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May 2015 Issue 365

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l Review: ONSSI Ocularis IS l Home Automation: Fact or fantasy? l Review: Bosch DINION IP 8000 MP l Review: Hikvision HIK-2CD2332-I l Enterprise access control options l News Report: ISC West 2015 l Review: M-IPC-700A IPC tester l The Interview: Tyco’s Ken May and Leon Langlais

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Google sidling up to security and home automation

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UR electronic security industry has been a source of great entertainment from the perspective of technological leaps and bounds over the last couple of years. Nothing is going to change, if recent events are anything to go by.

If you thought video surveillance had dropped anchor at 1080p, you thought wrong. At ISC it was all 4K from quality makers and in the case of Avigilon, it was about 7K. And with all this talk of high resolution in the air, video compression is about to become the most important word on everyone’s lips.

Home automation was another key area of heat at ISC West, with stacks of new gear and plenty of talk about the potential of the low end of the home automation market – that means turbo-charged alarm panels optioned to handle the necessary inputs and outputs to take commands and drive external devices. Such is the focus on home automation it’s impossible not to believe solutions like ZeroWire and Risco et al, won’t become standard fare in the home security market.

There’s another driver too, and it’s not only Telstra, which has reportedly now chosen the platform it intends to employ in its cloud-based home security application.

It’s someone much bigger – Google.

When a company with 45,000 staff, and a market capitalisation of just under $US400 billion has your industry in its sights, you have to take things seriously.

Google’s patent allows for data sharing between neighbours so that if a burglary takes place across the street, protected houses’ external lights will come on and locks will engage.

That’s why it’s worth paying attention to the fact Google recently published a patent it bought last year titled ‘Security Scoring in a SmartSensored Home’. The patent relates to security ‘scores’ to audibly alert customers if they are correctly using their security systems.

In addition to a number of smart home features, the Google patent details its Smart Doorknob and Smart Doorbell, the former of which includes a remote-controlled lock.

The doorbell recognizes the person at the door, communicates information via registered mobile device and then allows them to remotely unlock the door.

Google’s patent outlines a process by which if an occupant receives a notice from their smart doorbell that a trusted person is approaching, they can use a mobile device or audible command to unlock the door. Google’s patent also includes Smart Entry Detectors for windows and doors. These detectors will send alerts through wireless communications such as ZigBee when windows or doors are open and broken.

But there’s more. Google’s patent allows for data sharing between neighbours so that if a burglary takes place across the street, protected houses’ external lights will come on and locks will engage. Last year, after Google’s acquisition of Nest Labs, SEN

observed that it was unlikely Google would enter the traditional alarm monitoring space. We might be wrong.

Exactly what this is going to mean for traditional security providers is a little difficult to tell. Most the security technology we’ve seen from telcos has been fairly ordinary and built to a price point that incorporates a healthy profit margin. But no matter what Google does, it’s likely to fuel a welter of competition and imitation – and it will be IP-based from top to toe.

SecTech 2015 & HD Camera Shootout SecTech is on the road in Brisbane on May 4, Sydney on May 6, Melbourne on May 11, Adelaide on May 13 and Perth on May 18. Don’t miss your chance to see the best home automation, intrusion, access control and video surveillance solutions from Bosch, Hills, CSD, Tyco, QSS, Ness, Mobotix, HID, Sylo, Panasonic, Axis, LSC, Geutebruck and Canon in the comfort of your home town.

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When it comes to enterprise access control options, who has what and what are the key advantages of each system?

48: Sectech Roadshow Showcase Check out some of the products you’ll get to see at SecTech Roadshow, coming to Brisbane on May 4, Sydney on May 6, Melbourne on May 11, Adelaide on May 13 and Perth on May 18. Don’t miss the HD Camera Shootout!

ONSSI Ocularis IS, distributed locally

by BGWT, is a sleek and intuitive video management solution that offers comprehensive capabilities at multiple levels and supports local and enterprise applications.

56: ISC West 2015 ISC West is the biggest and most vibrant security technology expo on the planet and there was a bunch of new stuff on show in Las Vegas.

28: Protect your health ASSA ABLOY Aperio wireless locks are protecting patients and confidential patient data at Hospital Maria Middelares in Belgium.

30: Starlight, star bright

60: The Interview: Ken May and Leon Langlais

Bosch’s 5MP Bosch DINION IP starlight 8000 MP camera is a low light camera that offers a minimum scene illumination of 0.00825 at 1080p and 0.0121 at 5MP at 30ips, along with 119dB of wide dynamic range. We’ve looked at this camera in the light box but this is the first time we’ve seen it in the wild.

Tyco Security Products has changed its route to market and is now being distributed in Australia exclusively by Hills Ltd. It’s a significant move for both companies, as well as for integrators and end users who rely on iconic brands like DSC, Software House, CEM and American Dynamics.

36: Hikvision HIK-2CD2332-I Hikvision’s HIK-2CD2332-I turret camera is a compact and capable low cost day night PoE camera from the company’s 2-Line range. In this review, we’ll put the camera through its paces day and night and see if its popularity is justified.

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76: Selecting and installing HD cameras HD cameras incorporate so many variables, from sensor type and processors to lens and compression engine, that making a balanced decision about what constitutes the ideal HD CCTV camera is an extremely difficult business.

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There’s loads of talk about home automation impacting on alarm monitoring but when you look at the numbers, do they suggest the impact is significant right now?

70: Gee, whiz We’re only just getting used to the idea of 4G mobile communications with reasonable download and uploads speeds becoming achievable.

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SELECTING AND INSTALLING HD CAMERAS

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l Review: ONSSI Ocularis IS l Home Automation: Fact or fantasy? l Review: Bosch DINION IP 8000 MP l Review: Hikvision HIK-2CD2332-I l Enterprise access control options l News Report: ISC West 2015 l Review: M-IPC-700A IPC tester l The Interview: Tyco’s Ken May and Leon Langlais

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

88: helpdesk Our team of electronic security experts answers your tough technical questions.

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Hills and Tyco Security Products Make it Exclusive

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HID, OnSSI, Phybridge make acquisitions

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HID Global has acquired Quantum Secure, a provider of software solutions for managing identities, access compliance and provisioning access within physical security infrastructure, for an undisclosed amount.

With this acquisition, HID Global will enhance its ability to deliver an end-to-end identity management solution.

Additionally, the firm’s representatives say the deal will help HID Global address customer needs in managing identity, risk and compliance.

Video management software company On-Net Surveillance Systems (OnSSI) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SeeTec AG, a German-based company providing VMS solutions to European markets.

Both OnSSI and SeeTec are privately owned and considered among the biggest VMS providers in their

respective markets. In a press release announcing the deal, SeeTec is described as one of the first providers of network-based video management applications, providing customers with targeted solutions aligned with customer requirements and industry-specific processes.

Phybridge, an IP transmission products provider credited as being the first company to introduce switch technology that delivers Ethernet and PoE over a single pair of wire, has announced its plans to purchase IP and PoE transmission products provider NVT. The deal will allow NVT to grow in the IP market, according to Phybridge CEO John Croce.

“Phybridge’s innovative solutions will allow NVT to continue its existing dominance in the analog market and carry it to the IP world,” Croce says.

Axis Zipstream Compression, Half Storage and Bandwidth of H.264 n AXIS Communications’ Zipstream is a new compression technology the company says consumes half the storage and bandwidth of H.264.

“We launched H.264 in 2008; people ask if Zipstream is as big of a deal? It’s a bigger deal,” Fredrik Nilsson, Axis

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Communications GM Americas told SSN recently.

“Zipstream is fully compatible with the existing H.264 standard and all the video management systems out there,” Nilsson said.

“Integrators can upgrade most [Axis] cameras right away with a firmware

update.

According to Nilsson, Zipstream works by filtering blue sky or moving trees [for example] that are not very interesting - you then compress harder for an average or 50 per cent or more reduction in bandwidth and storage.

HILLS Ltd and Tyco Security Products have made their distribution arrangement exclusive acrossTyco’s range of access control, video and intrusion products including Tyco Security Product’s sought after Digital Security Controls (DSC) range.

Ted Pretty signed the exclusive deal with Tyco Security Products Sales executive Ken May at the Hills Tech Expo in Sydney. Ted Pretty said the deal was good business for both companies: “As Australia’s leading distributor of trusted technology brands Hills can offer Tyco Security Products great access to the market here.”

Ken May agreed: “Tyco Security Products is looking forward to building our Australian business with Hills, an iconic Australian company.”

The addition of the DSC range means that all Tyco Security Products’ brands will be available through Hills including access control products from Software House, CEM and Kantech, video management products from American Dynamics and Exacq, and intrusion products from Visonic.

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SecTech Roadshow – Don’t Miss it! n SECTECH Roadshow, a touring security technology exhibition, brings the latest and greatest products from Bosch, CSD, Hills, Tyco Security Products, Canon, Panasonic, Q Security Systems, Sylo, Ness, HID, LSC, Geutebruck, Mobotix and Axis Communications, to your home town for one day.

As well as seeing all the latest video surveillance, home automation, intrusion

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detection and access control technology from Australia’s leading companies, you’ll also get a chance to see the big HD Camera Shootout.

The best HD cameras on the market today will be pitted against each other in bright light, low light and backlight and only one will win!

There are plenty of giveaways at SecTech.

Visit the Bosch display at SecTech to go into the draw to win a bar fridge valued

at $A429RRP. There are 2 fridges to be won each day in each state. Ness is giving away 5 NVIEW 4-channel SDI DVRs, with one winner per city drawn from trade attendees.

Hikvision will be giving away models from its popular 2-Line camera range, while Mobotix will give away one of its new c25 hemispheric cameras (includes the newly released MxAnalytics software for

As well as seeing all the latest video surveillance, home automation, intrusion detection and access control technology from Australia’s leading companies, you’ll also get a chance to see the big HD Camera Shootout.

object or people counting, with heat map reporting) in each city. Every happy hour, every city, at SecTech Roadshow, Tyco Security Products will give away a DSC Impassa and Alarm. com kit.

Please note - everything is FREE at Sectech! Yes, that’s right - free entry, free parking (you need to preregister right now to score this) and a free Happy Hour between 4.30-6pm.

SecTech Roadshow makes it easy for everyone across Australia to see the electronic security industry’s best new products and technologies in their own state capital.

No need to waste time and money travelling interstate – we bring the show to you!

SecTech Roadshow is in Brisbane May 4, Sydney on May 6, Melbourne on May 11, Adelaide on May 13 and Perth people on May 18. Register now at www. sectechroadshow.com.au

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Manny Pirrotta Appointed FLIR Head of Security ANZ, PNG

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Bardo Museum’s Head of Security Sacked After Terror Attack n BARDO Museum’s head of security was sacked after 21 people, including European tourists and Australian, Javier Carmelo, were murdered by Islamist militants at Bardo Museum in Tunis.

Along with Bardo Museum’s head of security, Tunisia’s Prime Minister

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Habib Essid also sacked the head of tourist security, the head of intelligence, local police chiefs and a traffic police commander.

As well as highlighting the career-ending consequences security teams face if their systems and procedures fail to thwart terror attacks, the

murders at the Bardo Museum again underline the weaknesses of electronic security solutions when faced with extreme violence.

Footage from Bardo CCTV cameras clearly shows gunmen armed with automatic weapons and grenades methodically

hunting tourists inside the museum. But just as the access control system failed to protect staff at Charlie Hebdo, the cameras simply provide a record of the horrific events.

A magnet for tourists, Bardo is one of the most magnificent museums of the Mediterranean. Its vast collection represents thousands of years of civilisation, from Carthage, Hadrumetum, Dougga, or Utica in Tunisia, to Greece and Roman Africa. Now scarred by bullets and shrapnel, the museum has reopened.

After visiting recently, Lebanese tourist Vola Abboud told The Associated Press, “You see this special art people did, the people’s history…and now you see the ugly people, this is what they did…”

Manny Pirrotta

MANNY Pirrotta, formerly of BGWT, has been appointed FLIR head of security for Australia, New Zealand, PNG and the South Pacific Islands. FLIR is the world’s leading manufacturer of thermal surveillance technology.

This is a key role, given FLIR’s recent acquisitions of CCTV power houses like DigiMerge and Lorex Technology, each of which occupies different and highly significant layers of the huge North American market.

“FLIR is going to surprise the market this year with key product releases in a number of areas,” said Pirrotta. “Security is seen with the company as a key area of growth and we will be focusing on this area over the next couple of years.”

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BGWT Distributing Risco, Graham Clark Now Branch Manager for NSW and ACT

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Access Control Sales Remain Stable in Australia n According to access control manufacturers, enterprise access control is either experiencing growth or sales are remaining stable across Australia.

While video surveillance is an optional extra for many companies and government organisations, access control is a key element of every building’s infrastructure. And centralised management of multiple access controlled sites is an imperative that continues to support the enterprise access control market.

According to Gallagher’s chief technology officer

– security, Steve Bell, Gallagher has just come off the back of another strong year.

“We’ve seen success across markets including healthcare, government, entertainment, and education,” said Bell.

“And a majority of our access control business is currently driven by projects from our existing customer base, mostly at enterprise level.

“In general, the demand for both SME and large projects hasn’t grown too rapidly, due to such factors as the upcoming government elections – state-by-state

– and tighter restrictions on spending. It is in our experience that the demand for both SME and enterprise access control remains stable in the Australian market.”

Meanwhile, Honeywell’s product marketing manager access systems and home solutions, Sam Hollins, says the company is experiencing growth in its access control business.

“We are growing – enterprise requirements are increasingly necessary as global companies enter Australian space and have the need to interface with their global headquarters,”

Hollins said.

For Steve Katanas of HID, enterprise access control is an area the company sees growth.

“We expect growth from large enterprises, banks or facility upgrade projects,” said Katanas.

It is in our experience that the demand for both SME and enterprise access control remains stable in the Australian market.

Jemsoft Portcullis Beta Testing at University of South Australia n SOUTH Australian start-up Jemsoft begins beta testing its Portcullis intelligent video analytic solution at the University of South Australia in May. Portcullis can be integrated with existing CCTV cameras the system and it works by analysing whether the facial features of individuals approaching an automatic door are obscured and establishing how quickly they’re moving.

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Jemsoft received $A50,000 from Venture Catalyst, a joint venture between the South Australian government and the University of South Australia, which provides funding to allow start-ups to take new technology to market.

The start-up’s co-founder Jordan Green deferred from an IT degree specialising in network security to work on the project after

being the victim of an armed robbery while working in a bottle shop.

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to provide a proactive security solution for service stations and convenience stores.

BGWT has been appointed a distributor of Risco products and Graham Clark has been appointed BGWT branch manager for NSW and ACT. The newly appointed Clark said the BGWT business is going well.

“We have new staff starting with the company shortly and we’ve had 2 of the biggest months ever,” said Clark. “We are growing year-on-year and some of our product lines have tripled sales in the last 12 months, so we are in a very positive space at the moment.

“We have a lot of great projects in the pipeline and with the appointment of Risco, we are now able to look at intrusion,” he said. “I believe Risco’s intrusion products offer installers a stack of benefits, the most important being flexibility.

“Risco also has a number of products that are not yet released in Australia, they will be very interesting to watch in a number of key market segments in the near future,” Clark said.

When it comes to the loss of Tyco Security Products brands which are now exclusive to Hills in the wake of Tyco’s change in distribution strategy, Clark is sanguine.

“Software House and Visonic were the only Tyco brands we carried and while they were good products, we are very happy with to be working with Risco on intrusion and concentrating on our premium access control solution - S2,” he said. “Risco is just up the road and we get great support from their team.”

