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Access Control Trends

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By John Adams

Security and Government Expo: Where Technology & Procedures Meet ECURITY management in S Australia has never balanced on such a pivotal moment and Security and Government Expo in Canberra November 3 is the fulcrum.

Whether you’re protecting assets in the public or private sector, threat potential has never been so acute and the capability of technology never so high. The challenge is finding solutions that bring technology and operational procedures together in the most powerful and cost effective ways.

For many government departments and private organisations, the current levels of threat demand the application of electronic security systems in support of procedures that wring every last ounce of capability from devices and their underlying networks. And they do so in multiple different ways. On the one hand, the need for situational awareness on very large sites stretches the capacity of what can be managed coherently using centralised integration of multifarious sub systems.

In other applications, security technology is tasked with driving cost efficiencies that save hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars every year.

Alongside the power of the latest security technology runs its ability, when used in tandem with fastchanging network capability, to change the way security operations are managed.

If signals are adequately protected, it really is now possible to engage in proactive management anywhere there’s dependable Internet

SAGE will show security managers, integrators, installers and consultants an excellent spread of solutions from quality providers and to attain a fingertip sense of your entire application on a modest budget.

One of the core elements of any application of security technology is its support for security operations.

It’s such a simple thing to say but melding technology and operations is relentlessly hard to do. And the larger the organisation, the harder. Technology is too often seen as the entire response to risk, rather than a means by which security managers can better and more efficiently manage risk response. At its most raw, the failings of the interface between technology and procedures can be agonising.

In large organisations, there may be quality electronic security solutions but a failure to instil a culture of communication means electronic systems have virtually no value. In large facilities, lone workers may be supported by multiple alarm call devices yet have no idea what will happen if alarms are activated. At a defence installation, contracted security officers at a gate house might be thoroughly appraised of actions in response to aggressive intrusion, yet base residents on weekends receive no vital alerts.

The security management function has always been challenging – melding intelligence, access control, procedures, CPTED, intrusion detection, incident response, surveillance, and risk management to counter shifting threats in organic environments in real time, can’t be underestimated. Taking these and other factors into account, policies, procedures and controls must be established then live-governed to defend a location in multiple layers; from initial deterrent, to detection; from resistance to entry, to response and investigation.

In today’s risk environment, with technology at its most capable and its most accessible in terms of cost and performance, we must create organic solutions that exhibit a cyborg blend of technological input and human management and response. And such solutions can only be created by fitting the best systems to the most challenging environments through an initial process of tough talk. Security and Government Expo, at the Realm Hotel in Canberra on November 3 from 12 till 6pm, is the perfect opportunity to discuss ways to merge security procedures with the latest security technologies without leaving the city. SAGE is organised by SEN and supported by major industry partner ASIS ACT. Luke Williams, chief security officer Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will speak on International Security Challenges, A DFAT Perspective, and the expo includes an application-specific shoot-out of wide angle cameras with angles of view ranging from 180-270 degrees.

SAGE Exhibitors include Bosch, Dahua, Axis, LSC, Pelco, Inner Range, Chubb, Add-on APAC, EKA, Avigilon, FSH, Direct Connect, Perimeter Systems, Gallagher, LED Sensormat, Geutebruck, NTT Communications, Sektor, Gunnebo, Honeywell, Ezi Security Systems and Hitachi, with Hills and Genetec being sponsors. SAGE will show security managers, integrators, installers and consultants an excellent spread of solutions from quality providers.

It’s the only chance security professionals in Canberra have to see the latest technologies in 2016. If you’re serious about your security, we’ll see you there November 3. n

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oct 16 22: Mobotix Forcefield Forcefield Security has installed a Mobotix video surveillance solution at Edmund Rice College near Wollongong. The solution provides high quality image streams with a indiscernible network footprint.

26: Bank Job A major bank has installed a WAN-based 6900-camera CCTV system across 750 sites, combining legacy cameras and hardware linked by SCSI’s DirectConnect solution.

The system gives local and remote view, playback and search, multi-client mobile support and enhanced search functions to increase the efficiency of bank operations.

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36: Bosch IP 5000 Bullet I WASN’T sure what to think of the Bosch IP 5000 when I unpacked it – the sunshade and the overall camera are quite light but when it’s up and running you find that this a surprisingly good camera in the best tradition of motorised, remote autofocus bullet cameras.

44: EastLink Drives Forward EastLink Melbourne has deployed Axis’ and Citilog’s traffic surveillance solution, including Axis encoders in combination with Citilog’s Automatic Video Incident Detection System v(AVID).

48: Trends in Access Control According to HID’s Steve Katanas, the top 5 trends in access control include the continuing shift to mobile based credentials, the convergence of physical and online authentication and the growing pressures of exposure to IoT.

