From the largest integrated system in the southern hemisphere to the tallest building at Canary Wharf, here are some of the latest CCTV installations of which the installers are justly proud
Integration in Africa
ScandSa Integrated Security Systems in South Africa has installed one of the largest integrated access, alarm and CCTV systems in the southern hemisphere using Remsdaq's StarWatch integrated security management system at the multi-storey Carlton Centre in Johannesburg.

The StarWatch access control system has been installed throughout the complex with some 400 readers, complemented by over 250 cameras equipped with activity detection features, and linked to digital recording and storage.

The system is controlled via dual PC servers linked to four operating positions. The installation offers seamless integration with the CCTV and fire detection systems.

A good walk enhanced
Quadrant Video Systems has installed high resolution colour cameras supported by 24 hour digital recording to enhance security at the Bromsgrove Golf Centre in Worcestershire. CCTV coverage of the Bromsgrove Golf Centre's main approach road, 150 space car park, Clubhouse reception area, golf shop and golf bag drop area has been secured by the system, which provides an effective visual deterrent.

The centre attracts 300 visitors each day, and the system has been devised to prevent the theft of golf bags and clubs while keeping a watchful eye on visitors' parked vehicles.

Tried and tested
South West Communications has installed a wide range of dome cameras, multiplexers and monitors from Vicon Industries at Southampton Football Club's £32 million, 32,000 seater, Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium.

The Surveyor dome cameras monitor the concourse area at the stadium. The Surveyor 2000 model is part of a tried and tested range with design features including a drive mechanism that can be operated independently from the housing. Installers are thus able to test functionality easily prior to permanent mounting. The units also have self-learn tours that allow in-sequence editing and reverse touring, and extensive menu-based programming allows configuration to individual requirements.

The control room at the stadium has been fitted with a Vicon V1344 high density programmable control and matrix switching system from the Nova series. The matrix has been configured to accommodate 32 camera inputs and 8 monitor outputs at Southampton.

WEC decoration
WEC Group has installed 26 new CCTV camera poles in the West Yorkshire town of Pontefract, 12 of which are specially manufactured decorative poles for the town's conservation area.

The design of the WEC poles incorporated architectural ironwork to match existing street furniture. The poles have been installed to cover the inner town centre pedestrian precinct and were modified by WEC to incorporate URBIS fittings at the top of each pole.

The remaining 14 town centre CCTV poles are standard six and eight metre models and all the camera mountings are routed back to a central monitoring station giving operators a comprehensive surveillance system for the town centre car parks and pedestrian areas.

Pontefract's Home Office backed town centre CCTV screen went fully live in September this year.

Breaking the crime wave
Quadrant Video Systems has installed a 50 camera CCTV system at Brixton in South London to curb rising drug related crime. The cameras, equipped with high specification Pentax 8-120mm lenses are spread across three housing estates in the borough and along the main A23 thoroughfare that divides Brixton.

The cameras are mounted inside smoked dome housings to prevent people seeing exactly what they are looking at, at any given time. The pictures are fed back to a central monitoring station within the Works department, which is run by Team Lambeth and managed by Dave Eastoe. The control room runs around the clock providing a link between the local authority and the Metropolitan police charged with looking after the Brixton area.

Multi-disciplined project
Perimeter Security has supplied and installed CCTV, pedestrian and vehicular access control and intruder detection equipment at a multi-disciplined security project at the new site for Ernst and Young's European headquarters.

The site is divided into different areas. In the service tunnels there are 15 fixed cameras, with a further 10 high performance fully functional colour cameras covering public areas and the entrance/exit and perimeter of the principal GLA building. CCTV images and other data are transmitted over a fibre network to a purpose-built control room.

An intruder detection system has been fitted at the perimeter, while access to the building is controlled by a combination of proximity access control and two-way intercom.

Signal challenge
Kent and Sussex Security has installed a CCTV system that is helping to reinvigorate the Sussex sea port of Newhaven. Two cameras have been sited where the river channel joins the open sea linking Newhaven with the Normandy town of Dieppe. Both cameras have ptz capabilities, one of which looks up river, while the other looks seawards, helping port authorities monitor and control the safe passage of vessel traffic.

The installers faced the technical challenge of how to communicate between the control room and the cameras. Signals from the control room are necessary to control the camera's movements, while signals going the other way are required to transmit the images.

However, cable could not be laid because the river channel is regularly dredged destroying any cables in its path. The solution was to microwave technology, to enable reliable stable images. This type of monitoring has also enabled greater flexibility in staffing arrangements, resulting in huge cost-savings.

Moscow installation
Security Formula, a Russian distributor of Baxall equipment, has installed Baxall's CCTV equipment at 25 metro stations on the Moscow Metro transport system.

The equipment used includes CDSP colour cameras, ZMX+ 32 channel multiplexers and the new DTL-96Ne digital recorders. At Proletarskaya station, 28 Baxall Digital Signal Processing CDSP9313 cameras have been installed in total. All the cameras are connected to a ZMX+ 32/M4 multiplexer enabling the operator to see multiple or single live or recorded images.

Canary Wharf gets the Max

SDA Protec has installed an Ultrak MAX 1000 HD Series matrix system at the Canary Wharf business centre to provide effective CCTV surveillance for all aspects of the 86 acre site’s operation including security, roads, buildings and general maintenance. SDA Protec had initially upgraded the estate-wide control system and cameras. The continued development of the site has led to an increase in the level of CCTV, access control, alarm monitoring and integration. Three individual workstations have been fitted in the main control room controlling over 600 of the site’s CCTV colour cameras, including internal and external Ultrak KD6 domes and other ptz telemetry receivers. Using Ultrak’s MaxPro graphical interface platform, easy-to-use touch-screen control allows each operator to view and assign any camera to any one of the control room’s 28 colour or individual spot monitors. Alongside radio communications to retail shops, offices and lifts, the impressive control room forms the hub of Canary Wharf’s comprehensive management provision. SDA is also working on ongoing additions to the security infrastructure which will eventually see some 2,000 cameras come under the Ultrak MaxPro system’s control.

Upgraded scheme

A CCTV installation at the Wiltshire county town of Trowbridge has been completed using cameras and monitors from JVC and powerful Pentax zoom lenses. The 34 camera system is monitored on a bank of JVC TM-1400PN screens from the Shires Shopping Centre, with 18 cameras covering its busy malls and another 16 cameras situated around Trowbridge Town Centre. Trowbridge is following nearby Chippenham’s footsteps by combining the CCTV system with the existing Shopwatch scheme which circulates details of shoplifters by radio. Information is exchanged between police and shop management, with crystal clear pictures enabling security staff and police to view incidents as they happen and after recording. The police give retailers warnings about gangs of organised criminals and the Shires hands over CCTV footage to aid prosecutions. Trained monitoring personnel work from the upgraded existing control room to ensure that the town centre is a safer place for residents, especially for older people. Pictured is security officer, Mike Gerrish in the Trowbridge control room.

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