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In the case of the Boston bombers, the primary perpetrator was known to the FBI and if a public surveillance system equipped with analytics had been able to identify this person behaving in a particular way at a public gathering, it’s broadly conceivable that reason-based analytics might have been able to proactively call a response.

e’ve had a few terror attacks in the past couple of months after which we’ve seen predictions of an increase in sales in various parts of the electronic security business – namely video surveillance and public address systems.

But in both cases it’s difficult to imagine how our technology could have saved the day without the sort of integration that’s likely to cause the privacy lobby and the political left – and I think we can all understand their fears – to dissolve into conniptions.

The incidences I’m talking about are the recent terror attacks in Boston and Woolwich but I might just as well be talking about Baghdad or Makhachkala from the point of view of law enforcement need and operational functionality.

In both Boston and Woolwich, the perpetrators were known to security services suggesting that radicalisation of terrorists is a process that takes a period of years and there are often multiple warning signs.

It may be possible for video analytics of the future with reliable face recognition capabilities to integrate with public surveillance systems. These solutions could then keep an eye out for specific activities of suspects who have been flagged by intelligence or law enforcement agencies. Jogging alone they would ignore. Placing large bags in the midst of crowds at public events they would not ignore.

In the case of the Boston bombers, the primary perpetrator was known to the FBI and if a public surveillance system equipped with analytics had been able to identify this person behaving in a particular way at a public gathering, it’s broadly conceivable that reason-based analytics might have been able to proactively call a response.

It’s obviously erroneous to suggest video surveillance cameras have some sort of proactive ability to leap off their mountings and defend the public interest. And as austerity bites into law

By John Adams enforcement funding worldwide it’s increasingly obvious that our reactive systems are going to fail the people they are meant to protect.

However, if there’s one thing the events of the past 10 years or so show us it’s that video is an absolutely brilliant investigative tool, whether it comes from handicams, smart phones or surveillance cameras. Video surveillance allows crimes to be resolved in hours and for dangerous extremists to be neutralised. But what video does not yet do is provide advance warning.

While we’re on the topic of video surveillance, I can’t help but mention the public surveillance system in Nowra which was turned off after the Administrative Decisions Tribunal found the system was in breach of the Privacy Act. This decision was overturned by the NSW State Government but there was something about the ADT’s gripes it’s worth paying attention to – camera performance. According to the ADT, the footage of a plaintiff under the Privacy Act was of such poor quality he could not actually be identified.

Now, I’ve not seen the Nowra system. It’s an older solution and we all know things like camera quality, compression, motion blur, resolution, frame rate, WDR, depth of field, field of view, dust streaks and daddy long legs all have a massive impact on image quality.

But having seen some new cameras in the last few months, both fixed and PTZ, it’s impossible to imagine a modern system that does not offer crystalline images of targeted views in most conditions.

Quality HD cameras now do so well in low light and backlight the idea any installation could not be fit for purpose seems a slight on us all. Regardless of budget constraints, all you integrators and end users in government have a responsibility to ensure that our public surveillance systems perform. There will come a day when our needs demand that they do. zzz

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46: S2 Quatro S2 NetBox VR Quatro, distributed locally by BGWT, is a single-box solution that combines support for up to 8 cameras and 8 access control points in a single housing with all functionality handled by browser.

Honeywell has installed its Enterprise Buildings Integrator system, DVM500 VMS, 150 Axis IP cameras, HID prox readers, BQT biometric readers and Aritech sensors as part of a fully integrated digital security system at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart

54: Future of CCTV John Adams speaks with Vlado Damjanovski about the future of video surveillance and the directions he thinks the market will take in the coming years.

34: All rounders Hemispheric cameras with fisheye lenses have the ability to give a 180-degree wide angle view, making them ideal for a range of applications from retail to foyers, to lifts, to transportation.

60: Security 2013 Exhibition What’s new in security electronics? We’re going to be finding out at Security 2013 when locals get a chance to get their hands on some of exciting products that have been released over the past 12 months.

40: S-Type FLIR Just released

by FLIR is the FC Series S, a networkready PoE thermal camera that allows users to leverage the power of thermal technology at an affordable price.

42: Bosch BVMS Bosch Video Management System (BVMS) Version 4.1.5 is a big step forward, offering distributed IP architecture for enterprise applications, transcoding support for mobile devices, an SDK and full support for ONVIF’s Profile S.

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72: monitoring Aussie installers need to get used to the idea of IP-based alarm systems. It’s true there is a little bit of time to go in some areas, but as the NBN carves through the Australian comms-scape things are going to change fast.

76: editor’s choice What’s new from our manufacturers.

80: helpdesk Our team of electronic security experts answers your tough technical questions.

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l Hemispheric surveillance cameras l FLIR’s FC Series S Thermal l Bosch’s new BVMS Version 4.1.5 l S2 NetBox VR Quatro, access & CCTV l The Interview: Vlado Damjanovski l Pre-show report: Security 2013 l Optex Redwall laser detection PP 255003/08027

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New record in wireless data transmission

l RESEARCHERS of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved the wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s at 240 GHz over a distance of 1000m.

Their most recent demonstration sets a new world record and ties in seamlessly with the capacity of optical fiber transmission. In the future, such radio links will be able to close gaps in providing broadband internet by supplementing the network in rural areas and places which are difficult to access.

This equals the transmission of a complete DVD in under a second or 2400 DSL16000 internet connections. Distances of over 1000m have already been covered by using a long range demonstrator, which the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology set up between 2

skyscrapers as part of the project Millilink.

Using the high frequency range between 200 and 280 GHz not only enables the fast transmission of large volumes of data, but also results in very compact technical assembly. Since the size of electronic circuits and antennae scales with frequency / wavelength, the transmitter and receiver chip only measures 4 x 1.5 mm². The semiconductor technology developed at Fraunhofer IAF, based on transistors with high carrier mobility (HEMT), makes it possible to use the frequency between 200 and 280 GHz with active transmitters and receivers in the form of compact, integrated circuits. The atmosphere shows low attenuation in this frequency range, which enables broadband directional radio links.

BGWT Appointed Distributor For S2 l KEEPING the pot boiling over at BGWT is the announcement the company has snagged distribution of S2’s browser-based access control and video surveillance solutions.

The range stretches from local solutions all the way through to the enterprise level. Using browser-based not client-server architecture makes S2 a real winner, fast to install and as easy to integrate as browsing for an IP address.

According to BGWT’s general manager Josh Simmons, S2 was a perfect fit for the BGWT business.

“It’s a true IP-based access control platform with certified and non-certified product lines to suit everyday system integrators and those seeking enterprise solutions.”

According to Simmons, there are hundreds of access control products around the world and 99 per cent of them do things in exactly the same way. He says only S2 is applying the latest

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Meanwhile R. Todd Smith, S2’s VP worldwide sales said S2 was thrilled to be working with BGWT. “The BGWT team is energetic and understands S2’s technology very well,” said Smith. “We are looking forward to continuing our expansion into the Australian market.”

Optus Wins $A60 Million Suretek Contract l OPTUS Business has announced a 5-year, $A60 million contract with Suretek for the delivery of fixed network and high-speed mobile Glen Smith services via Optus’ 3G and superfast 4G networks.

The deal will also support Suretek in the delivery of new wireless alarm communications, remote video-monitoring and redundancy solutions capabilities and an improved customer experience in the AsiaPacific region.

As part of the agreement, Suretek has moved its Securedial/Securecall 1345 Service for alarm transmissions onto the Optus network, with further plans to transition these services to a full wireless model with Optus for greater manageability. The deal will also see Suretek’s inbound voice, as well as fixed and wireless data services switched over to Optus from its current service provider.

“We chose to align Suretek with Optus Business in order to support our growth and expand our product offerings,” said Glenn Smith, managing director of Suretek.

“Optus’ strong focus and ongoing investment in superfast 4G technologies also provides us with the ideal platform to advance the electronic security industry into the IP era.

Our core value proposition is ensuring our services maintain the level of security and availability that our customers expect.

“Partnering with Optus Business is crucial for us in meeting this promise to them,” Glenn Smith said. “This announcement reinforces our strategy to increase Suretek’s exposure to new markets, opening up possibilities for our customers, resellers and partners now and in the future.”

The move to partner with Suretek will also support the expansion of Optus Business’ suite of mobility and security offerings in the future, with the announcement signaling the beginning of a collaboration between the product development teams of Optus and Suretek, to explore new business opportunities through the co-development of new security solutions.

“We’re excited about bringing Optus 4G connectivity to enhance Suretek’s portfolio of security offerings,” said John Paitaridis, managing director of Optus Business said.

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DVTel Quasar HD Another standout product at the show was with IR Videofied’s XTIP710, a hybrid alarm system with video verification that now reports alarm events and status using GPRS and IP. We’ve like Videofied’s products for a while now and think they offer you installers a great up-sell or panel replacement option. Using reliable spread spectrum wireless devices, the company has a real track record of other mechanical security devices (fire l GLOBAL demand for security equipment visible success. massive Texas recently due to the number of employees that tend to extinguishers, safes,school vaults,district safety deposit will increase 7 per centevents annually to $US117 Sending alarm along with video ONE footage in such a large upgraded its video surveillance system in an move from campus to campus l INNOVATIVE Security boxes), access control and video surveillance billion in 2016, driven by a strong rebound is pretty much Rolls Royce performance and prior to(ISD) the Video effort to keep up (burglar, with advancements in Web school system. Russell says Designs has systems, alarms fire, panic/medical in construction activity and advances in Videofied has 450-odd arrests under its beltmanagement thanks VMS administrator platforms.

Independent with Milestone emergency, smoke, etc.),Austin and other electronicInsight implementation hisworked electronic security technology, according to to its ability to identify burglars. When you consider of timeto with user the School District – the America’s 38th largest spent a considerable amount Systems become security products (bomb and metal research company, The Freedonia Group. alarm systems are blind assist of users a to school system – has article replaced its existing first camera partner detectors, electronic surveillance and maintenance. “With this number Themost US-based research company saidand cannot economical video management system with Video Insight reliable Web client is more operators by doing more for than reporting multiple offer Milestonethan Arcus anti-shoplifting systems. electronic products accounted nearly thick VMS clients on software.

Encompassing 230-square miles, installing (and uninstalling)video Videofied’s management The fastest-growing markets for security 65 adjacent per cent of alarm securityevents, equipment sales in capabilities There was plenty more to see at the show and in our already Austin ISD has 86,000 students, 11,000 each PC, which also overburdens stick more. software (VMS) equipment will be China, India, South 2011, without theeven segment expected to post and subsequent issues taxed VMS administrators,” hewe’ll says. be reviewing many employees, 124 campuses and more than 3,000 this Nordenlund embedded its edge Africa and Turkey, each of which will post of theLars much stronger sales gains than mechanical stand-out solutions. forresulted theineditor’s The switch to Video InsightAs has in pick for video surveillance cameras. devices. growth of more than 9 per cent annually security products through 2016. an improved video management “We were unhappy with the platform that we SE&N’s Best Product at Securitysystem 2012 –for I chose the The 2 firms have produced an open platform through 2016, Freedonia said. The gains will Austin “Demand will be driven by the ongoing ISD in many respects, including: Little had invested in and we needed a more practical Snap solution from Network Video Surveillance solution that supports multiple camera result from rapid growth gross domestic improvements in design that give electronic to no trainingby forPacific employees; increased video types solution – something that wasineasy to use,” says distributed Communications.

For its andimage brands, all tied together and managed product, construction camera systems greater functionality, while also quality; more efficient storage; Austin ISDurban Policepopulation Departmentand Representative ability tothe automatically wrangle Arcus the VMS. power of with streamlined, Milestone activity. making them increasingly user-friendly and Wayne Russell. “We needed something that faster system performance; variety in camera of existing cameras in challenging Theand ISD-Milestone Arcus offerings will also real The North American security market cost-effective,” the report said. “Not only choice LDAP integration.

The 3,000-plus didn’t require an incredible amount of CPU thousands world environments, it has to be my pick SE&N’s include advanced third-party analytics in the will grow 6.5 per cent annually through will these improvements help boost market processor power that could also serve as a fully- camera system is monitored by the AISD policefor cameras.

2016. The Web North American market will be Best penetration, they will also spur a strong in Show. dispatch 24-hours a day, seven days a week, functioning client.” partnership with supported by the bid economic in the paying replacement and upgrade market.” particular during consumers peak times144 After an exhaustive process,rebound Russell found UpThe there with attention it is also the allows Bosch Solution alarm legacyfeeds cameras arewith not capable of edge like United States andInsight. increased penetration forand Products covered include locks and to camera in thethat bus drop off and pickfeatures up the solution in Video access control panel neat areas, cafeterias during breakfast and “Video Insight was theinonly software storage to keep their systems, according to a of security equipment Mexico, the solution report pre-built garage door control and a lunch succession playgrounds in hallwaysexisting during class that release.and Additionally, Milestone said. worked seamlessly with our existing time,press readers and expanders.

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Special mentions go to the Axis 5544 for brands, ASSA ABLOY Executive Vice President “ISD is a pioneer in providing real edge security equipment will be in the residential As far as I’m concerned all alarm systems conceptual awesomeness, the Axis 1604 WDR for Thanasis Molokotos says. storage platforms,” he says. “Installations sector, Freedonia reported. Residential should work the way Videofied’s does and I can’t its total obliteration of backlight, the Takex PXB“This acquisition will enhance our ability taking advantage of edge devices with video demand will be stimulated by increasingly out non-residential why more alarm have 100ATC which takes affordable perimeter security towork provide door manufacturers opening recording and storage capabilities ensure affordable systems and by a high perceived not seized this customers,” combination of technologies to a new level, flexibility FSH FEW3800 for being greenest, solutions to ouron Canadian he says. maximum in their surveillance risk of crime.

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ISD cameras embedded with which Freedonia operates in Winnipeg, Canada. catch performance with the combination of GPRS and integrators can take advantage looked the furthest and saw the on mostest.

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show time! l SECURITY 2013, Australasia’s largest industry event for security professionals and end users, will once again return to the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre from 24 – 26 July, 2013. The event is expected to attract over 4,500 visitors from the installation, government, healthcare, education, aviation, infrastructure and correctional services sectors and feature more than 150 leading suppliers

showcasing the latest business security solutions. In addition to a comprehensive seminar series covering a range of practical and educational sessions, the ASIAL conference will run alongside the exhibition featuring an acclaimed panel of industry speakers from Australia and around the world.

Dr Anne Speckhard, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical School, an internationally recognised expert on the psychological aspects of terrorism and post traumatic stress disorder and Bruce Blythe, Chair and Consultant at Crisis Management International (USA), a globally acclaimed crisis management expert, will be among the high calibre international speakers presenting as part of the conference.

This year the Verint New Product Showcase will return in a new, interactive format

featuring a display of the top 10 new and innovative products to launch in the Australasian market over the last 12 months.

Security 2013 will introduce Security World, a never before seen feature to the show floor. Security World will simulate a real world office, building foyer, car park and home environment offering demonstrations of how different products integrate to provide a complete, secure solution. Biometrics, intercoms, CCTV, motion sensors, video management solutions, bollards and perimeter detection systems will be among the solutions in action from some of the world’s leading security vendors. Industry experts will host guided tours through Security World allowing visitors to gain an understanding of how different products operate and interact. Register for free online at http:// www.securityexpo.com.au/

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Spray-on lens l A UNIVERSITY of British Columbia engineer and a team of U.S. researchers have made a breakthrough utilizing spray-on technology that could revolutionize the way optical lenses are made and used.

Kenneth Chau, an assistant professor in the School of Engineering at UBC’s Okanagan campus, is a key investigator among colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland. Their work – the development of a flat lens – is published in the May 23 MarkofPratley issue the journal Nature.

Nearly all lenses – whether in an eye, a camera, or a

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microscope – are presently curved, which limits the aperture, or amount of light that enters.

“The idea of a flat lens goes way back to the 1960s when a Russian physicist came up with the theory,” Chau says. “The challenge is that there are no naturally occurring materials to make that type of flat lens.

Through trial and error, and years of research, we have come up with a fairly simple recipe for a spray-on material that can act as that flat lens.”

