Suit of Armor
BY TOM PATRICK MCAULIFFE
As CCTV surveillance technology has improved, so have the enclosures that protect the cameras from vandals, criminals and prying eyes. Domes and enclosures...
Bet On Being Watched
Following state approval as a digital recording system for Blackjack game surveillance, the Intellex digital video management system from American Dynamics,...
EYE ON TRIBAL GAMING
321 Total Number of U.S. TribalGaming Operations 29 Total Number of U.S. States With Tribal Gaming Operations $12.7 Billion U.S. Tribal Gaming Revenue...
Centralized Surveillance On Minneapolis' Perimeter
By KATE HENRY
Minneapolis' Transportation and Parking Services is a municipal operation that encompasses 22 structured parking garages and nine surface lots with about...
Cameras Help Foil Terrorists
Unrest in Saudi Arabia, culminating most recently in several mid-May suicide bombing attacks on foreign housing compounds in Riyadh, has spurred a search...
Technology At What Cost?
By CHARLIE PIERCE
Polls tell us that individuals are not only willing to give up pieces of their privacy for the sake of feeling more secure, they embrace the idea. However,...
Security On The Move
By CORRINA STELLITANO
Every weekday, more than 14 million Americans board public transportation vehicles. According to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA),...
CCTV Puts Crime On The Run In Newburgh, N.Y.
Not too long ago the streets outside the Lander Street Apartments in Newburgh, N.Y., were infested with crime. Today, a CCTV surveillance system has made...
CCTV In Oregon Museum Hits The Mark
Located on the east side of the Willamette River in downtown Portland is the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, one of the top-ten science centers...
Surveillance By The Sea
Florida's Port Canaveral, the second busiest cruise port in the world, has selected an automated video surveillance system from Guardian Solutions, Bradenton,...
Order in the Food Court
By KATE HENRY
In a flood of anonymity, people stream across food courts every day in a seemingly ceaseless flow of noise, jockeying and general hubbub. Food courts...
Faith, Hope and Surveillance
By JO'EL ROTH
Dale Walters is director of security for the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif. He oversees a 35-member security team that welcomes more than a...
Water Authority Connects With Digital Video
The South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority in New Haven supplies water to approximately 400,000 residents in 12 cities and towns in and around...
Banking On Quiet Surveillance
The 48-story BankOne Tower in Indianapolis, the tallest building in Indiana, has selected surveillance and monitoring consoles from Middle Atlantic Products,...
San Diego Convention Center Combines Analog And Digital Technologies
BY JO'EL ROTH
For more than two years, a team of designers and builders scrambled day and night to complete the $216 million renovation of the San Diego Convention...
Eyes On The Bridges
New York City's Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority (TBTA) has tightened security in and around New York City with the help of video surveillance systems....
ANCIENT artifacts, MODERN technologies
By Randy Southerland
From serious researchers to wide-eyed school children, a total of 4.5 million visitors make their way through New York City's American Museum of Natural...
Security Systems Turn Up The Heat
By MICHAEL FICKES
The $8 billion Fortune 500 SCANA Corp. has begun to integrate the controls of its company-wide building security systems, fire safety systems, and heating,...
A Texas-Sized Tower
By KATE HENRY
The Renaissance Tower in Dallas is a gleaming tower of commerce whose exterior reflects, along with the blue sky and hot Texas sun, the hustle and bustle...
Cameras Help Keep Kids Safe
Edwardsville Community Schools District 7 has chosen a networked video surveillance system from DVTel, Paramus, N.J., to monitor the district's 12 schools...
Broadcast Security
Michael Fickes
Closed-circuit television (CCTV) may soon rid itself of wires. From remote camera locations to monitoring stations, the aim is to broadcast video signals...
Faces In The Crowd
Michael Fickes
In a test conducted for the Virginia Beach Police Department during the summer of 2002, facial recognition software found and matched faces in a crowd...
Watching Grizzly Bears Hibernate
Orphaned grizzly bears at the Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife in North Vancouver, B.C., are being monitored with a video security system...
Horizon Gives Big Banks A Run For Their Money
By KATE HENRY
Increasingly rare and therefore all the more valuable, Horizon Bank, Pembroke Pines, Fla., was chartered in 1999 to serve as an independent, local bank...
Wrecks, Lies & Video Tape
By Lindsay Isaacs
We're in the money! A few years ago, a passenger on a Broward County (Fla.) Transit (BCT) bus belted out that Depression-era tune following a minor crash...
