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Bosch integrated wireless CCTV and communications system for Leicestershire County Cricket Club
posted on 23/11/2009

Leicestershire County Cricket Club's Grace Road is a 6,500 capacity ground, which hosts all formats of the game at county level. It features two main buildings on opposite sides of the pitch; one of which houses the club’s offices, hospitality areas and changing rooms, with the other home to the media centre and the Mike Turner Cricket Centre, an indoor cricket school. When Leicestershire County Cricket Club was looking for an upgrade to its existing CCTV system, it turned to local fire and security specialist Squirealarms Limited. Squirealarms designed, commissioned and installed an integrated wireless CCTV and communications system for the club’s Grace Road ground, featuring advanced CCTV and PA technology from Bosch Security Systems. For many years, security at the ground was served by a basic CCTV system linked to VHS tapes. In order to meet ECB and Police requirements, an upgrade to the system was needed, as Phil Atkinson, Operations & Compliance Manager, Leicestershire County Cr... [more]

VeriLocation GPS tracking system helps protect Ambulance GB staff and patients
posted on 23/11/2009

Ambulance (GB) Limited is a national company based in Birmingham and offers private ambulance service to all types of event, the NHS and private clients. Ambulances run by the company are being fitted with GPS tracking systems that will help protect staff and patients. Ambulance (GB) Limited has started using a tracking and auditing system from GPS tracking company VeriLocation. It tracks the exact position of the vehicles in real time and allows managers to view the locations on any computer connected to the internet. VeriLocation has also adapted its fleet tracking system VL-Fleet to log other essential information. Andrew Overton, Managing Director of VeriLocation, said: “The GPS unit registers the location of the vehicle, and sends the information back to the central computer every second using the mobile phone data networks. It has been adapted to know when the vehicle’s blue lights are switched on. This information is essential for the company to prove the blue lights are being ... [more]

ATEME secures the barracks of the French National Gendarmerie in Corsica
posted on 20/11/2009

ATEME has been chosen by NextiraOne and the French National Gendarmerie to supply encoding solutions including transmission, recording and transcoding for a project to secure the barracks of the Gendarmerie in Corsica. "NextiraOne and ATEME won a request for tender for the protection of police quarters in Corsica. 3 of the 20 barracks equipped were targeted by an attack in 2009. The night images retrieved by the investigators provided relevant usable information in each incident. The solution of transferring real-time video images transmits over the secure network the gendarmerie towards the operational rooms. The quality of the image compression allows us to cross encryption and firewalls while preserving the control of the bandwidth ", say the officers responsible for the project within the division of Telecommunications and IT Department of the French National Gendarmerie The solution proposed by ATEME, is constituted by multi-stream encoders (SyLON VSIP4) and network recorders (Sy... [more]

IndigoVision releases Video Wall software for low-cost professional control room video walls
posted on 17/11/2009

IndigoVision has released Video Wall software that allows professional fully-featured IP-CCTV control room video walls to be built to any size, at a fraction of the cost of other dedicated display products. Based on ‘Control Center’, the company’s Security Management Software, video walls can be constructed with complete scalability using any PC monitor type (CRT, LCD and plasma), with standard or High Definition wide-screen format. The video wall is driven using slave ‘Control Center’ workstations, each of which manages up to 4 monitors. Up to 98 slaves can be controlled over the IP network from an unlimited number of master ‘Control Center’ workstations. Each monitor can display up to 25 video panes, allowing video walls with up to 9,800 panes to be constructed. On large sites multiple video walls can be deployed in different control rooms, all accessing the same video from any camera or Network Video Recorder (NVR), no matter where they are located. This can only be achieved becaus... [more]

CCTV system combats vandalism and theft at Goodwood Festival of Speed
posted on 17/11/2009

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is an annual hill climb featuring historic motor racing vehicles, held in the grounds of Goodwood House, West Sussex, England. It was started in 1993 by the present Earl of March in order to bring motor racing back to the Goodwood estate - a location steeped in British motor racing history. Shortly after taking over the estate in the early nineties, Lord March wanted to bring back motor racing to Goodwood Circuit, but did not have the necessary permit to host a race there. Therefore he instead hosted it in his own front garden. Visitors are drawn to watch cars and motorbikes from over 100 years of motor racing history climb the famous Goodwood hill, including several of the latest Formula One machines. Since the early days, which received tens of thousands visitors over the weekend, the Festival has grown to attracting around 150,000 visitors over the three days it is held. This year attracted the second highest Festival attendance ever ­ as fans came to ca... [more]

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