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By John Adams

BLASTING INTO INTERCONNECTED SPACE

OMETHING we’ve noticed over the last 12 months, not only in technological development, but in applications, is a groundswell of interconnectivity. I’m not really talking about 5G or basic IoT here, though these technologies are part of the wider discussion. It’s also impossible to push AI/VCA/Analytics completely out of the way when discussing interconnectivity, because it’s these data-hungry applications that benefit most from unfettered flow.

For electronic security people, interconnectivity has an operational focus and it’s happening between remote sub systems, as well as between partnered systems where data can be shared to liberate situational awareness using data exchange points at the edge with minimal back haul. Something to consider with interconnectivity is that it’s not about increasingly unreliable and high-risk public internet-based networks – it’s about using whatever secure connection you can establish with whoever you can trust to deliver sufficient bandwidth for the task. And it’s not just land-based networks in this mix – satellites are ever more integral to interconnectivity.

In part we’re talking about private interconnection, which gives maximum bandwidth with total security across wide areas. Direct connections are premium services and that means they have greater oversight and are more reliable. Something else we are talking about with manyto-many or many-to-one interconnections is that they are about more than just cable runs.

A well-designed connection will be software programmable, enhancing the performance possibilities and minimising nasties like latency – that’s especially important with

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The trend towards interconnectivity, which is driven by and is fuelling analytics and IoT, is a trend manufacturers must chase in order to compete in the modern world – it’s the new frontier of feature sets. bandwidth-hungry video surveillance.

Of course, the only way to minimise latency is to reduce the number of hands a signal passes through – essentially, that means minimising distances between interconnected systems. These short hops take planning and the active establishment and maintenance of symbiotic relationships. In a very real way it’s creating new kinds of networks that are separate from public infrastructure, the sort of networks we’ve not seen before.

The importance of private interconnectivity can’t be underestimated in Australia, where internet services seem to be mired in the past. Whether it’s high contention rates, low investment in infrastructure or over-subscription of limited services no longer matters.

If you want to leverage the power of the latest electronic security solutions, you simply must focus on interconnectivity.

Private interconnectivity feeds into cloud, too. Amazon cloud was born as an internal service that allowed Amazon to enhance its own infrastructure by de-coupling. For end users, and integrators it’s hard to imagine de-coupling infrastructure – can it be done securely, can we afford it, will management be too hard? As it turns out, compute-on-demand offers big advantages in major electronic security applications. Services like endlessly scalable cloud are attractive to defence and homeland security people for good reasons.

Interconnectivity and cloud are vital for IoT as well. One of the challenges of IoT has been imagining networks that could fulfil the conceptual possibilities contrived by propeller heads without requiring dedicated global networks.

The alternative is global infrastructure that’s shared by multiple applications yet can be sculpted by private entities to feel unique at the front end. This infrastructure is exceptionally robust because it is rooted in interconnectivity.

There’s a lesson here for security people. Services that will define the future; the camera as a sensor, analytics, face recognition, IoT, home automation and many more; depend on the same functional elements to perform. Those elements must be fed by interconnectivity and they are strengthened by it, too, making interconnected networks more and more capable, more and more reliable.

It’s a commercial feedback loop.

The trend towards interconnectivity, which is driven by and is fuelling analytics and IoT, is a trend manufacturers must chase in order to compete in the modern world – it’s the new frontier of feature sets.

The idea of an alarm or access control system being released today with nothing more than a keypad interface – with no ability to generate reports or allow remote management – it’s unthinkable. Similarly, users are imagining entirely new structures for their systems that are unbound by geography - instead they are governed entirely by need.

For security managers seeking situational awareness, interconnectivity is vital, and it proffers challenges and opportunities.

The more devices that are addressable on interconnected networks, the more capable electronic security solutions can be, the more powerful analytics can be, and the greater the efficiencies will be – delivered to anyone, anywhere. n

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10: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SELLS PELCO TO TRANSOM CAPITAL GROUP Schneider Electric has sold its Pelco CCTV business to Transom Capital Group for undisclosed terms.

The French electrical and automation manufacturer bought Pelco for $US1.54 billion in 2007.

10: JOHNSON CONTROLS WINS ADELAIDE AIRPORT HVAC AND SECURITY MANAGEMENT PROJECT Johnson Controls has been selected as the pivotal technology partner to deliver a world-class HVAC control system (BMS), access control and security management platform for the Adelaide Airport services upgrade and terminal expansion project.

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City Of Perth Face Recognition Causes Privacy Stir p.12 Professional Monitoring Rates High, But DIY Rising p.14 Genetec Takes #1 Global VMS Vendor Position p.16 Adelaide Metropolitan Passenger Rail Network Upgrading CCTV p.18 Department Of Homeland Security Takes Biometric IDs To Cloud p.20

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SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SELLS PELCO TO TRANSOM CAPITAL GROUP n SCHNEIDER Electric has sold its Pelco CCTV business to Transom Capital Group for undisclosed terms. The French electrical and automation manufacturer bought Pelco for $US1.54 billion in 2007.

“As most security industry experts know, Pelco is one of the pioneers of the video surveillance space,” said Russ Roenick, managing partner at

Transom Capital Group.

“The journey toward creating the next great breakthroughs in video security begins today through our investment in Pelco.

“We have conviction that the work done over the past several years to transform the company into a digitally-savvy security leader with innovative hardware, software, and service

solutions is nearly complete. We are excited to partner with management to grow the business for many years to come.”

Pelco has worked hard on developing IP enterprise solutions and the open systems focus will continue under Transom’s ownership, according to Pelco CEO, Jean-Marc Theolier.

“As we surveyed the landscape of potential

partners, our primary goal was to commit with a company who appreciated Pelco’s legacy, as well as supported our current business strategy and growth plan,” Theolier said.

“Transom strongly believes in our unique value proposition to be an endto-end solutions provider … and to develop new and innovative solutions to best serve our business partners.”

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JOHNSON CONTROLS WINS ADELAIDE AIRPORT HVAC AND SECURITY MANAGEMENT PROJECT n JOHNSON Controls has been selected as the pivotal technology partner to deliver a world-class HVAC control system (BMS), access control and security management platform for the Adelaide Airport services upgrade and terminal expansion project. In an Australian first, Johnson Controls will install the aviation specific CEM AC2000 airport access control system, a fully integrated security management platform together with the latest Metasys 10.0 building management system to Adelaide Airport and nearby Parafield Airport.

The expansion and service upgrade follow the addition of dual

international and domestic terminals in 2005, which resulted in numerous awards, including being named the world’s second-best international airport. The next crucial stage of development involves Johnson Controls delivering a future focused technology platform with advanced systems that adhere to and support the stringent security, health and safety requirements of the aviation environment.

The project will require upgrading the existing BMS system and replacing the current access control platform, while rolling out these systems into the new terminal expansion, establishing a technology platform built upon a

world-class, state of the art, airport facility. Johnson Controls was the chosen partner responsible for implementing the original Metasys BMS platform together with access control and CCTV systems at Adelaide Airport in 2005, and the company has undertaken ongoing maintenance for the dual terminal ever since.

Having built a longstanding relationship of trust and confidence, Johnson Controls has again demonstrated its capability to partner with Adelaide Airport and deliver a complete system that services the unique needs of the aviation environment. This includes the new Metasys 10.0,

introduced to Australia in 2019, and designed to deliver more unified building management functionality with smarter building automation, faster responses to critical alarms and new integrations with fire detection, security and lighting systems – all with visibility from a single common interface.

Metasys has proven to be a robust and capable BMS platform since it was first implemented at the airport, with the latest release bringing further enhancements in integration capability, advanced diagnostics, sophisticated algorithms and an exceptional multiplatform user interface.

The open platform is able to integrate both HVAC and non-HVAC systems making it possible to truly leverage data in the IoT world. The Metasys system is the preferred platform by major international airports including Nashville, Kansai, El Dorado, Dubai, Mumbai and Leonardo da Vinci.

In an environment where security is of paramount importance, Johnson controls says the CEM AC2000 Airport platform provides a highly stable, reliable and resilient solution. Offering the only airport specific access control system

designed to run Check-In Desk Enabling, Passenger Segregation and Air-bridge Control more cost and time effectively, the system has been used by the world’s leading airports for 25 years.

The AC2000 will provide high levels of integration, with one powerful command and control front-end for alarm management of multiple airport security systems; including access control, video, intrusion, fire, perimeter detection and much more. The system will be supported by the installation of CCTV within the terminal expansion.

The powerful AC2000 system encompasses all the core software features with a host of additional functions that have been specifically designed for airports including card charging, authorisers, airport utilities and IATA code.

IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE SECURITY IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE, THE CEM AC2000 AIRPORT PLATFORM PROVIDES A HIGHLY STABLE, RELIABLE AND RESILIENT SOLUTION.

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Worries in the community about face recognition technology are building, with recent bans on the technology by the City of San Francisco and calls from both sides of U.S. Congress for far-reaching regulation.

“We need to have a robust discussion with the community about … the types of cities we want to live in and the technology we use in them,” Monique Mann from Australian Privacy Foundation told ABC. “There is what is termed the ‘chilling effect of surveillance’,” she said.

“People may not go about their regular business as they would because they’re conscious of being

constantly watched and tracked through physical places.”

Monash University’s Professor of criminal jurisprudence, Liz Campbell, said (quite correctly, in SEN‘s opinion) that while the technology had benefits, including monitoring big crowds for potential terrorist threats, it was still new and had accuracy problems.

In response, City of Perth acting director of economic development and activation, Daniel High, told ABC the technology would only be activated at the request of law enforcement authorities, such as the Australian Federal Police or WA Police.

High said only the authority’s community safety team and law enforcement would have access to video footage, which would be deleted after 31 days and pointed out that the technology could be a powerful law enforcement tool, especially for monitoring of big events at Perth Stadium.

“We feel this will enable us to respond quicker to community safety concerns and also enable us to react to situations, such as missing children… in a quicker, more efficient way,” High said. “There are already signs throughout the precinct highlighting that people are in a CCTV

these strengths to expand its earnings base on a global scale, centred on the North American market, provide new products and services for

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CITY OF PERTH FACE RECOGNITION CAUSES PRIVACY STIR n CITY of Perth’s face recognition solution, which is used to support cameras around Optus Stadium, has caused a stir among privacy professionals, who say it was rolled out without public consultation and worry it could be the beginning of a surveillance state.

Face recognition is commonly used in and around large venues to make identification easier – the same technology is used at the SCG and dozens of stadiums around the world. In Perth, face recognition software supports 30 cameras around Optus Stadium as part of a 12-month trial

by City of Perth, which is interested in operational

benefits. The results of the trial will be publicly available. The cameras are monitored at City of Perth’s surveillance centre by the council’s community safety officers in close partnership with WA Police.

A report by ABC floated the notion the technology could be used across all Perth’s 480 public safety cameras and raised the spectre of the imposition of a surveillance state, but the reality is more circumspect. Use of footage from City of Perth’s CCTV solution is subject to stringent protocols. Only police are allowed to access the footage and they must follow due process as part of active investigations into crime. Video footage is

area and through the publicity that the trial has generated, people will be aware that we have that capacity.”

Fears about the system are certainly unfounded.

Given the extensive use of Axis cameras around Optus Stadium, SEN speculates the face recognition system being trialled is a module of Genetec Security Center, the same system successfully deployed at the Sydney Cricket Ground to monitor unruly crowd behaviour. Montrealbased Genetec is a privately-owned company with a long history in the electronic security industry. Its business model is bolted firmly to cyber security and ethical use of clever technology.

Meanwhile, City of Perth’s smart city solution uses an entirely different video management system – given the prevalence of Bosch cameras on the approaches, it’s likely to be from Windhagen Germanybased, Geutebruck.

IN PERTH, FACE RECOGNITION SOFTWARE SUPPORTS 30 CAMERAS AROUND OPTUS STADIUM AS PART OF A 12-MONTH TRIAL BY CITY OF PERTH, WHICH IS INTERESTED IN OPERATIONAL BENEFITS.

PANASONIC WILL SPIN OFF SECURITY CAMERA MANUFACTURING AND R&D n PANASONIC has reached a deal with a private equity firm to spin off its camera manufacturing and R&D operations — including its factory in Suzhou, China — to a new company.

Panasonic will transfer its video surveillance equipment manufacturing and R&D operations — including its factory in Suzhou, China — to a new company it will establish.

Polaris Capital Group will then purchase an 80 per cent stake in the new

company, which will be named Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions.

The new company will be formed from the Security Systems Business Division of Connected Solutions Co. of Panasonic and the industrial and medical vision compact camera R&D department of its Innovation Center.

The Polaris strategy will be “to strengthen solutions capabilities with an eye to aggressive alliances and M&A strategies, leverage

management of Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions.

Security cameras and other video surveillance products will be sold under the Panasonic brand.

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EVAN ARVANITIDIS JOINS MOBOTIX AS REGIONAL SALES MANAGER, ANZ n EVAN Arvanitidis has been appointed regional sales manager for Mobotix Australia and New Zealand.

“Evan comes to us with more than 20 years’ experience in the electronic security industry,” said Ryan Fairclough, Mobotix sales director APAC. “With a background in both engineering and sales, he combines these skills to drive both customer engagement and business growth.

In 1998, Arvanitidis entered into a business partnership with a friend and has applied his passion for technology to the electronic security industry ever since. He said

he was keen to build on a successful 16 years at Hills, and Hills subsidiary DAS (Direct Alarm Systems), where he rose through the ranks from front desk all the way to regional sales manager for Victoria and Tasmania.

Arvanitidis, who combines technical knowledge and an enthusiasm for sales with a love of classic race cars, said he looks forward to driving the expansion of the Mobotix brand throughout Australia and New Zealand.

