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Access Control Strongest Growth Trend at Security 2016 End users are beginning to ask for capabilities that are at the cutting edge of system functionality.

AYS after a major exhibition you’re still getting your mind around the things you saw, deciding which solutions stood out, which presaged developments of the future and which trends were strongest.

Discounting the overarching digital shift, the strongest growth trend at Security 2016 was access control. It not surprising this should be so. Current global risk profiles demand that organisations control access to their spaces – there’s no doubt this is a driving force behind the trend. There’s also the relentless and endless pursuit of lower costs, which pushes users to seek greater efficiencies, including remote management of onsite functionalities.

Alongside an increase in remote management power runs the inclusion of additional capabilities that have enhanced modular access control solutions in ways no one would have thought possible 5 years ago. The ability to receive event notifications, view video footage and authorise or deny access remotely in near real time is a big deal for many users and choosing the right system can save hundreds of thousands annually per site. It’s not just big national organisations with hundreds of locations that benefit. Single site companies can exploit this functionality, too.

Running parallel is another driver – something that’s no less a feature of the digital age. It’s the overlay of intuitive programming software

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that turns a process which has long been profoundly complicated into something that’s manageable for typical installation businesses.

When you think of the difficulties of access control installation – not just the physical aspects of the task, but managing monstrous things like role-based databases – the advent of comprehensible software solutions from companies like Paxton and Inner Range is having a major impact. With access control more widely available, there’s more competition and that makes owning the new technology more affordable.

And let’s go back to the inclusion of additional functionality again – automation, fire control, intercoms, remote reporting and management, video surveillance integration and more – all this stuff gives aspirational installers who are taking up the new generation of access control solutions truly wonderful sales hooks to take to market. Hooks that have real value when it comes to increasing the security and safety levels of the businesses that use them.

There’s more to these sales hooks than meets the eye. They speak of changing market expectations.

End users are beginning to ask for capabilities that are at the cutting edge of system functionality. Users want integrations of functionality that offer not only access control, but intrusion, surveillance and automation functions wrangled together in ways that improve the efficiencies of multiple aspects of their businesses within a single solution – the management of stock, tracking customer numbers in a store, the safety of staff, the security of assets, the ability to remotely monitor events, management of event response and much more.

Something that’s interesting is the sheer number of capable access control solutions that are available on the market. Alongside Inner Range’s Inception and Paxton’s net2 Plus and net10 there are solutions from quality makers like ICT, Isonas, Concise Security Systems, Bosch, Tyco, Interlogix with v10, there’s Genesis and Dahua too, is expanding into this area of the market, and there are plenty of others like Salto and Assa Abloy. All are pushing the market together.

Perhaps it’s not surprising the access control business should be developing this way. When you consider that compact and highly capable wireless-based security and home automation systems are so simple and quick to install, downward pressure on prices in this part of the market was certain to drive installation businesses to seek opportunities elsewhere. What wasn’t expected is the lateral capabilities of the solutions they can offer, the suites of integrated functionalities that draw here and there from what used to be multiple disparate disciplines. The flexibility of IP-based infrastructure and the simplicity of IP-based systems is completely re-writing the potential that underlies system design.

Where will things go from here?

Anywhere you like. For decades, end users have been forced to warp their operations into shapes demanded by the frozen structure of analogue electronic security technology.

That’s going to change. Thanks to a new generation of flexible IP-based solutions, system design is going to be driven by the multiplicity of operational requirements arising from individual applications. From here out, the revolution is going to reverse engineer the industry. n

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aug 16 22: New Products at Security 2016 Security 2016 Exhibition in Melbourne gave us a chance to take a look at the latest product releases, get a sense of trends, as well checking out some of the vapourware teasers manufacturers and distributors roll out to get a feel for market interest at big events.

40: Consider the Lily’s Platinum AV has installed a Mobotix IP surveillance system at Lily’s in Sydney’s Seven Hills. The system includes automation, intercoms, external and internal cameras with edge storage, a dedicated network and remote and local management using mobile devices running the Australian-developed QCamPro app.

48: Indonesia Airport Rides Thermal Hang Nadim International Airport, Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia, recently invested in advanced thermal video security

As the alarm monitoring industry is reinvented as a creature of the digital world, AS2201 fails to provide manufacturers, installers and end users the support and surety it once did. The time has long passed for the official alarm standard to cover common IP components and comms paths.

54: Citywide Safety A Citywide Safety Camera Programme has been launched at Logan City in Queensland, with more than 300 cameras giving Council video surveillance coverage across the council area through a powerful monitoring and recording platform.

56: Magenta Airport Goes LPR Magenta Airport in Noumea has installed Axis network cameras connected to an intelligent system developed by Aimetis that allows recognition of license plates in real time to monitor vehicles approaching the entrance to the parking lot and allow or deny entry.

58: Yours to Command Intelligent Security Integration’s Mobile CCTV Command Centre got plenty of attention at Security 2016. The unit combines multiple integrated fixed and PTZ HD cameras, 360-degree 4K cameras, thermal cameras and 8 deployable cameras with video and manpower management. It’s the attention to

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62: Scenes From Security 2016 Expo Melbourne

Latest business, product and technical news from Australia and around the world.

Security 2016 Exhibition hit Melbourne late last month and a good crowd turned up over the 3 days to check out the latest security solutions from more than 100 exhibitors. Typically well run by Diversified, the show was a great opportunity to see almost everything the industry has to offer in the way of hardware and technology in one place.

50: Monitoring As the alarm monitoring industry is reinvented as a creature of the digital world, AS2201 fails to provide manufacturers, installers and end users the support and surety it once did. The time has long passed for the official alarm standard to cover common IP components and comms paths.

64: Faces In The Crowd: Security 2016 Exhibition Melbourne

70: editor’s choice What’s new from our manufacturers.

All these familiar faces will be back in the Harbour city in 2017 but the word from organisers is that the big annual security show, which incorporates the ASIAL Conference, will rotate between Sydney and Melbourne from here out.

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Anchorage To Spend $US4 Million on CCTV After Airport Attack p.11 Home Security and Energy Savings Driving Home Automation p.12 Central Security Distribution Sales Grow 40 Per Cent p.14 Indonesia Plans 6000-Camera Public CCTV System For Jakarta p.16 Milestone Number 1 in Global VMS p.18

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Infiniti Class 5 Wins Product of the Year, FSH & Mobotix Runners-up

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INNER Range’s Infiniti Class 5 has won product of the year at Security 2016. It’s a worthy winner, though whether it’s more of an industry-wide game changer than the Inception control panel from the same stable is open to question. Infiniti Class 5 represents a very nice move from Inner Range, elevating a strong solution with an excellent reputation to a level where it’s certain to score serious consideration from pennypinching government departments as well as commercial end users serious about hardening their security system comms.

From a technical standpoint, Inner Range’s AS 2201.1 Class 5 security system offers end-to-end encryption of alarm points and provides many features previously required by installations, which would otherwise require SCEC’s Type 1A approved products at a substantially lower cost.

Meanwhile, Inner Range’s Vin Lopes said he was pleased by the win.

“A lot of work went into this Class 5 project over many years and it’s very pleasing for the whole team involved to have their effort rewarded,” he said.

The 1st Runner Up Award went to FSH Fire and Security hardware for its clever and globally relevant FSS1 – high security Door Monitoring

Sensor, while the 2nd Runner Up Award went to Mobitix AG for M15 Thermal TR. Honourable mentions were awarded to Add-On APAC

Innovative Solutions for IMID Access, Canon Specialised Imaging for the VB-H761LVE camera and Digital Matters for the G52 SOLAR.

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Grow My Business Takes Success To Another Level n GROW My Business Now has been established to assist businesses in the security industry to get to the next level, something Sean Borg

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According to Grow My Business Now director, Sean Borg, GMBN has an experienced team which have grown businesses, galvanized teams and increased the turnovers and margins of many businesses over many years. And the team will focus on growing a customer’s business at no cost until real success has been achieved.

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Home Automation in 50 Per Cent of Homes by 2020 n PARKS Associates estimates that more than 50 per cent of U.S. broadband households will have a smart home controller by 2020, of these nearly 24 per cent will have an IP camera and 26 per cent will have a home security system.

The firm’s research also found that unit sales of IP cameras will reach 6 million in 2016, including 3.2 million first-time

sales and projected that by 2017, the number of replacement or additional IP camera sales will exceed the number of first-time sales.

Approximately onefifth of U.S. broadband households own a smart home device, and more than 40 per cent are planning to purchase one in 2016.

“The number of households with home

security will top 30 million by 2019, with the majority of systems being professionally monitored,” says Tom Kerber, director, research, home controls & energy, Parks Associates. “This category will see steady growth through 2020 as interactive services and home controls extend the value proposition of home security and expand the market.”

Australian Treasury Seeks Reports on Type 1 Alarm Compliance, Terrorism Strategies n AUSTRALIA’S Department of Treasury has sought 2 separate reports – the first is a Type 1 Security Alarm System Compliance Review in accordance with a statement of requirement to be provided to compliant tenderers.

A second tender from the Department of Treasury is for a written report and recommendations to physical security treatments and mitigation

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strategies against terrorism to the Treasury Building, Langton Crescent, ACT, also in accordance with a Statement of Requirement to be provided.

Recently, the Department of Treasury released an RFT for expansion of an existing Gallagher access control solution to cover The Treasury Building in Canberra and a building in the city centre. The DoT has 2 facilities in Canberra, the Treasury Building in

Langton Crescent in the suburb of Parkes and Level 2, 15 Moore St, in the city centre.

The existing access control system in the Parkes facility is an Andover Continuum electronic access control system, while the access control solution at Moore St is a Gallagher integrated access control system built around Gallagher 6000 controllers and Gallagher Command Centre Software.

Recently, the Department of Treasury released an RFT for expansion of an existing Gallagher access control solution to cover The Treasury Building in Canberra and a building in the city centre.

Ingram Micro Australia Appointed Distributor For IndigoVision IINDIGOVISION has appointed Ingram Micro a distributor of its video surveillance solutions.

Ingram Micro is ranked 69th by FORTUNE 500 and has more than 30 years’ experience in technology and supply chain services.

“IndigoVision is a global market leader in video surveillance and solutions for security and boasts an impressive endto-end solution,” said Ingram Micro ANZ general manager of Physical Security Division, David Charlton.

“Security solutions complement our existing portfolio of networking, server, storage, UPS, monitor and software products which not only enables our customers to achieve new revenue opportunities but also allows them to order a complete solution from the one distribution partner.”

The partnership brings with it hopes of acquiring major projects in the region which require extraordinary precision and unrivalled resilience.

“We believe Ingram’s presence along with their investment in the security industry will allow the ability for customers to receive the support and access to our product that is second to none,” said IndigoVision’s regional sales manager ANZ, Wayne Tymms.

“It’s extremely important to us at IndigoVision that we are able to provide an unprecedented customer satisfaction experience to grow our market share and we believe this distribution partnership will deliver.”

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Honeywell Splits Automation and Controls Business n HONEYWELL has split its Automation and Control Solutions business. The company will realign its Automation and Control Solutions business into Home and Building Technologies (HBT) and Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS). According to Honeywell, in 2015 estimated revenues of the 2 segments would have been $US9.4 billion for HBT and $4.7 billion for SPS. In 2016, Honeywell earnings per share are up to $1.66 over 2015 when they were $1.51 and sales are $10 billion, up from $9.8 billion time in 2015.

“ACS is coming off a strong quarter and has established momentum in key software-driven markets where our products and services give us a competitive advantage, especially given our recent acquisitions such as Elster (ELTTY), Xtralis, Intelligrated and Movilizer,” Cote says.

“We have removed layers from our organizational structure and are wellpositioned to implement a more focused segment reporting alignment that fits our HOS Gold approach to drive breakthrough strategies and speed up

new product introduction.

This new structure will also help us better serve our customers. Our success through acquisition and NPI has resulted in a much broader portfolio that has outgrown the existing ACS construct.

“Having 2 more nimble segments will promote greater customer intimacy and responsiveness.

The separation into 2 businesses will also enable increased efficiency and speed of decisionmaking as well as a more comprehensive integrated suite of technologies for the respective end

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“Honeywell grew earnings 10 per cent in the second quarter, capping off a strong first half of 2016,”

said Cote. “ACS had strong growth in Security and Fire, Buildings Solutions and Distribution, and its China business.”

Anchorage To Spend $US4 Million on CCTV After Airport Attack

Fusion Power Systems Appointed Verint Master Distributor for ANZ

n ANCHORAGE Municipality will spend $US4 million on a new digital video surveillance solution linked by fibre optics after the current system failed to produce face recognition during a prolonged attack on aircraft at the site.

Last month, vandals slashed the tyres of 87 aircraft at Merrill Field, causing $200,000 in damage – plane tyres are $2000-3000 each.

