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...
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...
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...
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,...
A Vault in the OZARKS
Storage and maintenance of valuable documents and archived records is easy to take for granted. Digital storage is becoming so commonplace that little...
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...
The Top 20
The New Product of the Year Award showcases the most innovative product of the current year and recognizes the talent and commitment of the people involved...
THE Benefits OF Fiber
By Jacqueline Emigh
When thinking about security, is probably the last thing on Earth that comes to mind. Yet, ironically, in the form of fiber-optic cable, glass has formed...
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...
Bush Gets First-Hand Look at Italian Security
President George W. Bush, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and other top administration officials,...
Best Dressed Security
After 42 years as a leading producer of poultry in the Caribbean, Jamaica Broilers Group has embarked on a mission to modernize operations and increase...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Monitoring a Financial Hub
The next time you stop at an ATM machine, think of Genpass Inc., Irving, Texas, an electronic funds transfer (EFT) processing company that might be handling...