“Not just through engagement with our customers, but also by strengthening the

distribution channel, growing our vertical presence and, most importantly, through the continuous empowerment and motivation of my staff,” he said. “Ultimately, sticking to the Mobotix motto to take things ‘Beyond Human Vision’.”

According to Fairclough, following Mobotix’ recent appointment of Jayson Blake in NSW, the addition of Evan Arvanitidis reflects the company’s continuing drive to employ people who not only represent Mobotix company values but who also embody its new direction.

“Evan comes with an extensive and strong

NEXT-GENERATION POE DELIVERS 100W FOR PTZ, THERMAL CAMERAS n THE new IEEE 802.3bt standard increases the maximum PoE power to 60 or 100W by utilizing all 4 pairs of the structured wiring on a CAt-6A cable – delivering enough grunt to support PTZ and thermal cameras.

While 15.4W at the power source is sufficient for most IP phones and 802.11a/b/g access points, it is not enough for PTZ cameras.

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security industry background and has long been a friend of Mobotix while working as part of our distribution channel,” Fairclough said.

“To have him now directly working for us and helping to grow and push our global vision as a regional sales manager

into the ANZ markets is exciting. As regional sales director, I am thrilled not only about the value that Evan can add as we continue to evolve, but I also look forward to him sharing his experience to help the whole team reach new levels of success, myself included.”

PROFESSIONAL MONITORING RATES HIGH, BUT DIY RISING n PARKS Associates research revealed at the end of 2018 that 28 per cent of U.S. broadband households had an active security system, up from 26 per cent in 2017, with 24 per cent having professional monitoring.

However, Parks’ Connected Trends & Disruption in Home Security reported that 52 per cent of households that are highly likely to purchase a security system in the next 12 months plan to buy a system that is selfinstalled.

“Professional installation continues to be the dominant choice for home security systems, but selfinstallation continues to experience growth,” Dina Abdelrazik, senior analyst, Parks Associates, said in a release.

Additional research includes: • A third of security system owners have a camera and about 25 per cent have a video doorbell or smart door lock.

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report having higher than average household income, higher education levels than average, are more likely to have children at home, and own their homes.

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GENETEC TAKES #1 GLOBAL VMS VENDOR POSITION n GENETEC was named the world’s number one vendor of Video Management Systems (VMS). IHSreported results from 2015-2018 also point to the company sustaining a 24.1 per cent CAGR (compound annual growth rate) for the past 3 years in this category. In the Americas, Genetec remains the leading VMS manufacturer by a wide margin for the eight consecutive years, with an 18.3 per cent share of this $USD4.1 billion market. Genetec has also taken the number one position in the $1.7 billion market for back-end video surveillance equipment in the Americas. In the rest of the world, Genetec grew its VMS revenue at a fast rate: In EMEA, Genetec revenues grew by 20.5 per

cent in 2018, while in APAC (excluding China), Genetec grew its revenues by 22.5 per cent.

“As a privately owned, independent manufacturer of IP-based physical security solutions, we reinvest a much higher proportion of our annual top-line revenue into R&D than most,” said Pierre Racz, president, Genetec.

“Our independence and single-mindedness have helped us earn the trust of enterprise and government users.

“We want to delight the customer. Circumstances have propelled us to be outspoken about privacy and cyber-security.

These factors, along with good-fortune, strong partnerships and a great team, are some of the

factors that explain the appeal of our solutions,” he said. “We will continue to lower the friction with which our customers integrate new sensors and other systems into the decision-making of their operations.”

According to IHS Markit (2017 Video Surveillance Market Share Database, 2017 Access Control Intelligence Database, and 2018 ANPR & Detection Sensors Report) Genetec is the only security and public safety solutions developer to hold top-10 global rankings across all physical security industry sectors including video management software (VMS), access control software, and automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) software.

n HILLS Ltd will partner with global electronics manufacturer Panasonic Corporation to distribute its range of video intercom solutions to the New Zealand (NZ) market. A leader in the development of electronics technologies and solutions, Panasonic offers video intercom systems for residential, small to medium apartments and large commercial systems.

General manger of Hills New Zealand, Michael Collins, said Hills continued to develop its New Zealand business to create opportunities for sales and growth.

“Panasonic’s Video Intercom range will strengthen our offering in the residential market and multi-dwelling security market,” Collins said. “As the largest value-added building technologies distributor in the ANZ region, we have a deep

understanding of the industry and what endusers want. Panasonic is a market leader in video intercom and we look forward to seeing strong sales.”

Panasonic NZ managing director, Stewart Fowler said Panasonic was excited to partner with Hills to make the range more accessible to New Zealand installers.

“Hills has the resources to drive sales and provide after sales support, we look forward to working with their team to build our NZ business,” Fowler said.

PANASONIC’S VIDEO INTERCOM RANGE WILL STRENGTHEN OUR OFFERING IN THE RESIDENTIAL MARKET AND MULTI-DWELLING SECURITY MARKET.

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SECURITY & GOVERNMENT EXPO 2019 HAS ONLY 10 SPACES LEFT n SAGE 2019, which is held at the Realm Hotel in Canberra in partnership with ASIS ACT’s annual seminars and dinner, has only 10 spaces left, according to organiser, Monique Keatinge.

“Once sold we will open up the foyer areas,” Keatinge said.

“We’re looking forward to another great show in 2019, with ASIS ACT seminars, a keynote speaker in the main expo

hall, demonstrations of cutting-edge face recognition and analytics solutions, as well as the ASIS dinner back at the Press Club.”

Current exhibitors include Milestone, Inner Range, BM Doors, SCSI, SRA Solutions, Honeywell, Davcor, Perimeter Systems, Panasonic, DVL, FSH, Sektor, Saab, Gallagher, Secure Edge, HID and Ness Corp.

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CSD GROWS, ANNOUNCES PROMOTIONS n “CSD continues to experience growth in 2019 which is a fantastic result given the size and scale of the business,” reports Peter Grimshaw general manager of sales for Australia and New Zealand.

“To allow us to continue this upward growth in sales, we have created a new role as national sales manager – CSD. “In line with our promote from within strategy, we have appointed Alan Aiken, former Queensland state manager into the role. Alan has been with the CSD business since the day we opened the doors in 2008 and has been an integral part of the overall success in our QLD business. Alan’s enthusiastic and analytical approach to the business stands him in great stead to take on this new role,” Grimshaw said.

Aiken said he was appreciative of the opportunities offered by Inner Range and CSD.

“I started in the security industry 24 years ago in Northern Ireland as an electronics technician for an access control manufacturer and then moved to an installation and service role,” Aiken said. “That 7 years on the tools in the security industry has given me a great understanding of what it’s like at the coal face and all the challenges it brings.

“In 2004 I moved to Australia and took up a role with Vin Lopes at Inner Range in the service, repairs, and R&D. After moving to QLD I discovered that CSD was opening an office in Brisbane, so I took the opportunity to join the team as a BDM and I became state manager in 2011 at which point we had 8 staff and were sitting at the cusp of the IP CCTV revolution.

“I am very proud of our CSD Queensland team, which numbers 20 people and continues to grow. I am

Ed Owen-Jones (left) and Alan Aiken

really excited to be given this opportunity and very much looking forward to continuing the success of the business,” Aiken said.

According to Grimshaw, Aiken’s left a vacancy for Queensland state manager.

“We are really excited about the promotion of Ed Owen-Jones, former CSD BDM, to manage the QLD business,” Grimshaw said. “Ed will be closely mentored by Alan over coming months and we

HILLS TARGETS ENTERPRISE PROJECTS WITH NEW APPOINTMENT n HILLS has appointed Richard Bell enterprise account manager for New South Wales.

Bell comes to Hills with over 30 years of experience in security, CCTV and IT sectors, including 6 year with Alarmcorp as national CCTV product manager and

Richard Bell

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Hills’ head of sales for Security, Surveillance and IT, Roger Edgar, said Bell was a highly experienced sales leader with a proven record of managing strategic relationships and largescale projects.

“Richard has a strong technical background and his experience in implementing integrated solutions for high profile and complex projects will be invaluable as we seek to develop sales channels into key verticals like government, commercial and infrastructure,” Edgar said.

NSW regional sales manager, Gary Hickey said Richard’s expertise would enable him to

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wish him all the best in the new role. Ed has been part of the CSD team since 2014 as a senior business development manager and is well known within the Queensland security wholesale industry.

Over the past 12 years’ he has gained extensive knowledge and experience in access control, CCTV and security. Ed works closely with security integrators to provide solutions that meet the

challenging world of electronic security.”

Owen-Jones said he was excited for the future of CSD. “We currently have the best brands and a great team to deliver them,” he said. “There are fantastic product innovations being released from our key manufacturing partners and it is always good to see new technology being deployed by our customers.”

ADELAIDE METROPOLITAN PASSENGER RAIL NETWORK UPGRADING CCTV n SOUTH Australia’s Adelaide Metropolitan Passenger Rail Network is seeking the installation of CCTV systems and amenity upgrades within the AMPRN. Adelaide’s passenger rail network comprises 132 kilometres of railway track on the Seaford, Gawler, Outer Harbor, Belair,

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develop Hills’ capability to tender complete turnkey solutions, encompassing everything from system design, staging, technical support and training.

“We are excited about this new appointment.

Richard has a strong background in developing relationships with customers from all sectors, and will add depth to our sales efforts across NSW,” Hickey said.

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n AMERICA’S Homeland Security Department is looking to upgrade the software it uses to manage biometric and biographic data on 250 million people, and it plans to store those identifiers – including fingerprints, irises and faces, DNA, palm prints, scars and tattoos – in Amazon cloud.

The DHS’ Office of Biometric Identification Management will replace the current Automated Biometric Identification System, or IDENT, which holds biometric and biographic data collected by the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection and the Secret Service. The system links fingerprint, iris and face data to biographic information, allowing officials to quickly identify suspected terrorists, immigration violators, criminals.

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BRISBANE CITY POLICE STATION & OPERATIONS CENTRE Brisbane City Police Station is the largest operational police station in Queensland and features a fully integrated access control and video surveillance solution.

Integral to the solution is a state-of-theart control room allowing QPS officers to monitor their own site and gather situational awareness from thousands of cameras using remote video feeds via a dedicated and completely secure network with no connection to public internet.

HERE’S no doubt that the hardest thing to understand about the new Brisbane City Police Station is exactly where its electronic security solution ends. This is partly because the system is continuing to evolve, but the opacity of the solution’s sprawling hybrid topology and its growing role as redundancy for the State Police Operations Centre, feed into challenges of comprehension. On the ‘plane home to Sydney I keep casting around for the comfort of a defined border but there is none to be found.

The local solution is easier to conceive. QPS’ new building has video surveillance, access control, alarms, lifts and LPR access of vehicles as part of

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a suite integration, and these are managed in the site’s operations centre. Trouble is, as soon as you set foot inside that operations centre things get conceptually messy. That’s because the system’s operational capabilities extend much further than the cameras downstairs on the street, bringing in multiple surveillance systems from across the city and across the state.

The site itself is flying under the radar – there’s a police station on level one with a glass front, but you would not know you were outside the largest police station in Brisbane. There are 48 cameras at the BCPS – external domes, internal domes and rugged Vivotek corner cameras in holding cells. Domes are located outside the building and on each level monitoring lobbies and other key locations. Coverage is by no means pervasive – the relatively shallow depths of field mean scenes can be managed with a wide-ish angle of view.

At Brisbane City Police Station, the core CCTV system is built around Milestone XProtect VMS. Supporting Milestone XProtect is Dell computer hardware, which was selected thanks to a 3-year warranty with next day on-site service. There are more than 40 computing devices installed to support the system’s XProtect VMS, recordings, video walls and clients. Bravis has used Dell for years for its known quality and reliability, particularly in corrections environments.

The video wall is made of up 20 LG commercial grade monitors and cameras are Axis vandal proof domes and the holding cells are equipped with Vivotek cameras which have anti-ligature points with an easy replacement lens cover and invisible IR. External cameras integrated into the system are a combination of public safety and police systems, including Brisbane City Safe, QPS rapid deployment cameras, POLAIR for Gold Coast and Brisbane, a number of Queensland police stations, as well as Queensland Rail, Southbank Parklands and Roma St Parklands security and safety cameras.

Importantly, this part of the system is about situational awareness in real time, 90 per cent of the time, so recording demands are slight.

On the access control side is Inner Range Integriti Version 18 and this system comprises 56 Integriti hardware modules to handle access control, intrusion detection and duress). The system supports 79 doors, 5 lifts for 17 floors and the cardholder database of around 1200 is handled by a dedicated Dell server. Integriti Gatekeeper management software has a neat high-level

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Senior Sergeant Dan O’Connor drives the QPS system.

integration with Milestone XProtect for LPR access control in the carpark. There are 9 Jacques audio and audio/visual intercom devices integrated with the Integriti system and these are supported by their own dedicated server.

All this sounds straightforward enough until you start talking to Dan Cunningham from Bravis Security. At this point, his clever back-end configurations for Milestone and the epic nature of the overall solution become apparent. Feeding into the story is the fact the installation itself was impacted by local site complexity. This is a greenfield site inside a brownfield building and features multiple tenancies, one being very high security, the others arriving later. There are 3 parties involved in the local system – QPS, Department of Employment, Small Business and Training (DESBT) and building management – this means there are multiple instances of the management system but QPS has ultimate control.

“The building is a re-furb – this means everything is new, but the building is old, and this imposed limitations on space and infrastructure that had to be managed,” Cunningham explains. “We also had to decide how we were going to drive access control for the whole building, given there were multiple tenancies and the highest security requirements were those of QPS. Because of the evolving nature of the application, we built the system on the QPS back-end and then partitioned the later tenancies

WE WANTED OUR OPERATIONS ROOM, WHICH IS USED FOR QPS MAJOR EVENTS PLANNING, TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO DELIVER OUR TEAM THE BEST POSSIBLE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS IN REAL TIME.

by adding additional Integriti panels.”

