Security Electronics & Networks Magazine

October 2012 Issue 337

Jack of all trades l Agent Vi powers Carillon City l SCSI’s DTU3G/IP communicator l Wellington installs Fluidmesh l Adpro FastTrace 2 Hybrid l Designing PSIM solutions l SALTO’s virtual access network l Vivotek’s 5MP FE8171V Fisheye l Aritech’s new DD1012AM dual tech

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It’s true that CCTV is not a proactive solution. But – and make no mistake about this - it offers law enforcement professionals the ultimate investigative tool.

ROM the time of its development by Walter Bruch in 1942, CCTV systems have depended on direct electrical or light paths to carry signals from cameras to recording devices and monitoring screens. These paths have the benefit of stability, reliability and longevity. But they come with a price. They are physical and demand a physical conduit, be that a tray, a trench, a bore or pole mounting.

And these physical paths are costly and time consuming to construct.

On private sites these costs are significant, in public spaces they can be prohibitive, with the result that surveillance solutions often wind up with design compromises forced upon them by the expense of trenching, or by the need to conform themselves to existing systems of pits and trenches owned by utilities or public authorities. In some applications, trenching and boring might cost more than the installation of cameras, recording devices and management software combined.

Given this, it’s been instructive this month to notice a couple of public surveillance solutions that have used a different communications path to build systems that are robust, reliable and low cost. That path is wireless. Sure, we’ve covered wireless applications before. There’s a standalone system installed at Lakes Entrance and there’s a public surveillance system installed

by SNP at Footscray that employs FireTide wireless. But the commissioning of 2 wireless public surveillance solutions in a month is something to take notice of.

The first was installed by Security & Technology Services in Darwin and employs a Strix Systems multicast mesh wireless network to support more than 100 cameras, including 62 HD PTZ cameras from IndigoVision, as well as high resolution legacy cameras in another 40 locations around the city.

The challenges of this application included carrying all video image streams to 3 police stations and a remote data storage facility and to handle these demands with 3DES encryption, complete redundancy and high reliability in the tough NT climate.

Next, there’s Smith & Co Security’s installation of Pacific Communications’ supplied and

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configured Fluidmesh MITO 1100 at Wellington in NSW. It’s a smaller system and uses line of sight tri-band radio, giving the ability to modulate up to 300Mbps. This system employs high quality Panasonic SmartHD cameras, showing there are no performance penalties in the use of wireless links.

The great strength of the Wellington system is that Fluidmesh gave the town 42 quality fixed cameras with 30 days storage and dual monitoring points for around $210,000. It’s a superb solution and hard to conceive at such a competitive price. Best of all, this solution is reducing crime in the town in a big way.

In my opinion, this communications’ jack of all trades is going to make even bigger waves in future. In a recent report it was revealed that A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics has developed a 135GHz silicon-based cavity-backed slot antenna. This tiny antenna is the size of a sesame seed and can shovel data at 20Gbps – that’s 200 times faster than current WiFi technologies. It’s impossible to accept that such valuable and powerful technology will not find its way into our best surveillance cameras in the medium term.

On the subject of public surveillance, in late September, an incident took place in Melbourne that brings home to us the power of video surveillance as an investigative tool. Far from being a meaningless application of technology, high resolution video surveillance supplied to police by members of the business community was instrumental in the rapid resolution of a terrible crime.

It’s true that CCTV is not a proactive solution.

But – and make no mistake about this - it offers law enforcement professionals the ultimate investigative tool. A tool that peels away the redaction of time, faulty witness memory and criminal deceit, giving an indelible record of events as, when and where they took place.

After years of quibbling about cost and baseless fears of Orwellian government control there must be this realisation. Public surveillance properly applied actually works.

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56: Arecont 40MP SurroundVideo Arecont Vision has released a pair of awesome new 40-Megapixel SurroundVideo panoramic Day/Night cameras with 180-degree and 360-degree fields of view.

24: Ghost in the machine SCSI’s DTU3G/IP wireless alarm communicator is Australian-made and designed with dual-SIM technology providing 6 secure paths using Telstra NextG, Optus 3G, Telstra GPRS, Optus GPRS, Ethernet and PSTN. But, more than being a communications module, the DTU3G/IP is the crystallisation of one man’s vision of fast, reliable and secure alarm reporting.

Adpro’s FastTrace 2 Hybrid video recorder and transmitter locally distributed by Alarmcorp, is a real powerhouse of a solution that’s designed primarily for event-based video transmission.

But the better you understand FastTrace 2 the harder it is to pin down. The system’s flexibility is endless.

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In my last article I observed that to be effective, PSIM should integrate all of the security operations and to know what is required of a solution, designers of a PSIM needs to immerse themselves in the procedures carried out dayto-day in the security control room.

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64: monitoring In our last few monitoring segments we’ve highlighted some of the changes the ongoing digital revolution is pressing onto the monitoring industry.

They’ve been slow in coming but they’re coming in all directions.

70: Growth by innovation Jean Baptiste Hazard, Pelco By Schneider Electric’s vice president Pelco Asia Pacific is based in China and looks after the whole Asia Pacific region, including Australia. It’s a position that gives him a unique perspective on this vast and dynamic region.

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New Hitachi million-year data storage l HITACHI has developed a storage technology using slivers of quartz glass that can endure extreme temperatures and hostile conditions without degrading for millions of years.

“The volume of data being created every day is exploding, but in terms of keeping it for later generations, we haven’t necessarily improved since the days we inscribed things on stones,” Hitachi researcher Kazuyoshi Torii said.

“The possibility of losing information may actually have increased,” he said, noting the life of digital media currently available - CDs and hard drives - is limited to a few decades or a century at most.

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enough to program, no matter how advanced computers become - the data will always be readable, Mr Torii said.

The prototype storage device is two centimetres square and just two millimetres thick and made from quartz glass, a highly stable and resilient material, used to make beakers and other instruments for laboratory use.

The chip, which is resistant to many chemicals and unaffected by radio waves, can be exposed directly to high temperature flames and heated to 1000 degrees Celsius for at least 2 hours without being damaged.

It is also waterproof, meaning it could survive natural calamities, such as fires and tsunami.

The material currently has four layers of dots, which can hold 40 megabytes per square inch, approximately the density on a music CD, researchers said, adding they believe adding more layers should not be a problem.

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ADT will spin off

l TYCO Int’l shareholders have approved the spinoffs of the firm into 3 pieces — ADT home security operations, a remaining commercial fire and security business and its flow control business. After the separation from Tyco, ADT will be the largest player in a fragmented $US12.5 billion market, according

to Reuters.

With more than 6 million customers in the United States and Canada, ADT has annual sales of about $3 billion. Company executives maintain that the business will be the only publicly listed U.S. company focused on security monitoring with a growing business in home automation systems.

ADT will officially begin operating as an independent company on Oct. 1, the same day that it will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ADT, reports KnoxvilleBiz.com.

“I’m spending 100 per cent of my time building the strategy, building the team [for] a standalone company,” ADT CEO Naren Gursaheney said recently.

“We do intend to go it alone.

We’re going to be a standalone public company. There could be acquisition opportunity because it’s a very fragmented market.”

Integration grows opportunities in China l CHINA’S access control software market has emerged from the global financial crisis with added vigor according to a report from IMS Research. In the latest edition of its 2012 Electronic Physical Access Control China research, IMS Research suggests access control software revenues in China are set to grow at a compound annual rate of 17.2 per cent, reaching revenues of $US40.4 million in 2016.

“Historic revenues for access control software have looked relatively small in comparison to readers, control panels and credentials,” says market analyst and report author, Rita Liu. “It’s only in the last 1-2 years that the topic of integration has come to light, spurred on by large scale complex systems that were previously unheard of in China.”

In line with China’s Twelfth-Five year plan, another 1,400 kilometres of subway lines will be in operation by the end of 2015, with the number of airports in China planned to increase from 180 in 2011 to 230 12 se&n

by 2015. “These 2 verticals will be the cornerstone of infrastructure projects in China with large scale investment being provided from the Chinese government,” says Lui. “Furthermore, growth is also set to be boosted by the trend to one-card solutions in China which is leading to further growth opportunities for access control software.”

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AT&T demos automation security at retail store l AT&T has opened a 10,000 square-foot flagship store on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue where for the first time the company will offer a retail demo of its Digital Life services, which include security and home automation.

The IP-based Digital Life solution includes professionally installed and monitored window and door sensors, CCTV cameras, smoke alarms, carbon monoxide (CO) detectors, motion and glassbreak sensors, thermostats, water shut-off valves, door locks, plus the ability to remotely turn off appliances.

AT&T says Digital Life would eventually be marketed nationally at its more than 2,000 retail stores where consumers will be able to test and experience the system’s user interface as well as the various service offerings. The services will also be available for purchase on the company’s Web site.

“Customers will not only be able to interact with and purchase our products, but they will also experience the forefront of evolving wireless technology and see how AT&T is leading it,” says Paul Roth, president of AT&T retail sales and service.

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ASIS report: Security salary growth flags in 2012

l THE median compensation for security professionals increased 2 per cent to $US102,000 in 2012 compared to the same period last year, while the average annual compensation increased 14 per cent to $121,000, according to a new report by ASIS Int’l.

The study, titled the 2012 “U.S. Security Salary Survey” also stated that respondents who had Certified Protection Professional (CPP) certification reported a median compensation of $111,000, and an average of $130,000, 8 per cent higher than the average for the survey population at large.

Security professionals employed by publicly traded firms reported a 7 per cent increase in median compensation ($117,000) this year compared to 2011, while those employed by privately held companies saw median compensation rates of $100,000.

Of the 15 per cent of respondents that reported working in the public sector, the state and local levels earned the lowest median compensations — $85,000 and $88,000 respectfully, with average compensation of $88,000 and $91,000. In contrast, those in the federal government earned a higher compensation than those in any other type of organization.

Laser fire detection l THE fire detection industry has woken up to laser-based aspirating smoke detectors and multi-sensors. According to a recent study published by IMS Research, both technologies are forecast to see the fastest growth globally with compound-annual growth rates (CAGRs) of 9 per cent and 7.3 per cent respectively from 2011 to 2016.

“We are seeing an era of modernization in the industry,” says Adi Pavlovic, IMS Research analyst and report author. “Not only are manufacturers looking to make fire detection products more reliable, but economical as well.”

Worth an estimated $US239.5 million in 2011, multi-sensor detectors were the world’s second largest detector market.

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Agent Vi powers Carillon City AusScott Guardian Systems has integrated Vi-System and Vi-Search business intelligence software with an existing OnSSI Ocularis VMS at Carillon City Shopping Centre in Perth

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T’S been a while coming but the unbridled power of video surveillance to inform business decisions, not just to record incidents and monitor scenes in real time is finally being realised.

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Carillon City sought to gain a greater understanding of customer traffic in order to share this information with its tenants so they could grasp the impact of their marketing campaigns. The main concern was measuring footfall (people counting), to understand exact number of visitors overall, as well as breakdown of customers per hour, day and more.

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A target path is used to identify dominant customer traffic paths and an advanced statistical tool is employed to receive comprehensive statistics reports about customer activity. There’s also forensic investigation to undertake rapid investigations of security incidents, including lost/missing children.

Carillon City initially looked at Agent Vi’s analytics to obtain footfall (people counting) data. However, once exposed to the full range of retail capabilities, Carillon City realized that it could gain invaluable insights into customer behavior throughout the mall. Accordingly, a wide range of analytics features were introduced, helping management to better understand customer activity, measure the impact of marketing campaigns and provide important feedback for tenants (retailers).

As a first step, Agent Vi’s retail solution was deployed to gather data about the number of people passing through all entrances/exits. Management view this data to understand overall customer traffic levels, and to ensure that visitor numbers stay within the maximum occupancy figure set by the site’s insurers.

Furthermore, the footfall data provides management with accurate visitor numbers to pass on to tenants, helping to support ROI

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decisions of existing/ potential tenants.

Using Agent Vi’s advanced reporting tool, management analyzes visitor traffic, breaking down such data per entrance/exit, per time period (such as every quarter hour or every hour), per day (weekday vs weekend traffic) and more.

The target path feature provides management with a visual indication of visitors’ movement paths, allowing easy identification of the most dominant traffic routes. Such information is of strategic value to the marketing department, assisting with decisions regarding optimal locations for marketing promotions and campaigns.

Agent Vi’s heat map capability allows Carillon City to provide tenants with figures of how many people dwell outside their stores, indicating the impact of window displays and marketing campaigns.

Moreover, the frequency and activity of visitors, as illustrated by the heat map, allows management to grasp the mall’s busiest areas as well as the quieter areas not being optimized.

Carillon City also discovered that Agent Vi’s retail solution serves important security needs, and utilizes the forensic investigation tool to locate lost/missing children in the mall. By narrowing the search query using parameters such as size (‘small’ for child) and colour of clothing, the security team has quickly located lost children.

“The ability to accurately see where and what people are doing throughout the mall gives management a greater capacity to cater for customer and tenant needs,” says Brad Ward, operations manager at Carillon City shopping centre.

