Camwatch has designed and installed a 24 camera CCTV system that is monitoring the construction of The Rushes, a brand new £30m town centre and retail leisure development in Loughborough, which will open this summer.
Main contractors Shepherd Construction Limited have had a 100 per cent success rate in either arresting or warning off potential intruders during out of hours surveillance.
The system is based on 15 static Sony rugged anti vandal dome cameras and nine fully functional PTZ Dennard domes with Sony CCD chips. It is being remotely monitored 24 hours a day by Sony SAIF installation company Camwatch Monitoring from its central station in Sheffield.
The system also features duplex audio facilities, with all the camera images transmitted back to the central station through Controlware-VAS2800 video alarm system linked to DM DigiSprite recorders. All incidents on site are triggered by a series of Redwall detection sensors located around the perimeter of the construction site.
The Rushes development, measuring approximately 200,900 sq ft, is a complex "L" shaped inner city site, which eventually will include an underground car park providing 434 car parking spaces, 16 retail units, a health and fitness club with an indoor swimming pool, theme clubs, bars and restaurants and 33 one and two bed roomed residential apartments.
The system provides Shepherd with the facility to monitor the movement of vehicles and materials throughout the site, as well as ensuring correct Health and Safety procedures are undertaken.
According to Shepherd, the system has already paid for itself. Site Manager, Malcolm King said: "All the out of hours incidents have been 100 per cent resolved with the perpetrators being either successfully warned off or arrested on site. Such has been the effectiveness of the monitoring by Camwatch that we have benefited from a total reduction in actual criminal damage, fully justifying the decision to monitor the site 24 hours a day."
In most instances, out of hours trespassers have been either warned off or arrested.
Goods protected at source
ADT Fire and Security teamed up with ASDA to introduce Source Protection, where adhesive security labels are installed before goods leave the manufacturing base.
Although ASDA's parent group, Wal-Mart has had successful results from Source Protection in the USA for many years, it has become the first UK supermarket chain to invest in the system to combat theft losses.
The small security labels can be activated and deactivated in-store as many times as necessary. They are designed to work in conjunction with Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) systems, such as security exit pedestals, so when a tagged item is taken through without having been deactivated, an alarm will sound.
Because the labels are affixed to packaging at the point of manufacture, the customers and the retailers' employees do not know where, or whether, a security label is attached to a product.
ASDA has rolled out a new deactivation system to all of its 258 stores, nationwide. When goods are swiped for purchase the alarming label is also automatically deactivated, becoming unrecognisable to the security pedestal at the exit doors.
ADT Source Tagging manager, Kate Gilley, is now working full time at the ASDA headquarters in Leeds, liaising with ASDA's suppliers and buyers, in order to maximise the potential benefits of the system.
She said: "Source Protection technology is a breakthrough for the grocery retail industry, as it will fully protect high value goods, such as perfumes, electrical items, health and beauty items and alcohol, while enabling them to be openly merchandised for customers to handle.
"We've found that installing EAS to a previously unsecured environment can reduce shrinkage by up to 50 per cent. When coupling EAS with Source Protection, the potential exists to reduce shrinkage by a further 20-30 per cent."
Terminal site secured
CEM Systems, a business unit of Tyco Fire & Security supplied the access control system for the Terminal 5(T5) construction site at Heathrow Airport. The company worked closely with Heathrow Airport and their local dealer Beacon Security to ensure the best solution was provided.
T5, one of the largest construction projects undertaken by BAA will consist of a main terminal building, satellites and aircraft stands, covering an area of 260 hectares – nearly one quarter of the area currently occupied by Heathrow.
With the construction project lasting five years at a cost of around £2.7 billion, securing the construction site, which is located within the existing airport perimeter, was of paramount importance.
CEM's AC2000 Standard Edition system (AC2000 SE) is controlling access to the site during construction.
"Securing such a vast construction site with many thousands of workers provided a number of unusual challenges which most conventional access control systems would not have met," said Maggi Chesney, Director of AC2000 at CEM.
The solution includes Automatic Vehicle Identification using CEM S600 readers to control and monitor the movement of vehicles and more than 80 CEM EtherProx(tm) card readers to control the movement of personnel within the site.
A special portable version of the EtherProx card reader provides access control on non-fixed locations such as buses that carry workers to and from the site.
Night spot protected
The nigthtclub, bar and restaurant chain Tiger Tiger is benefiting from an advanced CCTV system at one of its latest venues, at Newcastle upon Tyne.