However, the only video evidence produced of the crime by the existing analogue CCTV solution was dark and blurry

n FUSION Power Systems reports that it has officially joined forces with Verint to drive Verint products and solutions within Australia and New Zealand.

“Fusion and Verint already share many customers and business partners, and we intend to enhance and expand these essential relationships,” said Michael Siccita of Fusion Power Systems.

“As a result of our business combination, our customers and partners will now have access to an extraordinary range of integrated solutions and innovations that are offered through Fusion’s channel strategy.

“Fusion and Verint’s digital innovations and solutions offer the channel an opportunity to grow their business value through Fusion’s professional services division, which are dedicated to maintaining and increasing quality of innovation, support, and service that you have come to expect from companies. Fusion’s channel partners continue to focus on cost reduction, innovation and simplicity and for Fusion’s respective partners you can expect

images that provided no useful identification.

“Seeing the photos that were released afterwards, I was kind of concerned that there’s cameras up, but there wasn’t high enough quality images for anything to be done,” said Bob Thompson, owner of an aircraft at Merrill Field.

Anchorage detectives reviewed 7 hours of footage from each of the more than 55 cameras positioned around the airport but were unable to identify the perpetrator.

Merrill Field covers 436 acres and has 3 runways.

Opened in 1930, the airfield

is the primary field for private wheel equipped aircraft in summer and for ski equipped aircraft in the winter. It’s a busy airport, even though most aircraft are privately owned. There are 844 aircraft based at Merrill, including 786 single engine, 41 multi-engine, 16 helicopters and one glider.

There are around 130,000 flights in and out of the airfield annually. Lighting, camera placement and overall camera numbers across the huge site are as likely to have contributed to the system’s inability to assist investigators as resolution.

to see increased market opportunities through an expanded set of solutions, programs and services.

According to Siccita, customer engagement is extremely important to both Fusion and Verint.

“Customer experience is essential when providing customers value-add in a highly competitive environment,” Siccita said. “Fusion will provide localized support nationally, with stock on the floor, security services including PULSE monitoring, which is already disrupting the traditional monitoring market place, along with providing the channel with additional value add including facility and data management, UPS products, retail analytics and how to utilize and manage big data.”

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COBRA Doubles Security Bag Screening Throughput With No Human Operator

4 Clicks and Away, with Mobotix Plug and Play

n COBRA has already been deployed in London and Analogic says it is collaborating with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to bring the technology to the United States. Analogic COBRA uses a rotating x-ray tube and computer detection system to automatically determine the contents of carry-on bags

n MOBOTIX has partnered with CSD to bring customers the very best in MOBOTIX technology straight out of the box. It delivers stateof-the-art IP surveillance technology to end user customers, which can be installed in a flash. The Mobotix Plug and Play Solution comprises a minimum of 2 cameras, MOBOTIX firmware (free of charge with each camera), and a networkattached-storage Device (NAS), preconfigured for a standard indoor setting. This simplifies installation down to 4 easy steps: Cabling and installation, power up, add cameras, follow MxMc guide. The configuration also includes web crawler

without needing human screeners.

“We get a very high resolution image. We can tell what’s in the bag and we can tell what material the things are that are inside the bag,” Analogic CEO James Green said recently.

According to Green, COBRA’s imaging system spins around the bag acquiring thousands of images it uses to develop a 3D image of its contents.

That means passengers can leave their liquids, gels and laptops inside.

TSA can screen roughly 150 passengers per hour at airport security checkpoints. With the use of COBRA, the rate increases to more 300 passengers per hour.

protection by modifying the default admin password as standard.

According to CSD’s Mark Edwards, with the MOBOTIX Plug and Play Solution, all levels of end users are catered for. “They will have the latest in sophisticated, high quality IP camera technology from MOBOTIX at their fingertips,” says Edwards.

“The firmware has been pre-configured by us, taking the hard work out of installation. However, users

will still have complete freedom to adjust or add any of their own custom settings, with the usual full support (manuals, tech support) available from MOBOTIX. “In this way, MOBOTIX will become accessible to new types of customers, such as low profile installers or electricians.

The package will also increase sales efficiency, guaranteeing at least 3 products sold per customer.”

Hills Appoints Mikael Johansson GM Development & Strategy n HILLS continues to strengthen its team with highly experienced industry leaders and has recently appointed Mikael Johansson to the role of business development manager Mikael Johansson was most recently at ARA Security in the role of general manager – development & strategy.

Bringing over 20 years of experience in the security and surveillance market to

Hills; Johansson has been involved in the development of major projects covering the banking, corrections, policing, energy and constructions industries. His wealth of experience and industry knowledge will add considerable value to the Hills business development team.

“The opportunity at Hills is hard to ignore; the comprehensive range of vendors and the solutions

means Hills is well positioned for the future” said Mikael.

Hills’ chief operating officer, David Lenz, confirmed the appointment of Mikael following the appointment of Bill Sakaellariou as general manager of Enterprise.

“Hills continues to attract and acquire key industry talent” said Lenz, “and we will continue to leverage our current and emerging industry opportunities.”

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Central Security Distribution Sales Grow 40 Per Cent n CSD’s rapid ascension continues, with the company achieving sales growth in excess of 40 per cent in the financial year 2015/16. Over the past 24 months CSD has grown from 75 to 120 staff, relocated 5 of its 10 facilities to larger premises, renovated the other 3 sites to cope with growing demands and commenced work on the company’s new 3400sqm head-office in Tullamarine.

“We are extremely grateful to our staff, customers

and suppliers who have supported us to deliver this incredible growth,” said CSD’s Mark Cunnington.

“But we aren’t going to rely on the past, we plan to repay this support with continued investment in people, stock and facilities to continuously improve our customer service and support levels.

“Initiatives that will materially improve CSD’s customer service include a new head-office with dedicated demo rooms that customers can book

out to demo product for their customers, and a new purpose-built premises for NSW to house our major sales branch, technical support and national products and marketing team, which is due to be completed early 2017.”

According to Cunnington, CSD will also unveil an upgraded logistics system with barcoding to ensure better stock availability and faster shipping times and a dedicated staging facility to pre-configure large enterprise projects.

“We are excited about growth potential in 2016/17 and look forward supplying our customers a level of service and

support never before offered in the security industry,” Cunnington said.

Australian Federal Police Seeking Off-Site Mail Screening Services n THE Australian Federal Police has released a tender request for the provision of an off-site mail screening service.

The request for tender seeks responses from

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suitably qualified and experienced service providers for the provision of Off-Site Mail and Courier Items Security Screening Services for the AFP offices in Sydney,

Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide.

Over the past 12 months there’s been considerable target hardening of AFP buildings in response to specific threats against

the force. The measures include but are not limited to the introduction of concrete barriers at street level and an armed police presence. The role of the 6500-strong AFP is to enforce Australian federal criminal law and to protect federal-government and national interests from crime in Australia and overseas.

Its province includes illicit drug trafficking, organised people smuggling; human trafficking, including sexual servitude and human exploitation; serious major fraud against the government, high-tech crime involving information technology and communications,

prevention, countering and investigation of terrorism, transnational and multijurisdictional crime, and money laundering and organised crime. The mail screening RFT closed on August 4.

The role of the 6500-strong AFP is to enforce Australian federal criminal law and to protect federalgovernment and national interests from crime in Australia and overseas.

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The Indonesian electronic security market is set to post strong growth in the coming years backed by factors like rising security concerns, increasing government security spending and surging IT infrastructure.

Indonesia Plans 6000-Camera Public CCTV System For Jakarta n RECENT terror attacks in the Indonesian capital Jakarta have prompted the government to expand the city’s public surveillance systems.

It’s estimated 6000 cameras will be installed in the capital city alone.

According to Jakarta Police chief inspector general Tito Karnavian, the city currently has too few surveillance cameras.

“There is no comprehensive CCTV system in Jakarta,” Tito told tempo.co recently.

According to Tito, the only CCTV provider in the city was the National Traffic Management Center (NTMC) within the National Police and a small number of private citizens and businesses.

He said he hoped Jakarta Governor Basuki

Tjahaja Purnama’s plan to install 6000 CCTV cameras could be realized next year.

“Hopefully CCTV will be able to monitor the whole city, including traffic congestion, public activities such as demonstrations and criminal offenses,” said Tito.

According to a recent report from 6W research, Indonesia’s

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video surveillance market is projected to reach $US203.14 million by 2022. The Indonesian electronic security market is set to post strong growth in the coming years backed by factors like rising security concerns, increasing government security spending and surging IT infrastructure.

“Upcoming 2018

Asian Games, Mass Rapid Transit project, Light Rail Transit project, expansion and construction of new airports, seaports, SEZ, toll roads, railways and industrial estates will all drive the market for video surveillance systems in Indonesia,” said Rishi Malhotra, research associate, research and consulting at 6W research.

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Hills-Tyco System Unification Summit September 5-7 n HILLS and Tyco will hold their inaugural HillsTyco System Unification Summit on Monday 5 September to Wednesday 7 September, 2016.

According to Hills’ Joanna Burke, the invite-only summit is designed to provide the perfect learning environment for selected system integrators and consultants nation-wide.

The summit will introduce attendees to the latest in access control, CCTV and the seamless integration provider the VICTOR Unified Management System.

“You will hear about the latest in-country support, training and road maps, and meet global product representatives,” said Burke. “If you’ve been

invited, lock in the dates now - positions are limited, and we would love you to join us.”

The summit will be held at the 5-star Fairmont Resort in Leura, on the edge of the beautiful Jamison Valley in the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains National Park. Recognised as one of the most charming upper-mountains villages

in Australia, the Fairmont is the pinnacle of upscale accommodation, and only 1.5 hours drive west from Sydney.

Monday 5th September Arrival and Registration from 4pm Tuesday 6th September - All Day conference and Gala Dinner Wednesday 7th September - Wrap up and close by 2pm.

Avigilon Appearance Search automatically analyzes video data from multiple sources to quickly locate persons, vehicles and objects of interest.

Search automatically analyzes video data from multiple sources to quickly locate persons, vehicles and objects of interest. The technology has been designed for Avigilon’s complete line of video analytics solutions, allowing existing customers

to upgrade certain legacy products to benefit from its powerful capabilities.

“Avigilon Appearance Search is a sophisticated search engine for video data,” said Dr. Mahesh Saptharishi, Avigilon’s chief technology officer and senior vice president.

“It empowers security personnel to quickly answer the critical questions - who, what, where and when - with decisive action.”

building technologies, encompassing audio visual and antenna products and services, as well as security equipment – ranging from simple

domestic alarm systems to complex integrated access control, surveillance and CCTV systems used in commercial and industrial applications.

Avigilon Appearance Search Transforms Video Surveillance, Says CSD n AVIGILON’S new video analytics technology, distributed locally by CSD, is a sophisticated search engine that can automatically locate persons, vehicles and objects of interest.

“As Avigilon’s exclusive Australian distributor we

are excited to be offering this latest video analytic technology in 3 VIP, inviteonly, technology sessions to be held in conjunction with the security exhibition,” said CSD’s marketing & products manager, Mark Edwards. “ Avigilon Appearance

Hills Limited Opens New Branch in Wellington, NZ n HILLS Ltd expanded its reach into the New Zealand market with the opening of a new branch at 126 Nelson Street, Lower Hutt in Wellington. Grant Logan, Hills CEO, said the opening of the new branch in Wellington emphasised Hills intent to build on its premier market position in New Zealand.

“The opening of this new branch in Wellington reenforces Hills’ continued investment in the New

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Zealand business and our ongoing commitment to better serve our customers in that market,” Logan said.

Hills continues to achieve significant growth as a specialist distributor of world-leading security products across New Zealand. Its operations also include regional branches in Auckland and Christchurch and 13 branches across Australia.

Hills is New Zealand’s largest supplier of electronic

Milestone Number 1 in Global VMS IHS reports Milestone Systems has retained the global position of number one VMS vendor by company revenue in market research. It’s the 9th time that Milestone Systems has achieved top VMS ranking.

“Milestone has continued to grow at a steady rate.

Our ongoing strength as the global number one VMS provider is testament to the deep, broad Milestone community of partners and customers. Our expertise is multiplied through our partner interactions creating more innovation and value for the industry,” said Lars Thinggaard, President & CEO, Milestone Systems. “We are at the beginning of realizing the opportunities from our software’s endless capabilities to integrate and we are very excited about that.”

Milestone not only maintained the number one global position, but also the number one spot in Europe/Middle East/ Africa (EMEA) and number three ranking in the Americas with a move up from number 4 to number 2 in Asia/Pacific (APAC).

Milestone Systems sells its offerings through more than 9000 channel partners who work with 500 distributors in over 150 countries.

The software supports more than 5000 devices from over 130 camera manufacturers and works with the ONVIF specifications that enable hundreds more devices to operate with Milestone VMS.