The research team has developed a substance that can be affixed to surfaces like a glass slide and turn them into flat lenses.

“Curved lenses always have a limited aperture,” he explains. “With a flat lens, suddenly you can make lenses with an arbitrary aperture size – perhaps as big as a football field.”

While the spray-on, flat lens represents a significant advancement in technology, it is only an important first step, Chau says.

“This is the closest validation we have of the original flat lens theory,” he says. “The recipe, now that we’ve got it working, is simple and cost-effective.

Our next step is to extrapolate this technique further, explore the effect to the fullest, and advance

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it as far as we can take it.”

The technology could change the way imaging devices like cameras and scanners are designed.

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New bug eye camera sensor

l RESEARCHERS have built a digital camera that mimics the curved, compound structure of an insect eye, according to a report in Nature magazine.

The compact cameras are ideal for applications demanding wide fields of view — that includes video surveillance applications and machine vision.

According to the researchers, insect eyes are made up of hundreds or even thousands of light-sensing structures called ommatidia.

Each contains a lens and a cone that funnels light to a photosensitive organ. The long, thin ommatidia are bunched together to form the hemispherical eye, with each ommatidium pointing in a slightly different direction.

The beauty of this structure is that it gives insects a wide field of view, with objects in the periphery just as clear as those in the centre of the visual field, as well as high

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motion sensitivity – ideal for video analytics.

Better still, the design also allows serious depth of field — objects are in focus whether they’re nearby or at a distance. We’d love to report numbers but nothing to hand as yet.

The biggest challenge in mimicking the structure of an insect eye in a camera is that electronics are typically flat and rigid, says John Rogers, a materials scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

“In biology, everything is curvy,” he says.

The device researchers have built comprises an array of microlenses connected to posts that mimic the light-funnelling cones of ommatidia, layered on top of a flexible array of silicon photodetectors. Lens–post pairs are moulded from a stretchy polymer called an elastomer. A filling of elastomer dyed with carbon black surrounds the structures, preventing light from leaking between them.

The lens is about 1 centimetre in diameter.

Integrator Donates Access Control Solution to Preschool l SONITROL of Fort Lauderdale has donated access control equipment to the Kids in Distress (KID) Preschool here.

As part of the donation, Sonitrol of Fort Lauderdale linked the access control solution to the 5-acre campus’ existing security cameras and intercoms, allowing KID’s main office staff to see and speak with anyone who seeks access at the gates on either side of the property. Additionally, the firm provided more than 100 electronically coded key fobs, which allow pre-approved parents and guardians to enter.

“Taking a fresh look at security as part of our long-term strategic plan, we asked Sonitrol of Fort Lauderdale President John Ray for advice,” said KID CEO Mark Dhooge. “The Sonitrol team evaluated every aspect of campus security to help our planning process, and then stepped forward to upgrade the Preschool’s access control system.”

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Avigilon announces world’s smallest HD dome camera l AVIGILON has released what it says is the world’s smallest HD Dome camera. The small yet powerful 1 and 2 megapixel (MP) HD Micro Dome cameras open up the advantages of HD surveillance to budget-conscious installations requiring discreet cameras.

“Stores, hotels, office buildings and restaurants want discreet cameras that provide exceptional image detail. Traditionally, you could get one or the other. Now with our HD Micro Dome, you get both,” said Rick Ramsay, senior product manager at Avigilon. “With this introduction, small and medium-sized businesses can easily transition from analogue to HD surveillance.”

The HD Micro Dome camera has a patent-pending smart cable design that enables the camera’s discreet size. By designing the camera’s intelligence into the smart cable, Avigilon is able to provide the smallest HD dome camera in the industry. Slightly larger than a golf ball, the discreet HD Micro Dome and the smart cable weigh a combined 70 grams.

This small, lightweight camera will ease the transition from analog to HD for end users.

The HD Micro Dome provides a horizontal angle view of 86 degrees at 30 images per second. With an IP66 rating, the HD Micro Dome camera can be used in indoor and outdoor environments. The ONVIF compliant camera is the latest addition to Avigilon’s next generation H.264 platform and can be coupled with Avigilon Control Center or other leading video management software suites.

Tyco buys Aussie fire company NFSG, lifts sales l TYCO has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Australia’s National Fire Solutions Group. NFSG turns over $US65 million annually. The company inspects, maintains and installs fire systems and will be incorporated into the Tyco Fire Services business.

The big American also reported second quarter revenue of $US2.6 billion, with 3 per cent revenue growth and 2 per cent organic growth. Organic revenue grew 2 per cent in the quarter with 7 per cent growth in products, 3 per cent growth in service and a 3 per cent decline in installation revenue.

“Tyco delivered a solid quarter operationally

with accelerated service growth and operating margin expansion, driving a 20 per cent year-over-year increase in normalized earnings per share,” said Tyco CEO George Oliver.

“Our financial performance and strong balance sheet provides us with the flexibility to continue to fund our organic and inorganic growth initiatives while returning capital to shareholders.”

“During the quarter we announced 2 important acquisitions including NFSG, that strengthen our position in core platforms by broadening our product and service offerings to customers.”

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Milestone Systems Grows Again

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l MILESTONE Systems has delivered solid financial results for 2012 and demonstrates continuous growth. Now in its 15th year, Milestone Systems continues to accomplish strong growth both in its home market and internationally. Milestone has recorded revenue growth of 19.5 percent to $US55.62 million against $US46.89 million.

Operating income before depreciation (EBITDA) reached $US9 million and net income reached $US 2.21 million. The number of employees grew by 13 per cent, from 310 on average in 2011 to 351 employees globally in 2012.

“Milestone continues to grow because we meet the market with the right products. Demand for IP-based video surveillance is increasing globally. Milestone solutions are based on an open platform so they can meet the different needs of various segments.

“With the solid results in 2012, the compounded average growth rate has been 26 per cent over the last 5 years. We share the success worldwide through strong relationships with our partners,” says Lars Thinggaard, President & CEO, Milestone Systems.

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Honeywell has installed its Enterprise Buildings Integrator system, DVM500 VMS, 150 Axis IP cameras, HID prox readers, BQT biometric readers and Aritech sensors as part of a fully integrated digital security system at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart.

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ONA is a strange and special place. It’s not just the industrial architecture bolted into the river bank, the ramparts of golden country rock, the concrete and ferrous-red steel. The entire being and concept of this place is iridescent.

No matter which way you turn the experience in your mind the colours look different.

The museum is the gift and home of local boy David Walsh, who decided to throw open his personal art collection to his neighbours - a personal stand against the elitism and intellectualisation of art. At one point during my visit someone points out

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a group of late teens in flannos clumping through the site. There, that’s the meaning of MONA, they tell me.

Walsh’s dream grew with his collection, from a small museum on Moorilla vineyard at Berriedale on the River Derwent, into Australia’s most distinctive art house and Tasmania’s most visited tourist attraction.

Designed by architect Nonda Katsalidis and built

by Hansen Yuncken, the museum is buried 3-stories under the earth in a concrete and steel shell.

There are no windows. Arriving by car I don’t have a sense of the building’s heavy river presence.

Finding the trapdoor beside Walsh’s personal tennis court takes time. Around me are a series of ochre steel walls, their elemental presence carried deep into the earth by Saunders & Ward’s outstanding welded staircase.

The build began after the small original museum was closed in 2006 and the new MONA opened in January 2011 after a $A75 million renovation. The external structures are as striking as MONA’s innards are labyrinthine and towering. Below ground there are 400 works displayed across 3 levels in a layout that even after visiting for an entire day I was unable

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There are challenges to MONA,” Stebbings says.

“I think if you were trying to design a site to make it impossible to cover with electronic security then you’d design it like this.

design process right through,” Stebbings explains.

From these beginnings, Honeywell got involved in design input for the new building.

“Having someone local in Hobart who could provide leading technology and could personally talk to them on a daily basis, step them through where the solution needed to be – that was a key,” Stebbings says.

“MONA was just a massive moving process with David Walsh and his architectural design team – the finished product is a long way from where we started – it was a continual change of needs and wants and size.

“From a security perspective David doesn’t get down too deep into it – instead he’s very much the flow, the space, the architecture - every nook and cranny of the site David has had huge input into.”

We’re standing on the ferry wharf by the river looking up the stairs where most visitors arrive and I get a sudden wave of feeling for the challenges of a site like this. It’s an open site, a public site. It’s technically demanding in terms of integration and application.

The governing personalities are strong. And that’s before any hardware is installed underground in one of the toughest surveillance environments I’ve ever seen.

“There are challenges to MONA,” Stebbings says.

“I think if you were trying to design a site to make it impossible to cover with electronic security then you’d design it like this.

“For a start the artists and the museum want our security hardware to be invisible. Given we have to protect $A120 million worth of artwork that’s not always possible but we have to be as invisible as we can be.

“One of the big challenges for us was that there

to piece together conceptually.

It goes without saying that building services take second place in a cultural site like this. It’s not that they are unimportant, it’s that they are invisible. And making actual services invisible is something that takes very careful planning. For the builders and system designers, MONA was an epic production.

There were 2 years of pre-planning and 4 years of building including 12 months dedicated solely to excavation.

The design team was large and included David Walsh, Adrian Spinks, Steve Devereaux, MONA staff, architect Fender Katsilides and engineers WSP Lincolne Scott and Felicetti Pty Ltd. The technology partners were MONA IT partner AEGRES and master systems integrator, Honeywell.

My tour guide for the day is Honeywell’s Simon Stebbings. Having been involved with the site for many years as supplier, system designer and integrator, Stebbings has a deep connection to MONA, a sense of pride not just in the system but in the collective actualisation of Walsh’s vision.

“We’ve done the full journey from the original house and the small museum, as well as the function centre and the chalets, so we have been part of the

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at MONA is that the gallery and the site itself are widely accessible to ordinary people. There are challenges associated with that open attitude outside and especially inside the museum, according to Stebbings.

“MONA is very much a public space and during opening hours visitors are free to come and go and wander around and experience it. David was adamant he wanted people to be able to look and smell the artwork - he did not want to create barriers,” Stebbings explains.

“On another site we might recommend more in the way of barriers and physical segregation from artworks and the public – layers of glass for instance but that simply wasn’t an option at MONA. “As a result we need to manage the space with CCTV and physical guards and this just handballed the challenge. There are a lot of unusual spaces and areas of low light, there are high and low ceilings and restrictions on camera locations. Then there are spaces that are not dim but completely dark.”

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are no ceiling spaces, no visible ductwork and the way services were achieved in this environment was quite amazing – all our conduits and cables for the security system had to be installed before the pouring of the slabs.”

For this to work a full design needed to be in place well in advance of the build but this long lead time created its own issues.

“What the long lead time meant was that when you get to the end of the process because we were committed to leading edge technology, the cameras had changed to 1080p HD and H.264 compression, storage had changed, the networks had changed from 100MB to 1GB speeds and there was PoE. That meant different hardware was required.”

Complicating matters further is the fact that David Walsh’s home is incorporated into the museum.

Walsh has private parties and family events, and uses the theatre and the museum 24 hours a day. In part of the museum a discreet section of glass peers into Walsh’s lounge room, like a window into his personality.

“When the building was designed it was actually intended that it be locked down when it closed in the evening,” Stebbings explains. “That meant it did not need security staff 24/7. But during planning, David suddenly decided he wanted to live in the museum and have 24/7 access to everything yet still have the site 100 per cent secure.”

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According to Steve Devereaux, sites project manager at MONA, when the site’s security solution was conceived the team had nothing to compare it to and no specific budget to work towards.

“First and foremost, the funds for this gallery came from the pocket of one person so the systems are designed to try and minimise costs to give best results,” he explains.

“We wanted good gear, we wanted good cameras – we wanted very good visuals inside the museum, and we wanted a system that could integrate all our security and building management systems and still be controlled by a single person.

“So we simply set out what we wanted the system to do and once we’d established this, we moved to a design phase and then the system was built,” Devereaux says.

“In the beginning we looked at a lot of galleries in Australia and overseas including MoMA in NYC and galleries in Chicago and LA. The security systems we saw were not state of the art and they relied on putting staff on the floor rather than technology.”

Devereaux says MONA needed something different – a system that was highly capable and efficient so as to mitigate future running costs.

There’s a paradox here in that because it’s a private

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museum MONA is cost driven – that means more automation. Yet the cost of the system was larger than originally planned because of the high level of automation required to save money.

“Every door is access controlled, which is expensive but now this is done, the system is less expensive to run and we can run it more efficiently in terms of performance,” Devereaux explains.

At the beginning of the process management engaged a security consultancy which gave the team some ideas. Then came some research and Honeywell’s involvement allowed the system to be brought together.

“There was a lot of open and frank discussion at the beginning,” Devereaux says. “If you have an open mind about how something should happen and work with people then you will get the best result and I think we were lucky enough to get that.

“From a system perspective the site is divided into a grid and there are conduits running through the slab and through columns allowing us to add and subtract bits and pieces all the time. To get that flex you have to put a backbone in and that was an expensive task.”

A system this capable that can be managed from a single security workstation is an achievement.

Given the size of the site and the multiplicity of the systems – it seems most the key systems port into EBI at some point. To be able to handle it with one person is awesome.

“The basic design of the system is similar to that of a prison, with layers of access control, centrally monitored by the security control room and supported by video surveillance,” says Devereaux.

“There are no keys and the access cards that open doors across the site only work after a biometric authentication has been undertaken at the single staff entry point.

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The boss has strong and eclectic ideas and the lead architect had strong ideas about the design as well, Between them there were 12 major changes of scope – we were constantly evolving in terms of design.

site and we have an event log. If staff need to get into an area they aren’t authorised to go into they can get access through security and the incident can be logged.

“The system also handles all the functionality of fire control, vertical transport and building management systems, including climate control. We have the best system we could put together that can be operated economically.

“A particular strength of the system is the DVM500’s ability to allow us to view and synchronise multiple related cameras and view them forward, reverse or pause. We can also view a scene live, pause and playback – from the perspective of the security staff the system works.”

“We pinched ideas from the best to make sure it would work and we have incidents we’ve been able to follow up and the system has not let us down. We’re happy with it and it works.”

You’ve been with this since the very beginning – what was the hardest part of building MONA? I ask.

“I think the hardest thing was trying to fit in all the changes to the scope of works,” says Devereaux. “We had a very good team of architects and builders and they accommodated the changes very well. But there were challenges.

“The boss has strong and eclectic ideas and the lead architect had strong ideas about the design as well, Between them there were 12 major changes of scope – we were constantly evolving in terms of design.

“Things were added on and had to be incorporated into the system and we had to try to keep control of the budget. You can imagine. But the result is a site with a very free flowing design.”

Understanding the network

Given the high level integration the system design combines modular simplicity and technical complexity. When trying to get your head around this installation bear in mind that it is fully digital, incorporates a fibre ring, and that all the electrical services are variously integrated.

Pretty obviously, the nature of the fibre backbone is expandable endlessly and is future proof. The projected lifespan of optical fibre is variously quoted as 25 years at worst and 40 years at best. That’s a long time to recoup a return on investment. Very few sites have this sort of backbone and it allows MONA plenty of room when it comes to carrying services on its digital network.

“The whole site which includes the museum, the function centre, accommodation and many other buildings are connected to this massive backbone and there are comms rooms and pits across the site,” Stebbings says.

“While the security network shares some services and locations with the data network, it’s a prisongrade isolated LAN that is physically segregated – the security network is an island. There are no physical connections to the data network and the only workstations that allow access to the security LAN

are actually physically located on that network.

“Early in the process we were able to show MONA some prisons in Queensland so they could get a feel for the sort of system we were proposing. It was from prisons that we brought that island concept – a solution in which there are layers of security.

“Either someone needs to physically let you in or there’s an initial biometric and then access cards for all doors. And there’s the CCTV system allowing the security staff to monitor all these events and any alarm events in real time.

“In terms of network geography we have 6 comms racks with fibre from these racks to the remote comms rooms and then Cat-6 runs to the cameras,” Stebbings explains.

“We have stuck to the 100m standard for the Cat-6 runs though we could go longer – again it’s for future proofing. If we need higher resolutions requiring more bandwidth we still have that capability.”

