1. April 2010 Issue 309
Starship
Enterprise
. MCG installs HID VertX, Genetec
. Cardax FT protecting Wintec
. Eurotunnel digs IndigoVision
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. Panasonic’s new i-PRO SmartHD
. Analogue CCTV Best of the best
. Tokyo Security Show: Full report
. ISC West: New product releases

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“One of the
most exciting
developments is
the virtual guard
tour, in which
central station
operators are
able to patrol
large facilities as
part of a regular
patrol service.
Best of all, these
remote guard
tours can be
supported by
stored images or
view to a thrill footage – that’s
something no
R
EGULAR readers will be security officer
monitoring familiar with SEM’s endless
can deliver”
stations and whining about patrol response
times that are so slow
their customers monitoring stations would be better
off calling locksmiths and glaziers than
are leveraging bothering their overstretched mobile
new technology security patrols. That’s because the
entire concept of patrol response in a
that gives them busy town is flawed.
We all know customers don’t want to
the power and pay a lot of money for alarm response
capability to and quite obviously, patrol companies
aren’t charities. The result? Patrols that
conduct real have no chance of turning up before
burglars have got what they came for
remote guard and gone home to bed.
tours and to verify So what’s the answer? It’s video
alarm monitoring supported by a new
alarm events generation of video monitoring products
without recourse and management solutions that take
advantage of high-speed, low-cost public
to the expense WANs.
Last month SNP Security became the
and delay of patrol first Australian company to integrate
response. the excellent Videofied solution into
MASterMind Monitoring Platform
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Solutions such
as Videofied
alarm verification
and Suretek’s
RemoteGuard
product, which
allows end users
to deploy remote
video patrols are
the most exciting
(MAS) in a Grade A1 Monitoring centre. can’t eliminate manpower completely developments in
We admired Videofied’s gear at Security
2009 in Sydney and this looks a great
– and you wouldn’t want to. Security
officers and video surveillance systems
the monitoring
move from SNP. working together have proven to be the industry right
“Videofied is a revolutionary video
security system consisting of a wireless
perfect combination on large sites. And
every verified alarm would demand now. With virtual
control panel and wireless cameras
that can detect intruders and send a
a response. But for smaller or remote guard tours like
10 second video clip of the incident to
facilities which have no on-site security
teams there are serious gains possible RemoteGuard,
the SNP monitoring centre,” says SNP’s
Tom Roche.
using virtual patrols to exploit CCTV central station
“The motion viewer has an integrated
capability and check alarm events.
Europe is really big on video alarm operators are able
PIR motion sensor, digital camera and
infrared illuminators for night vision
verification where the UK is a key
user thanks to alarm verification rules
to patrol large
which means faster police response to built into its alarm standards. But the facilities as part
verified intrusions.”
Importantly, SNP has taken the
technology is also gaining momentum in
the United States. Many central stations
of a regular patrol
Videofied offering even further, by
embedding the alarm and CCTV signals
there are now delivering a service that service.
allows alarm verification bundled in
into its existing MAS Monitoring with standard alarm monitoring and
Platform. SNP’s engineering team they’re delivering it in a way that would revenue stream that makes a mockery of
worked directly with GE Security in translate perfectly to the local market. the dollar-a-day monitoring fee most Aussie
the USA to develop the integration The beauty of these virtual patrol control rooms charge alarm customers.
program. services is that they allow fast But whatever the cost, it’s clear remote
Solutions such as Videofied alarm confirmation of alarm events that video alarm verification along with virtual
verification and Suretek’s RemoteGuard increases customer security, while guard tours are going to be the next big
product, which allows end users to delivering monitoring stations with a thing in monitoring and they’ll give CCTV
deploy remote video patrols are the manufacturers and integrators a whole
most exciting developments in the new area in which to expand.
monitoring industry right now. With Where’s the logic? Consider that
virtual guard tours like RemoteGuard, physical security patrols are slow and
central station operators are able to expensive. Now consider that many video
patrol large facilities as part of a regular surveillance systems are never leveraged
patrol service. Best of all, these remote properly – instead they are often ignored
guard tours can be supported by stored until there’s an incident. Next think of 24
images or footage – that’s something no hour control rooms with superb and fully
security officer can deliver. redundant comms links. It’s a symbiosis
It goes without saying that you that makes perfect sense. zzz
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4. // news / ’ industry developments // business profiles //
According to Mobotix’s APAC regional sales director,
Graham Wheeler, the key for megapixel cameras is
decentralization of architecture.
“It’s this decentralised approach to IP cameras that
allows us to deploy megapixel resolution cameras
easily today,” says Wheeler. “We have a 120-camera
snP integrates live viDeofieD
solution in South Australia at Binaco Building Supplies
footage into mas
- all the cameras installed are 3-megapixel,” Wheeler
explains. “We also have a 100-camera system installed
in Singapore, so we know decentralization of megapixel
AUsTRALIA’s largest privately owned world’s pre-eminent security automation
cameras works.
security company, snP security, is the software, and is used by leading monitoring
“It’s true that networks can be unreliable and from
first Australian company to integrate centres internationally.
time to time will crash or fall over,” Wheeler says. “This
the Videofied solution into MAsterMind snP’s engineering team worked directly
means your IP camera must cover you for this situation cheaper and easier to install.
