Chubb selected ObjectVideo VEW(R), a video analysis software solution, after evaluating several intelligent video surveillance technologies. “It’s exciting to partner with a security giant like Chubb that can open doors worldwide. Chubb brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise and resources to the table,” said Brian Eckert, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ObjectVideo. ObjectVideo’s intelligent video surveillance algorithms, based on artificial intelligence called “computer vision,” run all objects in a camera’s view against threat-specific pre-programmed rules. When an object violates a rule, for example, a small boat loiters next to a ship, a bag is left unattended in an airport terminal or a shopper displays characteristics of shoplifting, the software alerts security personnel by phone, pager, email or an alert console. “After rigorous evaluation, ObjectVideo VEW proved to have sophisticated intelligent video surveillance capabilities and ease of deployment,” said Randy Krzak, Vice President of Marketing for Chubb Security North America. “The software’s ease-of-use for the end user was also an important factor in our decision to initiate an approved supplier arrangement with ObjectVideo.” Customers of ObjectVideo’s technology include the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection Bureau, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Energy, ports including Jacksonville, Port Everglades and Mobile, and international airports including Memphis and Miami.
Electric Bullets Tested
As well as establishing the functionality of the ShockRounds(TM) Electro-Kinetic bullets, the demonstration confirmed that they can readily be fired from standard issue 37 mm smoothebore firearms from Federal Ordnance, Arwen, Defense Technology and H&K. The successful testing of the EK100 series of the ShockRounds(TM) Electro-Kinetic 37mm rounds took place at the Tucson Laboratory from 17 June to 21 June, 2005. The Electro-Kinetic (EK) series of ShockRounds(TM) less-lethal impact rounds is a hybrid kinetic/impact munition with a Piezo-ceramic element designed to provide increased effectiveness to officers in handling crowd disturbances at distance. Multiple tests were performed using fully functional EK prototype rounds fired from a smoothbore police issue 37mm firearm in order to verify the ShockRounds(TM) Electro-Kinetic projectile’s aerodynamic and ballistic characteristics during flight. Projectile orientation, propellant charge, gas checks and drag stabilisation were also evaluated, modified and then successfully tested throughout a range of distances and velocities. The prototype firings generated invaluable data that will be incorporated in the next series of ShockRounds(TM) Electro-Kinetic projectile tests. The EK100 series ShockRounds(TM) projectiles utilise a mass striker assembly that is centered in the bore of the projectile with a piezoelectric element in the nose of the round. Upon impact the striker system allows EK100 series projectiles to harvest the maximum voltage from the kinetic impact on the piezoelectric ceramic element with little influence from the target material. In addition to the launcher test firings, a series of over 120 separate static tests were made of different mass weight/striker combinations of the Electro-Kinetic ShockRounds(TM). The results of the static tests are being reduced to a statistical model to be used for further design modeling of piezoelectric materials and energisation performance in future ShockRounds(TM) production. The successful conclusion of this test series has proved the functionality of the initial ShockRounds(TM) design and more importantly proved that ShockRounds(TM) enabled ammunition can be fired and generate a charge from a standard issue firearm. The company’s CEO, Marshall Couper, said that the move toward less lethal methods of law enforcement is gaining momentum. “Our piezoelectric bullets are expected to significantly reduce officer injuries and even save lives by enabling law enforcement officers to more effectively control unruly crowds from a safer distance – outside of what is termed ‘the rock throwing range’- therefore safe from Molotov cocktails and other projectiles that are often thrown at them as has recently been witnessed even in Sydney Australia” he said. “Our ShockRounds technology, which can be incorporated into most types of ammunition, delivers an electric charge on impact which serves as a deterrent to riotous behaviour or other hostile activity. “While the worldwide market for less-lethal weapons is worth US$500 million annually, the bigger market and attraction for Harrington Group is the multi-billion dollar lethal ammunition market. The ShockRounds technology being developed for that market will introduce a new level of stopping power through the addition of electric shock capability,” Mr Couper said. The ShockRounds enabled lethal ammunition is also expected to save lives as the increased stopping power of ShockRounds is expected to result in less shots being fired in a confrontation, thereby reducing the risk to law enforcement officers as well as to bystanders.
