Monitoring The Halls
By Carol Carey
IN RECENT YEARS, safety and security issues have been front and center at many of the nation's colleges and universities. Security issues are magnified...
N.Y. COURTS TURN TO IP VIDEO SURVEILLANCE
The New York State Unified Court System has put the finishing touches on a network of more than 350 IP video surveillance cameras. The cameras will monitor...
Technology Stretch
JUST A FEW SHORT YEARS AGO Kaukauna Utilities, a provider of electrical power and drinking water in Kaukauna, Wis., had one camera. The single camera...
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF ILLINOIS PORTS
The Illinois International Port District has selected Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., Buffalo Grove, Ill., to provide perimeter surveillance security...
Divide and Monitor
By Erin Semple
Lebanon High School is home to 1,380 students in Lebanon, Ore. a bedroom community to nearby Corvallis and Albany. Although the school is nestled in a...
HOSPITAL INTEGRATES ACCESS AND VIDEO
Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., recently opened a new Cancer Treatment Center and was faced with the challenge of protecting its facility,...
Prestigious Protection
By Carol Carey
With 34,933 students and 12,112 employees, the University of Maryland at College Park is one of the largest and most prestigious institutions of higher...
HEAVY SURVEILLANCE ON THE LIGHT RAILS
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in California has decided to install video surveillance systems on 80 light rail vehicles after...
The Struggle Over VIDEO BANDWIDTH
By Michael Fickes
Today, somewhere in corporate America, a CEO is dressing down a chief information officer (CIO) because it just took the CEO five minutes to send an e-mail...
On Location
Between 2000 and 2001, the Spring ISD (Independent School District) Child Nutrition Department in Texas installed cameras and VCRs into half of the elementary...
A Picture of Health
By Corrina Stellitano
This May, Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., introduced a new CT scanner capable of creating a three-dimensional picture of a patient's heart...
ProacTive Upgrades
There are more than 1,000 independent school districts (ISDs) in Texas. Security officers do not have arrest powers in Texas, and city law enforcement...
VIDEO SURVEILLANCE GETS BIG VEGAS WYNN
Another fabulous resort hotel casting its new shadow on the Las Vegas strip means more surveillance. The new Wynn Las Vegas casino and hotel, which opened...
Clinical PROGRESSION
By Erin Semple
Connecting satellite buildings to the main campus at the Mayo Clinic involves new technology to meet security demands. The satellite buildings are located...
CAMERA SYSTEMS CONNECT STORES
Lakeland Limited, a U.K.-based retailer of kitchenware and other home products, has installed video surveillance cameras at more than 30 sites. Nearly...
FIRST AND GOAL
BY RANDY SOUTHERLAND
On any given Sunday, the roar of nearly 69,000 voices cheering as one rises up from the cavernous expanses of Titans Coliseum, home of the NFL's Tennessee...
IP Video Solves Schools' Compatibility Issues
The Ramapo and Indian Hills school districts in New Jersey have installed more than 140 cameras at the two high school campuses. However, like many school...
DIGITAL VIDEO KEEPS AN EYE ON THE GAMES AT BALLY'S
Caesars Entertainment Inc. has received approval from New Jersey regulators to install the state's first all-digital, video recording system for gaming...
HI-DEF SURVEILLANCE
By MICHAEL FICKES
Roger Norman, owner and manager of the Crystal Bay Club and Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nev., and a self-described technology junky, was looking for better...
Super Security, Successful Game
The City of Jacksonville, Fla., attracted more than 150,000 visitors in early February for the Super Bowl. And as the parties rolled into Super Sunday,...
VIDEO'S (R)EVOLUTION
BY JAMES GOMPERS
Beware of technology overload. Analog, digital, integrated, converged, artificial intelligence, mega-pixels, compression, advanced imaging, TCP/IP keeping...
Eyes On the Transactions
By Randy Southerland
A woman walks into a bank and up to a teller. She is clearly upset. Speaking quickly, she begins telling a bank official that someone stole her ATM card...
Smoky Mountain Casino Goes Digital
As part of an ambitious expansion and renovation program, Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina has installed...
Riding High With Video Surveillance
More than 10 buildings at the Lawrenceville, N.J., campus of Rider University now feature advanced digital video surveillance systems from North American...
Securing a Historical Treasure
Approaching the entrance to Missouri's newly remodeled Kansas City Central Library, one is struck with awe at its grandeur. Built in 1904, the former...