Monitoring Platform (MAs) in a Grade A1 with Ge security in the UsA to develop the
so that even if the network or your DVR goes down “POE really does save on installation costs,” Wheeler
Monitoring centre. integration program.
the camera keeps the data and keeps making useful says. “Mobotix cameras need no additional heater or
utc closes on
decisions for you. This is why decentralised cameras
Videofied is a fully integrated CCTV and “The smooth integration allows the
power to control temperature or moisture, so you only
monitoring solution, and is the latest team at snP security’s latest Grade A1
ge securitY
are the future of IP Video. need a Cat-5 cable.
introduction to snP’s suite of security monitoring centre to view live footage from
“I also firmly believe that we will start to deploy less “I have had some integrators say they just purchase
acquisition
cameras to cover the same areas,” says Wheeler. “In
solutions. snP’s managing director, Tom the Videofied equipment, without having
standard length patch cable that saves them time due
Roche, says the latest technology featured to check a separate system to verify that
a garage that might use 4 cameras to get car number to not having to make any cable up on site.”
UnITeD Technologies Corp. (UTC) has 3-megapixel in Videofied provides insight into how snP the alarm is genuine,” says Roche.
plates across all the filling pumps, a single According to Wheeler, universal adoption of things
closed can its the samebuy – that makes the overall stays ahead of developments in security “This means the team can identify true
image on do deal to job the security like fractual compression with very high compression
business cheaper to buy and cheaper to install. technology from around the world. rates would be ideal for video but heexact time the
solution of General electric. UTC says it
alarm incidents at the
thinks CPU usage
sold $Us2.25 billion works isto help fund are cropped this knowledge is combined with alarm is triggered, and crucially, action
“The way Mobotix in debt that images “when
demanded by MPEG-4 and H.264 are key challenges
the we only record andabout the area of interest. This years of hands-on experience, forward. taken straight away and patrols or
so purchase price of view $1.82 billion
our 85
moving
can be
based on an agreement the two companies of data as 4 it creates a formidable but reassuring emergency services can be alerted.
means we still only send the same amount “What we need is a standard that is designed for
announced cameras but get the same result and security scenario for our customers,”rather than for Media such as DVD and gaming,”
low res IP in november. from a CCTV
UTC CeO Louis Chenevert says the deal says Roche.
single camera.” Wheeler says. “MxPeg, as far as I know is the only
“Videofied is a revolutionary video security
boosts the is firmly convinced IP and megapixel are the
Wheeler company’s ongoing effort to compression standard designed for CCTV and that is
expand go and his thinking is security and system consisting of a wireless control
way to its footprint in the based on performance. why it has such good images with moving content. It
life-safety are three reasons to go for IP cameras in and wireless cameras that can an 8th or less of the processing power of an
“There market.
panel
also uses
“This strategic says. “The firstenhances resolution. intruders and send a 10 second or H264 Stream.
my opinion,” he acquisition reason is
detect
MPEG
the scale,that you can’t get more than 500TVL onclip of the incident to the snP
Consider market reach and product
video
“There’s no doubt that the Mobotix hardware is good
offerings of our existing UTC Megapixel resolutions monitoring centre,” says Roche.
a coax-based analog system. Fire and enough to build very large scale megapixel systems
security business,” Chenevert says. “It transport “The motion viewer has an integrated
are vastly better but the only way you can as we have done in Singapore with 1000 Megapixel
demonstrates our is using IP. approach to
disciplined PIR motion sensor, digital camera and
megapixel images cameras running on 2 servers,” Wheeler says. “It’s
acquisitions and capitala low-resolution analogueinfrared illuminators for night not hard when the system is decentralised. The issue
“Given this, why use redeployment that CCTV
vision
which means faster police response to
focuses on delivering shareholder value.” still only get
camera with a codec behind it when you is where the processing is being done and what the
The Ge security business, formerly part of verified intrusions.
low resolution across an IP network?” compression standard was designed for.”
GeWheeler says compression is another issue for a wireless solution, the cameras
Home & Business solutions, supplies “Being
Wheeler sees another major benefit of Megapixel
security and life-safety technologies can be relocated easily as clients’ needs
megapixel cameras. IP as being onboard intelligence and the functionality
through a compresses the moving part of the change – whether on a construction site
“Mpeg 4 broad product portfolio for image that comes with it.
commercialany other part of the image which is good council worksite, or anywhere have this intelligence on board our cameras
more than and residential applications.
or local
“We
Ge, DVD watching but not the electronic for CCTV,” valuable equipment needs already and have done for the last 8 years,” he says.
for which first entered what we want
where to be
security industry in why we developed and have used secured.”
he explains. “That’s late 2001 with the “This is the main reason we can effectively deploy
acquisition the last 8 yearshas said the resolution taken the Videofied offering even
MxPeg for of Interlogix, – it keeps full
snP has
large-scale mega pixel systems without the need for
sale advances its efforts to shed and that is why IMS by embedding the alarm and CCTV
in the moving part of the image noncore
further,
expensive networks.
assets and focus on is a better compression standard within its existing MAs Monitoring about things like temperature sensors, logic
research states MxPeg its core strategic
signals
“Think
businesses. Platform. MAs Monitoring software is the
for CCTV than Mpeg 4.” to combine Digital I/O and PIR detectors all built
IP video, including megapixel systems, is also in to the cameras – these are all possible. Also, any
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