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A newly developed chip that leverages the random interference of 2 sources of light could offer the highest levels of encryption possible to any mobile device, closing

Nothing is so central to a surveillance solution as the video management system that drives it. Whether you’re an end user, or an installer, there’s plenty to think about when it comes

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Force Security has installed a Bosch video surveillance solution to protect the Australian Collection of Physical Education (ACPE). The system incorporates a range of Bosch’s surveillance cameras supported by Bosch BVMS video management system.

Alarm monitoring’s future is likely to leverage video considerably more than it does now.

The experiences of a major bank, which has employed video verification across 750 sites and reduced call-outs by nearly 50 per cent suggest that there’s considerable benefits in cost and efficiency.

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68: editor’s choice

Samsung’s SNV-8081RP IR dome has been at the SEN office for some months awaiting testing. I liked the Samsung SNO, the bullet version of this camera engine a lot. Would I warm to the fixed dome version of the camera? Read on!

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ACCESS CONTROL TRENDS

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AFN Solutions, Telstra sign $A7 million 5-Year CCTV Contract with Moreton Bay Council

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AFN Solutions and parent company Telstra have signed a contract to provide Moreton Bay Regional Council with a fully managed CCTV solution worth $A7 million, with the entire

project cost to be paid over 60 months on Council’s Telstra bill.

The project entails the installation of a wide area network covering more than 50 sites with a mixture of fibre, wireless

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and 4G connectivity.

It also involves the installation of a mixture of Dell servers running Milestone Xprotect Corporate for larger sites and Milestone Huskies in smaller locations, along with the 150 Allied Telesis rack and industrial switches.

Finally, the project will see the replacement of 725 fixed and 160 PTZ cameras with Uniview 4MP fixed cameras and 1080P Uniview PTZs. AFN Solutions will manage the entire system including new installs, lifecycle management, maintenance and 24-hour support. A comprehensive 5-year warranty will provide total peace of mind for

the Council, greatly minimizing both physical and financial risk.

“This is a significant project for AFN and Telstra, representing our largest foray into the safe city vertical so far,” said AFN’s Tony Lagan. “Our combined capacity to finance and deliver large contracts undoubtedly makes AFN and Telstra a force to be reckoned with.”

The project entails the installation of a wide area network covering more than 50 sites with a mixture of fibre, wireless and 4G connectivity.

Genetec and Mobotix Announce Alliance n GENETEC and MOBOTIX report they will work together in research and development, testing, business development, and sales support for new and existing enterprise clients. Genetec Security Center unifies video management (VMS), access control, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR), and communications management into a single intuitive platform. This technology partnership will offer single and multi-site management for MOBOTIX edge devices, leading to

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MOBOTIX enhances video for physical security applications, business operations, process monitoring and sustainability through reliable camera hardware, decentralized architecture and energy efficiency.

MOBOTIX solutions include both optical and thermal imaging sensors. MOBOTIX enables clients to deploy tactical solutions following CPTED principles to help prevent crime.

“We are happy to enter this

technology partnership with Genetec, as we recognize a natural synergy with the highly scalable unified security platform that Security Center represents, and the catalog of IP cameras and compression technology that MOBOTIX offers,” said Dr. Tristan Haage, chief sales officer, MOBOTIX. “With 2 recent 500+ camera customer deployments in Europe and the Middle East, both companies are already realizing the advantages of a highly-integrated hardware and software

solution for enterprise deployments, for which Genetec is very well known for in the industry.”

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RACV Seeks Installation and Service of Alarms, CCTV

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RACV Home Security, a division of RACV Ltd, has sought electronic security installers to support its 8000 and growing list of security customers. RACV Home Security recently advertised a request for proposal for technical services relating to the installation and servicing of alarm systems and CCTV. According to Toly Christofakakis, security solutions product manager - RACV Home Services, the tender closed on Thursday 29 September.

The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) is a motoring club and mutual organisation, providing services such as roadside assistance, vehicle, home and contents insurance, personal and car loans, driving instruction, tourism services and home security products.

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BGW Technologies Invests in Certified S2 Trainer in Australia n BGW Technologies and S2 Security have announced the expansion of its support of S2 Security access control, video management and mobile security management products with the certification of an Australian local trainer. Rick

White, national applications/ systems engineer and training manager at BGW Technologies, has gone through a rigorous induction and education process to become an S2 certified trainer. White has spent more than 3 weeks in

intensive training in Boston, USA, as well as undertaking training in Australia over the last 3 months in order to meet the requirements of this important process.

“A critical part of our strategic growth plan for S2 into the Australian market is

WA Government Building Access Control Integrator Register n WA Government’s Programmed Facility Management division has been engaged by WA Government’s Building Management and

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Works division to deliver services across 7 major government agencies, including installation and maintenance of target hardening access control

components.

