Installer South West Communications’ latest project has entailed the installation of dome cameras, multiplexers and monitors supplied by CCTV specialist Vicon Industries at Southampton Football Club’s GB pound 32 million Friends Provident St Mary’s Stadium.
The stadium includes 47 executive boxes, banqueting suites for 500 and a sponsors’ lounge with a capacity for housing 120 guests. A permanent facility is also available throughout the year for local business leaders who wish to host conferences, seminars, product launches and company training days.
Vicon’s Surveyor dome cameras are being used to monitor the concourse area at the 32,000-seater stadium. The cameras’ design features a drive mechanism that can be operated independently from the housing, thus allowing simpler functionality testing prior to permanent housing. The units boast self-learn tours, allowing the end user to carry out in-sequence editing and reverse touring.
The stadium’s dedicated CCTV Control Room features a Vicon V1344 high-density programmable control and matrix switching system taken from the company’s Nova series. For the Saints’ installation, the matrix is accommodating 32 camera inputs and eight monitor outputs, but the units do have a maximum capacity of 128 inputs by 24 outputs. End users will be keen to learn that the V1344 system also features a graphical PC configurator. According to Vicon, this can simplify the design of complex installations, exploiting software that includes camera-to-monitor partitioning.
Keeping an eye on Bromley
The London Borough of Bromley has been invited to take its first steps in digital CCTV recording for newly-installed cameras in the Crystal Palace, Penge and Anerley areas – courtesy of the Home Office’s ‘Round One’ CCTV-based crime reduction programme.
JMT Systems recommended a system based upon the PI Vision ‘2nd Eyes Enterprise’ set-up. Supported by a RAID Level 5 image storage system, this solution allows easier and quicker retrieval of recorded information that’s up to a minimum of 31 days old.
It’s The Chinese Way for Conway
Pan and tilts courtesy of Conway Security Products are TO be installed as part of a major traffic monitoring project being carried out in the city of Zhengzhou – the capital of Henan Province in east central China.
The units are Conway’s C995 AC pan and tilt assemblies, which are suited to large locations such as town centres, sports stadiums and airports. They boast a pan speed of six degrees per second, and a tilt speed of three degrees per second.
For this project the units have been fitted with Philips colour cameras from the company’s LTC series.
The Conway pan and tilts are IP66-rated, and offer a reversible side mount. They boast an aluminium construction, and are available in a range of finishes to suit client specifications.
Fighting crime in the Capital
Lambeth borough council has determined to fight crime in Brixton – by procuring bespoke CCTV.
A selection of JVC’s TK-C1480 PTZ cameras have been spread across three main housing estates in the Borough, and along the main A23 thoroughfare. Installed by Quadrant, they cover crime ‘hot spots’ including Coldharbour Lane and Atlantic Road.
Pictures are fed back to a central monitoring station within the Borough’s Works Department.
Remsdaq stays Alert in Belgium
The StarWatch integrated security management system developed by Remsdaq has been installed at the headquarters of Alert Systems in Kortenberg, Belgium
Electro-hydraulic barriers supplied by FAAC (UK) and installed by Strand Systems are providing secure access at the home of Copella Fruit Juices’ factory near Sudbury in Suffolk.
With something in the region of 50 or 60 vehicle movements in and out of the site each day, Strand specified a pair of FAAC’s 640 barriers. 100% duty rated, the barriers operate at speeds of between four and eight seconds, and are suitable for beam lengths from four to seven metres. An integral fan activates automatically to cool the system during heavy use, while a secure locking system ensures that the beams retain their open and closed positions (with manual release via a customised key in the event of a power failure).
The 640 barriers also provide the reassurance of an anti-crush system. Bottom skirts can be fitted to barriers that are up to seven metres in length.
At the Copella factory, the barriers are linked to a telephone entry system which is connected to the landline and housed in a bespoke, double-height post. This provides access control for all visitors to the site.
Kaba’s locking up at the Sofitel
Demanding the highest level of access control and guest room security, the security team at the prestigious Sofitel St James London Hotel in the capital’s Pall Mall has specified over 200 Solitaire 710 and 710-II electronic swipe card-operated locks designed and developed by Kaba Unican.
The Kaba system protects the guest rooms, and extends to the back-of-house areas of the 186-room luxury hotel.
NT gains a place at Oxford
Network Technology (NT) is expanding its system applications in the field of academia thanks to E W Beard’s Physical Security Division – which has recently installed (and will subsequently maintain) the company’s Ringdale access control systems in three of the University of Oxford’s multi-occupancy buildings.
The University currently has a number of different security systems in operation. One advantage of the Ringdale solution is that it can use existing photo ID swipe cards and security codes, thus minimising any additional cost to the end user who would otherwise need a system revamp.
For this application, the networked systems – controlled by a remote PC – will be used by well over 1,000 students and members of staff, the main aim being to protect buildings and their contents against any illegal or undesirable entry by pedestrians or vehicles (both of which have been a constant problem for the security team).
Safety first for Lancastrians
Consistently rated as one of the foremost UK universities for research and teaching, Lancaster University boasts a student population in excess of 10,000.
As part of a security overhaul, many of the University buildings’ original mechanical lock and key systems have now been replaced by PAC proximity systems.
The University boasts PAC systems on three of the undergraduate and one of the post-graduate college residences, including one located off-campus in the city. PAC proximity readers are sited at the entrances to each of the student residences.