“In addition to serving our objective of receiving footfall figures demonstrating customer traffic, Agent Vi’s retail analytics delivers a significant amount of data on customer behavior, which has proven to be of great importance to our marketing and operations departments.

“Furthermore, the investigation capabilities of the software were an added value for us, allowing our security officers to manage security and safety incidents in real-time.”

Ariel Frischoff, VP sales at EMEA & APAC is also impressed with the solution.

“By making use of the data gathered by Agent Vi’s solution, Carillon City shopping centre has increased the return on investment on their surveillance system, transforming it from a standard security system into an invaluable business intelligence and investigation tool,” he says. zzz

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Ghost in the K machine SCSI’s DTU3G/IP wireless alarm communicator is Australian-made and designed with dual-SIM technology providing 6 secure paths using Telstra NextG, Optus 3G, Telstra GPRS, Optus GPRS, Ethernet and PSTN. But, more than being a communications module, the DTU3G/IP is the crystallisation of one man’s vision of fast, reliable and secure alarm reporting.

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EY drivers are conspiring to strangle the genius of modern electronics. These include a relentless pressure on price and a subsequent reduction in quality, performance and reliability. Taken to logical conclusions this means buyers are getting exactly what they pay for - less.

The result in all areas of electronics is a consumable culture of churn that sees solutions fail to leverage lateral advances in technology. This problem plagued SCSI’s founder and managing director, the late Steve Acott, who spent decades trying to bring to fruition his glittering personal vision of the perfect wireless monitoring solution.

One of the industry’s monitoring pioneers, Acott managed his own monitoring station with wife Debbie in the 1980s before acquiring Guardwell Security Services out of which was spun Guardwell Communications, a company that ultimately became leading wireless monitoring manufacturer and provider, SCSI.

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Acott’s vision was a highly secure communications device capable of transmitting alarm signals in the event of line failure that he thought could replace Securitel and direct line comms in high end applications. Fascinatingly, when spin-off Guardwell Communications released its Guardcell product in 1991, it really was a true precursor of a future in which through-the-air signals would change the fundamental nature of human communications forever.

This all sounds very obvious in the last months of 2012 but when I visited Guardwell in 1991 to see the new Guardcell product, the idea of smart phones was science fiction stuff. Guardcell was so far ahead of its time much of the technology was incomprehensible to a market chemically bonded to tradition. Undeterred, however, Acott persevered with wireless and slowly and surely his business grew.

The closure of the analogue mobile network in 2000 demanded the development of a solution capable of reporting over the digital GSM network.

This and the runaway growth of commercial mobile services and coverage led to the founding of SCSI and the development of the company’s Direct Wireless solution.

Typical of Acott’s restless, perfectionist nature and indicative of the long evolution of modern wireless communications over the past 2 decades, SCSI never stopped developing new versions of what it saw as the perfect secure wireless monitoring communications unit. And when Acott passed away in 2009, his quest did not end. At Security 2011 in Sydney, SCSI released Acott’s last communications unit, a solution the team hoped would be the ultimate expression of secure wireless alarm monitoring technology.

But, according to SCSI, the product was not quite good enough to meet its own exacting standards.

The failings of external engineers and the challenges of remote manufacturing had combined to see Acott’s dream of perfection short-circuited by tiny flaws of design and build which were outside SCSI’s control.

Fast forward 12 months and I flew to Melbourne a couple of weeks ago to talk with general manager Daniel Cananzi and SCSI’s new MD, Dale Acott about the brand new version of the Direct Wireless product, the DTU3G/IP. Just released, the unit was wholly designed inhouse at SCSI and is being manufactured locally at SRX Global’s big factory in Melbourne.

Meeting Cananzi at the SCSI office it’s quickly clear the man has lost none of the fierce enthusiasm that has long defined him. For Cananzi, the DTU3G/ IP embodies more than a summation of parts – it’s the expression of an entire doctrine – a fast, secure, always-up monitoring path.

As we chat, Cananzi is candid about the flaws in the earlier product and he says the company incorporated its own ideas as well as ideas expressed by clients into the design of the new unit.

“There’s the product we launched at ASIAL in 2011,”

We’ve invested nearly $2 million in our engineering team so far and we believe our engineers are some of the best in the country.

We’ve really put the effort in and we spared no expense at any level, we did not economise on a single resistor.

DTU3G/IP on the test jig

Cananzi tells me, pointing at a compact controller on a nearby wall. “After that release we decided the unit was too big and it didn’t do everything we wanted it to do. It was scrapped and we started again.

“In fact, there’s nothing wrong with that product and we used a lot of the design again in the new DTU3G/IP but we wanted to make the product perfect so we held up our sales for another year to get it right.”

According to Cananzi, this time the board was designed inhouse and it’s being built in Australia to ISO 9001 standards. While he doesn’t go into detail, behind Cananzi’s words there’s a frustration that seems to be the manifestation of many years of trying and failing to get contractors to materialise a service provider’s concept of absolute product perfection.

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“Instead of depending on external contractors we put together an inhouse engineering dream team to handle the design for us this time,” he explains.

“We’ve invested nearly $2 million in our engineering team so far and we believe our engineers are some of the best in the country. We’ve really put the effort in and we spared no expense at any level, we did not economise on a single resistor.”

While he’s no longer around, Steve Acott’s presence is integral to the DTU3/IP. Sitting in the SCSI office at Seaford and listening to Cananzi’s enthusiasm spooling up, I can’t help seeing in my mind’s eye Acott across the table, bouncing out of his chair with excitement.

“Steve dreamed about a system that worked like this years and years ago but it couldn’t be done using the technology of the time,” Cananzi tells me.

“He kept investing and investing trying to build the perfect wireless alarm communication product but suppliers and manufacturers never delivered exactly what he wanted.

“That’s very much the reason we took ownership of design of the product and why we’re building it locally. We are building the product Steve wanted to build and building it here in Australia where he would have wanted it built.

“We’re designing it here and making it here and sparing no expense. And the reason for this is that our sale is not the hardware, it’s 10 years of reliable telecommunications support for an alarm panel.”

While we’re talking, SCSI’s MD Dale Acott arrives.

Third generation electronic security industry, he’s a quieter man than his father but has the same passion and relentless focus on the company’s product.

“It’s been 3 years of considerable effort and expense to get here,” Dale tells me. “We’ve put all our effort into building a product that is 100 per cent the best it can be. Having engineers inhouse isn’t the cheapest thing but we’re financially stable and in order to build the best solution we were prepared to

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make the considerable investment required.

“We stretched our engineers, too. For example, we threw away the plastic housing 3 times and went back to the drawing board. We just had to get this solution absolutely right.”

The DTU3G/IP

What exactly are we talking about here? It’s easy to think of an alarm communicator as a simple device but nothing could be further from the truth.

There’s a multiplicity of functions, a combination of necessarily integrated technologies and a sort of self awareness that makes an alarm communicator like this extremely difficult to design and build.

Operationally, the DTU3G/IP wireless alarm communicator connects to SCSI’s DirectWireless alarm transmission network and is based around new dual-SIM technology. It provides 6 secure paths of communication between alarm panel and monitoring station including Telstra NextG, Optus 3G, Telstra GPRS, Optus GPRS, Ethernet and PSTN. Using wireless, reporting times are a snappy 250ms from remote premises to monitoring station Features of the DTU include 3 reporting paths into

IP, whichever way the end user looks at it, changes the landscape and monitoring stations need to stop thinking about their rebate and start thinking about IP, where they are going and what their long term revenue will be.

Board building at SRX Global

monitoring stations (frame relay, 3G and PSTN), plug and play connection to alarm panels, Contact ID, an RS 232 Serial Interface, a general purpose alarm input, a remote controllable output, a tamper input, a CPU monitor, alarm panel interconnect supervision, monitoring of power supply voltage, 3dB multiband antenna, remote ACK of alarm signals, and the ability to provide full event audit trails to the monitoring station.

SCSI has gone with multiple 3G networks because it says wireless networks cannot be guaranteed to be up all the time and that when a 3G network fails traffic drops back to 2G which is frail technology that benefits from little investment. According to Cananzi it’s for this reason that a pair of 3G wireless networks is the best solution and he says the networks SCSI is using have never been down together. With a private IP network thrown into the mix you get 100 per cent uptime.

As part of its development of the product, SCSI put a lot of effort into getting a handle on the sorts of environments the DTU3G will be operating in.

Part of this process involved installing dozens of third-party alarm panels at SCSI and then testing their inputs and outputs so as to ensure the DTU was equipped to communicate with all of them.

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And all ourin monitoring move from campus to campus such a large and upgraded its video surveillance system in an device to vary itself to suit the panel it’s connected is pretty much Rolls Royce performance and school system. says prior to the Video effort to keep up with advancements in Web documentation is toRussell milspec.” to and we’ve has used an intelligent dialleritscapture Videofied 450-odd arrests under beltmanagement thanks Insight implementation hiscoming VMS administrator platforms. Austin IndependentSomething Cananzi keeps back to as we because panelstovary in their specifications.

You District – the America’s 38th largest spent a considerable amount of time with user to its ability identify burglars.

When you consider School talk is the fact that this product is not about price – in don’tmost see this fromsystems other manufacturers.” alarm are blind and cannot assist school system – has replaced its existing maintenance. “With this number of users a fact the DTU3G/IP is the least expensive unit on the video management system with Video Insight reliable Web client is more economical than It’soperators certainly by impressive dedication and it shows doing more than reporting multiple market, he keeps installing (andsaying. uninstalling) thick VMS clients on software. Encompassing 230-square miles, the level of intensity the company is putting into adjacent alarm events, Videofied’s capabilities There was more to see at the to show and in “Weeach did not tryplenty toalso saveoverburdens money, we tried PC, which our alreadybuild Austin ISD has 86,000 students, 11,000 its work, think, asmore.

I poke around the panels, some stick Iout even this and subsequent issues we’ll be reviewing many the best product,” he tells me.

“That’s because our employees, 124 campuses and more than 3,000 taxed VMS administrators,” he says. of which I’ve never seen in the wild. In fact, SCSI’s ofThe themodel stand-out solutions.

As forresulted themonitoring editor’s switch to Insight has in pick for video surveillance cameras. business is Video to build an alarm commitment to preparing the DTU3G for “We any were unhappy with the platform that we SE&N’s an improved video Best Product Security 2012 Iand chose solution that will last management 10atyears orsystem more–for is the possible eventuality in terms of alarm system Austinsolution ISD in many respects, including: Little had invested in and we needed a more practical Snap from Network Video Surveillance completely bullet proof. support really is taken to extreme levels. to no trainingbyforPacific employees; increased video For its solution – something that was easy to use,” says distributed Communications.

“Thecamera radio image we buy is $US80 and it’sstorage; the world’s quality; more efficient Austin ISD Police Department Representative “If we have problems in the field we will search ability to could automatically wrangle the power of best radio.

We have saved $US10 by using faster system performance; variety in camera our database to find the panel model number soWayne we Russell. “We needed something that thousands of existing cameras in challenging something it would not be world’s best real choiceelse and but LDAP integration.

Thethe 3,000-plus didn’t require an incredible amount of CPU can work out what could be the issue,” Dale tells me. world environments, itproduct hasbytothe beifAISD my SE&N’s camera system is monitored police processor power that could also serve as a fullywireless alarm monitoring we pick had for done.

“But if we don’t have the data we’ll go so far as to buy Best in Show. dispatch 24-hours a day, seven days a week, functioning Web client.”

Our hardware is about quality and nothing else.” an old panel off a customer if it’s being replaced After just an exhaustive Daniel Cananzi paying particular during timesa144 bid process, Russell foundWhile UpI’m there with attention it is the Solution alarm chatting with theBosch boys peak we take tour to bring it in and test it so as to broaden the capability Global to camera in the panel bus drop off and pickfeatures up the solutionat inSRX Video Insight. and accessfeeds control with neat like “Video Insight was the only software solution areas, cafeterias during breakfast and lunch of our solution to handle variations it comes across.” pre-built garage door control and a succession of that worked seamlessly with our existing time, playgrounds and in hallways during class As we talk, Cananzi calls up a DTU3G/IP in the field readers and expanders. The Solution 144 is just cameras and it offered a very dependable Web changes. Administrators monitor cameras at from aWe’ve workstation DirectWireless spent in a the bit company’s of time looking at Videofied that a solution.

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of the office and as part of this I get a chance to chat with engineer Dave, who builds and commissions control unit testers. With 30 years experience in the design and testing industry, his opinion carries considerable weight.

“You’d be amazed at how many functions this thing has,” Dave explains to me. “It looks like a simple unit but there is function after function after function. I’ve seen every part of the DTU3G/IP hardware-wise and it still surprises me.

“In fact, I rang one of the designing engineers as we were working on developing the testing of this product to tell him I thought a particular circuit was absolutely brilliant. Most engineers would have used multiple lines to the microprocessor to manage a particular function of the DTU but the SCSI engineering team had done the job with just 2 lines. It was one of the most impressive circuits I’d ever seen.”

In the factory

As part of my demo of the DTU3G/IP, we duck out to SRX Global to get a look at the boards being manufactured. It’s always a joy visiting an electronics manufacturing facility and the SRX Global setup with 6 long surface mount lines is the biggest I’ve seen.

