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CBC cameras protect car parks with ‘added value’ benefits
Date Posted: 26-02-2010
Leading surveillance solutions provider CBC (Europe) has teamed up with electronic security installer IC2 CCTV and wireless communications specialist 802 Global to protect „park-and-ride‟ car parks for a local authority in Kent.
Maidstone Borough Council, which operates the park-and-ride facilities, has also successfully used the cameras to reduce the number of vehicles entering the town centre, improve the local environment and cut vehicle emissions. Drivers parking their cars naturally expect a reasonable level of security, but three of the sites had no specific CCTV system to protect them. Increasing the number of site attendants wasn‟t a cost-effective option, compared with the more efficient alternative of camera monitoring by the Council‟s specialist CCTV control room operators.
So, following detailed sites surveys, CBC‟s Ganz C-Allview PTZ domes were installed. These high-speed rugged PTZ cameras, which are sealed to IP67, are designed for installation in harsh and challenging environments. Their vandal-resistant features include bodies cast from aluminium, which are hard anodised and powder coated to protect them from scratching, oxidation or attack from solvents. Operationally, C-Allview offers resolution up to 520TVL and a useful maximum optical zoom of 36x.
Maidstone Borough Council is using the cameras to relay images back to its CCTV control room via 802 Global‟s Orbis 1 re- eployable wireless transmission unit, mounted on existing lamp columns. Each camera is also fitted with public address speakers that allow the control room operators to challenge anti-social behaviour by sending out a verbal warning directly to any offender.
Commenting on the installation, Maidstone Borough Council‟s Surveillance Controller Chris Stewart says: “This is the first time we have deployed cameras with audible input. Even though the cameras can speak, but not listen, the results have been fantastic. As well as acting as a deterrent against car crime and antisocial behaviour, we can now use the system to broadcast information for example about bus services and also remind customers to secure their vehicles.
“Our corporate objectives are to improve access across the borough through better roads, public transport and services and to work to create a safe environment through a commitment to reduce crime, and antisocial behaviour.”
John Downie, National Sales & Marketing Manager for CBC (Europe) adds: “As the surveillance equipment provider for this system CBC is proud of the success it‟s already achieved, working with our partners on this project. These results demonstrate the tangible benefits customers such as Maidstone Borough Council can obtain from this type of innovative, „added value‟ system.”
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CBC’s high-tech CCTV solutions blow a dust storm at Dubai’s Intersec show
Date Posted: 15.02.2010
Leading surveillance solutions provider CBC (Europe) is celebrating a surge of interest in its ground breaking Ganz CCTV systems and Computar lenses, experienced during the recent Intersec exhibition in Dubai.
The company was inundated with enquiries on its stand from a variety of visitors keen to know more about CBC‟s latest innovative equipment, including its cost-effective new VCA video analytics packages, which cover a range of CCTV platforms including IP cameras, encoders and PC-based central server solutions.
CBC‟s VCA range comprises two levels of functionality: VCApresence, for intruder and perimeter detection and VCAsurveillance, which includes all of the features of VCApresence plus an extensive range of video analytics tools. The entry-level VCApresence is much more advanced compared to standard video motion detection and includes features such as camera tamper detection, while VCAsurveillance offers additional functions such as the ability to filter out objects such as small animals, birds and rubbish from a camera scene.
Another big hit on the CBC stand was its latest MIST technology, which sharpens and increases CCTV camera visibility in conditions where fog, haze, smog, sand or rain impede outdoor video surveillance. This new Ganz MIST application can be used for security purposes in areas such as perimeter protection for ports, harbours and airports. It works with any C/CS-mount lens by focusing through obstacles present in the atmosphere that can obstruct or deteriorate video image quality (i.e. fog, rain, haze, smoke or snow). The camera‟s dynamic range control function detects and measures image intensity on the screen. By digitally adjusting colour and contrast, poor quality images caused by environmental factors are automatically corrected.
At Intersec CBC also showcased equipment including its innovative line-up of C-Allview cameras, such as the recently introduced Night Vision and Thermal Vision systems. Other CBC products on show included its radar-based systems, such as Radar Vision, as well as the VSoIP management system, which allows installers, system integrators and other customers to seamlessly manage all of their CCTV video – including analogue – across an IP network. Debuting for 2010 in the VSoIP range is a 5x5 active video wall, which was displayed at Intersec.
Meanwhile CBC‟s Night Vision system offers a fully integrated combination of optical camera technology with infrared lighting for day
ight operation, avoiding the need for wasteful and non-discreet, bolt-on illumination. It provides an optimised solution to the problems inherent in dome cameras‟ night-time operation, with their need for up to 360° constant scene illumination during the hours of darkness. Night Vision‟s „green‟ alternative ensures the camera‟s demand for scene illumination is automatically matched to its required field of view, avoiding the need for wasteful and costly lighting of other areas.
Intersec show visitors to CBC‟s stand were also able to view the operational benefits of Thermal Vision, a system combining thermal imaging with the detail capture of visible-light CCTV, allowing individuals to be tracked and recorded in almost all weather and lighting conditions at ranges up to 1000 metres and vehicles up to 2km away.
“Intersec 2010 has been a great event,” says CBC‟s Export Sales Manager, Hassan Uddin Ahmed. “During the show we‟ve talked in detail with a cross-section of installers, system integrators, end users, consultants, distributors from not just the Middle East but Africa and Europe. They‟ve all been very excited by the new technology solutions we offer to a range of security issues and we‟re now helping them meet their system requirements.”
