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There has been a high volume of criminal activity around the perimeter of develop- ments and in elevators operated by New York City (NYC) Municipalities. It has not been easy in the New York area, explained David Gonzalez, director of business development for Tri-Ed / Northern Video Distribution. “Low to no lighting around the perimeters makes them prime targets for criminals at night,” Gonzalez said. “NYC Agencies & Authorities have been concerned with security issues in elevator cabs as well, since cameras were easily and quickly vandalized in such environ- ments. The NYC Agencies & Authorities were looking to install a cutting-edge sur- veillance system that would operate well under poor lighting conditions and in van- dal prone areas to help them successfully prosecute criminal offenders.” Gonzalez discovered that the Bosch WZ20 Bullet Cameras reliably captured high-quality images suitable for pros- ecution under poor lighting conditions, delivering 150 ft. of high-performance night vision in 0 lux environments. The Bosch Extreme series Corner-mount No-grip Cameras were highly resistant to vandalism due to steel construction. “The Agencies & Authorities are now able to work with police departments and district attorneys to successfully prosecute criminal activities at their buildings and developments.”
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Cody High School in Wyoming worked with integrator ISC Corporation to replace its analog video system with Axis Communications (
www.axis.com) net- work cameras to improve the protection of students, secure community events and future-proof school security. The video captured by the school’s decade- old analog video cameras yielded too few details to be useful.
“The video from our old analog camera system was so pixilated, we only identi- fied culprits about 15 percent of time,” said Brandon Jensen, principal of Cody High School. “Our new Axis cameras have such amazing image clarity that so
far we’ve been able to identify who was doing what 100 percent of the time.” ISC Corporation, a network integrator and certified Axis partner headquartered in Casper, Wyo., recommended an array of 80 indoor and outdoor network cameras from Axis Communications to monitor the school building and its 42-acre campus.
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(
www.altronix.com), which transmit high quality video up to a mile with several units that also provide camera power, were the perfect fit for the application. “The long cable distances and the absence of a building-wide local area net- work prohibited us from using IP-based cameras, and due to the significant num- ber of cameras being deployed, install- ing individual coax and power cables for each analog camera would have been very expensive and labor intensive,” said Chuck Augello, senior project manager, M&R Electronic Systems. “By using HubWay UTP Transceivers from Altronix, we signifi- cantly reduced the installation and cabling costs without sacrificing video quality.”
The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., deployed a Pelco (www.
pelco.com) IP-based video surveillance system in its new Casino Club gaming facility. Designed and built by North American Video (NAV) and M. Malia and Associates (MMA), the video surveillance system features approximately 400 cam- eras installed in a building designated as a National Historic Landmark. “The design/build for The Greenbrier was unique because we needed to utilize parts of the building’s historical infra- structure and architecture while fulfilling the requirement for a full-featured IP solution utilizing an intelligent approach to managing the system,” said Laurie Jackson, vice president, Gaming Sales, North American Video.
The IP cameras, a mixture of mega- pixel and high resolution imaging tech- nologies, are integrated with a powerful recording structure to ensure all available storage is symmetrically utilized.
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The Centrum Properties Roosevelt Collec- tion project, a luxury urban residential, retail, entertainment complex in Chicago’s South Loop district, required an integrat- ed system solution to send high quality video over long distances over structured cable. According to Richard Superfine, president of M&R Electronic Systems, Altronix’s HubWay UTP Transceivers
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In order to boost community safety and reduce criminal activity, the city of Selma, Ala. deployed the Avigilon (www.
avigilon.com) High Definition (HD) Surveillance System. Positioned at the Selma Police Department (SPD) and at the Selma Housing Authority’s George Washington Carver (GWC) complex, a 215-apartment facility with more than 500 tenants, the system has helped reduce criminal activity by 75 percent. The city of Selma has installed more than 30 HD cameras ranging from three to five megapixels to monitor the exte- rior of the GWC complex and at police headquarters. The SPD installed several Avigilon Analog Video Encoders to create a hybrid surveillance system that improves the performance of its existing analog cameras. The city has also installed an Avigilon HD camera to monitor the May- or’s Office at City Hall. Storing up to 45 days of continuous surveillance video, the Avigilon HD Surveillance System is moni- tored around-the-clock at both the SPD and GWC complex.
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