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by BM&W include the Department of the Attorney General (DotAG), Department of Corrective Services (DCS),

to be able to run training and certify security integrators on behalf of S2 Security,” said Robert Meachem, general manager, BGW Technologies. “By providing more local support to our partners, we will better equip them to service their customers and expand their businesses.

BGW Technologies will schedule training for certified S2 partners in the months ahead in all major states.

“We are delighted with the growing demand for S2 products in the Australian market via BGW Technologies”, said R. Todd Smith, Vice President of Global Sales, S2 Security.

“Training is key to pre and post-sales support, and Rick White’s experience and knowledge will help us bring the benefits of S2 products and services to many more organisations.”

S2 Security’s latest innovation, S2 Magic Monitor is a video display and digital signage solution that enables security, safety and informational content to be displayed anywhere throughout the enterprise.

Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA), Department of Education (DoE) - North and South (primarily schools located in the Perth metro area), Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES), Department of Training and Workforce Development (DTWD) and Main Roads Western Australia (MRWA).

As part of its Maintenance Service Arrangement (MSA) with BMW, Programmed FM is seeking to simplify and streamline its practises by establishing a robust subcontractor network to deliver works and services to these key agencies.

Programmed FM sought tenders before October 4, from suitably qualified and experienced subcontractors to undertake works and services for security doors, roller shutters, swing doors, automatic gates, rolling grilles, operable walls, sally ports and anti-ram barriers.

Wayne Trethowan Joins Security Merchants Australia as General Manager Sales

WAYNE Trethowan has joined SMA as general manager sales. Trethowan was most recently general manager at Hills Fire Systems responsible for fire technology and integration in trusted environments.

With long experience in the electronic security industry, Trethowan has worked in sales, installation and service management in fire, security, access control, communications, BMS, wholesale technology development & distribution and building automation for organisations such as Fire Fighting Enterprises, James Hardie Building services, Pacific Communications and Hills Holdings.

Trethowan has extensive experience in managing a broad range of distribution and solution divisions over many years, delivering a range of large scale projects involving security, CCTV, communications and FTTP to many applications around the country.

“There are real opportunities in the current market and I’m looking forward to growing the SMA business in my new role as general manager of sales,” Trethowan said.

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Scentre Group CCTV Shootout Bosch Strengthens National Distribution Network n WITH a view to providing existing and potential Bosch customers increased access to their products, Bosch Security Systems has partnered with 2 new distributors to further strengthen its national distribution network.

POPES Electrical & Data Supplies will service the ACT with branches in Fyshwick, Mitchell and Phillip. Bosch video and intrusion products will complement POPES existing portfolio of data,

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communications, AV, cable and accessories.

“At POPES Electrical & Data Supplies we are focused on providing not just the best products, but the best solutions,” said Ray Whaling, manager of the Fyshwick branch. “We see our partnership with Bosch Security Systems as filling these criteria and we are very excited to be its preferred distributor in the ACT.” Next comes the longawaited Bosch presence in Tasmania, with the appointment of Active Electronics, which will be distributing Bosch video and intrusion products from branches in Hobart and Launceston.

“We are very excited at the opportunities afforded by this new partnership with Bosch Security Systems Australia,” said Daniel Guinan, manager of Active Electronics.

“Our focus on contemporary technology, quality products and expert advice complements

Bosch Security Systems’ own philosophy, making this a mutually beneficial relationship. It will also provide our customers with yet another premium brand through its line of outstanding and innovative products, with extensive commercial and domestic applications to meet the growing demands of the Tasmanian market.”

With the addition of these 5 branches across 2 key states where Bosch has never been represented, Bosch distribution manager Shaun Watson is excited about the future.

“With the imminent release of the new Bosch plug-and-play NVR with QR app connectivity, and the cloud-based app for the Solution 2000/3000 alarm panels due before the end of the year, the timing of both these distributors coming on board could not be better,” said Watson.

“We welcome POPES and Active to our team and look forward to rewarding and long-lasting partnerships.”

n WESTFIELD Bondi Junction will be holding the National CCTV Camera Shootout for 2016 on October 25 and 26.

The shootout includes a mall walk to review cameras and locations; after which invited visitors will go to the centre management boardroom to view and compare camera images.

According to senior risk & security manager, Yigal Shirin, Scentre Group will be testing cameras in multiple classes: Entry ID, common mall, micro dome and omnidirectional cameras.

SEN will be attending the event again this year and will give readers our impression of camera performance.

Gallagher Gets Loud!

Axis Opens Brisbane Office n AXIS Communications has moved to a new office space in Brisbane which the team says is more accessible for partners to visit. The location is Building 1, Gateway Office Park, 747 Lytton Road, Murarrie, QLD 4172.

