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Visimetrics' FASTAR resolves gaming disputes quickly at Napoleons Casinos(07/06/2011)
Visimetrics have announced they provided their FASTAR CCTV recording solution to A&S Leisure's Napoleons chain of casinos in Sheffield, Leeds, Hull and Bradford. By far the core of FASTAR's daily usage is in resolving gaming disputes quickly. While the need for high quality video is obvious it's the audio content and quality that becomes essential in these circumstances and is often the deciding factor in closing disputes satisfactorily. Operational Director of A&S Leisure Group, Mark Allen, ... [more]
Visimetrics digital video recording and storage solution deployed by West Midlands Police Force(19/04/2011)
Visimetrics Ltd has delivered an integrated solution based on its FASTAR Digital Video Recorder for 23 police custody suites for West Midland Police (WMP) - England's second largest police force. The solution encompasses more than 1,000 cameras and 116 FASTAR Encoders working in association with RAID Array mass storage systems. The entire solution contains a massive 1,400 TB (1.4 Petabytes!), of RAID6 protected storage. Visimetrics network based health monitoring system continually checks enc... [more]
Visimetrics' FASTAR CCTV recording solution deployed at MOD's firing range(08/04/2011)
Visimetrics' FASTAR CCTV recording solution has been deployed at the MOD's Eskmeals Weapons and Equipment Firing range. Managing Director of Systems Integrator Racam Security & Communications, Brian Maguire, explains the concept of the solution; "This was more of a challenge than the majority of video recording applications we see. We're using Visimetrics' FASTAR DVR to record the positional output from the PTZ receivers directly with the video. There are three CCTV cameras used to identify o... [more]
Visimetrics FASTAR DVRs provide continuous surveillance across Standard Life's property estate(10/05/2010)
Standard Life has a significant estate of managed properties within the UK, including prestigious office locations such as London’s iconic Gherkin building. Visimetrics FASTAR Digital Video Recorders have been chosen by Standard Life to provide continuous surveillance across their property estate. FASTAR is a key component of a comprehensive package of measures to ensure the safety and security of staff, customers and data and enables Standard Life to store high quality images locally while ... [more]
Visimetrics digital recording system reduces crime and the fear of crime on West Coast Main Line(01/07/2008)
The national rail network effectively categorises each station depending on its use, footfall and importance to the network. With a variety of recording profiles required across the network a fully flexible system design to optimise the image quality, recording rates and storage periods of each station was required. Visimetrics have recently provided the digital recording solution for the CCTV upgrade of the West Coast Main Line’s 17 stations operated by Virgin Trains. The recording solutio... [more]
London Club sites use Visimetrics Digital Video Recorders(13/08/2007)
Visimetrics Digital Video Recorders have been selected for the £15m refurbishment of the 55000 sq ft Casino at The Empire in London. Installed by London Clubs own Technical Security Department, the new surveillance system utilises the Visimetrics FASTAR Real Time MPEG2 DVR for all gaming, reception and cash handling areas. Recording from the perimeter cameras is handled by the VADER High Speed Time Lapse DVR. Both machines use the robust Linux operating system and offer 8 channels of Audi... [more]
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