With the trend of surveillance systems moving to IP Network Cameras , we wanted to take a moment to point out the advantages and disadvantages of using megapixel cameras, and what Vivotek has come up with their True Megapixel Solutions. There are so many reasons not to consider a megapixel IP camera like the Vivotek IP8161 2 Megapixel H.264 Day Night Fixed Network Camera for your next installation: Clearer picture: CCTV cameras max out @ 0.4 megapixels, resulting in poor video quality, megapixel cameras deliver 3x the resolution. Interlacing: No interlacing problems with IP cameras as they record all in one pass, not two, no blurry lines when you have movement.
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Vivotek Conquers The Bandwidth Challenges Of Megapixel IP Cameras
Leading IP CCTV specialist Controlware with partners ntl:Telewest Business, has supplied an advanced security solution to The Oldham College that saves costs and delivers improved flexibility and video quality over their previous system.The Oldham College is in the process of producing strategy that will see 70% of the college’s building portfolio being re-built with plans for a £70 million regeneration of their campus. The IT and Estates teams knew that their existing analogue system would not be good enough to provide the level of security they needed throughout the course of the campus redevelopment and into the future. An analogue solution would be expensive and inflexible as the cameras would need to be moved frequently during the redevelopment of the campus.
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Controlware provides security and safety for The Oldham College
LONDON, England (CNN) — Two men are being sought for questioning in the brazen daylight robbery of a jewelry store last week, in which some $65 million in merchandise was stolen, authorities said Tuesday. Security camera footage shows images of the men wanted by police
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Sharp-suited London jewel robbers grab $65M
WAYNE, NJ (August 10, 2009) – Law enforcement officials for the Township of River Vale, N.J., now have a better view of prisoners who enter the police station.
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New Jersey police department deploys JVC digital security system
Sony has unveiled a new range of high definition pan tilt zoom (PTZ) security cameras designed for surveillance and applications such as identification and motion detection.
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Sony debuts HD security cameras
In Trespass Act, Thomas Kneubühler uses the figure of the security guard to both flesh out his luminescent “Office Building” series of photographs and provide critical commentary on the notion of private property. Kneubühler combined three of his series to make this whole, but it works, as it gives the works dimension—narrative, even
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Thomas Kneubühler keeps an eye on security guards
CCTV cameras have captured the unnerving scenes of a Mafia boss being executed in broad daylight by a hired gun as outside a bar in Naples, Italy. 53-year-old Mario Bacio Terracino was shot in the back of the head in what police believe was an ongoing feud with a rival gang over the control for a profitable drug trafficking ring
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CCTV captures execution of Mafioso Mario Bacio Terracino
Located in the heart of Dutch country, Lancaster, Pennsylvania may have the image as one of the tranquil places in the country. But in reality, it’s one of the most crime-laden cities in the country. In 2008, Lancaster ranked 9th among cities its size in violent crimes rates.
THE dramatic moment when raiders forced their way in to the Arndale Centre on Monday night in a smash-and-grab raid on Ernest Jones Jewellers was caught on CCTV cameras . The trio broke in through the panel of a door of the Tideswell Road entrance at 9.46pm, ran across the shopping centre to the jewellers and smashed a window.
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Smash-and-grab raiders caught on camera