The whole plant is environmentally controlled with heating, humidification and cooling in order to prevent oxidation of board components. Vital too, everything undertaken at SRX has to comply with the company’s quality standards – including ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and ISO 14001 environmental accreditation.

But it’s not just the process of manufacture. The whole setup at SRX Global is impressive, with

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everything precisely controlled from Inwards Goods – there are 55,000 line items to look after – all the way through to board testing on completion.

What’s abundantly clear to me is that it’s a real process getting electronic equipment built.

There’s documentation for everything, complete traceability of raw materials. Nothing is left to chance, right from the moment a component arrives, through to testing on a jig. This is the way it has to be and I can see immediately how valuable it is for this process be handled locally.

We watch a board going through the manufacturing process. There’s something thrilling about watching a surface mount line running at full tilt - the roar of the fans and conveyors, the woosh-woosh of the picking machines storming out 45,000 placements per hour, the smell of hot flux, the glistening metallic tongues of the wave solder machines.

“All the DTU3G /IP boards are made here at SRX Global in Mebourne,” Cananzi tells me above the hubbub of busy machinery. “SRX makes highend products for motor racing, communications,

All the DTU3G /IP boards are made here at SRX Global in Mebourne...SRX makes high-end products for motor racing, communications, medical and defence industries. medical and defence industries, too. “SRX Global has been very good to work with. They are professional and they really understand that we are all about quality.

“SRX has given us advice on the best and most economical ways to build our boards – we give them the drawings of our design and build and they go through and say, don’t use that resistor or that component because it’s end of life. Or they’ll tell us a component should be surface mounted instead of soldered – so we are working closely at all times.”

Testing is another recurring theme and Cananzi explains that ensuring absolute integrity of every product shipped is undertaken multiple times.

“We’ve really raised the bar in terms of the quality of the build and the quality of the testing,” he tells me. “During manufacture there’s camera testing, then there’s pre-testing, post testing, inline testing and then functional testing back at SCSI on our own purpose-built jig.”

Before we leave SRX we look at the dedicated SCSI test jig which is in the process of driving through hundreds of separate function tests covering about 150 individual component tests on both sides of the DTU3G/IP board.

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Every function test at SRX Global is re-tested at SCSI. “Our inhouse testing checks the DTMF tones, inputs outputs, it’s a whole of function test that is logged and recorded in a database that’s time/date stamped,” Cananzi tells me. “This means we know when the board has been put together, tested, we know everything about every board and we have it all on record.”

Conclusion

“Once a board comes off the reflow machine, it goes through an automated video optical inspection then it goes onto this test jig,” Cananzi says.

“On the jig, every function of every component is tested individually to ensure the integrity of the entire board. That’s before our engineers conduct our own tests before the product is delivered.”

Back at SCSI HQ we check out boards newly arrived from SRX being tested by SCSI’s engineers.

The circuitry of these boards is detailed and even though it’s a modest-sized controller, the DTU is functionally very complicated thanks to the high level nature of its operations and the demands on its processor. Looking at a board on the SCSI test jig I can see the surface mount work is impeccable.

“We’ve got 300 units manufactured and tested this week – we are just finishing off the tests on these units,” explains SCSI engineer, Dave.

“In this automated test system there are about 138 tests but in each of the tests there are sub-tests.

This machine combines in-circuit testing as well as function testing – it tests each component on the board as well as functional testing, providing stimulous, getting responses. The idea is to test up front because it’s much easier to catch something in the manufacturing process than after it has shipped and been installed.

“Every board that comes here has already been thoroughly tested by the factory except for the actual connectors. What this unit here does is connect to the board and provide stimulus and look for responses to all functions including connectors.

According to Dave, the boards have a secret little general purpose relay that’s been set in a particular state so that its contacts are shorted by the factory’s test procedures.

“The first thing our SCSI test software does is check to see if those contacts are shorted and if they are it means the factory has properly tested the board,” he explains. “It’s just a way for us to be sure the board has gone through every test at SRX and helps us to ensure that we are sending out a product that is defect-free.”

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SRX Global surface mount lines

At the end of the tour of SCSI and the factory I sit down and chat with Dale Acott, Debbie Acott and Cananzi about the development of the DTU3G/IP. It’s obvious at all times that their minds keep returning to their boss, husband and father, Steve Acott, a man whose dream has materialised in this new product.

“Steve would be loving this - he’d be up, he’d be down - he wouldn’t be able to contain himself,” Debbie tells me. “This is the culmination of all the dreams and all the effort he put into building the ultimate wireless alarm monitoring solution.”

Do you think Steve’s progressive ideas about wireless alarm monitoring are strengthened even further by the inevitable swing to IP, a shift that will bring about the demise of digital dialler he predicted back in 1991? I ask.

“IP, whichever way the end user looks at it, changes the landscape and monitoring stations need to stop thinking about their rebate and start thinking about IP, where they are going and what their long term revenue will be,” Cananzi tells me.

“That’s why we have invested millions of dollars in this solution. This is a reinvestment we’ve made because the world is going away from a POTS-based network to an IP-based network. We believe we now have the world’s best commercial alarm monitoring solution and we will be pushing this technology through into a domestic product as well.”

The DTU3G/IP has to be seen as an enhancement of the proven DirectWireless solution doesn’t it? I ask.

“Yes, that’s exactly what it is, Cananzi agrees. “We live and breathe end-to-end alarm reporting and that’s what the DTU3G/IP gives our customers. If you are a central station and you want DirectWireless it takes 10 weeks to run the private network because it’s full fibre. And this DTU3G/IP lifts the level of security and functionality at the client end to the same levels.”

Way back on a warm Melbourne afternoon in March 2004, when SCSI first released DirectWireless, I was chatting with Steve Acott.

“DirectWireless will change the landscape,” he insisted. “One day it will support alarms in homes and business, it won’t just be used for high security and commercial sites, either. This is a product for every monitoring station and every alarm system.”

Eight years later, as we stand on the doorstep of an IP-based future devoid of digital diallers, it occurs to me that Acott was right. zzz

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Lion of I Waterloo Integrator Smith & Co Security has installed a Panasonic SmartHD video surveillance solution on a Fluidmesh wireless IP network at Wellington in NSW. The system was supplied preconfigured by Pacific Communications and early indications suggest it’s proving profoundly successful in Wellington’s battle with street crime.

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T’S not often we review video surveillance systems that demonstrably make a difference to their communities but this one does. Installed in the town of Wellington in central western NSW in response to business concerns regarding street crime, this modest CCTV solution had a big job to do.

I drove to Wellington with Pacific Communications’ NSW state manager Scott Myles and account manager Nicholas Coghlan and talking with the boys as we drove through the rich and rolling farmland between Orange and Wellington, it was clear that at multiple levels this was no ordinary installation.

Sure, there were the classic challenges of public surveillance, including getting multiple video signals through a built environment and providing high quality images in low and harsh light. But there were other challenges, too. The system had to be affordable, extremely reliable and, thanks to the tyranny of distance, it had to be almost completely pre-configured and rigorously documented prior to

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In a very real sense, the system at Wellington represents a confluence of technological developments that did not exist a few years ago. IP cameras with serious picture quality and low light capability, dependable wide band wireless communications solutions, and integrators and suppliers able to work as a team.

installation.

In a very real sense, the system at Wellington represents a confluence of technological developments that did not exist a few years ago.

IP cameras with serious picture quality and low light capability, dependable wide band wireless communications, and integrators and suppliers able to work as a team.

When we arrive in Wellington I find it hard not to warm to the place. The second oldest town west of the Blue Mountains, it’s wedged between the Bell and Macquarie Rivers, overlooked by the low, dreaming hills of Mt Arthur Reserve. The age and beauty of its buildings and streetscapes give a powerful sense of the immediacy of the past.

Most public surveillance applications have a back story and Wellington’s is more needful, sharper than most. Like many small country towns, Wellington has seen the emergence of crime as a challenge to the lifestyle enjoyed by its residents. Against a

backdrop of limited resources, council, the police and the business community have pulled together to respond to that challenge.

Mayor Anne Jones has been on Wellington Council for 17 years and, along with her fellow councillors and the business community, has been fighting tirelessly for greater crime prevention measures, including video surveillance. Their efforts have been instrumental in the implementation of this CCTV system.

According to Councillor Jones, she can remember the first time Wellington looked at CCTV back in 1996 but it was long years before funding, community consensus, technological capability and affordability finally met.

“When Council again decided we wanted to go down the path of CCTV, it was a matter of trying to find the funding to be able to deliver what we knew we needed,” Councillor Jones tells me.

“The first time we looked at pricing in the late 1990s we were told it would be in excess of $A250,000 for only 6 or 8 cameras – it was very expensive and we just could not get it across the line – there were no grant funds available for us at the time. We put the first application in and we were knocked back.

“The second application in June 2010 was successful and we were told by the Attorney General’s Department ours was the best submission for funding they’d ever seen. But it was a lengthy process. We got our written confirmation of the grant in April 2011 and then it was a matter of talking to the community and local businesses owners again and doing street walks with the police to identify crime hotspots before going out to tender.”

Designing the system

Wellington Council’s economic development director Paul Mills is a quiet man with that selfdeprecating way about him you only find in a person of deep feeling. Mills says getting the CCTV system approved, designed and installed was a

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lengthy process.

“About 2-and-a-half years ago Council and community got serious about CCTV for the town,” he explains. “Council applied for a grant from the Attorney General’s Department’s Proceeds of Crime Fund and received $A150,000 towards a total CCTV budget of $210,000.

“We don’t know very much about CCTV so we asked suppliers to recommend systems for us to choose from,” Mills says. “3 integrators then quoted on those systems and that process took another 6 months.”

Mills says the first stage of the system was completed at the end of May, 2012, and by June 30 the cameras were in place and all that was needed was some fine tuning and training. The system has been fully operational for about 6 weeks.

“Wellington’s CCTV system is there as a deterrent and it’s there to gather evidence on street crime,” Mills explains. “The system has been installed in response to the fact businesses in the town have suffered from broken windows and damaged shop fronts. The system is designed to alleviate the pressure on businesses in the town and to lead to an increase in the number of street crimes that can be cleaned up by police.”

By my reckoning, this is a very large system for the money. There are 42 Panasonic 720p HD IP cameras with 30-day recording spread across an urban area of several square kilometres, with multiple remote nodes and workstations in 2 locations. Just to trench such a system would cost millions. You could only build a system of this power at this price using wireless.

Operationally, there’s a lot of horsepower in the system and its IP nature and the characteristics of the Fluidmesh MITO 1100 backbone make it eminently expandable and endlessly flexible in potential expansion. The system’s thoughtful configuration also incorporates neat things like distributed

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Wellington’s CCTV system is there as a deterrent and it’s there to gather evidence on street crime...

The system has been installed in response to the fact businesses in the town have suffered from broken windows and damaged shop fronts.

architecture and system-wide remote UPS support.

According to Coghlan, the Wellington video surveillance solutions started off as a very open design and construct tender that sought recommendations from suppliers. Proposed systems could be simple hybrid or high-end IP. “When Wellington Council went to tender, we decided to put in a proposal,” Coghlan explains.

“Our system was designed to be auto focusing on installation and preconfigured so there was no hassle for the integrator and we used Fluidmesh because it’s the number one wireless solution for areas where you can’t do a detailed wireless test beforehand.

“The whole system was designed as very easy to use and easily expanded,” Coghlan says. “Because this installation is a long way from support we had to make sure the system supported the techs installing the product and would also maintain its reliability far in the future.

According to Coghlan, some of the things Council liked about Pacific Communications’ proposal were that it had the dependability of the Panasonic brand, it met the HD criteria and it covered more of the town than anybody else’s offering.

The sharp end of this solution is 42 Panasonic WVSP306 SmartHD 720p fixed cameras with autofocus variously tucked safely into vandal and water resistant wedge or IP66-rated external housings.

Cameras are networked using Fluidmesh MITO 1100 wireless system and viewed on workstations at the police station and at council chambers using simple and functional WV-ASM200 i-PRO management software.

Recording is via 4 Panasonic WJ-NV200s installed in multiple locations. Images are stored at 720p for 30 days at 6ips and there’s no event or motion recording. Storage is 6TB per recorder and there are 4 recorders, for a total of 24TB of system storage.

“The cameras are primarily installed on the main shopping strip and in other locations like the railway station and the system is designed so we always get a face shot,” Coghlan explains.

“And all the cameras overlap so every camera view is covered by another camera view. The system has standard 15-50mm lenses and these SmartHD cameras are 3MP so they are zoomed in just a little bit to give better performance at distances typical in the viewing areas here and to see ‘through’ hanging retail signage.”

Also vital to this system is UPS support for every component. The UPS units are tucked into remote nodes and are genuinely designed to support the system and all its cameras and links. There’s no chance of signal loss in the event of power fail and the system is not troubled by brownouts.

The installation

Bathurt integrator Smith & Co Security installed the CCTV system in Wellington including cameras, Fluidmesh units, NVRs, remote switches, UPS units and all the cabling.