It’s at this point we arrive at the operations centre and the nature of the system becomes nebulous.

Senior Sergeant Dan O’Connor QPS is responsible for security at Brisbane City Police Station – he’s also responsible for the day-to-day running of the operations room. O’Connor’s ready wit doesn’t disguise his intense operational focus and right from the start it’s obvious that, like Cunningham, he’s been plugged into this application from the beginning.

“We first approached Bravis to supply a solution for CCTV, building access control and intercoms at the planned Brisbane City Police Station,” Senior Sergeant O’Connor explains. “We chose Inner Range for the access control and Milestone for the VMS as they have a strong integration. But there was always a wider brief – we wanted the Milestone system to interface with multiple police and public safety CCTV solutions. The reason for this is that we wanted our operations room, which is used for QPS major events planning, to have the ability to deliver our team the best possible situational awareness in real time.”

According to Senior Sergeant O’Connor, in the past, QPS went to Police Command Centre for intel from multiple CCTV systems but there were issues with this.

“State Police Operations Centre have different requirements to those of QPS – they are strategic and have a state-wide focus, while we deliver

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Brisbane City Police Station THIS SYSTEM WAS INCORPORATED INTO THE UPGRADE OF THE BUILDING – NOT EVERY POLICE STATION HAS THE CAPABILITY OR NEED TO HAVE AN OPERATIONS CENTRE LIKE THIS.

operational response for the Brisbane region,” he says. “Furthermore, their needs take precedence over ours. That means if something major happens in Queensland, we can’t depend on State Police Operations Centre to give us the video feeds we need here at Brisbane City Police Station. Also feeding into the decision was the fact all our assets are here – we do briefings downstairs – it makes sense for our operations centre to be where our team is and where we have line control. And there are redundancy benefits if the functionality of the SPOC is duplicated here and arrives here by completely different pathways.

“After consideration, we decided that in addition to getting situational awareness of the Brisbane CBD and to providing redundancy for the State Police Operations Centre, we would set up an operations room here with wider capabilities than were required for the secure management of this police station. We have a dedicated (completely secure with no connection to public internet) fibre from the State Police Operations Centre, so we can utilise selected feeds here in real time, meaning CCTV streams can be fed to us via Milestone Xprotect, if required.”

According to Senior Sergeant O’Connor, the operations centre is primarily concerned with events in Brisbane, so it’s local City Safe cameras that are most often viewed.

“Brisbane City Safe allows us to keep an eye on things going on around Brisbane, but we have wider capabilities if required,” he explains. “This system was incorporated into the upgrade of the building – not every police station has the capability or need to have an operations centre like this. Here in Brisbane we have many events we need to monitor – we have 600 protests a year - including one this morning where protesters blocked the road outside the GPO. The system gives us the ability to see the size of a protest, the nature of a protest, to see how traffic is effected and asses any other issues a protest might be throwing up.”

The operations centre has smaller spaces for conferencing during events and the CCTV system is configured to allow video streams to be moved around the room and around the building if required. According to Senior Sergeant O’Connor, the new facility would have been ideal to help QPS manage response to the 2011 floods. While the floods response team met regularly, it did not have the sort of situational awareness the new operations centre delivers.

“In the operations centre we can have Fire, QAS, SES and event team members which use our skillset for traffic mitigation – we would have 10-12 people here,” he explains. “Police are down the front where the radios are and we put external agencies over here and the commander (an inspector or superintendent depending on risk matrix of event), is at the command station at the rear of the room with overview. There would be a forward commander reporting to an inspector and senior sergeants or constables in charge of traffic, logistics, etc.”

When an event is being planned do you decide which camera views you want brought into the operations centre? I ask.

“Yes, we currently go to SPOC to get the video

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Brisbane City Police Station

feeds we need directed here, but we are looking at driving this independently,” Senior Sergeant O’Conner explains. “This is a process, because the organisations in question own and run their CCTV systems under MOU’s and the Privacy Act and we just get live feeds of camera views we need – things must be managed in the right way. This applies to Brisbane City Safe. If I wanted a street view, I’d ring up City Safe and request that say, camera 223 stay on its existing location and not be rotated because there’s is a public safety issue going on.

“City Safe is operational 24 x 7 so there’s someone available to adjust camera views and provide recordings to us on request. On Friday and Saturday nights there’s a police officer in the City Safe control room who will use the cameras for situational awareness and drive the cameras for us. Police and City Safe operators are in the same office, so the relationship is close. We also have an input into where new City Safe cameras are located, based on our knowledge of crime hotspots.”

It’s clear that a central element of the application has been negotiating with relevant public safety system owners over an extended period – including before the refurbishment began. Bravis Security played a key role in this process but when talking to Dan Cunningham it’s impossible not to feel that the technical and human elements of the wider integration are melded together. Cunningham’s work in corrections as well as in major events over many years has given him an instinct for what’s required when creating such solutions and he has been able to communicate those concepts to multiple stakeholders.

“We’ve been working towards getting access to the different camera systems that QPS needs to see for a number of years,” Cunningham says.

“There’s a lot to it - putting ideas together, working out the physical infrastructure necessary to deliver

Daniel Maxwell examines the Integriti panels.

Nice work, Bravis.

operational outcomes. For instance, how do we get completely secure, real time access to remote city safe camera systems. And getting engagement with the stakeholders is just the start. Then it’s about what hardware and software solutions they have, how they might integrate with our solution, what are we allowed to do with those video streams.

“We are lucky in that the State Police Operations Centre has gone through this process before, but we are still working, not just to create a funnel for situational awareness but to get access to the video feeds police need to pour into that funnel. Obviously, a key element of making such a solution function is secure networking that has no touch points to public internet. QR cameras come from SPOC directly, we have BCC going to another location and then coming into this building - we must find a secure path for each group of cameras. At the moment, most feeds are coming from SPOC via dedicated fibre, but we need to find redundant pathways so if HQ is compromised the overall functionality of these systems remains available.”

According to Cunningham, the QPS solution has been years in the making – not just materially but conceptually. And for Bravis and Cunningham it’s been the culmination of decades of experience.

Cunningham’s work installing situational awareness solutions in prisons, as well as working with the State Police Operations Centre during G20, and with the Commonwealth Games, expresses itself fully in this application.

“The G20 in 2014 was the moment when funding and technology aligned to allow the delivery of a different sort of solution – a web application that allowed video streams to be viewed at multiple workstations, to be moved around a secure wide area network,” he explains. “Importantly for QPS, this is a native function of the Milestone XProtect system – it’s not an extra cost and allows additional features and functionality for QPS. That was a key aspect in this application.”

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According to Cunningham, the real key to the operational success of the system has been finding ways to bring multiple surveillance systems together from multiple locations.

“This is not easy from a technical perspective and there’s the human element to manage as well,” Cunningham explains. “It’s not just the external interest groups, there are 10 divisions within QPS that want system intel – we need to bring these systems together and then make video feeds available in a way that is simple to understand for operators yet completely secure.”

INSTALLING THE SYSTEM Once planning was completed the installation at Brisbane City Police Station proceeded rapidly.

“The installation here took 5 months to completion,” Cunningham explains. “One of the tricky parts was the tenancy. QPS has 10 floors – some lower, some upper, and DESBT is in the middle with 9 floors. At the time the system was being planned and installed, QPS had no idea who was going to be on those middle floors but wanted fire-rated doors across the whole site. We had no idea who else would be here, either, so the application evolved to cover the entire building as we moved forward, with

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the QPS specification ultimately taking precedence.

“An integration like this requires a lot of process control and the high-level management meetings that we had daily made everything work so that by the time we got to practical completion the system was fully functional and we brought the project in on time. That high-level meeting process was critical, given we were trying to make spaces work in ways for which they were not designed. The fact we worked with QPS right from the start was beneficial as the lines of communication were strong.”

The integration process included a lot of negotiating between QPS and builders and Bravis was in the middle of that.

“Because the project was so technically complex and challenging, we were constantly liaising with the builder and QPS and instructing both parties on how to deliver the project with minimal variations while delivering the desired outcome for QPS. There was loads of planning – paperwork – showing QPS what could be done and mapping out how it would be done - in real time in some cases. As this was going on and the installation was progressing, we had to approach different organisations to discuss integrating their cameras into the system, and to find appropriate external pathways.”

According to Bravis Security’s senior security technician, Daniel Maxwell, the biggest local technical challenge was the carpark approach angle for the LPR. “There are structures in the way demanding a wide swing from drivers and this meant ensuring consistent performance from the system was challenging,” he explains. “The LPR access control involves a clever high-level interface between Integriti and Milestone that interprets the plate data and the plate is registered as a credential under than user. The Milestone server does the recognition, informs Integriti and Gatekeeper drives the boom gate and registers the event and the credential holder. It’s a card but it’s a number plate. The HLI gives great flexibility between the 2 systems – it lets you pick and choose how you want to set up the system during integration.”

Another interesting aspect of this solution is storage – there’s storage of local cameras but not for cameras of other organisations.

“When it comes to storage of these camera views it’s tricky – because of legislation and MOU’s we don’t record video from external organisations – instead we display a live feed and if something is seen, then police approach those organisations and request recordings of camera views for times and dates in the usual way for police investigations,” Cunningham explains.

“And at the heart of the installation was use of completely secure networks – secure government networks, private fibre links, private wireless links – the system has no connections to public internet.

The networking was challenging, and bandwidth is a struggle – we are always juggling bandwidth.”

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POLICE ARE NOT HERE TO PLAY WITH THE SYSTEM BUT TO GATHER OPERATIONAL INTEL, SO THE INTERFACE NEEDS TO BE EASY TO MANAGE FOR ANY OFFICER ROSTERED INTO THE OPS CENTRE.

DRIVING THE SYSTEM While we’re in the operations centre, I can’t helping sneaking a glance at the VMS interface and it looks surprisingly simple. When Cunningham takes the helm and starts driving, I understand why – it really is simple. There are obviously clever things going on in the background, but the VMS presents in a highly intuitive way, considering it has access to cameras across multiple sites. Once I get closer to the screen, it’s possible to see why functionality seems so fundamental, There’s a tree for external systems that allows operators to select whichever site they want to view and populate their workstation with camera views, drop views onto the video wall, or

push views to other parts of the building.

“With Milestone we created filters and one big site tree so operators can go to a remote site and drill down to live access camera views,” Cunningham explains. “We also needed to deliver camera views in a form that is easy to use, because different people are sitting in the room each day for different events.

Part of our plan was working out how to build a system that’s intuitive to manage.”

To demonstrate how it works, Cunningham opens Queensland Rail in the site tree and QR stations come up. He selects a station and camera views appear – then he pulls a couple of camera views over and begins to populate the workstation screen.

Something that’s especially neat is that the monitor can display cameras from multiple systems at a time – police might view 1 from Suncorp Stadium, 2 from QR and 2 from City Safe, simultaneously. It means police can decide what constitutes situational awareness from their point of view as an event unfolds.

“The images on the workstation can also be thrown to the big video wall at the front of the room for general observation - it’s click and drag,” Cunningham explains. “The way it works is very simple – police are not here to play with the system but to gather operational intel in real time, so the interface needs to be easy to manage for any officer rostered into the ops centre.

“In the ops centre QPS has its own machines that officers view depending on the event. If it’s a traffic incident, operators are authorised to access traffic cameras, if it’s counter terrorism, then officers have a different group of cameras they can access. Each workstation becomes an officer’s own workstation when they log into it, so they can access all their usual things, as well as populate the screen with instant feeds for situational awareness of events.”

While we’re watching, footage from a police helicopter is added to the screen - you can see how beneficial it would be to the team in the operations centre to follow rapidly developing events in real time.

“This ability to pull together video streams from multiple systems is the heart of the QPS solution and it’s possible because there are so many different secure paths bringing the video feeds here,” Cunningham says. “You have to compare this with the way things were in the past when the police officer in the City Safe control room was the provider of verbal intel to QPS about real time events in the Brisbane CBD using a telephone.

“Now we can deliver cameras to the operations centre for incidents or for larger scale events. That was never an option before. And as the relationships are building between councils and police, the scope of the solution increases. A key thing in this process has been getting council and police talking – understanding that each has its own systems but when police identify there’s a problem, council

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will respond with eyes on the event and provision of camera feeds so police can decide how best to respond.”

In some ways, the solution you’ve created is an intelligence funnel – you add any camera feeds that are needed to monitor a given event from any system to which you can connect – and that demands a relationship, not a one-off arrangement, doesn’t it?

“Yes, that’s exactly what it does,” Cunningham agrees. “But it’s more as well. With this integrated solution, police can operate a door at Brisbane City Police Station, or they can access any City Safe camera in the city, or across the state. That’s the way the system operates.”

Looking at the screens I can see some cameras are 1080p, some are higher resolution and there are also some analogue cameras in the mix. According to Cunningham, that’s part of the nature of the solution. With video feeds, you take whatever you can get, he says.

Cunningham says the QPS solution takes situational awareness to a new level but does so in a completely secure way that conforms with all existing protocols.

“Other suppliers who tried to come up with solutions for QPS instinctively tried to integrate everyone’s networks into one big network and you

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just can’t,” he explains. “Queensland Police is not going to open its secure network to Queensland Rail and vice versa. This meant we needed to come up with a way to access cameras on remote sites without compromising network independence, while retaining complete network security.”

While it’s easy to forget local management of the Brisbane City Police station, that’s integral to this solution, too. With the Milestone-Inner Range high level integration when a door opens operators can view footage in the VMS, or see it in Gatekeeper – it depends on the application as to which client is used to manage functionality.