Honeywell Divests Intelligent Building Systems
Honeywell Int’l Inc. announced it sold ESSER Italia to French company DEF for undisclosed financial terms. Honeywell was obligated to sell the business as a condition by the European Commission of its recent purchase of Novar. As part of the transaction, Honeywell will continue to sell ESSER-brand products outside of Italy and will continue to operate ESSER’s non-fire businesses in Italy, including its building management systems and Brand-Rex cabling systems.
Public Transport Vulnerable To Terror Attacks
Part of the problem is that the kind of screening equipment used to check passengers at airports for explosives can’t be used in subways because it’s too slow and too expensive for public transport systems designed to quickly move large numbers of people. “Mass transportation systems will always be vulnerable to some extent if we want to keep them as efficient as they are today,” said Rafi Ron, president of the Washington-based transportation security consulting firm, New Age Security Solutions. About 29 million people take commuter trains and subways daily in the United States, with the New York City area accounting for about a third of the total, said Alan Pisarski, a Washington-based national transportation policy analyst. In the UK, the vast London underground carries 2 million people each day. James Carafano, a homeland security expert with the Heritage Foundation think tank, said trains are a tempting target for terrorists because they’re so predictable. “It’s very, very easy to do reconnaissance,” Carafano said. Some of the deadliest terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, have been carried out on subway systems, including Thursday’s attack in London that killed at least 60 people. The attacks there have been claimed by Al Quaeda, the Islamic terrorist group responsible for the 9-11 attacks. Al Quaeda also claimed responsibility for attacks on the Madrid subway, where a railway bombing on March 11, 2004, killed 191 people and injured thousands. A month earlier, an explosion ripped through a subway car in the Moscow subway during rush hour, killing 41 people.
Bosch Offering 540-Line Cameras
The increase in horizontal resolution is a result of algorithm developments in Bosch’s proprietary DSP technology. A new advanced algorithm compensates the loss of resolution that accompanies the introduction of color filters. The algorithm enables almost the full native resolution of the CCD chip to be realized. The enhanced cameras principally target professional surveillance applications that require ultra-high quality images for reliable person and object identification in challenging lighting conditions. This increase in resolution to 540 TV lines now provides particular benefits in applications demanding accurate character recognition – for example, vehicle licence-plate number recognition on roadways and at pedestrian crossings; monitoring point-of-sale transactions and cash tills, in retail stores, banks and casino cash transactions, as well as CCTV surveillance at airports, ports, city centres, passenger terminals, car parks, etc. The Dinion and FlexiDome cameras incorporate advanced video motion detection and the latest Dinion XF models feature true 15 bit video processing. The Day/Night models provide enhanced sensitivity in low light.
Bosch Adds New Encoders And Decoders To Ip Gear
By increasing the maximum data rate of the VIP X series to 30 frames/second, its MPEG-4 video offers virtually the same quality as the more expensive MPEG-2 video yet requires less than half the bandwidth, reducing data storage needs and overall system costs. Users also have their choice of different frame rates, ranging from one to 30, to optimize bandwidth and storage space. The new VIP X encoders deliver DVD-like picture quality. Because of their dual streaming capability they can provide two parallel digital video streams encoded with different video quality settings. The VIP X1 offers full motion video for a single camera, while the VIP X2 works with two cameras and offers greater convenience, cost-savings and ease of installation over one encoder for each camera. Both VIP X encoders also feature an ultra-compact design; fully interlaced video; alarm inputs and relay outputs; and pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) control. Video can be received and displayed with a standard web browser or VIDOS video management software or on a bank of analog monitors using the new high performance VIP XD decoder. The cost-effective decoder features a robust MPEG-4 engine to convert high quality digital, up to 30 frames/second, into analog for viewing. The single-channel VIP XD, the most powerful in Bosch’s family of IP products, is compatible with all VIP and VideoJet encoders. The VIP X series is part of a line of IP network video products for video and audio streaming, recording, playback and archiving. Each product integrates with existing analog products and networks. This offers users substantial cost savings by preserving their existing investments. Bosch’s IP products can also be used to build complex digital networks or migrate from analog to digital one piece at a time, based on the user’s needs.
