On the case

The first phase of the project was completed last year with the installation of 13 Spectra 3 domes monitoring car parks, entrances and adjacent roadways. Images are recorded on a networked digital recording system.

The second phase has been the addition of 33 dome cameras to cover wards and the introduction of an ID system from MAXxess. This system has advanced features which can, if required, provide control of CCTV, fire and intruder alarm systems. Its prime purpose is to control access to each of the seven staff parking areas.

Logistically speaking
OCS Security Services installed a system incorporating more than 100 surveillance cameras, microphonic protected fences and infra red detectors at the site of New Wave Logistics (UK) Ltd at its Grange Park Site in Northampton.

OCS corporate development director Roger Noakes said: "The work we've done for new Wave Logistics almost certainly makes them among the most secure warehouses in the UK".

The company installed three different security systems: integrated CCTV and electronically protected fences, an intruder alarm system and access control on all doors, again fitted by OCS.

Said Noakes: "These are normally separate disciplines but OCS has brought them together at New Wave Logistics to provide a heightened level of security."

Secure to the Gills!
NT Security has installed swipe card readers and keypads to provide access control for Gillingham Football Club as part of a £12m upgrade.

Prestfield Stadium has been transformed over a two year period including new stands, a new megastore, ticket office, reception area and hospitality suites.

All stands are fitted with internal CCTV, with colour and black and white cameras. These are monitored by the stadium manager from a special control room on match days.

Cameras are also on every entrance and exit and function rooms. Access within the club is via a swipe card system.

NT Security installed ACT 1010 readers and keypads painted in Gillingham club colours operating with high security releases from Adams Rite, hardwired and configured to read ISO track 2 of magnetic stripe card media. Individuals are granted access to authorized areas while access is restricted where required. Cards (for instance, those issued to visiting team players) become invalid after a predetermined expiry time.

Security on a plate
Restaurants have become a growing target for burglary and vandalism, with burglary rates rising by 10 per cent since the beginning of the year … and 65 per cent of proprietors think that burglary is the main threat to businesses, ahead of fire, flooding and storm damage.

ADT in Loughton joined forces with celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver to secure his trendy London eatery Fifteen. Over the eight-month construction period, ADT installed three separate security systems – an intruder alarm system, CCTV, and access control – designed to safeguard the popular restaurant.

All the footage from the CCTV cameras is digitally recorded and controlled remotely by ADT. ADT continually monitors the outside and inside of the buildings. Intruder alarm systems operate through sensors placed around the building linked to a control box and monitored from ADT's ARC.

ACE job fights vandals
ACE Security, of Bromley helped to combat recurring vandalism at Eltham Green School, a City Learning Centre in South London, with the installation of a parking barrier and gate operators.

ACE installed a FAAC 620 Standard barrier with traffic light to control vehicle access. The electro-hydraulic barrier operates beam lengths up to 5m. It has a 70 per cent duty cycle with operating speeds between three and six seconds and anti crush safety. Operation is by a FAAC 624 MPS control board mounted inside the barrier cabinet.

Heavy duty FAAC 400 swing gate operators with magnetic locks were also installed at two entrances.

MD of ACE Security, Dave Simpson said FAAC provided "a really wide range of operators, which is important to our business because we handle such a variety of contracts, from private houses to large hospitals."

£750,000 Reflex action
Reflex Systems has completed a £750,000 contract for Moat House Hotels to upgrade security, surveillance, access and audio visual systems at all of the group's 42 UK-based facilities. The contract was tendered for, won, recommendations made and tested, and installations carried out across the whole of the UK with minimal disruption – and all within a three month time frame from start to finish.

The flexibility and expandability built into Reflex's original designs enabled the company to conduct a comprehensive review and implement a programme of upgrade and enhancement works, using the latest technologies. Comprehensive coverage was provided to key areas such as car parks and reception areas, with instant access and retrieval of digital footage.

Access control and lone worker systems were upgraded. Access control was greatly improved by combining the latest surveillance equipment with other features including door status monitoring and improved external lighting. This improved the health and safety of the environment for all guests and employees.

The entire installation was serviced with exclusively Panasonic equipment.

Store gets 100 per cent coverage inside and out
TEB has installed a full selection of its CCTV equipment at Carrefour's retail store at Carre Senart, the big-gest shopping centre in France. TUB, DRIV, and BULLE cameras are all linked to the recently introduced TEB "Vision" management software.

By specifying the complete range of TEB cameras and the new management software, Carrefour has 100 per cent coverage both inside and outside the store.

Seven moveable TUB cameras and three DRIV cameras, cover two floors. These work in conjunction with 20 BULLE dome cameras. Cameras throughout are linked to the main store control room where TEB Plan Vision video management software gives operator control of all cameras on site.

COE nets major city centre project
Global video network specialists, COE, are behind a major new city centre surveillance project in The Hague. Q-CAT, COE's Dutch Value-Added-Reseller has teamed up with Siemens Nederland to complete the 105-camera project, which is owned by The Hague City Council and controlled by the police force.

Included are 87 fixed and 18 dome cameras. Completed to a tight two-month deadline, Q-CAT carried out all installation work and provided the fibre optics equipment, fibre cables, tubing and closure mounting. Cameras were supplied by Siemens.