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I think everyone likes to be able to help the community in some way and it’s great to feel that you’ve made a difference and that’s what this system has done in less than a month. No one really expected the huge reduction in crime seen since the cameras were installed.

Smith & Co director, Hywell Blake, a former police officer who has more recently handled security in tough mining environments, is as strongly motivated by the power of the system to help the town as everyone else involved. When I chat with Blake and his young technician, Callum Evenden, their ownership of the system is warm, immediate and transparent.

“The business community is really supportive, they want to see their town get back to where it was ten years ago,” Blake says..

“When you put in a system that actually does make a difference it’s very worthwhile. Just being able to come back and hear the stories from locals is great.

“I think everyone likes to be able to help the community in some way and it’s great to feel that you’ve made a difference and that’s what this system has done in less than a month. No one really expected the huge reduction in crime seen since the cameras were installed.”

This installation was a perfect fit for Bathurstbased Smith & Co Security and Blake agrees that when a tender came up that was smack in its own backyard, the Smith & Co team decided to go for it.

“We’ve done a number of big jobs before and we’ve worked with Fluidmesh and other Pacific Communications products, too. We saw this as our chance to do a bigger job in the Central West. It was nice to show we could install this type of high end IP solution,” Blake explains.

“Nicholas Coghlan from Pacific Communications gave us the plans he’d drawn up for the install and made it very simple to quote on and we were delighted to win the job.

“The installation itself took 8 weeks and the gear was installed by 2 of our young technicians, Callum Evenden and Jamie Smith. A third technician came in at the end to help with commissioning but Callum and Jamie did the cabling and all the installation.

The quality of the work they’ve done is outstanding.

“We started at the beginning of May and finished at the end of June. We then spent a bit of time making sure everything was right before we handed

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the system over to Council a month ago,” Blake says.

“The job went to budget, it finished on time and we didn’t have any problems. As an installer you can’t get better than that. There were one or two things we had to check with Nick and thanks to him we had someone we could talk to every step of the way. If we needed product it was here within 2 days and it was probably the smoothest run job we’ve ever done.”

A Fluidmesh solution which only needs a video feed and power makes installing a public surveillance system much simpler, doesn’t it? I ask Blake.

“Yes, it makes the installation simpler,” he agrees.

“But we still had more than 3000 metres of cabling and conduit from cameras to Fluidmesh units to manage so it was a big job although it was made simpler thanks to the nature of the system and the pre-configuration of components by Pacific Communications.

“When it came time to put the cameras in, that only took a couple of weeks. Something I have to highlight is that the client is rapt with the result – they are really impressed with the quality of system

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With one of the links here we had to shoot smack through the middle of a tree and we still got full signal strength – we had no problems whatever with interference of any kind. they’ve got for the money.”

According to Blake, the Panasonic WV-SP306 cameras do so well with ambient light that only 2 which are located well away from street lights ever revert to black and white, while the rest stay in colour day and night.

“There’s not a lot of ambient light here but the Panasonic cameras do very well,” Blake says. “This was one of the things we checked carefully during the installation process – that the cameras could operate with the existing light overnight and that we did not need to put extra lighting up.”

Blake assures me there is no problem whatever with blooming and smearing from truck headlights on the busy Mitchell Highway which cuts through the centre of Wellington. Something else that interested me was the challenge of getting the wireless signals right but, according to Blake, there was no absolutely problem with signal quality using Fluidmesh.

“With one of the links here we had to shoot smack through the middle of a tree and we still got full signal strength – we had no problems whatever with interference of any kind,” he says.

“The Fluidmesh units were all pre-programmed by Pacific Communications and all the cameras were pre-configured too, so it was a matter of running cables from the cameras to the Fluidmesh units and it was almost plug and play from there.”

According to Coghlan, from the point of view of Fluidmesh, the town is split into 13 separate sections – West Wellington, North Wellington and all the way

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around the main sections of the town. He says there are a total of 26 Fluidmesh links.

“We also used Vigitron UDP extenders in one instance where we could not get wireless across the top of the building and it was too expensive to run a fibre connection such a short distance. The Cat-5 was about 160 metres and the Vigitron was perfect for this application.”

Listening to the boys talk about their system it occurs to me that even a couple of years ago a solution like this would not have been possible.

The wireless flexibility, the compression, the huge storage capacity on just a handful of NVRs, the low light performance, the low, low, cost and the distributed architecture.

Something else that’s interesting is the way the system was supplied. It was completely preconfigured, tested, laid out and shipped so as to be as simple as possible to install nearly 400km from supplier support back in Sydney. When a supplier underwrites a solution like this there has to be serious effort put into documentation and there was.

According to Scott Myles, documentation was a vital factor with this system.

“Everything was documented and set up before it was shipped,” he explains. “As a result, if there are any questions it means our support team can just refer back to the documents and give quality support to the techs in the field. That was a major factor in the success of this system.

“Pre-configuring the system from our controlled

Callum Evenden, Nick Coghlan, Anne Jones, Scott Myles and Hywell Blake

staging room allowed us to deliver a turnkey solution so much better.” Myles says.

“The process starts with a pre-staging meeting with the integrator and our account manager, IT Department, our Operations team, we go through the staging document and it’s there a lot of questions are raised where the integrator needs to find out naming rights on servers, IP address ranges.

“Everyone knows what everyone is doing and what is expected of them. It’s the execution of the planning that’s important with IP. It takes the risk away from those integrators who have never done IP before.”

Coghlan agrees.

“The process gave the integrator a lot of confidence.

The techs in the field knew we knew everything about the system, that it was pre-programmed and there was full documentation. It meant they did not need to stress when on site – they could focus on doing the best installation and getting the best images from the cameras. This teamwork was part of the reason only 2 techs were required.”

While we talk about the installation we take a foot tour of the town, looking at cameras installed in wedge housings under awnings and in weatherproof housings on exposed walls and roofs. We see the Fluidmesh links installed on poles and roofs.

At all times it’s a tidy job and the quality of the installation is consistent, too. There’s no sign of slackness from Smith & Co’s techs, even in and around the remote nodes containing switches and

Everyone knows what everyone is doing and what is expected of them. It’s the execution of the planning that’s important with IP. It takes the risk away from those integrators who have never done IP before

UPS units that are hidden away inside the upper storeys of completely empty buildings. To me, a consistent commitment to craftsmanship is the unmistakable signpost of an installer’s integrity. It’s very well done.

As we wander through the town I get a chance to chat with technician Callum Evenden who, together with Jamie Smith, lived in Wellington for 10 weeks during the installation and commissioning of the system.

Evenden exhibits a strong ownership of the system as well as a pronounced affinity with the people of the region and the town. He says the installation went without a hitch.

“Apart from the weather, which was very hot for us working in roofs and ceilings, everything went very well,” says Brit-born Evenden of the June-July installation period.

“I was initially worried about the job because I had not done something of this size but I was surprised at how well it went. We got stuck into it and after we did the first section, which took a couple of days, we were able to complete each subsequent section in a single day.”

Evenden says there were plenty of comments from locals during the installation.

“We got lots and lots of comments from local shop owners,” he explains. “Everyone wanted us to be there, they wanted the system installed and they wanted to talk to us. We had no problems with anyone – even the local troublemakers – they just quietly watched us work – we were surprised by that.”

The installation was simplified by the fact Panasonic SmartHD gear is virtually plug and play.

“You connect the cameras and the system pretty much finds itself,” Myles says. “There’s autofind and autofocus and backfocus from the head end.

It takes about 20 seconds for the camera to set itself. We did not have to send anybody out during the installation. Usually with an IP based system there’s always a call-out but that has not happened here. This system is very easy, very robust.”

Coghlan points out that most the cameras are default.

“They are set to give the best WDR and low light performance,” he says. “We did a little bit of backlight compensation tweaking – there wasn’t a lot required. I came out to Wellington on 4 prescheduled occasions to make sure things were on track and to answer questions about setting up the NVRs and to make a presentation to Council and that was all.”

Integral to system capability and future expandability are those Fluidmesh Mito 1100 nodes are spread across town.

“The bandwidth of the system is 10Mb on the 2 camera sections, 30Mb on sections with 5-6 cameras and then on the trunk connections bandwidth is higher still,” Coghlan explains.

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“The beauty of Fluidmesh is that increasing the bandwidth is a matter of upgrading the license – there’s no change to the hardware. You just order an extra license and you can add more cameras as you go.”

This potential for expandability is important to Wellington Council, according to Mills.

“One of the nice things about Fluidmesh is that we can just extend the system as we need to,” he says. “Down the track we may look at installing more cameras at particular locations we have in mind and it’s just an easy add-on to do so.”

A key element of the system is that fact that the nodes, links antennae and power all depend on support from businesses and building owners in the town. According to Mills, there was no problem with permissions for any of the components of this installation.

“There’s strong support for the system in Wellington. Businesses were happy to allow us to locate system components in and on their buildings.

They want the system.”

As part of our walking tour of the town I meet Pam and John from the Home and Office Furniture store on the main street. In the first 12 months their business was open they had problems with malicious damage. Not surprisingly, they are both happy CCTV has been installed.

“The last incident was February, before the cameras, but we think the cameras will reduce problems further,” John tells me. “In the past kids would shoot our windows with slingshots. I think the system will work, so long as it’s policed and the kids know where the cameras are.”

The control room

The control room in Council Chambers is a compact access-controlled space that’s partly filled with cardboard voting booths from the recent Council elections.

On the wall is a Pacom LCD screen and there’s a workstation tower, keyboard and mouse on an adjacent desk. The purpose of this workstation is primarily access to video clips to supply to police in the event of an incident.

Council staff do not monitor the system, Mills tells me. Instead their responsibility is getting data across to police investigators in the event of an incident.

“Council has negotiated an operating procedure with police relating to the processes of exchanging image streams and if there is an event we will provide video footage to police when requested,” he explains.

“There’s an official form police fill out to request this information and they will include a start and finish time to search for. CCTV footage is another tool for police and they are very happy with the system, particularly with the quality of the images.

“They also have a workstation they can monitor in real time, they can track events as they happen.

This works very well. It’s a small town and a lot of the people in the town are known to police.”

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Main street

As far as system management is concerned, Mills says operation is simple.

“We’re very happy with the management solution,” Mills says. “It’s straightforward – it took 20 minutes of training to learn how to operate. Viewing the cameras, accessing recordings, it’s all just a piece of cake.”

As we crowd around the screen, Coughlin drives the system, showing me the extent of the camera views. We look at cameras along the shopping strip first. These are installed under deep awnings and in the bright morning sun they are dealing with very bright patches of sunlight interspersed with deep shaded areas.

The capable Panasonic SP306s are handling this challenge with aplomb. Colour rendition is excellent and consistent, and resolution is easily good enough to read number plates and recognise faces well into the medium distance and far outside the designed field of view. Backlight does not seem to be a problem, either. There’s no noticeable flare out in the sun. Given the overlapping nature of the fields of view, it’s hard to imagine not getting complete coverage of an event with this solution.

“About 95 per cent of the shops on the main street now have coverage,” says Mills. “Whenever you move through the CBD you appear on numerous cameras and that means police can see who was in the area even if they don’t get footage of an actual event.

“We never expected blanket coverage so we’re delighted with this performance. This is a difficult CBD for video surveillance - it runs up the main street and around the corner and then up another street – but despite this we’ve got excellent coverage.”

After checking out live daytime footage we take a look at some night scenes at about 1.30am in the morning. The camera we look at has not reverted to black and white and is pointed directly at the entries to rest rooms in the park across from the main shops.

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Staring this camera in the face is a strong floodlight.

I see no evidence of blooming from this light and no excessive snow or noise in the image which might stress storage or bandwidth. The camera is getting recognisable faces at perhaps 35 metres. There’s no movement in the scene so I can’t assess motion blur but having undertaken an objective test with the Panasonic SP306 not long ago I can attest to the fact low light is its great strength. I saw no motion blur in that test.

“The system is managed using the WV-ASM200 i-PRO management software in conjunction with WJ-NV200s NVRs installed in the network room and at other remote locations,” Coghlan explains to me.

“This ASM200 software comes with all Panasonic NVRs and cameras. The system can also be viewed via Internet Explorer. The police view the system on workstations with the same software and they have exactly the same setup in the station as Council has.”

In terms of network topology, some cameras transmit back to nodes on the roof of Council Chambers and are recorded in the network room there. The link to the Police Station comes from another central node at Coles, which is linked to the

One of the problems we thought we would encounter was that the crime would move from the CBD to other areas. But we haven’t actually seen that happen in Wellington Library. Meanwhile, a fibre link connects the Library and Council Chambers.

“All the cameras from the Western side of town are recorded in Council Chambers and all the cameras from the Northern side of town go back to multiple nodes around the Coles complex so if any backbones go down the cameras are still being recorded,” Coghlan says.

“There’s also an NVR in Kitchener’s Hardware and another in Raine and Horne – it’s a distributed architecture so instead of having everything in one location the NVRs are spread around. Importantly, from the 2 workstation locations – Council and Police – you can view all the cameras on the network.”