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CSD Restructures NSW Management Structure n ACCORDING to CSD’s

Australian Department of Defence Seeks Unclassified Secure Internet Environment n AUSTRALIA’S Department of Defence is seeking ICT assistance to facilitate its Cyber Security Strategy 2016 - the development of an internetconnected, unclassified secure environment it will share with the private sector.

The secure yet open online environment will allow the cyber security mission to increase ASD’s capacity to identify, analyse and respond to new and emerging cyber threats, increase ASD’s capacity to assess government agencies’ vulnerabilities, provide technical security advice, and investigate

emerging technologies, expand ASD’s capacity to provide cyber security services to a wider range of organisations, and enable ASD and the private sector to work more effectively together.

According to the ADoD, the Cyber Security Mission requires a capability for technical users to conduct cyber security activities from an accredited, audited, corporately-sustained protected environment. The capability will enable the cyber security mission to undertake new and existing activities in support of government mandates

and Australia’s national and economic security objectives.

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general manager of sales and distribution, Peter Grimshaw, the company has undertaken a management restructure in NSW, with the announcement of an NSW state sales manager and an NSW operations manager.

“We took a different approach in NSW and decided we would divide the responsibilities given the size of the task – we chose to have a dedicated role for internal operations and a dedicated role for external sales,” said Grimshaw.

“We think this division of responsibilities will work well in NSW, which has a different weight of resources than we have in Victoria.

“Chelsea Rudd has been appointed NSW operations manager,” Grimshaw said.

“Chelsea has come our Northmead branch, she started our HR division and while she still maintains HR, Chelsea is now operations manager for

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NSW and responsible for back-of-house running of our new Waterloo branch as well as managing Northmead.”

Meanwhile, Tony Theissen, formerly of Hills, who has been with CSD for 12 months in a major projects and major accounts role, has been appointed NSW state sales manager.

“With our proposed growth targets over the next year – we have 8 dedicated sales people on the road in NSW every day – we needed someone to be focused wholly on driving that sales side of the business, to be focussed entirely on growth without the distraction of managing stock, repairs, warranties, customer complaints and tenders,” Grimshaw said.

“Chelsea and Tony have proven skills, are high capable and wholly committed to the NSW team and we’ll be giving them all our support as they transition successfully into their new roles.”

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Sektor Now Distributing full FLIR Thermal Range To ANZ, Pacific, PNG

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n FLIR reports that Sektor, Australia’s current distributor of FLIR Security thermal imaging systems, will now offer the full suite of FLIR Security products across Australia and New Zealand (including PNG & the Pacific Islands).

“After a recent review of our distribution model in the ANZ region, we have

decided to strengthen our partnership with Sektor to include distribution of the FLIR Security Professional product line,” said FLIR BDM, Gareth Gross.

“These include thermal cameras, the enterprise range, incorporating Latitude video management systems, network video recorders and high performance visible

cameras. The agreement also covers analytics products, including edgebased analytics for both thermal and HD cameras as well as server-based analytics and the Cameleon PSIM platform.

“Sektor’s deep understanding of FLIR products and their dynamic approach to the market

is set to increase product availability and support capacity for FLIR security products in the ANZ region,” Gross said.

“We trust that this appointment will enhance FLIR’s positioning in the ANZ market and the overall support and service currently offered to our loyal customers in the region.”

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Axis and Canon Conspire on New 20MP Q1659 n AXIS has harnessed the imaging technologies of parent company, Canon, for its new 20MP AXIS Q1659.

This edgy first release bodes well for the Canon Axis colloboration. Axis has developed the camera for detailed surveillance over long distances for cities, airports, transportation, stadiums and other open areas. It features 20MP resolution at 8 images per second, high-performance image sensor and Canon EF/EF-S lenses, digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) imaging technology with choice of 7 different EF/ EF-S lenses depending on requirements.

The quoted ability to use an EF/EF-S mount is interesting, given these are 2 quite different mounting systems. There are more than 60 EF lenses in the

Canon full frame range, as well as tons of third party offerings, with a smaller number of lenses in the EF-S crop sensor range.

In the press image, the Axis Q1659 is wearing one of Canon’s best lenses, the superfast 85mm F1.2 USM L full frame. We’d recommend using the more affordable but still excellent 85mm F1.8, all you security managers looking for facial ID and professional qualities of bokeh. The camera uses an APS/C sensor and is certain to perform extremely well in low light.

The Q1659 has Axis Zipstream storage technology, which slashes bandwidth requirements by 50 per cent, SFP slot for optional fibre connectivity allows network connectivity over long distances. There’s support

from Axis Application Development Partner (ADP) Program and AXIS Camera Station software, while third-party video analytics applications can be installed on the camera via AXIS Camera Application Platform.