“With the Integriti and Milestone high level integration there are multiple viewing options,” Cunningham explains. “If a functionality is more CCTV oriented then we will use Milestone but if it’s more access control oriented, we will use the Integriti Gatekeeper. It depends on how the user wants to drive the system and which is the most efficient way to deliver that requirement.

“Another aspect of the building system is LPR – the access control and CCTV systems are integrated in such a way that as authorised vehicles come into the carpark, the boom gates open. The system uses the Milestone LPR system, however, the output from Milestone comes into Gatekeeper as a user. What this means is that when you look at the number plate it

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WHILE THIS INTEGRATION PROVIDES ACCESS CONTROL AND CCTV SUPPORT FOR THE BRISBANE CITY POLICE STATION, ITS WIDER ROLE IS TO BRING TOGETHER CAMERAS FROM REMOTE SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE QPS SITUATIONAL AWARENESS IN REAL TIME. is assigned as a user and when it’s recognised by Milestone, a message is passed to Gatekeeper that the user is authorised, and Gatekeeper opens the boom gate – that’s the level of the integration. The Milestone server is processing, and Gatekeeper is actioning gate controls.

“In this application we also have lift control, which has been interesting,” Cunningham says. “What’s required to provide lift control for multiple agencies and who takes care of that? We’ve predominantly gone with QPS because of the higher security requirement - from the QPS system we administer all the other floors. Building management needed to understand that, which was a process.”

Next, we take a walk through the site to check out the cameras, the access control panels, the UPS and network components – it’s all nice work. The building has tight spaces, but everything is thoughtfully managed, and the work of the installers looks first class. While we are heading downstairs, we check out the interview rooms, the holding cells complete with Vivotek corner cameras and duress buttons.

Clearly, the access control, intrusion and video surveillance components of this site are vitally important to its safe and efficient operation.

CONCLUSION Trying to articulate a solution like this one is tough – I arrived at the site expecting to see a largely selfcontained integrated electronic security solution and came away struggling to encapsulate the system’s true nature. While this integration provides access control and CCTV support for the Brisbane City Police Station, its wider role is to bring together

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cameras from remote systems to provide QPS statewide situational awareness in real time. Central to the story is the fact that you don’t click your fingers and create the potential to display thousands of cameras drawn from multiple systems. It takes planning – lots of planning – and lots of talking.

The central idea at QPS operations centre was to duplicate the functionality offered by the State Police Operations Centre, which was built for the G20 and has become an integral part of Qld’s statewide disaster response infrastructure. The SPOC has 65 workstations and allows police, fire, medical, military and federal agencies to work together in the event of a crisis. This new QPS operations centre room delivers the same sort of situational awareness to QPS when required it and provides redundancy for the SPOC, which is located a few blocks away. As part of my visit, we tour the SPOC – it’s an amazing facility that demands a story of its own.

“I’ve had a vision for years – this is an application I’ve poured my heart and soul into,” Cunningham says. “I sat at the G20 watching the State Police Operations Centre evolve and later said to QPS – you can have this and it would work this way – decide what you want the system to do and let’s work out how to get you there. Of course, the role of the system is evolving, too – the creation of redundancy for the State Police Operations Centre means we will need to create a head end at this location, and we’ve just ordered the hardware to build it.”

According to Senior Sergeant O’Connor, while the installation process proceeded relatively smoothly, it was a process that required hands-on management.

“An issue was that this 35-year-old building was not designed for our purposes,” he explains. “Although we had a total internal demolition and we have all new technology here, walls can’t be moved, so we were trying to fit a square peg into a round hole in some places. The risers were in certain locations, the comms rooms varied in size, the ops room space is fixed, the carpark ceiling is low – you are constrained by the physical structure and must fit things into the environment, not design the environment to meet your requirements.

“It was a relatively long process, thanks to the refurbishment of this building. Work started in 2018 but we had been talking and planning from late 2017, with practical completion on February 7 this year, and the police station operational 9 days later. We had put together a concept outlining what we wanted and Bravis, which was contracted to the builder, had to find a way to make sure we got what we wanted as far as possible by practical completion - and with the least number of variations. There were also some pressures from our perspective we had to get out of our building before the end of our lease. We also needed to make sure we got what we wanted from our new security and surveillance solution – I believe we have certainly achieved that outcome.” n

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SECURITY 2019 PRE-SHOW REPORT WE’LL be off to Security 2019 Expo and Conference this month and it’s impossible not to wonder about the new products and technologies we’re going to see there.

E got a sneak preview of some of the latest solutions at SecTech Roadshow in May and it’s fair to say the trends we saw then are going to be fleshed out further at the ICC in Sydney late July. A lot of gear will be pointed squarely at operational outcomes – what those outcomes need to be depends on your point of view. Situational awareness is going to be a central element – expect to see management and support systems with an intense focus on delivering real time intelligence.

Feeding into this will be analytics, a technology that continues its drift to the edge. When it comes to deep learning/VCA/analytics, etc, seek solutions with rule sets that meet your customer’s requirements. There’s no point getting swept up in possibilities. You want efficiency of operation and enhanced security through bolstered situational awareness. This probably means the rules that will appeal in the real world, such as changes in traffic flow, line crossing and congregation are going to be simpler than some of the cutting-edge widgets you’ll see.

Simplicity will be another focus – management systems are going to feature more automation than we’ve seen before – that’s going to feed back into analytics, too. Automation is also going to work to

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assist installers and integrators, who continue to seek ways to minimise time on-site, as well as to automate maintenance and favour notification of unfolding developments in support systems. On the networking side, hybrid solutions and cyber security continue to be highlights. Australia’s internet is a complete mess, with woeful performance, even in metropolitan areas, encouraging serious end users to take their solutions to private links. Should serious SMEs be following their lead? In some cases, yes, they should. Obviously, managing these sorts of networks is challenging, so keep an eye open for technology partners.

Something else we’ve been hearing a lot about in recent months is the camera as a sensor and used for pretty much anything and everything.

So long as there’s sufficient light to generate an image, this development has strong potential but it’s worth bearing in mind in such applications that camera quality is directly related to data quality. For developers, cameras are an obvious corner to cut – the camera engine and lens are likely to be first on the rack. As far as possible you are going to need sensors that deliver stable performance through a 24-hour light cycle, or performance is going to be unreliable at the times of day most incidents take place.

Face recognition is another area of interest. It’s popping up everywhere – in cameras, NVRs and bolt-ons for VMS. There are some really solid performers out there – I’m thinking AnyVision and Avigilon – so make sure you check the specialists out, as well as taking a look at some of the market’s more recent arrivals. When you look at face recognition you need to have an operational

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goal in mind, especially if you’re government. For smaller integrators, some of the face recognitionpowered access control solutions are worth a closer look. Enrolment is superfast and security levels are solid, to say the least.

Face recognition is not just about recognising faces in real time – there’s no doubt its greatest strength is turbo-charging searches for lost kids, wandering elders, perpetrators of observed incidents, alerting security teams to the presence of individuals who are banned from entering a location such as a shopping centre or sports stadium, and plenty more.

A key development with face recognition, as SEN saw on a recent visit to 5 manufacturers in China, is that functional solutions are becoming as affordable as systems with no face recognition at all.

When it comes to access control, make sure you look at the latest management solutions from key players – a number have been released in recent months by the likes of Gallagher and Inner Range – Genetec’s Synergis IX also merits attention. An interesting development with management systems is that high level integrations are putting a lot of flexibility into the hands of quality installers. It’s not plug and play, but you can do more than ever before.

The latest biometric solutions are also going to be worth a look, as are the proliferation of solutions that turn mobile devices into secure credentials.

Video surveillance is throwing up plenty of dedicated solutions – I expect to see plenty of multihead cameras, as well as high end PTZs, and lots of thermal. Cameras are beginning to be shown as components of solutions, so expect to see that angle as well. Cameras are getting smarter and their functionalities are driving laterally. NVRs are also becoming more powerful, with clever deep learning modules supporting all the usual functionalities. I think intercoms are another area we will see plenty of development, as well as falls in price. There are now more players in the market and the gear is highly polished.

Some new things to keep a look out for include Salto Keys as a service (KS), which provides cloudbased access control management that requires no software installation or wiring. You’ll also see Danalock residential smart locks, which replace the traditional key with an electronic system. Also from Salto is SVN Flex, a new technology which provides access management with increased security, more convenience and at lower costs.

CSM will be showing TVT’s face recognition by camera and by NVR. TVT’s focus is making CCTV affordable and its face recognition solutions are very competitive. Performance features include side face recognition, detecting 10 faces simultaneously, 3-4 faces per second and database hosting up to 10,000 faces. Accuracy rates are significantly increased with ultra-starlight and white light illumination technology. There’s an app that allows you to add faces, search by image or name. The NVR GUI is

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simple, user-friendly and highly effective. Real time alarms, face database management, face information and statistics make this technology a great choice for all applications.

Along with these solutions, you’ll see a complete range of 2MegaPixel StarLight network cameras, vandal domes, turrets, bullets with fixed or motorised long-range lens, white LED and complete suite of NVRs, available models, 8CH, 16CH, 32CH - all with PoE ports and fitted with 4TB Seagate SkyHawk HDDs. Hikvision is going to be showing its new deep learning-powered thermal turret camera, as well as a whole range of thermal cameras, featuring resolutions of 160 x 120 17µm, built in GPU, up to 42m long distance VCA (human), and temperature measurement range of -20 to 150C with ±8 degrees of accuracy as well as a NETD of <40mk at 25C. Another neat new solution to check out is the SCEC-approved EVVA 4KS, which has 133 billion possible key combinations, is patented to 2035 and has a springless design. In challenging environments, the active sliders and springless design in 4KS provide an edge unmatched by other systems. As a key is inserted, most master key systems rely on small springs to push the locking pins into place. Even small amounts of dust, dirt or grit can affect the operation of the cylinder.

Thanks to the 4KS springless design, when the key is inserted into the cylinder, the sliders (locking pins) are moved into place by the tracks of the 4KS key.

FLIR will show its smart cities solutions at Security 2019 – these include United VMS, the FLIR TruWITNESS platform, as well as PTZ and panoramic security cameras, and intelligent transportation systems. Another product to take a look at is the new FLIR Saros DH-390, which combines multiple traditional perimeter protection technologies into a single, cost-effective unit for accurate alerts and verified alarm data 24/7.

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a number of features that facilitate effective monitoring of high-risk operational environments.

A dual-core processor means they can deliver up to 3 video streams simultaneously and support the H.264/ONVIF standard, making it easy to integrate them with third-party hardware and software.

Meanwhile, MOBOTIX thermal sensors can measure temperatures ranging from -40°C to +550°C within ±0.2°C (50m K) of accuracy and can be calibrated against environmental interference.

With a MOBOTIX Thermal Radiometry sensor, up to 20 different temperature triggers can be defined to detect potential sources of fire and heat.

Optionally, combining a thermal and an optical camera sensor enables a thermal overlay, localising so-called hot spots in the image to highlight potential hazards, automatically triggering alarm events and actions. IP66-certified, with no moving parts, and an average MBTF of at least 9 years, these cameras can withstand the harshest conditions.

Sony Video Security is releasing the EMX minidome cameras at Security 2019. The new EMX series, including indoor and outdoor cameras with IR in both 1080P and 5MP, features Sony’s edgebased Essential Video Analytics (EVA) to make decisions faster and smoother, smart encoding including a new H.265 codec (optimising bandwidth and storage), and the latest data security technology via the Trusted Platform Module. The SNC-EMX50 (Indoor), SNC-EMX50R (Indoor IR) and SNC-EMX52R (Outdoor IR) employ a true 16:9, 3072 x 1728 (5 Mega Pixel) Exmor R CMOS sensor, as well as strong WDR performance. A MicroSD Card slot allows local recording in the camera or fail-over recording.

C.R. Kennedy and Uniview will be launching the new IPC8542ER5-DUG Panoramic camera. This is a 4K high resolution, 180-degree wide angle of view camera with 120dB WDR and starlight features.

The UNV IPC8542ER5-DUG is specially designed for monitoring large public spaces, parkland, car parks, etc. An electronic tracking function can automatically track up to 5 targets, which are triggered using rules configured by the user. It can also simultaneously monitor panoramic and detailed views of the same scene. Hills will be showing the new Network Access Controller from Interlogix - an access control solution that manages door requirements. With flexible connection options, you connect the Network Access Controller directly to software without the need for other panel

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hardware, or you can connect to the ChallengerPlus panel for an easy upgrade on your existing site. Onboard storage allows the Network Access Controller to locally store up to 250,000 users and there are more than 10,000 flexible access groups and userconfigurable override times on each door.

CSD will be showing the Paradox HD series, an all-in-one motion detector & ethernet/Wi-Fi camera, which integrates seamlessly with existing and new Paradox systems by eliminating the need for separate CCTV, access or automation installations and services. Connectivity is enabled through the Paradox Swan Servers and monitoring is made easy through the Insite GOLD Android/ iOS application.

Also on the CSD stand you’ll see the integration of Inception and Milestone, which allows video, access control and security one a single workstation. This seamless integration allows the user to open any door, anywhere, at any time with installation as simple as powering up the controller and using the web browser by connecting to the network via cable or Wi-Fi. CSD will show new Aetek EPoT long range PoE extenders that expand transmission distance up to 1200m with a data rate of 100Mbps and a 9.7W PoE budget at the transmitter end. Indoor and outdoor options are available, and the outdoor version is protected by an IP67 weatherproof and IK10 vandal-resistant casing as well as a built in PoE surge protection of 6KV. Meanwhile, Inovonics MD10 is a Man Down and personal attack wireless transmitter for use in a variety of security, guarding and lone worker applications. It utilises the Inovonics EchoStream wireless technology to provide a reliable, fully supervised and scalable wireless connection.

