Gas leak detection, with a camera!

Opgal Optronic Industries, a global provider of thermal and long-range near-IR imaging solutions, released a new long-range model of its EyeCGas IR gas-imaging camera, using a 75mm lens. Utilizing its proprietary optical design, the EyeCGas IR camera enables remote inspection of potentially leaking areas by detecting and visualizing even the smallest gas leaks from hundreds of meters away. EyeCGas... Full story

Historic city in Georgia modernizes public security with Messoa cams

Situated at the foothills of the Trialeti mountain range, Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, is an ancient city founded in the fifth century. Although Tbilisi has been destroyed and rebuilt numerous times, the layout of the Old Town remains mostly intact with narrow alleys and traditional architecture, drawing tourists to this historic city.
In 2011, the municipal administration of Tbilisi kicked off a renovation project to modernize the city, especially some of the old districts. A vital part of this project was to replace the old CCTV surveillance systems with an integrated IP-based system. This 2-year project aimed to provide a more modernized, safer urban environment for its residents and the foreign visitors...more

Rio metro ensures safe travels with system upgrade from lndigoVision

Background MetroRio, Rio de Janeiro's metro system, has deployed a complete IP video surveillance system from IndigoVision to protect the 700,000 people who travel daily on its network and to allow for future extensions of the metro service.
Solution IndigoVision won the contract to replace MetroRio's ageing analogue surveillance system because of the image quality of the IndigoVision cameras, which makes for precise identification of individuals in recorded images, coupled with the flexibility of the IP system, which can be scaled up as the metro network grows...more

 

Danish bank enhances overall security with March Networks solution

March Networks announced that Danske Bank Group, Denmark's largest financial institution and a top-100 world bank, has selected the company's video management software and hybrid recorders for advanced security at its corporate facilities in Copenhagen. The upgrade expands the March Networks solution the bank is currently using in more than 150 retail banking branches across Norway and Sweden, and continues to deploy working with certified solution provider Stanley Security Solutions...more

 

Chinese auto parts group enhances work flow using Axis solution

Mission The Weichai Industrial Park had incorporated monitoring systems from different manufacturers. Thus the entire industrial park consisted of four sets of monitoring systems operating independently, causing many problems for system maintenance and expansion. The laboratories of the industrial park required a comprehensive video surveillance system, that must be able to uniformly manage the existing monitoring systems...more

 

Oklahoma casinos opt for Axis cams

As the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma began to expand its casino operations, tribal leaders realized that many of their facilities had outgrown the limitations of their existing analog surveillance technology. In looking to modernize their security system, they sought an open IP-based solution that would provide secure, evidentia?ry-quality video recordings, operate at 30 frames per second and would be easy to set up and expand without major expense or disruption of gaming activity...more

 

Making HD less of a gamble for casinos

Under current economic conditions, figuring out a cost-effective and future-proof technology migration path is not easy for any industry. “Because so many operators are still using analog, it is very difficult to integrate HD into the current infrastructure,” said Scott Paul, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Pelco by Schneider Electric. “A cost-effective means of transporting the existing analog cameras into the digital system and maintaining the existing analog system is essential. Educating and training operators to go digital and understanding the new operation is also essential.”...more