That’s a good image I say, as Coghlan pulls up another street scene. The camera is getting faces and number plates at the scene edges. Coghlan points out the width of the field of view – explaining that the cameras don’t just get the footpath and shop fronts but they are getting parked vehicles and number plates as well. It’s excellent performance.

While Coghlan parks the management system, I take a look in the network room where the NV-200s are located. It’s a nice, compact installation sitting on a dedicated subnet with its own switch pulling

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signals down from roof-mounted Fluidmesh links via Cat-6.

Conclusion

There’s something special about this video surveillance solution in Wellington and when writing it up I couldn’t quite put my finger on why I found the install so moving. Perhaps it was the genuine need of this community. Perhaps it was the fierce commitment of Council, integrator and system supplier to make a difference. Perhaps it was both.

All of us in security electronics wonder about the value of the work we do, question the worth of the technologies we represent and install. There’s something so right about seeing the undoubted power and flexibility of the latest surveillance solutions used in a meaningful way like this.

Many surveillance systems go in gratuitously with no coherent purpose but this Wellington street surveillance solution is the real deal.

There’s something more to tell. In all of this, the best thing about the Wellington CCTV solution is the positive impact it has had on crime in the town since the system was commissioned. According to Councillor Jones, the results have been significant and widespread and there’s a real sense the system has given the community new hope.

“Our CCTV system has been in for about a month,” she explains. “We saw a reduction in our crime as soon as we said we were going to put in the CCTV cameras earlier this year and since the cameras have been in we’ve seen even more of a reduction.

“One of the problems we thought we would encounter was that the crime would move from the CBD to other areas. But we haven’t actually seen that happen in Wellington,” she says.

“We have a precinct meeting with police command, council and various other key players on a 3-monthly basis and the crime statistics are put before us and we can see the movement in those statistics. I can say that in almost every area crime has gone down – it’s just unbelievable.”

Mills, too, is happy with the system.

“It’s not just that we got the system we wanted for $210,000, it’s the quality of the images we are getting,” he explains. “If you have a look at the night time images, they are still in colour. So, yes, we are very happy with it.”

When I ask Mills how effective has the system been in reducing crime he gives me a quick look containing equal measures of relief and disbelief.

“There have been no reports of any incidents of street crime in the Wellington CBD since the system became operational a month ago,” he tells me. “It’s winter, which is always a quieter time for trouble but it’s certainly an encouraging start for us.

From Council’s perspective we have relied on the contractor to deliver a good product and this system has delivered.” zzz

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There’s also an SDK interface available to support direct integration to 3rd party receiving software, which is ideal for big sites with legacy gear.

I got a demo of the unit from Jeff Rushton on the Alarmcorp stand at Security 2012 and was impressed with the breadth of the capabilities this Xtralis product has built into it. The unit is designed as a real world solution and it has an industrial quality that suggests plenty of thought went into the design of its functionality.

According to ADPRO, if the system is combined with ADPRO VideoCentral Platinum management software, its combination of video alarm verification, remote site monitoring and control, and evidential quality recording (H.264), it provides the most flexible multi-site video security system available.

Event-based video transmission pushes videoon-alarm from the remote site to the ADPRO VideoCentral Platinum remote video and alarm management software and ADPRO M3000 command and control software. There’s a CMS control override function to get complete control of the system in the event of an incident and there are 10 custom settings for live viewing.

Additional features of FastTrace 2 include optimised image quality, bandwidth and HDD management and that H.264 compression which allows up to 25ips per camera. Importantly, the unit

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A key feature is the intuitive web interface which gives authorised users remote access to live and recorded video over the network, either multicast or unicast. FastTrace 2 allows fast searches through large amounts of recorded video thanks to its postrecord metadata motion search capability. Results are presented on a timeline in seconds without large video data transfers across the network.

FastTrace 2 can also integrate optional on-board video analytics capabilities (up to 4 channels) for indoor loitering detection and outdoor perimeter detection (sterile zone detection). This is handled via a High Level Interface to ADPRO’s Presidium intelligent video analytics platform and the optional on-board video analytics can detect loiterers even when they remain static for a long time.

Video alarm verification is another key feature of the product and it incorporates live and recorded video transmission, 2-way audio, remote camera control and flexible integration capabilities to provide full remote site surveillance and control, eliminating the need for on-site guards.

The beauty of video alarm verification as opposed to patrol response or even video tours of a facility is that it allows rapid assessment of video alarm images enabling the cause of alarms to be faster, allowing for response only when necessary, improving real security and minimising responses to false alarms.

Resolutions for analogue cameras include CIF, QCIF, 2CIF and 4CIF, while IP cameras can be supported up to HD and megapixel resolutions. The 2-way audio capability includes one bi-directional half-duplex audio channel available per video channel with optional audio switcher. There’s also camera supervision for contrast, no video signal and camera tamper (moved or defocused).

The unit has local on-board input/outputs and extended input/outputs with up to 128 total input/ outputs via optional Ethernet PoE modules. This seriously extends the capabilities of FastTrace 2 to act as a security or plant monitoring solution in local and remote applications. There’s also an SDK interface available to support direct integration to 3rd party receiving software, which is ideal for big sites with legacy gear.

Alarm transmission capability is handled by a primary IP link with optional 3G, back up optional 3G and support for Dynamic IP addresses (DNS).

There’s also a communication channel supervision via automatic site pulse watchdog signal, time synchronisation via NTP time servers and integrated PTZ telemetry support with PTZ presets on alarm (RS485, via coax). zzz

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The company pioneered panoramic imaging technology with the introduction of the first multi-sensor SurroundVideo megapixel cameras in 2006.

“With our new 40 megapixel SurroundVideo cameras, Arecont Vision again raises the bar for panoramic surveillance cameras,” said Dr. Michael Kaplinsky, CEO, Arecont Vision.

“A 40 megapixel panoramic is a perfect extension of our core competency in high resolution multi-sensor imaging.

Arecont Vision’s 40 megapixel SurroundVideo panoramic cameras provide 360-degree and 180-degree panoramic views using 4 highsensitivity, 10 megapixel sensors. Each sensor provides 3648 x 2752 pixel resolution at up to 5 frames per second, for a total image area of 14592 x 2752 pixels. The cameras employ dual H.264 and MJPEG encoders, and offer a binning mode for increased low light performance. Both new SurroundVideo cameras are ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum) and PSIA (Physical Security Interoperability Alliance) conformant.

Megapixel panoramic cameras provide cost-effective solutions for applications where mechanical pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) devices or multiple cameras might otherwise be enlisted to provide similar coverage. Arecont Vision’s 40 megapixel SurroundVideo cameras further enable users to view and record extremely wide fields-of-view while simultaneously digitally zooming in to multiple regions of interest with extraordinary detail.

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Designing a PSIM

In my last article I observed that to be effective, PSIM should integrate all of the security operations and that, to know what is required of a solution, designers of a PSIM need to immerse themselves in the procedures carried out day-to-day in the security control room.

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here are 2 likely situations where you will be designing a PSIM. One will be for a large greenfield site where all new systems are being installed and commissioned. The other will be for an upgrade, expansion or relocation of an existing security control room. What they will have in common is a large number of sub-systems probably installed by different integrators and subcontractors all of which are to be controlled and monitored by an in house security team.

The challenge is in 3 parts. First, the design of the security control room and operators’ consoles, second, the interfacing of all the subsystems to the PSIM and third, interfacing of databases.

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further factor built in based on the type of facility.

A campus with a large population of students and staff will have more interaction with people than an office complex. A multi-use site like a port or airport will have complexity and large numbers of people compared with a prison where there is a much more controlled environment.

The number of operators needed will vary considerably with each application, however, a PSIM will make the operators more efficient and therefore may reduce the number needed compared with the number you might need with separate sub-systems to manage. As described in the July article, the PSIM manages events with pre-programmed scenarios which are loaded into the software. Each scenario defines the automatic response required for each known or predicted event likely to occur.

This library of scenarios is built up using previous history and the experience gathered over many years of operation. This means that the control room operators have more time to be proactive during a crisis as the routine responses are handled for them by the PSIM. One of the main benefits of a PSIM is that it allows a ‘clean desk’ policy to be implemented. By this I mean a minimum of equipment should be

One of the main benefits of a PSIM is that it allows a ‘clean desk’ policy to be implemented. By this I mean a minimum of equipment should be needed for the operators to do their job.

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needed for the operators to do their job. I would hope that, at each operator’s console, all that is needed is a keyboard, mouse, 3 x 22-inch monitors and an audio (phone, intercom & two way radio) console.

Common to all operators close by would be a central report printer and standard operating procedures (SOP) files. In front of the operators will be the video wall with the large screen monitors.

The number of screens or the size of the video wall will vary based on the application, the determining factors being the same as those mentioned above for the number of operators.

Interfacing sub-systems to the PSIM

The number of interfaces needed and manner in which they are interfaced varies greatly. The first thing to do is to work up a list and then work out how easy or hard each interface is going to be. If you are lucky some will already have been developed. The PSIM vendors have been working hard developing interfaces over recent years so many have already been tried and tested. However, depending on your sub-systems there is a reasonable chance many have not been developed.

The sub-systems that only need a signal received by the PSIM and do not require acknowledgement or signal back can be one directional and should be the simplest. Since the mapping is done in the PSIM, each point can be given an address so that it shows up on a map without the need for a bi-directional interface.

Where there is a need for interaction between the PSIM and the sub-system such as when control of a point is needed via a keyboard command or clicking on an icon on a map a bi-directional interface, more than likely high level (HLI) will be necessary. It may not always be the case but as a general rule the one directional interfaces would be for fire, intercoms and building automation system (BAS).

An interface with the two way radio system will allow the GPS positioning of radios as well as signalling a duress call or man down alarm from a radio into the PSIM. This will allow rapid location of the security guard out in the field.

Bi-directional interfaces would be more important for security access system (SAS) which includes security and duress alarms and CCTV. All voice can be integrated using a purpose built console. This allows two way radio, intercom and phones to all be handled on the one instrument or headset.

An interface with the 2-way radio system will allow the GPS positioning of radios as well as signalling a duress call or man-down alarm from a radio into the PSIM. This will allow rapid location of the security guard out in the field.

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Interfacing of databases

There will be a number of sub-system databases that may need linking via the PSIM depending on the level of functionality that the control room operators are going to have. Keep in mind that the control room operators are not necessarily system administrators.

They may not be managing the databases of subsystems in the control room. System administrators will be using the sub system head ends at another location, such as the operations area, to program the system data, time zones and configuration as well as user groups, cardholders, alarm parameters etc.

The visitor management system (VMS) will probably be run from reception or the concierge desk. A link to this system offers the option of issuing visitors an access card instead of a visitor’s badge.

For sites with large user databases where staff or student information is held in a personnel database, a high level interface (HLI) is most important.

Depending on the operational requirements of the security team an HLI to an Incident Reporting System might also be required. The level of reporting and analysis of incidents as well as dispatching patrols and management of the security team may be beyond the standard capabilities of the PSIM and a specialist software package which has greater capabilities in this area should be considered.

Transfer of data between these system databases will eliminate duplication of data entry tasks as well as better reporting on events and activity.

Naturally all this technology will need the right sort of back up and support. It goes without saying that uninterruptable power supply (UPS) will be needed for all systems. There will be a significant amount of hardware needed, including servers and network switches, so data racks will have to be located close to the control room. zzz *Roger Pearce is an independent security consultant with over 30 years experience in the electronic security industry He can be contacted at sbtb@people.net.au or www.sydneysecurityconsultants.com.au

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SALTO the earth SALTO’s battery powered wireless access control solution employs distributed intelligence in both the lock and credential, communicating wirelessly with PC-based SALTO programming software or third party management systems to make lock re-programming and/or re-keying a thing of the past.

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t their heart, SALTO’S solutions are built around a range of battery-powered, wireless locking devices including electronic escutcheon locks, electronic mortise locks, oval cylinders, locker locks, mortise locks, half cylinders and plenty more.

These SALTO locks retrofit into existing mortise locks or knobsets in minutes and function using reader technologies including smart card, contactless smart card and dual technology cards, not expensive mechanical keys that must all be replaced if one is lost. The locks are designed to be installed in off-line applications on doors (or

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padlocks) and a full audit trail of events, as well as changes to access authorisations, are passed around the system network as part of what Salto calls SVN (Salto Virtual Network).

What is SVN? Well, oddly enough, it’s the credentials themselves moving around the building in the hands of cardholders. It’s a very simple concept but when you’re schooled in a hardwired world of readers linked to smart door controllers; directly linked to centralized control modules, linked to software-powered workstations; it’s actually a bit hard to get your head around SALTO at first. The easiest way to understand SALTO SVN is to mentally pull the non-volatile memory containing user authorisations and audit trails out of traditional door controllers and slot it into every single card and reader in the system. There. That’s SALTO. Whenever cards and locks and cards and hotspots meet, as part of their wireless conversation, they exchange a complete update of authorisations and events going on across the network. Through the hotspots this information funnels back to SALTO’s Pro Access management software running on a central PC, which allows administrators to manage things like access time zones, view audit trails, as well as driving anti passback and relay management.

