NTL Business Solutions has installed five standalone CCTV systems at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design. The university college specialises in art design and communications across its sites in Epsom and Farnham.
The systems protect resources such as libraries, broadcast equipment, photography studio, art and design studios plus computer equipment.
A total of 41 cameras, supplied by Norbain SD Ltd, protect the sites. Three of the systems are 24-hour monitored at the porter's lodge.
NTL used Vista VVRS 480hr Super VHS timelapse video recorders and Baxall and Vista Generation 3 multiplexers.
NTL's Account Manager for CCTV, Tony Hall, is convinced that the Vista Demonstration Van was a major factor in selling the system to the client.
"The van has been fitted with a wide selection of working Vista equipment to enable installers to conduct site surveys and show customers equipment in action. The demo van is what really sold it. They could see for themselves what images they would get."
Cornish scheme
has the right touch Essa Security Group has supplied a CCTV installation for the Cornish towns of Liskeard and Saltash.
The system is based around Essa's computer-controlled TouchView, which interfaces eight Panasonic WV-CS850 mini domes within the two town centres. The domes use super D technology and offer 22:1 optical zoom, 300-degree per second rotation to pre-sets and colour/mono switch for better low light sensitivity. Dennard housings blend in with the town character.
In the Liskeard control room, operators use touch-screen control. Camera locations and pre-set zones are displayed using simple maps to help the operator make the right selection. The operator can also access multiplexers, VCRs, printers and event recorders.
An automated timed event module allows pre-set commands to be carried out without operator involvement.
The scheme is a result of a successful bid by Caradon Community Safety Partnership to the Government's crime reduction programme.
Kent & Sussex sets a lesson in security
Kent & Sussex Security has improved pupil and staff safety at a girls' secondary school by installing a new system that combines both CCTV and access control.
The Bradbourne School, in Sevenoaks, Kent, is set in extensive, landscaped grounds and comprises a main building and a number of annexes. With 600 pupils in the daytime, and evening classes and clubs throughout the year, the school is in constant use and the challenge for K&S was to allow freedom of movement while preventing unauthorised access through the 25 external doors.
All access doors are now securely controlled and, in some instances, monitored. The main front entrance is now only accessible by intercom and all visitors must state their reason to visit.
A CCTV camera monitored in the school office also allows a visual check. Two doors are controlled by time locks that can be opened by pupils at only pre-set times (ie, between lessons) and automatically lock themselves when that time has elapsed.
Cameras cope with changes at complex
KCR (UK) Ltd has installed a 22-camera system at the Arcadian Centre, an entertainment complex in Birmingham.
The centre consists of a multi-storey car park and 45 units, such as bars, restaurants, a comedy club and a cinema.
Norbain supplied the colour system to replace an existing mono camera system. There are 11 Dennard day/night domes and 11 fixed Vista Protos day/night cameras, said to make it cost effective where high resolution daytime monitoring needs to be combined with IR sensitivity at night.
In the control room are two Vista VLM16CD multiplexers used to display images on 21in and 14in monitors. Recording is on Vista 24-hour VCRs. Also installed by KCR (UK) was a Baxall ZTX6 keyboard and JVC mini digital colour printer.
Trouble makers stopped in their tracks
Disorderly youths were regularly causing a disturbance in the outlying community of Fivemiletown, County Tyrone. Large groups were congregating in the town to drink and cause trouble.
To combat the disturbances, ADT based at Belfast has installed a system which is monitored by the RUC's Dungannon District Command Unit, allowing the police to track trouble makers. Three cameras have been installed in the town and the network is linked by fibre optic cable.
Inspector Alwin Barton of the Dungannon District Division of the RUC said: "… I am convinced that the people of the town will benefit hugely from this initiative."
Swift tightens security at 'busiest A&E'
Swift Fire and Security has installed CCTV and door entry systems at Europe's busiest hospital A&E department. The systems have been primarily installed to protect patients and staff at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
Norbain SD Ltd supplied the CCTV equipment, which covers the patients/visitor lounges and provides visual verification for the door entry equipment installed on the entrance to the ward.
The CCTV system consists of four GBC CM-600VR vandal-resistant cameras and two Vista Protos 3D cameras. The Protos cameras are said to have exceptionally high resolution (750TVL) and are controlled by Baxall equipment. Images are sent to the hospital's security control centre.
Norbain also supplied the door entry system: BPT vandal-resistant entry panels are installed at ward entrances and connected to handsets in the wards which have lock release buttons.
As well as installing the equipment, Swift provided advice on security management and provided full training on system use.
College in focus
Birmingham-based Focus Surveillance installed a wide-ranging CCTV system at Rugby College using Conway pan and tilt heads fitted with Baxall colour/mono changeover cameras. The installation also includes an internal JVC dome camera.
Images are monitored by college staff and are archived using a Hobo digital recorder. At other times, alarms and images are transmitted to a Cougar monitoring station using the Vision Systems ADPRO system.
Stately home system is state of the art
Galago Ltd, based in Croydon, Surrey, has installed a state-of-the-art surveillance system at Longleat House, the famous stately house that is home to Lord Bath and his family. A manager from Galago’s National Projects Division oversaw the design and installation of the integrated system, which guarantees protection against intrusion and vandalism. The system uses video motion detection, state-of-the-art digital hard disk recording, and ultra low light cameras. They create a day/night security curtain protecting the entire external fabric of the building. Longleat’s House Manager, Ken Windess, said Galago showed an in-depth understanding of the security requirements and “excellent” customer care. The installation went “extremely smoothly”. Plans are underway to extend the system to other areas of the estate, which houses attractions such as the safari park, Postman Pat village, exhibitions and mazes.Remote video solves haulage firm’s problem
Employment legislation meant that manned guarding was no longer a viable prospect at Fastsource, a Yorkshire-based haulage business. But the company still had to protect the haulage vehicles and large amounts of fuel stored on site. Installers, Chubb Security came up with the answer: remote video monitoring in the form of Remote Video Response (RVR). RVR, where an alarm is triggered sending real-time images to the Gloucester-based monitoring operation, has saved Fastsource money and has proved to be more effective than employing guards. The system has digitised site maps, allowing operators to interact with the site and respond quickly to alarm activations. Operators contact police with a verified alarm.Source
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