Security System for a New Millennium
Millennium Park, located in downtown Chicago, is a 24-plus-acre park that includes world-class art, music, architecture and landscape design. Opened in...
Video In A Networked World
By JACQUELINE EMIGH
In late November, 18-year-old Ryan Cushing of Huntington, N.Y., threw a 20-pound turkey through the rear window of a car he was riding in, critically...
DON'T MESS With This Texas Bank
At 11:42 a.m. on Dec. 5, 2003, a man dressed in dark pants, a white shirt, black gloves and a black mask walked into Citizens National Bank (CNB) in Mount...
Port of Palm Beach Plans Surveillance
Handling more than 200,000 passengers annually and more than 4 million tons of cargo per year, the Port of Palm Beach (Fla.) is among the 25 busiest container...
Keeping Close Watch on Native Treasures
The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., the newest addition to a long list of museums operated by the Smithsonian Institution,...
City-Wide CCTV Coming to Chicago
The city of Chicago plans to deploy more than 2,000 surveillance cameras in public places that would be tied into sophisticated software to spot emergencies...
Standing Up To Abuse
By Randy Southerland
The DeSoto Juvenile Detention facility near Arcadia, Fla. a campus of 14 buildings was originally constructed for the U.S. Air Force. It has served as...
Galveston Port Turns to Networked Video
The Port of Galveston in Texas plans to enhance the security of its container facilities, passenger terminals and perimeter with a networked video system...
IN THE VIDEO?
THE SCENE Our story begins in a warm and muggy stairwell at the Kent County Courthouse in Chestertown, Md. Part of the courthouse dates back to 1860,...
Wimbledon Serves Up Surveillance
This year's Wimbledon Tennis Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club produced a couple of exciting finishes, a full day's action...
CCTV: IT'S EVERYWHERE
Scientists are using surveillance tape from atop a Pasco, Wash., casino to study what was believed to be a meteor shower that lit up the western sky on...
Getting It There
By Michael Fickes
Closed circuit television (CCTV) systems have typically used copper coaxial cable to transmit video signals from cameras to control devices and monitors....
Security never tasted So sweet
By CORRINA STELLITANO
Located in the outskirts of Hershey, Pa., is Hershey Park, the Sweetest Place on Earth made even sweeter by the technology and manpower that keep its...
Video In Defense Of School Children
Television viewers across the nation recoiled in horror this February when news programs repeatedly showed video from a school bus surveillance system...
Florida town turns to public CCTV
New technology will soon track drivers who pass by waterfront mansions in Manalapan, Fla., checking their backgrounds to find wanted criminals and following...
Surveillance system deals blow to school vandals
Council Bluffs Community School District, a 21-school system comprised of grade schools, junior highs and high schools in Council Bluff, Iowa, recently...
Quiet Coverage
By Corrina Stellitano
A library may not seem like an edgy or sophisticated security application. Its residents are confined to shelves; its visitors rarely tend to be threatening...
Scientists turn to CCTV at Yellowstone Park
Wildlife biologists at Yellowstone National Park have 2.2 million acres to monitor. Their assignments, which in the past have included roughing it by...
Bank Sees Digital Dividends
Liberty Bank and Trust serves more than 40,000 customers at 10 locations in Louisiana and one in Mississippi. Large customers include American Express,...
Bus Beating Prompts School's Call For CCTV
Duval County (Fla.) Schools Superintendent John Fryer wants CCTV security cameras installed on all school buses after several Landon Middle School students...
Dealership's DVR System is No Lemon
With nearly $15 million in inventory sitting on the Allen Samuels Chevrolet lot in Waco, Texas, at any given time, one might assume that the car dealership's...
Ensuring Security Success for Aetna
Aetna Inc. is a world-class healthcare and life insurance company, but when it came to their access control and security requirements, they previously...
Focused on the Bottom Line
Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa is the first casino hotel to be built in Atlantic City in 13 years. The $1.1-billion joint venture between Boyd Gaming Corp....
High-Stakes Monitoring
by Kate Henry
Chumash Casino Resort, Santa Ynez, Calif., has the casino business cornered in its verdant niche of the Santa Ynez Valley, about 35 miles north of Santa...
Resolution Is In the Eye of the Beholder
By Corrina Stellitano
Say vacation, and many people imagine sunny beaches or crisp white snow, but the leaders of Oklahoma's Cherokee Nation Enterprises are working to make...
