MEL Secure Systems, the leading developer of surveillance and security solutions, has announced the immediate availability of Domehawk eco, a new ultra low power dome camera.  Using the latest CMOS technology, it has been designed from the ground up to run on low power giving up to 6 months operation from the internal battery without recharging.  Domehawk eco can also be connected to solar panels and wind turbines making it ideal for unattended operation in remote sites. Domehawk eco draws less than 50 milliamps, considerably less than any other commercially available CCTV cameras.  This h...

Samsung has added two new ONVIF compliant encoders to its fast growing iPOLiS portfolio of network friendly products. The four channel SPE-400 and sixteen channel rack-mounted SPE-1600R, which houses up to 4 x  SPE-400B four channel encoder blades, join the SPE-100 single channel encoder in providing a cost effective and easy to implement method of adding analogue cameras to an IP/network based video surveillance system. All three encoders enable images captured by an analogue camera to be transmitted in real-time across a network at 4-CIF resolution. A multi-streaming feature provides the ...

Securitas has developed, in cooperation with subsidiary Seccredo and the advertising agency Peacock, a mobile travel assistance application, Safe Trip, which is available as of today from Apple's App Store and the Android Market. In the approaching vacation season, many people will be leaving their home countries and journeying abroad. To share its security know-how, Securitas has produced Safe Trip in order to contribute advice and tips that make travel safer. Safe Trip is a travel guide that assists travelers with their preparations to ensure that their travels will be as safe as possible...

SANYO  has published a list of dates for its REHD (Realising Education in High Definition) professional level training courses for installers and system integrators, which will be conducted at its Watford offices during the next few months. The REHD training course has been devised by SANYO to provide security professionals with a complete understanding of how to obtain maximum benefit from the technology built into SANYO’s Full HD cameras. David Hammond, SANYO’s European Sales Manager said: “We believe that if our business partners take on board the required level of sales and technic...

LILIN, one of the world’s fastest growing manufacturers of IP video solutions together with Wavestore, a leading provider of professional DVR, NVR, and HVR solutions, have formed a technology partnership. “We are delighted to have the opportunity to work closely with an IP camera  specialist such as LILIN who share our view that an open platform philosophy is the key to ensuring that clients can achieving the maximum return on their investment in a video surveillance solution,” said Chris Williams, Wavestore’s Director of Marketing and Business Development.  “LILIN and Wavestore t...

“The SNP-5200 is an impressive addition to our iPOLiS 1.3 Megapixel network camera range,” said Peter Ainsworth, Senior Product Manager at Samsung Techwin Europe Limited. “Despite being competitively  priced, it is packed full of features and ‘bandwidth friendly’ which make it the ideal choice for a very wide range of applications where a high definition PTZ dome is required as part of an IP based video surveillance system.”  The SNP-5200 utilises Samsung’s WiseNet1 DSP chipset allowing users to gain maximum benefit from the very latest megapixel camera technology including li...

An educational establishment in Essex with a 300 year heritage can claim to be one of the first Colleges in the UK to update its security system by investing in a networked solution which takes advantage of the latest Full HD camera technology. Palmer’s Sixth Form College in Grays, Essex has updated its CCTV security system to incorporate the latest High Definition (HD) technology from SANYO. The college which has committed to achieving academic excellence is now equipped with cutting edge security technology to take it forward to the next century. From providing a place for ‘ten poor ch...

Samsung’s largest ever booth at IFSEC 2011, the international security exhibition which took place at the NEC, Birmingham on 16th-19th May, provided Europe’s fastest growing security brand with the opportunity to give hands-on demonstrations of the latest video surveillance products and technologies. Unsurprisingly, a large number of end-users experts were particularly interested in the Samsung cameras which have an Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) capability.  “Cameras which incorporate our WiseNet1 and SV-5 and DSP chipsets all feature IVA which provides a powerful tool to ensure th...

Social care employees of the London Borough of Enfield can now go about their work safe in the knowledge that help is close at hand should they find themselves at risk. Enfield Council has invested in 100 Romad RSP-100 lone worker protection devices manufactured by Brentwood based Geonovo Ltd, to provide protection for staff who work within various sections of   the Borough’s social care department. Thirteen of the RSP-100s have already been successfully deployed within the children’s sector with the remaining units to be issued to staff in other sections in the near future, following c...

The competitively priced SRD-852D and SRD-1652D eight and sixteen channel DVRs join the existing network friendly DVRs in the highly successful SRD series, all of which capitalise on Samsung’s high level H.264 compression to ensure superb picture quality, whilst minimising bandwidth and video storage requirements.  “These models have been introduced to provide a recording solution for those applications that wish to benefit from the quality that Samsung provides, but do not need the more advanced features found on other units in the range” said Peter Ainsworth, Senior Product Manager a...