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2GIG Maker Nortek Acquired For $US2.8 Billion n MAKER of 2GIG security and home automation solutions Nortek has announced it will be acquired by Melrose Industries and Nevada Corp for approximately $US2.8 billion at $86 per share in cash.

The agreement was unanimously approved

by Nortek’s and Melrose’s boards of directors.

“We are very pleased to have reached the proposed agreement with Melrose Industries, which represents a significant premium for our shareholders,” said Nortek’s president and CEO, Michael

J. Clarke. “We believe this partnership with Melrose will enhance Nortek’s ability to further leverage its industry-leading brands and market positions to continue driving profitable growth. We believe this transaction will be a positive for our employees and customers alike.

“We have watched and admired Nortek’s progress and we are convinced we can steer this fine business to achieve its full potential,” said Melrose’s Chairman Christopher Miller. “We see a company full of hard-working, dedicated people who are

really good at what they do. We can harness those strengths by meaningful long term investment and a vision based on our own experience in similar and relevant markets down the years. Melrose has been a highly successful custodian and builder of U.S. businesses and we are confident that we can bring that expertise to build Nortek for the long term.”

Nortek’s Security and Control Division includes the 2GIG, ELAN and NuTone brands and its solutions are installed in 18 million U.S.

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homes. Publically-listed Melrose is no smash and grab merchant but has a long history of serious investment in its acquisitions leading to mean increases in profitability of around 10 per cent.

SX Technologies Appointed Exclusive Aussie Distributor For Rapiscan Systems n RAPISCAN Systems has appointed SX Technologies as its exclusive, independent distributor for the Australian market.

Under the terms of the agreement, SX will offer, sell and service Rapiscan’s people screening, baggage and parcel inspection, trace detection and hold baggage screening product lines.

“We are excited today to announce our new relationship with SX Technologies and look

for their support and experience to expand our presence across Australia,” said Pak Chin, President of Rapiscan Systems. “This agreement will allow us to leverage our extensive product portfolio with the in-depth, local market experience offered SX Technologies. Together, we plan to grow our business and position Rapiscan Systems products as the market leader in the region.”

SX Technologies is an independent Australian company jointly owned

by Mal Maginnis (who was previously the Global Head and President of Smith’s Detection) Geoffrey Askew AM (previously the global head of security for the Qantas Group of Companies) and Patrick Bourke (managing director of Southern Cross Protection). The company focuses on protective security technologies

and equipment drawn from around the world, selecting best-in-class providers to create integrated and flexible solutions. The owners have significant experience and expertise in aviation, critical infrastructure, detection and trace along with physical and cyber security.

“SX Technologies is proud to enter into this agreement with Rapiscan Systems,” said Patrick Bourke, managing director of SX Technologies.

“We are highly-driven, technology-based companies with the same goal – keeping Australia safe. We look forward to serving Rapiscan’s existing customer base and continuing to provide Rapiscan’s industryleading technologies and after-market support.”

The company focuses on protective security technologies and equipment drawn from around the world, selecting best-in-class providers to create integrated and flexible solutions.

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WESTERN Advance has appointed of Martin Dillon as general manager East, effective immediately.

Based in Melbourne, Dillon is responsible for delivering Western Advance’s growth strategy in the region and will also be managing Western Advance’s Sydney operations. Dillon brings extensive experience from a thriving career spanning over 20 years in strategic leadership roles globally, making him a key member of Western Advance’s executive management team.

Prior to this appointment, Martin was managing director, Fire & Security Products Australia and New Zealand at United Technology Corporation (UTC) a global company servicing customers in the commercial aerospace, defence and building industries. Before joining UTC, Dillon was national sales manager security products Australia and New Zealand and then general manager security products at industry giant General Electric (GE). Dillon has also held senior sales and operational roles at Chubb, Honeywell and Johnson Controls.

“We welcome Martin to Western Advance at the beginning of an important chapter in the company’s further growth. Martin brings a remarkable breadth of expertise and experience to the management team,” said Mike Pugh, managing director. “It is testimony to our company culture that we are able to attract the best talent in our industry. We now have an incredibly strong team of industry leaders, underlining excellence in our business.”

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Juniper Networks and FOX Sports.

FOX SPORTS is Australia’s leading sports producer and broadcaster, broadcasting an average of 23 hours of LIVE sport per day into 2.3 million homes around Australia with over seven million potential viewers through FOXTEL, AUSTAR and OPTUS TV. FOX SPORTS also provides the FOX SPORTS NEWS channel via IPTV through FetchTV, produces a dedicated FOX SPORTS NEWS TV mobile phone channel and provides mobile content to all three major Australian telcos.

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In moving from SD to HD production, the impact on capacity and performance of contribution and production networks is significant. Increasing the amount of native HD content for FOX SPORTS subscribers meant the existing FOX SPORTS delivery and contribution solutions needed a major review and critical assessment. For program contribution, FOX SPORTS typically used a combination of one-way-satellite and telco digital video network (DVN) services. However, these solutions are generally bandwidth restricted, requiring heavy video compression and encoding, which can severely impact the overall broadcast quality delivered to subscribers.

The FOX SPORTS solution comprised two elements—portable outside broadcast (OB) equipment and a fixed-service router deployment. FOX SPORTS deployed two Juniper EX4200 Ethernet switches in a Virtual Chassis configuration to each of its 12 OB units. The OB units travel with the main broadcast production vehicles, allowing interconnection of the venue media and data services to the FOX SPORTS TV center.

The OB units remain parked in the sports venue for the duration of the match with the Juniper EX4200 switches connecting to the FOX SPORTS network using especially rugged optical interface cable and connectors. FOX SPORTS deployed two MX240 routers in its Sydney TV center as well as the Juniper Networks Network and Security Manager solution.

According to Tomkins, the EX4200 switches were the ideal solution for FOX SPORTS, offering the high availability and carrier-class reliability of modular systems with the economics and flexibility of stackable platforms.

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FOX SPORTS’ desire was to secure high-capacity services in key sporting locations, removing costly satellite capacity and eliminating the need for heavy video compression.

In addition, FOX SPORTS also wished to deploy a converged video, data and communications solution to enable full two-way communications between the various venues and the TV station. The net result would be a huge increase in its HD capability and quality, while streamlining back-end HD broadcasting production processes. To achieve this, FOX SPORTS decided to deploy its own private network infrastructure over fiber carrier services and upgrade its existing network environment. This solution enables FOX SPORTS to transmit multiple streams of HD and SD video, and voice and data content from multiple locations over a single, homogenous network. It is a huge amount of data with a requirement for very high levels of quality of service (QoS) and reliability. To build its new virtual private network, FOX SPORTS required a new Ethernet switching and routing layer on the existing fiber network.

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“Unlike most deployments, our switches are installed in cases that move around the country, so we needed a solution that’s very reliable—bomb proof,” said Tomkins. “When you’re in the business of live broadcasting, the availability of your network and the reliability of your network infrastructure is critical.”

With features like native ethernet, mobile app support, CBus integration, 3G communication support and management software connectivity, “The EX4200 is robust and very fault-tolerant hardware,” ChallengerLE just makes sense.

Tomkins continued. “It offers a redundant power supply to

ensure we remain operational even during a power outage.

Its scalability was also a draw card. It comes with 24 ports, so it can support our future requirements as we grow.”

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New Products at Security 2016 Security 2016 Exhibition in Melbourne gave us a chance to take a look at the latest product releases, get a sense of trends, as well checking out some of the vapourware teasers manufacturers and distributors roll out to get a feel for market interest at big events.

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ECURITY 2016 had a nice feel – it’s a good venue and the square layout at the MCEC somehow mitigates the sense of being tucked away in far corners. The organisers quoted visitor numbers of around 4500, which seemed slightly optimistic from behind Sony’s New York Loft Bar. Regardless, it was another good show considering this was a third year in Melbourne thanks to the ongoing revamp of the Exhibition and Convention Centre in Darling Harbour. While some exhibitors were jumping to conclusions on the first day, by the end of the show on Friday afternoon, most were happy with the turnout and quality of the visitors they’d seen.

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to see more snap from their exhibitors - there were requests for quality drones from more than one quarter, as well as some comments on the sameness of the solutions visitors had seen. A number of installers said there was nothing that really grabbed them at the show this year – that cameras were conforming to form factor and alarm systems to the cloud. It’s likely this latter sense reflects the maturity of the market more than anything else. However, all these comments do say something pertinent about what Security 2016 means from the point of view of the latest product releases.

I visited many stands at Security 2016 – as usual, I needed an extra day to see them all – and in almost every case my first port of call was a huge monitor

on which was displayed the latest video or security management solution, depending on the level of integration the developers had attained. Many stands had multiple instances of powerful software engines designed to weave inputs and outputs into ever more complex operational tapestries.

It’s not that hardware wasn’t prevalent, often beautiful in appearance and execution, but software was king at Security 2016 even if manufacturers and distributors were playing down the old chestnut of licensing fees per door/camera, as though it really was possible to bring to market a self-evolving software application without the need to monetise its development.

Considered from a temporal standpoint, we’ve gone from a time when management solutions were frightening Microsoft NT dragons that threatened to consume engineers brave enough to hunt them and fry end users whose paths they crossed, to a different place. The best management solutions feel tilted on the curl of a mighty comber, more than ever expressing a power that will sweep the industry forward. Touching the fingertips of metaphor in a technical magazine might seem too much but words like ‘integration’ and ‘seamless’ and ‘intuitive’ are too smeared with toil to infuse the mind with our future’s gathering energy.

Of course, it’s not just software alone because we’re part of a wider revolution that’s most clearly visible at random moments – a time you walk past a huge crowd on a balmy night at Bennelong Point and realise all are back-turned to Opera House and hanger bridge, faces aglow with the future’s light. Row upon row of kids are on Facebook, others on Viber, backpackers are scrolling through maps, a couple reads a review of the restaurant they are standing out front of – that one’s not very

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Security 2016 It’s true that many makers have conformed to a uniformity of form factor in CCTV and while everyone seems to have low end cameras, there were plenty of higher end cameras at the show.

good, I tell them - on and on up the pink granite walk are hundreds upon hundreds of connected engagements wherever you look.

It’s part of a global change that makes customised PSIM seem an archaic concept, a profound shift that challenges the one-dimensionality of siloed software solutions and feeds into the expectations of customers whose minds are daily lit by the flickering tips of oceanic fibres, drinking from rivers of data, charging ahead of the blunt instrument of the 3-year product turnover, asking ‘why can’t I?’.

Change is there in the processing power of an Axis camera which makes corrections to an iCS lens at 60 frames per second to eliminate barrel distortion at 2.8mm. It’s there when a man from Singapore tells you he’s looking forward to his halfgig internet upgrade because 100Mbps simply isn’t enough. It’s there in alarm panels that look like toys yet hustle triple layers of comms, and in intelligent video analysis that turns onerous investigations into proactive processes that inform security operations teams in near real time.

What can you manage with this solution? I ask.

What can’t you manage? comes the reply. This system is designed to integrate multiple sub systems on a single interface, displaying the site in almost 3 dimensions of graphics and system functionality for real time response to unfolding events. How hard is it to program this access control solution? I ask. You just follow the prompts for doors, or for cameras, or alarm inputs, or POS events, or IVA events pertaining to marketing. And using this other software you can bring everything together – you click an icon that

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represents the functionality – there’s no physical integration, it’s all IP. Then there’s the excitement building around H.265, a real revolution in the nature of compression that’s beginning to liberate networked video in a way no one can quite comprehend – it’s going to be felt laterally – while combining it with analytics and inputs in ways that make any image streams operationally meaningful. What is the video surveillance industry? It’s whatever you need to see. In the compression race now are Dahua with H.265, Axis with Zipstream, Hikvision with Smart H.264, Vivotek with Smart Stream II and Samsung with WiseStream. Zipstream is a capable solution and Vivotek’s H.265 Smart Stream II, which claims to reduce bandwidth demand 80 per cent is also something to pay attention to. We saw at SecTech Camera shootout in May that Vivotek’s cameras had extraordinarily tight bitrates for their resolutions.

We’ve been coming to this intoxicating point for a long time now but at Security 2016 you really felt the gravity of the digital underpinnings of the new world, drawing all of us in.

What was new at Security 2016 New things at Security 2016 in CCTV included Hikvision’s extremely powerful PanoVu DP1636Z-D, which incorporates multiple Darkfighter cameras in a panoramic array with an integrated PTZ. Together with clever software, PanoVu is able to capture panoramic images as well as close-up images, while

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Many stands had multiple instances of powerful software engines designed to weave inputs and outputs into ever more complex operational tapestries. advanced video analysis and a multiple target tracking algorithm incorporated.