Not surprisingly, given the nature of the network, storage is off-the-shelf and is a Dell data centre-type solution with a stonking 42TB of storage.

“Originally this gave us 31 days storage at full resolution 25ips,” Stebbings says. “But with the change to H.264 compression we now have the capability to hold 150 cameras at full resolution for twice that time if we chose to.”

At the heart of this integration from the perspective of electronic security and building management is Honeywell’s Enterprise Buildings Integrator 410 Release 2. EBI brings together 3 core functions - access control, intrusion and duress alarms and video surveillance (through DVM500 software) - as well as PA, fire, air conditioning, management of art boxes and management of digital artworks themselves.

“DVM500 is the recent VMS upgrade, this manages a solution that is brought together by the Honeywell EBI,” explains Stebbings. “DVM handles the video and analytics and paired with that is our EBI which provides us with a full integration between our security system, the BMS and the CCTV system. It really gives us a single fully integrated system for the user.”

EBI, because it has the ability to integrate any subsystem is a different animal from other systems I’ve seen. It’s a single system that’s all the systems with a single avenue of control.

“The key for us is that EBI is the management system and EBI is the face of DVM – it’s the alarm system, the access system, it’s the BMS, it’s everything,” Stebbings explains. “It’s also the integration platform for VoIP, fire control, intercoms and third party devices. The key interfaces of access control, VMS, and security management are not third party integrations.

“Considering this, it’s not a surprise that the integration looks so neat because we were engaged

by Steve to work with the builders, engineers, contractors and the architects to work on an integration brief from the beginning. In a typical building there is a tender for fire, VMS, CCTV, access, security and all are separate. In comparison we were

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engaged as the integrator so we sat down with all those involved and made sure the system would function smoothly.

So what exactly is EBI looking after?

“Pretty much everything,” Stebbings says.

“Alarms, access control, CCTV, VoIP intercoms, environmental control, lighting, lift management, security, the art boxes themselves – that’s all integrated into EBI. There’s also the AV artwork and we actually manage this artwork – monitoring and turning it on and off.”

“The beauty of EBI is that the same software and servers that drives the security system and the security management in the control room drives our building management system.

“This means that on that same system we can manage scheduling for galleries, turning artwork on and off, air conditioning, temperature. Obviously in this place it’s 2-faceted – the security of the artwork and the perfect ambient environment for the artwork – the humidity and temperature.

“As well as handling alarms and access control, EBI is our integration engine,” Stebbings says. “On top of the standard industry open integration protocols we cut special interfaces at our software centre in Sydney where required. We have worked in the

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The control room

Underneath the wall-mounted screens are a pair of desktop screens that allow security staff to monitor alarm and access events, select camera views through a map and handle other functions.

These screens rotate through 180 degrees. industrial space for years with standard protocols such as modbus. This allowed us to integrate with other subsystems to handle things like lighting and air conditioning.”

Importantly, EBI and DVM500 software solutions which form the heart of the system are hardware agnostic and this allowed the integrators to use the best networking, storage, cameras, readers, alarm sensors, intercoms they could find. This is an excellent quality in a system as large and complex as this one is and it’s how many more systems should be.

“We’ve used all Axis cameras at MONA,” Stebbings explains. “Bear in mind that this was a 4-year build so what you will find is that the earliest outdoor cameras installed on the initial structures have the old bell housing – they are Axis 214s.

“You’ll also find we have the new P series and the new Q series – that’s an amazing camera. We use one with a 38x optical zoom and the security team like it so much we are putting another one into the same outdoor area to further extend the coverage around the outdoor stage area.”

Meanwhile, on the access control side, MONA uses HID 13.56MHz readers running an encrypted Pinkerton protocol, as well as BQT biometric readers.

The access control set up is very clever. Each day, all the access control cards have to be activated by a daily biometric authentication. This is a prison model of layered security with multi-faceted authentication not just to get in a door but to get any access at all.

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The control room at MONA is compact and the video wall is comprehensive as befits a site with this number of cameras but not too big for a single operator. There’s a rack of security, CCTV and BMS switchers in one corner. The set up is ergonomic and everything is within easy reach.

Underneath the wall-mounted screens are a pair of desktop screens that allow security staff to monitor alarm and access events, select camera views through a map and handle other functions. These screens rotate through 180 degrees.

Cameras are displayed on the video wall while EBI and DVM come together on a pair of desktop screens.

Maps on the desktop screens display icon-based access control door locks, PIRs and cameras. Also displayed on the map are duress alarms located in the bar, the restaurant and other locations.

Security officers can also monitor key services like fire detection and suppression and power. Obviously with a 150 camera system, officers can’t watch all cameras at the same time so if there’s an event the right camera images appear in the event log for viewing.

“This bunker style control room located inside the secure zone is very much in line with the prison model – internal control with levels of security,” Stebbings explains.

In the control room I get a feel for the video surveillance upgrade which has seen the old DVM replaced with the new Honeywell DVM500. The old DVM gave a split screen control which was limiting, while the new DVM500 is drop and drag, touch and play control. It has some powerful new features that allow multiple views of a single camera as well as grouping of camera views.

“There are still fixed views that security staff can use to monitor high traffic or high security areas but following events on screen is easier and much faster,” Stebbings explains.

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“With the new DVM500 console, security staff can pick whatever views they need at any time. They can also look at the same camera live, pause, in playback at the same time. They can also find all the relevant cameras in an area in a set group and move them all simultaneously allowing them to get multiple views of an event or the progression of an event.”

As I look at the monitors it’s clear some of the views aren’t the latest cameras but even the last generation 1MP Axis cameras are doing a good job. The external views are in bright sunlight as we are viewing them and the cameras outside are generally handling the conditions very well.

Internally though, things are much more challenging and I can clearly see what Stebbings was talking about when it comes to those dark areas.

This is a tough, tough site. In some locations you are getting an approximation of events but there’s no face recognition going on. There’s just not enough light.

I didn’t carry a light meter with me but I think in many locations in the museum lighting is sub one lux. In some locations I sensed from experience that my Sekonic would have measured no light at all.

There are also some scenes in which light bulbs and artworks are flashing on and off and in these cases

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the Axis cameras are doing a good job of handling the variations in processing required by intermittent glare.

I pay special attention to the horror of the mummy room, which contains a pair of Egyptian sarcophaguses. The floor is covered with a few inches of water and the path is stepping stones. It’s pitch dark with the merest threads of light trickling in. We do not get to see this room on our foot tour as it’s so popular but on screen the light is very low indeed. I’m not certain I’m seeing a ghost in the mummy room but I might be.

Looking at the monitors some other rooms are completely dark apart from tiny downlights illuminating delicately beaded artworks. In many areas the walls are black too, so there are no reflections to help out.

“It’s a very challenging site and we get to try out all the tools and all the tricks to get useable images,” Stebbings tells me. “It’s easier in the main part of the exhibition because not a lot changes so you can tune cameras to handle a fixed environment but in the AAA touring galleries the fitouts are changing every 12 months and we have to reconfigure the camera system on lighting tracks to suit new walls, new displays, changes to lighting. That’s tricky.”

According to Stebbings, it’s been a team effort with support from security and IT. “The security staff here work very closely with MONA and they’ve gone the full journey on the security system with us,” he explains.

“At multiple levels the site has been a journey – it’s a great test bed for us to try new things. Security staff will come to us with new challenges and we’ll roll them into the product. The big request we are getting is more analytics for face recognition and numberplates.”

Touring the site

Next we take a walking tour of the site and I notice cameras are tucked into rooflines as much as possible.

MONA is impressive. Everywhere you look there are curious structural forms. Some of the older buildings are subjectively sympathetic to my eye, perhaps due to the bias of familiarity with traditional architecture.

Other structures pitch out of the ground like the halfburied cities in Planet of the Apes.

We head down past the huge outdoor stage towards the accommodation chalets and Stebbings points out a remote garden art display the system

Then we check out the data centre. This is an interesting aspect of the build. It’s a horizontal services space that incorporates all building services that doesn’t intrude into the public space. Everything, including network nodes, is crammed inside.

secures. At one time that case had a million dollars worth of art in it, he says. Pushing the boundaries of the museum, all the accommodation pavilions have precious artworks inside. Each pavilion is a little museum on its own.

Now we take the internal service stairs to the management area. Stebbings points up at the ceiling where 3 or 4 devices are clustered on the bare concrete of the slab ceiling. What’s fascinating is the way devices are cabled directly through the concrete.

Everything was wired through the slab – the planning must have been phenomenal. There are no cables, no cable trays. All these devices are wired through concrete – the sensors (Aritech 360 and standard PIRs), the fire sensors, the PA speakers the smoke sensors.

There are also places the conduits had to run through the columns – as there are no vertical risers.

That’s particularly the case in the gallery – it’s all user space with no ceilings or risers at all, no vertical service shafts or air conditioning ductwork.

Something that catches my eye is that a lot of the devices are not original security industry white or beige colours but have been repainted to blend in with the decor of the site – most are painted black.

Stebbings says these had to be professionally painted.

It’s the same with many of the internal cameras. There can’t be any visible hardware in the exhibition areas and on black walls the integrated camera housings are painted black.

When we move through some of the gallery spaces that we were viewing in the control room. I take a photo of one space without flash and later at the office, I can see virtually nothing in the shot. It’s a credit to the standard Axis cameras they are seeing anything in this space at all. MONA is the darkest public space I’ve ever seen in a working CCTV application.

Now we visit a touring gallery that’s in the process of being changed out for a new exhibition. Walls have been removed. Stebbings points out the cameras on cable tracks on the ceiling – there are 15-20 cameras that can be moved around the gallery. Stebbings says he comes in and designs a layout for the cameras when the gallery design is finished.

Next port of call is a remote comms room which includes the security switch, as well as access control panels mounted on a wall. These come into the control room via the network, too.

Then we check out the data centre. This is an interesting aspect of the build. It’s a horizontal services space that incorporates all building services yet doesn’t intrude into the public space. Everything, including network nodes, is crammed inside.

“In terms of the installation we’ve got this central core that carries comms, power, data, air conditioning, water – it runs right through the middle of the building on a lateral plane,” Stebbings explains.

We poke around the security switches and servers in node zero. The hardware is predominantly Dell servers handling cameras, as well as data servers and storage servers that support the EBI. Because Dell is

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standard across the site employing it in the security system gives great access to support.

There are 3 levels of power backup including a main generator that runs the whole site, an emergency generator in a secure area that runs critical comms and a critical services UPS. With enough fuel these layers of backup can keep central services running indefinitely.

The installation

After 2 years of design the development of the site took about 4 years. The excavation alone took 12 months as the builders clawed through 3 stories of sandstone before MONA was welded, bolted and poured into the ground and grass laid over the top of it.

According to Stebbings, when it came to the security systems, Honeywell’s Tasmanian team managed the installation but drew on its specialists from Melbourne, as well as Honeywell’s software centre in Sydney.

“In terms of the physical installation, the electrical contractors and staff providing all the cabling and comms and the digital backend of the system – the rack and the servers – was handled by our own staff.

The infrastructure was done for us and we came along and did the rack and configured the servers with our software.”

Given the fixed finish dates everyone else must have been charging to finish at the same time – all the contractors for all parts of the site? I ask.

“Yes, absolutely,” says Stebbings. “We had guys doing 24-hour stints, the IT guys were doing the same thing - it was all hands on deck. I spent a few days down here on the tools. There was a grand opening so it was not just the challenge of opening, it was an opening which included more guests than the

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site was designed to handle on the first night, so the system had to work.

“Everything had to be in the right location from planning to construction and I was amazed how it came together – when we did not have to chase concrete and move things around during commissioning that was the moment I realised the amount of effort everyone involved had put into their work on the MONA site.”

Something in Stebbings’ tone catches my attention.

You must feel part of the place – it’s a super job, a super site – there are few systems I’ve seen that are of this nature. That must be a great feeling?

“Absolutely – it is a great feeling, there’s a feeling of ownership there,” Stebbings replies.

Everything had to be in the right location from planning to construction and I was amazed how it came together – when we did not have to chase concrete and move things around during commissioning that was the moment I realised the amount of effort everyone involved had put into their work on the MONA site.

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“I know from speaking with Steve Devereaux that’s exactly how he wanted it. He built relationships with suppliers over a period of time and that has enabled him to get companies to take the journey through the design and the build to the opening. It really was a journey – it was a 7-year process.”

Did it go smoothly? What were the challenges specific to the security system?

“There were challenges,” Stebbings says. “The original design did not have a data centre so you can imagine that on day one we were fitting all our gear into the control room and into remote comms racks.

“It became very quickly apparent that to achieve the number of cameras and hardware and to handle the redundancy, the UPS support, the physical isolation required, we had to centralise. That change to a central data centre coming late in the project was a challenge but the end result is obviously fantastic.

“Having this space for security and IT to work in really made a difference during the installation.”

Stebbings says. “We sat down with AEGRES, the MONA IT team, early on and that really set the standard for the installation.

“They were strong on flexible structured cabling and IP solutions. The networking is a massive investment and the key to getting value from the investment is having all your systems using the network. And it pays off. Getting the fibre site-wide meant that when we come along with a request for a camera upgrade the system is capable of handling it.

“We worked closely with IT and we still do today. At the moment we are looking at adding some cameras on the driveway, the front entrance, there’s a chapel being built and we have fibres all the way down to these areas allowing us to slot in a PoE camera right down on the road.”

Conclusion

Visiting MONA feels like an historical journey through the development of Walsh’s mind. Many of the exhibits are highly anthropomorphic, intensely focused on human form and experience and the most effective of them work by turning visitors towards surprisingly simple aspects of fundamental human truths.

The experience of MONA is so visceral that later I find it hard to subtract the security system from the museum and the museum from the art. Many systems I write about are largely interchangeable – they might be a university or a sports ground, each with its particular yet predictable challenges. Few have the layers of meaning this site has.

At once it’s an amazing built-space, a striking location, an engaging collection of art and a superbly integrated building management and security system. One thing is certain. The system designers and installers at Walsh’s museum, some of whom have been in this thing since project conception, have enjoyed security integration’s most existential ride. zzz

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All rounders Hemispheric cameras with fisheye lenses have the ability to give a 180-degree wide angle view, making them ideal for a range of applications from retail to foyers, to lifts, to transportation.

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T was inevitable that a camera with a 180-degree wide angle lens be developed. The combination of PoE, compact size, robust construction and a quality fish eye lens makes for an extremely capable camera that is perfect for applications demanding 180-degree views out to a distance of about 15-20m.

Their lens characteristics really are the key feature of hemispheric cameras. Among the first practical uses for fish eye lenses after their invention in 1906 was in meteorology where they were known as ‘whole-sky lenses’ and were used to study cloud formation. If you take the visual image in your mind of a whole-sky lens and turn it upside down over a scene then you get a very good impression of what these cameras offer.

Important to bear in mind here is that the 180-degree views we are talking about are the lower 180 degrees of a 360-degree sphere – that means a hemispheric camera with a 180-degree lens actually gives a 360 compass-degree view of a scene. If wallmounted, the camera may give 180-degree views and some cameras offer this configuration as a selectable option.

A great strength of hemispheric cameras is that they don’t miss any action in a scene – a person will not move from one camera to another as they would with fixed cameras or standard PTZ units. This continuity applies to recordings, too, and greatly enhances court admissibility of image streams.

A fisheye lens uses visual distortion to create a hemispherical view – what this means is that these lenses don’t give rectilinear images – there are no straight lines. Instead you get equisolid angles leading to a convex image. Hemispherical surveillance cameras use image correction to straighten out scenes when users zoom into scenes.

Some do this so well their digital zooms appear flawless.

Things to bear in mind when comparing hemispheric cameras include the fact different fisheye lenses have different characteristic distortions – different lens mapping functions. There are variations in image quality that are best directly compared by objective test.

Hemispheric cameras with their wide angle views and fixed focal lengths are very much all rounders.

They are perfect for a range of internal applications where a complete synthesis of a scene is most desirable and where distances are not so great that face recognition is impossible.