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The easiest way to understand SALTO SVN is to mentally pull the non-volatile memory containing user authorisations and audit trails out of traditional door controllers and slot it into every single every single card and reader in the system. There. That’s SALTO. Pro Access can manage large numbers of door installations, and as most access related information is written on the credential, the management of the doors becomes management of the credential. By simply updating the badge, you can change most access-related authorisations of the users, including adding/deleting doors, time zones, calendars, etc.

The other thing to understand about SALTO is that it’s not hard wired. Instead SALTO’S solution is designed to meet the challenges of bringing the huge numbers of mechanical door locks in large facilities into an access controlled environment with full audit trails and the ability to grant or deny access without gigantic star configs of RS-485 being installed.

Smaller sites benefit, too. In the past, if you had a building with say, 35 standalone electronic locks installed in it, each lock had to be reprogrammed manually if a cardholder was being removed. Salto’s networked locks work in a different way, with local locks and readers working in concert with those hotspot readers (SALTO WRM 9001s connected to the central controller via Ethernet) with the cards being the mechanism by which the readers and central controller exchange information.

Using these hot-spots, the remote readers are able to share information about events and access control privileges with the central controller and throughout the network, with every card in the hand of every cardholder being part of the system’s distributed architecture of online and offline memory. It’s a strangly simple and awesome way for an access system to communicate.

Salto installations are a bit more complicated than the traditional stand alone access control locks of yore but much less complicated than hardwired and they have strengths that make them vastly superior to standalone locks.

What you actually get with SALTO is full function access control of all interior doors at a fraction of the cost of hard wiring and, according to SALTO at a cost that’s only marginally more expensive than a quality commercial mechanical masterkey system.

Fact is, you get all the features of a hardwired access control system with SALTO including unlimited audit trail, dynamic access profile changes, calendar and shift control, intruder alarm, automated unlock/ relock periods, automatic lost keycard cancellation, departmental operator

management, ethernet connectivity of all online devices and the ability to interface with other popular access control and BMS systems.

Importantly, communications between carrier and electronic lock are encrypted and secure and SALTO locks can always be opened from the inside using a single-action panic feature that works in conjunction with the relevant mortise lock.

SALTO locks, like the SALTO XS4, have high security protection via high resistance, hardened anti-drill plates to protect wiring and reader area.

Additional protection is provided by hardened axes and floating steel balls in the handle area.

Other neat features include low battery power indication monitored through the SALTO Virtual Network (SVN), emergency opening via portable programming device (PPD), non volatile memory. zzz

Features of SALTO access control l Off-line or on-line door controllers depending on the model l Managed by software l Virtual Network capable through SALTO Virtual Network Technology l User on card audit trailing capability l All communications between reader and door controller and PC encrypted l No additional control panels are required l Alarm input l Set up made with Portable Programming Devices (PPD) or via PC l Update made with Portable Programming Device (PPD) or SVN l Anti Pass Back mode available depending on the model l Firmware upgradable by PPD or direct from PC to on-line units.

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Change in the wind

F In our last few monitoring segments we’ve highlighted some of the changes the ongoing digital revolution is pressing onto the monitoring industry. They’ve been slow in coming but they’re coming in all directions.

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OR Australian alarm installers and monitoring stations there’s been a long hot summer of rebates linked to the PSTN network that over the next couple of years is going to come increasingly unstitched. This next period is one that will challenge the ingenuity and business capabilities of many companies.

Last issue I talked about AT&T’s security and home automation play, a business model that entirely excludes third party installers and monitoring stations and gives home owners a level of automation and integration our industry does not afford them.

It’s impossible to imagine that the United States is the only place on the planet these sorts of bundled telco services are going to be implemented.

There’s no doubt in my mind that such services will find their way to Australia – furthermore, I believe that such services are already being planned by vigorous IP-based service providers.

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again this applies to manufacturers as well as to installers. Currently alarm systems depend on proprietary wireless communications protocols or hardwiring to communicate to centrally located remote alarm panels. But what if sensor devices were edge devices in a real sense?

Such sensors would offer the advantage of distributed intelligence, remote addressability, remote monitoring from multiple locations, including monitoring by mobile devices.

Without getting into the value or risks of self-monitoring, I can’t imagine a future in which monitoring does not begin to sprawl, with small start-ups and large telco providers competing with traditional monitoring companies for a slice of an increasingly sophisticated user market.

Tomorrow’s homeowners are going to be tech-hungry Generation Ys and Generation Zs (the so-called Internet Generation or iGeneration) and it’s impossible to pretend that these groups of people will not expect intuition from

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their networked electronic solutions.

There is no chance whatever they will be hoodwinked into buying dumb technologies.

The thing is, of course, that this observation is scarcely revolutionary.

There are companies in the security space setting up clever ambush positions and lying in wait for our changing market. It’s my opinion that some of these companies are templates for what the alarm and alarm monitoring market will look like in the future.

Who are they? Let’s start with Monitronics International in the U.S., which is accepting WiFi for IP alarm communications as part of what it says is a push towards simplifying installations and cutting service costs for end users.

Monitronics plays on the fact its domestic market has a 60 per cent penetration of broadband and according to the company’s Bruce Mungiguerra this fact should benefit users.

“It should reduce the overall cost of service because IP communication is a lot less than cellular communication, and the cost of the IP wireless connection is a lot less than a cellular radio,” he said recently.

“It also makes life a whole lot easier for the technicians in the field,” Mungiguerra said.

Monitronics’ product is the Honeywell LYNX Touch 5100 from Honeywell, the security industry’s first system to provide Wi-Fi alarm communications. It was introduced at ISC West in March and released in June.

And Mungiguerra said the Touch 5100 and other Wi-Fi-enabled systems could help break down the reluctance of many alarm companies to embrace IP. “I think a big piece of why they haven’t wanted to tie into IP in the past was having to run that CAT5 wire,” he said.

While there are also dealers hesitant to adopt Wi-Fi because of router issues, Mungiguerra said the concerns are unfounded if the correct procedures are followed.

“Part of it is they’ve been afraid that if they tie into a customer’s router and the Internet goes down, now it’s seen as the installer’s fault and they’d be getting a lot of unnecessary support calls,” he said.

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The aim of WebEye is to enhance the provision of security services in a wide range of sectors including property management, utilities, local government and facilities management – it’s no domestic toy. router, they’re in great shape. If they try to connect it to the customer’s router, then that may cause some additional challenges.”

Pushing into the same area, this time in the UK, is VDT Direct, a new cloudbased alarm monitoring solutions, called WebEye CMS, which controls the RSI Videofied system.

Far from being some shoot-fromthe-hip solution, WebEye CMS was developed in partnership with the University of Leicester and is designed to distribute alarm communications and data to any internet connected PC, laptop, netbook, tablet or smartphone.

WebEye delivers alarm notifications directly to a smart phone with an audible siren and/or visual alert within minutes of activations. This groundbreaking application will also be available for both Blackberry and Windows Phone in the near future.

The aim of WebEye is to enhance the provision of security services in a wide range of sectors including property management, utilities, local government and facilities management – it’s no domestic toy.

“WebEye CMS is quick and easy to deploy as well as being extremely cost effective to run,” says Clive Mason, managing director at VDT Direct.

“Costing from just £5 a month, it enables users to monitor remote sites and receive video alarms on the move from any location around the clock, deliver a faster, more efficient response to alarm activations and reduce the incidence of wasted time through the rapid identification of false alarms.”

Alerts can be automatically sent to an unlimited number of users with SMS text messages used as backup should an alarm call not be responded to within a set time. Through a dedicated website, users can access information about activations to see if an intrusion, tamper, panic or duress button alarm has occurred. Video footage can also be viewed to decide the most appropriate course of action to take.

Being cloud-based, there is unlimited bandwidth allowing multiple users to simultaneously view video footage without causing bandwidth issues.

The WebEye CMS interface enbles users to initiate responses to notifications direct from their mobile device. This can include setting off a siren and using the talkback function to issue warnings to intruders. The system is fully auditable and provides a detailed history of every event including date and time, alerts sent to recipients, responses from users, system status messages and other logging information.

For monitoring stations groaning about user-monitoring – there’s more to this. In a very real sense this sort of intuitive and powerful capability represents the future of their own dedicated services. There’s no reason monitoring stations should not incorporate such functionality into their own systems, sending alerts and images to patrol teams, sharing data and images with end users.

“WebEye is an innovative new cloudbased security solution that enables organisations to set up their own alarm receiving centre (ARC) in around 30 minutes,” says Mason. “It can also be used in conjunction with traditional ARCs for shared monitoring to ensure that agreed service levels are being met and that the highest levels of protection are delivered.” zzz

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Aritech DD1012AM dual techology ARITECH’s DD1012AM is a volumetric dual technology sensor featuring range-gated radar and dual element PIR detection with a 78-degree detection zone, a 12 metre range, internal and external supervision and partial or full antimasking alarm.

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LONG with Aritech’s patented mirror optic PIR technology, these motion sensors incorporate UTC Fire & Security’s patented range-gated radar technology which allows installers to define a clear border to the sensor’s radar range.

It works because the sensor is clever enough to use its radar to measure the distance between its detection mechanism and moving objects and the result is a sensor with all the awesome sensitivity of radar yet with no nuisance alarms generated by events outside the target area.

The DD1012AM has 4 dip-switch selectable radar ranges and this means installers can set the sensor to best conform to the room in which it’s installed.

Aritech’s radar technology runs at a frequency of 5.8GHz so there’s no chance it will interfere with wireless networks.

Meanwhile, the DD1012AM also features a dual element pyroelectric element generating 2 volumetric curtains for each of the sensor’s 9 curtain sets. The company’s patented optical mirror technology gives the advantage of gliding focus, which creates a continuous detection curtain from floor level to installation height. The gliding mirror design gives complete coverage of an entire scene – there are none of the holes you get with low cost PIRs whose lenses are designed to split pyro sensitivity into zones or beams of detection.

Standard PIR lenses can create lanes of sensitivity that might be just a few inches wide but many metres apart at the extremities of a sensor’s detection range. In comparison, Aritech’s mirror optics covers every single part of the scene in view with such accuracy that it’s possible to use supplied masks to cover particular areas.

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The design of Aritech’s mirrored lenses also allows the reflected IR in the target area to be compensated for on the basis of range. That means the voltage generated at the pyro by an intruder is identical whether the person is standing 2 metres from the sensor or 12 metres from it. And this sense of perspective allows speed of movement to be compensated for with perfect accuracy, too.

Radar and PIR technologies work together to generate alarms based on what both see in their detection zone but it would be a mistake to think this is a simple AND function. Instead, the DD1012AM’s microprocessor classifies the input signals from each technology so has to get the best alarm result without being so sensitive it suffers from nuisance signal sources. Just as important, Aritech’s dual technology creates uniform sensitivity in all source directions.

Helping installers with easier installations there’s a plug-in connector, multiple end-of-line resistor values with easy wiring options and limited loss of vision when objects intrude into PIR vision thanks to the curtain detection.

The DD1012AM’s microprocessor classifies the input signals from each technology so has to get the best alarm result without being so sensitive it suffers from nuisance signal sources.

Because there are both radar and active IR technologies used in the sensor, this unit features both external and internal supervision. Radar verification prevents insect alarms and in the event of masking or partial masking, an AM alarm is held until the mask is removed.zzz

Features of Aritech’s DD1012AM l Patented selectable range-gated radar technology l Dual element pyroelectric sensor with mirror curtain optics l Anti-masking variant uses radar to protect sensor l Intelligent alarm decisions based on signal classification l Automatic continuous self diagnosis l Green mode switches radar off when system is disarmed l Complies with EN50131-2-4 Grade 3 l Mounting height: 1.8-3m, viewing angle 78 degrees l Anti-pry tamper.

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Growth by innovation Jean Baptiste Hazard, Pelco By Schneider Electric’s vice president Pelco Asia Pacific is based in China and looks after the whole of Asia Pacific region, including Australia.

It’s a position that gives him a unique perspective on this vast and dynamic region.

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Q: What’s your sense of the market at the moment, JB? Asia is generally considered to be doing better than Europe and the U.S. and the Australian economy, while doing better, remains patchy.

A: I would say the market is going through a difficult time. There is a slowdown in the global economy. If you look at India for example (I was there a couple of weeks ago), we are looking at a GDP growth rate that’s the lowest in 9 years. So when you look at macroeconomic data the global economy is slowing down. In Australia we see a 2-tier economy – we have mining and resources which are growing and the rest of the economy is flat so I think the economic situation is difficult.

In such an environment success is about innovating in order to stay ahead of the competition. That’s where we are at.

Q: What about the future – where are the regional growth areas at the moment? China and India still have to make a complete transition to full industrial economies, the U.S. is predicted to grow its population to more than 400 million by 2050, so the underlying fundamentals of core demand are strong, aren’t they?

A: I agree. I think part of the world economy is going through a correction period but when we look at other parts of the global economy there’s growth in the future. If you look at the potential of China and India in all areas it’s just massive. This is why I am in China because I believe there is growth there and there is growth in the whole of this region.

Q: Is it possible for quality manufacturers to maintain their margins in the face of the competitive nature of the electronics market?