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CBC’s C-Allview cameras behind Smart Cars’ success
Date Posted: December 2009
Surveillance systems specialist CBC (Europe) has helped security systems integrator Clearview Communications to equip its new range of Smart Cars, which are now being used to help enforce parking restrictions, bus lane use and road traffic contraventions.
The vehicles, which are increasingly deployed by local traffic authorities and parking enforcement agencies, utilise CBC’s high speed day
ight C-Allview PTZ camera to target known hot spots, road safety problems and congestion areas. The cars are intended to combat a wide range of road safety issues including bus lane and box junction infringement, school drop zone chaos, rat runs, as well as use of mobile phones whilst driving.
CBC’s ‘ruggedised’ C-Allview camera is sealed to IP67 and designed for installation in harsh and challenging environments, making it an ideal surveillance tool for the Smart Cars. Because the vehicles are distinctively marked, they provide a reminder to motorists not to take a chance by parking where they should not. This includes dangerous parking, particularly around schools, pedestrian crossings and at busy junctions, contraventions on yellow lines and vehicles contravening waiting and loading restrictions.
The Smart Cars also improve pedestrian safety and reduce traffic accidents and congestion. Their use results in a reduction in challenges to penalty charge notices (PCNs) and provides indisputable evidence that a contravention has occurred, with proof that the enforcement operation was carried out correctly and fairly. Additionally, they increase civil enforcement officers’ and parking attendants’ safety because drivers know they could easily be spotted on camera if they act abusively.
The vehicle’s C-Allview camera is cast from aluminium, hard anodised and powder coated to protect it from scratching, oxidation or attack from solvents, making it vandal resistant. The replaceable front glass window is toughened to take substantial impacts from thrown objects and resist ballistic attacks and has a wiper to quickly clear dirt and water. It’s easy to install, simple to set and provides excellent picture quality up to 520 TVL resolution, as well as an impressive 36x maximum optical zoom capability.
Each car has a pan/tilt/zoom camera mounted to a hydraulic periscope that extends up to 3 metres above roof level. Inside the cabin are a mini joystick controller and mobile high performance digital recorder. Images can be viewed and downloaded within the vehicle, or the recorder can be removed quickly and easily for further interrogation. Ignition control power management, low power consumption and voltage monitoring ensures the CCTV system does not compromise vehicle battery life.
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Computer specialist gains from CBC Security Products
Date Posted: October 2008
Improved protection of a busy computer specialists site in Bolton, Lancs, has been achieved using J2K Videos SharpView system, which incorporates CBC (Europe) security products. Major problems associated with an old CCTV system at Scan Computer Internationals premises have been solved by the upgrade to SharpView.
Scan was founded in 1987 and is now a family run business employing over 150 staff at its main office in Bolton. One of Europes largest independent technology suppliers, Scan has built a solid reputation as an innovative, quality supplier to the retail/e-tail markets. The company builds and supplies high performance systems, PC hardware/software and consumer electronics. Scan has consistently won awards for designing and manufacturing the highest performance PCs in the industry.
In a bid to reduce crime on site, Scan Internationals Managing Director Shelley Raja asked its associate technology development partner, J2K Video, to design and implement a CCTV system that would provide the quality of video evidence needed to capture and convict criminals. Mr Raja explained that the old CCTV equipment was not suitable for capturing significant problems such as shrinkage caused by short shipments by delivery personnel and staff thefts. The previous system even failed to provide any useful evidence of an armed robbery. It consisted of 25 analogue cameras recording on a time-lapse DVR, capturing only one low quality image every four seconds.
J2K Video designed a replacement system based on its SharpView range and specified CBC products within the system upgrade, which includes Ganz camera housings and Computar lenses, as well as infrared lighting units. Over 50 IP cameras have been installed with resolutions from PAL and 1.3 megapixel for key entrances and exit areas such as goods inwards and despatch, along with 2 and 3 megapixel cameras to watch over the warehouse aisles. A combination of 3 and 5 megapixel day
ight cameras have been deployed for external areas and these are used to capture important distinguishing features such as peoples faces and vehicle number plates.
"The half-inch megapixel Computar lenses we specified offer excellent quality within the set budget, as well as a good marriage with the megapixel cameras range," says Jay Patel, MD and co-founder of J2K Video. “CBCs Ganz GH-230 camera housings provide superior IP67-rated protection, along with ease of assembly and in-situ change-outs. We also specified the IR100 infrared lighting from CBC for the clients key despatch and goods-in areas, since this equipment provided the quality of illumination to support the IR-sensitive day
ight cameras which are installed on-site.
He adds that the new system has had an immediate effect in reducing crime on-site, providing the Police with excellent video evidence of incidents and also helping to reduce many disputes. “As an all-round surveillance systems specialist, CBCs product range allows J2K Video to offer SharpView systems of the highest quality for specific applications,” Mr Patel continues. “CBC is responsive, provides us with a range of useful stock availability and can produce pre-purchase product samples on-demand, whenever required.”
“This installation demonstrates the variety and flexibility of Ganz hardware and Computar lenses and were really pleased it’s made such a beneficial difference to J2K Videos client,” comments CBC’s National Sales & Marketing Manager, John Downie.
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