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NSSI Ocularis has always been a pleasing video management solution and over the past few years the system’s fundamentals have remained the same, while additional capability has been polished into the system. In this feature I’m going to take a look at the process of installing ONSSI IS onto a server and then installing and programming cameras and driving the system.

The system we’re building is the new SEN camera test bed. Our hardware is a Dell 9020 server workstation with an Intel i7-4770 quadcore processor with 8 threads of execution per core – ideal for handling multiple streams of high resolution video. Clock speed is 3.4GHz, we have 8GB of RAM, expandable to 32GB, and a 500GB HDD, which is plenty for testing.

The Dell 9020 sports a dedicated AMD Radeon R7 250 graphics card with 2GB of RAM. With one of the best processors available and a dedicated graphics card, this is a strong unit that will allow us to get the best out of the cameras we review. We have 290W of power onboard for powering auxiliary devices, along with 8 USB 2.0 and 4 USB 3.0 doorways. A Netgear GS108P ProSafe 8-port Gigabit switch with 4-port PoE ushers cameras into our subnet.

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With ONSSI Ocularis, there are a number of different installation packages for local applications, including IS, CS and PS. All share similar architecture and have no limit on expansion of camera numbers or storage capacity. Ocularis enterprise applications are LS and ES.

Installing Ocularis IS Assisting with the process and giving me a simultaneous demonstration of the Ocularis IS solution is Graham Clark of ONSSI’s Australian distributor, BGWT. According to Clark, the process of installing ONSSI onto the server is a relatively simple one. If you are sorted with licenses, then it’s a matter of procedure.

Watching Clark work, it quickly becomes obvious this is true. Simplifying matters, in this small application we’ll have everything on a single server workstation, but in larger systems the structure might include a base on a smaller server and then a recorder on another server in another location. That can complicate the commissioning process thanks to the addition of steps but it remains straightforward enough.

Under the root directory in C drive Clark has created a folder called ‘Installs’ which has all the install files, as well as a text file with base SLC’s, which is the license identifying number. In the same file, there’s a license file we can use to license the recorder.

“As far as ONSSI installation goes, you download one file, it’s the same file for PS, IS or CS, and launch it. That file extracts Ocularis components from a remote server and saves them into a folder I’ve created here on this machine,” Clark explains. “So first we install the base and after that it’s a next, next, next thing via the wizard.

“Ok, that’s the base done,” says Clark, pointing at the monitor screen. “If you are doing a new install, all you have is that icon on the desktop – it’s the license activation tool. What you do from there is enter your SLC by browsing into the license server, the status pops up, tells you if you have a plan in place, the expiry date and a summary of your base licenses.

“You click on ‘install Ocularis components’ – which takes you to a flash website and each component is installed on the machine from that website. All the install packages reside on that base and the great thing about this is that if 12 months down the track someone wants to add a new client or recorder server, it’s very easy to do – you just click and follow the wizard.”

We set about installing Ocularis components and, like the base, it’s a simple process. To install you simply click on the recording component and hit yes.

Along with other components like Management, Recorder Manager and Client, there’s the proxy, which is a separate piece of software we might use when connecting alarm inputs to the base. Clark bounces through the wizard, next, next, next.

“As you can see, we now have all these icons on the desktop,” he says. “Top is the management

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application – that’s your recorder manager and you’ll spend quite a bit of time configuring cameras on the system, configuring recording parameters and bit rate settings.

“The next one down is Ocularis Admin – it’s used to configure the base. Anything that’s global to the system. Anything to do with views, user setup, permissions, anything that might be held in that central database to do with access, alarms.”

Next is Ocularis client, which is the cockpit from which to drive cameras linked to the system.

Underneath these icons is a viewer – it’s used to connect directly to a recorder and view footage in raw. There’s an export viewer as well and the proxy, along with the driver pack and license folder.

Installing cameras With ONSSI Ocularis successfully installed, it’s time to add a camera. The process is handled in the management application. There’s a wizard when you first run this application that lets you adjust basic settings but you can add everything manually later through the tree directory. It’s simple, though I manage to get lost in the tree directory the first time I install a camera by myself.

We instruct the system to scan the network for cameras and find a couple. It’s easier to scan for all manufacturers on a network with a small number of cameras than to scan down the huge list of compatible camera makers ticking boxes. The system automatically selects cameras it has direct drivers for.

The first thing to do is set up the camera so it’s on the same subnet as the machine. With our NVR defaulted to 0.10, I set the first camera to 0.20 by browsing into the default IP address using the manufacturer’s integrated utility. It’s straightforward. I open explorer, find the camera, double click, download the browser and change the IP address.

Once the system has scanned and discovered the camera, you can access it through the directory tree in Ocularis RC-1 management. The tree operates on the basis of drop-downs and you click on an adjacent + symbol to open more options. If you are changing the IP address of a camera you go into hardware device, if you are just changing the settings of the camera, you go into settings.

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Install packages reside on that base and the great thing about this is that if 12 months down the track someone wants to add a new client or recorder server, it’s very easy to do

says Clark. “A lot of things within the recorder are replicated, so there are multiple ways to get to the same settings. Each camera is represented in 2 ways.

You have your hardware device here, here are the basic IP settings and your driver. But if I click on the camera and click on properties, there are more settings, including camera properties and settings for video and audio.”

Later on when I’m exploring the system by myself, I spend some time with the Camera Properties tool, which allows you to tweak settings. Options include adjusting settings like contrast, hue, saturation, target bit rate, stream profile and more. Once you select a camera setting here, you then push that back out to the camera. Alternatively, you can make that change to the camera via browser and Ocularis Manager will pull it in as well.

According to Clark, this Camera Properties screen changes a lot depending on the level of integration between the camera and the VMS. With brands like Axis, Sony, and Bosch, you have many settings, while others may just have streaming. The 2 tabs that stand out include General for camera settings and Video where you adjust things like frame rate. Additional functionalities in General include recording and audio, motion detection, event notification, privacy mask, 360-degree lens setup and others. Selection of the archiving path is located here as well but with a single 500GB platter, that won’t change for us just yet.

We set up camera and video settings with recording properties of ‘Always’.

“When you add a camera, particularly if it’s a live view, what you do is get into Ocularis administrator and follow the tabs from left to right,” says Clark.

“We’ve added the camera to the management of the recorder, so the next thing we want to do is refresh the server to save the configuration of the camera.

Each time you do this, you then see the cameras here in the dropdown directory. If I remove a camera, it will still exist in this base until I refresh again.

“From there you go to Users and give permission to the camera,” explains Clark. “You do this by finding the cameras that are unprivileged and selecting them by right clicking and going to new group, or by dragging them down. That gives permission to admin for those cameras.”

A tab that’s useful for live management of a system is Views, which can be selected in multiple

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configurations. Regardless of screen configuration, each of these tiles can contain a default camera and you set them up by clicking and dragging a camera across. There are carousel settings if you have multiple cameras.

“There are also default conditions that can happen on a view – hotspot – which brings a thumbnail up to view,” explains Clark. “The Web option lets you display a URL in a tile rather than a camera, while push video allows operators to right click on video and push it to a supervisor. Black screen is if you have a blank alarm screen that you want to react with different behaviour depending on what the event is.

“Let’s create a 4-split screen,” suggests Clark. “That means if you are testing multiple cameras and you want to select a view and the system brings all cameras up, it only takes 2 seconds to drop the cameras you are testing onto the view. The process for this is to add the cameras to the recorder management. Once they are there, save or exit and save. Then you go into servers and refresh the server.

Give the camera privileges under users and add them to the view.”

Driving cameras Next we log into the client and the camera views we’ve set up are all there. To access the views we click on Views, select the folder we are after and any view can be brought to full screen by clicking on the top.

“You can see a few controls down the bottom of the screen which allow you to go into instant playback,” explains Clark. “That’s handy for sites with live monitoring as it allows you to review instantly from the live screen. It also has benefits when using dual streaming. You can record entry cameras in JPEG for face recognition and view in H.264– H.264 tends to blur fast motion. When they see an incident, they can switch to playback in jpeg and get a perfect clear image every time.

“To select another camera that’s not on that view, you right click, and select the camera and away you go. You can copy to clipboard and take a snapshot.

There’s a setting to take a snapshot which resolves to a default path. This can be run as full screen or multiple screens.

A snapshot is exactly that – a still image of whatever is on screen at a given moment. Something I really

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Ocularis also has event fusion, allowing you to escalate events based on logic.

like about ONSSI is its organic nature of operation.

The mouse wheel zoom, and click and drag zoom with digital PTZ within either, is a lovely simple bit of dual fingertip functionality. And it applies to snapshots. If you want a full screen image then you take the shot when viewing a full screen. If you want an image of digital zoom or an area of interest, you mouse wheel or click and drag zoom and then take the shot.

Other features include shortcuts that can be added to the keyboard to speed up access to key functions, and there’s joystick functionality, video wall capability and triggers. There’s PTZ scheduling and plenty of things to do with alarms and presets. I take note of these but don’t set them up for this small application. Functions are exceedingly simple. To remove a camera, you just delete hardware device in the directory and it’s gone.

When it comes to investigations, you click on Browse at the top of Ocularis client. Once you are in browse with a camera view, you navigate the timeline and click controls including play and reverse and frame by frame. There are motion events, as well as oldest frames and newest frames.

Ocularis IS has a nice timeline, you just swish it left or right to go forward and back and click once in the timeline to freeze a scene.

A feature that’s nice for investigators is that if you’re looking at a camera view for a particular time and want to change to another camera, you just drag the new camera into the tile and it will automatically sync to the time period you’ve been exploring in timeline. This sort of thing is typical of Ocularis. In a very short time I find driving this system’s viewer starts to become second nature.

The right click function wheel that hides in any image tile is particularly good. Whether I’m looking at live view or swooping around the timeline it is only 2 clicks to snapshot. If I want to zoom then take a shot, then it’s a mouse wheel roll with forefinger and 2 clicks to snapshot. For operators who need to get face IDs on the fly, this is a really easy system to drive.

I love this about Ocularis.

To do an export of video there are one-click Set Start and Set Stop markers on the timeline. You click on timeline at the start of the scene you want, then sweep through the footage on the timeline hit Set Stop. You can play and watch the event, or drag and drop the region to be exported – just hit the start marker, drag timeline, hit stop marker. A range of options are available to investigators including printing shots, thumbing through individual frames – this last one appeals to me.

With export files, there’s password protection and encryption. You basically give the footage a name, select a path and away you go. You can also add a preamble – recorded at this date by this operator, who took this action.

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to store footage over a long period of time. After opening an image stream in the Database viewer as part of an investigation, you can reopen it, create AVIs (Clark recommends third party xVid) and export small pieces, take snapshots – the video stream behaves as if it’s live on the system. The same functionality applies to multiple cameras when you export. Finally, there’s bookmarking. It exports footage and puts it on a separate location on the Database and allows you to go and find it later on the same machine.

A feature you can use to streamline investigations is Timeslice. You select your Timeslice interval, pick a camera view on a tile, click on it and sliced recordings of that view are brought up with controls like play, rewind, reverse, pause, export, etc. And no matter where you are, snapshot is 2 clicks away. Having all this functionality right there with recordings means that during investigations you don’t have to keep minimising your way back to a separate screen.

There are also sequences and you can play with motion settings, 10 per cent of a frame within 500ms might be needed to justify an event you want to see during a search process. You can go forwards or backwards in time and drill down through the time periods to find what you are looking forward. At any stage in Browse or Timeslice, if you want to get back to live views, you just click on Live View at the top of the screen and you are live.

Investigators will also appreciate the Jobs section.

If you are doing a large export, it will be listed in Jobs, along with a progress bar. You can cancel an export from Jobs. Up here on the right there are Log off and Shutdown functions, as well as Help files and the Minimise control. There’s also a dashboard that gives operators or users an understanding of how much memory and RAM their system is currently using.

While we’ve got our system setup and added a camera, larger applications are going to shake out lots more functionality and there’s plenty of that to be had. Some nice functionalities of Ocularis IS include Active monitoring, Alert management and integration with access control, video analytics, and other 3rd party systems.

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With Ocularis Alert, operators and users can use automated and manual push video alerts to stay on top of an unfolding event. This works with an unlimited number of concurrently-connected video clients and up to 64 cameras per server. One neat thing we have not set up is Ocularis Mobile. This allows users to fire 16 HD camera streams at high speed and full frame rates over 3G/4G networks, so operators, security officers and security managers can monitor and control individual cameras, and browse recorded video via mobile devices. There’s integration here, too.

“Ocularis has the ability to use its Generic Events functions to create an alert/alarm in the system,” says Clark. This allows you to configure the system to listen on a nominated port for a ‘contain or match’ on a string. If this is received, you can then create an alarm. This is a great way of interfacing other IP systems without dedicated HLI’s.

“Ocularis also has event fusion, allowing you to escalate events based on logic – if there’s motion on camera 1 and 5 seconds later motion on camera 2, then register an event. Or if there is a card swipe detected by the access control system and IVA detects 2 people entering, trigger an alert.”

According to Clark, the greatest thing about Ocularis is that it scales.

“It doesn’t matter if you have an entry level PS or a top of the range enterprise ES, they have the capacity for an unlimited number of cameras,” Clark says. “The main restrictor is the number of cameras per box.

With PS you can have 26 and with IS, (which I have), you can manage up to 64 per box. There’s no limit to the number of servers the system supports.

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Hospital Maria Middelares is currently spread over 2 sites, in Ghent and Gentbrugge. A major infrastructure project is under way to replace these with one new complex in Ghent, where it will play a vital role in health provision to Belgium’s second city. EGM Architects developed the project in cooperation with Belgian partner LLOX. The first building at the new facility opened in March 2014 and must remain reliably in operation and secure 24 hours a day.

Its new Aperio installation ensures the hospital has a wireless access control system that can be extended whenever needed. The deployment is 100 percent wireless, maintaining building aesthetics.

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accessing other secure areas, fitted with standard MIFARE RFID technology.

In partnership with Nedap, around 700 doors in the first hospital building of the brand new architecturally designed hospital have been fitted with wireless Aperio Offline locks connected to the Nedap access control system. Aperio Offline integration supports both the Aperio data on card model and the Standard Offline Access Application (SOAA), an open standard developed by ASSA ABLOY and other industry leaders.

“Very important for the success of this project was the seamless integration between the Nedap access control system and Aperio as well as cooperation with the local system integrator,” says Piet Van Den Bossche, business unit manager access control at ASSA ABLOY Belgium.

“Very important for the success of this project was the seamless integration between the Nedap access control system and Aperio as well as cooperation with the local system integrator.”

The heart of Aperio is a short distance wireless communication protocol designed to link an online electronic access control system with an Aperio enabled electronic cylinder or escutcheon. Aperio can update room access authorisations online and in real time. The open architecture of Aperio provides a convenient way of connecting with most access control systems via RS485 or Wiegand interface.

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The AH30 1-to-8 Aperio communication hub allows a wireless connection to up to 8 Aperio devices, with the Aperio cylinders or escutcheons communicating with the hub via an encrypted wireless link.

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Starlight, star bright Bosch’s 5MP Bosch DINION IP starlight 8000 MP camera is a low light camera that offers a minimum scene illumination of 0.00825 at 1080p and 0.0121 at 5MP at 30ips, along with 119dB of wide dynamic range. We’ve looked at this camera in the light box but this is the first time we’ve seen one in the wild.

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HEN a company as conservative as Bosch uses the word starlight in its camera specification sheets, you can be assured the product is something special. And that’s what we found when putting this 8000 MP through its paces recently. The camera does well during the day but as night falls, it goes ballistic.