A great strength of hemispheric cameras is that they don’t miss any action in a scene – a person will not move from one camera to another as they would with fixed cameras or standard PTZ units. This continuity applies to recordings, too, and greatly enhances court admissibility of image streams.

I’ve seen the Q24 in a number of applications and its performance is excellent. The camera is more than capable in areas with a 20m diameter from the camera point – that’s a very large hall or foyer.

Same as all hemispherics, the fisheye gives a convex image but this is corrected by the integrated distortion correction software, so the scene actually appears very true to the eye. Something that’s very nice about the Mobotix camera and management software is that it allows users to view several image sections at once. These image sections can be recorded separately, as well as being monitored separately.

Mobotix Q24

The PoE IP65-rated Q24 from Mobotix is the original IP-based hemispheric camera. Its key components include a hemispheric camera comprising a fisheye lens, an image sensor and integrated image correction software.

The Q24, like other hemispherics, is designed to be ceiling mounting (though it can be wall mounted using a special bracket) and if located in the centre of the room it gives a 360-degree of the entire room.

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I can’t jump away from Mobotix hemispheric cameras without mentioning the S14, which combines the P3 camera board with a pair of hemispheric cameras on 2m cables to increase the flexibility of installations.

Vivotek’s 5MP FE8172

The Q24 has a ½-inch CMOS progressive scan chip whose specifications include minimum scene illumination of 1 lux in colour and 0.1 lux in monochrome. Maximum image resolution is 2048 x 1536 (3MP) in colour and 1280 x 960 in monochrome.

Images format selections include 160 x 120 pixels to 2048 x 1536 pixels with an L11 lens. There’s also PTZ view, quad view, panorama broad view image, double panoramic view, and a panorama focus with 3 views.

Image compression is MxPEG, M-JPEG, JPG, H.264 (Video-VoIP-Telephony) and maximum frame rates in MxPEG VGA is 30 fps, 1MP is 30 fps and 3MP is 20 fps.

Other features include internal DVR MicroSD slot (camera internal video recording up to 64 GB), external storage directly on NAS and PC/Server without additional recording software. VMS is MxEasy for remote management while control room software is MxControlCenter 2.1 Image processing capabilities include backlight compensation, automatic white balance, image distortion correction (panoramic image correction included), video sensor (motion detection). There’s a virtual PTZ with digital PTZ and a continuous 8x zoom.

There’s triggering of events by integrated multiple-window motion detection, external signal, temperature sensor, notification over email, FTP, IPTelephony (VoIP, SIP), visual/acoustic alarm pre- and post-alarm images.

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Vivotek’s FE8172 is a hemispheric fisheye fixed dome network camera, with a 5MP resolution sensor. The Vivotek FE8172’s fisheye lens delivers a 180-degree panoramic view when wall-mounted or 360-degree surround view when ceiling/floor/table-mounted.

The VIVOTEK FE8172 offers various display layouts, including original surround view, panoramic view, and regional view for various mounting applications. There are strong image processing capabilities that allow hemispherical images captured from the fisheye camera to be converted into conventional rectilinear projection for viewing and analysis.

In both the panoramic as well as regional viewing modes, users can utilize the ePTZ function to zoom in and focus on a region of interest (ROI). The new pixel calculator function helps the user to ensure the image quality of a desired area.

Features of the Vivotek FE8172 include up to 30 fps at 1080p full HD with the 1.05 mm fisheye lens giving 180-degree panoramic view and 360-degree surround view. There’s a removable IR-cut filter for day/night function There’s real-time H.264, MPEG-4 and MJPEG Compression (Triple Codec) and WDR enhancement, built-in 802.3af compliant PoE and an integrated MicroSD/SDHC/SDXC Card Slot for onboard storage.

I’ve seen the FE8172 deployed and was impressed with its performance. For such a small form factor there’s a huge amount of information generated by this camera.

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I’ve seen the FE8172 deployed and was impressed with its performance. For such a small form factor there’s a huge amount of information generated by this camera. Also impressive was Vivotek’s management software which is intuitive, with plenty of display options.

AXIS M3007-PV

The AXIS M3007-PV PoE network camera is a fixed mini dome with 360-degree and 180-degree panoramic views at up to 5MP resolutions. The camera is compact, vandal and dust-resistant design, and can be installed on walls or ceilings.

There’s a digital PTZ and multi-view streaming with de-warped views, along with edge storage with support for micro-SDHC cards.

According to Axis the camera offers useful panoramic views of areas as large as 650 square metres – that’s about the size of a large hall or hotel foyer. AXIS M3007-PV offers different views – including a 360-degree overview and de-warped views such as panorama, double panorama and quad views. The quad view is ideal when the camera is positioned at an intersection of corridors.

The camera also provides 4 individually cropped out and dewarped view areas where users can digitally pan, tilt and zoom in on areas of interest.

Multiple video streams in H.264 and Motion JPEG can be sent simultaneously.

The AXIS M3007-PV offers video motion detection and active tampering alarm. In the 360-degree overview mode, the camera also supports the installation of intelligent video applications, such as people counting and heat mapping.

Panasonic panoramic family

The new kid on the hemispheric block, Panasonic’s panoramic cameras are built around the company’s i-Pro SmartHD technology. The models are the indoor camera WV-SF438E and the outdoor WVSW458E, which features a dehumidification device to prevent fogging in an IP66-rated weather resistant dome. Meanwhile, the WV-SW458M is designed specifically for transport applications such as buses or trains.

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The AXIS M3007-PV offers video motion detection and active tampering alarm. In the 360-degree overview mode, the camera also supports the installation of intelligent video applications, such as people counting and heat mapping.

These cameras use high profile H.264 compression to keep bandwidth requirements low and have Super Dynamic technology for difficult, wide dynamic lighting conditions. Their 3MP/1080P resolutions can be used for a multitude of views including, fisheye view, double panorama which is 2 180-degree horizontal views one upon the other, quad views, and many more.

PTZ operation is possible including preset positions and auto panning, all without any mechanical movement. Full duplex audio is built into the camera; there’s an SD/SDHC/SDXC card slot for recording in the camera, and all images are compensated for distortion by the camera.

To reduce the bandwidth further, the cameras use VIQS (Variable Image Quality on Specified area).

It allows the installer to draw a box around a low priority area of the picture then the bit rate within the box is reduced, reducing overall bandwidth.

Installation is easy using PoE or 12vdc to power the camera and is compatible with the Panasonic Network Recorder WJ-NV200 for quick easy setup.

Neat features include Face Detection, Video Motion Detection, and Privacy Zones are also incorporated in the cameras, ensuring optional performance.

I’ve seen these cameras in operation and their performance is extremely good, just as you’d expect, with excellent colour rendition and strong WDR capability. zzz

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S-Type FLIR Just released by FLIR is the FC Series S, a network-ready PoE thermal camera that allows users to leverage the power of thermal technology at an affordable price.

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ES, we like thermal cameras and FLIR’s new FC Series S represents a firm push by the market leader to bring its technology within reach of a much wider user base. Why do we like thermal? Because it works. If security teams need to monitor, manage, confirm and respond to intrusion in all conditions, thermal cameras offer spectacular performance.

The use of thermal cameras isn’t confined to manned sites, either. We also think thermal cameras can allow investigators to confirm events at long range in challenging environmental conditions, giving them an opportunity to respond to developing threats on unmanned sites, either with target hardening, or police or patrol response.

As part of a wider surveillance system, thermal also offers excellent support for optical video cameras that are necessarily operating at closer ranges to give face recognition. The latest generations of networked thermal cameras reporting alarm events in real time via text, email or alarm input are pretty much security officers with bionic eyes, in my opinion. With

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ranges of up to 300m or so and wide viewing angles, they really are the goods.

FLIR’s affordable FC-Series S network-ready camera is more expensive than standard optical surveillance cameras but it’s the guarantee of detection you get with thermal that makes this money well spent. Also important to take into account is the fact that with thermal there’s no lighting requirement.

You can buy the FC-Series S thermal camera in 2 resolutions – 640 x 480-pixel, and 320 x 240-pixel formats and there are variety of lenses to suit a range of applications. Pretty obviously, longer lenses have a tighter field of view and allow you to peer deep into a scene, while shorter lens are best for wide angle work – carparks, warehouses, after hours sports arenas and the like.

A particular strength of thermal cameras is their wide dynamic range, though you need to understand what this is from the point of view of the microbolometer. Thermal cameras aren’t giving you face recognition that might be obliterated with bloom or flare in a scene, but because they detect heat it’s vital they not be blinded by hot sun.

You want your thermal cameras to discern between different heat sources and offer you the best possible thermal contrast between say, a warm reflection from a window and a person standing in front of the window. Obviously the best ‘seeing’ conditions for thermal cameras are cooler so FLIR’s ability to offer excellent contrast in tough conditions is vital. This strong contrast performance makes the FC-Series S a strong performer in support of video analytics.

FLIR’s FC-Series S is a PoE camera with communication and power through a network cable.

Same as any IP camera this means the FC-Series S can slot into a networked surveillance solution with ease. Compliance with ONVIF 2.0 means the camera will work with a range of compliant management solutions. You get multiple channels of streaming digital video in H.264, MPEG-4, or M-JPEG formats.

And simultaneous digital and composite video output is possible using the network and analogue connections.

For single camera installations the FC-Series S comes with a single sensor copy of FLIR Sensors Manager. This intuitive software allows users to manage and control an FC-Series S camera in a TCP/ IP network.

There’s analogue connection too, for installation in legacy networks, with power-in/video-out capability.

Same as all FLIR products, the FC-Series S is tough.

The cameras are IP66-rated and have a temperature range of -50ºC to +70ºC. A sun and rain shade helps protect the camera in outdoor installations. If anything does go wrong, FLIR FC-Series S thermal imaging cameras are covered by a 3-year warranty on the camera and a 10-year warranty on the detector. zzz

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Bosch BVMS I Bosch Video Management System (BVMS) Version 4.1.5 is a big step forward, offering distributed IP architecture for enterprise applications, transcoding support for mobile devices, an SDK and full support for ONVIF’s Profile S. 42 se&n

got a look at the new BVMS 4.1.5 at Bosch’s Huntingwood HQ with test pilots Stevan Malesevic and Phil Brewer. This is an evolutionary solution – Bosch has been developing its BVMS for many years and the result is an intuitive layout with excellent performance specifications.

The key thing with BVMS is that Bosch now has an enterprise level solution that really lets integrators and security managers pull together multiple new and legacy Bosch sites into a single video wall. It’s an important step for Bosch and the boys are justifiably excited about it.

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now, everyone has a grin on their face, everyone has 2 thumbs up,” says Malesevic.

“It’s just so exciting for us to have this mature platform that can spread enterprise and mobile connectivity across our whole range from the old Dibos DVR to the new VRS platform, the Advantage line range of DVRs. New BVMS allows centralisation of all these devices onto a single workstation.”

BVMS has some serious grunt. The latest version can manage more than 10,000 cameras and up to 100 operator client connections and the system allows authorized users access to cameras at any connected sites using workstations or mobile clients.

Importantly, while BVMS 4.1.5 is designed to work with all Bosch surveillance products, also it supports all ONVIF Profile S conformant devices, including HD and megapixel cameras, too. That means BVMS is not a proprietary solution.

End users out there with older Bosch VMS installations rejoice. You can upgrade to BVMS 4.1.5 and enjoy its multi-site architecture by simply upgrading to the BVMS enterprise software. It’s a simple process. When you upgrade the management system to this latest version, it migrates the previous configuration to the latest database format. Sweet.

It goes without saying that BVMS supports multiple methods of storage and playback employing iSCSI storage, Secure Digital or Compact Flash cards in Bosch encoders and IP cameras — as well as all the Bosch gear including Bosch Video Recording Manager iSCSI storage devices and appliances, Bosch Recording Station (BRS) and DiBos Digital Video Recorders.

Something that’s neat from an operational standpoint is that with BVMS you get high system availability and reliability because sites are not dependent on each other for clients. If the central server connection is lost, the operator client remains and you still have live playback.

“With the latest version of BVMS V4.5.1 we’ve got a lot of great new features,” Malesevic explains.

“Obviously we’ve been working on a few versions but we’ve nailed a couple of the benefits that are coming out now and it’s really exciting in terms of our video management platform.

“BVMS is now a full enterprise solution and we’ve got access through iPad and iPhone with transcoding to manage different link bandwidths – that’s terrific for low bandwidth situations and it’s controllable with the mobile application.

“We’ve also got access via remote connection – instead of a VPN we can get in over a routed network via a NAT – so just standard port forwarding – ideal for sites without a VPN. There’s also a video streaming gateway which allows us to record third party cameras that are ONVIF S compliant.

According to Malesevic, BVMS also supports VMWare and he points out that as many

It’s just so exciting for us to have this mature platform that can spread enterprise and mobile connectivity across our whole range. organisations already have VMWare infrastructure, this gives users significant flexibility in system setup.

As part of the demo, we drive the system.

Fundamentally, BVMS links authorized remote sites allowing what Bosch calls collaborative operations.

This means there’s single sign on for authorized operators that can include any combination of sites and systems. Once you’re authorised, away you go.

Now we are online we can check out system operation and it’s immediately clear that this solution is a major improvement on earlier versions.

Management is via a directory on the left hand side of the screen and you drill into the directory - multisite root directory, local site, then folders of camera groups and camera tree.

Control of the video wall is very intuitive – it’s drag and drop allowing the operator to design on the fly the layout of the video wall to meet changing needs.

There are a range of screen layouts available and there’s a slider control on the top right of the screen allowing selection of the most common options. If you need to make an image larger, you can select a screen config that makes a scene bigger.

Other controls include timelines, snapshot functions, video export, print images and all the usual Jog/Shuttle type functionality we expect in a solution like this. Something else that I liked was CPU and RAM tachometers in the top right of the

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screen. These allow operators to check system load at a glance if they notice a performance lag to confirm cause.

Important, too, live and playback video can be shared between geographically distributed sites within one large entity or between installations belonging to different operational entities. That’s a neat feature that allows operational redundancy or sharing of operations with emergency services.

Another feature I liked was integrated alarm management that routes critical events to selected user groups. Supporting this feature is a map that’s positioned automatically in accordance with a selected camera.

Overall the client is simple, familiar and functional. As part of the demo room, Bosch has set up a video wall monitor adjacent to the client control workstation and this displays cameras of interest so they can be monitored at all times. This display is very clean with selectable display options.

“Something that’s very important is the ability to look over different time zones in enterprise solutions and BVMS now has this capability,” Malesevic explains. “If there are multiple sites covering different time zones you can select a server and then choose to display the local time at the remote server or set it to time at the control room.

If there are multiple sites covering different time zones you can select a server and then choose to display the local time at the remote server or set it to time at the control room. This is important if images are going to be used as evidence.

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This is important if images are going to be used as evidence.

Another key feature is Bosch Mobile client and transcoding technology which is optimised to meet network constraints. Configuration and operation of these functions is undertaken using the system’s server client architecture coupled with iSCSI streaming. Set up can be handled by any operator workstation or mobile client on an IP network.

“Our transcoding is a great feature,” says Malesevic. “When the mobile device connects to the system, the system asks the mobile client how much bandwidth is available and then advises the optimum video stream it can transmit – that’s dynamic transcoding. The system is always asking what it is sending data to – you don’t have to set a hard limit, the system does this for you.”

Another feature that supports remote viewing is that if you are doing a digital zoom, the system crops that part of the scene from the image stream and this reduces the bandwidth. The result is higher resolution or faster performance on zooms.

As part of our demo, Malesevic pull outs an iPad and we have a play with camera views on a mobile device. This interface is really simple. You get your camera views in a stack on the right hand side of the screen. There’s a nice, simple timeline. Performance is not as sharp as it would be with a cabled solution but that’s typical of any mobile device. Most importantly, the stripped down mobile client is a breeze to manage.

Something else that’s very important for many integrators and end user clients is SDKs and BVMS comes with a full toolkit. These allow integration of access control, PSIM, lighting, air conditioning – whatever is required. There’s also bi-directional sharing of information as needed and the APIs and sample codes are available for serious developers.