There are times I wonder whether or not down the track all the best features will be crammed into cameras worth 50 dollars. Do you think if manufacturers keep working on the smarts of their products and technologies they can maintain their viability and their relevance?

A: In China the market is very competitive and there are a lot of local players and what they are doing is

tough, it’s also very good for end users in that it’s driving innovation and users get better solutions for less money. So I see it as a tough environment but a positive environment.

When we look at the first one we have observed a trend where customers are asking for more and more integrated solutions and by providing integrated solutions there is clear value in the effectiveness of the security solution.

They want to have one guy looking after an integrated solution comprising multiple systems including access control, CCTV, intercom, building management and other things. impressive. Trying to compete in this market on price would be very difficult.

I would say the challenge for foreign companies in the context of the China market is to differentiate and to innovate faster than the competition and I think that’s an area where there’s a lot of challenge. While the competition is very

Q: That fast, intuitive development really applies to something like the SDK in Sarix Surevision which clever developers and integrators can use to really option the camera up in a range of cool ways. Is this the type of smart product you are talking about – something that is intrinsically customisable and upgradeable over the course of its life? Do you see people using that functionality now?

A: All our product ranges are opened to partners with SDKs. We have about 400 partners at this time being and we are pushing that openness to have more partners in the near future. I think that is a great trend.

Q: Schneider Electric has a strong focus on smart value-adds like power saving – in fact a lot of the company’s technology is all about saving people money. Is this core Schneider Electric ethos being applied to the security part of the business?

A: That’s a very good question. That’s exactly where we are at, trying to provide better efficiencies for our customers. Schneider Electric is the leader in efficiency management and we have exactly the same approach on the security side as in other parts of the business. We call this ‘return on security investments’. We have 3 layers of approach. First there’s security effectiveness – the second is about risks management and asset protection and the third is about business applications and business values for customers.

When we look at the first one we have observed a trend where customers are asking for more and more integrated solutions and by providing integrated solutions there is clear value in the effectiveness of the security solution.

They want to have one guy looking after an integrated solution comprising multiple systems including access control, CCTV, intercom, building management and other things.

What we are looking at doing especially in Australia is providing integrated

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is translating to a more extended hybrid period and is also extending the lifespan of some of the very early and comparatively poorly performing IP gear. Do you think this is true or is there another reason?

A: Some users do not really perceive the advantage of going IP yet. They do not realise that with one MP camera you can replace 3 analogue cameras so you make a saving on installation, there’s no home run cabling, it’s just cabled to the nearest switch. And then there’s the potential for analytics to offer even more return on investment. There’s also the openness of platforms, the ability to build a system that incorporates cameras from different manufacturers to meet different requirements of an application, the ability to integrate different recording systems. It’s also great when you do integration with CCTV, with access control and intercom. When everything is on one backbone it’s very easy to integrate – that’s a very big advantage.

solutions to customers. We provide seamless integration between platforms.

When you integrate CCTV, intercom and access control systems you can have a security officer viewing images from an intercom station, speaking with a visitor and allowing access to a building from a workstation.

The second value is about value protection – a high end solution providing the best asset protection. This is what I call critical security where you need to have a very reliable system and where security is a critical process to the customers. Consider nuclear power plants. In this market the users must have a list of mandatory staff to be on the site to be able to run some operations and to manage critical situations. When you have a very reliable access control system you can check every morning that this team is complete so you don’t

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have to cancel vital operations.

The third layer is about business applications. Taking CCTV, it’s about video analytics and using the surveillance system as a sensor – being able to use this information to support the customers in markets like retail where management might want to measure the length of queues during peak hour. Another way you can use it is when you look at subways – you can watch areas like gates and turnstiles to check pedestrian traffic flow – you can set up an analytic to monitor aberrant behaviour, pop up an alarm and alert security officers.

Q: The world is going IP but I still see a lot of hybrid solutions being installed, or systems being upgraded that retain a hybrid component. I tend to think the pain in the world economy

Q: On that topic of integration, do each of Schneider Electric’s businesses do software development independently or do they work together – is there a common architecture across CCTV, access control and building management?

A: We really want to be able to have seamless integrations so we do a lot of inhouse work in order to deliver one common platform, one user interface, developing SDK, APIs to make sure all our different platforms offer seamless integration. When I spoke earlier about adding value, as part of this, the effectiveness, the value of a solution, comes from this seamless integration.

Q: You are involved with ONVIF, aren’t you?

A: Yes, our recording platform, DS (Digital Sentry), supports ONVIF. The latest release of Endura will be ONVIF compliant. All Sarix based devices support ONVIF with the new Sarix firmware – we are really pushing in that direction.

Q: What is the latest product from Pelco by Schneider Electric?

A: On the camera side there is Sarix thermal imaging – that’s a native IP platform and it has built-in analytics. It offers superior image quality, as a result of the digital design and lower signal loss. It’s been awarded the 2012 Camera

of the Year at IFSEC in Birmingham, England. For hazardous areas, we have refreshed our Exsite range and offer a new 36X zoom lens. It offers continuous 360-degree pan and 180-degree tilt and fully programmable operation. On the recording side, we have the new Digital Sentry SRV, there’s a hardware-based (SRV) and a software (NVS) version of this product that can be installed on off the shelf hardware. DSSRV comes pre-loaded with NVS. The system can be deployed as an NVR with support for as many as 128 IP cameras, or as a DVR with use of optional ENC5416 analogue encoders for up to 64 analogue channels, or as an HVR with support of total 128 cameras. That’s a great product.

We find with customers some of them really want a software-based solution and some want a hardware-based solution. Then there’s our Surevision HD camera which, when you look at the picture quality, is the best camera on the market, in my opinion. There’s wide dynamic range, low light capability, it’s very good and wins all the shoot-outs.

Q: I understand when developing Sarix Surevision that Pelco’s R&D team got the third party cameras with the best low light and the best backlight performance and then built a camera that was superior to the 2 best performers in those 2 areas – is that right?

A: Correct. Surevision is a great camera.

What’s good for the customers is that you can put these Surevision cameras into applications where they might be having issues with their other cameras in low light and backlight, where they need to see license plates, people’s faces.

In these tough environments Surevision performs. Sarix with Surevision can see color down to .005 lux. It takes away the bloom better than any other camera. It has an advanced sensor with multiple exposures at each pixel – for finer control over WDR scenes, and less blooming. It has a programmable image pipe – so image quality can be improved as part of normal camera firmware updates.

Q: The Pelco brand has a very good name in Australia and has had for many years. Perhaps less is known about Schneider Electric despite the fact it’s such a large and successful organisation and has an illustrious history in technological

If we look at future technology, I would say what is very interesting is the future of the video recording industry – the cloud. I think this will change things in the future. We have a lot of innovation going on in the area of the cloud.

And considering the type of innovations we can offer in the cloud, I see this area as being as revolutionary as the change from analogue to IP cameras.

This is going to completely change everything, especially for the smallscale recording devices.

development. Tell us about Schneider Electric.

A: As a global specialist in energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments. The Group has 130,000-plus employees and we achieved sales of $E22.4 billion in 2011, through an active commitment to help individuals and organizations make the most of their energy. Schneider Electric’s security offering includes digital video management, fire and life safety, access control and intrusion detection solutions. Schneider Electric as a whole is a company with a great strategy. It gets fantastic results and is a successful company. Schneider Electric takes good care of it’s people. At the moment the company is continuing the transition from products alone to products and solutions with much more collaboration between the different teams and it’s really great and exciting for me being involved with this.

Q: Do you see anything exciting in the future for surveillance technology? Where will the next major development come?

A: If we look at future technology, I would say what is very interesting is the future of the video recording industry – the cloud. I think this will change things in the future. We have a lot of innovation going on in the area of the cloud. And considering the type of innovations we can offer in the cloud, I see this area as being as revolutionary as the change from analogue to IP cameras. This is going to completely change everything, especially for the small-scale recording devices. I think the end-point for video surveillance is going to be the cloud and everything that comes with it.

Q: Here in Australia the NBN with fibre to the door and widespread high speed wireless broadband, that’s going to amp things up in terms of cloud formation, too, isn’t it?

A: Absolutely. If you look at the NBN in Australia and improvements to network infrastructure in other countries you can see that this is going to accelerate the changes further. IP development has been fast up to now but wow – with Fast Ethernet-speed networks available everywhere, development is going to come very, very fast, I really believe that. zzz

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Vivotek Fish Eye The electronic PTZ lets users move to a target region of interest in the viewing window using the mouse wheel.

Operation of the function is instantaneous thanks to a highend de-warping algorithm.

Vivotek has released the FE8172V 5MP 360-degree Surround View vandal-proof fisheye fixed dome network camera, which can provide a 12x wider image than a standard VGA camera.

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IVOTEK FE8172V is the fisheye fixed dome network camera from VIVOTEK, featuring detailed 5MP-resolution sensor with superb image quality. Equipped with a fisheye lens for 180-degree panoramic view (wall mount) or 360-degree surround view (ceiling/floor/table mount) without blind spots, this camera is able to provide an 12x wider field of view than a standard VGA camera.

The FE8172V offers various display layouts, including original surround view, panoramic view, and regional view for various mounting applications. With the latest cutting-edge image processing capability, hemispherical images captured from the fisheye camera can be converted into conventional rectilinear projection for viewing and analysis.

Users can tailor the overview image captured by the camera in a range of ways including 10, 103R, 108R, 1P, 2P, 1P2R, 1P3R, 1R, 4R and 4R PRO. In this case O stands for original image, P for panoramic image, and R for regional image. When ceilingmounted, the camera can also monitor all 4 corners of a room. Any moving object in the room will be captured all the time so there’s no loss of critical information.

In addition, in both the panoramic as well as regional viewing modes, users can utilize the ultra-

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smooth ePTZ function to easily zoom in and focus on a region of interest (ROI). That ePTZ is a very neat feature and it allows users to take best advantage of the fish eye lens. The electronic PTZ lets users move to a target region of interest in the viewing window using the mouse wheel.

Operation of the function is instantaneous thanks to a high-end de-warping algorithm. Because optical distortion is unavoidable for ultra wide angle fish eye lenses, hemispherical images captured from the fish eye camera are convex, particularly at the image borders. The de-warping software allows the image to be rebuilt into conventional rectilinear projection using an integrated plug-in.

For installers, there’s also a pixel calculator which ensures an installation meets the required resolution for a given application. You use a tool to draw 3 windows on a video screen around a region of interest and then adjust the camera to record the detail you require.

The FE8172V features a removable IR-cut filter, maintaining clear images 24 hours a day. Its IP66rated housing is designed to help the camera body withstand rain and dust and ensures operation under a multitude of harsh weather conditions.

Additionally, the vandal-proof IK10-rated housing effectively provides robust protection from vandalism and there’s 802.3af compliant PoE, microSD/SDHC/SDXC card slot for on-board storage, EN50155 mobile surveillance and iPad applications. zzz

Features of the Vivotek FE8172V l5 -megapixel CMOS sensor lU p to 30 fps @ 1080p Full HD lR emovable IR-cut filter for Day/Night function l EN50155 Compliance for mobile applications l 1 .05mm Lens gives 180-degree panoramic and 360-degree surround l Real-time H.264, MPEG-4 and MJPEG Compression (Triple Codec) l WDR Enhancement l Vandal-proof IK10-rated and Weather-proof IP66-rated l ePTZ for Data Efficiency l Built-in 802.3af Compliant PoE l Built-in MicroSD/SDHC/SDXC slot.

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Utilising the latest cutting-edge technologies such as CCTV, Biometrics, RFID, Access Control, alongside proven systems and methodologies, ADT Security can deliver security solutions that address the unique requirements and vulnerabilities of any organisation.

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ProKey available with iCLASS

AS featured in last month’s product review in Security Electronics & Networks Magazine, UBiQUiTi is taking the pain and cost out of long range WiFi networks. The new NanoStation M and NanoStation Loco M combine new redesigned sleek and elegant form-factors along with integrated AirMax (MIMO TDMA Protocol) Technology.

The low cost, high performance and small form factor of NanoStation M and NanoStation Loco M make them extremely versatile and ideal in several different applications. As well as high reliability and performance the new NanoStation M features clever options such as a secondary Ethernet port with software enabled POE output for seamless IP video integration.

CSD’S popular ProKey remotes are now available with iCLASS integrated credentials. iCLASS credentials and readers make access control more powerful, more versatile and most importantly, offer enhanced security through encryption and mutual authentication.

ProKey remotes and the series of compatible receivers make our new remote the most complete standalone range available. ProKey remotes are also compatible with relay output receivers allowing you to connect to any existing product in the market. With a fantastic range of up to 150m line-of-sight, the ProKey remote can now be ordered in 2-button or 4-button configurations with EM, Prox or iCLASS credentials.

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Hikvision’s New 600TVL DIS Analogue cameras HIKVISION announces the release of its new and improved DIS series analog cameras – the DS-2CE1582P(N)-VFIR3 600TVL IR bullet camera and the DS-2CE5582P(N)-VFIR3 600TVL DIS IR dome camera. Both of these new, and affordable, analog models offer higher resolution and ultra low illumination.