The DINION IP starlight 8000 MP is designed to produce colour images in the dark beyond the point other cameras trigger their cut filters and hop to monochrome and that’s very much what this camera does. The low light numbers Bosch quotes are lower than we could hope to achieve at our city office, regardless of the time of night. But in 4 lux the Bosch Starlight stayed in colour and in a variable scene which included large areas of sub-1 lux with a couple of brighter spots, we saw strong performance in black and white.

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Camera specifications In terms of specifications, the Bosch Starlight has a chunky 1/1.8-inch 6.1MP CMOS sensor, 119dB of WDR, low-light performance of 0.0121 lux at 5MP and 0.00825 at 1080p, and edge recording including a MicroSD card slot (rated for 32GB, but works with a 64GB card). This functionality gives in-camera playback of recordings 30fps @ 5MP in 16:9 (2992 x 1680) or 4:3 (2704 x 2032) or 1080P (1920 x 1080).

Other features include Intelligent Motion Detection, Intelligent Dynamic Noise Reduction, day/night IR cut filter, PoE or 12V power and alarm and audio input and output.

The lens I’m using for the test is the Bosch f1.6 4.1-9mm with SR iris, which is made in Japan. The lens is light in weight and compact in size. Its longer focal length relates to the larger size of the sensor.

For reasons of perspective, a 1/1.8-inch sensor with a

4.1mm lens gives the same field of view as a 1/3-inch sensor with a 2.8mm lens.

Our test jig is a Dell 9020 server workstation with an Intel i7-4770 3.4GHz quad-core processor (8 threads per core), with 8GB of RAM. The workstation runs an AMD Radeon R7 250 graphics card with 2GB of RAM. Camera power and data are handled by a dedicated Netgear GS108P ProSafe 8-port Gigabit switch. With a single camera to drive (2992 x 1680 pixels and a 5.5Mbps stream), at no time is the server doing more than an idle, so we’re getting a very clean throughput with this setup.

When the Bosch Starlight arrives for testing, its physicality is the immediate impression. I’ve had this 855g camera in my hands before during a demo at the Bosch HO. It’s a well-built camera and all the organically rounded edges and port holes are very nicely done. After the camera has been powered up a while it warms but it’s never more than warm, even after 24 hours.

Before I start playing with the camera properly, I hop in through the camera browser and play with setup – I use the Scene Mode Scheduler to set the camera to Outdoor during the day and Night Optimized when the camera switches to Night mode.

The Bosch browser is comprehensive, with options to play with colour, ALC, image enhancements, encoder profile and regions, and privacy masks. As mentioned earlier, with a microSD card handling edge IVA, you can record and playback from the camera through this browser.

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There’s plenty of recording functionality to play with, including storage management, recording profiles, maximum retention, extremely comprehensive recording scheduler and status.

In Alarm mode you can set up connections, video content analysis, audio alarm, alarm task editor and email on alarm event. You can also play with interfaces, network settings and servicing and there’s plenty more I’ve not mentioned. It’s an extremely comprehensive browser. The first thing I do when setting up the Bosch camera is turn off dynamic host configuration protocol and set the IP address to match the local subnet. Once this is done, the image appears on the monitor in SEN’s Ocularis IS VMS without any further ado.

Down to testing First up, I play with the Starlight out the back and torture it with 85,000 lux from direct sunlight poking around the adjacent office towers. It’s a really painful time of day for a camera and I manage to get some flare in the lens with the sun right above the edge of the image. Bear in mind, I have the cameras pointed up at about 10 degrees, no real world application would be handled like this.

Then it’s time to have fun inside with WDR coming through the open back door. Starlight does well under these conditions. It’s not the best camera I’ve tested in terms of absolute resistance to backlight but the image quality it produces in the presence of backlight is outstanding.

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District views top, lane at bottom, less than 1 lux at the lens and between 4 and 2 in the lane

When night starts to fall and I take the Starlight out the front of the office, the enjoyment really starts and that’s because the strength of this camera is its night performance. That’s not to say the work during the day isn’t good, but as things get dark you start to notice strange things with Starlight. Bosch talks some giddy low light numbers. I guess we could take the tripod down into the garage and see if they are perfectly accurate but my Sekonic only goes down to -1EV, around 1.25 lux. The area of illumination installers and end users will care most about, was between 1-4 lux.

The Bosch Starlight does funny things at 4 lux.

It stays in colour, it doesn’t seem to be troubled by noise. Contrast stays tight. Things in the scene look far brighter than they seem to the naked eye. The sky remains a deep shade of blue. Depth of field is cavernous. And you get the benefit of that big resolution. This allows you to peek into a scene and snaffle license plates at 10m. You can also get useful clothing and face recognition at 15m at this light level. It’s not court admissible face recognition but it’s very good. You have to see the images on-screen to understand what these words mean.

When I take the Bosch Starlight out the back of the office, the strong performance continues. It’s much darker out here. My light meter refuses to take a reading, so light levels are under 1 lux. As I was setting the camera up in the rear courtyard, I heard the cut filter mechanism switching the camera into monochrome. It’s a good image in black and white.

The loom of the city lights glows on the horizon, brightening the sky. There are lights in the lane and coming from the rear of neighbouring homes but ambient light in the courtyard is under 1 lux, in the lane it’s under 4 lux and away from the streetlights adjacent to the lane, it’s between 1-2 lux at most.

I am getting detail in bricks, tiles and tin roof tops at 15m, chimney pots at 25m, as well as detail of leaves and TV antenna. The offices in the buildings down on Elizabeth St look slightly 3-dimensional – Starlight is peering in through the windows and showing internal ceilings at 250m. There’s a car in the back lane at about 25m and though I can’t read the number plate, the image is very good.

Something the Bosch camera handles really well is noise. There’s very little noise and few if any noise reduction artefacts. Often you get a sort of ethereal shimmer in low light as ISO winds up but I don’t see this with the Starlight. I think I’m getting a ghost inside the lens from the sodium streetlight in the

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lane but it’s not impacting on the image’s useability.

The detail in the image shows just how much contrast the Bosch Starlight is contriving to pull out of this scene all the way through to about 40m.

The high resolution of the camera makes the digital zoom seriously useful, just as it is during the day.

Apparent image sharpness at night when depth of field is reduced has less to do with the lens, and more to do with how much contrast the sensor and supporting processors and firmware can winkle out of a given scene. Making life a little easier for the Starlight, there’s no traffic and little if any movement out back, but for a few leaves moving.

I have sharpness set to balance, backlight compensation is on, contrast enhancement on, intelligent DNR is on, Temporal noise filtering and spatial noise filtering are both set to balance. I keep my brightness, contrast and saturation settings at the midpoint. I usually advance brightness considerably for a night test like this but did not feel compelled to do so with the Bosch Starlight.

Same as every camera I test from bright day into night, the Dinion Starlight’s daylight images improved noticeably as light levels fell from 90,000 lux down towards 1000 lux. Film producers are right – the late afternoon is the best time to film, the hard shadows melt and perspectives deepen. Depth of field and contrast both improved with the Starlight as the afternoon wore on.

Conclusion When it comes to a summary of Bosch Starlight, it’s hard not to be repetitive. I found the browser to be a great tool. It’s easy to find your way around but most of all, it’s profoundly comprehensive. I notice some

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Top, 85,000 lux on the nose causing a little flare.

Bottom, good work in strong backlight

barrel distortion in the lens – you can see its effects in the vertical lines of these scenes. It’s pronounced, but typical, and does not impact on surveillance performance.

Sharpness is strong, contrast is strong, colour rendition is good. Images tend to be a little cool – blue - but reproduction is realistic, even in the presence of strong backlight. The backlight performance of the camera is generally good. WDR is solid, even without class-leading numbers, the camera seems to do better than you would think, though 119dB is nothing to be sneezed at.

Overall, the acuity of the images is extremely high.

The big resolution is really noticeable with Starlight.

You can delve a good distance into the scene using digital zoom and get useful detail, which is just not possible with 1080p and a wide angle lens. And along with this resolution you get 30ips. Bonus!

Plenty of high resolution cameras don’t offer real time performance.

Finally, lowlight performance is exceptionally good – the performance in colour down at 4 lux is a genuine eye-opener. And in monochrome under 1 lux, this camera is extremely good, too. The Bosch Starlight is right at the very top of the heap when it comes to noise-free low light performance and in those security applications where high image quality throughout a 24-hour period is required, it should figure seriously in your calculations. zzz

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AMERAS like Hikvision’s HIK-2CD2332-I are popular products. They combine robust IP66-rating with decent performance, ease of installation and very low cost. In terms of specifications, the HIK-2CD2332-I day night camera has a 1/3-inch progressive scan CMOS sensor capable of 3MP (2048 x 1536) resolutions delivered at 15fps. You get real time 1080p and a claimed minimum scene illumination down to 0.7 lux at F1.2 with AGC on. IR-assisted black and white works at 0 lux with the camera’s 20-30m EXIR Smart IR activated.

The little turret has 3D DNR noise reduction technology, and a 4mm @f1.2 lens, giving an angle of view of 79 degrees. Compression options are H.264 and MJPEG, there’s configurable backlight compensation, 4 configurable regions of interest, as well as motion detection and tamper alarm. A user authentication watermark protects exported video clips and snapshots.

The camera has an M12 lens mount with a number of lens options, including 2.8, 4, 6 and 12mm focal lengths, weight is 670g and operating temp is -30 to 60C. When it comes to image adjustments, saturation, brightness, contrast and sharpness can all be tweaked through the camera browser. There’s also backlight adjustment, day/ night, white balance, exposure settings, image enhancement and video adjustment.

We’re testing the HIK-2CD2332-I camera using SEN’s ONSSI Ocularis IS VMS solution running on a Dell 9020 server workstation with an Intel i7-4770 quad-core processor offering 8 threads of execution per core, a clock speed of 3.4GHz and 8GB of RAM. This machine has a dedicated AMD Radeon R7 250 graphics card with 2GB of RAM. Camera power and data are handled by a Netgear GS108P ProSafe 8-port Gigabit switch.

Hikvision HIK-2CD2332-I Hikvision’s HIK-2CD2332-I turret camera is a compact and capable low cost day night PoE camera from the company’s 2-Line range. In this review, we’ll put this camera through its paces day and night and see if its popularity is justified.

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The test I spend a bit of time in camera browser playing around with settings before starting the test.

Hikvision provides a decent choice when it comes to tweaking camera properties. My chosen settings are main stream at 1080 x 1920 pixels, H.264 main profile, variable bitrate, highest quality, 20fps and a 6Mbps maximum bitrate (I never get anywhere near this), with Scalable Video Coding off. I start out with camera settings on default but at 4.20pm EST, as light levels drift under 2000 lux, I increase brightness to 75 per cent, and contrast, saturation, hue and sharpness to 60 per cent.

I notice when recording a static scene the bandwidth consumption is around 1.2Mbit/s with an average frame size of 50Kbit/s. My average snapshot file sizes range from around 900kb to 1.5Mb, depending on how much movement and

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noise are in the scene. Movement causes a greater spike in file size than noise levels, which grow as light levels fall. Something to bear in mind is that I took my snapshots with the wrong time programmed into the camera – take a look at the top left of frame for the correct times of day.

My first impressions of the HIK-2CD2332-I in terms of performance in daylight are that for the money it does a surprisingly good job. Starting at about 10cm and out to about 10 metres, performance is great and past this point there’s good detail through the first 20 metres of the scene. That doesn’t mean you don’t get reasonable situational awareness when pointing the camera at deep district views, as I discover later.

I start by looking across the street outside the office – a scene that’s 15-18m deep, house-front to housefront. Performance at 10.30am is crisp. This camera is not a toy. For depths of field like this one – 15 metres or less – the HIK-2CD2332-I is really in its element.

I’m getting easy face recognition at 5-8m. You do see the impact of the wide 4mm lens when you digitally zoom to get face recognition at 20m. At this distance compression artefacts intrude before it’s possible to clearly identify faces when zooming. Regardless, at 20m you can see clothing, skin colour, hair colour and get a sense of appearance. An investigator could confirm identity of a known person at this distance, in my opinion.

In terms of the lens, there’s classic wide angle barrel distortion evident but given its 79-degree range, distortion is actually quite well controlled – perhaps it’s 8 per cent, maybe a little higher, which is rather

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IR on

Starting at about 10cm and out to about 10 metres, performance is great and past this point there’s good detail through the first 20 metres of the scene.

good. Zooming exposes some lateral chromatic aberration evidenced as purple fringing on high contrast areas – it’s the result of the lens not focusing all wavelengths of colour onto a point of convergence.

This is nothing that will impact on overall camera performance though it costs in sharpness where visible. Lateral chromatic aberration is typical of all wide angle lenses. I see no sign of vignetting.

Where the HIK-2CD2332-I shines is colour rendition, the ability to manage scenes that include full shadow and bright light, as well as depth of field and outright resolution. I tested the camera at 1080p in order to get real time frame rate and the resolution is good. Another great strength of this camera is resistance to lens flare. I don’t know how the designers managed it but the camera proved close to immune to flare in the most extreme conditions. It’s possible to provoke reddish ghosting of the lens by including the sun in the frame but the image remains useable for video surveillance.

Next, I take the HIK-2CD2332-I through the office and pause on the way to check its ability to handle backlight. Our office has silly backlight from direct westerly sun and the camera does fine inside the office itself, while the rear doorway is lost in a bloom of white light. Out the back we have district views with objects and buildings of various contrasts at varying distances from 2-1500m. It’s a big scene that supports my observations about the camera’s strength under 20m, while revealing a capability for deeper situational awareness. This scene also confirms the presence of lens barrel distortion.

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Colour rendition is good. In bright morning conditions with the camera in the shade and city buildings in full sun at 1000-1500m, the camera does well. You can see a small trade-off with elevated ISOs or slightly slower shutter speed that’s giving excellent images in the immediately shaded scene causing a challenge in the far distance (1000m-plus) as sunlit buildings and sky start to merge due to over exposure. But overall, the performance is good and the scene is composite.

Later in the afternoon with 90,000 lux falling on the courtyard, the image is more composite than it was in the morning. There’s no sign of flare, even with the sun at the top edge of the scene. I’m getting a good workable image that’s about 30 metres deep and 79 degrees wide. When I zoom in, image characteristics confirm my earlier feelings. At 1080p, with a lens this wide, about 2 or 3 clicks of the mouse wheel is as much zoom as you want to use to avoid a discernible loss of sharpness. This said, you can zoom in 5-6 mouse wheel clicks and get images ideal for situational work.

The challenge for cameras of this type is offering strong performance at night and that’s where the IR comes in. The camera’s specifications claim 0.7 lux as the minimum scene illumination and to check this claim, I tested the camera with Smart IR off at 4 lux. The camera had gone to black and white at this light level and the image was useable for very general situational awareness. The closer to the lens, the better performance was. I got worthwhile face recognition at 3m but no license plate ID. Over the road at 15m I could see people walking and could

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Another great strength of this camera is resistance to lens flare. I don’t know how the designers managed it but the camera proved close to immune to flare in the most extreme conditions.

discern their height and body type and guess their gender. I could see some aspects of attire but finer details were lost. The image was getting noisy – file sizes were about 15 per cent larger than the same scenes with IR on. To be frank, I was surprised the HIK-2CD2332-I gave this sort of useful performance at a measly 4 lux but if you have IR, you might as well use it.

Hikvision suggests 20-30m IR range and the longer end of this range may be discernible when the camera is installed in completely dark and open commercial spaces. But on a city street with ambient light levels of around 4 lux and a maximum scene depth of 18m, it’s hard to be certain how much camera performance relates to the IR component until you switch Smart IR on.

It makes a serious difference. Noise disappears, contrast weaves together magically before my eyes and the little dome gets face recognition under 5 metres and license plates much further out – I can see one at about 9-10m. For face recognition, it’s more about the placement of the camera as long as the subject is within about 5-7m of the IR. In this application at 15m you get situational awareness – including gender recognition and a good sense of attire.