“This camera is a best of both worlds approach: The world-class image quality Canon is known for with its professional-level photography technology and Axis’ market-leading security systems that deliver everything required for a complete, flexible and easy-to-manage installation,” says Olof Leidecker, global product manager at Axis. Axis Communications is planning to launch the AXIS Q1659 network camera in Q1 2017 through Axis distribution channels.

City of Greater Geelong Plans CCTV at 3 Council Facilities

n CITY of Greater Geelong Council in Victoria has sought to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced contractor to provide design, supply and installation services associated with CCTV upgrades at 3 Council facilities. They include Geelong Arena, the Leisure Time Centre and Barwon Valley Activity Centre. The scope of works includes design of new/upgraded CCTV system (drawings + specifications), supply

The scope of works includes design of new/upgraded CCTV system (drawings + specifications), supply and installation of CCTV systems, and the ability to conduct works safely while the venue remains open to the public.

and installation of CCTV systems, and the ability to conduct works safely while the venue remains open to the public.

Mandatory requirements of the tender included a mandatory site inspection commencing at the 3 locations on September 5.

Council representatives were present during the inspection to discuss details regarding the project and the tender process. Further conditions included that the contractor must hold a Victorian Security Licence as a security consultant and the ability of any new CCTV equipment to integrate with council’s current Dallmeier recording and management system, though tenderers were encouraged to propose an alternative.

The contract will be awarded in October, and the design phase and installation works will be completed by April 2017. The tender process closed on September 28.

Hills Undertakes Branch Expansion nationally

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n HILLS reports it is investing to better service its customers, with an increased focus on its Arundel, Lidcombe and Port Melbourne trade counters. In order to ensure there is more of the stock customers are after on the shelves, Hills is

hosting a major re-launch of these 3 key branches at the end of September.

“We’ve listened to our customers,” said James Macrae, general manager for the SMB team at Hills, “and for this reason we’ve looked at the range and fit out in these branches.

We want to continue to make business easy, and have also ensured we have skilled staff in each location.”

During the week of the 26th of September, Hills customers scored red hot deals in these branches with great pricing on key

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Paxton Net2 Access Integrates with Milestone XProtect n PAXTON has announced the integration of its networked access control system, Net2, with Milestone Systems’ newest video management software (VMS). The integration allows the user to display access control events and monitor video surveillance cameras from the, Milestone XProtect Smart Client.

“We are delighted to work again with our long standing partner, Milestone, and believe this feature rich integration provides a solution that meets the needs of many specifications we are seeing in the market,” said Paxton’s Gareth O’Hara.

Paxton has developed a plugin using Milestone’s MIP

SDK 2016, that can be added to the Milestone XProtect (VMS) linking Paxton Net2 access control information to the Milestone XProtect Smart Client interface.

The integration associates cameras with doors and displays real-time video footage as video events and access alarms occur.

The software can be configured so pop up notifications instantly gain the operator’s attention to an event of interest. Doors can be locked or unlocked directly from the XProtect Smart Client interface, where user information and events can be displayed to provide full visibility to the operator on who is accessing areas throughout a site.

“We are very pleased to strengthen the partnership between Paxton and Milestone,” said Thomas Lausten, Vice President EMEA at Milestone Systems. “We look forward to working with our

common channel partners in all EMEA markets to explore the many benefits this will provide for endusers integrating Milestone VMS and Paxton access control.”

Gallagher, Nok Nok Labs Partner on FIDO-based IoT Authentication n NOK Nok Labs, a founding member of the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, has announced a partnership with New Zealand-based security solutions manufacturer Gallagher, to bring to market a new platform that provides an open standards-based approach for the authentication of

IoT systems using mobile devices.

The new Nok Nok Labs-Gallagher platform addresses common challenges faced by facilities managers, ensuring only authorized users can access secure facilities and reducing cardholder management costs; access using a mobile

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phone eliminates the need for physical access cards and removes the administration involved in assigning temporary cards to employees who have forgotten or misplaced theirs.

To use the new Gallagher platform enabled by Nok Nok Labs, a user needs to be registered and can then simply and securely access the FIDO-enabled app on their mobile device to unlock the door to the secured facility.

Gallagher access control devices will now support the FIDO Universal Authentication Framework (UAF) protocol. The FIDO Certified Nok Nok S3 Authentication Suite will be integrated with Gallagher Command Centre, an on-premise solution that includes credentials, readers and intermediate controllers.

Customers will be able to use cloud registration for FIDO enablement that overlays multiple Gallagher Command Centres, increasing ease-of-use and site security.

“Gallagher customers require powerful access control solutions. We’ve developed this strategic

Gallagher customers require powerful access control solutions.

We’ve developed this strategic partnership with Nok Nok Labs because of their deep roots in the authentication landscape and their first-tomarket FIDO-based solution. partnership with Nok Nok Labs because of their deep roots in the authentication landscape and their first-to-market FIDO-based solution,” said Steve Bell, chief technology officer at Gallagher. “This state-of-the-art, standardsbased platform will deliver a tremendous user experience.”

