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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
DIGITAL JACKPOT
By CORRINA STELLITANO
The security market abounds with digital solutions for casino surveillance applications. The scope of these solutions range from stand-alone digital recorders...
Security In The Fast (Food) Lane
By JO'EL ROTH
The U.S. restaurant industry employs an estimated 11.6 million people, according to the National Restaurant Industry 2002 Pocket Fact Book, making it...
From Time-Lapse To Digital
Exel Corp's one-million-square-foot Technology Facility in Houston has implemented a NiceVision Pro digital video recording system. Our previous CCTV...
All Eyes And Ears On Public Transit
By KATE HENRY
These days, people in transit via foot, car, bus or train more often than not have a lot on their minds places to go, people to see and schedules to maintain....
Security Meets The Victorian Era
When a 140-year-old Victorian gothic building needs an updated security system, aesthetics can be as important as the system itself. King's College, a...
Video Storage & Retrieval
Digital Video Recorder 18-, 16- and 32-channel configurations The recorder offers up to 240 pictures-per-second recording, up to 960GB on-board storage...
Modern Art Museum Saves Time, Money With Digital System Upgrade
When the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles landed its most lucrative exhibit to date, it had to enhance its protection. A camera system upgrade...
A Tale of Two Campuses
Sage Colleges in New York have installed digital CCTV equipment from GE Interlogix's Kalatel division, Corvallis, Ore., at their Albany and Troy campuses....
