The 2-year deal is the first new sponsorship signing announced by Leeds for the 2004/05 season, and will see the stand – one of the largest in terms of size and capacity in the British game – renamed the ADT Stand, displaying prominent branding.

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“We are delighted to be able to bring such a well known national brand to Leeds United,” said Simon Webster, Commercial Manager. “We have had a long running relationship with ADT locally, but this latest sponsorship deal takes that partnership to a new dimension where we will be linking in to the company nationally.”

Alex McNutt, Managing Director of ADT Europe and <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />South Africa, added: “ADT has a passion for sports, with sponsorships across the world ranging from golf and motor racing through to tennis and football. “We see this latest partnership with Leeds United as a natural extension that allows us to reach new audiences. The club is one of the biggest names in English football and this stand sponsorship, in one of the most prominent sites in Leeds, will help raise our profile both locally and nationally.”

The UF600 is a supercharged, optimized high-performance version

of the UF500 and has been developed by Extreme engineers to

greatly extend night vision surveillance performance using

conventional CCD cameras and lenses. With dual units at input power of only 200 Watts each, the UF600 can surpass 400 meters (1,300 feet) in complete darkness when matched with its FSX800 model CCD camera and IR sensing zoom lenses. The UF600 will be

marketed as a commercial product without any special government

clearance as prerequisite to purchase.

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The UF600 further underscores Extreme’s position as the leader

for active-infrared night vision equipment. Unlike that of

passive thermal systems, the UF600 delivers high-resolution

illuminated video suitable for use in intelligent scene analysis

and is easily integrated with standard CCTV system protocols.

Extreme engineers are also developing a new infrared illuminator

to exceed the 700 meters (2,300 feet) range. The next-generation

illuminator is currently in testing and is scheduled for a

mid-2005 release.

Similar to Extreme’s successful UF500 illuminator, the UF600

targets top-tier security applications. The UF500 is currently

securing utilities, reservoirs, roadways, fields and numerous

other sites. Government and defense have been significant

purchasers where integrated systems require precise,

high-resolution video capture in darkness following motion

detection by radar or by other threat-tracking devices.

“The UF600 pushes Extreme’s night vision capabilities another

step further into the distance,” says Jack Gin, President and CEO

of Extreme CCTV. “As an immediately-deployable surveillance

solution, the UF600 gives security professionals a powerful new

tool for long range night vision.”

The team, based at Lindfield in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Sydney, can pick up a piece of a hypodermic needle less than one millimetre long at a distance of five centimetres.

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“Conventional hand-held metal detectors couldn’t find the whole needle at half that distance,” says project leader Dr Marcel Bick, who’s been running the proof of concept experiments.

“We can even detect needles wrapped in aluminium foil, which is something a standard metal detector has lots of difficulty with,” he adds.

The team has achieved great success, even finding fragments weighing less than a milligram, because their device is no ordinary metal detector: “It’s a SQUID magnetometer,” says Dr Cathy Foley, who heads up CSIRO’s work on SQUIDs.

This type of SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) harnesses the power of superconductors to detect very weak magnetic fields.

Cathy and her team have more than a decade’s experience applying their unique SQUID technology to geoprospecting. Their LANDTEM system is being manufactured under license by Australian company Outer Rim Developments. In 2001 the group branched out into food safety.

“We were approached by the Japanese beef industry,” Marcel explains. “Apparently they were sued by a consumer who found a piece of a needle in their steak. It turns out that it’s quite common for syringes to break off in cows when they’re being vaccinated.”

Because the food industry weren’t keen on the idea of their workers handling liquid nitrogen, the traditional coolant for SQUIDs, the team are currently working on cooling the sensor electrically.

With refinement of this technology, Cathy and her team are confident their gear could be made into the familiar paddle shape of hand-held metal detectors. “If we can find needles in meat, we can find them anywhere,” she says.

“We’ve already proved the principle, we know our SQUIDs are based on a sound technological foundation, and now we want to get them into the corrective services and airport security industries.”

“The unparalleled interference rejection and low emissions of the NV-218A-PVD let video signals co-exist in the same wire bundle as telephone, datacom, or low-voltage power circuits,” emphasizes Guy Apple, NVT vice president, marketing and sales. “This allows the use of a shared or existing cable plant, reducing costs and time of installation. As with all NVT products, the NV-218A-PVD carries a limited lifetime warranty and is UL and cUL listed.”

With the new NV-218A-PVD, power, video and data are routed via UTP and RJ45 or “press-fit” terminal block inputs/outputs. When used at the camera, the passive NV-218A-PVD has a 9-inch mini-coax pigtail lead for direct video output connection from the camera.

Alongside the coax lead are two sets of “press-fit” terminal blocks for quick pass-through connections for the camera’s power and data. On the “house” or output side of the product, installers have the option of deploying convenient “press-fit” UTP connectors or the more efficient RJ45.