There was a new IR PTZ from Vivotek, a powerful new dome from Uniview, the new glass fibre AeroPTZ and 1080p compact cameras from Panasonic, new cameras from Canon and Sony – some we saw at SecTech and others were shown for the first time.

Sony’s VB770 was set up in a darkroom in a corner of Sony’s neat stand where it ran off against the VB630 in a series of low light tests that went down under 1 lux. You have to hand it to Sony. The 4K VB770 with an ISO rating of 409,600 is the best pure CCTV camera on the planet in low light at the moment, with rampant amplification and excellent control of noise working together.

It’s true that many makers have conformed to a uniformity of form factor in CCTV and while everyone seems to have low end cameras, there were plenty of higher end cameras at the show – not just at the very top end with 36x domes, but powerful fixed cameras with integrated housings and attractive pricing – these included the IPCHFW8331E-Z from Dahua and the Uniview 22x optical Starlight bullet. Something else that was noticeable was the continuing push into digital analogue from Dahua, Hikvision and others. The attraction of such solutions is low cost hardware, high resolution, low latency and the ability to lever existing coaxial cables.

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incorporates the i-CS lens. We’re used to clever things from Axis, including Zipstream, but the Q1615 Mark II with i-CS lens is a bellwether. Camera processors are now powerful enough to offer 4 separate 1080p video streams at up to 50ips and clever compression, while at the same time correcting lens aberrations – barrel distortions – as well as offering easy application specific setup that can be tweaked remotely.

Along with a new compact wide angle video intercom, Axis also showed compact multi-headed cameras. Vivotek’s MS8391-EV sports 4 x 3MP CMOS sensors giving a 180-degree angle of view.

Vivotek’s SD9364-EHL was showing on the Hills’ stand. It’s said to be the first PTZ surveillance camera with IR Illumination to utilize H.265 compression technology, which reduces bandwidth by 80 per cent compared with H.264 – that’s a big deal. This camera has an impressive spec, with 1080p full HD resolution to go with its H.265, 150m IR illuminators, VAIR, WDR, and 30x optical zoom, IP66 and NEMA 4X-rated housing and a decently wide operating temperature range between -50 and 55C. Uniview’s new fisheye with 12MP of resolution, IR, IK10 and IP66 was notable. Meanwhile, Pelco showed its Optera 180-degree video surveillance camera. Canon’s VB-H761LVE was another standout.

It’s a weather and impact-resistant infrared bullet camera with a sensitive 1/3-inch Full HD CMOS sensor, fast auto focusing, 20x optical zoom lens, 60m infrared range and multiple built-in analytics.

This is another in a new generation of relatively compact high performance fixed bullet cameras with great optics and IR support that are ideal for serious surveillance application in public, commercial and industrial spaces.

Uniview also leaned in on the C.R. Kennedy stand, showing a 2MP Starlight bullet with 22x zoom and 200 metres of IR. Very interesting specs, these.

Uniview wasn’t finished there. The company also showed a Starlight PTZ dome with 2MP of resolution (1080p), 44x optical zoom and 250 metres of IR range.

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Wow. This dome was an impressive piece of kit and the exhibition hall simply wasn’t large enough to give us a sense of its potential. There was also a pan/ tilt bullet with 100m of IR, 2MP 1080p resolution and 2x optical zoom, as well as other units.

On the EOS stand, was the powerful Samsung 4K Wisenet P Series, along with H.264 and H.265 with WiseStream. Samsung has also released a new range of affordable compact domes and bullet cameras, as well as compact, capable and affordable NVRs. Avigilon showed the H4 Edge and Dahua rolled out some neat new cameras, too, including the distinct-looking DH-IPC-PFW8601, a multi-head camera that can provide a 180-degree panoramic flat view without edge distortion, along with a digital PTZ function. This camera employs Sony starlight image technology for low light performance.

The camera features H.265 encoding and highly intelligent features such as people counting and heat mapping.

Panasonic’s 1080p AeroPTZ features 30x optical zoom, IP67 and IK10 ratings, along with NEMA4X, image stabilisation and a fibreglass body that’s impervious to the challenges of tough marine environments. I liked Hikvision’s tiny new compact, new cameras from FLIR, Mobotix flame detection capability incorporated into MxActivitySensor and Mobotix Dual Thermal 6MP thermal cameras.

An interesting release in CCTV from Hills was the VZ-215IPM 21.5-inch LED screen. With full HD and the ability to run Android apps. It comes with an Ethernet 10/100 port and 2 USB ports. This monitor with onboard Android OS connects to your server or IP cameras for streaming live video, eliminating the need of a client PC. The monitor is ONVIF Profile S compliant and connects like a camera to a user’s network.

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Management software was a feature of the show and the functionality of these systems showed that developers have grown these systems out of their VMS roots.

their VMS roots. For instance, Pelco’s VideoExpert includes analytics, license plate recognition, POS integration and alarm and event management.

Sektor’s very clever Harmony Transaction Player contrives to integrate with multiple manufacturers systems to offer access to CCTV that’s linked to PoS, stock control, warehousing and more. Genetec’s Security Centre, which scales from very capable to all powerful, is much more than a VMS and Genetec’s Mission Control takes this to a whole new level by wrangling Security Center’s capabilities into shapes that offer the best operational response to multitudinous incidents. There’s mapping and graphics integrating video feeds, event reporting, incident management, procedures and operator response workflow and auditing.

Aimetis Symphony 7 is another VMS that does plenty more. It does everything with cameras locally or on mobile devices, has alarm notification and log, linked site map and event-driven timeline.

It’s particularly strong in analytics, with motion tracking, object classification, people and vehicle counting, automatic license plate recognition, virtual fence, loitering and dwell time and auto-PTZ tracking.

There were other solutions from ONSSI and Samsung. The NX Witness VMS from MGTS stood out for its organic user interface that had a strong Mac feel to it in terms of the ability to just do anything you like – pull an image over here and expand it. Do it again and again – throw in analytics – it’s got tons of functionality yet the organisation of functionality does not restrict the operator. You have to wheel your way through its operations yourself to get a feel for it – driving NX Witness gives that rollercoaster feeling you get when steering a quality hemispheric camera browser but this isn’t a single camera you’re piloting, it’s an entire CCTV solution.

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and VCA’s burn-in analytics so users can quickly integrate video analytics that are viewable on both live and recorded video displayed in the NX Witness client. Suitable for both surveillance and business intelligence applications. This system has a simple and intuitive user interface and without any complex engineering controls users can define a detection rule in just a few mouse clicks.

Captured events from cameras can be used to create bookmarks, do live video text overlay and launch alarm layout.

Avigilon’s Appearance Search was another winner, I thought – if not best in show, it was very close. It was tough to get a proper run-through of this system as Avigilon is particular when talking to the media so I watched one of the team conduct a search in silence – it’s a credit to the solution that I had no trouble understanding what Appearance Search was capable of after watching the demo.

Essentially, what this solution does is allow you to run a search of all video inputs for a particular individual (or object) and have the system display in thumbnails all the closest possible matches that an operator then elevates to the top of the display by tagging. If you want to watch the footage, click on the tile. Just typing it out like this doesn’t really do the flexibility and power of the system justice, nor does it give a sense of its ability to allow investigators to filter out the movements of a person through a huge site like a shopping mall or airport while capturing every moment of video footage they’re captured in without the need to sit down and watch 500 video feeds in real time.

A key part of the puzzle is server and storage architecture and Quantum’s Xcellis Application

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Director revealed itself as the front end of projects from 50-150 cameras. What’s so pleasing about Quantum is that the company is a networking animal and delivers what you need wherever and however it’s possible – flash drives, high performance hard drives, standard hard drives, file-based tape, and the Cloud. What Quantum is pushing for is high performance, large storage capacity and low TCO – Quantum says 40 per cent less than traditional HDD solutions.

In the area of comms, SCSI DirectConnect attracted attention. It’s a secure and reliable 4G Fixed-IP service that connects CCTV, access control, BMS, medical alert, in fact any IP device, via SCSI’s VPN. DirectConnect is deployed through a standard 4G router and because DirectConnect is a communications device that facilitates connection with existing hardware, the best way to understand it is as part of an application.

Bandwidth is between 30-70Mbps download and around 15Mb upload depending on where you are in relation to the tower, which is exceptionally fast. DirectConnect is not for live streaming but for motion detection or to allow remote viewing when required with real time video stored on an individual mobile camera or on a local NVR.

What was new in access control Developments in access control continue in multiple directions and there was more going on in this area than I expected to see. The main takeaway from Security 2016 was the continuing evolution of compact yet modular systems that empower installers and users in ways formerly impossible.

The whole modular thing in access control is by no means new – manufacturers have talked modular for 25 years. What’s changed is the overlay of a ubiquitous broadband WAN that can be accessed anywhere – it doesn’t matter which entry point users employ to access the global WAN – the WAN’s

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Developments in access control continue in multiple directions and there was more going on in this area than I expected to see. presence allows them to manage a small system remotely and to link multiple small systems into a seamless whole. Something else that stands out is the level of remote control users have over their systems – it’s profound.

We’ve talked about Inception in detail in SEN in recent months and this compact yet powerful system, with its excellent Commissioning Checklist was one of the highlights of the show, even though we’ve seen it before. Meanwhile Inner Range also showed Infiniti Class 5, which has all the power and functionality of Integriti with 128-bit encrypted zone loops and more.

Another great solution was ICT’s Protégé, which is an enterprise-level integrated access control, intrusion and building automation system manufactured in New Zealand. Modular design bolstered by 32-bit RISC processors allows operation in single sites right through to multinational corporations. Each Protégé GX controller has 24 inputs and a pair of high power outputs but it’s clever stuff like primary and secondary access levels that makes system setup so easy. It’s possible to assign door groups, menu groups, area groups, floor groups and elevator groups to access levels, with the secondary group giving another level of user access. Automation and programmable functions are extensive. A cursory description like this one seems a disservice to the ICT product – Protégé is that sort of a solution.

Another access control system that took my fancy at Security 2016 was Paxton’s net10, which

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combines access control, video surveillance, intrusion and fire detection, and building management/automation. Same as the net2 Plus, you drive net10 through an HTML5 software GUI that lives in the integrated net10 server, which has a 32GB USB memory which is used for config backups.

Each net10 server can support 100 PoE net10 controllers and each controller can support 2 doors and 2 video inputs, The controllers have a Bluetooth Smart gateway and can support 2 net10 connector modules, one of which can support 1 single door, up to 2 readers, as well as a lock relay output and 2 additional outputs.

The second connector module supports 5 digital inputs and 4 relay outputs. This module facilitates the creation of triggers and actions via the software, and can be used for a wide range of automation applications. What all this means is that a net10 controller can assume different shapes, managing 2 doors with up to 8 readers, 1 door with up to 4 readers, as well as handling 5 inputs and 4 outputs, or 10 inputs and 8 outputs.

Another new alarm and access control system is the Bosch G Series controller, which features alarm capability with integrated access control and IP video control. G Series supports up to 2000 users and almost 600 alarm inputs, up to 32 areas and 32 doors. There’s a Bosch Remote Security Control App so you can operate the system from any iOS or Android device. Taking this system to another level, G Series also features Bosch Video Management System (BVMS 6.5) integration to you get a single interface to monitor and control intrusion detection and video surveillance. BVMS also has integrated server-based analytics from Ganatec’s Bintelan Analytics platform for facial recognition and number plate recognition.

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Another nice offering in the access control space is KSoftware’s C3-100 system, which allows management and real time monitoring and control of access control systems via browser. The C3-400 and Inbio-460 can communicate at 38.4 Kbps via RS-485 configuration or TCP/IP networks. Both store up to 30,000 cardholders, and the InBio-460 stores up to 3000 fingerprint templates. There’s an SDK allowing integration of controllers into existing access control software or development of new software.

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Gallagher systems to remote mobile devices. The company also showed a bunch of other cool things, many of which related to perimeter intrusion deterrent and detection. These latter included enhancements to Gallagher’s powered fence controller and components, including insulators.

Dahua revealed its DHI ASC 1204B, an access control system that will handle 100,000 valid cards and 300,000 records, supports multiple card technologies as well as password, fingerprint and combination authentication. It has TCP/IP or RS-485 interface to PC and Wiegand or RS-485 interface to readers (2/4 door). Features include door time out alarm, intrusion alarm, duress alarm and tamper alarm, anti-pass back, multi-door interlock, multi-card open, support for 128 efficient time and holiday schedules and a system watch dog function.

Meanwhile, IMID Access (In-Motion Identification) identifies users as they walk using a fusion of biometric ID technologies. This solution integrates with existing security solutions, has selfenrolment, visitor management, real time activity log, a mobile solution for security personnel and more.