To be honest, I’m impressed. I was prepared to be disappointed with the HIK-2CD2332-I at night and was unsure how strong performance would be during the day. But this little 2-Line HIK-2CD2332-I, distributed by CSD, proves a useful surveillance camera when installed in applications that suit its modest but undeniable strengths. zzz

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Enterprise access control options

When it comes to enterprise access control options, who has what and what are the key advantages of each system?

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HERE’S nothing easy about selecting enterprise access control solutions. Often the decision is predicated on existing infrastructure and pressured by budget. But there’s no doubt that as IT technology changes, the nature of enterprise access control solutions is changing, too.

According to Gallagher’s Steve Bell, the company’s Command Centre platform offers a complete end-to-end enterprise solution for integrated access control, perimeter protection, intruder alarms and business management solutions.

“Our controllers have always supported TCP/ IP on-board and from that platform a customer’s

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access control system, can spread globally with system visibility and control managed from anywhere within the enterprise,” Bell explains.

“Couple that with interface points for sharing enterprise data and, a fine level of privilege control, we are able to fit easily into any enterprise and add real value by working with their existing systems and business processes. Our access control system implements business policy at the door, meaning we pro-actively monitor and then enforce training, compliance and safety policies before we allow access.

“And with knowledge of which areas are occupied, or scheduled to be occupied, the Gallagher access control system can manage lighting, heating and air-conditioning on demand, which adds savings to the bottom line while minimizing the enterprise’s carbon footprint.”

Bell argues Gallagher’s command and control client that is second to none.

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our goal,” he says. “The Command Centre Premier client is designed to make full use of multi-monitor high definition workstations, it provides situational awareness; bringing together in one place all the information an operator needs to make an informed decision in response to an incident.

“The configuration of the user interface is so simple customers can build and adapt it for themselves.

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Bell says Gallagher’s latest generation devices connect on a secure, high-speed RS485 bus.

“This means we bring secure and high speed door response times and management of multiple alarms right to the door, and have the ability to download new firmware to our devices in the field. This provides a framework to make upgrades easy for our clients and future-proofs the latest technology for them.”

Does Gallagher have any exciting new releases or upgrades in enterprise access control planned for the next 12 months?

“We intend to continue our push into mobilising the workforce with some exciting new features due for release in the next 12 months,” Bell says. “We will also add to our existing feature set across the board, from enhanced intruder alarm management to command and control, and visitor management improvements as well as keeping up-to-date with our comprehensive range of third party and integrated products.”

Honeywell ProWatch 4.2 Honeywell’s flagship enterprise access control solution is Pro-Watch 4.2, which offers integration with Morpho biometrics, integration with Salto Sallis and SHIP protocols for wireless readers and disconnected locks, support for high availability server support using Neverfail or EMC Autostart and web-based alarm and event reporting.

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and video systems from Honeywell and third party manufacturers makes it possible to leverage existing installed hardware as the system grows. Modular hardware and software options make it easy and cost-effective to expand a system to keep up with growing business needs.

Pro-Watch Enterprise Edition is a global security system that merges multiple Pro-Watch Corporate Edition systems to efficiently manage badgeholder data and report on events across the organization.

Pro-Watch streamlines tasks with a common user interface to improve operator effectiveness and help organizations minimize training costs.

Events may be routed to specific workstations and linked to automated system responses such as camera call-ups and outward notifications.

Options for integrating intercom and mass notification components provide a vital link to the security dispatch centre. Pro-Watch provides comprehensive options for audit and reporting to address forensics, compliance and business intelligence data mining needs. Its reporting application includes basic report templates and the capability to generate custom reports. Reports can be exported as XLS, CSV and PDF formats.

There’s also support for up to 8 customised card formats per controller, the ability to customise input resistance per point, a high level of integration with intruder, video, visitor management and fire systems, one manufacturer for all integration requirements and pen architecture to provide new integration needs. Exciting new releases or upgrades in enterprise access control from Honeywell include Pro-Watch 5.0 with mobile device clients, web-based clients and data analytics.

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Starting at about 10cm and out to about 10 metres, performance is great and past this point there’s good detail through the first 20 metres of the scene.

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The C•CURE 9000 Enterprise architecture supports one master application server (MAS) and up to 20 satellite application servers (SAS) for enterprise scalability. Each SAS may be positioned close to its relevant field hardware – limiting traffic to the MAS and optimizing performance. Each facility maintains

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HID Mobile Access facilitates enterprise access HID Global is making enterprise access control easier with its Mobile Access solution.

“We’ve just announced the release of HID Mobile Access solution, which delivers a more secure and convenient way to open doors and gates while introducing a simple secure identity management

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process,” Katanas explains. “The solution includes everything necessary for organizations to immediately begin using Bluetooth Smart and NFCenabled smartphones and other mobile devices as an alternative to keys and smart cards in today’s increasingly popular BYOD mobility environment.

The solution also makes it possible for users to unlock doors and open gates from a distance using the company’s patented ‘Twist and Go’ gesture technology.”

Katanas says HID Mobile Access is used with the company’s mobile-enabled iCLASS SE and/or multiCLASS SE readers, and includes Mobile IDs, HID Mobile Access Apps and access to the HID Secure Identity Services portal for managing users and issuing or revoking Mobile IDs. Administrators simply send users an invitation to download an HID Mobile Access App directly to their Bluetooth- or NFC-enabled phones.

“After download and registration of the App, Mobile IDs can be immediately issued, provisioned or revoked over the air,” he says. “The portal is designed for administrator convenience and efficiency, and allows administrators to manage individual or a batch of users for speedy provisioning and ongoing management.

“After the Mobile ID has been issued, the user can open a door or gate by either tapping their handset to a mobile-enabled reader or, using their Bluetooth connection and HID Global gesture technology, simply rotate the device to initiate the transaction as they drive or walk up to it.”

The bundled HID Mobile Access solution is powered by Seos technology, which also preserves privacy by enabling Mobile IDs to be issued, delivered and revoked with end-to-end encryption as part of a unique transaction that protects personal identification data.

“With Seos technology at the core of HID Mobile Access, the solution makes it possible to use smartphones and other smart devices for future applications such as PC login, time and attendance, biometrics and EV charging in a unified secure enterprise access control system,” Katanas says. zzz

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Geutebruck’s latest at SecTech GEUTEBRUCK hardware and software solutions have been selected by high security sites for reasons beyond high performance; these include redundancy, reliability and backward capability. In Australia we provide component level support, system engineering and servicing for our entire range of CCTV solutions. Our clients have enjoyed backwardcompatible software release/updates/enhancements for over 20 years. In addition, Geutebrück offers; 24/7 technical support, component level repair locally in Australia & no ongoing or annual fees. Talk to us at SecTech and find out more. n Distributor: Geutebruck n Contact : +61 2 8969 6302

New Axis Cameras Axis P1365 features Forensic Capture in strong WDR, as well as Lightfinder, H.264 high profile and 50/60 fps. This camera can seamlessly transition between WDR-Forensic Capture and Lightfinder mode.

Meanwhile, new Axis F Series offers flexible, high-performance 1080p cameras for discreet indoor, outdoor and mobile surveillance applications.

The Axis Q3505-V 9MM fixed domes are vandal-resistant, while the Q6045-E MkII is a 1080p indoor PTZ offering 20x optical zoom. The Axis Q6000-E can be integrated with an AXIS Q60-E to create a 360-degree overview and delivering zoomed-in detail in one click, while always recording the 360-degree scene. Finally, the Axis Q16 network camera series comprises indoor and outdoor-ready fixed cameras that deliver outstanding image quality in demanding video surveillance conditions, such as poor or highly variable lighting. This camera features Zipstream technology, which has been developed specifically for video surveillance applications and lowers bandwidth and storage requirements by an average 50 per cent or more. All this at SecTech. n Distributor: Axis Communications n Contact: +61 3 9982 1111

Hills showing DSC, DVTel, HID, Aperio, ZeroWire HILLS will bring a wide range of new product on the SecTech Roadshow, including DVTEL’s new 4k Ultra HD bullet and dome cameras.

Hills will display Tyco’s DSC alarm panels with support for home automation/integration and Alarm.com service will also be available in Australia. The DSC range will include the NEO alarm and automation panels range.

Hills will show HID’s mobile-ready readers, which can be configured to be mobile-enabled when the user decides to purchase the credentials and portal registration. The reader will assist with transition between existing IClass and Multiclass platforms to then encompass mobile credentials all on one site. At SecTech, Hills will also show ASSA ABLOY’s Aperio, which uses a short distance wireless communication protocol to link an online electronic access control system with an Aperio-enabled mechanical lock.

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You’ll also see Ness SMARTLIVING control panels and two-way wireless security, which are bus-based systems with a wide range of keypad and touch screen interfaces. At SecTech powered demos and online apps will be running live for all products. n Distributor: Ness Corporation n Contact: +61 2 8825 9222

Bosch, 2GIG, FLIR, DVTEL from QSS Q Security Systems will be demonstrating a wide range of products from some of the major brands QSS represents at SecTech. Visitors will see the 2GIG Go! Control panel and home automation system, as well as the Alarm.com application.

Also on show will be the FLIR ONE thermal imager, and remote apps for Bosch’s IP Video (Divar) and 6000 Alarm System, Verint Nextiva, DVTEL’s Meridian and QUASAR cameras.

QSS will also display its own QVS NViewer App, which will be monitoring the industry’s most powerful PnP IP video system, the INDEPENDENCE. Finally, the NUUO IVIEWER app will be demonstrating some of the latest QVS and Arecont Cameras remotely. n Distributor: QSS n Contact: +61 3 9646 9016

LSC Creone KeyBox, MicroLatch, Electronic Line When you visit LSC at SecTech you’ll see the Creone KeyBox range, a new solution for management of valuables and keys. You’ll also see the popular STI safety products, new Electronic Line fully wireless alarms with cloud based technology and hard wired access control systems including the new range of MicroLatch products. n Distributor: LSC n Contact: +61 3 9329 7222

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Bosch will show low light technology, Content-based Imaging Technology (CBIT) for increased image detail, Intelligent Dynamic Noise Reduction (IDNR) for reduced storage costs and less bandwidth required, Dynamic Transcoding for access to HD images anywhere, anytime, and Intelligent Auto Exposure to provide perfect exposure every time.

Also on show will be the new Solution 2000/3000 alarm and automation panels, which are feature-rich and extremely price competitive, with future expansion options incorporating video integration and home automation, along with user-friendly touchscreens and remote app control. n Distributor: Bosch Security Systems n Contact Ph: 1300 1 BOSCH (26724)

New from Mobotix EXCITING new things from Mobotix at SecTech include the i25, a new indoor camera built on the 5MP hardware platform with many of the same features as the Q25 but at a lower price point. The wall mountable i25 captures an entire room with a 180-degree wall-to-wall view, without any blind spots. Virtual PTZ on the live and recorded images is performed by the i25 camera without requiring an additional computer or software.

Also new at SecTech is the Mobotic c25, with a diameter of only 12cm and a weight of 200g, it’s the smallest and lightest Mobotix hemispheric video system yet. Suitable for mounting on indoor ceilings (protection class IP20, 0 to 40 degrees C), standard features include a light-sensitive 5MP day sensor, a 4GB MicroSD memory card (expandable to 128 GB), an HD sound microphone and the latest camera software.

Next comes Mobotix 6MP (3072 × 2048 Pixels) Moonlight sensor technology, which can handle illumination down to around 0.25 lux. The new Mobotix 6MP image sensors (available as a day and night version for color and black/white images), feature even better light sensitivity than the 5MP sensors, making these the best Mobotix cameras and IP systems ever. n Distributor: Mobotix n Contact: +61 2 8507 2000

Canon to show 9 new network cameras CANON will show 9 new VB-R and VB-M series network cameras, including 3 pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) models — Canon’s first network cameras capable of panning 360 degrees — as well as 2 full body models and 4 fixed-dome models at SecTech.

The PTZ dome-type models comprise the VB-R11VE and VB-R10VE.1, which feature allweather designs making them ideal for outdoor use, and the indoor-model VB-R11. The 2 full body cameras, the VB-M741LE and VB-M740E.2 also include another first for Canon as the former is the company’s first network camera to incorporate an infrared illumination system, enabling video surveillance even in complete darkness.

The 4 fixed-dome network cameras include the outdoor-use VB-M641VE and VBM640VE, 3 and the indoor-use VB-M641V and VB-M640V.3 Canon’s new lineup of outdoor-use network cameras, including the high-performance VB-R11VE, VB-R10VE and VB-M741LE, which are capable of panning 360 degrees, and withstanding temperatures down to -50 degrees C and up to 55 degrees C, as well as harsh coastal maritime weather conditions. The 2 outdoor models also achieve IK10 classification 4 against physical attack. n Distributor: Canon Australia Contact: 13 13 83

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New from CSD at SecTech

Axxonsift, 3S and LogiPix from Sylo

CSD will be showing the latest from Avigilon, Hikvision, Mobotix, Inner Range and Paradox at SecTech. At the Roadshow will be Hikvision’s new Darkfighter fixed and PTZ cameras, the latest Inner Range Integriti security management solution, Paradox alarm and automation panels and sensors and Avigilon’s high resolution video surveillance products.

n Distributor: Sylo n Contact: +61 7 3841 8882

QUEENSLAND-based Sylo will be showing off the latest gear from the likes of CCTV manufacturer 3S, VMS maker AxxonSoft, as well as the awesome yet extremely compact 14MP LogiPix One camera with a 1-inch sensor and high end GBO lens. Sylo also has high quality mobile NVRs and face recognition technology. See this at SecTech.

n Distributor: Central Security Distribution n Contact: 1300 319 499

New from HID HID will showcase HID Mobile Access solution at SecTech.

The solution delivers a more secure and convenient way to open doors and gates while introducing a simple secure identity management process. It includes everything necessary for organizations to immediately begin using Bluetooth Smart and NFC-enabled smartphones and other mobile devices as an alternative to keys and smart cards in today’s increasingly popular BYOD mobility environment.

The solution also makes it possible for users to unlock doors and open gates from a distance using the company’s patented ‘Twist and Go’ gesture technology. n Distributor: HID Global n Contact: +61 3 9809 2892

Tyco integrated solutions TYCO will show a range of its products at SecTech. Installers will see the latest from brands like DSC, Software House, Kantech, Sur-Gard, Visonic, CEM Systems and Exacq. Tyco’s product range works like a unified platform – that’s a big advantage for installers wanting to take their solutions to the next level. You don’t need to start from scratch to integrate them, because these products already talk to each other. For instance, NEO has integration capabilities that will put DSC more in the commercial space than it was before. For intrusion and automation, to access control, cloud-based access control, to video surveillance, Tyco has proven solutions for any application. n Distributor Hills Pacom and Hills DAS n Contact: 1800 685 487

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Technologies come together in the most spectacular way.

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o my mind the best thing about exhibitions is that they point the way forward. You can perceive new trends, building trends and watch as technologies fade into obscurity just by walking around and checking out each stand.

Notable building developments at ISC West 2015 included 4K, mobile everything, plug and play simplicity with IP video, home automation and cloud – the latter is a big one. The alarm industry is about to undergo some significant change. New interpretations of compression were something else that was notable. A number of manufacturers are doing cool new things with compression.

Underlying this focus on compression is a corresponding push to higher resolution. In short, everyone does 1080p – it’s no longer a selling point and that means there’s pressure for greater performance. We saw a bunch of high resolution products. Avigilon had 7K, Sony, Hikvision, Panasonic, Bosch and others, had 4K. Dahua and

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Axis had 4K for the second year in a row. Resolution.