Among these are a consolidated API interface to systems beyond the BVMS, including a new cameo SDK providing live, playback and export and a client SDK promoting the development of a custom remote control operator client. There’s also a server SDK to receive events and alarms, as well as a remote control system. zzz

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S2 Quatro S2 NetBox VR Quatro, distributed locally by BGWT and Anixter, is a single-box solution that combines support for up to 8 cameras and 8 access control points in a single housing with all functionality handled by browser.

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By John Ada m s

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WAS impressed by S2’s Pronto VR early in 2012 so it should come as no great surprise to find that the company’s new NetBox VR Quatro is just as pleasing. Best of all, this latest system comes with 18 months of polishing to an already slick repertoire of function.

Quite simply, S2 Quatro is a network-based solution that combines alarms, access control and video surveillance functions like Forensic Desktop, in a browser-based environment. The strengths of this solution are its simplicity, ease of installation, accessibility and its ability to be a stand alone system that can be connected to part of a larger security ecosystem when connected to S2 Global; which can bring together multiple remote systems locally or anywhere in the world.

Management of the S2 NetBox VR Quatro is handled by a combination of the S2 NetBox enterprise-class security management system (SMS) with S2 NetVR, a video management system (VMS). Operationally, Quatro’s basic system supports 4 IP cameras and 4 doors with expansion to 8 cameras and 8 doors. The internal 4-slot card cage takes standard S2 blades and these include access control, supervised alarm monitoring, relay output control, and analogue temperature monitoring.

Importantly, the program and system data (it’s robust Linux Ubuntu) are tucked up in a non-volatile SSD, while cameras are recorded on an internal hard disk (1-3TB). This big capacity gives 30–90 days storage depending on resolution and frame rate.

S2 NetBox Quatro is happy as a stand-alone system where it supports SME sites or bigger domestic applications. But there’s more to Quatro than meets the eye. Its open architecture means that any S2 system is a finger-snap away from being part of a global security solution with none of the complexity or expense typical in client-server architectures.

That’s the beauty of a browser-based architecture.

In the flesh, S2 NetBox Quatro is a well-proportioned aluminium housing more square than rectangular.

The box has plenty of breathing space, knuckle room and knockouts. Inside are the network controller, video blade, an access control module and room in the box for another 3 modules. These can handle 2 full portals (that’s 2 readers, 4 inputs, 4 outputs), 8 outputs or 8 temperature points.

Getting the beastie onto the network is easy. This is a thin client – a network appliance with both SMS and UMS in one unit with one network connection and all it demands is power and a Cat-5/6 drop cable to a network switch. On the inputs side, you carry IP cameras into the video modules in the usual way and alarm inputs into the alarm input blades. Same with readers – they arrive at Quatro on Weigand runs.

Once this is done you simply go to any workstation and browse an IP address.

If you’re trying to imagine S2 NetBox VR Quatro conceptually, picture a single case with the server board, video blade, reader blades, alarm input/output blades and storage bins all onboard. Now picture

R. Todd Smith

Picture yourself somewhere on a LAN or WAN browsing into an appliance through any workstation or mobile device. If you think it all sounds too simple, then you’ve got it.

yourself somewhere on a LAN or WAN browsing into an appliance through any workstation or mobile device. If you think it all sounds too simple, then you’ve got it.

When it comes to the management side, well, that’s the best part, in my opinion. No Windows software, licenses, servers or third-party HLI torture. And because it’s browser-based, no matter which OS you run, Mac or Microsoft, you just step right into the system and get to work. And that simplicity scales - all the way up.

Giving me a driving lesson on the system down at Sargent Security in Caringbah are BGWT’s Josh Simmons and R. Todd Smith, S2’s VP Worldwide Sales.

Smith’s mind is well and truly on the blue cable and he sees S2 as offering installers and end users a solution they can’t get anywhere else. For Smith, browser-based products like S2 are the future and everything else is attempting to bridge the yawning gap between yesterday’s analogue and the digital future.

According to Smith, S2 uses core software technology from Exacq Technologies and that means more than 700 cameras are supported.

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Performance on the video side is solid, with S2 NetBox VR Quatro delivering 1-25 frames, and compression and bandwidth options selectable depending on camera set up.

“Basically we try to design onboard storage so that if you have 30 per cent motion at 7 frames per second then you’ll get 30 days storage,” Smith explains.

“The cost of Quatro is around $A4000 to the end user - that’s for access control, alarms and video surveillance with full local and remote management, so it’s very competitive. S2 also supports all Mercury hardware which allows it to support legacy installations if required.

“A key aspect of Quatro is that we have no licensing,” Smith explains. “The system comes pre-loaded with a camera capacity and you don’t have to download camera licenses or MAC addresses.”

Something that has to be pointed out is the modular nature of Quatro, something it shares with all S2 solutions. You can tie multiple S2 solutions of all types together into a single system using S2’s Global Security Operating Centre management solution.

“All the S2 systems are Global-connected,” says Smith. “Some users might use S2 Extreme or S2 Enterprise in corporate head offices, while in other offices they might use Quatro. Other corporations might use hundreds of Quatros.

“It’s a snap-in architecture that does not require a bunch of engineering services – it’s a kind of lego block model – lots of lego blocks make an enterprise solution via the browser-based S2 Global head end.

There’s a scalability that you don’t see with other brands.”

What does this actually mean for users? It means that each system operates standalone but you have 48 se&n

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global monitoring and global addition or deletion of card holders. If an authorisation changes, then that change propagates across the global system in virtual real time.

Smith shows me how this works and response between Caringbah and London takes about 4 seconds - there’s no daily update between servers that can leave sites vulnerable for vital hours. As Smith makes the changes to an access control template we can see the data flowing through seconds later.

“I can also go in under admin functions and I can make a global access level that is assigned to the global network for a cardholder. The update is 5-10 seconds,” Smith says.

Managing the system globally is effortless. You open the S2 Global browser and on the screen are frames representing linked sites. Within these rectangular frames are status details showing that the remote site is operational, how many users are onsite, etc. To delve into this remote system you just click on the frame and you have instant access to all system functions, monitoring, alarm reporting and video.

“The most vibrant and advanced thing is that you know instantly which systems are online and operating or not,” Smith says. “And you can see all the alarms being updated live. You can replay video clips from 10,000 cameras around the world. The video clips are of alarm or access control events, so there’s no shifting huge amounts of unnecessary data around the network.”

This seems a simple set of functions on the screen but to co-ordinate such functions globally so that when you acknowledge an alarm it registers to remote systems and stamps events to audit trails so

The most vibrant and advanced thing is that you know instantly which systems are online and operating or not...And you can see all the alarms being updated live. You can replay video clips from 10,000 cameras around the world.

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All S2 solutions are appliance-based – it’s an out-of-the box solution that you plug into the network and can use right away.

they are traceable - that’s complicated. Handling this with a client-server setup is not easy.

“Fundamentally, the S2 Global system allows you to do 3 things,” Smith explains to me. “It gives you a unified card database and this allows access to all sites after a record is made in S2 Global – does this in real time – takes a couple of seconds.

“In comparison, client-server architecture can aggregate multiple servers but they are limited and update once a day. Other systems only allow you to push data to local sites and don’t allow you to pull data back, creating a bottleneck.

“The second thing Global does is allow you to run reports for a card holder, or for an access point, and it can do this with video,” Smith says. “The system interrogates all the systems and emails you one report. This report might be scheduled for once a day, or once a week.

“And the third thing this Global Security Operating Centre system gives you is a consolidated operating centre, a dashboard to give you a video, access control and alarm management environment that can be handled by multiple operators.

“With alarm management logic is applied to an alarm and operators adopt an alarm – that alarm is then shown in their own queue. This stops multiple operators working on same alarm.”

Not surprisingly, there’s a mobile app for video and access control and Smith says S2 is working on advanced apps – mobile security officer apps – that allow officers to do more than just see video and unlock doors.

“There’s also a lock-down function app for mobiles – it uses threat level logic to lock down or to unlock the facility. This function is easy to access even under duress and for security, the phone has to be tagged to the system and authorised.

“There’s also a mobile video app that just shows cameras and you can use a camera on a device to supply video to the system.”

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BGWT’s Josh Simmons says S2 leverages the latest technology and he says the simplicity of the company’s solutions is unmatched.

“All S2 solutions are appliance-based – it’s an out-ofthe box solution that you plug into the network and can use right away,” he explains. “What S2 Quatro offers is a solution that supports the 90 per cent of access control systems in Australia that are up to 8 doors.

“Compared with other access control systems, installation and setup are much easier. With traditional systems you might have a control module, then a TCP/IP module to get into the network, then software has to be loaded onto a PC. “Quatro and all S2 systems are plug into the network and web browse for the IP address – there are no computers involved. Some models even support PoE locks and there’s integrated video and remote management.”

Meanwhile, BGWT’s technical manager, Graham Clark says something else that’s great about this solution is that it combines access control and CCTV to enable users to tie events together.

“You can see user events – there’s no need for HLIs or any other integration,” he says. “You also remove the need for Windows operating system, licensing, anti-virus and patching.”

Quatro is another strong solution for S2. Leveraging the latest technologies, S2 is winching access control and video surveillance into networked environments in a way no other manufacturer ever has. zzz

Features of the S2 NetBox VR Quatro inlcude: l Integrated access control and video nnn

l Network appliance handles its own administration l Browser-based user interface l Single cabinet with expansion space for 8 portals l Supports proven S2 blade hardware l Widget Desktop support for customized monitoring displays l Built-in documentation library with web browser access l Forensic Desktop function locates and exports video evidence l Forensic case creation with single frame and full video export l Includes 2-year hardware and 1-year software warranty

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Deterrent value A detailed study titled Understanding Decisions to Burglarize from the Offender’s Perspective gives end users and integrators interesting data on the impact of security systems on the actions of burglars. Most importantly, the study shows our electronic security systems work

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NDERTAKEN by UNC Charlotte researcher Joseph Kuhns from the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, the study is a welcome dose of empiricism in an area fraught with bald assertion. Kuhns led a research team that surveyed more than 400 convicted offenders asking questions about their motivations and methods.

“This study broadens our understanding of burglars, their motivations and their techniques,” Kuhns said. “It also helps us to understand gender differences in offending motivations and techniques.

“By asking the burglars what motivates and what deters them, we believe this research can help people better understand how to protect themselves against these crimes and help law enforcement more effectively respond.”

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The offenders were selected at random from state prison systems in North Carolina, Kentucky and Ohio.

As well as offender motivation, the research focused on target selection considerations; deterrence factors; burglars’ techniques; and gender differences in motivations, target selection and techniques.

When selecting a target, most burglars said they considered the close proximity of other people including traffic, people in the house or business, and police officers; the lack of escape routes; and signs of increased security - including alarm signs, alarms, dogs inside, and outdoor cameras or other surveillance equipment.

Approximately 83 per cent said they would try to determine if an alarm was present before attempting a burglary, and 60 per cent said they would seek an alternative target if there was an alarm on-site. This was particularly true among the subset of burglars who were more likely to spend time deliberately and carefully planning a burglary.

Among those who discovered the presence of an alarm while attempting a burglary, half reported they would discontinue the attempt, while another 31 per cent said they would sometimes retreat. Only 13 per cent said they would always continue with the burglary attempt.

Respondents indicated their top reasons for committing burglaries were related to the need to acquire drugs (51 per cent) or money (37 per cent), which was often used to support drug habits. Only one burglar indicated interest in stealing firearms, which is a common misperception.

About half reported burglarizing homes primarily, while 31 per cent typically committed commercial burglaries. Most burglars reported entering open windows or doors or forcing windows or doors open.

About one in eight burglars reported picking locks or using a key that they had previously acquired to gain entry.

About 12 per cent indicated that they typically planned the burglary in advance, 41 per cent suggested it was most often a spur of the moment event, and the other 37 per cent reported that it varied.

A considerable portion of the research dealt with differences between male and female burglars.

For example, men tended to plan their burglaries more deliberately and were more likely to gather intelligence about a potential target ahead of time.

Women appeared to be more impulsive overall, engaging in spur-of-the-moment burglaries.

Women also indicated a preference for burglarizing homes and residences during the afternoon, while men tended to focus on businesses in the late evenings. Drug use was the most frequently reported motive given by women, at 70 per cent, while men cited money as their main motivation.

In one consistent finding across males and females, alarms and surveillance equipment had similar impact on target selection. However, female burglars were more often dissuaded from attempting a burglary if they noticed signs suggesting that a particular location was protected by alarms.zzz

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Future of CCTV John Adams speaks with Vlado Damjanovski about the future of video surveillance and the directions he thinks the market will take in the coming years.

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Q: Vlado, I can’t help feeling we’re at a cross roads for CCTV. Some of the things on the horizon look threatening, others look positive – do you think the current model of CCTV distribution and installation has a bright or an uncertain future?

A: I agree John, from the point of view of technology, we are at the crossroads, but I don’t think the uncertainty is because of the new technology, but rather because of aggressive marketing from low cost, low quality manufacturers.

Some small businesses think they can make a quick buck and huge profit by buying direct and re-selling low quality questionable copies, but in the long term, we are all losing because our industry is so small.

This price – driven low quality marketing by mostly Chinese manufacturers is the actual problem I see. Somebody could make a quick buck on the way, but the industry will lose its reputation in the long run.

Q: Is the market’s focus on price likely to have a negative impact in the medium and long term or is this just part of the normal cycle?

A: To be fair, Australian customers have always had price driven attitude. But we shouldn’t make price the decisive factor, but only one of the factors. Quality and innovation should be the first and most important factors.

With better education, customers always choose the better product, irrespective of the price. When you call an HD camera, just another HD camera and put it in the same category as all other HD cameras on the market, irrespective of its quality, then you have a problem.

Yes, prices are going down, but they can’t go any further than the minimum cost. Once you buy such a product, you lose respect and appreciation for it. If it breaks down, nobody repairs it anymore, they simply throw it out and buy a new one.

Second time, however, usually one thinks of buying a bit better and more

processing, low light performance, automatic detection of events, or similar. Certainly, higher pixel sensors will become reality for us too, but there will be a few years until then.

I think the next big thing would be certainly 4k sensors, but the display will play an important role too. At this stage there are not that many super-sharp screens with 8MP displays, but I believe OLED technology will come out of the labs. expensive, so you don’t have to throw the product away so soon. Eventually we learn that cheap is expensive in the long run.

Q: Would you agree that the price falls in HD, which must lead to falling margins and build quality or both, will push serious manufacturers in pursuit of the next technological edge?

A: Yes, I agree with that, but I think the next technological edge may not necessarily be more pixels (4k instead of HD) but rather some more intelligence in image

Q: Some threats could include generic cameras with Win7 operating systems and the headlong rush towards the tiny and the low cost in HD video cameras. The simplification of HD seems to me to have happened very fast – in just a couple of years.

Does it seem that way to you?

A: Honestly, HD cameras with Windows7? I hope the Windows firewall will allow the camera to operate! It will ask: “Do you really want this application to run? Are you sure?”

For me the primary challenges are that when there’s progress and innovation somewhere in the world, that company decides to make a new product. Then, in order to make it more affordable they choose to make it in China.

But they forget that there is a backdoor in the same factory where, despite the copyright agreement, the product is sold to others at even lower prices by slightly modifying the design so it looks different.

I think similar is happening with the low cost HD cameras you mentioned.

It is a fact that the cost of image sensor manufacturing has gone down as well, but it is the copying and cutting corners in quality that is damaging.

Q: There are many things that are positive in CCTV, including the development of 4K monitor screens, the development of 4K CCTV cameras – Bosch is first cab off that rank – as well as the ratification of H.265, which will make 4K useable on typical surveillance subnets. Something else that’s exciting is Samsung’s 1Gbps 5G technology which will allow an HD movie to download in one second.

That’s a technology the surveillance industry could learn to love. What other developments excite you?

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A: Specifically in CCTV (and maybe I am being biased here) Dallmeier’s Panomera is a fantastic concept that while jaw-dropping now, it will get better as faster computers and more capable software become available.

In CCTV technology in general, I think the next big thing would be 4k sensors, but the display will play an important role too. At this stage there are not that many super-sharp screens with 8MP displays, but I believe OLED technology will come out of the labs and become a real and more affordable product. This will offer incredible possibilities, especially for control rooms.