Another new access control product was ASSA ABLOY’s Aperio E100 V3 Series Escutcheon, which is designed to fit Lockwood mechanical 3570 series mortice locks for affordable access control of doors. The E100 V3 Series supports multiple card technologies with key override and internal emergency lever. Battery life is at least 2 years and heartbeat comms is 5-10 seconds. These units offer audit trails and time zones, 200-event audit trail onboard, LED status and low battery signal to EAC. Tyco’s Kantech EntraPass Security Software V7.0 is a suite of high performance software that allows customers to design and operate any number of doors where card access is required - securely, quickly and efficiently. It has Aperio

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Last year when it came to alarm systems we had Ness Mezzo to get our teeth into. This year there was nothing quite so spectacular but that doesn’t mean there weren’t a number of solutions at Security 2016 worthy of attention. I very much liked the Sensormat detection solution, which employs a network of fibre optics embedded in a robust industrial mat and generates exquisitely detailed detection signals. Simple, tough, high security, low cost and with no moving parts, very reliable.

Bosch was showing the B Series B4512 intrusion control panels, which offers 28 zones and 22 areas.

The B Series panel has integrated IP comms (RJ45) with DNS support for remote access and alarm reporting – installers can hop into the system and program up via Bosch’s remote programming software. There are plug-in modules for additional comms technologies and thus equipped the panels offer cellular text message notifications of events and Bosch’s Remote Security Control app for the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Remote Security Control also allows system arming and disarming and management of connected outputs.

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B Series Control Panels can also be easily programmed to carry out multiple functions with a single keypad command or with the push of a wireless keyfob button. These custom functions enable security dealers to tailor the system to their customers’ specific needs, while providing simple operation. In addition, scheduled events allow for the system to be automatically armed and disarmed at pre-determined times or to perform other functions based on an internal clock and calendar.

Something else I was keen to get a look at was the Resolution Systems’ Helix panel from EOS (and others), which is teamed up with Connect 02, which is underpinned by the thoroughly-proven SecureNet service. There’s 100Mbps Ethernet RJ-45, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi with WPS, GSM (optional) and 3G (primary or secondary configuration). There’s encrypted crystal wireless at 433MHz or 110KHz with 115dBm receiver sensitivity and an open air range of 450m and 2.4GHz Bluetooth with 90m range.

The system has 96 wireless zones and you can select from standard door or window movement sensors, Nanomax movement sensors, PIR pet immune sensors, tilt sensors, PIR gimbal sensors, glassbreaks and wireless sirens. There’s a Helipad Bluetooth Smart

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module, NXG-510 output expander and NXG-220 zone expander. Apparently, this solution was the last system developed by the endlessly inventive Gabriel Daher when he was at UHS, so its pedigree can’t be disputed. ZeroWire was also on show at Hills with additional functions, including a mobile app and support for locks.

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RF connection between keypad and control panel with a capacitive touchscreen and the system can also be controlled using keyfobs or panic pendants.

One of the standout releases in alarms this year was FSH’s SCEC-approved SL4 FSS1 Door Monitoring Sensor. It replaces traditional reed switch technology with a microprocessor, a smart combination of Hall Effect sensors and a magnetic array plate, allowing the unit to be re-calibrated in case of door drop. Neat, too, the FSH sensor is available in flush or surface mount.

Meanwhile, Gallagher’s new F4 Fence Controllers are designed to actively detect and deter intruder attempts through standalone or fully integrated perimeter solutions. Variable settings increase flexibility and design enhancements enable quicker, easier installation. Independent dual pulse delivers double the deterrent level to a fence zone using HVPlus reactive deterrent technology. Demonstrations of this capability had real snap.

Hills was also showing an interesting hardwired alarm system called X-GEN with an X-GEN cellular

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The official winners of Best Product Awards at Security 2016 were Inner Range with Infiniti Class 5, with Fire & Security Hardware’s FSS1 – High Security Door Monitoring Sensor in second place and MOBOTIX M15 Thermal TR coming third.

These products all deserved the attention they got, I thought. But there were plenty of other solutions that were very appealing, depending on the nature of your applications.

I liked Hikvision PanaVu – the delivery software was excellent - but I rated Hik’s 4K PTZ as the more elegant solution. Sony’s VB770 is a great low light CCTV camera if high performance is your key criteria – this is a camera I’d love to test on the street. Inner Range Class 5 and Inception are key releases but to my mind Inception is the bigger deal. It puts access control, intrusion and automation into the hands of thousands of aspirational installers, as well as simplifying jobs for Inner Range aficionados who may find Integriti too much solution for some of their smaller installations.

Other products I appreciated were Uniview’s 44x PTZ with 250m IR, Axis Q1615 Mark II with i-CS lens, Panasonic AeroPTZ and Vivotek’s SD9364-EHL, this latter is a lovely camera – compact and powerful and the application of H.265 compression makes it a winner. I also liked Genetec Mission Control, Nx Witness VMS, Paxton net10, the integrated Sylo Cortex Safecity module, Harmony Transaction Player from Sektor, and the locally-developed Sensormat detection system, warrants a closer look by users who have trouble with other detection technologies in challenging environments. Meanwhile, ISI’s Mobile CCTV Command Centre, which isn’t a product so much as an integration, deserves accolades, too. It’s a serious solution built by serious people for serious applications. Avigilon Appearance Search was another great solution at Security 2016 – faced with searching multiple video streams it just works. n

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Consider the Lily’s Platinum AV has installed a Mobotix IP surveillance system at Lily’s in Sydney’s Seven Hills. The system includes automation, intercoms, external and internal cameras with edge storage, a dedicated network and remote and local management using mobile devices running the Australian-developed QCamPro app.

ILY’S restaurant, bar and function centre at Seven Hills in Sydney’s west incorporates 5 modern function rooms, 2 dedicated ceremony areas and an Italian restaurant. Arriving early, I spend 10 minutes wandering through the internal spaces, which revolve around a bar, pizza kitchen and large restaurant. It’s bigger than I expected. When you’re looking at video surveillance applications, the first place you look is the ceilings and I can see this is a brownfield site. New Mobotix cameras are dotted here and there across a ceiling populated by an installation of older, bulkier compact domes.

I’m here to meet Mitchell Smith, operations manager of integrator, Platinum AV Solutions.

Smith is a young and passionate installer who’s well and truly hooked into the technological arteries feeding the information generation and it’s impossible to get your head around this

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integration without taking Smith into account.

He spends a large part of the time on his smart device calling up images from Lily’s as well as a couple of other video surveillance applications across Sydney, talking about how he’s used the Mobotix cameras and their integrated functionality, including intercoms and digital PTZ, to proactively respond to or report incidents.

While Smith’s steering cameras through QCamPro, I get another chance to see how capable Mobotix hemispheric and wide angle cameras are. Hemispherics are notorious for being soft on digital zoom but Mobotix, with its large MP sensors and proprietary compression protocol, is a tiger of a different stripe. You really can dig into scenes with Mobotix, making its

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hemispheric cameras capable of supported diameters running into tens of metres. As Smith explains the shape of the system with his phone, I think again how neatly Mobotix anticipated the market all those years ago.

But there’s more here than surveillance. Smith has taken advantage of the agnosticism of IP to build a creature of IP infrastructure that in no way imitates the traditional and modular nature of many digital video surveillance solutions.

Instead, Smith and his team have stitched layers of IP devices in a way that offers the best functionality using underlying network topology.

“This system is an investigative tool, it’s a workflow tool, an OH&S tool and it’s a people counting tool,” Smith says. “Lily’s is a function centre and when the team here is running an

This system is an investigative tool, it’s a workflow tool, an OH&S tool and it’s a people counting tool event the system’s functionality means they can keep an eye on video feeds, receive event notifications, use intercom functions or use people counting software to keep track of walk-in and walk-out traffic. Thanks to the microphones and speakers in the Mobotix cameras, the system is also a PA system, so they can communicate between people in real time.”

The Lily’s Solution The solution we look at is stage 1 of a 2 stage

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integration process. There are currently more than 30 cameras in this installation (numbers will double after stage 2), each with 64GB of internal storage.

The cameras draw on all parts of the Mobotix range. There are external M15 cameras with their distinctive integrated housings, there are P25 and C25 compact and large domes and flush mount hemispherics and optical camera heads, in one case installed with third-party IR support. While the completed system will have 2 workstations with MX Control Center, it’s not planned that these will be manned - instead the primary user interface is by mobile devices running QCamPro. This is a key aspect of the installation and it shapes system topology.

“Lily’s is a different solution and that comes down to the fact it’s an IP solution,” Smith explains. “If you consider other digital video solutions, including some larger Mobotix installations, there are whole server racks dedicated to storage. We will have a Synology NAS here to record events over the long term but the cameras are recording to SD card and that means network bandwidth is zero because the cameras record to themselves. The 64GB cards give cameras 21 days’ storage and frame rate is adjusted based on resolution – the 3MP cameras are running at between 9-10 fps, the 1MP cameras are at 10-14fps and the full HD cameras are at 14fps.”

According to Smith, Platinum AV handled the automation, aspects of the electrical sub system relating to the installation, as well as taking on associated networking. A key part of enhancing Lily’s network infrastructure has been through widespread installation of a Wi-Fi network that allows management to view cameras and intercom door stations on smart devices no matter where

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they are in the venue. This latter is important because Lily’s is large and there’s plenty of reinforced concrete signals must get through – it means multiple spaces need their own wireless nodes to ensure uniformly high performance.

Alongside Mobotix devices like video intercoms and integrated into QCamPro are Wi-Fi Fibaro sensors, which include 360-degree PIRs, as well as temperature monitoring and are IP-linked to the cameras. Fibaro is a clever solution in its own right, capable of reporting and actioning events.

There are also Fibaro door release buttons which become active at set times of the day. Lily’s has an old alarm system but over time this will be cutover and replaced with a network of 360-degree sensors reporting alarm events to cameras with alarm event capabilities integrated into the surveillance system and reporting via RemoteGuard, Suretek’s video monitoring solution that reports to a Remoteguardcapable monitoring station. Access control will be handled on a door-by-door basis using an IP-based solution that allows remote management and event reporting.

Early on in my visit Smith shows me something that typifies the Lily’s integration. It’s an interactive Rise Vision monitor installed in the foyer that’s visible from the front door. The thing here is that Rise Vision isn’t some proprietary hardware or software solution – instead it’s a digital signage content management platform capable of driving thousands of networked monitors free from Google Cloud. All you need is a monitor to display signage and a compact PC to drive the software.

“Rise Vision allows us to create digital menus and functions for display on the monitor in the foyer but there’s more to it than that,” Smith explains.

“The monitor is on the network that links the CCTV solution so we can display customised signals from cameras on the monitor as well. For instance, if someone comes to the door after hours, the camera will send an image of the person to this screen via FTP – it means the person can see their image has been captured by the system. The functionality is run by a little PC behind the reception desk – it’s simple networking principles used to create a more powerful IP solution.”

The heart of the Lily’s system is 5 separate VLANS installed by Platinum AV. “We have put in a separate CCTV and automation network, a separate staff network and a full guest network among others,” says Smith. “Before we started it was D-Link switches hanging off a Netgear router with no VLANs, no port forwarding, nothing.

Obviously, getting the network infrastructure right was the key and as well as installing data cables, new switches, and building network bridges where necessary, we’ve also installed a comprehensive wireless network throughout, with multiple nodes.”

We take a look at the head end downstairs and see the Mikro Tik SXT 5HnD 5GHz Wi-Fi router board that handles this wireless network, the

When we take a walk around the site I can see it’s quite a tough environment – similar challenges to a shopping centre but on a smaller scale.

incoming fibres and the 10Gig shielded Cat-6 cable handling video feeds. Nearby is the Giada i5 9u SkyLake – powered mini PC running the Rise Vision monitor out the front.

Managing the system When it comes to managing the system locally and remotely, it’s all about QCamPro. According to Smith, most of the system is remotely managed

by Platinum AV but he points out there will be workstations when stage 2 is completed. We look at the Vibaro app – the Lily’s cameras come up – we look at a carpark camera and pull up multiple scenes at once, zooming in and out with ease using standard touch screen pinch and squeeze, tap and swipe. This is a sleek and capable interface that’s able to display cameras from multiple sites on a multiscreen display so there’s no need for additional instances of the app - neat.

QCamPro app was conceived and developed by John Convill of Video Security Services in Adelaide

back in 2010, with ongoing enhancements since and it’s not proprietary, supporting Axis, Mobotix, Panasonic and Bosch among others.

QCamPro combines simplicity with considerable functionality that pushes notifications to mobile devices and allows live video and 2-way voice comms through Mobotix (and many other) cameras.

Key features include live monitoring of video (using Mobotix MXPEG protocol) and audio across both 3G and wireless, a speak-to-camera function with frame rates as high as 25 frames per second depending on the camera and network configuration, PTZ controls, native iOS controls (multi-touch zoom, swipe), single, and multi-view of cameras, including a 16-camera view assigned to groups with no limit on the number of cameras or views that can be monitored, 6-action configuration to open doors, switch lights on and off or drive other outputs, and playback of recorded video and audio.