NVT’s transmitters, transceivers, receivers and hubs allow the use of new or existing unshielded twisted pair wire, Category 2 or better, for video transmission. This allows end-users and installers to deliver a high quality picture over the same wire used by phone systems while simultaneously cutting costs and simplifying installation.

The EyeOnBoard system utilizes on-board network cameras and environmental sensors to continuously monitor the yacht. The on-board systems connect via the Internet through wireless hotspots at marinas to EyeOnBoard’s central servers.

The EyeOnBoard servers process and display the data into easy-to-read Web pages secured for each yacht owner. Upon logging in to his secure site, the owner has immediate real-time access to environmental sensors (shore power, flooding, temperature, humidity, and intrusion), network camera images, wireless network status and marine instrumentation data (GPS, water depth, wind speed, and status of house batteries).

The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />EyeOnBoardYachtResponseCenter responds to alarms from the owner’s yacht 24 hours a day, seven days a week using the EyeOnBoard System and notifies the owner or his designated agent of a verified sensor alert.

At the time of installation of the EyeOnBoard System, the owner provides the YachtResponseCenter with a notification hierarchy and determines what action should be taken when an alert occurs.

The owner can choose to be notified when an alert occurs or predetermined actions can be taken by the YachtResponseCenter without owner involvement. The owner is notified via any e-mail-enabled device, including cell phones or other mobile devices capable of receiving e-mail after the alert has been resolved.

The yacht owner may also contact the YachtResponseCenter with questions about Windows operating system, wireless connectivity, statistics and status reporting, environmental monitoring, installation of application upgrades, disk file restoration, and more.

“EyeOnBoard is going to change the way yacht owners look at their investments because they can now access their yacht’s real-time information anywhere, anytime,” says Wes Vermeulens, president, West Bay SonShip Yachts Ltd. “We are introducing EyeOnBoard systems to new boat owners and recommending current customers take a close look at EyeOnBoard and the peace of mind it delivers

The solution allows VOIP transmissions, which have been inaccessible to law enforcement agencies, to be logged and tapped in the same way telephone signals can be.

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PacketCable represents the cable industry’s interoperable interface specifications for a wide variety of services. PacketCable networks use Internet Protocol (IP) technology to offer services such as Voice over IP, otherwise known as IP telephony.

“The latest issue of this technical specification represents a milestone in the cable industry’s efforts to address law enforcement’s concerns regarding VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services made available by cable companies,” said Kerry Haynes, FBI Assistant Director responsible for Investigative Technologies.

“This specification is an extremely positive development which ultimately will empower federal, state and local law enforcement agencies with the technical capability to continue to protect the public by effectuating court-authorized electronic surveillance.

“We look forward to working with the industry in its development of technical solutions based on this specification and with companies as they implement solutions into their IP networks.”

CableLabs initial effort to specify a technical solution for electronic surveillance of IP-based networks was released in December 1999 as Issue 1 of the “PacketCable Electronic Surveillance Specification.”

Following its release, law enforcement identified a number of capabilities absent from Issue 1. Since that time, CableLabs has actively sought law enforcement input into its technical specification process to ensure that law enforcement’s need to intercept communications lawfully were addressed adequately.

The recent release of Issue 4 of the PacketCable Electronic Surveillance Specification represents the culmination of the cooperative endeavor between CableLabs and law enforcement in establishing a set of technical requirements to facilitate law enforcement’s future use of court-authorized electronic surveillance as a critical tool in protecting public safety and national security.

Stressing the vital nature of electronic surveillance, Assistant Director Haynes remarked “the Report of the 9/11 Commission and the testimony provided by a host of experts during Commission hearings recognized the importance of intelligence in our war against terrorism. Intelligence is critically dependent upon law enforcement’s technical collection capabilities and such capabilities rely on adherence to technical standards such as this one.

The primary mission of the FBI and law enforcement as a whole is to prevent and protect against future terrorist attacks. In that battle, real-time technical interception capabilities are to the war against terrorism what radar was to the Second World War – without it our ability to see enemies approaching is extremely limited.”

135 participants (50 per cent) replied that half or more of their CCTV installations involve computer networks. And 20 per cent reported that almost 100 per cent of their installations now involve a link to a computer network of some kind.

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Ian Fowler, Norbain’s Technical Training Manager is not surprised by the figures:

“We have known from anecdotal feedback from customers for several years that the proportion of systems being linked to computer networks is growing significantly.

“This survey confirms that trend and may even suggest that CCTV-IT integration is becoming the norm rather than the exception. This has many implications of course.

“Installers need an additional set of skills when linking CCTV systems to existing networks but they also need to be able to advise their customers of the implications of networked transmission and storage on topics such as Data Protection.

“Surveys like this will also encourage a move away from continuous monitoring to motion activated monitoring in order to ease the burden on network traffic.”