Installed by Devon-based AC Systems and sourced exclusively from Norbain SD, the digital system comprises Ultrak domes, Vista domes, cameras and monitors, and two Vista Triplex Columbus Digital Video Recorders.
The Newcastle venue, set out over three floors, comprises six bars, two dance floors and a restaurant. Individually designed rooms and musical styles include the laid-back Lounge Bar, funky Kaz Bar, contemporary restaurant and up-beat Club.
"A nightclub environment requires that the CCTV installation is very discreet but highly effective," said Ian Lusty of AC Systems.
"To achieve this in the Newcastle venue we recommended a combination of high quality domes, that can capture quality images in challenging and varying light conditions, and digital recording based upon the Vista Columbus Triplex DVR (pictured).
This unit can record, view and playback images simultaneously – much valued in a nightclub environment where it is important to monitor several groups of people in different parts of the venue at the same time.
Access to top cars
Maranello Concessionaires Ltd – the importer for Ferrari and Maserati cars in the UK – and Maranello Sales Ltd are using Bewator products to upgrade security at their premises in Egham, Surrey.
Ascot-based Index Security secured 32 external and internal doors at the site with Bewator proximity readers, together with three hands-free readers at vehicle barriers. The whole system is controlled by Bewator's Granta for Windows which operates on its own high security data cabled access control network.
Paul Raybould of Index said: "The HF100 hands-free reader speeds access at vehicle points as there is no need for the driver to wind down the window to operate the barrier".
The programme of work follows a similar contract for Aston Martin in Milton Keynes where DLS Alarms installed an extensive Bewator security system via Enterprise Security Distribution.
Prestige offices monitored
Camwatch has installed a state of the art monitored CCTV system for S1 St James, a prestigious 14-storey landmark building set in the heart of Sheffield City Centre.
Camwatch has installed 36 Sony ExWave colour cameras for internal surveillance, as well as the latest SNC RZ30 IP camera. These are linked by IP transmission equipment to Camwatch's central monitoring station elsewhere within the City of Sheffield.
Also in the control room at S1 St James are three Sony HSR digital recorders and three Sony colour monitors. Externally a number of Dennard domes linked to a series of Redwall detectors monitor the exterior of the building and the car park.
Following extensive refurbishment, S1 St James provides quality office suites in the heart of Sheffield City Centre with modern state of the art specification and technology for its occupants. As part of the service available to occupants, Camwatch Monitoring provides a 24/7 remote CCTV surveillance service for tenants within this recently refurbished office building.
CCTV on track
A special train, said to be unique in Europe, uses CCTV to improve safety on the Italian rail network. The diagnostic train, Archimede is a computer on track that from May 2002 started travelling along the railway checking track and overhead lines.
Mer Mec, the manufacturer, installed a Videotec NXPTH pan & tilt with a NXM camera housing. Constructed in high quality steel, the Videotec products are said to guarantee high reliability and resistance to harsh and severe environments.
Cables run between hotels
Perth based Scottish Communica-tion Systems (SCS) has been working with the Hilton group of Hotels on increased security, installing a range of CCTV and digital systems.
The Hilton Aviemore's sister hotel, the Aviemore Inn closes for the winter causing some security concerns. The Hilton Aviemore was, therefore, seeking a way of being able to monitor the Aviemore Inn remotely.
SCS has successfully achieved this using existing communication cabling that runs between the two hotels. Thirteen digital cameras have been set up in the Aviemore Inn as well as an intruder alarm system and all are monitored from the Aviemore Hilton.
Meanwhile, the Hilton Dunkeld House also had no security system in the main part of the hotel. SCS have now installed five cameras, designed to monitor the comings and goings of the hotel.
Security with economy
Expensive cabling was avoided when Evolution (Electronic Security Systems) designed and installed a security system at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton.
Evolution designed the new system around seven of Geutebrück's Multiscope II digital video recorders networked on the hospital's existing 1Gb WAN – a solution which avoided expensive cabling, supports near real-time video transmission, and provides both local control and central management. The use of an existing computer network combined with the latest technology was key to producing a flexible and effective hospital security system at an acceptable price.
The 834-bed hospital has a number of specific requirements. Staff need to be able to track individuals along corridors and across the public areas throughout their large site, which includes 20 different departments as well as car parks vulnerable to petty crime. Besides a central control desk for monitoring and managing the whole system, seven areas require their own local recording and monitoring facilities. The control desk is easy to move, and the system is open to expansion.
"Trying to design a solution that met all the requirements yet fell within the budget made the project an interesting challenge,"said Russell FitzRagan, Evolution's project director.
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