The new Nok Nok LabsGallagher platform will be available later this year, following the October release of Gallagher Command Centre version 7.60. The platform will rollout progressively in regions including North America, Europe, Turkey, Australia and New Zealand.

ASIAL Awards and OSPA’s Judging Complete THE Australian Security Industry Awards for Excellence in 2016, along with the Outstanding Security Performance Awards have been judged and scores are being tallied. The awards will be presented at the ASIAL Awards Dinner in Sydney on October 20.

Again this year the judging panel was comprised of a group of experienced technical and security management judges.

ASIAL’s Security Industry Awards were considered, with submissions reappraised by the panel before a group assessment was made. Consensus was good and judges were particularly impressed with the categories including best technical security solutions and individual achievements.

When it came to the Outstanding Security Performance Awards – judges allocated scores based on their individual assessments as part of prior reading of submissions and much discussion. The aggregated score sheets of the judging panel will be used to determine the award winners.

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Edmund Rice College

Mobotix Forcefield Forcefield Security has installed a Mobotix video surveillance solution at Edmund Rice College near Wollongong.

The solution provides high quality image streams with an indiscernible network footprint.

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DMUND Rice College is an independent Catholic high school for boys established in 1926 just outside Wollongong. Since 2013, Edmund Rice has undergone a number of major developments: a first class sports hall has been built, which seats 1500, as well as housing 2 indoor basketball courts and a mezzanine level gymnasium. Also added have been drama and PDHPE classrooms, and a large communal foyer; and a significant upgrade to IT infrastructure, including the adoption of a 1:1 computing platform, has granted students access to computing facilities at all times. In 2015, extensive works were carried out on outdoor areas, with new gardens being built and the construction of COLAs (Covered Outdoor Learning Areas). In addition, the library was recently refurbished and expanded to include a state of the art e-learning centre.

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In order to convince school faculty, I suggested that they try out one MOBOTIX camera.

They used it for a month, and came back more than happy.

Having invested millions of dollars bringing cutting-edge learning facilities to the students, it was vital to protect the school’s assets. With its current 1980s security system only semi-operational, the headmaster called in Dean Scanlon from Forcefield Security to carry out repairs. Scanlon knew that continuing to use ageing equipment, which was reliant on increasingly defunct technology, would not be a lasting solution.

“I suggested why not include the installation of a brand new security system for the Sports Hall into the construction cost and explained the savings that would be seen in the long term and how it was a perfect time to incorporate this into the larger project,” Scanlon explains.

When it came to cameras, Forcefield turned to Mobotix. The decentralized design of the cameras with intelligent low bandwidth requirements

allowed integration into the school’s existing network and MOBOTIX hemispheric technology means fewer cameras cover larger areas. MOBOTIX decentralized technology made installation simple, with no new cabling nor additional infrastructure required. With license-free regularly upgraded firmware, and cameras built to last, it offered an economical long-term solution. Furthermore, as many areas to be covered were internal, the competitive pricing of the indoor range brought even greater savings to the fore.

“In order to convince school faculty, I suggested that they try out one MOBOTIX camera. They used it for a month, and came back more than happy and ready to go ahead with the entire installation,” Scanlon explains.

A modern alarm system was fitted in the Sports Hall and MOBOTIX cameras were installed around the outside and inside of the building. A combination of M15s and D15s protect the exterior of the building and only a single i25, MOBOTIX hemispheric indoor camera is needed to cover the entire sports hall arena. Positive results were seen quite soon afterwards, with the access reliable footage acting to reduce incidences of bullying and fighting.

Extremely happy with the installation, the school was eager for the newly refurbished library to be secured next. By this stage the VMS (video management software) had been upgraded to the newly released MxMC (MOBOTIX Management Centre), making installation even simpler. In spite of its size, the library only required 2 indoor

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hemispheric c25 cameras to monitor the whole area. Q25s and D15s were installed to guard the entrance and exterior respectively. Thanks to MxMC’s intelligent sorting of all parameters, which supports visual control and drag and drop, installation time was significantly cut.

MOBOTIX decentralized technology keeps bandwidth requirements extremely low, allowing a secure subnet to be installed on the school’s existing network without causing any extra burden. At busy times, such as during class when students are using computer equipment, the cameras delay sending

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MOBOTIX decentralized technology keeps bandwidth requirements extremely low, allowing a secure subnet to be installed on the school’s existing network without causing any extra burden.

footage, storing it in a buffer designed specifically for this purpose.

“IT didn’t even see an imprint of MOBOTIX on their network when the system was commissioned,” Scanlon explains.

Live monitoring takes place in a local control room performed by security staff, and only authorized members of staff can review or download footage.