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Around the perimeter of the building installed up high are M15 external cameras with integrated housings Remote Event Monitoring, which sends an immediate personal notification of an alarm event from the IP camera to an iOS or Android device is key for Lily’s. It notifies management whenever an alarm or event occurs such as video or PIR activation, as well as changes in sound, lighting, temperature - and/or external inputs. Neat, too, when someone pushes the intercom on an external door or gate, Lily’s management can have a 2-way conversation from anywhere in the world through the speaker function on QCamPro via the intercom or an IP camera’s microphone. They also have control over auxiliary inputs such as opening a door or turning on a light – functionality that’s exploited in this application.

Walking the site When we take a walk around the site I can see it’s

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quite a tough environment – similar challenges to a shopping centre but on a smaller scale. It’s brownfield, there are funny light temperatures tending under 2500k with dark and bright points.

Many external mounting points are at considerable elevation. There’s a lot of legacy hardware and cabling – that includes the nature of the site’s data network which was never going to be able to cope with high resolution IP video streams to be centralised and managed on multiple workstations.

All IT networks are organic and evolve over time in unusual ways that make sense in the moment to network engineers resolving problems in an ad hoc manner but from an holistic point of view, such all networks tend towards entropy. This fundamental means that Platinum AV needed to install its own IT infrastructure, which Smith points out to me as we go.

“You can also see that we used many different types of Mobotix camera,” Smith says. “That’s one of the new larger D15 domes there and we are also using smaller domes elsewhere. Around the perimeter of the building installed up high are M15 external cameras with integrated housings.”

As we head around the corner of the building past another fixed external M15 and go out front I’m struck again by the size of the site. As well as cameras mounted on the building there are 4 cameras flush-mounted into an external sign on the lawn – these camera heads give views up and down in front of the site with different angles of view.

Next, we check out gate intercoms of which there are 5 and then head into a covered external area – there’s a hemispheric camera here – it’s an S15 optical sensor inserted into the middle of an Elenek IR 52S 180-degree illuminator with a 20m range and a modest 9W current draw. Through a door and back into the rear terrace of the function centre I take a look at a 360-degree Fibaro sensor – it’s compact and slick. The Fibaro motion sensor reports motion, temp, humidity all in one, making it a neat solution. This sensor is wired to an adjacent S15, which will record and report an event if it’s activated after a certain time of night.

There’s also a release button on a nearby door which after a particular time in the evening when pressed will IP notify the camera to open the door. This is not the only interesting twist at Lily’s.

According to Smith, when a 360-degree camera is installed in the kitchens, an adjacent sensor will monitor the fridge and report programmed temperature changes direct to the camera for event reporting via QCamPro. Another 360-degree camera will go into the dishwasher room and in the bar, which has just been re-done, and Smith points out the new Cat-6 data cable loops hanging from apertures in the ceiling in readiness.

We go up to a large function room – there’s another Wi-Fi node up here – these nodes are everywhere and form part of the network that supports mobile devices running the QCamPro app. Next, we head up to the roof and take a look at some of the cameras overlooking the front of Lily’s.

Coverage is comprehensive, criss-crossing the front of the building. We also poke around inside roofmounted nodes containing local power and PoE and network access via a Ubiquiti switch. Our walk around ends at the network cabinet in a secure room with hemispheric CCTV coverage where we take a look at the Ubiquiti edge switches that gather in signals coming from remote nodes.

“This first stage of the system provides an overview of the site with many 360-degree cameras – we are about to start stage 2 which will see the installation of a lot more D15s – these will be strategically-placed to handle specific operational tasks,” Smith explains. “There will be 6 in the bar, some in the function room and others elsewhere, as well as the additional 360-degree hemispherics that will be installed. Once all the cameras are in, there will be a big NAS installed and a monitor in an office so the CEO doesn’t have to check a phone

if there’s a need to display in larger format to view recordings.”

Challenges of the application Every application has its challenges and Lily’s was no exception.

“From the point of view of the installation itself, the primary challenge we faced at Lily’s was that there is an ongoing process of renovation occurring in multiple locations in the facility – we had to make sure we were across all those areas undergoing renovation with our cables so we could make sure we did not lose coverage,” Smith explains.

“Apart from that, everything was fine – it was a fairly typical installation of this type. It’s larger than most sites and the application is ongoing. There are time constraints relating to when we can work but generally speaking, it’s not too difficult.

“The installation process would have been quicker if the site was fully closed down but Lily’s remained operational most of the time so we had to work around that – we did manage to do all the cabling over a single holiday break, taking out the ceiling tiles – there were 4 of us handling the cabling – 2 pulling cable and 2 doing fitting off. We had a scissor lift at the front to get up to roof and install cameras and infrastructure, and a boom was used to get other cameras fitted. We also built a scaffold to access the sign. We also had assistance with the electrical system from Eli Squillacioti from Blue Electrical.”

According to Smith, a key element of any application, particularly larger and more complex sites like Lily’s, is convincing the client to spend the money on the sort of system the installer knows will meet stated operational requirements.

“It’s the same with every installation and on a larger site like this, it’s more difficult again, because

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the system will be bigger and more expensive and there must be a sense of return on sales in the form of energy savings, increased efficiencies and reduced risks – not just burglary or robbery, but all the other risks surrounding an operation like this one.”

The capability of the system was highlighted the night after the team finished stage 1.

“That first night we caught an attempted burglar and the night after, we captured a second attempted burglary – an associate of the first person who must have thought Lily’s guard would be down after the events of the night before,” Smith says. “Unlike a traditional alarm system, this solution reports alarm events with video footage and allows live monitoring, that means you’re not just getting a random alarm event and dispatching a patrol. If

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You don’t install an integrated solution and walk away – not on a site like this one. More effort is required.

there’s an attempted break-in you can see exactly what’s going on and you’re able to respond very quickly. A burglary means more than just material losses – there’s disruption to management and staff, repairs to multiple entry points, hassle with insurance claims and then issues with insurance premiums – you’re seen as higher risk.

Lily’s is an interesting study that suggests the nature of electronic security solutions in the future will be more agnostic than many suspect. Systems will offer significant lateral capability but accessing this capability will depend on the abilities of the installation team handling the work.

“Networked solutions like this are organic,” says Smith. “Installing a system and upgrading a network are part of a process because it takes time and effort to get an integrated solution like this right. You don’t install an integrated solution and walk away – not on a site like this one. More effort is required. Everything we’ve done here in terms of installing the new system and upgrading the network was done to ensure the solution is reliable, flexible, expandable, future-proof and offers high performance wherever it’s needed. What’s great about the Lily’s solution is that it’s more than just a security system, and management and staff love it for that reason.” n

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Hang Nadim airport

Indonesia Airport Rides Thermal Hang Nadim International Airport, Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia, recently invested in advanced thermal video security technology from FLIR Systems to secure its 16km perimeter.

ANG Nadim International Airport is located in Batam, Riau Islands, an Indonesian island located close to Singapore, that has become a domestic hub with a large volume of transit passengers. All the major domestic carriers operate out of Batam with services to Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Medan and Padang. Originally developed as an alternative to Singapore Changi Airport, Hang Nadim Airport has serious facilities and the longest runway 4000m in Indonesia, sufficient for wide body aircraft Boeing 747s and several times more passengers than it is currently serving.

Security is a major issue for airport authorities everywhere. The threat of terrorist attacks at airports is never far away. And although passenger screening inside airports has received its due attention worldwide, the airport perimeter often remains a weak spot at many airports, giving intruders easy access to airplane runways and taxiways. This has not escaped the attention of Hang Nadim International Airport officials. Until recently, the airport’s 16km perimeter was only secured by a fence, in combination with surveillance cameras and frequent patrols of security personnel. This approach was insufficiently covering the airport’s security issue, in at least 2 ways.

First of all, it’s very difficult for security patrols to be everywhere all the time, certainly with the size of the perimeter in mind, so 100 per cent coverage is not possible this way. Second, surveillance cameras

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cannot see during the night without lighting, which would be very costly to install along a 16km perimeter.

Once inside the perimeter area, it would be almost impossible to install lighting poles across the airfield to support surveillance cameras, because they could possibly obstruct the movements of the aircraft on the runways and taxiways.

After thorough research, the airport decided to use thermal imaging cameras from FLIR Systems to monitor the entire perimeter. FLIR thermal security cameras can see as well at night as they can during the day. And unlike conventional CCTV cameras, they are not dependent on visible light or supplementary illumination from lights or lasers. 27 FLIR FC-Series cameras with 19mm and 35mm lens are now used to monitor the perimeter.

In addition, the airport installed 2 FLIR PT-602CZ long-range multi-sensor thermal and visible pan/ tilt cameras, and 2 FLIR Ranger R2 high-resolution radar units to provide a complete overview of the airport’s aprons, taxiways, and 4km long runway. The PTZ camera and radar complement each other really well and make it virtually impossible for anyone to enter the airfield unnoticed. The Ranger R2 radar accurately detects people and vehicles up to a 1400m range. This solution operates in virtually any climate, weather or lighting condition to provide 24/7 security, scanning 360-degrees every second. Whenever a target is picked up by the radar, an alarm is sent to the FLIR Sensor Manager video management system.

This will in turn activate the automatic slew-to-cue mechanism of the FLIR PT-602CZ pan/ tilt camera.

This means that the pan/tilt camera is automatically steered to the exact latitude, longitude and elevation of an alarm, provided by the radar, so that the security personnel in the airport control room can instantly see what’s going on the visible and thermal camera image. In addition, all thermal video footage is recorded in real time by the FLIR DNR500 network video recorder.

According to the airport’s chief of aviation technics, the FLIR security monitoring system is performing extremely well 24/7 and the authorities have already been able to detect intruders shortly after the installation of the thermal cameras. The fact that the airport does not need to install any lighting to secure the entire area and perimeter has also proven to be a great cost-saver. In addition to this, the detection range of the radar and pan/ tilt systems are so wide that only 2 units are needed to cover the entire area. Airport officials also value the video analytics on the FLIR FC-Series cameras as they provide optimal intrusion detection in challenging imaging environments.

This allows the airport control room staff to take immediate measures whenever that is needed. n

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Global Standards As the alarm monitoring industry is reinvented as a creature of the digital world, AS2201 fails to provide manufacturers, installers and end users the support and surety it once did.

The time has long passed for the official alarm standard to cover common IP components and comms paths.

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HEN AS2201 was updated in 2004, the team that worked on the standard sought to incorporate as many aspects of the latest technology as they could but in those digitally distant days it was impossible to anticipate the impact the world of IP would have on the alarm industry. And 12 years later that impact is clear to see. There are aspects of the alarm transmission process (AS2201.5) and core monitoring station systems (AS2201.2) that no monitoring station can function without, yet are not covered by any part of the standard.

What we are talking about here is digital networks and network components, VPNs, cloud storage data centres locally and overseas – an entire ecosystem that was undreamed of in 2004 that isn’t just central to the future of alarm monitoring, it is the future of alarm monitoring. When you think about the enmeshing thicket of network components bound up in security transmission solutions – within systems, not just within transmission systems – it’s easy to see why no one is doing anything about networked solutions when it comes to standards. This is a tough nut to crack.

Kostas Kyrifidis of The Security Advisory undertakes reviews of Grade 1 monitoring stations for the VSI in Victoria and SPAAL in NSW. He maintains the Australian Standard covering security alarms, monitoring stations and alarm monitoring equipment undertaken in 2004 must be upgraded to take into account the intrinsic role that customer network components, monitoring station network components and third party provider network components play in the alarm reporting process as covered by the standard.

“What we need to do, given the new threat levels introduced by network exposure, is make sure there are standards in place that take into account risks and minimise those risks,” says Kyrifidis. “This needs to be

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done without imposing on monitoring station operators and with discussion at the grass roots, then developed through Australian Standards to reflect best practise. It’s important that we undertake the process at the grassroots level - that any changes are not imposed.

“Fundamentally, I think we need to identify the risks and have due diligence in relation to what we are doing operationally in our monitoring businesses and work to tighten this aspect up in line with an agreed best practise,” he says. “There needs to be consensus between monitoring providers and users as to what constitutes an appropriate level of security and protection around third party communications and data storage. We need to start a discussion, which is likely to take 6-12 months.”

What worries Kyrifidis is that since 2004 when the standard was completed the risk matrix has changed yet the standard does not provide the means for providers to respond to those changes.

