently embarked on a major new building programme to upgrade and extend facilities for the 14,000 students that are now enrolled there.                 &...

IndigoVision's IP Video technology is providing CCTV surveillance for Edinburgh Castle, Scotland's number one tourist attraction and part of Edinburgh's World Heritage site.  Historic Scotland operates and maintains the Castle and the associated exhibitions but part of the castle continues to be occupied by the army.  This dual role means the Castle has to be open to over 1 million visitors a year, but still maintain the levels of security expected on a site with military presence.As p...

Innovative external detection technology from Optex Europe, manufacturers of the award-winning Redwall range, is being deployed by South Lanarkshire Council to combat crime and reduce costly repair bills from vandalism at two primary schools in its area.In these two schools alone, graffiti and outbreaks of fire had caused an estimated £500,000 of damage.  Protecting these sites was crucial to prevent further incidents, and so Ian Porteous, CCTV Development Manager at South Lanarkshire...

Network cameras from Axis Communications, the global leader in network video, have been installed by Ely Telecom, working alongside Education ICT's server engineers to deliver a modern IP-Surveillance solution at Witchford Village College, near Ely.                     This village secondary school, which serves 900 11-to-16-year-olds in this predominantly rural area, originally installed an analo...

JVC Professional Europe have provided Treloar College, a specialist college for disabled students based in the outskirts of Alton in Hampshire, with IP security cameras and security management software for a comprehensive IP security system.  The project is supported by the City Livery Company of Security Professionals, as well as by JVC.  Treloar College provides education, care, therapy, medical support and independence training to young people aged 16 and over with physical disabili...

Chubb Electronic Security has used its experience working with major high street jewellers to develop a bespoke CCTV surveillance and recording package specifically for the independent sector.  Chubb Electronic Security is part of UTC Fire & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp."The benefit of CCTV today is that it is more flexible and more affordable than it has ever been before," explains Colin Walters, Head of CCTV at Chubb Electronic Security.  "This mean...

The Coliseum Leisure and Retail Park on the outskirts of Elsmere Port is one of the real success stories of the out of town leisure phenomenon.  Constructed on a brown-field site in 1998 the Leisure Park is owned by The Leisure Fund Ltd and complements the retail side of the Coliseum owned by Equitable Life. The Ellesmere Port facility comprises a large leisure park on one side, with the UK's largest designer outlet village on the other.  With over 140 shops, it features a wide range o...

In Holland, Maat Transport is the first company that is offering a high secure Truck Parking for regular clients and trucks passing by.  Recently, an IP surveillance solution with ACTi hardware was deployed in this transportation company.As an experienced company in the world of logistics and transportation, Maat is aware of the big problems with stolen cargo and therefore saw the need in building this automated truck parking.  In order to make the parking profitable, the par...

Plymouth City Centre has upped its ‘Respect' agenda by combining the best CCTV with loudspeakers from Bosch Security Systems to quite literally speak to would-be lawbreakers and discourage anti-social behaviour, sometimes before it even happens.‘Talking' cameras have so far been installed in four areas of the City and are having an immediate effect, according to Mike Atherton, Community Safety Manager for Plymouth City Centre Company.  The PCCC bid for Home Office funding f...

Frankfurt Commerzbank Tower: Zelaris IP video management software monitors 800 branches for failure and sabotage  The bold architecture of the Commerzbank Tower is the source of fascination for many visitors to Frankfurt - behind the mirrored façade a complex software solution takes care of the security required in the Commerzbank network of branches. VIDEOR's partner, the Frankfurt system house Heer GmbH, realized this by using eneo Zelaris IP.  The system application...