Further measures were taken to protect the privacy of students in view of the new system, by disabling all microphones on the cameras during teaching hours. However, at night time, the microphones are switched on through a custom setting, so that the control room can speak to anyone on site using remoteGUARD. The cameras have already had their first major win protecting computer equipment from vandalism.

“Someone had been swapping the letters over on the keyboards in the computer room,” Scanlon explains. “Using MxMC, we reviewed the recordings and found perfect footage of the culprits in action.

They were reprimanded and asked to pay for new keyboards. It had happened in the past and the school hadn’t been able to catch them, until now.” n

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Bank Job A major bank has installed a WAN-based 6900-camera CCTV system across 750 sites, combining legacy cameras and hardware linked by SCSI’s DirectConnect solution. The system gives local and remote view, playback and search, multi-client mobile support and enhanced search functions to increase the efficiency of bank operations. John Adams speaks with Adam Szylvester.

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Q: DirectConnect is a fixed-IP 4G service that links field devices in remote locations, including CCTV, alarms and access control, via SCSI’s private and secure network using a standard 4G router and SIM. What where you trying to achieve using it with this surveillance installation/ upgrade? What is the system’s purpose?

A: Primarily, we were looking for a video verification tool which could be used to reduce the number of patrol callouts each month. At the time of writing our business case we were averaging 2000 plus alarm response callouts per month and believed the implementation of

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DirectConnect would see a reduction in the vicinity of 30-40 per cent of these callouts. After just 9 months we are travelling ahead of assumptions with a realised reduction in excess of 43 per cent.

Primarily, we were looking for a video verification tool which could be used to reduce the number of patrol callouts each month.

Q: Could you outline how the system is used to offer safety and security from an operational perspective? What are its most important qualities?

A: The system is used for verification purposes, whether this be after hours or during business hours, for example, if we were to receive a duress activation during business hours the monitoring centre or our own internal security managers can access the surveillance system remotely to evaluate what is happening within the site and then pass on crucial information to police or

security responders as required.

After-hours it is used purely for alarm verification purposes – for instance, when the monitoring centre receives an intruder alarm activation, they will remotely check the CCTV system to ascertain whether a patrol callout is required, or if the activation is a false alarm. This not only cuts back our response costs but also cut down the number of false activations that patrols attend and reduces the likelihood of complacency setting in when performing their duties.

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Typical scenes using DirectConnect

The solution provides us with an ability to remotely verify many security conditions prior to taking action...

Q: How big is this solution? How many sites? How many staff?

A: The system has been deployed to all of our 750-plus retail sites nationally.

Initially, the deployment was to take place over 2 years, however, we quickly realised the benefits and deployed the system to all sites within 9 months.

Q: How many cameras, how much storage? Frame rate?

A: The installation incorporates approximately 6900 cameras, each site operates in a standalone state - all recording occurs and is stored locally on DVRs or NVRs. Each DVR/NVR has approximately 6TB of storage and we record at 25fps.

Q: What is the nature of the installation – is it IP, analogue or a hybrid?

A: Due to the age of our CCTV network we currently have a mixture of analogue

and IP sites, all new installations and branch refurbishments are IP, with a plan to refresh our fleet within the next 2-3 years.

Q: What is the topology of this installation – is it end-to-end IP from cameras to DirectConnect to server rooms/node zero?

A: The topology varies between sites – analogue sites are coaxial cable camera to DVR, with the DVR then being connected to the DirectConnect router, and IP systems are generally the same but utilising a separate CAT5/6 backbone to the NVR or switch depending on the NVR. At no stage do we utilise our existing corporate LAN cabling for the distribution of IP cameras to NVRs. All CCTV equipment is housed locally within its own CCTV rack in the site’s comms room.

Q: What cameras did you use and what is the management software?

A: As we had an existing ageing CCTV network - camera makes and models vary greatly and at this stage no remote management of the cameras or DVR/ NVRs takes place. All management is currently performed locally, however, we will be trialling a new health agent we have been discussing with SCSI, which will provide a level of management for the DVR/NVRs. Q: What was your budget?

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A: Our total budget for the deployment of all DirectConnect routers was in the vicinity of $A1 million for the installation, plus ongoing monthly SIM charges. As mentioned earlier we were going to phase the deployment into 2 stages, however, we quickly realised the benefits and performed a rapid total deployment over 9-months. During this time, we have seen a significant reduction of approximately 43 per cent in after-hours alarm callouts, which will result in an ROE of approximately 16-18 months, not to mention significant reductions in the carbon footprint by not having patrols driving to every alarm callout.

Q: In what ways did DirectConnect allow the bank to install and manage this system that have been impossible up till now?

A: DirectConnect gave us the opportunity of a remote CCTV management system which wasn’t connected to our corporate network, providing a greater level of flexibility with bandwidth and usage requirements.