Certain to attract attention is Hills’ Reliance XRpro.

This new solution has onboard IP communication and an optional 4G/WiFi router module, the XRpro is NBN ready and offers a monitored path via UltraSync. It is also Z-Wave compatible, allowing home automation via Z-Wave compatible devices including lights, locks and thermostats. XRpro also supports camera integration and is backwards compatible with existing Reliance equipment. Using the UltraSync+ app, users can remotely arm and disarm their security system, view live-streaming surveillance videos via IP and lock and unlock Z-Wave powered door locks.

Other solutions you should try to get a look at include Gallagher Security Health Check, Johnson Controls: Tyco Visual Intelligence, FLIR Saros DH390 dome damera, HID iCLASS SE RG25F fingerprint reader/controller, Hanwha Techwin’s PNM-9000VQ multi-head camera, the new Bosch Security and Safety Systems’ FLEXIDOME IP starlight 8000i, as well as Milestone Systems’ XProtect Corporate 2019 R1 and Genetec Security Centre 5.8. Other interesting products include Kocom KCV-S701IP & KC-S81M – 7-inch colour hands-free IP video intercoms. n

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OSCH’S 8000i is a solid performer that handles the role of robust external dome with aplomb. In fundamental areas such as depth of field, management of backlight and WDR, colour and light balance across a partly shaded scene, and motion blur during daytime gloom, performance is excellent. I’m running at a somewhat longer focal length than usual – a bit over 7mm – even so, the 8000i has the ability to deliver faces and plates much deeper into the scene than I’m used to.

Night performance is good, but day performance is better – I’m getting fast moving plates at 35 metres.

Before we go on, let’s do the specifications. This camera is nicely made in cast aluminium and its construction includes a waterproof connection area and a dehumidifying membrane. The 8000i is IP66-rated against water and dust and IK10-rated against vandalism. Dimensions are 175mm wide x 145mm high and weight is 2.2kg. The dome bubble is clear polycarbonate with a UV blocking anti-scratch coating. Operating temperature range is -50C to 60C. There’s an anti-corrosion coating and solid operating temperature range of -50 to +60C. The motorised pan, tilt and roll lens has pan range of 180 degrees, a tilt range from -55 degrees to 87 degrees and a roll range from -92 degrees to 92 degrees. A PTR dome sounds quirky but when driven in combination with digital zoom, it makes the 8000i very flexible indeed.

The idea of PTR is to make installs easier for techs – you put the camera up and then twiddle via the camera view wizard or app. However, it also allows you to steer the camera in real time. Typical Bosch, these functionalities are fast – auto-focus is rocket propelled.

Installers can also use a smart device running Bosch’s Project Assistant app to set up pan, tilt, roll and zoom (PTRZ) functions. This means you can set and tweak the required field of view without having to go up to the camera on a ladder or scissor lift. This remote commissioning and configuration can be adapted at any stage beyond the initial set-up, making it quick and convenient to adjust the field of view should initial planning requirements change.

Pretty neat from Bosch.

The camera has an IR-corrected P-iris lens offering 3.9 – 10mm of focal range (10-23mm is an option). The aperture range of F1.6 to F2.6 makes it relatively fast at the short end and reasonable fast at the long. Viewing angle at the wide end is 117 x 59 degrees, while the tele is 37 x 21 degrees. When it comes to resolution there are loads of options to limit bitrate – I stick with 1080p and UHD during my testing. The view wizard allows you to tweak mirror image and rotation settings, as well enabling or disabling the camera LED and locking in positioning co-ordinates and mounting height.

The 8000i range features Intelligent Dynamic Noise Reduction and intelligent streaming combined with H.265 video compression to reduce bit rate by up to 80 per cent. There’s ONVIF Profile S; ONVIF Profile G and ONVIF Profile T compatibility. You can

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No plate but DoF is brilliant.

Moving faces are near identifiable

No plate in monochrome

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Bosch and lots more. Interpreting video data also helps to monitor consumer patterns by identifying hot spots in retail areas. Bosch has been doing analytics at the edge for a very long time and its thoughtful rules are likely to reward installers who want more for their customers than static views.

DRIVING THE BOSCH 8000I

Night zoom is strong: Digital at 7.2mm

Court admissable face at 12m.

set up multiple streams in H.264, H.265 and M-JPEG with very configurable frame rate and bandwidth.

There’s also a region of interest function. Camera latency is said to be 67 milliseconds – I think mine is a touch higher – about 200, which may be down to my settings. That’s good performance, anyway.

The 8000i has a signal to noise ratio of 55dB for video and 50dB for audio – there’s G.711 audio compression with variable sampling rates, as well as AAC-LC – audio streaming can be full duplex or half duplex. On-board storage is well provided for with dual SD card slots for SDXC/SDHC and SD cards with mirroring and failover storage configurations of recording. A neat feature is an internal RAM, which grabs 5 seconds of pre-alarm recordings and holds them until written over.

Cyber security is serious, with a crypto Coprocessor (TPM) offering RSA 2048-bit, AES/CBC 256-bit, FIPS FIPS 140-2 Level 3 compliance and PKI X.509 certificates. It’s possible to do full end-to-end encryption with a supported VMS using TLS1.0/1.2, AES128, AES256, while local storage can be locked up with XTS-AES. There’s also video authentication checksum options of MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256. All this makes the 8000i and its video streams highly secure.

The 8000i range has Bosch’s Intelligent Video Analytics, which highlight events while ignoring noise created by snow, wind, rain, hail and water reflections – functions include wrong-way detection, traffic counts, monitoring roadsides for parked cars

When I picked up the 8000i, the Bosch team surprised me with a pair of domes – one a 1080p and the other a 4K. I had a go of both of these cameras. The 1080p version certainly punches above its resolution. I can’t help feeling the 1080p is a touch brighter as well – not only at night but during the day. In any case, both deliver bedrock operational performance. It’s a rare dome camera that can nail fast moving plates at the distances this Bosch 8000i manages.

Daytime performance is strong – there’s slight overexposure on the brighter far side of the street as the camera is exposing for the larger, nearer and darker parts of the scene. Regardless, colour rendition is excellent – a little better on the shaded side but there’s not much in it. Motion blur is invisible to my eye during the day around all moving objects, which is not always the case. Noise is negligible – this applies to the 4K as well as the 1080p camera.

The 8000i is good with WDR, too. The only thing I do notice in direct sunlight is some veiling flare – whether this is generated inside the lens or by the dome bubble is hard to say. At the same time, there’s no discernible chromatic aberration from the camera, which is very pleasing. Even areas of rugged contrast around white and silver cars are not provoking CAs. Performance is consistent, too. As the day goes along – and it’s a rainy, glary, bright and dark sort of a day – the camera chugs away, offering faces and plates at unusual depths of field.

I spend a bit of time playing with optical and digital zooms in UHD – I want to know where operational performance with moving plates starts to fall apart – it’s between 50-70 metres. At 30-35 metres you are assured of moving plates and there’s an area in the middle where light, vehicle speed, focal length and the contrast of the plate colours feeds into the possibilities. One thing I do notice when driving the UHD camera is that my Dell Optiplex 9020 server is running its fan more than usual.

As afternoon goes into rainy night, low light performance in colour is strong, albeit with a slow-ish feeling shutter speed – I’m at 1/60th of a second – it’s an acceptable compromise. I’m still using a longer than usual focal length of around 7.2mm and performance is great – depth of field is excellent, too. Colour rendition is also strong – the camera is managing the strange colour temperatures of the local streetlights superbly. My scene ranges from 4-7 lux, depending on where you are standing, and this camera manages to even things out very well. The levels of detail deep into the scene are impressive. I can read one-way signs at 70 metres.

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I’m using the wizard and the live camera browser to drive the camera – with multiple instances open at a time giving me full screen and tools to hand. I find this offers excellent control – both these applications are easy to navigate. I like monochrome with no direct light in it – the depth of field is perhaps not quite as strong. There’s loads of detail – great contrast – subtle tones – and I can see traffic on Albion St to the point of identifying car type. There’s more than the usual level of detail close up, too. I am getting plenty of identifying characteristics from pedestrians.

There are some ghosts and internal reflections – it’s a dome – but they are not excessive. Considering this is a 1080p camera, I’m happy with performance – I’m getting rain drops on cars at a distance and plenty of detail further in. I’m not getting moving plates at night (static plates are easy out to 25 metres) and faces are only identifiable close up – ID seems to be much better in live mode than it is with my snapshots, which lose detail and contrive to introduce softness I don’t see on the monitor.

Driving the camera through the install wizard is great – it’s meant to make config easier but being able to steer the PT around and then hit digital zoom is so intuitive from a user’s perspective that I don’t want to leave the window. Only the pull of full screen manages to drag me away. Something funny happens at one point – it takes me a while to realise I’m using digital zoom and not optical – only when I go in deep – targeting the street about 50m from the lens do I realise I need to fire up the optical zoom.

Shortly after going into monochrome, I hop back

Putting it all together is easy.

into colour mode. It’s better in my application – the street is just bright enough to carry it. Somehow I feel I’m losing detail in monochrome. I come back to colour via Auto and can’t get out of monochrome that way – I have to bounce the camera into colour then come back to auto. There are some CAs generated by the lens in high contrast areas but it’s not excessive. Unsurprisingly, I notice them more when wound all the way into digital zoom.

At night I find myself waiting to hit snapshot until my targets are standing still – when I do this, I get face recognition out to 8-12m from the lens. Driving the 4K version I find the extra pixels give noticeably more detail. At first, I’m not certain of benefits but when I’ve spent time in 4K mode and then I go back to 1080p, I can see the loss of detail. I think the 1080p has more balanced low light performance – the darker areas are darker in 4K, which you’d expect, give the smaller pixel sizes. Would I choose 4K over 1080p? I’d want both in the same camera, thanks very much.

At night noise levels are very low, there’s slight tone mapping and blur around moving branches and leaves in low light but the amplification still gives me decent performance in live view.

Situational awareness is plentiful – even at 80 metres I get clothing colour and type, bag colour, even specifics of shoes – this is at night. And I can see people crossing the top of Albion St near 100m from the lens – I can see details of their attire, too – gender, general gait. It’s nice work from Bosch.

CONCLUSION After a couple of days of testing in less than ideal weather conditions, I’m delighted with this Bosch 8000i camera. It covers off those key operational strengths end users want – depth of field, subtle colour rendition, almost no chromatic aberrations, low noise, and low blur – as well as giving the ability to tamp down the effects of strong backlight.

Performance at night is impressive – though I could And in 4K with a bit of digital zoom.

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not get moving plates, I got faces within 8 metres at around 4 lux.

During the day the 8000i musters its full strength to deliver faces and plates at extreme distances compared to other cameras of this type. We’ve not tested a mid-focal length dome camera that had the capacity to snare moving plates out past 35 metres and to guarantee face recognition past 25 metres as this one does. You expect good things from a motorised zoom but the Bosch 8000i is better than that. It projects its strong performance a long way into challenging scenes, even at wide lens settings and even in low light. n Plate at around 22 metres.

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A VISION SPLENDID AnyVision is a server-based, GPUpowered analytic solution that can process 23 faces simultaneously and offers a toolbox of neat features and functions. But it’s the raw capability of the solution that impressed me most.

NYVISION is one of a new breed of analytics solutions that uses deep learning to find and identify faces in still images or video streams. I got a demo of the system from Sean Borg, who heads up the AnyVision distribution for Australia and New Zealand. According to Borg, the way most face recognition solutions work is by putting 23 points on a face and doing measurements.

“First they detect, then they measure and once they identify eyes, nose and mouth, they know it’s a face,” Borg explains. “Of course, if an eye can’t be seen, or the mouth is covered with a mask, then you lose multiple ID points. AnyVision works on a convolutional neuroscience artificial intelligence algorithm – we do feature extraction from all around the face and as long as we have 3-4 decent features, we can make a match.

“Competitors can’t manage this, they can’t do a face sideways, or when the subject is wearing a dust mask, or in some cases, their algorithm detects a head, not a face. With 115,000,000 people on the AnyVision database, we will still get a match in .2 of a second. By comparison, airport analytic solutions take 9 seconds to make a match between a live image and your passport photo.”

According to Borg, AnyVision can do face, object and human detection, heat map, multi sites, seamless payment, and the next version will have filters allowing it to be even more discerning with people.

There are other products in the line-up, too.

“We are at our best in the wild in uncontrolled environments doing detection, feature extraction, tracking and recognition,” Borg explains. “We have live, forensic (post analytic – photo to photo, photo to video), there’s an edge product with our system

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running on a Snapdragon phone and there’s Sesame, which is an authentication and onboarding software solution that harnesses the power of our deep learning platform to securely collate authentication documentation. Sesame confirms identity, can be used as authentication at ATMs – it removes the possibility of identity theft.”

Importantly, AnyVision has a privacy mode.

“Various modes can be set so they only find faces on a watch list, or so faces not on the list are blurred - we also conform to GDPR and we store no video or images, only hexadecimal data,” Borg says.

Some additional features of the system include the fact it is camera agnostic, runs on existing chips, is plug-and-play and is instantly operational and scalable.

DRIVING THE SYSTEM The features list is very cool – it even includes the ability to display gaze estimation, which is a useful marker when seeking the perpetrators of terror attacks who often aren’t looking in the direction of the attack – they already know what’s happening. But it’s the raw performance of the system when chewing over image data that impressed me most.

Borg tells me that typically a time difference greater than 20 years is a problem with face recognition systems, but he argues Anyvision can do better than that. And when we put the system to the test, I find he’s right. This system is capable of matching people in their 60s with images taken when they were children.

Impressive stuff.