I can imagine a wide and curved OLED display in front of an operator’s desk that will show all video signals one can select, scale them up or down any which way one wants, all on a thin and transparent OLED film, and of course, running on Linux or Mac. Q: IR illumination. This is a great development in my opinion. Do you think it allows manufacturers to focus the power of their chipsets on areas of performance like WDR and improved resolution?

A: No. In order for any sensor, be that CCD or CMOS, to see colour, they must have an IR cut filter, because sensors are sensitive to IR light more than visible light. So, if you have a IR cut filter you can see colours properly, but you can’t see infra red. If you want to see infra red you have to remove the IR cut filter, but then you won’t be able to see colours.

An additional side-effect is that IR light has longer wavelengths, lower frequency than visible light, and as such penetrates deeper but also the focal point is a little bit behind the sensor plane (hence you need an IRcorrected lens).

If the sensor is designed with larger pixels (meaning a bigger sensor size) it will automatically be more low light sensitive. But, as we know, increasing the sensor size, increases the cost, as well as requiring bigger and more expensive lenses.

Furthermore, there is not really much processing time to be spent on the sensor itself, but rather this is done in the electronics after the sensor. The current trend is a little bit of image processing, but not really on the sensor

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itself but in the post-sensor electronics, like double-exposure.

My belief is that there will be a new sensor design that will stay small but increase low light capability in some other clever way, one of which is by back-illumination. This is already done on the iPhone, for example. The chip is exposed from behind the pixel area, which is less obscured by conductor micro tracks, which are on the top layer of a sensor.

Q: We’re seeing a significant broadening of the market for hemispheric cameras. Do you think we could see ubiquity with this flexible type of camera? Or is this horses for courses?

A: I think horses for courses. It all depends on how it is done. Mobile phones were mobile phones until iPhone came out. Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson and Blackberry were the leaders and nobody thought it was possible to do anything radically different and new, but that changed with the iPhone because some people spend a lot of time thinking more creatively. And now everybody is copying it.

Perhaps hemispheric or immersive technology cameras may become more popular if they are designed to offer the best of all that they are good at, rather than just an idea of hemispheric viewing. I personally don’t find them that attractive today, but that doesn’t mean they won’t become much more

attractive if resolution and low light capability are improved, and better lens quality is employed.

Q: Do you see a way that cloud can have a genuine business model outside of smaller commercial and domestic applications? Given the huge drop in cabled 1G WAN links in city centres – they are about $600 now – I think it’s increasingly possible to employ a cloud model there’s just no one seriously pushing it. Would you agree?

A: I thought the same John, at the introduction of the cloud concept a few years ago, but I think that hasn’t happened yet because of the lack of feeling for the storage media presence. We all have now our photos, music, e-mails and DropBox files in the cloud, but somehow I still want to have my own copies somewhere on my physical drives near me.

Also, I know that a lot of security managers will not allow their data to go somewhere uncontrolled (despite the encryption). Plus, the NBN is a long way from being complete, which could be another reason for the lack of popularity. I do have in my place, believe it or not, a 100 Mb/s internet, but I find it limited by the other side, by the server I am talking to.

If they don’t have the pipe coming to me, I can’t see anything more exciting at 100 Mb/s. But I am sure, these are the things that will get better each day, it will just take time.

Maybe then, when all preconditions are met, the cloud surveillance may be a more attractive possibility.

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Q: Analytics – for a very long time we’ve all been happy enough with our triplines and now we have BRS suggesting its AISight reason-based analytic is the perfect solution. I like AISight but it obviously prices in development and that means SME and cash strapped users can’t afford it despite the technology’s discernment. Where would you like to see analytics go in the future?

A: Yes, it has been painful to see a little bit of decline in the video analytic trust in the past few years. I think this is because some people , especially in sales, over-hyped it. Still, this is a very promising area, where some good products are already available in the market, but the important thing is to note that no video analytics is as perfect as human eye and brain. As long as we learn to expect the realistic outcome, video analytics can be very useful in reducing the stress on the operator watching hundreds of cameras, and take his/her attention to a potential incident.

Counting, numberplate recognition, face identification, are all existing products, some better than others, but none perfect or 100 per cent accurate as there are too many nonpredictive variables. When a customer understands this, and accepts it, the analytics becomes a very useful tool, in its expected tolerances.

The good part is there are quite a few Australian developers that have made, and are making as we speak, fantastic products. All they need is recognition and push by the industry. With such an encouragement and a little bit of extra cash, miracles are possible. I think we as an industry should be more proactive in supporting local products.

Q: Flash storage – we have 128GB SDXC cards and recently a 1TB USB stick was released. Does the growing power of this technology increase the ability of integrators to push storage to the edge so as to ease network load or is on-camera storage still seen as a back-up at best, in your opinion?

A: I think this is one of possibilities I would like to see too. Recording at the camera edge might be a very clever solution providing it is protected, and

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My belief is that there will be a new sensor design that will stay small but increase low light capability in some other clever way, one of which is by backillumination. This is already done on the iPhone.

works seamlessly. I am thinking here of the file formats and being able to write many times to the local solid state storage. Also, replacing a faulty USB or SD storage should be easily done. It is also possible that someone will come with a solution where wireless wi-fi on an SD card is used (already available in the photographic world).

Q: Lenses – we know they are important but it still seems to me the majority of installations go in with fairly average lenses. Is there a percentage of loss it’s possible to apply to use of poor lenses?

A: Definitely, some of this can be actually measured reasonably easily with my ViDi Labs test chart. I have numerous samples where you can quite clearly see the same HD camera with the same compression setting but different lenses and it looks so different. It is difficult to put a percentage on it, as you still see a picture, but the details might be lost to the extent that if you can satisfy the face identification requirement as per the standards, with a good lens, the inferior lens will make such a camera and setup not pass the test.

Q: Standards. We have a number of standards in the wind – one coming from manufacturers and the other coming from a standards organisation in Europe. What do you think end users and installers should pay attention to when it comes to standards?

A: This question is the most important in my opinion, since we made some real progress with Standards Australia, working together with my colleague Les Simmonds. The standards organisation in Europe you are mentioning is actually IEC, the International Electrotechnical Committee, under the umbrella of ISO.

It took us over a year and a half, but we managed to complete some procedural changes and make Australia a voting member of IEC, rather than just an observing member, which was the case so far. Some of your readers may remember that we started working on the Digital CCTV standards some 5 years ago, after we completed the first analogue CCTV standards, the AS 4806.1, 2, 3 and 4.

We expected the industry to come back to us with contribution, changes and comments, but unfortunately not much has happened, other than what we produced with my ICU suggested concept. Working on standards in Australia is a voluntary job, unlike overseas, and it is difficult to demand big results from an unpaid activity.

Also, Standards Australia had some internal structural changes so we lost a bit of contact with them for a while. Fortunately, part of that initial work has been noticed by some overseas standards people, including the IEC members, and I am told they used some of those ideas in the new IEC 62676 digital CCTV Standards.

When we found out about these developments, we couldn’t officially contribute because of the status we had as an observing member in the IEC. This standard is a nearly finished document and completion will allow us to adopt it fully, or partially. This will become the new and long overdue Digital CCTV standard (which should become 4806.5) without the need for Australia to re-invent the wheel. We’ve already started the process of creating a new committee and will start working on it. This is a great prospect for our industry and I encourage everybody interested to help. zzz

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We’re going to be finding out at Security 2013 when locals get a chance to get their hands on some of the exciting products that have been released over the past 12 months.

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HERE’S plenty of new stuff bound for Security 2013 – new cameras, alarm panels, access control systems, cloud solutions, network components, locks, storage devices and much more.

A local product that deserves plenty of attention is Camvex Video Surveillance’ Freedom VMS. Freedom VMS supports all 4 current available CCTV technologies including analogue, IP, HD-SDI and 960H compatible with multiple manufacturer brands.

The Freedom VMS design supports a simple and affordable upgrade path to HD regardless of cable infrastructure (coax, CAT5/CAT6 and fibre) or CCTV technology from a unified installer and user software platform.

Freedom VMS V3.2 will be on display with a demonstration of all 4 CCTV technologies (resolutions ranging from CIF to 1080p at various frame rates) including their exclusive eMap play

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Meanwhile, thermal is the hottest detection technology right now, offering the ability to confirm intrusion regardless of light levels, fog, smoke or rain.

back and recently released HD-SDI encoder.

Among the products on display will be Inner Range’s Integriti solution on the CSD stand.

According to CSD’s Mark Cunnington, Integriti has been installed in the University of Western Sydney where it is flawlessly controlling almost 3000 doors and 12,000 monitored alarm inputs. Yet the modular design of the Integriti system means that it will just as comfortably meet the budget and performance criteria for any small or medium project.

Security 2013 also sees the launch of two major new IP surveillance lines from CSD. These will include solutions offering cost effective HD CCTV from 1 to 64 channels. CSD will also be showing off what Cunnington says is one of the fastest growing IP VMS platforms. Products from Mobotix, ExacqVision, ACTi and ProHD ranges will also be featured.

“You’ll also see Paradox’s new TM50 range of 5-inch touchscreens. The thin, sleek design of these keypads

includes a variety of features and put simply, it sells systems,” Cunnington explains. “Similarly the new PCS250G, GPRS/GSM Communication module is turning heads along with Paradox’s stellar range of NV detectors especially the new outdoor models which include the NV & NVR780 as well as the high performance IR detector, the NV500.”

CSD’s Kenwei/IIS video intercom products will also be on display at this year’s expo, including the the higher capacity 512 apartment range which has been engineered to integrate with Integriti access control products. HID has also recently released some exciting new ranges including its new iCLASS SE Décor reader, and you can see Inner Range’s integration with the latest wireless access control technologies, includng Assa Abloy’s Aperio as well as Salto Salis.

Meanwhile, thermal is the hottest detection technology right now, offering the ability to confirm intrusion regardless of light levels, fog, smoke or rain.

FLIR Systems will unveil its 2 new thermal security cameras – the ultra Compact D-Series and the FLIR FC-Series S. The D-Series is a multi-sensor thermal security camera for ultra-compact networked, outdoor dome enclosures. The D-Series provides precision pan/tilt control while providing fully programmable scan patterns, radar slew-to-cue, and slew-to-alarm functionality.

Fully enabled for control and operation over IP and serial networks, the D-series combines a thermal imaging camera with a colour CCD camera.

This makes it the perfect replacement for day/ night dome cameras, providing clear 24/7 imaging capability in an attractive, discrete dome-style enclosure. Meanwhile, the FLIR FC-Series S is an extremely affordable, network-ready fixed mount camera.

FLIR says that despite its proven capability in challenging environments, some security professionals are still hesitant to put the power of thermal imaging to work. Often this has to do with the price of an IR camera - still a bit more expensive than a CCTV camera.

According to FLIR, with the new FC-Series S thermal imaging cameras price is no longer an obstacle to put the power of thermal imaging to work in a security network. The FC-Series S cameras are low cost, industrial quality thermal imaging cameras in a compact package.

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At Security 2013 Vivotek’s key focus will be on the industry-leading and award-winning technology Panoramic PTZ, innovative compact counter camera CC8130, and the integration alliance with local partners. The Panoramic PTZ FE8172V, developed

by Vivotek’s R&D team, incorporates a 5MP fisheye camera and there’s a full HD speed dome camera, the SD8362E, which features 20x optical zoom to detect events in a wide-open area when a speed dome is triggered to perform a physical pan/tilt/ zoom function and track objects that correspond to the region of interests. The technology has been recognized by GIT Security Award 2013 and MIPS 2013 in a row.

You’ll also get to see the CC8130, a compact counter camera especially designed for indoor surveillance with a flat back-panel for easy mounting on walls, desktop or countertops, and ideal for locations such as checkout stations and capturing faces at eye level.

At Security 2013, Genetec will be showcasing Security Center 5.2, the latest version of its unified security platform that combines video surveillance (Omnicast), access control (Synergis), and automated number plate recognition (AutoVu). This version of Security Center introduces new levels of security that will enable operators to react to threats at a moment’s notice.

With greater levels of sharing and collaboration through a new software-based video-wall, expanded SDK functionality, and support for a variety of new access control and video equipment, Security Center 5.2 continues to set the pace for unification, while broadening its technology partner ecosystems.

Security Center 5.2 will also add several key access control integrations, including support for the Synergis Master Controller (SMC) to take full advantage of threat level management, as well as a full line of Genetec-preferred access control hardware partners including HID Global’s EDGE EVO and VertX EVO. Also on display will be Stratocast, a new cloud-based video surveillance solution.

Videofied will launch numerous new wireless video alarm products to its range at the 2013 Security Expo. Most notably, the new colour indoor wireless MotionViewer and Look-In App capability will now allow alarm installers to install video alarm verification and smart phone look-in with one device.

Integrating a surveillance look-in capability with the new colour Indoor MotionViewer is just the start of the benefits associated with the new Videofied MotionViewer which also provides up to 5 years battery life, 4 x faster video, colour/day, monochrome/night, programmable PIR sensitivity, selectable video qualities, sleeker design, and police priority video alarm response capability.

The new Videofied Indoor MotionViewer and Outdoor MotionViewer use a built-in PIR motion sensor, while an integrated camera captures the intrusion event and sends a 10-second video clip

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directly to the monitoring station for review and action. Video verification of the alarm event being the difference between an urgent police response, or no response at all.

There’s a powerful mobile Videofied App that allows professional monitoring, in conjunction with the ability for the customer to look-in to any MotionViewer camera, whether the alarm system is armed or not. The App delivers on-demand full VGA colour photos or video clips to the smartphone as well as full alarm system management to remotely arm/disarm the alarm.

New from Avigilon at the show will be its new Micro Dome which comes in both 1MP and 2MP resolutions. The 1MP HD Micro Dome camera is the industry’s smallest high-definition dome camera and enables a cost-effective transition into HD video surveillance and the advantages of Avigilon Control Centre.

The 1MP HD Micro Dome camera delivers a versatile solution for monitoring a variety of environments including retail, hospitality, indoor or outdoor building entrances and hallways. You’ll also get a look at the new H.264 Domes from Avigilon that now have built in Variable IR adaptive technology.

Also on display will be the new Avigilon Bullet cameras with Variable Adaptive IR technology.

Avigilon’s range of HD Bullet cameras are ideal for seeing objects and activity in complete darkness.

Adaptive IR technology automatically adjusts the IR beam width and illumination levels to ensure consistent lighting, regardless of scene conditions, to provide unparalleled image detail. The camera is also vandal resistant to ensure maximum security in any installation.

You’ll also get to see Vivotek’s CC8130, a compact counter camera especially designed for indoor surveillance with a flat back-panel for easy mounting on walls, desktop or countertops, and ideal for locations such as checkout stations, capturing faces at eye level.

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Also on display on the Avigilon stand will be the ACC Version 5, with KINECT technology enabling voice control and gesture control among many new innovative features, including advanced video search.

At Security 2013, Axis Communications will be showing a wide range of cameras from its portfolio of products including the mini dome HDTV AXIS M30 Network Camera Series, the world’s smallest HDTV bullet-style AXIS M2014-E Network Camera, the exceptionally discreet AXIS P12 Network Camera Series, P3384-V Network Camera, P5414-E PTZ Dome Network Camera and the AXIS Q7411 Video Encoder.

You’ll see Challenger10 by Interlogix at the Interlogix stand. Challenger10 is an advanced security solution designed for the commercial and corporate sector.

Challenger10 is a modular system which can be scaled for almost any application, from small to large commercial installations. With thousands of programmable options, Challenger10 has been designed to meet any security and access requirement.

Some key features of Challenger10 includes full compatibility with Challenger V8 peripheral hardware, superior scale, industry-leading connectivity options, efficient switch-mode power supply and flash upgradable firmware.

Also new from Interlogix is Lenel’s Prism, an open IP video management system (VMS) based on an advanced, intuitive and operator-friendly user interface. Prism has the scalability, flexibility and reliability to meet evolving video surveillance needs.