Each camera has a twin-fibre system connected to a COE Series 200 control system enabling remote operation. The network uses a new fibre tube system, which enables every camera to have its own tube and duplex fibre.

Five key points along the network have underground dividers from which a central tube is connected to the police station with 48-fibre minicable.

Network that can grow
Intruder International has provided a fully integrated IP-based security system for TAG Aviation facilities at Farnborough Airport.

The £300k contract involved the integration of a number of leading edge solutions: IndigoVision IP based CCTV; Janus networked access control and CitySync automatic number plate control.

Farnborough wanted a system that could be easily expanded without the need for installed additional cabling. During the construction phase Intruder International installed a fibre optic backbone that connected all the key facilities This provided the basis for a TCP/IP networked access control and CCTV system that could be easily "tapped into" for future security needs.

The work is part of the first phase to turn Farnborough into Europe's premier business airport.

Wireless broadband secures buses
Wireless broadband network provider Alvarion Ltd helped installer Premlink build a CCTV network in Sheffield that runs without cable or fibre.

The network is connected to cameras monitoring the outside of Sheffield's main transport depot. At night, the depot houses most of Sheffield's public buses, plus vehicles used for school runs - and has previously been a vandalism hot spot.

Images from the cameras are continuously fed back over the wireless broadband network to a base station in Sheffield Council's control center. The network operates in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz spectrum and uses equipment from Alvarion's BreezeACCESS™ range.

John Aldred, MD of Premlink said using a wireless network and network devices from Alvarion and Initsys made the whole process simpler, because there was no need to dig up the roads or lay any fibre.

"The whole system from start to finish took two weeks. Not only that, it's much cheaper than traditional CCTV systems - in terms of equipment, set-up and ongoing running costs."

The network also allows more cameras to be easily added with little additional expenditure.

School combats vandals
TeleEye III+ Network CCTV is being used tomonitor and combat vandalism at the Aveley School, Essex.

Covering hallways, corridors, playgrounds and public areas, the Video Recording Transmitter distributes video through the school's existing network. The school's IT Manager can monitor from anywhere on the campus and remote locations. Video can be recorded for further reference and in case of an incident, the school can check recorded video by using the time and data search function. Triplex operation allows video monitoring, recording and playback to be performed at the same time. The system has already identified a culprit who was setting off fire alarm systems and the school is now able to ensure students are where they should be.

Hazardous areas covered
Videotec pan and tilts with integrated camera housings have been installed for the monitoring of a chemical plant in Portovenere, La Spezia, Italy. Equipment had to meet rigorous requirements of installations in hazardous areas, where flammable gases may be present.

The P&T's feature a glass protection device on the camera housing which allows the winding of a mylar film to obtain a clean camera picture. The positioning system features the absence of external wiring in rotation, very important in this kind of hazardous environments.

COE on high-speed track in Madrid
Video network specialist, COE, is behind a major CCTV surveillance installation on the high-speed rail track, which will eventually link Madrid to Barcelona and the French Border.

Revenga, the Spanish Value-Added-Reseller for COE, has been commissioned to install CCTV across more than 450km of railway track for the high-speed rail line between Madrid-Zaragoza-Lleida.

Signals from 500 cameras are transmitted via ATM to key concentration points using COE 300 Series equipment over a single mode optical fibre.

Audio and data are transmitted over the same fibre, with data channels controlling PTZ cameras, domes and other devices and the audio channel governing access control applications.

   Airport system pays for itself
Digital CCTV Ltd has designed and supplied the CCTV and control system for Monarch London Luton Airport.

Working in conjunction with airport authority requirements, the company installed a fully integrated surveillance security and alarm system as an economical alternative to manned guarding.

The 16 camera system is the first fully automated CCTV airside landside barrier control system in Europe.

Two 16-channel NET-DIVA digital recording units provide realtime archive of the airside cameras for 31 days and 11 high speed dome, day/night cameras cover the apron, access to the hangars and parking zones. Views are switched to flat screen monitors in the control room.

Key management have access to views and archive video using their desktop PCs.

Security Manager, John Ringer, said the system paid for itself within three months.

Access to hospital
Keytrack Lock and Safe Company, of Warrington, chose Abloy electro-magnetic locks, key switches and keypads for new A&E and mental health care facilities at Wythenshawe Hospital.

The ABMAGS range of locks were chosen to secure the building. These have high holding strengths and are said to be particularly suited to high traffic flow applications.

In the A&E department the public has 24/7 access but the system had to be configured in an easily controlled manner.

ShearMag and SlimLine magnetic locks have been installed. The ShearMag has Opto Sensing Technology which enhances the accuracy of the locking device and ensures perfect alignment of magnet and armature.

Fast cars, fast barriers
UK wide security contractor Ansador has installed a FAAC automated gate and barrier system to improve security at Racing Technology Norfolk Limited.

The racing car engineering services company now has entry and exit to the car park controlled by two FAAC 620 Rapid Barriers.

Barriers of up to three meters can be raised in under two seconds. Access control is via proximity card readers and a telephone-based audio intercom which uses the company's existing telephone system.

Visitors contact the telephone extension of the employee they are visiting from the barrier. Once the visitor has been established as legitimate, the barrier can be raised via the telephone extension.

FAAC 620 incorporates self-regulating oil temperature control.