Campus environment well-served by wireless video surveillance; offers opportunities for business beyond security
When you imagine a traditional university or school campus, sprawling buildings and expansive lawns come to mind. Schools often showcase their well-manicured grounds on promotional brochures and websites as they woo prospective students.
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Almost every industry—including retail, education, hospitality, manufacturing, government, oil and gas, transportation and financial services—is working to increase operational efficiency, manage risk and improve profitability.
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What is the first thing you see in an organization’s income statement? Real estate and facilities rank among the most significant assets. However, these facilities would not be considered assets if organizations were not continually investing in and improving physical infrastructure as part of a capital project or periodic expansion.
Garonor, one of the most famous business and services center located in the Ile de France region, needed a security system to monitor its buildings, which are located between two airports, the Charles de Gaulle and Le Bourget.
Aruba Networks Inc. unveiled the Aruba AirMesh outdoor wireless solutions portfolio. Designed as a scalable and high-performance outdoor mesh network, the Layer-3 routing capabilities of all AirMesh products and the quad-radio architecture of the new flagship MSR4000 differentiate it from other outdoor mesh solutions.
4G may provide the answer for wirelessly transmitting high-definition video
Data delivery has long been the pace car in the race to faster, more-advanced security systems. In other words, no matter how snazzy and powerful your endpoint technology is, whether it’s top-tier HD megapixel cameras or state-of-the-art access control units, the way you transport data from point A to point B will more often than not determine what will work on your network. But as the world braces for faster and better cellular networks, that pace car may soon take to the skies with a full tank of rocket fuel.
Ruckus Wireless recently announced that it has teamed with Xtivity Solutions (Xtivity), a leading wireless integration, security, and information technology services firm, to provide high-speed, long-range Wi-Fi systems to the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), one of the nation's largest public housing authorities.
IMS Research recently released its prediction of hot trends in the security industry for 2011.
Mountain Secure Systems, a provider of ruggedized electronics and wireless network solutions, shipped additional SpeedLAN 9200 outdoor wireless routers this month to Avrio RMS Group, who will use them to expand coverage for the Chicago Police Department’s video surveillance system in the 4.9 GHz public safety band.
One of the many benefits of IP video surveillance technology, compared to traditional analog video equipment, is that digital video is compressed and streamed across standard Ethernet networks using IP technology. This is exactly the same protocol as used on corporate networks and the Internet. Digital video can therefore be transmitted across any broadband network connection. Combining IP video surveillance with wireless networks can provide the user with a number of significant benefits.
Using Iron Sky’s citywide surveillance solution, College Park police in Georgia recently made 20 arrests as part of a prostitution sting.
In addition to serving as host city for ASIS 2010, Dallas also provides a great testament to how security technologies can help law enforcement improve public safety and enhance emergency preparedness. A wireless surveillance system in Dallas watches over various parts of the ASIS host city, supplying the Dallas Police Department real-time video from many areas throughout throughout the city.
According to a new report from IMS Research on the market for wireless infrastructure used in video surveillance, the market was estimated to be worth around $175 million in 2009, in the Americas and EMEA regions combined. Additionally, both the EMEA and Americas markets are forecast to grow at a rate approaching 20 percent in 2010. So what is driving this growth?
Using funds from Australia’s Federal Government’s Safer Cities project, Moreton Bay Regional Council has contracted with Link Security Group to deploy the most extensive wireless IP video surveillance network in Australia, with 130 square kilometers of mesh coverage.
Security Products magazine, the only integrated product magazine reaching the entire security market, announced the winners of its 2010 New Product of the Year Award at the publication’s premiere Virtual Event today.