“We have thousands of people around the country protecting sites

We need to start a discussion between monitoring stations, industry bodies, monitoring station auditors – there’s urgency, we need to move on it. and infrastructure and relying heavily on our reporting paths, links and storage solutions, and they want a secure, high quality service,” he says. “But what is a secure and high quality alarm monitoring service today? Residential, commercial and government end users expect us to make sure that we are storing and managing data securely, giving them the protection they need. But to do this with confidence we need to consider the risks and tighten up the standards by filling in the technological gaps.

There’s simply nothing in the standard that covers this vital area and its growing risks, yet I know from personal experience that we go to great pains to govern other physical aspects of monitoring centres that have far lower risk profiles.”

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Naskam’s Maks Makson agrees there needs to be a conversation about the issue.

“Frankly, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle when it comes to networked components of monitored systems and monitoring systems,” Makson says. “We have information in the cloud and so do all other monitoring providers. But there are so many variables when it comes to things like cloud it’s hard to know where to start. If your provider is in Australia, then a new standard might apply. But if your provider is overseas then you have no control over the standards they apply to the service they supply to you and your customers. I would like to see providers whose cloud components are maintained here in Australia, perhaps to a future AS2201 standard, graded more highly than those who use external cloud providers and have no clear idea of the underlying topology and risk exposure of their cloud components.

That’s something I think needs to be disclosed to customers.”

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... if your provider is overseas then you have no control over the standards they apply to the service they supply to you and your customers.

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Suretek’s Glenn Smith agrees the risk profile has changed and that monitoring stations are more likely to be exposed to attacks on network components than attacks on their physical premises.

“Just this year ransomware has taken out 4 control rooms we know of,” Smith says. “One had to pay thousands of dollars to hackers in Russia to retrieve their database. It’s scary stuff. This ransomware goes through an entire network, finds a database, then compresses and locks it. Go back 10 years it was a local peer-to-peer network, digital dialler – signal comes in, sends it through to the network – simple and secure. Not anymore. One of the control rooms attacked recently was down for 4 days.

“So yes, it’s a huge issue at multiple levels. Prices are dropping but you need a full time IT person to manage the network side. You need to plan your entire system to take IT into account, monitoring is changing shape totally and we are living in a different world when it comes to risk. This has to be taken into account. The old standard is all about construction and that’s fundamentally easy compared to this new world of evolving risk that’s always changing shape. The standard can’t be written and then cast in stone for 12 years as AS2201 has been – the standard has to keep up.

Whose responsible for managing this? Associations, monitoring stations or software providers?

“Well, generally speaking no one has the expertise,” Smith says. “We have our own experts who are dedicated to keeping up with this – given we have so many control rooms we have a considerable responsibility to ensure customers are protected. Network security is a whole other thing – it’s organic and can be highly secure but for a single unprotected backdoor, like a wireless router with a default password setting somewhere on the system. All of a sudden there’s a flyscreen door on the back of the safe.”

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You need to plan your entire system to take IT into account, monitoring is changing shape totally and we are living in a different world when it comes to risk. the days when information could be protected by the application of physical security.

“Today it’s network components, data encryption and secure communications, and everything we do operationally that is exposed to networks needs to be protected to a standard,” he says. “We need appropriately secure agreements with cloud providers, we need to know which country data is stored, as well as considering the IP security arrangements around the data. At the moment all this is an unknown.

“The EL-31 committee that looks after security standards needs to consider this. We are in the business of protecting community interests and it’s too important to ignore. We need to start a discussion between monitoring stations, industry bodies and monitoring station auditors – there’s urgency, we need to move on it. It’s not on the horizon, it’s banging at the door. We need an honest and ethical approach, a working approach, and we need it right now.” n

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Citywide Safety A Citywide Safety Camera Programme has been launched at Logan City in Queensland, with more than 300 cameras giving Council video surveillance coverage across the council area through a powerful monitoring and recording platform.

OGAN City Council’s Citywide Safety Camera Programme was undertaken through cooperation between the Logan City Council, Webb Australia, Teleste, Optical Solutions Australia and Pride Security. The video security system was built using Teleste S-VMX, which provides video surveillance across the city, stationed in shopping and service precincts, train stations, bus interchanges, parks and other thoroughfares.

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The City of Logan is a local government area in South East Queensland, Australia. The city is divided into 64 suburbs and 12 divisions, which elect a Councillor.

Logan City Council needed an easy-to-use citywide video surveillance system for its Citywide Safety Camera Programme that would enhance residents’ safety and reduce crime.

The overall solution required the design and implementation of a state-of-the-art surveillance control centre that would give council a tool for the prevention and detection of crime and antisocial behaviour. Also central to the application was a guarantee of system scalability and flexibility in the future using open standards technology and the ability to deliver a reliable and future-proof system, suitable for current and future requirements.

The system currently has 300 cameras deployed across the city and further stages will include federating remote sites and mobile CCTV systems for rapid deployment. Some footage from Logan City cameras can already be beamed directly to officers at the Beenleigh, Browns Plains and Logan Central police stations.

Logan City solution The Logan City solution includes Teleste’s S-VMX video management system with S-VMX video walls providing real time monitoring of the 300 cameras on 20 monitors and an S-VMX Stream Reflector allowing CCTV images to be streamed to external mobile devices. Operator functionality includes GIS mapping features, with multiple permission-based operator logins and a hierarchy of control.

The transmission equipment includes Teleste MCC series encoders which were used for dragand-drop corporate computers onto the video wall. The existing analogue cameras are fed through Teleste video encoders fully integrated into the S-VMX platform. Meanwhile, the mobile safety camera travels across the city to key locations and events to assist in addressing transient crime and antisocial behaviour in public spaces.

Hardware deployed includes Teleste S-VMX servers, S-VMX NVRs, S-VMX web clients, MCC series encoders, 3rd party switches from various vendors and IP cameras, with all Teleste equipment delivered through Australian partner company Optical Solutions Australia (OSA).

The system was supplied by Optical Solutions Australia, which is a supplier to the fibre optics industry, and the distribution partner of Teleste Corporation Australia. OSA distributes a select collection of products from the world’s leading manufacturers, as well as its own manufactured products.

Logan City Council’s Citywide Safety Camera Programme has already had plenty of success.

During the first 12 months of operation about 2700 incidents were captured on the CCTV cameras monitored by the system. These included crimes in progress, welfare cases, suicide prevention, persons under the influence and traffic accidents. The cameras are high quality, full colour, 360 degree, pan tilt, zoom (PTZ) cameras, which can achieve up to 200m zoom at full HD quality. There are strict policies, standing orders and operational procedures to ensure integrity, confidentiality and the privacy of the community at all times. All cameras, fixed and mobile, are to enhance public safety and careful measures are always taken to ensure privacy and information management of data.

The Logan Safety Camera Programme has formally received numerous awards and commendations for outstanding community safety achievements, innovation, technology and partnerships and has successfully secured millions of dollars in funding contributions from state and federal government agencies.

The programme will continue to be developed

The Logan Safety Camera Program has formally received numerous awards and commendations for outstanding community safety achievements, innovation, technology and partnerships... and expanded to new areas across the city and implemented in tandem with crime prevention and community safety strategies, which address all aspects of crime, causes of crime and fear of crime.

Logan City Council Deputy Mayor Russell Lutton said the council’s acclaimed safety camera program played an integral role in crime prevention and city safety.

“The decision to expand and improve our safety camera monitoring room to the tune of $1 million reaffirms council’s commitment to creating a safer Logan City,” he said. “Like our residents and businesses, council considers crime prevention a key priority and I am delighted the State Government shares this view.

“Funding from the State Government, coupled with council’s unique proactive relationship with Logan’s Queensland Police Service, helps this council deliver an effective, state-of-the-art city-wide community safety camera program and subsequently reduce the level of crime and increase the perception of safety throughout Logan City.” n

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Magenta Airport Goes LPR Magenta Airport in Noumea has installed Axis network cameras connected to an intelligent system developed by Aimetis that allows recognition of license plates in real time to monitor vehicles approaching the entrance to the parking lot and allow or deny entry.

AGENTA Airport is the principle hub for domestic flights in Nouméa. After redevelopment, the free parking that was normally intended for public transportation was soon swamped with private passenger cars. After that, buses and taxis dropped off their passengers outside the airport zone. This meant passengers had to walk hundreds metres with luggage to the terminal.

The solution to this problem came in stages. First came a parking lot for airport employees in 2012, then a zone reserved for public transit in 2013. In this zone, barriers and cameras were deployed to monitor the vehicles. Cameras watch the entrance to the parking lot. Connected to the Aimetis video management system with LPR, they recognize the license plates of vehicles authorized to enter (buses

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“The simplicity of managing without shuttle services or access badges was indisputably a factor in choosing the solution.

and taxis). If a vehicle is authorized, the barriers open.

“The simplicity of managing without shuttle services or access badges was indisputably a factor in choosing the solution. In addition, the cameras also allow us to perform video surveillance, which is useful if a driver does a hit and run on the barrier,” says Olivier Beal, head of the Office of Aeronautic Infrastructures, Department of Civil Aviation in Nouméa.

“The opening system had to be fast, work remotely and be as simple as possible to manage, due to the large number of vehicles accessing the zone,” Beal said. “The solution involving camera license plate recognition appeared to best comply with the criteria. The choice of cameras reduced the number of unrecognized license plates and allowed backup in case one of the cameras broke down. Two Axis Communications network cameras monitor the entrance to the parking lot. They are connected to an intelligent system developed by Aimetis which allows recognition of license plates and reads the images in real time. If a vehicle’s license plate shows up in the database as authorized, the barriers open.”

However, these changes required some adjustments, such as tests based on the weather and the time of day or night with taxis and buses in association with the Karuïa company. The civil aviation authorities also made announcements in the newspaper and at the airport to let the terminal’s users know about the change. Finally, a person was on site 8 hours a day to inform drivers that access was forbidden.

“Today the taxis are saving a lot of time. There’s no badge; the barriers open automatically, and it’s easier to find a place to drop off passengers. From now on, the Karuïa buses will change their route and start coming back into this zone, where there is a bus shelter for dropping off and picking up passengers.

Now people who come to Nouméa finally have public transport that drops them off right in front of Nouméa airport,” Beal said. n

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Intelligent Security Integration’s Mobile CCTV Command Centre got plenty of attention at Security 2016. The unit combines multiple integrated fixed and PTZ HD cameras, 360-degree 4K cameras, thermal cameras and 8 deployable cameras with video and manpower management.

It’s the attention to detail that transfixed the crowd. The MCCC is thoughtfully conceived and beautifully executed.

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OBILE command centres are not a new concept by any means and we’ve seen a number of mobile trailers at security shows over the years that are designed to push intelligence gathering outside of built spaces.

But none of these units can compare with the Intelligent Security Integration’s van-based Mobile CCTV Command Centre, which combines the latest video surveillance and communications technology to create remote area security for events and other applications.

You really need to run through the specifications to get a sense of just how capable the MCCC is.

There are 8 roof-mounted HD cameras giving 360-degree visibility with either stationary or mobile recording capabilities, there are 8 rapidly deployed HD cameras with GPS, 4G and point-topoint transmission options and 2-weeks battery life, there’s a 12.5 metre aluminium telescopic mast with a pair of 180-degree fixed HD cameras and one long range IR PTZ camera, which is ideal for

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It was a process of working out what would fit and how, as well as sourcing components like the telescoping mast – that’s obviously a unique piece of equipment.

generator, giving it a standalone power source and there are mains capabilities and integrated battery backup with solar support, giving 24 hours of operation without mains or generator.

According to Victoria Bell, Intelligent Security Integrations’ business manager, the unit was conceived many years ago but after a request from a client, design and build were undertaken over a 4-month period.

“Steve and Jason started out with a long wheelbase Renault Master and developed the MCCC from there,” Bell said. “It was a process of working out what would fit and how, as well as sourcing components like the telescoping mast –

perimeter protection. All the cameras are high quality Axis units.

Providing additional support for operations are 7 HD crowd controller body cameras with live streaming capabilities, an IP 2-way PA systems an onboard UHF2 way radio system with multiple handsets, 5 Outdoor PoE networked horn speakers to provide clear, long range remote communication to video surveillance applications.

Inside the MCCC is a full control room with 2 workstations and an observation area. Cameras are managed using Axis’ flexible Camera Station software, which includes video content analytics.

Video streams are monitored on 6 21-inch HD LCD monitors and a pair of 28-inch 4K LCD monitors.

There’s live streaming for event and incident management and a full onboard recording system for investigations. The unit has GPS tracking and remote viewing can be undertaken through the cloud, as well as at the MCCC. The MCCC has a

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Mobile CCTV

that’s obviously a unique piece of equipment – we’d never bought a 12.5m telescoping aluminium mast before, let alone fitted it into a mobile unit.”

According to Bell, the technology integrated into the MCCC was mapped out in advance with support from Axis Communications.