There’s no doubt that when you are driving a camera, more resolution is better, all other things being equal.

There was also lots of networking stuff at ISC West, not just on the floor, but with networking companies like NetGear winning awards for clever solutions.

For sometime, real IT companies have been on the fringes, never really looking like getting their heads completely around the electronic security function.

That appears to be changing.

Analytics also looks to be growing in importance as everyone realises how much it adds to system capability, and saves on storage costs. The reestablishment of the proprietary format was another interesting impression. ONVIF is starting to look creaky. Or maybe people are simply more prepared to say this. However, ONVIF’s greatest and most important achievement may have been to create a culture of partnership between different manufacturers.

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Let’s get the SIA awards out of the way first. l Best New Product was the MorphoWAVE biometric access control portal from Safran Morpho l The Judges’ Choice: IC720 360x360 Video Surveillance Camera by IC Realtime l Access Control Devices & Peripherals Award went to OSMIUM Series OSDP Interface Module

by Cypress Computer Systems/Cypress Integration Solutions l Access Control Devices & Peripherals Wireless: HID Mobile Access by HID Global l Access Control Software and Controllers: PremiSys Security Management Dashboard by IDenticard Access Control l Convergence and Integrated Software and Solutions: Optigo Integrity by Optigo Networks l Fire/Life Safety: VESDA-E VEA by Xtralis l Green / Sustainable Solutions Products: SOLVEIL Surveillance System by MicroPower Technologies l Hosted Solutions: HD Analytics Gateway by CheckVideo l Intrusion Detection and Prevention Solutions: G Series Control Panel by Bosch Security Systems l Intrusion Detection and Prevention Solutions Wireless: ZeroWire by Interlogix l Locks/Safes/Hardware: KEES by KT&C l Mobile Apps: MAXPRO Mobile App by Honeywell Security Products Americas l Network Support Solutions: CLEER (Coax Leveraged Ethernet Extended Reach) Switch by Phybridge l Outdoor Perimeter Protection: K5 Autonomous Data Machine by Knightscope l Residential and Monitoring Solutions: ARLO by NETGEAR l Tools and Hardware: Sidekick by EverFocus Electronics Corp. l User Authentication, Identification, Credentialing and Management: Zwipe Access

by Zwipe l Video Analytics: NICE Suspect Search by NICE Systems l Video Surveillance Advanced Imaging Technologies: Axis’ Zipstream technology by Axis Communications l Video Surveillance Cameras HD (Megapixel): HiveCAM by HauteSpot Networks Corporation l Video Surveillance Cameras IP: Open Platform

by Samsung Techwin l Video Surveillance Data Storage: DDN – GS7K Appliance by DDN Storage l Video Surveillance Hardware and Accessories: BASH All-Pro by Dotworkz Systems l Video Surveillance Management Systems: NVR3 Video Management Solutions by Spectra Logic.

There was plenty more to see. Gallagher showed its next generation central management platform Command Centre v7.30 and a new mobile application. Command Centre v7.30 boasts new features that expand and build on the capabilities available in previous versions. Also on the Gallagher stand was the T20 Card + PIN Terminal, Controller 6000 Starter Kits, and the GSA approved and FIPS 201-2 compliant, Gallagher PIV Solution.

One CCTV maker that really impressed was Panasonic, which showed off its recently acquired Video Insight VMS Software, as well a stack of new cameras. These included its True 4K cameras, which include an outdoor vandal dome (WV-SFV781L) and outdoor vandal fixed (WV-SPV781L) delivering True 4K resolution, True 4K optics and True 4K wide coverage. There’s high-sensitivity in colour at less than 0.3 lux and a built-in SmartIR-LED. Panasonic also showed ULTRA 360 with advanced business intelligence capabilities, the new 5 Series Fixed Dome Cameras have 133dB Enhanced Super Dynamic Range, 0.07 lux high-sensitivity for color images; and day/night functionality with a built-in removable infrared (IR) cut filter, and its 3 Series Indoor and Outdoor PTZ Cameras.

Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi), showed BI Portal, a cloud-based video analytics service which allows aggregation, analysis and presentation of data acquired from surveillance systems at different locations through a single, web-based interface.

Avigilon’s 7K HD Pro camera simultaneously provides maximum scene coverage while minimizing bandwidth and storage consumption.

Avigilon also announced the release of the 6K (24 MP) HD Pro camera.

Yale Real Living showed its Key Free NFC Deadbolt, which is powered by battery and includes a free digital key app so you can use either a PIN or a digital key on an authorised phone. Digital keys can be transferred or cancelled quickly and securely.

Dahua Technology released an affordable Smart Lock, an electronic lock and key system for residential applications. The Smart Lock family incorporates 3 models, including the ASL6101, ASL8101 and ASL8112.

All models of the family support both password and card to unlock while the ASL8112 supports finger

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print biometric authentication for higher security applications.

IC Realtime’s IC720 dual-sensor 24-megapixel Virtual PTZ camera and proprietary software app capture 360-degrees vertically and 360-degrees horizontally. That includes zoom and freeze options free of blind spots or distortion. Monitoring is via iPad or iPhone.

New smart home products includes the Mios VeraLite Smart Home Controller, which manages lights, cameras, thermostats, door locks alarm systems and more. VeraLite allows you to easily add intelligence to anything electronic in a home and control it.

I really liked Linear’s e3 OneBox, a solution that provides a fully-integrated access and video solution. The e3 OneBox incorporates Linear’s award-winning, embedded browser-based access control platform with Digital Watchdog’s full-featured DW-VMAX digital video recording capability within one enclosure. Linear makes good stuff and it’s hard to imagine this solution won’t be a success.

Lutron showed Quantum Vue facility management software – a lateral application for facilities managers. It empowers managers to manage buildings from anywhere. They can monitor, control and optimize a Lutron control system from any tablet, PC or smartphone.

Quantum can monitor building systems for certain events/triggers and raise awareness through visible changes in the Q-Admin software or through email messages.

Nortek Security & Control released GoControl Thermostat, which is a bridge between smart controllers and a home’s heating and cooling system. The GoControl Thermostat provides intelligent, wireless remote management of all thermostatic functions. Nortek Security & Control’s smart thermostat family will include Z-Wave and Wi-Fi connectivity options, enabling the company to address a range of retail, security, HVAC, custom

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installation and self-install opportunities.

Alarm.com released a Mobile Sales App to help dealers more effectively demonstrate the capability and benefits of Smart Home services. It offers an immersive and engaging demo experience for inperson customer meetings and complements the existing breadth of marketing and sales collateral, website and lead generation support available to its dealers.

Bosch revealed its new Z-Wave Home Control Gateway, which allows integrators to connect the company’s G Series and B Series Control Panels from Bosch with Z-Wave wireless devices – including lighting controls, door locks, temperature sensors, IP cameras and more. Bosch also displayed a Zigbeeenabled wireless motion detector.

Axis Communications showed, among plenty of other things, its new Q37 camera, which combines three 4K sensors inside a single dome to create a panoramic view of an area, Axis Communications also officially announced the launch of its Zipstream technology, which can lower bandwidth and storage requirements by 50 per cent.

Arecont Vision showed the SurroundVideo G5 panoramic multi-sensor camera. Sony unveiled its SNC-VM772R, which delivers 4K imaging capabilities with 0.1 lx sensitivity, bandwidth optimization and intelligent scene capture. Digital Watchdog launched multi-sensor panoramic cameras at the show this week, the MEGApix PANO 8 MP and 48/32-megapixel cameras capable of delivering full frame HD video streams at up to 30 frames-per-second.

Meanwhile, Lenel Systems International announced the newest version of its advanced, intuitive video management software, Prism 1.2, with performance enhancements and increased functionality that make it an ideal video monitoring system (VMS) for demanding video environments.

Was there anything game changing at ISC West?

No, not specifically. But what there was suggested we are continuing down a path of mobilisation and integration that will surely open the business up to big fish. The market feels somehow more accessible, yet more fragmented than it ever has. Regardless of the technology, there was plenty of buzz at ISC West, suggesting the underlying risk-based fundamentals of the security business have not altered one bit. zzz

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Product integration Tyco Security Products has changed its route to market and is now being distributed in Australia exclusively by Hills Ltd. It’s a significant move for both companies, as well as for integrators and end users who rely on iconic brands like DSC, Software House, CEM and American Dynamics.

JA: You have many brands under the Tyco umbrella – which does Hills now distribute?

KM: There are 9 brands in the Tyco Security Products portfolio and from 13th March 2015, Hills represents 7 of these, including DSC, Software House, Kantech, Sur-Gard, Visonic, CEM Systems and Exacq.

JA: This is a big deal for the market at multiple levels - how did the new agreement between Tyco and Hills come about? What was the process involved?

KM: Despite the breadth and quality of our brand offerings, we were not attaining the desired market share in the Australian market compared with other regions and that was a concern to us. Initially, we were looking for new opportunities to expand the presence

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of our wireless portfolio in readiness for interactive services and Hills were well positioned to deliver growth when it came to wireless intrusion.

At the time we were talking with Hills it became clear there was a huge opportunity to expand their product offering in enterprise access control and unified systems. As we talked, the advantage of Tyco’s unified platform – all of our products talk to each other as well as many third party products - became clearer. Once we started scoping out strategy and agreed on where the market was headed, it really evolved into a bigger deal.

JA: You’ve gone from multiple distributors to one large distributor.

How do you feel about that consolidation?

KM: For us it’s very exciting. Hills is a great name in Australia with a good resource base and is strong financially. The other thing I like about Hills is that it wants to be more than just a distributor. Hills wants to take some offerings to the market which are different. These offerings may include managed cloud services, which are really the future, and are technologies

Tyco Security Products’ Leon Langlais, senior director of growth markets and regional strategy (l), and Ken May, vice president sales, Asia Pacific

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The best thing about our product range is that it works like a unified platform. You don’t need to start from scratch to integrate it, the products already talk to each other. in which Tyco is squarely invested. We can satisfy many of Hills’ strategic aims, while Hills can give Tyco’s product range professional representation.

JA: Training is obviously a key aspect of a new distribution partnership, especially given the size of Tyco’s product range – has that process already started?

KM: There’s a huge amount of training to be done and the process has already started. There’s sales training, technical training, and certification training. Tyco provides certification training that has increasing levels of complexity and is tried and tested to provide our partners the proficiency required. We have multiple training centres around the world and a global professional services organisation so we can also bring in enterprise engineers. That’s important because you are talking about a complex, networked IT solution.

We are confident that with training, Hills will take on a bigger role as part of that process. It’s an important part of the business. When you talk about Software House, one of the reasons we have global customers is that when they need it, they have professional services support. Some of these systems are mission critical, they can’t afford to fail. Hills can certainly contribute to this. The company has a big resource pool, a professional training department, a culture of training, that’s one of the things that makes Hills and Tyco such a good fit.

JA: There are a lot of installers and integrators out there who have been buying your products from former Tyco suppliers. Do you have any message for them and for end users who are using Tyco brands right now?

KM: Yes, certainly. The changes to our

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distribution model have been made to improve the level of support. It’s not just about product performance, it’s how well you support your solutions. This is particularly important in the Australian market. The U.S. is not just a few hours away – the support has to be here. The message to integrators is that they will see a dramatic improvement in the level of pre-sales support, technical support and logistical facilitation.

Product installers will see better stocking, reducing lead times. Hills has a network of national branches and a strong logistics capability. For end users, we’ll be looking to expand our channel with more choice, appointing and training installers and integrators, particularly in the enterprise area, and Hills will help in that process. This means our product will be installed, commissioned and supported by knowledgeable and technically capable installation teams.

JA: It sounds like you will be pretty involved moving forward, that this is going to be a partnership with Hills.

KM: I regard this as a partnership – we are not looking for a short term distributor – Tyco can do logistics itself. What we are looking for is a distributor in this market with the industry connections, locally recognised and trusted, and the capability to support our entire range. We’re certainly impressed so far and we want this to be two-way. One of the reasons Leon is here, is that this is a partnership and Hills will have influence over product development. We run a well-defined product roadmap process and if a market needs a particular feature or product, once it gets through product management as a business case, we will deliver it.

JA: Do you have an idea where you would like to be in 2 years’ time – a

greater market presence? Bigger in projects? Breaking into cloud?

KM: Looking at the Australian market there are some specific technological requirements that are very particular to this market – for instance combining intrusion and access control. We’ve not had the growth in this market we would have liked because we have not focused on those particular characteristics. So if you’re looking at what our objectives are – they are to grow a bigger market share in Australia and the way to do that is to leverage the products that we’ve got but to tailor them to this market.

When we talk about integration of access control and intrusion – that capability is already there – so from a product point of view we are ready. In terms of other objectives we have a product range that covers the mid-SME level and the enterprise level and is capable of taking a significant market share and that’s what we would like do.

We also see huge opportunity in the emerging smart home or interactive market, with our DSC intrusion product integrated into cloud solutions such as Alarm.com.

JA: What’s different about the Tyco range? What do you do better than your competitors?

LL: The best thing about our product range is that it works like a unified platform. You don’t need to start from scratch to integrate it, the products already talk to each other. In today’s world that’s important.

The video management system with access control integration – everybody does it but not many people do it on a unified platform framework. If you want to add on functionality, it’s not a matter of undertaking another integration, it’s basically already unified.

With Tyco’s product range it’s not only about integrating seamlessly, we can share modules so we are aligning the businesses closely together – American Dynamics towards Software House and CEM, Exaq towards Kantech, but with the entire portfolio supported by the Victor security management system. So if you have Kantech there, CEM there and DSC over here, everything will talk to everything and it will all hook up very easily.

JA: So this unification of all the product

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Talking about access control in the cloud, Kantech Hattrix is a no-brainer and I’m hoping it will take off here in Australia. It’s an excellent and very flexible solution. lines is a process that is ongoing?

LL: It’s not a process, it’s a culture.

JA: When it comes to Tyco’s strongest product in terms of the Australian market, DSC springs to mind. What are the plans with DSC? LL: DSC is a great product that’s been made even better. About 3 years ago, Tyco acquired Visonic and it was for their wireless expertise and it still is the best today – Power G is a great wireless technology. NEO is the first product that brings it all together – the best of Visonic, the best of DSC in one expandable panel.

Because of its integration capabilities it will put DSC more in the commercial space than it was before.

NEO is a networkable panel and when your panel is networkable, there’s really no limit to size or the number of sites you can do because your management platform is not an intrusion solution.

It’s one of our enterprise management solutions like Victor, or Software House, so you don’t have the limitations on the software side for active management of intrusion remotely. At the same time, if you have a small 16-zone store with 2 cameras, detectors, then it’s going to be extremely cost effective there, too.

JA: Given the potential for enterprise applications with NEO, is the simplicity of DSC’s installation still carried over?

LL: With DSC you install the panel, power it up and it self-configures. All NEO devices are 2-way wireless with long battery life of up to 8 years. They also have outstanding range, so we don’t need repeaters on most SME applications. Even in hotels like this one (Sydney Hilton), the system is so good it will work across 3 floors. There are very few wireless systems in the world that can achieve

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this. Nor do you need an experienced tech to install it. Enrolling devices is easy. Once the system has self-configured, you label the zones, so it can be done very quickly.

JA: Tell us about your access control brands – you have a number of very capable solutions there.

KM: We have 3 access control brands.

Software House is a famous enterprise access control solution suited for customers wanting to manage solutions globally. CEM on the other hand, evolved from the airport business and has evolved into an IP-based device specialist offering very flexible enterprise solutions that do very cool things at the edge.

Kantech is more about plug and play and readiness for hosted or managed services – you install it and turn it on and it selfconfigures because there’s a lot of very smart technology behind it.

