Samsung introduces SMT range of TFT LCD monitors

Designed specifically for use in professional security systems and with a display resolution of up to 1280 x 1024, a dynamic contrast ratio of 1000:1, VGA input and a 5 ms response time, the new 17” SMT-1712 and 19” SMT-1912 ...

CCTV in the Public Sector

Without doubt, the management teams responsible for local authority CCTV face unprecedented challenges. The proposed reductions in public sector budgets accompanied by regulatory changes in line with the objectives of the coalition Government to increase privacy and roll back central and ...

Home Security, Intruder Alarm Systems, Security Alarm

The full range of Optex detectors has been installed at 70 Ford Direct forecourts across the country, resulting in a 60% reduction in false alarms. Brian Sims investigates. For many years, the showrooms had been blighted by the nuisance of false ...

Sony illuminates crime using infrared technology

Sony has introduced View-DR and IR Illuminator to its new range of HD security cameras in order to improve image capture in challenging lighting environments. The introduction of infrared and Wide-D technology to its range of HD video security cameras represents ...

Alpha Vision Design launches volumetric people counter

Contact Security installs many CCTV systems with Retail footfall counters. Alpha Vision Design have launched a more cost effective solution. The bi-directional footfall sensor, dubbed Ulysses, has been designed to automatically track and count the number of visitors entering or exiting ...

How to approach IP CCTV system design

IP CCTV design is a constantly developing arena. It demands the designer and installer look closely at the main concerns from customers of running an IP-surveillance system on their organisation’s network. It also becomes a key priority of the CCTV sales ...

Commend Lauches Cost Effective IP Intercom System

Commend UK, the supplier of integrated intercom solutions, is launching a new customised communication package, the GE 50. This system has been designed to offer smaller businesses and residential developments the typical Commend quality and reliability in a system, but ...

SALTO Secures St.Andrews University

SALTO Systems, the international access control specialists, have won a major new contract to provide advanced electronic access control equipment to the University of St. Andrews. Scotland's first university and the third oldest in the English-speaking world, St. Andrews was founded ...

More Tragic Gate Accidents

The past few weeks have seen a series of shocking accidents involving children and electric gates. Two girls, Semelia Campbell, aged 6, of Moss Side in Manchester and Karolina Golabek, aged 5, of Bridgend in S. Wales, were tragically killed ...

HSE Safety Bulletin – your children are at risk (Gate Automation)

The UK Health and Safety Executives have issued a safety notice to electric gate manufacturers and installers, estate and facilities management companies following the inquest into the tragic death in April 2006 of 9-year old Jason Keet in Poole, Dorset. Poor ...