“The original plan was to rent this unit out for events – it links to existing infrastructure and comes with deployable cameras that can be installed up to 3km for 2 weeks so it’s ideal for securing an area,” Bell explains. “This means you can operate crowd controllers – there’s a bank of handheld radios, wearable cameras for crowd controllers – these are integrated into the MCCC system and can be

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We sat down and went through everything someone might want and then honed it back to what was realistic from an operational perspective.

viewed from its workstations by the 2 technicians we supply to run the MCCC for a 12-hour period.

Bell says ISI was originally approached by a promotor to build a mobile CCTV control centre for festivals and events – a control point from which to monitor the MCCC cameras, including existing cameras on a site, and from which to manage manpower resources.

“However, we’ve since discovered there is a real market for a unit like this and that users have their own visions of how the MCCC could be enhanced to meet their own applications,” she says. “The MCCC as you see it here is our own vision but there are many possible options with modern technology depending on what users want to do.”

According to Steve Bell, ISI’s MD, the team enjoyed some great feedback at the show.

“We’ve had a lot of interest in the MCCC from government and from major event organisers

– we’ve been very pleased with the response,” he says. “There’s obviously a lot invested in this solution and as Vicky says, we will rent this unit out at a daily rate but we will also be manufacturing additional units to order for customers, as well as for our own use. We will build this part of the ISI business - supplying units and maintaining then.”

According to Steve, the ISI team started thinking about mobile CCTV command centres in 2008 having seen similar units in Manchester though he says those had nowhere near the level of technology this MCCC has.

“We sat down and went through everything someone might want and then honed it back to what was realistic from an operational perspective,” Steve explains. “Jason’s attention to detail during the process of installing the gear in the van was faultless – he is an artist. Having worked on the MCCC ourselves, we know every screw, bracket, rubber mounting – everything is custom-designed and built by us to fit this application.”

This posed challenges for the team during the development process.

“Nothing can be bought off the shelf with an application like this and it has to be robust – it’s a mobile unit and it can’t be falling apart in 2 weeks,” Steve says. “We built this one for ourselves and

we know how it works but if we make one for someone else then it will need to be even more bulletproof. Something that is an advantage in terms of maintenance is that the components are quite modular allowing easy replacement. And now we’ve built one and understand the process, we can roll additional MCCC’s out in 10 weeks from our facility at Tullamarine.”

According to Steve, the interest in the MCCC hasn’t come only from local government and commercial organisations.

“There’s been international interest from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and New Zealand so it’s clear that the concept is a winner operationally,” he says. “There are many applications for which users need the ability to rapidly deploy an integrated security solution. Making it more appealing, the MCCC is capable and compact, and that makes it versatile – it’s possible to get the MCCC quickly into place, set up fast and be operating in support of manpower teams – and there’s room in it still.

There’s no truck license and it drives well, too.

“Anyone can hire the MCCC on a temporary basis and with 11 on board cameras, an additional 8 rapidly deployed cameras that live stream back to the vehicle as well as a suite of integrated body cameras for crowd controller back-up and an independent power source- the MCCC is a fully standalone surveillance solution,” Steve says. “It really is a substitute for a high end, commercial CCTV installation yet it can be deployed at an hours’ notice anywhere in Melbourne and at 24 hours’ notice anywhere in Eastern Australia, with additional units to be deployed in other states allowing rapid response.” n

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l 8 roof-mounted HD cameras for 360 degree

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HD cameras and 1 IR PTZ

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l IP 2-way PA system l On-board UHF2 way radio system l 5 Outdoor PoE networked horn speakers l A 2-person control room with observation area l GPS tracking & remote viewing onsite or via

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Security 2016 Exhibition hit Melbourne last week and a good crowd turned up over the 3 days to check out the latest security solutions from more than 100 exhibitors. Typically well run by Diversified, the show was a great opportunity to see almost everything the industry has to offer in the way of hardware and technology in one place.

Analytics and management software solutions generated plenty of interest at the show.

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All these familiar faces will be back in the Harbour city in 2017 but the word from organisers is that the big annual security show, which incorporates the ASIAL Conference, will rotate between Sydney and Melbourne from here out.

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worn video camera, every incident is seen, heard and recorded thanks to 28 hour, encrypted on-board recording, 130-degree lens, HD video and high fidelity audio. It’s robust, too. An IP54 Rated, impact resistant casing and weatherproof micro USB means the FrontLine 2 can withstand the toughest of environments. FrontLine 2 is also highly configurable, with 4 programmable control buttons and pre-record functionality.

Unlike other Body Worn Video cameras, FrontLine 2 is a part of an end-to-end security system - IndigoVision’s security system - delivering a different dimension of safety. A fully integrated user interface for managing security and surveillance video, IndigoVision’s Control Center management software puts everything at your fingertips. Easy to install and intuitive to operate, Control Center gives you sight, sound and oversight of all cameras in your system. FrontLine is also integrated into IndigoVision’s Network Video Recorders for long-term evidence storage, where each video frame is digitally watermarked, giving you even more peace of mind.

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Neo version 1.2. PowerSeries Neo offers the reliability of a hardwired security system with the flexibility, scalability and advanced features provided by its PowerG wireless intrusion technology.

PowerSeries Neo can also work with legacy wired systems, allowing users to make the most of an existing investment, while curtailing installation costs and issues. It also scales-up as needed through the addition of a full array of wireless zones and devices.

The advanced wireless capabilities of PowerSeries Neo include real-time visibility of the premises for visual verification and further insight into events as they happen with real-time audio verification, minimising the cost of false alarms. The advanced wireless capabilities of PowerSeries Neo include real-time visibility of the premises for visual verification and further insight into events as they happen with real-time audio verification.

All of this is made possible through powerful, yet intuitive administrator dashboards. Users also have the option of anytime, anywhere access through mobile apps and integrated smart home and business capabilities.

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Help desk ■ Below are the approximate recommendations for rest times (complete rest, that is) between sets according to your goal, per the National Streng th and Conditioning Association (NSCA). *Note that since fat loss depends primarily on diet, there is no official rest-period prescription for it, although we feel that both short and long rests work, depending on the program.

Q: We have found some of our monitors – especially the older ones - have a major impact on the quality of video footage. Does this come down to settings or are the monitors due for replacement?

What should we be looking for in monitors supporting CCTV systems?

A: Yes, there are issues with pixel loss in older monitors. And the latest monitors have higher resolutions and superior technologies to their forebears. A monitor’s dot pitch governs absolute pixel density.

A monitor with 67-85 ppi is going to show pitch at typical viewing distances of 60cm and beyond, so you’d be looking for monitors with higher resolutions to give you a smooth appearance at 60cm – good monitors range from 130-200 ppi – 120 PPI is a great range for viewing a 60cm monitor at 60cm.

Remember, the bigger the monitor, the further back you can be. It’s generally thought the human eye can’t differentiate detail past 300 PPI, which is the dot pitch of high end mobile devices but this depends of viewing distance and visual acuity.

We’d recommend avoiding twisted nematic monitor technology. Instead go for vertical alignment or in-plane switching screens. You’ll hear a lot about IPS technology in new monitors but the tech is actually quite old – Hitachi invented it back in 1996. The monitor you choose will relate to a number of factors, not least the resolution of your cameras – you can pick from Full HD, WQHD

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and 4K options. There’s no point using 4K monitors if you are displaying 1080p image streams and snapshots – the higher resolution monitor will distort the images.

And if you are employing 4K cameras, it’s obviously going to be a waste (unless when digital zooming) to view them on a 1080p monitor. Quality desktop monitors that would do a nice job with CCTV include but are by no means limited to; Dell U2515H, BenQ PG2401PT and the HP 23XW IPS. Q: We often have snapshots from our CCTV system that are blurry or indistinct in some parts – would it be beneficial to use editing software to improve image quality? Is it acceptable to use third party photo editing software to improve these images or will they then be inadmissible in court?

A: Generally speaking, images that have been edited would be inadmissible in court but it’s not as straightforward as that. Investigators could use third party software to clean up a copy of a snapshot from an image stream in order to establish an ID of face or license plate and then have experts for the prosecution undergo the process of enhancing the original image before the court in order to secure a conviction. Improving sharpness or increasing contrast is not the same thing as manipulating the context of an image by altering its parts, though it’s certain you’ll breach watermarks by running an image

through Corel Smart Photo Fix or Adobe PhotoShop.

Regardless, if you’re investigating an incident and are struggling to get detail from an image, it’s worth playing around in software. There’s no doubt that there are images that reveal considerable fine detail from shaded areas when lightened, or from bright areas if you tweak shadow functions to increase contrast. You can also remove distortion, CAs and reduce flare. Particularly useful is high pass sharpen, which can supply salient details that are imperceptible in the unsharpened image. A key aspect of this is that digital zoom on parts of a scene contributes to pixel spread and softness. But using software these scene fragments can be cropped, resized and then digitally enhanced and sharpened in a way that can be wonderful to behold.

If you tweak a copy of a snapshot, make sure you detail the process you went through so the process can be undertaken later in court, or in a police interview room with the perpetrator present. Faced with a snapshot of an identifiable plate or face alongside incriminating video footage showing the entire incident, it’s more likely than not police will obtain a confession before any court hearing.

Q: I was interested to read in Help Desk last month the points made about the challenges of context when

wide angle camera views are being used. Does the same type of issue apply with longer views and is there a way to deliver context in such cases – especially when operators familiar with wider ‘parked’ camera views start going from wide to long with 36x optical PTZs? A: Yes, you’re quite correct – compression is a great strength of longer lenses in some applications but it can confuse if operators are unfamiliar with its effects. Once you get past the hyperfocal distance of a 36x zoom you’ll get pedestrians on a bridge at 40m, diners outside a café at 65m and situational awareness in the compactseeming but profoundly deep field of view behind both – out to 100m and more. At long focal lengths all the objects in the scene beyond the hyperfocal point will appear to line up one behind the other.

Depending on events, this can make it appear as if individuals are associated or a passerby was closer to an incident than they actually were.

You can use this compression to your advantage if you can establish context and the best way to do this is to walk out the distance between salient features in the scene. Obviously, with a 36x PTZ, there are 360-degrees of salient features, depending on the application. Fortunately, it’s something you can undertake during investigations but for real time monitoring of events your operators will need a sense of distances between street corners, signage, street furniture, shop fronts and more. Familiarity is the name of the game and operators should drive PTZs during quiet times to gain a greater perspective of their patch at all focal lengths.

Q: We’ve tried IVA a number of times with our public surveillance solution and while there are benefits in particular applications like license plates, when it comes to face recognition nothing comes close to our best operators, at least one of whom is a super recogniser with a Davis Test score of 100 per cent.

Given the cost of IVA, would you argue it’s legitimate to try to enhance our monitoring capability by employing super recognisers instead of using technology?

A: It’s perfectly legitimate to include a

Davis Test in job applications and to only employ operators with elevated levels of super recognition capability, all other things being equal. It certainly seems that there are times when human operators are far superior to IVA, especially when in low light or when faces are at oblique angles that alter the measurements between the salient facial features many algorithms depend on for identification. Conversely, a good operator familiar with their patch may be able to identify a person by their walk, the way they look over their shoulder, their voice if a microphone is being used, items of clothing – even habitualised behaviours like movements at particular times of day. Alongside this familiarity,

super recognisers bring an empiricallyproven ability to pick faces very quickly even if image quality is relatively low.

Regardless, super recognisers can’t look at 500 camera feeds simultaneously – IVA definitely has a role to play – especially in terms of its ability to filter incidents so as to increase operator efficiency.

Q: There were a number of hub alarm systems to be seen at Security 2016 in Melbourne last month and I wanted to ask SEN’s opinion on whether or not these sorts of solutions are as intrinsically reliable as the solid state alarm panels installers have been putting in for many, many years.

A: In short, actual network hubs are not as reliable as alarm panels. Certainly, their MTBF has not been established by 20-30 years of operation in the wild as solid state controllers have. But it’s more complicated than this. It’s likely what you saw were solid state controllers dressed up as hubs whose networked component comprises the same RJ-45 port and Cat-5 tail you’d see emerging from a traditional controller housing. These systems have been built to look like hubs because it’s a compact form factor and an attractive look. Such units will have battery backup and will feature proprietary wireless, Wi-Fi, Cat-5 and 3G comms onboard, making them capable and robust units in their own right. Typical domestic network routers are often the communications weak link in an IP-based alarm system but it’s a mistake to compare them with alarm panels dressed up as hubs. n

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China International Exhibition on Public Safety and Security Date: October 25–28, 2016 Venue: China Internation Exhibition Center Contact: 8610-68731710 The 13th China International Exhibition on Public Safety and Security 2016 is the biggest security distribution and procurement event in China, and focuses mostly on the big market in North area of China.

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Our whole team is looking forward to reuniting the industry in sunny Sydney, we look forward to seeing you there in 2017.

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