I came into the demo with some images on a stick showing a person in their 60s, as well as an image taken in mid-30s, early 20s and another image of the same person at 11 years of age. I also had an image of a lookalike who was around the age of 15. All these images were threadbare quality - no more than 100kb at the most. Borg loaded the images into the system, selected a low percentage of tolerance, and pressed go. Instantly, the system identified all the images of the person – including the one taken as a kid. The curve ball image was not matched.

Borg had a trick up his sleeve as well – first he used a photo of himself at 16 to create an alert when the system detected him in Live mode. Next, he pulled up a photo of a group of young people at a party. The kids were in their late teens – some smiling, others pulling faces and a few wedged into gaps I didn’t even notice.

The subject image was one of these teens as a child.

I tried to match the faces and picked one that turned out to be wrong. But when Borg hit go, AnyVision instantly matched a screwed-up face hidden in the heart of the scene with the subject image. It was phenomenal performance. The system also managed to identify me when looking downwards with sunglasses on. If you get a chance to have a look at AnyVision, don’t miss it – this technology comes highly recommended. n

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ANZ Alarms Non-Compliant VIDEO verification of alarm events must be mandatory for all low risk domestic and small business alarm systems as the impact of the National Police Alarm Activation Response Guideline filters through the ANZ alarm monitoring market.

USTRALIA and New Zealand’s new NPAAR Guideline creates a uniformity of police response to alarms across ANZ and was put together by the National Emergency Communications Working Group – Australia and New Zealand, in consultation with ASIAL. It categorises alarm types, monitoring service levels, the security levels of sites and most importantly, it categorises those alarm types police may not respond to in order to make more efficient use of police resources.

Without getting buried in the multifarious layers of alarm types, it’s worth dropping anchor here and establishing the types of alarms will police not respond to, because it seems many existing alarm systems are going to be noncompliant with the guidelines in one way or another. The requirements of NPAAR are interesting and are certain to impact on the way monitoring stations manage their services and installers build their alarm systems.

When it comes to AS-compliant Type B multi-sector and multi-break alarm installed at any premises and monitored by an approved monitoring provider, 2 or more sectors must be activated or there must be 2 or more alarm events on one sector and keys must be available to police in 30 mins. Further, a call to police can only be made after an on-site inspection and when access to premises is available – “but

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only after the employees in the alarm monitoring centre have contacted the client or a neighbour, or monitored any available CCTV link to ensure that the alarm has not been triggered by accident or by a malfunction”.

There’s a further caveat to all this: Detection devices capable of generating a multi-sector alarm must be programmed to a separate, individual alarm zone on the alarm control panel and alarm events from this zone must be generated as a result of “multiple individually alarmed sectors being activated”. Even taking the vagaries of definition into account, it’s hard to imagine that many current single area, 8-zone residential or small business alarm systems are configured in this way.

And there’s more to consider. Police will not respond to multiple sector alarms installed in domestic premises without easy access to the premises – that means any low-rise or high-rise apartment or walled terrace. Nor will police respond to alarm activations from such systems even with ready access, unless the monitoring station

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has ascertained by site inspection or ‘independent verification’ that a crime is being, or has been, committed. There’s only one reliable way monitoring stations can reliably confirm an actual intrusion and it’s not with an intrusion detection sensor, it’s with video verification.

Nor will police respond to Type C single sector alarms, nor to any site which a monitoring station can’t reach by phone.

They will not attend any other Type C alarm events – that includes alarms that are not multi-break/multi-sensor, unmonitored alarms (too bad for DIY

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There are hundreds of thousands of alarm systems across Australia that now fall into the dreaded Category C – they will not be attended by police.

users), medical alarms, fire or smoke alarms, power fail alarms, or activated strobes. It does not matter if such an alarm is monitored by an approved monitoring provider, or if the system is AS compliant.

The NPAAR Guideline outlines a 3 strikes policy for all alarm types, which applies when police have been called out to false alarms 3 times in 3 months. A system that gets 3 strikes is downgraded to a Category C alarm and alarm events generated by it will not be attended by police until the false alarm issue is dealt with. There’s also a 2-strikes hold-up alarm

policy – if there are 2 false alarms from an hold-up alarm in 12 months, police will downgrade that site to category C, meaning there will be no-response.

There’s challenge and serious opportunity baked into the NPAAR Guidelines. There are hundreds of thousands of alarm systems across Australia that now fall into the dreaded Category C – they will not be attended by police unless their functionality is significantly upgraded and site access procedures are revised for effective management in real time.

Monitoring providers and bureau installers who move fast using quality solutions carefully designed to meet the guidelines are going to get the jump on competitors who drag their feet. Failure to incorporate video verification into low risk or hard-to-access Type B and Type C alarm systems guarantees monitoring stations will be unable to meet the guidelines for police response to alarm events. After unverifiable intrusion with no police attendance, they are going to have to explain alarm system non-compliance to their customers.n

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SAFE AND SECURE CAMPUS With highly-valuable assets and facilities, open campuses, and a combined population of approximately 58,000 staff and students, it is imperative for QUT to have a robust yet discreet security and site management system operating 24/7.

UEENSLAND University of Technology (QUT) is a major Australian university at the forefront of innovation and development in tertiary education. With a strong focus on research, technology, and sustainability, QUT has state-of-the-art facilities and equipment located across 3 campuses in Brisbane, as well as multiple remote research sites.

In 1995 QUT selected Gallagher as its technology partner to develop and implement a seamless security and site management solution. More than 20 years on, this partnership remains strong as QUT continues to seek new and innovative technology to manage its campuses and simplify operations.

QUT’s 3 campuses have diverse physical environments which are essentially open to the general public. One campus is situated between the Brisbane River and Brisbane Botanical Gardens, another is located in the centre of an urban retail village, residential area and high school.

“The QUT campuses, while tertiary education institutions, are open to the public,” says Tracey Bartlett, security systems officer. “This open and accessible environment presents a challenge when trying to protect the people and property of QUT. We have a high expectation of the Gallagher system to manage the security of the non-public domain while allowing staff, students and authorised visitors the access they require.”

To manage the challenges of an open yet secure site, QUT operates 1500 intelligent access control readers across the 3 locations. With the readers communicating directly with Gallagher’s site management software platform, Command Centre, QUT is able to manage, monitor, and report on facility access.

“We have buildings that are open until 10pm and others that are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” says Bartlett. “Our security staff in the CMS (central monitoring stations) are able to create building and cardholder schedules, quickly lock down areas, grant immediate access and generate reports. These reports assist the QUT Space

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Management Team on exactly how and when our facilities are being used.”

The safety of students and staff is the number one priority for QUT and the university works hard to ensure its operates safe and secure campuses.

Through Gallagher’s site management solution, QUT is able to integrate multiple systems – including emergency control points and alarms for temperature change, fire, and flooding - and to feed the information into Command Centre. Having one central monitoring platform ensures staff quickly identify, locate, and respond to any potential risks on campus.

“Our CMS team operates 24/7, our operators are highly skilled with the Gallagher system and, in conjunction with our CCTV system, have a complete view of what’s happening on site. They are then able to direct the field staff to areas of the campus that need attention,” says Bartlett.

With tens of thousands of cardholders, all with ever-changing access needs, QUT requires a large number of staff to be able to administer and manager cardholder profiles within Command Centre.

“Staff new to the CMS have commented that Gallagher Command Centre is very easy to use software and they’re surprised at just what the system can do,” Bartlett says. n

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It makes

Financial sense!

Electromechanical systems financially stack up.

Geoff Plummer - Executive Business Manager - Davcor Group

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lectromechanical key systems are now very widely accepted in the security landscape and uses in a vast array of applications through our region. They provide a hybrid type of access control combined with the functionality of a mechanical master key system. The upfront price for an electromechanical cylinder is about 4 times the cost of a mechanical cylinder and access control is about 3 times the price of an electromechanical cylinder. All three solutions have their place in securing organisations, but this article is to do a back of the envelope lifetime value comparison between Mechanical and an Electromechanical system.

The above is an example of rekeying based on one scenario, that is, one lost key.

Typically, to plan for financial risks, an organisation needs to cater for multiple scenarios such as a disgruntled employee leaving with a key, duplicated keys, contractor keys that disappear, and even unaccounted keys that you didn’t even know that are missing. If you must rekey more than once, the value of an electromechanical system well eclipses mechanical.

To do the comparison I first need to set the bench mark pricing.

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Cylinder

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$600

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$135

$35

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$73,500

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0.1 $100

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$100

$1,000

Total Cost for 10 years

$145

$5,250

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Table 2: Cost for a 50% rekey due to a lost key

The financial value when Table 1 and Table 2 are combined shows an almost equal cost for both systems over 10 years are shown in Table 3 below.

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Mechanical

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Rekeys

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Intial system cost

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$18,500

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$71,000

Key

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$18,500

Total 10 year cost

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$123,500

Table 4: Scenario 2 (2 x rekey in 10 year period)

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Total Cost for 1 year

$105,000

$2,900

Now let’s only assume one rekey occurs over a 10-year period and if the financial costs are very similar how can I claim that the value of the electromechanical system is greater over time. I can claim this because of the functionality.

The cost to rekey and replace lost keys is based on the assumptions above are set out in the table below. It must be stated that in an electromechanical system a lost key can be deleted via the software system.

Electromechanical

Mechanical

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Table 4 represents a saving of over $47,000 by choosing an electromechanical system when two rekeys of mechanical systems have been done.

That at least one key is lost per year.

That the life of both systems is 10 years.

The lost key will open at least 50% of the locks A lost mechanical key requires that at least half of the system will require rekeying to maintain the “as new” security value of the mechanical system.

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Rekeys

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Then I need to make some assumptions.

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In an electromechanical system a lost key can be deleted in seconds and does not expose the business to the security risk whilst waiting to rekey a mechanical system that can take weeks to organise.

The electromechanical system has a full audit trail. The mechanical does not.

The electromechanical system can integrate with other management systems such as contractor management systems and access control systems to streamline operations and reduce management cost.

And most importantly from a Work Health & Safety (WHS) point of view, every user can have their own tailored access profile in an electromechanical system allowing them only to open the doors they are authorised or qualified to open. As an example, we do not want a cleaner opening restricted high voltage area.

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Table 3: Scenario 1 (1 x rekey in 10 year period)

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ANALYTICS & THE FUTURE OF CCTV It’s impossible not to see video content analysis as being the future of video surveillance. There are ever more CCTV cameras with briefs grounded firmly in situational awareness and efficiency.

At the same time, there’s downward pressure on the price of systems.

Automation is the answer but exactly how that automation should be delivered remains difficult to say.

IDEO analytics is CCTV’s R&D hotspot – hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested globally to create solutions that leverage the vast data input of video surveillance cameras that remain largely reactive devices only called upon in post-incident investigations. What’s important here is that it’s not just manufacturers who are embracing the power and capability of analytics, it’s end users, too.

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According to Will Hasna of Bosch Security Systems, VCA and video analytics is becoming increasingly important.

“These days customers are looking towards video systems to provide more functionality than simply capturing a good quality image, being able to record these images and replaying them after an event occurs in a reactionary way,” Hasna explains. “As video system technology improves, we see that a security camera can provide much more data about the scene within its field of view. An example of this is when a camera can detect, differentiate and often classify different objects - for example the difference between an upright person and a car, or a car and a bicycle or a truck.

“The Bosch range of cameras with built in Intelligent Video Analytics is able to track up to 32 different objects per frame and report on metrics such as object size, area, geolocation, speed of travel, direction of travel and more, for every object it is tracking. This metadata can then be captured in a separate stream and becomes useful in terms of being able to raise dynamic alerts to a security operator for different tasks, or allowing collection of this data to optimise the efficiency of a site. This is where the future of video systems will lie; in utilising the data that is generated by an intelligent camera

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that is another sensor in an overall solution.”

According to Hasna, end users are showing a strong interest in video analytics.

“We have been speaking with end users regarding our most recent advancements in this space and find that we have a high level of interest and commitment,” he explains. “We use analytics with our cameras for an endless number of applications with end users across many different verticals such as traffic monitoring, healthcare, mining, retail, education, corrections, ports and airports and many more. The possibilities are enormous.

“Functionalities of interest for end users depend on application and how they want to use the data.

We find some users want simple metrics, such as counting the number of people or cars etc. entering their establishment, or how long they have stopped in certain areas in a retail setting. Other users want to be able to identify if a conveyor belt in their distribution centre is blocked.

“We have users who are interested in our AVIOTEC video-based fire analytic camera that has the ability to detect rising smoke in certain applications far quicker than traditional methods, and others who use our cameras to determine if staff are wearing the correct safety vest in designated areas. Really, when it comes to the use of analytics, our ability to have 16 different rules and combinations together with a script engine within a Bosch camera means applications are only limited by the user’s imagination.”

If you were adding analytics to an existing solution, what would the process and the ultimate network topology look like? Server-based or analytics at the edge?

“It really depends on each application, budget and the level of video content analysis required,” Hasna says. “An edge-based analytic system using intelligent cameras can help to reduce bandwidth and lighten the overall network design as the processing is being conducted in the camera, and you only need to pass the metadata or events out to other systems and not the entire video stream. This can also be helpful when you have cameras deployed in remote areas or on low bandwidth connections.

“The total cost of ownership in an edge-based design can be cheaper. Often with server-based systems you have a license fee per analytic rule or algorithm you apply to each video stream. This means if in one area you need to monitor the crowd density as well cars entering a restricted area, this may require more than one license. Also, a server-based system can only support a certain number of cameras before you need to deploy additional hardware, which equals additional rack space, power and cooling requirements.

“Server-based analytics can also provide a single point of failure in a system, for example, if the server is managing streams for 50 cameras to do the analysis and that server was to go off-line, then the analysis would stop for those 50 cameras. Analytics on the camera helps to mitigate this risk.”

