French retail chain Hyper U is using an access control solution from ACT at one of its largest stores, a 20,000-square-metre property with 200 full-time personnel at the western town ofSavenayin the Loire Estuary. The integrator is 2ACOM who have installed the equipment in two phases after the end-user found the ACT solution to be robust, reliable and with the functionality needed to both secure the site and improve logistics [...]
Sicura Systems, with their technology partner CBC Europe Ltd, have designed and implemented a video analytics and laser-based perimeter protection system at the Central Jail of Nicosia. The project uses behavioural algorithms as a first line of validation to alert staff to unusual or unexpected activity. Additionally, it integrates with laser scanners to trigger the IP pan/tilt/zoom cameras to follow threats around the site. The system was installed by Wave [...]
Meridian Surveillance Systems are securing the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton with door controllers, proximity readers and management software from Access Control Technology (ACT) as part of an IP-addressable system. The Royal Sussex County Hospital provides general, specialist and tertiary services as part of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH) which is an acute teaching hospital working across two sites in Brighton and Haywards Heath. The Trust treats three [...]
Vital Technology have developed Xtend, a mobile rapid deployment CCTV and onboard video analytics tower system which provides surveillance and intelligent scene analysis at locations that are proving vulnerable to theft, trespass and vandalism. Purpose-built to cope with difficult terrain and weather conditions, this ruggedised solution incorporates a hydraulic mast (extendable to nine metres) and 360° rotation tower housed in a trailer base unit with an environmentally-friendly 3000rpm generator. Xtend [...]
The recent success story of McLaren and driver Lewis Hamilton at the Circuit of The Americas (COTA) inaugural Formula 1 GP in Austin Texas, has been facilitated by advanced Race Management Control (RMC) software designed and installed by British company, Sicura Systems Ltd. Following on from the successful implementation of a Sicura Systems solution earlier in the F1 season for the British 2012 GP at Silverstone, the Vital Technology Group [...]
The University of Portsmouth is using transom door closers from Alpro Architectural Hardware at its Guildhall campus. Alpro’s overhead transom closers are a means of hydraulically controlling the opening and closing of aluminium doors and can have light, medium or heavy spring strengths to suit type of usage, with a 90 degree hold-open option. The university is using the devices at its building entrances on Guildhall Walk. Transom closers are [...]
Access Control Technology (ACT) have released ACTentry V-IP, a ‘virtual receptionist’ solution. ACTentry V-IP allows any staff member on a computer network to receive video and audio over IP directly to their computer in order to screen visitors at a building entrance and then grant or deny them access. The product frees up staff who might otherwise perform only occasional reception duties and be unoccupied for long periods so that [...]
There is a saying in the cyberworld which goes “Love your neighbors and steal his internet connection.” This is an old but true saying in all of the internet users worldwide. Everybody wants to have a piece of everything for free. The truth is we want to have an unlimited access to the internet whether it’s a paid connection or not. However, there is a great deal in using a [...]
Standard Chartered Bank in Kenya relies on video security by Dallmeier. In addition to the headquarters in Nairobi, numerous bank branches and ATMs have been equipped with the German manufacturer’s technology. Currently, around 500 cameras installed throughout the entire country are monitored at the central security room in Nairobi. Standard Chartered Bank has been active in the world’s most dynamic markets for more than 150 years and is traded on [...]
Vital Technology has designed and installed a data communications network at the €752m Dublin Port Tunnel as part of a €0.5m contract. The project has given the client, Egis Road & Tunnel Operation Ireland (ERTO), a scalable, resilient, fault-tolerant system with dual redundancy across data networking and SCADA subsystems. The network uses Cisco components and manages a broad range of subsystems including CCTV surveillance from Bosch whose analogue cameras are [...]