JA: When it comes to Tyco’s cloudcapable products and the way they work together, is there a strategy you are following?

LL: We have realigned our strategy worldwide since the Exacq acquisition – Exacq, DSC and Kantech will generally go together through the same distribution channels. We are also working hard not just on the product themselves but the process, the ease of configuration, so that installers don’t need 2 weeks of training and engineers and CCNA experts to commission them. There’s a 4-hour training seminar – you can send a junior tech on an install and the job will not be messed up. The differentiator will not be the size of the job but the complexity of the solution.

JA: Tell us a bit more about cloud access control solutions. That’s an

area of the market that seems to have a bright future.

KM: Talking about access control in the cloud, Kantech Hattrix is a no-brainer and I’m hoping it will take off here in Australia.

It’s an excellent and very flexible solution.

LL: Our internal research has found that access control shows a much lower attrition rate than intrusion detection and a much higher recurring monthly fee than intrusion or video surveillance. The difference between intrusion and video surveillance and access control is that if the intrusion or CCTV systems don’t work, unless you are a site like a casino, the organisation can continue to function.

But if the access control system doesn’t work for half a minute, people will be on the phone.

Access control is absolutely mission critical, so when people choose a cloudbased access control system they need to choose the right system. You don’t want to rely on the cloud to manage the local access control decisions. Instead, you need good hardware supported by quality software that gives you local decisions and remote management via the cloud.

JA: When it comes to new product, is there anything new and cool coming up?

KM: Oh, yes. Lots. We’ll let you know specifics in due course but when you say cool, then cloud, interactive solutions, mobility and taking integrations to another level.

DSC has a phenomenal global market share – it has a long history of technological innovation. When DSC became part of the Tyco Group, a lot of work went into integrating it into the rest of the Tyco range. Software House is strong in the institutional segment. The other brands are catching on – something that will accelerate that growth is the Exacq acquisition 18 months ago. Exacq is the leading VMS in North America and it talks to almost any IP camera so if you combine that with the platforms that we have, suddenly you’ve got a solution that appeals to a much wider audience. It’s a coming of age for us.

There are many exciting things coming up for Tyco and Hills and we are looking forward to sharing them with the Australian market. zzz

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Testing times This M-IPC-700A IPC tester supports IP, CVBS and SDI cameras and offers a huge range of testing functionalities. It’s compact and powerful, making it a great assistant to any CCTV installer.

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ISTRIBUTED locally by Seadan and others, the VCT-IPCT880 IPC tester is a CCTV installer’s best friend. It combines a laundry list of testing functionalities in a lightweight and mobile package with a hearty 17-hour battery life.

The M-IPC-700A camera tester has a 7-inch capacitive touch screen with an 800 x 600 pixel resolution. The unit can display image streams from ONVIF IP cameras, ONVIF PTZ controllers, as well as supporting more than 40 customized IP cameras protocols along with analogue and SDI cameras. There are user-defined shortcut keys (F1 and F2) and LCD screen brightness/contrast/ colour saturation are adjustable.

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The unit supports video management software allowing all supported camera images to be zoomed in 1-4 times, there’s image snapshot, video recording (built in 4GB SD card) and playback.

zoomed in 1-4 times, there’s image snapshot, video recording (built in 4GB SD card) and playback. A PTZ address scan function allows installers to search for the ID of a PTZ camera during commissioning.

Once they’ve found the camera they can deploy PTZ control and pan and tilt the PTZ unit, zoom the lens in and out, adjust the focus, aperture and set preset positions.

When it comes to testing there’s simultaneous testing of different LAN segments, network bandwidth testing, PoE voltage testing, video signal measurement, video level meter, cable tracer to find a cable in messy network cabinet or tray, PoE port finder, link monitoring, IP camera ping testing, IP address scan, UTP cable testing, PTZ data analyst, RS485 communication address scan, and

audio input and output testing.

There’s a 10/100 RJ45 network port, built-in WiFi supporting wireless transmission of network image and data, FTP server, static IP address, DHCP, BNC input and output, HDMI signal output, 24W of PoE power supply to support IP cameras, DC12V 2A power output for analogue cameras and 5V 2A USB power output to charge mobile phones. There’s an LED lamp, and a 7.4V DC 6500mAh lithium polymer battery.

There’s 1-channel BNC input and 1-channel output, NTSC/PAL auto detect, PEAK video signal level, SYNC signal level, COLOR BURST chroma level measurement, 1-channel HDMI output with support for 1920 x 1080p full HD. In terms of power, there’s DC 12V/2A power for camera, 5V power output 2A power output for mobile phone charging and 48V PoE power output, with a maximum unit power output of 24 watts.

There’s 1-channel audio signal input test and 1-channel audio signal to connect headphone.

The PTZ control is supported by RS232/RS485RS422 protocols with Baud rates of 600-115200bps adjustable. There’s network cable and telephone cable testing, along with display of the sequence of connection and the number of the LAN cable PTZ protocol analysis and control protocol command

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When you power up the tester, it boots up in less than ten seconds and settles to a screen covered with icons, each denoting a function. These touch icons work well – they are not too sensitive, or so insensitive they slow you down. displays to check RS485 transmission.

The video signal generator has 1-channel PAL/ NTSC colour bar video signal for testing monitor or video cable in red, green, blue, white and black colour. There’s also a network colour bar generator.

You can use a local PC to login to the tester, send the signal by network, and test network connection communications. There’s a UTP cable tester, which shows UTP cable connection status and display onscreen.

There’s a digital multimeter that measures AC/DC voltage and AC/DC current, resistance, capacitance, data hold, relative measurement and does continuity testing. Testing speed is 3 times per second in a data range between -6600 and +6600. An optical power meter is calibrated for wavelengths of 850, 1300, 1310, 1490, 1550 and 1625nm. There’s also a fibre signal power range of -70 to +10dBm and a visual fault locator allows installers to test single and multimode fibres for bending and breakage.

There’s a TDR cable test for breakpoint (cable

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length) and short circuit measurement (BNC cable, telephone cable). The unit has a working temperature between -10 and 50C. A PoE voltage measurement allows installers to test the PoE switch’s voltage to IP cameras, wireless AP devices and other PD devices. There’s also device port flicker, which makes it easy to find the connected PoE switch port by sending special signals which cause the connected PoE port to flicker at a special frequency.

This is a nice unit in the hands. Dimensions are 231mm x 172mm x 52mm and though the unit weighs 1.26kg, its rubberised handgrips make holding it easy and there’s a carry handle on one end, as well as a shoulder strap that clips in and out so you can get it out of the way while climbing. The screen is a proper size for serious viewing, even if your eyesight is on the wrong side of 40. The buttons are nicely laid out, smooth and rounded but still tactile and there are not so many you couldn’t operate by feel after attaining familiarity.

An offset control wheel gives directional control with a central enter button. The unit is awash with ports. There are ports top and bottom for pretty much everything you might want to test.

When you power up the tester, it boots up in less than ten seconds and settles to a screen covered with icons, each denoting a function. These touch icons work well – they are not too sensitive, or so insensitive they slow you down. Icons are a beautiful way to access tester functionality. It’s intuitive to a smart phone or tablet familiar brain.

There are multiple different camera viewers installed on the tester, you simply enter your camera’s IP address and get to tweaking.

Every installer needs a remote monitor that allows them to check out manual zoom and focus.

To have a tester that combines this fundamental capability with the capacity for multifarious test procedures during troubleshooting and commissioning, is something else again. zzz

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Gee, whiz We’re only just getting used to the idea of 4G mobile communications with reasonable download and uploads speeds becoming achievable. But if 4G is a step in the right direction, 5G will melt your brain.

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HEN social commentators and telco people talk about 5G they are prone to get a bit wild – so wild in fact, that it’s hard to know whether to take them seriously. The performance of 5G is not so improbable you can’t get your head around it – what’s surprising is that this performance might come from mobile networks.

The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance defines 5G wireless network requirements as having data rates of several tens of Mb/s that in a single location should support tens of thousands of users. Further, they say 5G should offer 1 Gbit/s simultaneously to tens of workers on the same office floor, while allowing several hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections to be supported for massive sensor deployments. With 5G, spectral efficiency should be significantly enhanced compared to 4G, coverage should be improved and signalling efficiency should be enhanced.

According to NGMNA, 5G should be rolled out by 2020 to meet business and consumer demands and in addition to simply providing faster speeds, it predicts

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5G networks should meet the needs of new use-cases such as the Internet of Things as well as broadcastlike services and lifeline communications in times of natural disaster.

In order to meet these demands, 5G networks will need to adopt new technologies such as mesh networking, with devices communicating with each other directly, rather than relying on network operators’ base stations. This will increase the bandwidth available, lower power consumption, reduce infrastructure costs, improve spectral efficiency and increase the resilience of the network, with the adjacent challenge of potential latency.

Now comes news that collaboration between NEC Electronics Samsung and several academic centres in China and Iran, is investigating how software-defined cellular networking might be used to give smart phone users this next generation of super-superfast broadband.

Currently, the fourth generation of mobile phone connection technology, 4G, provides broadbandtype connectivity for enabled devices such as smart phones, tablet computers, laptops and other gadgets through 2 standards: the Mobile WiMAX standard, and the first-release Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard.

Peak speeds were set in the standards at 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s) for mobile users and 10 times that for static, domestic 5G users at 1 gigabit per second. 100 Mbits/s is 3 times faster than the earlier 3G system but 3G users don’t see data transfer at such high rates, downloads are usually 10 Mbits/s at best, and are typically much slower in Australia.

As yet there is no single standard for 5G, although various systems are being touted based on rebuilding the cellular networks to be super-efficient and exploiting different frequencies with their capacity for greater data rates. The hope is to be able to achieve download speeds of perhaps 10 Gbits/s.

Ming Lei of Samsung Research and Development Institute China, Lei Jiang of NEC Laboratories, both in Beijing are working with colleagues at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu, Beijing Jiaotong University and the University of Kurdistan.

They have assessed the latest developments aimed at 5G systems and have proposed their own novel end-to-end (E2E) software-defined cellular network (SDCN) architecture which they say offers flexibility, scalability, agility and efficiency. Moreover, it will be sustainable for providers as well as profitable.

They are currently building a demonstration system that will allow them to utilise several promising technologies in their architecture for 5G including cloud computing, network virtualisation, network functions virtualisation and dynamic service chaining. The approach, they suggest could overcome bandwidth shortage problems, improve quality of service so avoiding delays and data loss, as well as reducing the vast number of error-prone network nodes needed for such a system. zzz

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here’s a lot of heat around security systems and home automation.

Old business models are being cast away and everyone is looking for an advantage in a dynamic new market.

There are existing players, who have taken their alarm-based solutions into the automation space (think DSC, Risco, Bosch, Nortek, and Honeywell) and new players, who have developed product specifically for automation applications.

The flood of new products in the affordable automation space at ISC West clearly shows that home automation is going to be big, perhaps to the point of subsuming the alarm panel market. In most applications, consumers are going to be won over by solutions that can communicate with them and allow them

to interact with their home in real time.

There’s also the possibility that cleverly setup, an automation panel might save its cost in energy savings over a number of years.

But for all the hype and all the new releases, it’s extremely hard to know just what impact home automation is having on the only serious predictor of market position we have – sales.

According to Gary Meyers of CSD, sales of automation solutions compared with alarm systems as a percentage are difficult to establish.

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requires serious integration and a more recent lower end which sees systems depending on Wi-Fi or proprietary wireless comms to move video and data around. Which offers greatest potential, in Meyers opinion?

“Obviously the sales to the high end market is driving the market at present but new lower cost products from major suppliers, such as Mobotix, will open new markets and these products will utilise the systems that are already in the home,” says Meyers.

According to Honeywell’s Keith Potter, there’s growth in the Australian market when it comes to automation.

“Currently we see the market increasing, with more than 15 per cent of installations now including automation,” he says.

“Honeywell’s Tuxedo system is perfect for new homes or retrofit opportunities, and offers home owners an affordable automation and security system that can be scaled to meet their needs,” says Potter.

“With the advantage of Z-wave wireless technology, owners can choose a basic system or expand to a complete home automation solution at anytime without requiring any changes to their standard home construction or electrical wiring.”

According to Neil Morgan at Ness, automation solutions compared with alarm systems as a percentage are now significant.

“I’d say it’s currently 30 per cent automation but we know with the excitement in the market this will rise dramatically,” Morgan says.

Which part of the automation market offers greatest potential, in Morgan’s opinion?

“Like any business, home automation is currently an upper end niche market, so the importance of 2-tier approach is that it allows installers success in both market sectors,” says Morgan.

“Potential in this aspect greatly depends on the product but more so the approach to the market that the

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High end solutions have been available for a long time but are very expensive and often don’t offer long term flexibility or customization by the end-user... newer technologies, such as those provided by Alarm.com, have made automation features and services affordable to the mass market consumer.

product allows. There is a large chunk of the home automation market which cannot be filled with current products - its cost prohibitive. Entering this largely untapped market the potential is enormous – but regardless of the technology used, it’s all about simple implementation.”

For Nate Wysk at Alarm.com, dividing automation and security is challenging.

“It depends on how an installer defines automation solutions, since it may include video cameras, Z-wave light, lock, or thermostat devices, or simply involve the use of interactive rules related standard security panels and peripherals that are enabled through Alarm.com’s platform,” Wysk says.

When it comes to which level of the home automation market has the most potential, like the others, Wysk argues that it is the low and mid parts of the market that are growing and that have the most potential from the point of view of installers.

“High end solutions have been available for a long time but are very expensive and often don’t offer long term flexibility or customization by the end-user,” he says. “Newer technologies, such as those provided by Alarm.com, have made automation features and services affordable to the mass market consumer.

“In addition to affordability, they have improved consumer usability through intuitive and modern user interfaces.

As a result, these technologies have the greatest and most widespread potential.”

What about the future? It looks bright.

A recent report from Transparent Market Research valued the global home automation market at US$4.4 billion in 2014 and predicted it would increase at a compound annual growth rate of 26.3 per cent until 2020, taking the market over $US12 billion.

TMR found trends boosting the market were automated solutions used for lighting, security, monitoring and managing energy usage, entertainment, heating and cooling in part driven by awareness of the need to conserve energy, as well as a high degree of internet connectivity and penetration in developed countries.

Interestingly, the report segmented the home automation market by networking technology into wired systems, power-line systems, computing networks and wireless systems.

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Selecting and installing HD cameras

HD cameras incorporate so many variables, from sensor type and processors to lens and compression engine, that making a balanced decision about what constitutes the ideal HD CCTV camera is an extremely difficult business. By John Adams.

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HEN it comes to choosing the best HD camera, where do installers, integrators, consultants and end users start? Is the best HD camera best in low light, best in strong backlight, or does it offer the most workable balance of both? Does the best camera have a replaceable CSmount lens or can good performance come from the integrated lens of a tiny dome? Is it packed in an IP66 and IK10-rated housing, or is it a full body?

Does the best HD camera offer 1.3MP of resolution or 3MP? Does it integrate most easily with any third party VMS solution or offer greater depth of integration with a proprietary VMS solution? Is it the camera with the most capable IVA? Does it have the lightest network footprint or the heaviest? Generate the least noise signal? Does the best HD camera cost the least money, or does it cost the most?

When you think about these questions, it becomes clear that choosing the best HD camera is a process that’s application subjective as well as performance objective. Constant changes in technology mean the definition of ‘best’ keeps moving forward. The best HD camera is going to be the camera that best melds a plethora of current functionalities with the demands of site and client, including budget. But having said this, there exists an HD camera that does this best of all.

For Bosch’s Steve Malesevic, the perfect HD CCTV camera has excellent dynamic range, excellent noise reduction, low bandwidth and the ability to be part of a transcoded video system.