Hasna says that Bosch’s analytics are available license-free on the camera and feature up to 16

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concurrent rules in different combinations, with several object filters that can be applied.

“This makes having an edge solution very powerful and can add to the operational efficiency of your overall video system,” he explains. “You typically find that analytics algorithms such as facial recognition are very processing intensive and generally server-based in nature. With the improvements in GPU technology, this has helped to increase the amount of server-based analytic programmes in the market.”

Pelco’s Branon Painter says that thanks to their ability to record video in digital formats, future surveillance solutions would be able to take advantage of intelligent video management systems (VMS) that harness the latest innovations, like machine learning and data analytics.

“This helps security professionals retrieve valuable forensic evidence from recorded video and enables security operators to perform investigations quickly,” Painter explains.

“Analytic solutions are top priorities for anyone looking to secure their business with a proactive strategy. This is made possible because modern VMS solutions can analyze live video against large stores of data comprised of predictive markers, like physical attributes and anomalous behavior, making it far easier to spot threats before they can happen. End users are hungry for the technology – functionalities of interest include facial recognition, people counting, vehicle counting, and employee compliance regulation.”

If you were adding analytics to an existing solution, what would the process and the ultimate network topology look like? Server-based or analytics at the edge?

“It could look like a combination of both elements,” says Painter. “With analytics at the edge, security professionals must keep in mind that only newer camera models may have this capability. This approach takes info about what is going on in the scene, i.e. tracking people, and sends it to a server, which uses a rules engine to decide the best course of action to take.

“For best operational performance, implementing analytics in VMS integrations plays a key role in increasing operational efficiency, not only because it shifts the surveillance strategy to one that is proactive rather than reactive, but also because it helps to ensure employee compliance, which increases business intelligence. A camera can tell you what’s going on in a scene and when you integrate VMS, you can use the information to react to activity throughout the property.”

Installation, calibration, commissioning – how hard is the process of putting together coherent analytics-based solutions and how important is it? Is it beyond integrators and does it need to be handled in partnership with suppliers?

“While software installation can often take care of itself, commissioning and calibration can also become a simpler process through analytics,” says Painter.

“In any case, complex analysis becomes much more reliable as a result.”

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What would the perfectly balanced analytic solution look like and how would it function, in your opinion, all other application specific things being equal?

“It might look like analytics at the edge and forensic search capabilities on a centralized server all combined into a VMS,” Painter explains. “The VMS is the core capability of the system, so the more we treat it as such, the more effective the solution will be.”

Over at Axis, Sargon Yousif argues video surveillance technology has experienced quantum leaps in the past decade.

“We now have superior resolution with HDTV, 4K and higher clarity. With better low light sensors, more light sensitive lenses, smart sensors and powerful CPUs, cameras have evolved from mere tools for deterrence to great tools for business intelligence,” Yousif explains.

“We see analytics requests growing, and in some cases surveillance cameras are being deployed for primary use of analytics with surveillance being secondary. As more people realise the power of video analytics, it will keep growing and playing an important role. Interest is consistently growing.

Say, 4-5 years ago, it was retail end users who were interested in analytics as a way of collecting behavioural data. However, we have seen this shift moving to other sectors such as health, education, government and commercial. Currently there is interest in face recognition software but the main driver for analytics is loss prevention and business efficiency improvements.”

If you were adding analytics to an existing solution, what would the process and the ultimate network topology look like - server-based or analytics at the edge?

“This would depend on the existing cameras being used,” Yousif explains. “We make our own CPU designed specifically for video processing called ARTPEC (Axis Real Time Picture Encoding Chip) and have the capacity to run analytics at the edge. We could deploy some or all analytics at the edge. But in cases of large database requirements, such as face recognition, this may be a server-based application or hybrid.

A CAMERA CAN TELL YOU ABOUT WHAT’S GOING ON IN A SCENE; WHEN YOU INTEGRATE VMS, YOU CAN USE THE INFORMATION TO REACT TO ACTIVITY THROUGHOUT THE PROPERTY.

When it comes to installation, calibration, commissioning – how hard is this process and how important is it? Is it beyond integrators and does it need to be handled in partnership with suppliers?

“This aspect of analytics is not easy and is sometimes underestimated, in my opinion,” Yousif says. “Every install is different and for this reason needs to be designed and calibrated onsite. In today’s fast-paced world, typical surveillance installations are bench-programmed, tested and sent to site, then installed by sub-contractors quickly to save time. However, analytic applications require a lot of time on site to calibrate and commission correctly.

If the integrator has not done analytics before, it’s recommended they do some training first and seek the vendor’s help in design for the first few installs.

Some complex applications will always require the vendor’s help, in my opinion.”

According to Florian Matusek, product group director - video analytics at Genetec, analytics is going to be very important in the future.

“Organizations of every type and size are always looking to make more informed decisions,” Matusek says. “In order to do better and plan for a changing world, they want to have access to as much information as possible. And, rather than implementing a new information gathering system, many are looking to mine the data already being collected by their physical security systems and augment video with metadata to help operators make better decisions, during live monitoring and during investigations.

“But it’s not enough to simply access this data.

You need to make sense of it, and that’s where video analytics comes in. In general, analytics tools take large amounts of unstructured data and structure it to allow you to unlock its value. When you can correlate and extract information, you can gain all manner of insight into your business and environment.

“Video analytics has been part of security systems for 10 to 15 years. Traditionally, security departments used video analytics as a reactive tool that could detect something in a live video stream and then create an event that operators could respond to.

But organizations have come to realize that you can use video, as well as other related data from access control and license plate recognition, for more than physical security. Since then, video analytics, powered by the advances in computing power, has evolved considerably to extract very reliable and powerful data from our video streams.

“And the industry itself is getting better at presenting the mined data in more consumable ways. We’re seeing a more end-user-oriented approach towards the development of systems.

Instead of just providing all the data that is available, solution providers are looking at what users need and how to present that information in the clearest possible way.”

Matusek says Genetec is seeing several major vertical sectors where video analytics is generating a lot of interest - including retail, airports, and traffic management.

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“Retailers see video analytics as a key tool for gathering information about how many people come into their stores, what they do while there, and which products they are looking at,” he explains.

“Using this information displayed in heat maps or in people counting applications, they can analyse merchandising browsing behaviours and calculate conversion rates: how many people go into their stores vs. how many people buy products. Then, with greater understanding of their customers’ behaviour, they can make informed business decisions, including item placement and staff optimization, to better serve shoppers.

“Meanwhile, airports are also looking to make better business decisions that will improve customer traffic and increase revenue – particularly ways to optimize the flow of people through their spaces to make the process of boarding and disembarking as efficient as possible. Video analytics is a great tool for understanding how long people stand in security lines, where roadblocks occur, and where people gather. With this information, airports can optimize their staffing, reduce known congestion sites, and inform passengers where they should go and how long they can expect to wait in security lines. This will allow people to move through lines and checkpoints as quickly as possible, which can result in a direct increase in the revenue generated by duty-free shopping.

“And we are seeing also seeing a big push in smart cities to measure traffic in a reliable and flexible way. The data collected and understood through video analytics can provide cities with valuable information about what’s happening on their roads, how many cars are on a given street or how many cars are going through a specific intersection. This data can be invaluable for city planning, particularly when it comes to traffic coordination. This would not only make commuters happy but could also reduce car emissions as vehicles would travel at a more consistent speed.”

According to Matusek, the functionalities end users are most interested in are real-time event detection.

“But ultimately, video analytics is a means of creating value in many different industries through a variety of solutions,” Matusek explains. “As acceptance grows, video analytics is moving away from existing as a separate standalone application.

Security platforms that come with built-in analytics are speeding up deployment and delivering accurate results.”

If Genetec was adding analytics to an existing solution, what would the process and the ultimate network topology look like? Server-based or analytics at the edge?

“Before we dive into the pros and cons of each option, let’s clarify the terms,” says Matusek. “When we refer to edge-based analytics, this means that the camera or encoder is processing the image and creating metadata. In a server-based analytics setup, video streams are sent to and processed on the server, independently from the cameras. Each option

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is viable and effective but choosing the best option will depend on your environment.

“When you process analytics on the camera, the main advantage is that you’re able to reduce bandwidth usage. You can set up a distributed system architecture and lower server costs, too.

That’s because the camera filters the information, so you avoid having to transfer all video data to the servers. However, this is only true if you are only storing the video which the analytics solution has classified as relevant. This means that if you want to keep all video for a certain period, or just keep all video with motion-detected events, you would not gain much value from this option.

“When you opt for server-based analytics, you’re free to choose any cameras you want. This can be particularly advantageous to anyone who is upgrading their security system and wants to reduce costs by keeping existing edge devices. While it’s best to check with your analytics provider, serverbased analytics usually work with most cameras, regardless of the camera vendor or model. Another big advantage is that you’ll get better performance.

Servers have more processing power and can process more video and more analytics applications.

In return, leveraging the processing power allows for the development of more advanced analytics.

How important is VMS integration for implementing analytics with an operational focus?

“Very important,” Matusek says. “One big change is that customers are demanding more and more analytics tightly coupled with the VMS. In the end, video analytics should be something running in the background, providing additional information to usual VMS operations. Customers see it as part of the VMS and don’t want to use separate configuration interfaces and take completely separate training classes to learn a new user interface. And in the end, if there are issues with either VMS or analytics, customers want one team to talk to.”

How hard is setting up and commissioning analytics systems? Is it beyond integrators and does it need to be handled in partnership with suppliers?

“Analytics still require specific know-how, so

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proper training for integrators is essential,” Matusek says. “However, any scalable video analytics solution should be deployable without supplier involvement after technicians have been properly trained. Of course, suppliers will always have their back in case something goes wrong, or a specific use case requires extraordinary analytics know-how.

“Modern analytics solution put the application for the user before the technology itself. In the end, analytics are a means to achieve a business outcome for the customer, so a perfect analytics solution focuses on outcomes rather than touting the latest and greatest technology it uses.”

Over at Milestone Systems, Mike Metcalfe sees analytics as a key dynamic to the future of video surveillance.

“Automated processes through video AI and metadata analysis can only strengthen business operations, not only for security but beyond security business operations into areas such as consumer heat mapping in retail settings and workplace optimisation,” Metcalfe explains. “Access to business intelligence enables businesses to become more efficient. Analytics and video analysis will certainly be an enabler.

“We find that requirements differ depending on the vertical. In smart cities for example, it may be shooter detection triangulation, perimeter breaches and thermal object tracking as a start. The mining industry looks for business intelligence statistics about its vehicles and their route frequencies through GPS data.”

When it comes to the layout of the analytics solution, Metcalfe argues this depends on the exact requirements of the site and what the outcomesbased expectations are.

“A good combination of both can really give you a great solution,” he explains. “We work with some excellent, well-respected server-side analytical partners that can deliver a host of desirable outcomes. With edge devices being manufactured smarter and to run leaner by way of more efficient and faster chipsets, this allows for a wider choice of clever, AI edge-based analytics, which in turn

enables solutions to scale more simply, based on the specified requirements. It’s important when choosing solutions to remember to consider an open technology that enables their analytics to be available on any platform and not just to work in a proprietary environment.

For Metcalfe, VMS integration is integral to implementing analytics with an operational focus.

“When a system can manage various vendor analytics, both server and edge-based, and tie those to different connected technologies thereby creating the combined effect of automating what used to be human operational tasks, then the power of that technology simply cannot be ignored,” he says.

According to Metcalfe, installation, calibration and commissioning of well-designed analytics is not beyond integrators.

“Some analytics do require more calibration than others,” he explains. “Some require learning periods and then tweaking. The challenge for integrators, I think, is finding what really fits the needs of their customer’s application. You may consider selecting a core group of technologies which supports most requirements, knowing that anything outside of that core group can be investigated and tested before being deployed.”

What would the perfectly balanced analytic solution look like and how would it function, in Metcalfe’s opinion?

“Wouldn’t it be great if the solution delivered outcomes for various facets of a business?

Consider an outside/inward approach through a building,” he says. “Let’s start with access control, where automated entry to the employee parking area based on license plate recognition, matched with a vehicle’s make, model and colour. Then upon entry to the premises, the system recognises the employee’s face at the card scanning entry point.

“In the lobby entry automated speed gates use facial recognition to allow access, as well as monitoring tailgating and wrong-way passing and for lift management biometric scanning defines which floor level an elevator should travel to for the employee. Next comes business intelligence which shows heatmapping for employee location frequency, while people counting can be used in the event of evacuation to ensure security teams know who is on the site and who is not.

“Then there are things like dwell time and loitering: Solutions will map how much time is spent in non-productive areas or areas less frequented, while wellness and work life balance analytics functions will tell workers they have spent too long at their desk and it’s time to move, eat a snack, or take a lunch break. All of this is intended to contribute to employee operational efficiency by delivering more value and driving positive outcomes to an organisation’s business delivery.” n

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HEALTH CHECK Solutions in the healthcare vertical represent some of the most complex integrations created and take-up of technology means healthcare applications demand increasingly complex security and automation systems.

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CCORDING to Danny Berkovic of Fredon Security, healthcare undoubtedly demands increasingly complex security

solutions.

“Integrated systems should provide a more seamless experience in an environment where security must always take lesser priority behind the provision of life-saving services – the systems must keep staff and patients safe without getting in the way,” he explains. “Simple interfaces that provide complex functionality are achieved via integrations and these can sometimes be very complex behind the scenes. Further, healthcare is an environment that is always budget constrained – because any money spent on security is not being spent on patient care. It is critical that the systems that secure a health care environment work reliably

24x7, not only for the patients but also for the staff.”

The complexity of such solutions seems to argue that a large base hospital demands a bespoke solution but according to Berkovic, that’s not always the case.

