Meyertech unveils new videos to promote Fusion and ZoneVu

IP surveillance predictions of 2012 by Phil Doyle, Axis Communications

Great predictions from Axis Communications talking about IP Technology in CCTV in the UK

CCTV Budgets 2012/13 – What’s the Trend?

Are Austerity Measures Effecting Council CCTV Budgets?

Some of the key headlines are:

• Councils pool funds for CCTV staff – Leamington
• CCTV cameras help with nearly 1,000 arrests – South Tyneside
• Chepstow is in desperate need of new CCTV cameras, police chief warns
• Cumbrian Council Urged not to cut back on CCTV Service – Allerdale
• CCTV cameras to be updated in Nuneaton and Bedworth Read more >>

Bridgend updates to i-COMPLY V-TAS Pro CCTV Control Room

Bridgend County Borough Council’s CCTV control room has recently benefited from a comprehensive upgrade, at the heart of which is the latest V-Tas Pro Integrated Security Application Platform from icomply.

Already utilising icomply’s V-TaS back office system prior to the control room’s refurbishment and following a demonstration of the powerful icomply technology, an upgrade to the company’s V-TAS Pro command & control management system was seen as a natural development by the Bridgend team. Read more >>

More than just CCTV – icomply debut V-TAS Pro

integrated security application platform at Intersec 2012

icomply, the UK software developer of the advanced integrated security applications platform, V-TAS Pro, will be debuting their advanced solution at Intersec 2012.

Designed to blend all the core functionality required by today’s busy control rooms, V-TAS Pro is proven to supply a highly-efficient, scalable and easy to use Command & Control management system. The icomply solution provides deep integration for analogue and IP equipment, via one modular software platform. Read more >>

Is community safety at risk as CCTV is reduced by councils?

There was an interesting article in the Guardian last week talking about ‘Is community safety at risk as cash-strapped councils cut CCTV?’.

This year The CCTV User Group and and Graeme Gerrard, deputy chief constable of Cheshire constabulary jointly carried out some research in CCTV for Public Space Surveillance in the UK. They estimated that there are 30,000 publicly owned CCTV cameras.

Certainly this summer with the riots across the UK, CCTV has been instrumental in identifying the trouble makers. Rose Fitzpatrick, deputy assistant commissioner of central operations at the Metropolitan police, said they needed, “to work more effectively with local authorities to use imagery such as CCTV systems” (source The Guardian). Read more >>

High Definition Television and CCTV surveillance

In the past year or so there has been a growth in the domestic HDTV market which has been driven by the move from CRT based TVs to LCD Plasma Screens. This technology  is now being adopted in the CCTV surveillance industry. Read more >>

i-COMPLY’s V-TAS Pro is key to combined CCTV Monitoring Centre

Consolidating two separate town centre CCTV systems into a single integrated control facility has produced many operational and economical benefits for Redditch and Bromsgrove. At the centre of the new control facility, is the latest   V-Tas Pro Integrated Security Application Platform from i-Comply.

Following a shared services review by Redditch and Bromsgrove councils in Summer 2010, a joint management structure was proposed that included the consolidation of the two towns’ CCTV camera systems, to be integrated into one network at a newly refurbished Redditch Monitoring Centre. Rachel McAndrews, CCTV and Telecare Services Manager for Redditch Borough Council explains: “Both control facilities had been in place for a number of years and after many piecemeal updates were beginning to show their age. The consolidation of both systems seamed like the perfect solution, allowing us to pool our resources and invest in a technically leading-edge system with the goal of saving money in the long term.”

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Safe Newcastle & Global MSC Security Seminar

 The next MSC Global Seminar is on 8th November in Newcastle.  The theme for this seminar is  ’The Protection of Freedoms Bill – An Update‘ Read more >>