Built using the latest IT and video surveillance industry standards, Prism integrates seamlessly with OnGuard for event-driven monitoring, offering a single point-of-device configuration, event/ alarm monitoring and system administration in an integrated video/access deployment.

Meanwhile DAS will also be showing off the new Tecom Challenger10’s new powerful scalable features including; 99 areas (up from 16), 255 area groups, 1008 inputs (up from 256), 96 intelligent doors and 32 x RAS’s, 10,000 events (up from 1,000) and multiple holiday types.

Challenger10 has been designed to be fully backwards compatible with Challenger V8 peripheral hardware and shares the same mounting and connection configuration (footprint) as Challenger V8 – for an easy upgrade. There’s an onboard IP port and the system pairs up with the newly improved and user-friendly Titan v3.0 software.

DAS will also show the new Kocom KVR-D510 CCTV Intercom which allows users to view, record and playback live video footage from up to 4 cameras (3x cameras, 1x door station) either through the device, smartphone App or desktop computer.

The KVR-D510 supports multiple storage options

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The 1MP HD Micro Dome camera is the industry’s smallest highdefinition dome camera and enables a cost-effective transition into HD video surveillance and the advantages of Avigilon Control Centre.

including SD card, ext. HDD or network storage.

It additionally features a digital photo album, a calendar and spot monitor capabilities.

Also at the show will be the TouchNav Pro which features intelligent video and intercom functionality - all through the code pad. Users can keep an eye on their home or business through a single video input, as well as intercommunicate with others in up to 8 rooms (through additional VoiceNav or TouchNav Pro code pads).

At Security 2013 Pacific Communications will showcase a mix of products including Raytec’s Vario IP – IFSEC award winner for CCTV System of the Year (2013). The system allows CCTV lighting to be controlled by IP connectivity.

You’ll also see Panasonic’s new HD PTZ rain wash camera – which gives a perfect view even on a rainy day. The new 1080p PTZ’s hydrophilic rain wash coating feature is another great innovation by Panasonic. The coating makes rain soak across the dome cover rather than forming droplets, maintaining perfect viewing during rainy conditions.

Also at the show will be the Pacom Smart IP NVR which is designed to provide a simple and easy recording solution. These solutions come with a built-in PoE switch, 2TB HDD, record 2MP in real-time and have a Quick Wizard feature to auto-discover and pre-configure compatible cameras.

Other releases from Pacific Communications include DVTEL’s next instalment of Latitude – the V6.3. New features include enhancing its award winning TruWitness with two-way audio and location notifier, automatic client software updates, a range of new edge device integrations and integration with the Quasar camera range. Finally you’ll see the new Fluidmesh Wireless Radio and Mobile Vehicle Communication System. Fluidmesh Fluidity gives 100Mbps of usable throughput for vehicles travelling at up to 320kmh through the Fluidity wireless network. zzz

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Nowra Back Online CCTV cameras have been turned on in Nowra after a privacy ruling brought by Nowra resident Adam Bonner challenging the use of the surveillance systems by local councils across New South Wales was overturned by the State Government.

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SW’S Administrative Decisions Tribunal had forced Shoalhaven Council to shut down the system in Nowra for breaching the Privacy Act after ruling the council had not shown that filming people was reasonably necessary to prevent crime, and questioned the adequacy of signage near the cameras.

But the O’Farrell government has introduced new laws to protect local councils using video surveillance for public safety. It’s important because the decision of the ADT has threatened all local councils’ use of CCTV in NSW, including the large Sydney City Council system covering the CBD. Unchallenged, the decision would have set a precedent that threatened all public surveillance systems across Australia, many of which have demonstrated their capacity to reduce crime and assist police investigations.

Local Government Minister Don Page says it was a sensible intervention and pointed out that he believes CCTV is a necessary tool to fight crime.

“Councils will be able to continue working with police to protect their local communities,” Page said.

The Nowra resident who complained, farmer Adam Bonner, says while he always knew the Government would legislate around the tribunal’s decision, he believed the public should be wary about the growing use of CCTV. Nowra has a modest 18-camera system that cost around $A150,000 and was installed in 2008 to discourage crime and anti-social behaviour in the CBD. The installation had strong support from the local business community.

The system is located inside the police station’s network cabinet and is monitored by council operators from a workstation inside the police station. There’s a strict protocol governing viewing, retention and dissemination of images though the ADT challenged Shoalhaven Council and Police over certain administrative aspects of their joint management of the system.

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Interestingly, the ADT also found that the images and footage of the plaintiff were of such poor quality that, in any event, the information would be of little assistance for law enforcement purposes, and was not complete.

the CCTV information collection was made aware of the implications for their privacy of the collection process, and of any protections that apply, before or at the time of collection. Not all the cameras had a sign near them to inform people that their images were being collected.

ADT also claimed a breach of Section 11 of the Privacy Act in that the Council had not taken such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances (having regard to the purpose for which the information is collected) to ensure that the CCTV information that is collected is relevant to that purpose, is not excessive and is accurate, up to date and is complete.

According to the ADT, the vast majority of the information collected under the Council’s CCTV program was collateral information and not relevant to the crime prevention purpose. And the ADT said there was no suggestion that the Police made any use of the collected information for law enforcement purposes.

Interestingly, the ADT also found that the images and footage of the plaintiff were of such poor quality that, in any event, the information would be of little assistance for law enforcement purposes, and was not complete. Given the capacity for fragments of general scenes to provide timelines in investigation, it’s hard to agree general views are worthless, though poor quality views certainly are.

Finally the ADT said there was a breach of Section 12(c) of the Privacy Act. ADT argued the Council had not taken reasonable security safeguards against loss, unauthorised access and misuse of the CCTV information. The use of a generic password rather than an individual user name and password for each authorised user meant that there was no way of knowing who was using the live monitor at the Nowra Police Station.

The ADT held that, at a minimum, compliance with section 12(c) would require appropriate training and monitoring of the use of individual user names and passwords to provide an audit trail of users of the system.

Regardless of the government’s decision to ratify the use of CCTV in public surveillance installations like Nowra, the findings of the ADT should be used by council surveillance and safety system operators across Australia as an additional yardstick for the improvement of their systems.

That means a targeted function, improved security of racks which are too often unsecure, the use of higher performance cameras with improved camera views that have specifically targeted rather than general views, and improved access control of workstations that manage public surveillance systems. A system’s operational performance also needs to be documented so its value to the community can be readily ascertained.zzz

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IP rules the waves Milestone Systems’ open platform IP video management software (VMS) is installed in a Norwegian ship service with network cameras from Axis Communications and is used for safety, security and ship operations.

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URTIGRUTEN is a traditional ferry service for the transportation of goods and passengers between Bergen and Kirkenes in Norway. Serving the coastal population since 1866, it is both a transport route and a tourist attraction. The route currently has 11 vessels calling at 34 ports every day of the year, transporting more than 230,000 passengers.

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The route has been called the most beautiful voyage in the world and in 2006 the travel publisher Lonely Planet ranked Hurtigruten the best voyage in the world on its Blue List. In 2007 the UK’s Travel Weekly pronounced Hurtigruten the best in the world for special cruises.

In September of 2011 an explosive fire broke out in the engine room of one of Hurtigruten’s vessels, MS Nordlys. The passengers and crew were evacuated, but the fire caused great damage to the vessel, which required five months of shipyard repairs. MS Nordlys was not able to reenter service until March 2012. In connection with the renovation, it was decided to replace and modernize the communication system and infrastructure.

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The consultancy firm NCMC was engaged to develop the new system standard. NCMC is a consultant for maritime IT system solutions and acts as a test centre, evaluating solutions for all needs on board a vessel. The objective is to install innovative technology of the highest quality with the best functionality.

The old infrastructure on board the MS Nordlys was based on an analogue matrix that was completely destroyed in the fire. When the new telephone cables were laid, a modern IP network was also installed. The old analogue surveillance cameras were replaced with the latest in IP video technology: network cameras from Axis Communications were installed, with XProtect Professional video management software (VMS) from Milestone Systems. MS Nordlys thereby improved the safety and security of the passengers and crew, as well as communication on board.

“The total surveillance solution is very good because Axis has cameras that fit into many different environments, and Milestone’s software is flexible, reliable and easy to use. My objective is always to find the state-of-the-art, and the Axis/ Milestone combination provides this,” says Idar Floe, CEO of NCMC. Installing IP networks aboard ships can be a challenge since they move all the time. If you want to have contact with shore, you risk interruption when the vessel moves. On MS Nordlys this was solved by using 3 different network technologies

The total surveillance solution is very good because Axis has cameras that fit into many different environments, and Milestone’s software is flexible, reliable and easy to use.

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that complement and back each other up. This guarantees contact with the control rooms in ports.

“By using a common IT-based standard for the infrastructure, this solution can also be implemented on other ships. It is then easier for the control rooms on shore to communicate with the ships in service,” says Floe.

Essential ship operations also benefit from using the surveillance: guest reception, the retail shop, unloading and loading, wharf landings, the car deck traffic, the bridge overview and the engine room all represent task areas for the crew, who gain better performance and safety from video monitoring.

Video from the engine room helps engineers on board to make sure that everything is in proper working order. Monitoring also ensures additional safety for the crew in the engine room; colleagues located elsewhere on the ship can be alerted if something happens requiring fast response. The camera installed on the mast also lets the captain see the colour of the engine smoke that could signal a fire has broken out below.

“The image quality from the Axis cameras is very high. We have also benefited greatly from Milestone’s solution. It provides an overview and control that is easy and intuitive to use, as well as providing improved safety for the passengers,” says Ole Johan Andreassen, captain of MS Nordlys.

Hurtigruten may add more cameras in the future, and the Milestone open platform can flexibly expand as needed to manage this. The company is also looking at intelligent video analytics as people counting is an integration that could be beneficial in an emergency evacuation. zzz

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Hybrids Aussie installers need to get used to the idea of IP-based alarm systems. It’s true there is a little bit of time to go in some areas, but as the NBN carves through the Australian comms-scape things are going to change fast.

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T has taken perhaps 15 years for wide area IP connectivity to become central to business operations but today loss of IP networks means business grinds to a halt. The centrality of digital communications, its ubiquitousness and the certain disconnection of old comms paths guarantees us an IP future.

There are multiple considerations here and it’s quite possible that like the CCTV industry the alarms industry will

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Solid state security systems are profoundly reliable and as we all know, few organisations will pull functioning systems out just for the hell of it in these competitive times.

see an extended period of hybridisation, with new installations being full digital and older ones jumping onto networks using some form of encoding.

In either case, IP alarm monitoring is not a choice, it’s inevitable. Telcos want to see the back of analogue and the reason for this is lack of bandwidth. Digital comms which can be compressed and rebuilt and readily pumped about through 1GB Cat-6, fibre, or 3G and 4G wireless links, is

more compact. This is an important consideration.

We know that we pay for our IP connectivity on the basis of bandwidth.

And the more bandwidth telcos can squeeze into their infrastructure, the greater their RMR. It’s a simple and powerful business imperative.

Regardless of any disadvantages, digital will win because it makes suppliers more money.

We often hear about the disadvantages of IP – the terror of lost links and the idea of all those black hatters out there, just gagging to chop their way into our domestic alarm systems. But there are plenty of advantages and perhaps the greatest of these are the most fundamental.

Analogue signals are a direct connection, an oscillating waveform.

Whether it’s DTMF or some other option, you need a direct path between transmitter and receiver in real time. Ok, you can split analogue signals and rout them through different exchanges but it’s complicated and more expensive.

In comparison, IP signals are essentially digital packets of information. If you’ve been reading SE&N for a while you’ll know these little data packets come replete with a header that allows them to find their way through circuitous networks. A bit like the DNA of a cell, these packets contain instructions on how to rebuild the message when it arrives at the monitoring centre – this gives packet switching a flexibility you never get with analogue.

Combine this with modern self healing networks and you get a solution that ensures packets that get lost or encounter a blockage are almost always going to find their way to the receiver and when they do, the message will be able to be reconstructed perfectly. This makes digital signals very, very robust.

But the biggest advantages – the ones we’ve been harping on about at SE&N for years now – are the fact that digital opens up communications in a way that allows security systems to be smarter, more powerful, and more intuitive than they ever have before.

For a start digital comms are duplex and that means direct connection with the front door on a mobile device or workstation anywhere on earth via simple browser interface. And this 2-way communication need not just be voice, it can be video as well, or any sort of event reporting data or output instruction a manufacturer devises.

It’s silly to say there’s no end to it, but there’s a lot of scope for new stuff.

There are other potential advantages, some a little frightening, I grant you.

Typical alarm systems and CCTV systems demand star configs of copper cable to get aboard control LANs. But in a full digital environment, a device might port to a switch, or it might access the network over WiFi. This latter is the big one in my opinion. WiFi based cameras and sensors are a sure thing at some layer of our market.

For many installers the entire concept of IP is too much to bear. But once you’re across the fundamentals

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of IP, installation is immeasurably simpler. Everything is uniform, everything is more predictable, every system and in some cases, every device can be interrogated as part of automated maintenance procedures.

Firmware upgrades can be automatic or propagated across whole networks of devices.

Furthermore, such a system needs to be managed and it’s unlikely IT departments are going to want responsibility for physical security in commercial environments, while in domestic environments, true IT capability is usually in short supply.

The standardization of monitoring comms with IP industry standards draws a long bow in the short term.

When you consider the plethora of proprietary standards that govern the functionality of security systems, the idea of bringing them all together in a single communications protocol is daunting. I think it will be a process that will take decades. Solid state security

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If there’s a challenge to bringing the installed base online, it’s selecting an encoding solution that’s able to handle a wide range of DTMF signals from multiple alarm manufacturers.

systems are profoundly reliable and as we all know, few organisations will pull functioning systems out just for the hell of it in these competitive times.

What we are going to see then is a process which includes the introduction of full IP security systems which will be installed moving forward. Behind these new systems will remain a vast installed base of legacy equipment that we are going to need to bring online using whichever method works best for our clients.

This is easier than it appears and it’s going to be a profitable process. There are a number of devices on the market that are dedicated to the process of bringing alarm systems online. In fact it’s very fair to say this part of the market is maturing and will continue to mature over the next couple of years.

If there’s a challenge to bringing the installed base online, it’s selecting an encoding solution that’s able to handle a wide range of DTMF signals from multiple alarm manufacturers. As we know, most installers stay with the same alarm manufacturer for long periods of time but for companies that specialise in bringing systems online, a polyglot encoding solution will be needed.

For installers, choosing the right product will include other considerations. The RMR model in alarm monitoring runs all the way to the top so you need to select carefully and be sure your needs and your client’s needs are best served by the technology and the manufacturer you select.

There’s no doubt this hybrid period will bring plenty of opportunity and it depends on the sales capability of installers as to whether users will pull out existing systems and upgrade to 21st century digital technology or choose to drive hybrids. zzz

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Unlike existing ATA devices that are not designed for alarm panel frequencies and simply ‘send and forget’ alarm messages, the NTD takes complete responsibility for alarm messages by interacting with the panel like a PSTN exchange and then ensuring delivery to your monitoring centre. It also adds Class 3 level polling to any existing alarm panel.

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The NTD not only delivers alarm messages securely over Ethernet/IP, but it also enables polling every 70 seconds.

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Geutebruck’s G-Lite illuminators

PIRAMID XL2

G-LITE Compact is Geutebruck’s new series of discreet and unobtrusive illuminators for use with day and night cameras. While the latest generation of SMT LEDs gives them a very long range, their flexible nature enables them to provide ideal, even illumination in any situation. Beam angles can be adjusted to accurately match the camera’s field of view both by swivelling the individual illuminators and by swapping the diffusers with the alternative ones provided.

G-Lite’s IP66 weather-proof housing is suitable for outdoor and indoor applications, and the polycarbonate front cover provides protection against vandalism. Extremely high efficiency diodes and the efficient heat dissipating design ensure low power consumption and a long lifetime of constant use. With an integral wide-range PSU G-Lite is designed for easy installation for any surveillance system.

THE PIRAMID XL2 is a dual technology sensor specifically designed to protect critical assets and strategic areas in both military/government and commercial applications. The sensors are also used extensively as a triggering device for intruder driven video. The sensor’s most important attribute is its false-alarm-free performance.

