Video Surveillance Archive
Who? What? When? Where? Why?
By Paul C. Boucherle
Advances in digital technology within the security industry are driving today's convergence mania. For example, options abound in security video surveillance,...
Taking No Risks
Located in the mountains just east of Grand Ronde, Ore., Spirit Mountain Casino is a premier gaming, entertainment, meeting, dining and shopping destination...
Route 66 Casino Realizes Benefits From Physical Security System
Laguna Development Corp.'s Route 66 Casino, a nostalgia-themed casino near Alberquerque, N.M., that offers 1,600 slot and video poker machines, 26 table...
A Tall Tail
By Stephanie Silk
The various cameras currently monitoring Lake Storsjn, a 300-foot-deep lake in Jmtland, Sweden, use video analytics to watch for Storsjodjuret, or the...
Combining Luxury and Security
By Stephanie Silk
Shoppers go there to spend. Residents go there to sleep. Kids go there to play. Tourists go there to ogle. The Americana at Brand is a new mixed-use development...
Driving Up Security
A dramatic rise in theft and vandalism is costing car dealerships worldwide huge amounts in damages and increased insurance premiums. The Nick Whale BMW...
CCTV
Look Both Ways
By Stephanie Silk
Even with thousands of raging fans and several roaring engines, there was still room for security at last April's 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Phoenix...
Video Surveillance By The Book
A free, online book offers security managers a guide to video surveillance technologies and products. Security Manager's Guide to Video Surveillance is...
No Need To Compromise
By Raul Calderon
H.264 compression of megapixel surveillance cameras may be the most important advancement in IP camera technology since IP cameras were first introduced....
The Architecture of Analytics
By Chris Johnston
At the point of its introduction in the last decade and even as recently as three years ago, video analytics existed mainly in government-related installations...
Florissant Police Department Updates Facilities With Intelligent Video Systems
The Florissant Police Department in Florissant, Mo., a community that ranks among the safest cities in America within the population range of 50,000 -...
Mission Accomplished at San Diego's Mission Beach
While network-based security and surveillance applications are becoming more common, the range of benefits from the implementation of IP technology in...
The Inside Scoop on H.264
By Fredrik Nilsson
H.264 is a new video compression standard that offers end-users many advantages and far fewer disadvantages than previous standards. Some say that within...
A Hybrid Solution
As the provider of choice for the greater community of Scottsdale, Ariz., Scottsdale Healthcare's mission is to identify and provide exceptional health...
Texas Hospital Deploys Analytics For Emergency Room
Texas Hospital Deploys Analytics For Emergency Room Video analytics ensures round-the-clock operation and security at the emergency room of a Texas hospital....
Long Beach Schools Install High-Resolution Video Surveillance
Long Beach High School in Lido Beach, N.Y., has completed phase one of a district-wide initiative to implement a scalable security management platform...
Working Together
Three suppliers of IP video technologies Axis Communications, Bosch Security Systems and Sony Corp. will cooperate to create an open forum aimed at developing...
Enabling HD
By Stephanie Silk
The Chumash Casino Resort, a 200,000-square-foot hotel and casino complex located in Santa Ynez, Calif., a city 35 miles north of Santa Barbara, offers...
Video Surveillance Deployed At One Casino, Upgraded At Another
The Gold River Casino in Anadarko, Okla., owned by the Apache Nation, has deployed the Latitude Network Video Management System (NVMS) from DVTel Inc.,...
A Central Structure
BY STEPHANIE SILK
The Pointe-de-I'ile School Board in Montreal includes 70 buildings, a student population of 29,000 children and 9,000 adults annually and a staff of 4,500...
Documented Results
Before installing a video surveillance system, administrators at Penn Manor High School, Millersville, Pa., and the school's full-time resource officer...
Putting Video To The Test
Video has long played an essential security role as the Fort Smith Public Schools (FSPS), Fort Smith, Ark., cope with incidents such as vandalism, theft...
Keep the Presses Rolling
By Wendy Revell
Every day, more than a million Denver-area readers count on the latest issue of the Rocky Mountain News or the Denver Post for news and information. When...
Where ON THE NETWORK?
By Ashley Roe and Stephanie Silk
The last few years have seen a shift in how video analytics technology is viewed in the security marketplace. Simply stated, the shift has been from does...