Dm Has 26X Dome
Available with a wide variety of mounting options, the 2060 features an optically correct hemisphere, innovative quick install and release mechanism giving a hot swap capability, a precision die-cast internal mechanism for enhanced positional accuracy, pan speed control from 0.05 – 300°/sec, lift and gain adjustments and 24 privacy zones. Said Pauline Norstrom, Marketing Manager at Dedicated Micros: “The Dennard brand continues to lead the way in outdoor dome technology – a fact underlined by the addition of a x26 optical zoom option for the 2060 dome. This capability makes the 2060 an even more attractive solution for the effective monitoring and identification of criminals in large external areas. The robustness of the 2060 also means that this dome is a good choice for exposed town centre environments where cameras may face the prospect of attack from vandals.”
Ness Into Automation
WHEN a company has a product range as comprehensive as that of Ness it’s a tough call pointing out a market segment left uncovered. That call has got even tougher now the company has taken on respected US manufacturer Elk Products’ M1 Cross Platform controller. The big Ness M1 is designed to handle jobs including access control, automation, lighting, HVAC, alarms and telephone communications. It’s not just the system’s operational flexibility that will make the M1 attractive to installers and end users. Ness’s new baby also has impressive scale. You can’t even start talking about the M1 without first getting your head around the system’s “backbone” – a high speed, fully supervised and encrypted data bus. All the M1’s peripheral boards, comms devices and interfaces connect to this dedicated LAN. Standalone, the M1 motherboard offers 16 zones, as well as an RS-232 serial port, relay and serial outputs, voice outputs and 10 auxiliary outputs. But this is small potatoes when compared to the capability of an M1 when it’s fully expanded. Once you get to the top level it’s possible to hitch 12 zone expanders giving up to 208 zones, 12 output expanders giving 208 outputs, 8 lighting/thermostat/serial interfaces, a data bus hub that’s able to connect 9 expanders or keypads to the hub and a 4-door intelligent access controller. Importantly, you can add keypads at any point on the bus – this is advantageous because each M1KP keypad has a prox card reader input. The M1’s promotional material makes plenty out of not only the system’s big security capability but what it describes as “the most imaginative and powerful automation functionality available.” And the automation capability <I>is<I> powerful. Instead of installers being locked in by system architecture, there’s plenty of room to move. For a start the M1 has “Whenever/And/Then” programming rules and this allows the panel to pretty much handle any operation its physical structure can integrate with. Not only this, there’s no need to chain rules together, so a single “Whenever” event can have one or more “Ands” and “Thens” (conditions and commands). These rules utilize easy to understand text based references and installers can use them to control things like lighting using RS-232 serial or 2-way Power Line Control (PLC) ports. In addition there’s full support for On, Off, Dim All On & All Off commands, and the M1 can handle Sunset/Sunrise calculation and activation, can transmit and receive custom serial ASCII messages, can read temperature sensors and communicate with thermostats and is able to support Turn on Tasks, Lights, Outputs via Keypad or a Telephone Remote. All this means the M1 can integrate industry standard systems and components for upgrades and expansion. All up the system has 528 possible automation rules relating to its 205 possible outputs Programming and installation Facilitating programming is a range of internal and system capabilities including things like flash memory firmware, that RS-232 serial port, Ethernet connectivity option, fast PC programming and ease of installation resulting in reduced work time. Installers are also going to appreciate things like a time/date stamped 512-event history log and flash memory that allows field updates to firmware electronically. And both installers and end users alike will appreciate the talkative nature of the big M1. The system’s 500-word/phrase vocabulary will link as many as 6 words or phrases per announcement and there are 10 customisable