Video On The Docket
By Stephanie Silk
Rose Stone was knocked down in the doorway of a Marriott Hotel in Manhattan because the hotel's interior automatic doors closed on her. Miranda Shadday...
A View of the Future
By Stephanie Silk
The Surveillance Studies Network, a group of British academics, have come out with a study entitled A Report on the Surveillance Society a look ahead...
The Value of Extra Eyes
Recently, officials at the Douglas County (Colo.) School District were faced with evacuating a high school campus following a bomb threat. The 1,700 students...
Lights, Camera, Action
Bosch Security Systems Inc., a full-line manufacturer of high-quality security solutions, has been selected by CBS Studio Center to provide video surveillance...
Focused Advice
With the various and endless features that make up a camera, finding the perfect device for a facility may seem overwhelming. Ricardo Chen, manager of...
Protecting Ports
By Mariann McDonagh
The United States is home to 361 ports that process about 6 million cargo containers every year across some 95,000 miles of shoreline. Protecting those...
Pictures Through The Air
By Michael Fickes
Terrorist attacks on mass transit vehicles in Madrid and London have led transportation authorities across the United States to seek out ways to prevent...
Balancing Man and Machine
By Marc Bognar CCP
The 20th century witnessed the most rapid change of any century so far and all because of advances in technology. Each decade brought a revolutionary...
New Security For New Developments
By Michael Fickes
Of the 3,000 or so retail shopping centers in the United States, a little more than 130 of them mix together various kinds of commercial real estate space...
Cost-Savings: Analog Vs. IP Video
Contrary to popular belief, an IP-based system of 40 cameras offers a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than an analog-based surveillance system, according...
Ringing It Up | Combatting employee theft at point-of-sale registers
By Patrick Sobalvarro
It's not widely known to outside retailers, but employee theft comprises the highest percentage of retail shrink more than that from traditional shoplifters...
Let's Go To The Video
Correctional officers at Hillsborough County Jail in Tampa, Fla., are spending a lot less time defending themselves against false accusations from inmates...
Order In The Court
Even in rural America, county courtrooms have become a dangerous place to be and to work. Increasingly, judges and court workers find themselves being...
Video Surveillance Power System - Altronix
The HubWay2I power system from Altronix provides eight 24vAC power outputs, each configurable for both AC and/or DC cameras when used with the supplier's combiners....
Technology Gets Wired
By Stephanie Silk
A large water treatment facility in Southern California has to protect a 25-million-gallon reservoir with three drinking water walls, 7 tons of chlorine...
Tech Watch
The demand for digital video storage has exploded with proliferation of the amount of digital data captured by video surveillance applications. Many users...
Scaling The Video Network
By Richard Howes
As the physical security landscape evolves, video surveillance systems are getting bigger and more complex. Enabling a surveillance system to capture...
Video Storage Cheat Sheets
RAID, SAN, DASvideo storage system terminology is like a foreign language if you are unfamiliar with the abbreviations and terms. Maybe it's time to commit...
Trusting In Digital
The Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District is similar to a lot of school systems in the United States. Money is tight, but the need for security...
One Chip Fits All
A new wave of video cameras provides highly definitive images in which each pixel is tweaked to its optimal exposure in order to clearly capture both...
A Sure Bet
After a two-year search for a video surveillance system to meet its needs, the Barona Gaming Commission, an independent regulatory body that also monitors...
At the Head of the Class
As a self-professed early adopter of new technologies, Bentonville High School (BHS) in Arkansas recognized the need for its video security surveillance...
New Products
Intruder Beware SPOTLIGHT: UltraSensor Intrusion Detection Sensor The UltraSensor intrusion detection sensor from UltraVision Security Systems provides...
Always On
By Stephanie Silk
In a world where camera phones instantly take photos and text messaging acts as a silent walkie-talkie, privacy seems out of reach. The latest feature...
Keeping an Eye on the Grand Canyon
It seems just about everything about the Grand Canyon is larger than life. Carved out of the Earth's surface some five to six million years ago and plunging...