There are underlying camera qualities not front and centre on specification sheets – things like compression type/bandwidth demand across a range of scene types, processing power, lens quality, maximum operating temperature – that installers should be thinking harder about when they select cameras.

For Malesevic, the key characteristics for HD cameras are lens quality/lens selection for the application, dual power supply – PoE + VAC/VDC for redundancy and the ability for analytics at the edge.

“Lenses are very important,” says Malesevic. “Too often installers just go with the cheaper lens which compromises the image quality and consequently the cameras get blamed.”

According to Malesevic, something else to take into account is the cost/performance trade-off.

“There’s no point in having a noisy, blurry, dark image producing massive bandwidth consuming all of your storage,” he says. “The cheap price may win the job, but everyone gets a bad name in the process and the customer will never be happy.

“I think installers should ask themselves how happy or reluctant would they be to do a shootout for the customer in all conditions with a selection of

Too often installers just go with the cheaper lens which compromises the image quality and consequently the cameras get blamed.

Steve Malesevic

cheap vs quality cameras? If an installer is all about just winning the job and is reluctant to perform a comparison, then if I were an end user, that would speak volumes.”

According to Damien White, surveillance product manager at CSD, there is no perfect HD CCTV camera.

“All manufacturers search for the perfect camera but that utopian camera is yet to be built,” explains White. “Features which are good for one environment may in fact be counter-productive in a different application.

“But if I were to create a perfect camera it would have at least 2 streams, the main stream would be minimum 3MP @ 25fps, have great low light performance, include auto focus, have great WDR, have built-in analytics and be able to provide a good image of number plates behind even the brightest headlights.

“It would have edge recording which is able to be used as a buffer in the event of any network problems and would be able to have most statuses monitored using the Simple Network Management Protocol.

My perfect camera would use next to no network bandwidth or power.”

When it comes to underlying qualities not front and centre on specification sheets installers should be thinking harder about when they select cameras, White nominates something rarely considered but vitally important.

“Compatibility with head end recording devices such as NVRs and VMS is extremely important and not often documented very well,” he says. “It normally takes a lot of hunting for information and testing to ensure a camera is compatible. Simply being an ONVIF compatible camera does not ensure 100 per cent compatibility and some camera features may not work with a particular VMS. “Bandwidth requirements are also crucial when designing the network infrastructure, which will be supporting an IP CCTV system. I personally allow for the bandwidth required by the camera at full frame rate and quality.”

White too, considers lens selection paramount.

“Lens selection is extremely important,” he says.

“Both field of view and lighting conditions must be taken into account. Some factory-fitted lenses, while being high quality and allowing for easy installation, are designed as a one size fits all approach and may be only suitable for 80 per cent of projects.

“For the other 20 per cent, it’s essential to take the time to choose the correct lens. Factors to consider are the field of view, lighting conditions and how many megapixels the camera has. I recently tested some lenses for low light conditions and had the opportunity to use the new Hikvison HV0733D-6MP F0.95 lens.

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s pe ci al re p o rt h d ca me r as “When I compared this side by side with a good quality F1.5 lens the difference in low light performance was amazing with the image with the F0.95 attached to the camera being much brighter with exactly the same camera and settings as the F1.5 Lens.”

White believes objective testing is the key to selecting the best camera for a given application.

“In my experience low cost does not mean low quality,” he says. “Objective testing HD cameras is extremely important as no one camera is suitable for all environments and the integrators need an independent method of ensuring they are choosing the best camera for the job. Shootouts at exhibitions and shows are a great way of doing this.”

For Andrew Cho, product manager at EOS Australia, the best HD camera is the camera that best meets the operational requirements of the client.

“A perfect camera is a camera which produces a usable and identifiable image in any environment or condition,” Cho says. “To provide a usable image the camera must have a good wide dynamic range, as well as good low light performance and noise reduction.”

“Installers selecting an HD IP camera need to consider total usage of multi HD stream profile based on FPS. Some manufacturers promote their camera being a quad stream capable but in reality it may only do 1 HD stream at highest FPS and only allow low res for rest of streams,” Cho says.

“Something else that’s important is bandwidth

A perfect camera is a camera which produces a usable and identifiable image in any environment or condition.

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“The most common resolution sold today is 1080p (1920x1080) as this today represents a good balance between resolution, low light performance, and bandwidth and storage requirements.

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utilization. Even at the same resolution and with the same codec, every manufacturer has its own way to slim total bandwidth usage. Lenses are also very important to bring out the optimum of the camera.

“Depending on the project, installers should consider using different type of lenses to suit the environment and cost. Some lenses do have rougher cutting compare to other reputable lens manufacturers and this usually results in poor performance of the camera.”

As we all know, price of HD cameras is a big deal in the current market. But past a certain point there’s a cost/performance trade-off in terms of elevated noise, poor low light performance, motion blur.

But where do you think that point is – when is low cost no longer worth it? And given the challenge of finding the point where low cost might mean poor performance, how important is objective testing of HD cameras?

“One of key things in the current IP market is that customers believe high-resolution guarantees better performance and several manufacturers promote their cheap high-megapixel cameras based on this marketing strategy,” Cho says.

“However, usability of the image is not dependent on resolution only but also on a camera’s performance in a range of different and challenging environments. For example, a 3MP camera may look better in normal conditions but a good 1.3MP camera can provide much more information in a situation with strong backlight or low light.

Chris Tangsilsat, senior sales engineer at Axis Communications, agrees that high performance is not necessarily about high resolution.

“An effective camera is not always about throwing more pixels into the situation,” he explains.

“Surveillance takes place over a 24/7 period and it’s important to ensure that a usable image is always achieved.

“For instance, entry points subjected to strong glare/high contrast demand features WDR Forensic Capture. And general internal areas may only have minimal ambient lighting afterhours so in this case we may choose to go with a camera which focuses on LightFinder technology “Areas with almost no illumination at all such as server rooms when unoccupied would make use of a different set of features such as a camera with built in Optimized IR illumination,” Tangsilsat explains, “Regardless of technology utilized, the key objective of each is to provide a clean usable image which will also ultimately also result in lower bandwidth and storage requirements.”

According to Tangsilsat, apart from the ability to handle a diverse range of lighting conditions, selection of the appropriate lens focal length and understanding the trade-off between field of view vs.

s p e ci al re p o rt pixel density also plays an important role.

“The most common resolution sold today is 1080p (1920x1080) as this today represents a good balance between resolution, low light performance and bandwidth and storage requirements,” he explains.

“Knowing that, it then becomes a task of deciding whether the user is after detection quality, which typically requires 25 pixels per meter = 76 meters coverage width; recognition, which is typically 125 pixels per meter = 15 meters coverage width; or identification, which is typically 500 pixels per meter = 3.8 meters coverage width.”

For Tangsilsat, lenses are one of the key areas installers should be considering.

“Lenses are one of the more crucial aspects when it comes to ensuring that a usable image is achieved, as a lens option must always be compatible with the selected camera model,” he says. “For example the basic factors to consider might be whether or not the lens is rated to the same sensor size as the camera for instance is it 1/3-inch?

“Is the lens rated to the same resolution as the camera – for instance, 2MP? And if using a day/ night camera with an IR cut filter, is the lens also IRcorrected? A mismatch in any of these basic criteria’s would severely degrade the image quality.”

Tangsilsat believes there’s always going to be a point of debate when it comes to having to choose between either investing more in the camera hardware for a better low light sensitive model vs. increasing the storage costs due to a higher level of noise in the image under low light conditions.

“This is why ensuring that the image is as clean as possible will provide 2 layers of benefits in both a more usable image along with lower storage

You should expect to see full frame rate at maximum resolution but it’s common to see 3MP cameras with maximum frame rates of half real time.

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WDR has come a long way in recent times and Hikvision’s Lightfighter range has a massive 140dB of wide dynamic range.

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requirements,” he explains.

Over at Hikvision, Michael Bates identifies a range of technologies that exemplify what he considers to be the perfect HD camera.

“The best HD cameras need to be able to perform well in a low light without motion blur and ideally, stay in colour,” says Bates. “Hikvision’s Darkfighter range is certainly one of the best lowlight ranges on the market today in that regard.

“WDR has come a long way in recent times and Hikvision’s Lightfighter range has a massive 140dB of wide dynamic range. In fact, the entire Smart IP range has a minimum 120dB at 1080p. And while most manufacturers do WDR well at 720p, very few can sustain WDR performance at 2MP or 3MP as Hikvision does.

“While network speeds are increasing and servers are becoming more powerful, bandwidth still has a huge impact, so ways to minimise bandwidth are important,” says Bates. “Hikvision will soon be releasing Smart H.264 which will effectively halve bandwidth. Being a derivative of H.264 it will not need a full rewrite from the various VMS manufacturers.

This technology will be fully backward compatible with Hikvision’s Smart IP range in the form of a firmware upgrade.”

When it comes to underlying qualities installers should be thinking harder about when they select cameras, Bates says the big one in his opinion is IVA. “While edge analytics are listed on specification sheets, their applications and affects are too numerous to cover,” he explains. “Hikvision has facial detection, people counting, heat mapping, trip wires and many more, so cameras can be used more proactively. Many of these features, when properly configured, can also dramatically reduce bandwidth usage.”

How important are lenses? Should installers be thinking about specific lenses for specific tasks?

“Hikvision believes that the lens is critical in maximising camera performance to the extent that we bought a lens manufacturer to ensure that we could get the right lens in a timely fashion,” Bates says. “A great example is our new Darkeye lens, a 1/1.8-inch 7-33mm lens with an F Stop of only 0.95.

The Darkeye was designed specifically to make the Darkfighter low light camera go from outstanding to extraordinary.”

When it comes to price, Bates says Hikvision is setting the standard for the industry in terms of value for money.

“When cameras with comparable specifications are tested, Hikvision will invariably match or beat its competitors on performance at a significantly lower price point,” he says. “There is a huge range of cameras available these days and the critical element is choosing the right camera for your application and

hd cameras buying from a reputable manufacturer to ensure reliability.

“And IP cameras really are at a point where the costs are so close to formerly cheaper analogue technology that it makes no point to head down anything but the IP path.”

Bruce Maxwell, national marketing manager at Seadan argues that the perfect camera is one that does not trade its highest specifications off against each other in real world applications.

“Most HD camera manufacturers seem able to deliver a quality HD image (which is what the end user expects to see) and include WDR (earlier HD cameras often lacked WDR) but where trouble appears is the frame rate/resolution trade-off,” Maxwell says.

“You should expect to see full frame rate at maximum resolution but it’s common to see 3MP cameras with maximum frame rates of half real time.

Want 25fps real time… sorry, best you can get is 2MP resolution! And a number of ultra high megapixel manufacturers are offering frame rates as low as 6 fps, despite the fact our Dahua 12MP series IPCHF81200E delivers real time @ 12MP.” When it comes to underlying qualities that might not seem important during the camera selection process, Maxwell says that probably the most important ‘secret squirrel’ attribute is bandwidth demand, which is difficult to actually measure and publish as it is scene dependant.

“No manufacturer would say their camera’s bandwidth demand was high in low light because there is no objective/agreed measurement reference.

It would need an independent 3rd party to define the light level and object size/motion activity then to test a range of cameras under identical conditions.

“Technology limitations/cost trade-offs come into play here,” explains Maxwell. “As light levels in a scene decrease, the percentage of noise in the video increases and some processor chipsets interpret that as movement, reducing compression and consuming more bandwidth. The best way to resolve this potential issue is to try before you buy in as typical a range of scenes as you can get and then buy cameras from a manufacturer who gets it right.

Another big issue is lens quality.

“If you are only interested in viewing objects at the centre of the field of view, most lenses are quite good,” says Maxwell. “If you need to view objects of interest across the whole field, then lack of defects in the shaping, surface polishing and optical imperfections in the glass become very important.

“When you add the changes in geometry caused by internal movement in varifocal (multi-element) lenses, you create more potential error conditions.

Low cost lens manufacturers often label their products xMp where it is fair to say they will give you

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an image on say, a 3MP HD camera, just not a good one. This issue has always been with us but with HD the errors are easier for the integrator and end user to see.”

Buying a product based only on low cost is never worth it. Maxwell believes that there is a point of value-performance trade-off but he says only objective testing would reveal it accurately.

Rob Rosa of QSS reckons that the perfect camera offers perfect colour reproduction in every environment.

“Colour reproduction is essential – a perfect camera reflects the true colours in a given scene,” he explains. “Ability to handle low light conditions and also shadows and other bright changes for example headlights coming towards a camera or a torch.

Essentially many factors will be important but my view is that performance is site specific and project specific.

“For instance, in a casino environment colour reproduction is paramount, yet it might be secondary on a factory floor that may not require such a high level of accuracy or detail. Today, many cameras are very good quality and have a tick in each box, so reality is that you buy what you like to se&n 81

s p e ci al re p o rt install and as long as there is back-of-house support then you’re fairly safe.”

What about the underlying qualities of the camera that might not first occur to installers?

“Frankly, as an ex-installer, ease of bolting a camera in and making it work is paramount,” says Rosa. “The longer this part of the process takes, the less time there is to muck around with pre-lens configuration and back-focus. One thing I have found lately is that some of the installers are complaining that the looms leading into the cameras are becoming bulkier and when they need to penetrate solid surfaces, this makes for a more time consuming and difficult job.”

Quality lenses?

“When it comes to lenses, again I see this as site specific and project specific - you need to meet client expectations,” he says. “Factory-fitted are fine for general day-to-day views and generally require less time mucking about. However, if you need to hit a sweet spot or you have ID, analytics and

If you need to view objects of interest across the whole field, then lack of defects in the shaping, surface polishing and optical imperfections in the glass become very important.

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LPR requirements, then the lens is arguably more important than the camera selection, as long as you stick with the brand name cameras.”

My sense having seen a lot of CCTV cameras is that past a certain point there’s a cost/performance trade-off in terms of elevated noise, poor low light performance and motion blur. Where do you think that point is – when is low cost no longer worth it?

How important is objective testing of HD cameras in the current market?

“This is a great question that I think needs to be answered by the installers based on what value an end user places on quality vs economy,” Rosa says.

“Would you put a cheap brand in an area where security was critical and image quality, stability, lighting and bandwidth may be all major issues? I think the answer is obvious.

“Objective testing is very important, however, there are many people that do what I like to call subjective brand name testing which is not really a fair comparison between apples. Objective testing done properly is valuable data that gives installers the information they need to make a well informed decision on product selection.”

Neil Morgan, national products engineer at Ness says that the perfect camera is the perfect camera for the job.

“In general though, I would say that it should be aesthetically pleasing, vandal resistant, easy to adjust, and produce the best possible image under all conditions,” Morgan says. “Currently our IR Ball camera exceeds in all these areas.

“I think installers are largely guided by salesmen in terms of what they consider to be the best solutions and certainly marketing hype where real needs are not always understood or asked about. We try to be as transparent and informative on our brochures as possible although the subjective camera image quality is impossible to describe on paper.

“I would always suggest that installers understand some of the most basic qualities about IP and camera technology and highlight WDR, low light noise, compression/image quality vs storage demand, lens quality, housing suitability, etc.”

“Lenses play a major part in image quality and once the camera sensor is over 3MP, lens quality really becomes a big issue,” says Morgan. “There are actually very few lenses on the market that are rated over 3MP on a 1/2.8-inch sensor because physics starts playing a major part in the equation, with diffraction affecting the image quality, let alone lens manufacturing quality at the price point needed.

“That said, the lenses built-in to our HD cameras these days are surprisingly capable at doing the job and are improving all the time. Probably the other biggest consideration at this point is compression because no matter how good the image quality is from

hd cameras the lens and sensor, compression will deteriorate it.”