phrases. All this allows the system to give voice announcement of alarms, zone descriptions and zone status. Also great from an installation point of view is the menu-driven, full-text keypad programming – it means there’s no manual required which is impressive for a system of this size. Other good features from an installation point of view include hardware watchdog and a nonvolatile EEPROM memory. Installers are also going to appreciate the true V.22 bis Modem for fast, reliable upload/download, as well as an Optional Ethernet port for reporting operation/control or programming. This feature allows the panel to report alarm events to any online computer in the world. In addition there’s an installer telephone (butt set) test feature along with Elk-RP PC software includes “conflict resolution” to easily highlight differences between control and PC. Along with its 208-zone hardwired capacity, the M1 also offers 48 wireless zones, has a two-way Listen-in interface. There’s an RS-232 Serial Port to interface to computers and peripheral devices, and each panel has 13 On-board Outputs: 1 voice/siren, 1 siren driver, 1 form “C” relay and 10 low current (50mA) outputs. The M1 supports 4-wire (any zone) and 2-wire (zone 16) smoke detectors and it incorporates a fire alarm verification routine. Each system can be partitioned into 8 separate areas and account numbers and there are 99 user Codes (4 or 6 digit) with assignable authority levels. Arm levels include: Away, Stay, Stay Instant, Nite, Nite Instant, Vacation. As far as communications are concerned, the M1 has a supervised phone line, alarm output and aux. overcurrent, with a built-in telephone remote control making any phone in a home or office into a keypad. The digital communicator formats include SIA, Contact ID, 4+2 and Pager and there’s dial-up, ethernet or local comms from RS-232 port or house phone jack. In addition to all this, an automatic answering machine bypass allows the installer to communicate with the system when it shares a line with an answering machine. Keypads and peripherals A particular feature of the M1 is its stylish rounded keypad, with each M1 panel supporting up to 16 keypads. The keypad is backlit and has a large Character LCD Display comprising 16 x 2 lines. There’s a built-in temperature sensor displayed on the screen, while an optional Plug-in Prox Access reader (26 bit Weigand format) gives the system access control capability. Along with its numerical keys, the M1 keypad has easy-to-follow menu navigation keys and 6 programmable function keys. Connecting the keypad to the panel is easy with a plug-in connector carrying 4 wires back to the mother board. Other keypad features include 1 zone input and 1 output programmable per keypad. There’s also a programmable display of time and date, as well as display of system diagnostics and settings. In terms of system automation, one of the system’s most important peripherals is the M1XSP Lighting/Thermostat Interface, Serial Port Expander. As a lighting interface, it adapts the M1 Control to many brands of lighting control products which use “serial” communications. i.e. OnQ-ALC, PCS-UPB, EDT, CENTRALITE, VANTAGE, etc. When employed as a thermostat interface, it adapts the M1 Control to HVAC Communicating Thermostats from companies such as: RCS, APRILAIRE, and HAI. And as a serial port expander, it expands the RS-232 communication ports of the M1 for multiple connections to most any type of equipment that communicates using serial ASCII commands i.e. personal computers and high end whole house subsystems such as CRESTRON and AMX. Jumpers on the M1XSP select the appropriate application, connection, and protocol. Best of all, the M1XSP operates from the 4-wire (RS-485) M1 Keypad data bus, allowing RS-232 ports to be located long distances from the control. The M1G (Gold) Cross Platform Control supports up to 7 M1XSPs while the M1 (Std) supports 1 M1XSP. The communications baud rate is adjustable from 300 to 38,400 baud. The unit comes complete with cable and a black surface mountable housing. Other peripheral devices include the M1ZTSR M1 Zone Temperature Interface with 7 foot remote probe. This allows the monitoring of high or low temperatures with an add-on remote sensor. The sensor connects to any main zone (1-16) on the M1 or M1G. Range is -10 to 65C. Applications include: freeze monitoring, second homes and agricultural