Developed by Hikvision, the DIS (digital image system) series boasts advanced features, such as image quality, power consumption, and greater overall system stability.

Additionally, both cameras in the DIS family feature a 1/3” DIS image sensor with 600TVL ultra-high horizontal resolution.

Compared with conventional analog cameras, which only offer 480 / 540 TVL horizontal resolution, these new cameras provide higher video quality and improved image detail.

These units employ a vari-focal lens, which benefits users by allowing easier focusing without requiring any movement in the initial camera set-up.

Moreover, the 2 cameras incorporate excellent low-light performance with n Distributor: Security Merchants n Contact: 1800 635 122

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Optimum digital detector THE RXC Core Series gives extremely high false alarm protection with excellent tolerance to spot temperature changes from curtains and small animals. Using patented Digital Quad Zone Logic, it is able to accurately discriminate between humans and other sources of infrared, providing reliable detection in a diverse range of applications.

The attractive housing incorporates the unique Optex spherical lens design, which is not only robust, but also helps to maximise the performance of Digital Quad Zone Logic by providing an accurate focal length for each detection zone and has a 12m x 12m (85-degree) coverage via 78 detection zones. n Distributor: Direct Alarm Supplies n Contact: +61 2 9717 5222

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PACOM PDR mobile applications, the iPDR-mobile (iPhone/ iPad) and aPDR-Mobile (Android) provides access to the Pacom PDR range of DVRs in remote locations to monitor live video via a network connection, anytime, anywhere with your iPhone/ iPad and Android Smartphone/tablet.

New features of the PDR mobile applications have recently been released and include single screen search/playback, calendar search, event search in all DVRs (except PDRH-RMT/ PC Series), site list is automatically arranged in alphabetical order, live and playback of hybrid DVRs is supported including IP cameras, PTZ control, camera title and 2-way audio.

Both apps are available now from the applicable Apps Store/ Google Play websites.

NESS LUX Radio PIR is a unique wireless motion detector with a white LED night-light especially designed for the latest generation of Ness radio control panels. LUX shares all the features and benefits of the Ness Radio PIR range including 15m x 15m detection coverage, look-down creep zone, high RF immunity, white light immunity, adjustable range, adjustable pulse count and extremely long battery life, up to 10 years.

For safety and convenience, LUX’s night-light function provides a motion-activated cone of light to help you find your way at night, while the built-in ambient light sensor helps save power by enabling the night-light only in the dark. Ness LUX is made in Australia by Ness Corporation.

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Clever 720p cube camera from iTech THE DS-2CD8464F-EI 1.3MP cube camera is available from iTech. This camera features an innovative built-in remote alarm unit, which enables wireless connection to a variety of external devices (such as door contacts, remote controllers, audible and visual alarm devices. In the event of a break-in or similar unauthorized access, the connected alarm device is instantly activated, thereby providing an immediate response and deterent. Simultaneously, event recording is triggered, generating instant notification via an owner’s mobile phone E-mail/SMS alert and allowing the owners the ability to take whatever proactive response they deem necessary.

Additionally, the DS-2CD8464F-EI is equipped with a passive infrared (PIR) sensor, enabling this camera to detect any person within a 10-metre range of the unit and automatically trigger an alarm response n Distributor: iTech n Contact: +61 3 9580 0730

n Manufacturer: Ness Corporation n Contact: +61 2 8825 9222

Axis wide-angle, 3MP fixed dome AXIS Communications has released a competitively priced 3-megapixel, vandal- and dust-resistant fixed mini dome camera with a wide-angle view and HDTV 1080p. The AXIS M3006-V provides a viewing angle of 134°. When installed near a corner of a store, for instance, it offers complete coverage, enabling users to even look into the shelves on either side of the camera. Other viewing angles can be achieved through optional lenses.

With a 3-axis camera angle adjustment, the camera can be mounted on walls or ceilings, the direction of the camera can be easily adjusted and the image leveled. The camera also supports Axis’ Corridor Format, enabling vertically oriented video streams that optimise coverage of areas such as corridors, hallways or store aisles.

AXIS M3006-V supports digital pan/tilt/zoom, which can be used as a digital varifocal lens that allows the angle of view to be adjusted remotely after the physical installation. n Distributor: Axis Communications n Contact: +61 3 9982 1111

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IndigoVision BX500 1080p HD PTZ

HID Global iCLASS Seos

NEW from IndigoVision, the BX500 HD PTZ from IndigoVision provides customers with a high-resolution camera that is both ONVIF conformant and fully compatible with IndigoVision’s Security Management Solution, SMS4.

With a 20x optical zoom, the BX500 HD PTZ excels in the most challenging indoor and outdoor lighting conditions incorporating an auto mechanical IR filter for true day/night functionality.

User configurable resolution, framerate and bitrate are all part of the camera’s in-built versatility, making for ease of use and adaptability for any network. The BX500 HD PTZ also allows customers to view live and recorded video from the camera within IndigoVision Control Center, SMS4’s user interface.

The external camera has an IP66 rating for use in outdoor environments and a temperature rating of -30C to +50C.

HID Global has enhanced its iCLASS SE platform with 2 new additions, the standards-based iCLASS Seos credential for improved security, privacy and portability; and support for the industry-standard Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) for secure, bi-directional communications of interconnected devices.

The additions are the latest in a wide variety of planned enhancements as HID Global continues to leverage its iCLASS SE platform to deliver new capabilities for meeting current and future access control requirements. n Distributor: HID Global n Contact: +61 3 8838 0891

n Distributor: Integrated Products n Contact: 1300 055 164

Hikvision DS-7700NI-SP NVR with PoE

Mobotix new MxAnalytics

HIKVIVION has unveiled the DS-7700NI-SP 2U NVR series, with a unique PoE (Power over Ethernet) system featuring 8 independent PoE network interfaces. Also highlighting this NVR is a plug and play feature that utilizes only one cable for both data and power needs – thereby drastically reducing both time and expertise – and simplifying the overall installation process.

This plug and play concept is the tangible realization of Hikvision’s engineering prowess. Through the simple act of plugging a cable into a network interface, the front end cameras’ IP address is automatically configured to transmit a live view and store video at up to 5 megapixel resolution.

Furthermore, redundancy in operation and backup provides recording security in the case of a system crash. If a crash does occur, this backup system immediately allows users both data protection and peace of mind.

The DS-7700NI-SP NVR series has up to 32 IP video inputs and carries simultaneous HDMI, VGA, and CVBS outputs; live view/ playback via VGA and HDMI outputs at up to 1920×1080P.

MXANALYTICS makes it possible for a wide range of customers to gather and assess data they’ve never been able to obtain before. For example, the retail sector can now effectively heatmap and set-up people counting lines with just one hemispheric Mobotix camera for an entire room.

“The hotly anticipated MxAnalytics adds a range of very clever data resources to the Q24 and provides exciting new business opportunities for us,” said Graham Wheeler, MOBOTIX business development manager for Asia Pacific.

“Effective heatmapping, people counting, and fully automated reports is analytical gold for any marketer and makes it a very useful tool for the retail sector.”

The new software system is available as a free download and uses a WYSIWYG style editor that makes it incredibly user-friendly for customers to use. Analytical data can be exported as HTML, CSV and JSON and analysed against, for example, sales data for people counting comparisons. Heatmaps can be be exported as HTML or JPEGs and reports can be single or multi-day.

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brackets. If cabling is impossible go with wireless and if you go wireless in hard to reach places, choose products with a very long battery life.

Q: I recently attended a demo where we saw both IR and white LED light being used over long distances. What does Help Desk think is the best option of these 2?

Q: What’s the best way to install smoke detectors? We are working on some architecturally-designed houses with steeply-pitched ceilings that make installing them really tough. Do we have some wiggle room?

Q: Would you recommend conformal coating on boards that are going to be used in moist environments?

What are the key issues with DIY conformal coatings?

A: This depends on the complexities of the boards concerned. Obviously, you need to mask the connectors, switches and sockets if you’re conformal coating your boards. If you don’t you’ll break circuits. You can mask switches with a little gob of silicone that you just pop out again after it dries. Another way to handle this is to make sure all the connections are plugged in while you are spraying. You can check the integrity of the conformal coating using a blacklight (UV light). You can buy one of these from a good aquarium shop.

Polyurethane sprays like Humiseal are ideal. When applying the spray be careful not to apply heavy coats that might sneak past masking and onto terminal screws, programming plugin contacts, battery connections or tamper switches Between light coats let the board sit for five minutes.

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A: The ideal location for a smoke detector is on horizontal ceilings a reasonable distance away from walls - 12 inches at least. You don’t want to install smoke detectors in the dead zone - the still pocket of air where ceiling and walls join. If there’s no way to get to the ceiling, you need to install the smoke sensor no lower than 12 inches from the ceiling and 6 inches below it for preference. Sloping and vaulted ceilings of various types are going to need multiple smoke sensor installations.

Make sure these sensors are closer than 1m to the roof’s peak. You may need to use custom or non standard mounts or

A: It depends on the application. IR is a useful solution when you don’t want to show intruders what it is you’re protecting by lighting it up like a Christmas tree. It’s a way to view intruders without them knowing about it as well as a low cost way to ensure your cameras can see short or long distances at night. IR is great around homes as it means there’s no light pollution. At the same time it’s possible to use white light as a part of CPTED principles – to blind intruders and force them away from secure areas.

We’d say white light is the more proactive/ aggressive option. We’ve argued at Help Desk that white light would be better on an unmanned site while IR would be best on a manned site. During these discussions the counter argument arose that white light would be best for actual physical surveillance by security officers.

And thermal was thrown into the mix as well, given its uncanny ability to detect everything above 0 degrees Kelvin as a heat source allowing security officers to respond. Quality modern HD cameras (MP) and analogue cameras both perform very well with white light and IR LED

sources. Bear in mind you’ll get colour from white light, while IR images are monochromatic.

Q: When I install sensors in a new system and then try to walk test them they don’t seem to work straight away. Is this normal?

A: Yes – it’s perfectly normal. When power first reaches a PIR sensor from a control panel, the pyroelectric sensor inside will take a few minutes to warm up. From here on the zone loop will be powered even when the panel is deactivated so there’ll be no need to take into account this warm up period unless you pull power at the panel during troubleshooting. Once the system has warmed up for 3 minutes you can carry out your walk test.

Q: What’s the best method to use when cutting access holes in plasterboard in domestic environments? This probably sounds a silly question but when you’re hacking a hole in someone’s living room wall you really want to feel confident that you are doing the right thing. I’m sure other installers have experienced the same nerves.

A: When installing alarm systems in new houses that have plasterboard walls you’re going to need to make some holes. The panel housing can be located out of sight but the keypad itself is going to be somewhere prominent and you’ll need to make sure you get the job right

in both cases. The size of any holes will vary, depending on the keypad you’re installing but there’s no real need to make a hole significantly larger than what will let you get power and comms cables to the keypad.

Adding to the excitement when putting in the panel of a hardwired system will be dropping the zone loops down through the internal wall to things like keypads and reed switches. Because this can be a fiddly business it’s best to make the hole larger than the cables actually need to be to make a ‘window’ that will give you access to the cavity with fingers or fish tape.

The idea is to work out where the hole needs to be and then to mark the cavity outline using a pencil. You can then use an adjustable holesaw or a padsaw to make your opening. Many installers punch holes in plasterboard using just about anything from chisels to powertools but it’s better to take a bit more time and do a decent job. Buy a specialized plasterboard saw instead. You’ll want a tool with a pointy end to allow piercing of the plasterboard and sharp grinding teeth to give the best performance cutting the plaster. Look for a hardened and tempered steel blade, a nice soft handle grip that will reduced wear and tear on the palm of your hand, and a sheath or carry case to protect the blade when it’s knocking around with all the rubbish in your tool bag. Take it nice and slowly.

Something that’s worth doing is practising on an old piece of plasterboard before you start biting chunks out of someone’s dearly loved Masterton mansion.

Q: As usual we all enjoyed Help Desk last month, particularly those images of local camera and external sensor installations.

IR is an useful solution when you don’t want to show intruders what it is you’re protecting by lighting it up like a Christmas tree.

Just for the record, what’s the most unusual camera installation Help Desk has ever seen?

A: That’s an easy one. It’s this pendant PTZ mounted on a coconut tree down on the harbour in Singapore. For the life of me, I could not see how the installer had dealt with comms and power. Nothing obviously cabled through the air, no sign of surface-mounted conduit. Priceless.

Q: What should we be including in a commissioning process after installing a surveillance system?

A: After a surveillance solution has been installed it’s vital to conduct proper commissioning tests and to follow them up over a period of time with proper maintenance programs. You’ll need to look at target framing as well as performance aspects like synchronization tests using a reference set, test card evaluation of resolution, contrast and ghosting. Also important are things like focus tests on lenses and you should also undertake brightness, adaptation and filtration tests on lenses. Never commission a system once and forget about maintenance.

A proper maintenance program will involve recommissioning at least once a year and preferably every 6 months. Regular maintenance is also about building recurring revenue into your business while ensuring end users are provided with increased reliability. Modern systems can allow this to be handled remotely, so factor this into your purchasing decisions. zzz

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