“It is possible to undertake a healthcare application, such as a large base hospital, with some of the advanced access control systems that are available off-the-shelf,” he says. “This includes some of the more advanced access control systems that provide high-level integrations to VMS and other systems such as nurse-call. In these environments it’s important to have vendor-supported integrations, as too much customisation can lead to future support issues when upgrading sub-systems.

A good solution, if the budget allows, is a PSIM. This is particularly well suited to a retrofit environment where sub-systems may be ageing out at different intervals.

“Our experience in hospital environments suggests that when building integrated systems access control comes first but video surveillance comes a close second. This is because, historically, a good access control system prevents an incident while surveillance allows the security team to review an incident retrospectively. The rapid evolution of affordable and reliable video analytics will quickly change this equation.”

How complicated are these applications? How long are the lead times, how demanding is the work, from installation through to writing applicationspecific code?

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“Bespoke application development is not necessarily complicated to write,” explains Berkovic. “The entire process can be complicated if done properly – and far more complicated if not. A full requirements-gathering process must be followed, including the development of comprehensive use-cases and test scenarios to ensure that the functionality developed is what the end users expect. Also, designing with maintenance and upgrades in mind is essential, but does not necessarily prevent future complexities if, for example, API’s are deprecated.”

Which is hardest, brownfield or greenfield healthcare applications?

“Both are difficult, but I would suggest that modernising a brownfield site is more difficult,” says Berkovic. “A lot of analysis needs to be done to understand existing systems and budget constraints usually don’t allow for a ‘forklift’ upgrade. Hence, a brownfield upgrade is usually a series of projects to replace subsystems while maintaining the 24x7 operations of the environment.”

Are such applications as much about managing interest groups as integrating systems?

“Integrating systems” is a broad term for making 2 systems work together,” Berkovic says.

“Understanding the details of how they should work together to achieve the goals of the interest groups is the real work. It can be made even more difficult if there are competing priorities from interest groups.

“And when it comes to commercial partnerships, it is important for any supplier to a hospital environment to understand that the lives of patients and staff are at stake. Any suppliers who are not willing to partner – sometimes with their competitors – are working in the wrong environment.”

A key question for integrators is the sub systems a typical healthcare integration would bring together.

“Typical sub system integrations could include access control, video surveillance, intercoms, nursecall, RTLS (real time locations services) for equipment and patients, and patient entertainment,” Berkovic says. “Additionally, different environments add specific sub-systems, such as psychiatric care and geriatric care, etc.”

“Increasingly analytics are part of this. Analytics that help video surveillance systems transition from being a reactive service to a proactive service are essential. The specifics on which analytics help most depends on the particular environment – healthcare is not uniform, and environments vary greatly from emergency wards and acute psychiatric units to dementia care.”

Management systems are also vital to a healthcare integration, according to Berkovic.

“It’s more difficult to define a coherent management system than it is to create one,” Berkovic explains. “The technical elements are challenging but defining the functionality and planning a full lifecycle is the real complexity.

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Remember that the quality end users most value in a healthcare security and automation solution is reliability.”

What advice would Berkovic give to integration companies looking to expand into healthcare when it comes to the pitfalls and the challenges?

“Bring a team which genuinely cares about the environment they are working in,” he says. “Be prepared for callouts at all hours and then maintain systems so you don’t receive such calls. Patient and staff wellbeing is more important than apportioning blame when issues arise. Finally, develop a true partnership with your client.”

According to Wai King Wong of Axis Communications, there is a direct relationship between technology evolution and providing improved patient care in healthcare applications.

“Medical institutions that adopt new technologies are well-positioned to provide better care and more valuable service to patients and their families, Wong explains. “More than that, new technologies may help diminish loss, identify potential risk and improve operational efficiencies.

“A comprehensive risk assessment that considers the specific needs of hospitals is fundamental for a successful installation. The installer must consider product availability or obsolescence, the availability of after-sales support from the manufacturer, ongoing maintenance and disruption to hospital processes during the installation.”

Something for integrators and installers to consider is whether hospital solutions are typically built around access and intrusion, or video surveillance. According to Wong, the latest integrated solutions blur the lines, with CCTV increasingly important.

“Network based technologies are driving new trends and making hospital management smarter,” he explains. “Video surveillance cameras, which used to be only part of the hospital CCTV system, are becoming communication and data capturing devices on the network. This can enhance patient satisfaction, patient care and, above all, enable automatic, efficient and safe processes. Seeing cameras as sensors opens new possibilities. We believe that the hospitals of the future will utilise video surveillance cameras to continuously assess risks, generate automatic alerts, streamline processes, and analyse large volumes of data.

“And it’s always easier on a greenfield site because the installer is not working around existing structures, instead the installation begins when the cabling is going in,” says Wong. “It means less drilling into concrete walls and trenching. But modernizing an analogue CCTV system does not have to mean scrapping the investment in legacy cameras. All analogue systems can be digitalized with the simple addition of a video encoder, a small box that converts the analogue signal into digital, without significant impact on hospital operations.” n

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“Features include the capability to handle 10 faces simultaneously with 3-4 faces per second recognition, face VIP greetings, block list warning, face attendance, face check-in and a database hosting up to 10,000 faces,” says Trethowan. “The accuracy rate is significantly increased with ultra-starlight and white light illumination technology. The GUI is simple, user-friendly and highly effective. Real time alarms, face database management, face information and statistics make this technology a great choice for all applications.”

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PARADOX HD SERIES l PARADOX HD series is an all-in-one motion detector and

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GALLAGHER SHC UTILITY FOR COMMAND CENTRE l GALLAGHER’s customers can use the new Security Health Check utility to run an automated check via their Gallagher Command Centre system at any time, reducing the time and expense of performing regular manual audits.

SHC identifies system vulnerabilities, assesses the severity of the threat, and provides specific recommendations to mitigate the risk and ensure correct system configuration. It also provides a mechanism to compare against earlier audit results to ensure organisations can track improvement over time and better plan system upgrades.

Gallagher said it dedicates significant resource to the research and development of cyber-secure solutions and has a commitment to helping customers gain full visibility and a deep understanding of how the security system works.

“We designed Security Health Check to give sites ownership of the state of their system,” said Steve Bell, chief technology officer at Gallagher. “Security risks and system vulnerabilities aren’t static, it’s important to us to promote and support a culture of ongoing improvement within our industry.”

Distributor: Gallagher Contact: +61 2 9412 4477

INNER RANGE RELEASES INTEGRITI 19 l INTEGRITI 19 is now available for download and brings a

number of new features and improvements to the Integriti platform, including a new camera interface, evidence vault and partitions.

Integriti 19 has a completely overhauled CCTV camera interface allowing users to view multiple cameras using a variety of standard layout configurations, to control items associated with cameras directly from the video stream, easily navigate with the timeline, control PTZ tours directly from the video stream, enforce aspect ratios on a per-camera basis and export short clips or snapshots to file or the Evidence Vault.

Evidence Vault is a new interface that allows any file to be stored and retrieved for later use. Evidence is stored with cryptographic hashes, so tampering with any evidence extracted from the vault can be detected. Another feature that is available in Integriti version 19 is called Partitioned Systems, which allows entities to exist solely within the partition they were created in.

Distributor: Inner Range Contact: +61 3 9780 4300

OUTDOOR, LONG RANGE 2-WAY WIRELESS REED SWITCH FROM DSC l BGW Technologies has launched the DSCPG4312 Power-G Wireless Outdoor Magnetic Contact with Auxiliary Input from DSC. It is compatible with DSC PowerSeries NEO and DSC iotega and will be in stock in July 2019.

The DSCPG4312 is perfect for both residential and high-volume commercial use. This robust device is designed to protect outdoor entries and exits, including perimeter gates, pool and garden enclosures, shed doors, windows and more.

This outdoor magnetic contact offers IP66 certified for dusttight and waterproof rating, with a long-lasting battery and reliable operation in severe weather conditions, including operating temperature range of -40C to +66C and configurable auxiliary input options for NC, NO, SEOL or DEOL applications.

The Power-G technology used with DSCPG4312 offers FHSS technology, and 2-way 128-bit AES encryption.

Distributor: BGW Technologies Contact: +61 2 9674 4255

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Q: How much impact do chromatic aberrations in lenses have on the value of CCTV streams?

A: It depends. Sometimes it’s acceptable if you are also getting excellent low light performance.

It’s when you’re zooming in from a distance or using digital zoom and identifying features and start running low on pixels that CAs that are 3-10 pixels wide start ruining camera performance. CAs are caused by different wavelengths of light being focussed in different planes and are a product of lens design. They may occur in internal or external applications. When it comes to video surveillance, CAs are not the end of the world and you’d exchange a measure of CA for improved low light performance.

Severe chromatic aberration will soften images in the presence of significant backlight or reflected light. You can improve CAs by stopping down (using a longer focal length will reduce aperture), changing the angle of view to remove the high contrast areas, or by buying higher quality lenses with improved optical equations. Some lenses and some camera brands are especially susceptible to CAs – even

Our panel of experts answers your questions.

in top shelf gear.

Q: When it comes to analytics, what’s the key piece of the puzzle from the point of view of getting the performance you want?

A: It’s tempting to say it’s the cameras – they are much more important than you’d think. Camera quality and selecting the correct focal length to guarantee the proper number of pixels in the areas you want best performance is vital.

Something else you need to consider with any analytics solution is whether or not it actually offers the rules your application is looking for. The analytic toolbox might have 20 or 30 rules to select from, but if none of those rules meets the operational requirements of your solution then you’re right back to square one.

Q: There are claims of extremely low light performance from surveillance manufacturers – yet we all saw at SecTech Camera Shootout that such claims don’t wash. What sort of performance would we be talking about if we can’t depend on specification sheets?

A: Many manufacturers claim to deliver crystal clear images in 0.01 lux unsupported by artificial light but typically these claims hinge on shutter

speeds so slow you’d get serious motion blur. And there’s a point with low light performance where pushing ISO generates lashing of noise. Obviously, there’s a point of balance, but you’re not going to find that balance pulling default cameras out of their boxes and screwing them to the wall.

At SecTech we saw that 8-10 lux is about right for unsupported street surveillance applications. It’s not going to be perfect – you’ll get some motion blur and some noise, but it will do – especially with bigger sensor sizes and better designed camera engines. You can get situational awareness underneath this lux threshold, but you’ll only get face recognition at very close ranges – a couple of metres or so. Finally, when using low light cameras try to match them with lenses with faster (smaller F number) apertures. For low light applications, a fast lens aperture like F0.95 or F1.2 is going to get more light to the sensor than a lens with an aperture of F2.8mm. But beware of WDR. Q: What’s the best PIR sensor technology?

A: The king of passive infrared sensors is the quadruple element sensor. It works on a different principle to the dual edge units that monitor passage from one part of a zone to another. The quad principle

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of detection aims to reduce the chance of false alarm caused by pets or small animals by clever design and without using “tune out” processing. Combining quad element and advanced signal processing should mean an even better sensor. Quads break each zone into 4 separate parts - imagine them as 4 boxes forming a square but remaining distinct from each other. Each of the elements has a different value. The 2 upper boxes are designated A+ and A- while the lower 2 boxes are B+ and B-.

What quads monitor these to see if they are being filled by the IRE signal of an intruder. It works like this. Each A box is matched negative and positive and it’s the same with the B boxes. As the processor monitors each of the 4 elements in a zone it considers the IRE level. When this breaks a certain threshold, the processor starts to calculate an equation over and over again. This equation is [A+B] - [A-B] = 0.

So long as the result of this calculation adds up to 0 then no alarm is activated.

Say a rat or mouse moves in the target area and its signal fills just one zone element with an IRE signal having a value of 2uJ. The processor computes this as [0+2] - [0-2] = [+2] - [-2] = 0 and there’s no alarm signal generated. But if an intruder with a value of 10uJ disturbs 2 elements then the processor calculates [10+10] - [10-10] = 20 - [0] = 20 - 0 = 20.

As 10 is the alarm threshold a value of 20 means alarm activation. In the field the quad is constantly running computations which essentially represent questions like “Was there a disturbance in any of the 4 elements? What was its value? Is it still there? Has it moved?”

Q: What’s the most important element of any electronic security system – hardware or software?

A: The most important element of any electronic security system is power supply and you should give serious consideration to selecting an uninterrupted power supply to support it. Part of this process is going to be deciding whether or not the security system is mission critical – if it is, then

your budget just increased 10x and you can create a capable solution. You’ll need to think about load, about runtime, whether the unit is rack or enclosure mounted, you might want to think about sine wave form – pure is best – remote management and monitoring via app.

Something else that’s going to be important is load shedding in the event the system goes over onto UPS. What parts of the electronic security solution can be powered down? UPS can be additionally supported with a generator.

It’s also possible to use local solar generation to support the system during daylight hours.

Q: How would you recommend applying geophone technology in perimeter security application?

A: The right way to use geophones is to have them trenched and buried.

Geophones provide high security protection with low false alarm rates so long as there are no stray passers-by coming anywhere near the boundaries.

Burying these sensors should be carried out carefully. Security managers and project managers overseeing geophone trenching should never ask the install team to cut corners.

Geophone trenches must be about 300mm wide and 150-300mm deep.

Where flat-based geophones are used, go for a 300mm trench and backfill with pea gravel or sand to 100mm before laying the geophone and cable and adding another 100mm of sand and then 100mm of earth tamped 10mm below ground level. This surface should then be planted with grass or covered with gravel to form a sound box. Spike geophones can be used in shallower trenches. They’re pressed into the base of the trench and then backfilled with layers of sand, gravel and earth. Depending on who installs the system, it’s recommended that security contractors carry out or supervise backfilling. Backfilling forms part of the sensor and should not be underestimated in terms of the system’s sensitivity. n

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