uses, etc. Importantly, the temperature may be accessed from keypad, telephone remote control, or via rules. And making real world applications easier, the sensor probe can be located up to 7 ft away from the interface. Also vital for networked systems is the M1DBH Data Bus Hub, which allows easy connection of expanders & keypads. The M1DBH accepts up to 9, RJ45 equipped CAT5 or CAT6 cables, and series connects the data A & B lines so the data bus may be terminated properly. Two or more units can be interconnected if more than 9 data lines are required. Installers building in access control capability will use the M1PR Keypad Plug-in Proximity Reader. This allows a proximity card or fob to be used with the M1 Keypad to quickly arm, disarm, operate a door strike. Integration is very simple, with the device simply plugging into the back of the keypad and end users employing M1PRC cards or M1PRF fobs. The system’s Two-Way Listen-In Interface allows up to 3 zones of two-way listen-in to M1 or M1G Control. This can be used by the Central Station to verify an alarm, or by a user from the telephone remote control to check on elderly parents, children, etc. Up to 12 microphones (M1TWS) may be connected. In automation applications the M1XOV M1 16 Output Expander with Flying Voltage Leads allows installers to add 16 voltage outputs to M1 or M1G Control. The device provides 2 plug-in, 8-pin flying lead connectors for triggering low current devices (50 mA max. each such as: LEDs, relays, piezos, etc. This expander operates from the 4-wire data bus. Depending on installation needs up to 12 output expanders may be used for a total of 208 outputs. The voltage outputs can be converted to relays (8 or 16) using (1 or 2) M1RB Relay Board(s). Supporting the entire system is a heavy duty – 2.5 Amp power supply w/ 1.5 Amp continuous rated power supply. It features dynamic battery test, master power switch and low battery disconnect, PTC (fuseless) resettable overload protection and multiple auxiliary power terminals.
Tyco Sells Division To Group 4
The purchase price for the assets of ADT OM was not disclosed, but the assets of ADT OM were worth $6 million. ADT OM monitors convicted criminals for localities through the use of ankle bracelets and other equipment. Tyco has been trimming some of its security properties in a two-year-long restructuring that has included the sales of Sonitrol, National Alarm Computer Center (NACC) and Tri-Ed Distribution.
New Id System To Protect Atm Users
ATM fraud has increased by 80% this year in Britain. A new ID Key system has been launched as a way to help financial institutions to close loopholes that fraudsters exploit to make easy money, and to make ATM transactions safe and foolproof. With an ID Key system, financial institutions would supply card holders ID Keys (similar to memory sticks and costing only a few pounds). These keys can have photo and name digitally stored to activate photo printers at transaction points to print ID stickers plus online codes to make make all online transactions unique and foolproof. By inserting slots in their ATMs, security codes on these ID keys can be sent to data centre. The data centre will hold each cardholder’s different card numbers, key code and random 50+ online codes, which when required will be changed to new random values by banks and ATMs. These alphanumeric codes, obtained by activating ID Keys will act as approved authorisation code for every individual online transaction. To operate the ATM, the cardholder will require his/her card, ID key and PIN number. The same system can be applied in retail sector or for card operated equipment such as petrol pumps to stop misuse of PIN numbers. This system will make it meaningless for fraudsters to skim cards, use pin-hole camers to pick PIN numbers or even use stolen cards with PIN numbers. Every time transaction is concluded, key codes at data centre and on the key will change to a new random value. To make ID Keys more useful, along with ATM codes, they could have cardholder’s photo and name digitally stored so that they will activate photo printer at transaction points to print single or multiple ID stickers. To conclude a transaction, a cardholder has to apply the ID sticker to the document and countersign as shown in the diagram below. Thumbprint is optional. ID stickers can also be applied to medication and medical reports.