Rain, sleet, snow, fog, ice or wind does not affect the sensor’s performance or reliability. In addition, moving vegetation, blowing debris, swinging signs, vibration and randomly moving objects are filtered out by the sensor. The XL2 is also not affected by extreme temperatures as it has a very desirable operating temperature range of -30°F to 150°F. It is encased in a rugged weatherproof IP65 metal housing that shields the unit from RFI/EMI interference, rain, snow, wind and sun loading. A SCECapproved, high security model also available.

n Distributor: Geutebruck Australia n Contact: 1300 855 291

Pacom SmartIP NVR NEW Pacom SmartIP-4E and 8E network video recorders have 4 and 8 IP channel inputs and come with a built in PoE switch (4 and 8 input) making them easy to install, setup, and configure. They are compatible with the EVOnet range of cameras as well as ONVIF compatible cameras (TBA firmware upgrade pending).

The Pacom SmartIP NVRs come with a 2TB Hard Drive and have the capacity for one additional Hard Drive. Each NVR comes with a HDMI and VGA (selectable) output to provide local viewing and playback. The Quick Wizard feature simplifies the setup and configuration, especially when using the EVOnet range of cameras which are automatically discovered and pre-configured for recording at a defined resolution and frame rate.

To complement the launch of the SmartIP NVR range, a new choice of EVOnet IP Cameras (Vandalproof Dome, IR Vandalproof Dome, as well as Full Body Digital and True Day/Night versions) have been released. n Distributor: Pacific Communications n Contact: +613 9676 0222

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n Distributor: Perimeter Systems Australia n Contact: +61 2 9150 0651

AXIS M2014-E compact bullet camera AXIS M2014-E is a high-performance, compact bullet-style network camera, designed for maximum flexibility and ease of installation. According to Axis Communications it’s the most compact bullet camera in the world. The camera´s functional and compact form factor makes it perfect for installations in retail stores, boutiques, hotels and small offices.

Features include stylish and functional design, HDTV 720p, edge storages, AXIS Camera Companion support, Axis’ Corridor Format, IP66-rated. Visit Axis at Security 2013, Booth: E22. n Distributor: Axis Communications n Contact: +61 3 9982 1111

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VIVOTEK Secured the Largest Transport Company Depot in Queensland, Australia

Background

Named in honour of Queen Victoria, Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state of Australia. Transit Australia Group is the largest privately owned public transport company in Queensland, Australia. From bus manufacturing through to the delivery of scheduled, school and chartered services, the company delivers transport products and services to the government, the industry and various communities of Queensland. Sunbus is one of the bus production entities owned by Transit Australia Group, carrying residents of Sunshine Coast, Rockhampton, Townsville, Magnetic Island and Cairns. Additional similar organizations under Transit Australia Group oversee other neighbourhoods, such as Gold Coast and Tweed Shire.

Recently Sunbus embarked on a first and foremost surveillance system establishment throughout the facilities.

As this is a depot surveillance project, there are various sections on the premise that need to be covered. ADI was the distributor. After consulting with Kraut Enterprises, VIVOTEK‘s highly valued system integrator partner in Australia, it was decided that the cameras would be placed at the repair centre, the factory, the office building and the entire depot from an aerial view. VIVOTEK IP7361, FD8361, MD7560 and SD7323 were the chosen solutions.

Solution

VIVOTEK IP7361, a 2-Megapixel bullet designed with various outdoor-specific features, such as concealed wiring and tamper detection, was installed at the bus repair and services centre. At the centre, employee safety was the greatest pressing concern. Workers test run the buses on the brake pit. The buses are driven on the pit, so that they can have the brakes tested on them. According to Andrew Kraut, ICT Systems Administrator from Kraut Enterprises, the users found the IP7361 particularly impressive because it offers so much more than he could bargain for. It was affordable, cost-effective and high-performance. Also, with advanced features like multiple streams, ePTZ function, PoE compliance, on-board storage, two-way audio and many more, the IP7361 is an all-in-one, highly versatile monitoring device. As of Q3 2012, VIVOTEK IP7361 will have experienced an upgrade and been replaced with the IP8361, its second-generation model with enhanced features and higher performances.

Inside the factory, Kraut chose the 2-Megapixel, bandwidth-efficient VIVOTEK FD8361 to take on the role of supervising the labourers and the assembly line. Designed for highly professional applications, the FD8361 delivers impeccable image quality with the finest details.

In this particular environment, where fast motions and activities are constantly taking place, users would often demand that the camera is capable of capturing as many movements as possible during work hours. However, after work hours, suspicious behaviours and potential criminal activities would be the priority. The FD8361 is equipped with activity adaptive streaming for dynamic frame rate control, which meets the needs of many industrial end-users.

For a camera suitable for the industrial vertical market, it also needs to be easily installed at any corner and spot in the factory for easy viewing of the entire scene from every possible angle. The 3-axis mechanical design makes the device perfect for ceiling or wall mount installation. The FD8361 also comes with a vari-focal lens (3 ~ 9 mm), which allows for versatile applications in various types of environments.

VIVOTEK MD7560 was chosen to monitor the traffic in the area of reception and employees or visitors entering and existing the building.

With such elegant design, this compact, 2-Megapixel MD7560 does not give out an intriguing vibe to those coming in and out of the premises. The device is also vandal-proof and comes with the tamper detection function, perfect for building surveillance. On the other hand, many system integrators working with VIVOTEK choose the MD7560 and other mobile dome models for various transportation projects, showing strong confidence in the brand and proving the positive reputation of the products.

As for the entire depot, including the parking lot, VIVOTEK SD7323 is set up in the control room for staff to zoom in on passing and parked vehicles in the yard. It is imperative that the users can clearly see and make out the identification numbers on the vehicles in order to be aware of what vehicles they have available for use with their bus routes.

The feature of 360° continuous pan and 90° tilt makes the monitoring process smooth and effective. Also, the two-way audio function allows for instant communications between a vehicle operator and an employee in case of an incident. Designed for demanding outdoor surveillance applications and with IP66-rated housing, the speed dome meets the users‘ requirement for being able to identify close-up images of distant objects and withstand challenging weather conditions.

Customer Feedback

Andrew is extremely pleased with the performances of the VIVOTEK cameras. According to him, the image quality is impeccable and the technologies implemented on the products are highly advanced and suitable for professional projects as such. "I would definitely recommend VIVOTEK cameras to all other members of the security industry," said Kraut.

Stacey Lien, Chief Regional Sales Manager for Australia, also pointed out that VIVOTEK highly values the Australian market and is investing more in this territory. "We look forward to working closely with our partners in Australia and continuing to deliver effective solutions to all members of the surveillance industry."

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Razberi M-PRO NVR

Vivotek FD8166 compact dome

RAZBERI M-Pro ServerSwitch NVR from Video Security Products replaces the traditional server, storage devices, network switch, and camera power supplies with a single appliance designed for IP video recording.

The M-Pro ServerSwitch has been purpose-built for recording and managing mega-pixel IP video. Its embedded SmartSwitch has been designed to move over 1000 MP frames per second to internal enterprise rated hard-drives.

A web interface enables remote control and measurement of PoE consumption and data transmission.

The Razberi ServerSwitch can be easily applied to an existing enterprise system as an edge-recording device that is centrally managed with VMS software from Milestone.

When using entry-level packages from Axis or Milestone, the Razberi M-Pro can be deployed as a self-contained, stand-alone recorder for small to mid-sized systems.

Key Features include embedded PoE switch (4/8/16/24 input), internal Storage (up to 24TB), uplink port, SFP port, Win7 embedded OS, direct camera connection, 3-Year warranty, made in the USA, available with Milestone Arcus Embedded.

VIVOTEK FD8166 is the world’s smallest network fixed dome camera. With installation as easy as one-two-three and Power over Ethernet (PoE) functionality, setup time is completed in less than 120 seconds, making installation quick and easy.

The FD8166 features a 2-Megapixel sensor enabling viewing resolution of 1920 x 1080 at 15fps, and also supports the industry-standard H.264 compression technology, drastically reducing file sizes and conserving valuable network bandwidth. With MJPEG compatibility also included, video streams can also be transmitted in any of these formats for versatile applications.

Designed with selectable focal lengths, FD8166 can be used in various environments, including but not limited to offices, elevators, campus, chain stores, boutique stores and health care facilities. At only 90mm in diameter, VIVOTEK FD8166 is an all-in-one surveillance solution that meets a wide variety of needs for indoor surveillance. The package also includes VIVOTEK’s 32-channel recording software. n Distributor: Altech n Contact: +61 2 8622 8049

n Distributor: Video Security Products n Contact: +61 2 9662 8844

HID Global’s Fargo HP5000

New Esprit SE PTZ IP camera

HID Global has launched its enhanced FARGO HDP5000 high definition printer/encoder, the industry’s most popular, reliable and cost-effective solution for re-transfer printing at CARTES Asia in Hong Kong. Featuring the company’s 5th generation of high definition printing (HDP) technology, the enhanced HDP5000 now includes an expanded feature set and is the ideal solution for government, corporations and universities looking to cost-effectively produce quality IDs requiring colour printing, card encoding and holographic security features on different technology cards.

The HDP5000 printer/encoder now features a new and brighter OLED graphical display. For increased productivity, the HDP5000 also features increased card throughput speeds of up to 150 cards per hour and now includes an optional dual card input hopper allowing for automatic switching between two different card types. For security-conscious applications, security is further enhanced with AES256 encryption and an option to erase data from resin print ribbons after a card has been printed.

PELCO by Schneider Electric has announced its new Esprit SE IP Integrated PTZ camera system, including both standard and pressurised models for video surveillance and IP network connectivity.

Built upon the Esprit SE positioning system platform, the system now features dynamic window blanking, auto tracking, internal scheduling clock, electronic image stabilisation, and multi-language menus – all formerly reserved only for high-speed domes.

Designed and built for continuous use featuring an integrated camera and lens, pan-and-tilt unit, multiprotocol receiver, and Sarixbased H.264 encoder, Esprit SE IP offers dynamic remote positioning capabilities.

Esprit incorporates an integrated optics package (IOP), or pressurised integrated optics cartridge (IOC), NTSC/PAL and a tilt range of +36° to –85° from horizontal for optimal visual surveillance. It also has an onscreen compass and tilt display to track the angle of the picture.

The unit is capable of remaining completely operational in up to 90 mile-per-hour wind conditions. There are high-speed positioning capabilities, fully configurable video streaming, easy browserbased set-up, outstanding weather protection, excellent aesthetics and ease-of-installation.

n Distributor: HID Global n Contact: +61 3 9809 2892

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n Distributor: Pelco by Schneider Electric n Contact: +61 2 9125 8000

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Q: We’re working on a site which has a bunch of older analogue cameras that are decent quality but there’s one camera that has a terrible image.

We actually swapped it with another nearby camera and it seems the problem is the cable not the camera itself. The run is oversized by about 30 metres. Is this likely to make any difference?

A: Yes, it’s about 30 per cent longer than RG59 can typically handle.

Signal loss in coaxial cable is caused mainly by resistance, capacitance and attenuation. Resistance results from collisions between electrons – the longer the run, the more collisions. Meanwhile, capacitance is produced by a current flowing through a coaxial cable. As the current passes through the core, it induces a signal in the shield of the cable and this current in the shield in turn induces a signal in the core. The process relates to negative charges in the shield attracting positive charges on the core – the result is loss of signal.

Then there are losses attributed to attenuation caused by the skin effect and dielectric loss. Skin effect relates to the fact that as the frequency of a signal increases it will only be conducted on the surface of a given length of cable. Dielectric losses are caused by the jacket of the cable.

Even PVC is not electrically inert and

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it’s electrical charge disrupts the signal travelling through the cable.

There are some mitigating factors in relation to video signals travelling over coaxial cable with the differences depending on signal frequencies used, with higher frequencies more prone to attenuation while lower frequencies generate less signal loss. For instance, a 10MHz signal breaks down at 3 times the rate of a 1MHz signal given identical RG11 cable type and quality.

Let’s focus on RG59 as it’s the most common. Compared to alternatives like RG11 or twisted pair, when transmitting a 6MHz signal, attenuation is a dB for each 30 metres – which means a loss of more than 10 per cent for each 30m of cable. Spin this out across a 100m cable run and the signal loss would be 3.3dB – this means nearly 25 per cent of the original signal is being lost before it reaches monitor or recorder.

We expect you would be seeing all the usual demons once this cable runs including loss of contrast, loss of signal quality and hum bars.

Q: Would you recommend the use of air pressure sensors? I’m thinking of using one in a flat that’s well sealed where I’m having trouble with PIRs and sunlight from all its west facing windows.

A: Typical pressure sensors for burglar alarms employ a capacitive model with

a diaphragm and cavity to create a variable capacitor. The diaphragm can be metal, silicon or ceramic. I can’t help thinking you’d be better to go with quality dual technology sensors, or even reeds on main and balcony door supported by one or 2 PIRs or dual technology sensors in less sunny rooms. Pressure sensors are a proven technology but they are less reliable in homes than they are in vehicles. You need a stable pressure environment – no planes, trains or carbon fibre motorcycle exhausts.

Q: I spend a surprising amount of time trying to fix broken alarm systems. It’s funny how many installation companies put in a system, often badly, and then disappear. Later batteries go flat or terminations corrode and the system becomes dysfunctional – often on account of a couple of minor technical issues that any installer prepared to take the time could resolve. I sometimes think the cheapo alarm installation chasing monitoring revenue has spoiled the integrity of our business. What does Help Desk think are the keys to troubleshooting dead systems?

A: The most important thing with trouble shooting is to understand how the particular piece of equipment you’re working with functions. This gives you

false alarm, the sensor is fine and the walk test is ok then you need to check the zone loop (the RF signal strength if the sensor is wireless).

Remember that because conditions vary throughout the day it may be a slow process getting to the heart of the matter and this will take time which installers don’t have and can’t afford to give away.

This is partly why many systems that fail are replaced by another company or are never used again.

Q: We are thinking of incorporating a WiFi subnet into our security system and are wondering how we could ensure security.

a base from which to work when you’re trying to establish what has gone wrong.

A mistake some installers make is to establish a preconceived idea in relation to system failure. They then work to sort the supposed problem without checking the repaired system thoroughly to establish whether or not proper operation has been restored. The first step is to establish the symptoms of system failure. These may be ongoing false alarms, failure to obtain a seal, a trouble signal on a zone loop or a loss of AC power. Once you’ve worked out the obvious symptoms you should jot down a list of possible causes. If there are false alarms they could involve things as diverse as a short in the zone loop, vibration of loose fitting doors or windows, low battery (wireless sensors), increased resistance on the loop or at the contacts, or a failure of the sensor itself. There will be variations depending on the nature of the sensor, too. A sunny room setting off a PIR and a microwave sensor that’s picking up kids at the bus stop at the end of the yard would cause a false alarm every fine afternoon at 3.15pm.

Think hard about environmental input from HF radio signals, increased sunlight due to seasonal changes, movement of animals or insects in the target area and so on. An onsite walk test is a good way to establish exactly what is going on. The next step is to check the system starting with the most likely cause. If there’s an ongoing

Some folks might think they can retain bandwidth by rejecting encryption and just controlling WLAN access with MAC addresses but this is naive. A MAC address nothing more than a 12-digit HEX that any old sniffer program will swallow whole and regurgitate when a hacker shimmies up your drainpipe.

A: All the simple things help with WiFi. Start by changing the default passwords and apply WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption, not WEP. Filter your MAC addresses so as to restrict access to authenticated users. Some folks might think they can retain bandwidth by rejecting encryption and just controlling WLAN access with MAC addresses but this is naive. A MAC address is nothing more than a 12-digit HEX that any old sniffer program will swallow whole and regurgitate when a hacker shimmies up your drainpipe.

Be sure to protect service set identifiers (SSIDs) – change them from default for a start. Firewall everything – the network and your wireless devices using a hostbased solution. Keep your anti-virus defences up. It’s not about keeping viruses out so much as back-handing spyware and Trojan horses at the network gate. zzz

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