According to Morgan, regardless of price, viewing and comparing cameras is important.

“We have always done this when we are choosing our range and are very confident when we display our cameras. What we see is that as well as image quality, it’s the subtleties like camera housings, ease of mounting, backend performance, lenses etc.

These subtleties will be the difference of double or quadruple the price and can be slightly hard to appreciate, unless you need those specific features.

Sony’s Steve Charles says that under no circumstances should a camera’s resolution or performance be compromised by changing light conditions.

“If you buy an HD camera you want it to stay at its native resolution,” says Charles. “Most cameras these days have the ability to do many tasks such as Wide Dynamics, low light and other analytics, however, you shouldn’t have to trade off one or more of these features under different lighting conditions to maintain or sustain quality images.

According to Charles, some camera manufacturers companies should look at their product performance specification sheets and come clean.

“Sony has at times not been considered for certain projects simply because our spec sheets are quite conservative, yet under shootout conditions we perform either equal to or better than the competitors,” he says. “There are outrageous claims of low light capabilities that hide extremely slow shutter speeds within their specifications - 10IRE @ 2.5 second shutter speeds for instance. I think that’s deceiving at best.”

How important are lenses really? Are factory fitted lenses fine, or should installers be thinking about specific lenses for specific tasks?

“Factory-fitted lens are very important when they are properly matched to the camera,” Charles says. “All Sony cameras with the exception of the SNCVB635 (high sensitivity camera) are supplied complete with a lens for this very reason. We have a list of approved lens and manufacturers models to suit specific installations.”

What about price – is there a point at which low cost impacts on performance?

“There are major issues with some low cost cameras particularly with SSL security issues, including vulnerability to bugs and attacks like Man in the Middle, Poodle, Shellshock and Heartbleed, to name a few,” Charles says. “There are also inefficiencies of the codecs with some of the cheap cameras, as well as analytics trade-offs, and difficulty interfacing with open platform VMS. “We have conducted various questionnaires worldwide and a common factor is price never rates as number 1 concern, it usually rates down at 3 or 4.

Colour reproduction is essential – a perfect camera reflects the true colours in a given scene.

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Image quality, reliability and ease of installation all rate higher.”

Lou Mavrelis of Hills rates consistency of performance as the key aspect of a perfect HD CCTV camera.

“Whether the camera is a full body or dome as a minimum it should produce a 1080p resolution image in real time,” says Mavrelis. “The camera must be able to work in low light applications and where IR is used, have a removable IR cut filter. For applications susceptible to high contrast backlighting, the added benefit of high wide dynamic range should also be considered.”

As do others, Mavrelis decries the trade-offs that are often seen in camera specifications.

“A lot of camera specifications will provide the highest values available for that particular feature, which may appear to be great but have certain tradeoffs which are not so obvious,” Mavrelis says. “What comes to mind is the number of 3MP cameras that are set at 2MP by default because they can transmit 2MP @ 30ips as opposed to 10~15ips @ 3MP and produce a better image in low light when set to 2MP rather than 3MP. Installers need to understand this and other settings that are dependent on the installation.

I believe many are just installing the cameras in their default configurations and leaving them like that.”

And lenses – factory fitted or specific aftermarket lenses?

“Factory fitted lenses on cameras do provide better images when compared to lenses that may be selected from the market,” says Mavrelis. “The problem is that the lens fitted may not suit the application required.

“As we see a decline in full body cameras, lens selection becomes more specialised as it is a requirement that the lenses meet criteria for a particular application that a dome may not meet thanks to its pre-selected lens.

“When selecting a dome camera, installers need to understand that the greater the zoom lens, the greater the focus shift when putting the bubble back on the camera. To overcome this we are seeing more motorised zoom lens cameras that basically allow the installer to carry out a one-shot focus after the field of view has been selected.”

Mavrelis believes camera performance and cost are connected.

“Camera performance is directly related to the cost,” he says. “It’s also worth noting that a low cost camera still has its applications, especially in areas where high security is not a must but an acceptable image is sufficient. However, when an incident is being investigated, it always found that a higher performing camera would have produced a better result for the investigation team. In other words, you get what you pay for.” zzz se&n 83

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Sony SNC-VM772R 4K camera

Mobotix c25

l SONY’S new SNC-VM772R delivers 4K imaging capabilities

l With a diameter of just 12 centimetres and weighing in at approximately 200 grams, the new c25 from MOBOTIX is its smallest and lightest hemispheric complete video surveillance system yet. Easy to install, configure and integrate as required, the c25 indoor camera can cover an entire room with no blind spots and includes the newly released MxAnalytics software for object or people counting, with heat map reporting. This combination of security features and marketing tools, make it the ideal solution for indoor locations, such as retail stores, museums, shops, health care centres, universities and schools.

with 0.1 lux sensitivity. The new model combines the enhanced resolution of 4K with low-light sensitivity, leveraging a 1.0-type back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS image sensor, bandwidth optimization features, and intelligent scene capture capability. 4K technology gives security users the ability to capture content at 4 times the resolution of Full HD (1080p).

“4K is the new video security standard,” said Steve Charles, sales and marketing manager, Sony Video Security Solutions, ANZ. “But 4K imaging is about more than just increased resolution.

It’s also expanding the application potential of security cameras and helping to transform security and surveillance.

The increased resolution covers a larger area, improving situational awareness and ensuring nothing is missed. These benefits help security professionals reduce installation and operating costs as fewer cameras are needed for specific areas.”

Distributor: Mobotix Contact: +61 2 8507 2000

Distributor: Sony Australia Contact: +61 2 9887 6666

Hikvision releases iVMS-5200 professional software

Wireless Relay Module for Yale SmartPhone Alarm

l Hikvision iVMS-5200 Professional video management software supports up to 1024 video devices and fully supports all Hikvision products, including DVRs, NVRs, cameras and speed domes; third party products that conform to ONVIF standard can also be connected. iVMS5200 Professional software can be easily customized to suit the complete business needs of different vertical markets.

For example, iVMS-5200 Professional includes a Transact module and a Business Intelligence module and Hikvision is integrating a License Plate Recognition module for transportation and parking systems and an Access Control module for building facilities management. Many more modules are planned and will be introduced in the future. iVMS-5200 Professional fully supports smart features from Hikvision products, including smart search, playback, smart detection, and smart application for people counting, heat map, interactive map and much more.

l YALE has made it even easier to control almost any electronic device via its SmartPhone alarm with the release of the Yale Wireless relay. This powered 5A relay with N/O and N/C contacts, wirelessly links to the Yale controller providing independent operation via APP or browser.

Additionally, units can be activated on events within the alarm system.

Distributor: Central Security Distribution Contact: 1300 319 499

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The Relay utilises ZigBee technology for wireless signal transmission. Based on the IEEE802.15.4 standard, ZigBee allows a large amount of devices to be included in a network and coordinated for data exchange and signal transmission.

Distributor: Security Merchants Australia Contact: 1300 663 904

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IIS Villa Series 7-inch room stations l IIS’ latest release, the E706 Series Room Station, is a part of the new Villa series of

intercoms recently released by IIS. Featuring elegance and an impressive feature set the E706 is ahead of the game when it comes to video intercom systems. With a high quality 7-inch LCD screen and touch sensitive buttons, the E706 series supports 2 door stations, up to 4 room stations and intercommunication between room stations.

Available in black and white and with an optional 100-event memory option, the E706 series room station is the best in its class.

Distributor: Hills PACOM and Hills DAS Contact: 1800 685 487

Tecom Mobile app

Mobotix 6MP Moonlight Sensor Technology l WITH the release of its new range of 6MP night sensor modules, Mobotix cameras are now able to deliver higher-quality images on full moon nights (illumination of approx. 0.25 lux) without any additional lighting and are suitable for applications with illumination levels below 5 lux.

The new Mobotix 6MP image sensors feature even better light sensitivity, making these the best Mobotix cameras and IP systems ever. In addition to standard 4:3 image formats with maximised 5MP resolution, this new technology now supports images with up to 6MP in the special 3:2 format (3072 × 2048 pixels), both as a day and night sensor module. In dual image display mode, a Mobotix 6MP dual camera can generate images up to 12MP in size.

Distributor: Hills PACOM and Hills DAS Contact: 1800 685 487

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l Controlling your Challenger system has never been easier with the new Tecom Mobile app. Tecom Mobile works on iOS and Android devices and connects directly to any IP-enabled Challenger10 series of panels.

Control and view the status of Challenger devices via the intuitive interface, allowing you to open doors, arm/disarm areas, isolate inputs or control lighting. Users can quickly view and reset outstanding alarms with events displayed from the panel in a friendly, easy to read format. Program PIN codes or access control cards via the Tecom Mobile app and also edit other user details including access groups and expiry dates.

Distributor: Interlogix Contact: 1300 361 479

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Instant access to your video surveillance from your smartphone or tablet Compatible with all XProtectŽ video management software (VMS) and the Milestone Husky™ NVR series, the free Milestone Mobile app gives you secure access to your video surveillance system anytime, anywhere. Available in 27 languages, the app lets you conveniently view live video, as well as playback and export footage from your smart device.

Discover how to expand your surveillance and security system capabilities with XProtect video management software at milestonesys.com

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Q: There’s been talk about full body camera lenses in Help Desk lately but many of the jobs we undertake are using integrated lenses that come with the small IP66-rated vandal resistant dome cameras we typically install. There are certainly times we find their rudimentary focus adjustments and limited focal lengths can impinge on our applications. When it comes to cameras like these, is it a matter of selecting an integrated camera and lens for the job?

A: To an extent, yes. There are obviously choices in a manufacturer’s dome range – you can order domes with fixed focal lengths between 2 and 10mm, or with varifocal lenses offering selectable 2.8-12mm focal lengths. This focal range is quite flexible for most applications that you would cover with ceiling or wall mounted dome cameras. Better cameras will use better lenses but the only way you can establish the nature of the word ‘better’ when it comes to integrated dome lenses is through an extended period of objective testing in which you install a spread of cameras with specifications that meet your purpose, then record still images and image streams for a process of comparison that never ends.

Dome camera lenses, and all the wide angle lenses used in CCTV for that matter, suffer from a range of issues, including significant distortion outside the image centre and in the centre close up, chromatic aberration, flaring of lens elements, flaring of dome bubbles as

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well as vignetting, which is most often seen as darkened corners as light levels fall.

There are also odd colour shifts that generally relate to a manufacturer’s selection of coatings. Some lenses are cooler (blue-ish white), some are warmer (yellow-ish white). It’s worth getting a handle on the way lenses interpret light, the way they introduce bias into camera performance. Once you know what you are looking at, it’s possible to make discerning judgements about lens performance.

Frankly, lenses are weird. You can sometimes get beautiful images from a low cost lens because the designers mystically got the positioning of the internal elements exactly right. Or maybe they selected the right lens coatings for the particular application you are addressing today. Installers who care about image quality should never stop comparing the performance of cameras and lenses. It makes a difference – especially with lower cost cameras. When looking at an image full screen, performance might seem uniform between 2 cameras. But zoom in 20 per cent and you’ll find image softness you can barely see full-screen makes one camera unsuitable for anything but situational awareness or close-up (under 10m).

Q: When we’re doing camera setup we are often conflicted over setting a scene mode that suits a 24-hour application.

There’s Indoor, Outdoor, Weighted,

Automatic, some camera browsers offer selections that are application specific – for instance, Traffic, Night, Retail, or Casino. Is it possible to get the best performance around the clock?

A: This is an area of increasing complexity.

Some cameras have serious levels of functionality at the browser level. As well as being able to set cameras up via browser, there’s also the ability to tweak them through the VMS. The nature of this tweaking depends on the level of integration between camera and VMS. Typically, the VMS will mirror the camera’s internal settings, allowing you to browse in through Camera Settings functions and then save these settings to the camera once you’re done. Trouble is, every manufacturer has a different way of setting up scene mode. Some might be simply indoor, outdoor and auto. Some are highly detailed and have a global impact on multiple areas of function, including white balance, ISO and subsequent application of noise reduction algorithms.

The only way to find out what works best is experience.

Q: Are there any significant disadvantages when it comes to PIR technology used in alarm sensors?

A: Sure - there are a number of disadvantages PIRs. For a start, increases in ambient temperature will effect PIR range and sensitivity. And it’s possible for

intruders to wear a suit or carry a shield that reflects body heat to beat PIR sensing.

Another weakness is that there’s not the density or uniformity of coverage with PIRs that you get with other technologies.

There are dead zones and it’s possible for furniture or pallets of stock to block the sensor’s view. Nor will the PIR alarm if the sensing element fails - something that beam sensors will do. Generally, the PIR sensor’s detection range is limited to 15m x 15m x 50m in wide angle and 50m in narrow beam, or a circular 15m pattern.

Another negative is the fact random IRE signals will cause false alarms and there’s a maintenance requirement. Lenses and mirrors need to be kept clean and insects and other pests kept at bay. In dry, dusty environments, particles will be electrostatically drawn to the device where they’ll stick and cloud its vision.

Once the temperature gets over 35 C, any PIR is going to be seriously disadvantaged even if temperature compensation is activated. For this reasons, if things are going to be warm you should think quality dual technology sensors.

Of course, there are advantages to PIRS, including low false alarm rates when compared to single technology microwave and ultrasonic sensors, miniscule power drains, no energy emissions, no moving parts and simple electronics. PIRs have a longer detection range than ultrasonics, are cheaper than most other technologies, will not interfere with each other when installed in groups and can be adjusted in terms of lens pattern and sensitivity while in the field. Good PIRs are very good, when installed sympathetically.

Q: We like the idea of soldering but it’s time consuming and difficult to undo once a termination is built. Do you think crimping is as good when it comes to performance and reliability?

A: Crimping is reliable and will offer excellent performance. Be sure to use a quality ratcheting crimp tool, either a single crimp or a double crimp ratchet.

What’s great about a ratchet is that it won’t let go of the crimp till the terminal is fully crimped – nor can you over or undercrimp.

Remember too, that stranded cables with a large quantity of small-diameter strands, improve a crimped joint’s performance.

Finer strands fill the contours of a terminal as it is crimped. This even distribution of strands allows loads to be distributed evenly. Any air pockets or voids in a crimped joint with coarse stranding increase resistance and temperature which in turn can lead to a faster rate of corrosion.

When selecting the correct terminal, make sure the terminal’s wire range is compatible with the actual wire size. Also make certain the terminals and wire strands are free of oxidation and corrosion. This will insure a positive connection. While crimping, an adequate amount of pressure must be applied so that oxides that build up on

the inside of the terminal barrel before it’s used are broken down. Unless good metal-to-metal contact occurs, resistance can build up on the terminal which means attenuation of the signal and circuit failure in the future.

Q: As a distributor we spend a lot of time explaining basic aspects of electrical systems to a minority of technicians.

I’m not talking about complicated issues, either. Some of the questions shouldn’t be asked by someone who installs electronic security systems.

The message we want to relay is that installers should read the instructions.

Too often they install the gear and try to reverse engineer commissioning with us on one end of their mobile phone.

A: Modern systems, while they are simple, have layers of complexity that can be tough to get your head around. Regardless, if you’re having trouble with equipment during installation or maintenance, before you call manufacturers or distributors, think hard about the basics. Pull out the manual and go over the set-up process step by step. Are all plugs and network connections in and is the power on? Does the camera’s IP address put it on the same subnet as the server? Check the power connection from AC to the transformer.

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IFSEC Date: 16 - 18 June, 2015 Venue: ExCeL London, U.K. Tel: 44 (0)20 7069 5000 IFSEC International is the only event to bring together the entire buying chain, from end users, installers and integrators to consultants, distributers and manufacturers.

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