Q: Could you outline briefly, the timeline of the job in terms of when you put the job to tender, when the work started, the time taken and the order in which the elements of the system where installed?

A: From initial discussions with SCSI

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Same as any business, our biggest challenge was funding. We have many business units all fighting for a slice of the budget...

cabling. No part of our corporate infrastructure was utilised. This was another benefit of the solution as it cut down the internal approvals required for deployment. We had previously tried for 4 years to get our CCTV systems on our corporate network, however, this always proved to be challenging and cost-prohibitive. The introduction of DirectConnect eliminated this issue, as we now maintain a completely separate CCTV network with the flexibility to add and delete items as required away from our corporate network.

Q: From an end user’s perspective what are the most important capabilities this system gives the bank?

A: The solution provides us with an ability to remotely verify many security conditions prior to taking action, eliminating unnecessary call-out costs and increasing staff safety through the ability to assess customer aggression situations and provide police and emergency responders with more accurate, timely information.

to tender stage was approximately 4 months - this included the deployment of 6 pilot sites and from there the tender process was relatively quick as we only went to our 2 incumbent integrators. The actual tender process was wrapped up within 3 weeks. POs were raised and we started deployment of the DirectConnect routers within 4 weeks of awarding the works and, as mentioned previously, full deployment of the devices into 750 sites was around 9 months. From initial tender to completion was approximately 11 months.

Q: Time is always a major challenge but

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apart from this, what was the single biggest challenge the bank faced in getting this system installed?

A: Same as any business, our biggest challenge was funding. We have many business units all fighting for a slice of the budget, therefore our business case needed to highlight the benefits of the system, ROE and the increased staff safety aspect.

Q: Infrastructure is a big thing with enterprise solutions like this – did you use all your own infrastructure?

A: The only infrastructure that was utilised was the existing CCTV camera

Q: Was your IT department/contractor involved in the installation at all or did the integrator handle the entire job with support from SCSI? A: Our integrator in conjunction with the monitoring centre handled the entire deployment with the assistance of SCSI staff.

Q: Is the surveillance system linked to any other subsystems like access control or alarms?

A: No not at this stage, however, we are now assessing other uses for the DirectConnect solution such as, remote management of alarm panels, access control and electronic locks databases, and remote control over front door locks eliminating the requirement for patrol companies and other contractors to hold keys to our premises. n

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Encryption

Light Sabres A newly developed chip that leverages the random interference of 2 sources of light could offer the highest levels of encryption possible to any mobile device, closing a major security hole in the interface with electronic security, IoT and online transactions.

ANDOM number generators are crucial to the encryption that protects privacy and security when engaging in digital transactions. Now engineers have developed a fast random number generator based on a quantum mechanical process that could deliver the world’s most secure encryption keys in a package tiny enough to use in a mobile device.

In The Optical Society’s journal, Optica, the researchers report on their fully integrated device for random number generation. The new work represents a key advancement on the path to incorporating quantum-based random number generators ­ delivering the highest quality numbers and thus the highest level of security ­into computers, tablets and mobile phones.

“We’ve managed to put quantum­–based technology that has been used in high profile science experiments into a package that might allow it to be used commercially,” said the paper’s first author, Carlos Abellan, a doctoral student at ICFO­ The Institute of Photonic Sciences, a member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Spain.

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“This is likely just one example of quantum technologies that will soon be available for use in real commercial products. It is a big step forward as far as integration is concerned.”

The new device operates at speeds in the range of gigabits per second, fast enough for real­time encryption of communication data, such as a phone or video calls, or for encrypting large amounts of data traveling to and from a server like that used by a CCTV system. It could also find use in stock market predictions and complex scientific simulations of random processes, such as intellegent video analysis.

Random number generators used today are based on computer algorithms or the randomness of physical processes –­ essentially complex versions of rolling dice over and over again to get random numbers. Although the numbers generated appear to be random, knowing certain information, such as how many ‘dice’ are being used, can allow hackers to figure out the numbers, leaving secured data vulnerable to hacking.

The new device, however, generates random numbers based on the quantum properties of light, a process that is inherently random and thus impossible to predict no matter how much information is known. Although other researchers have developed quantum random number generators, they have all been either larger or slower than the device reported in the Optica paper.

“We have previously shown that the quantum processes taking place exhibit true randomness,” said Valerio Pruneri, who led the collaborative research effort. “In this new paper, we made a huge technological advance by using a new design that includes 2 lasers that interfere with each other in a confined space. This makes the device smaller while keeping the same properties that were used in the past experiments.”

The researchers used photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology to create 2 quantum number generators that together measure 6 by 2 millimeters.

PIC technology offers a way to integrate photonic components ­such as the lasers and detectors used by the new quantum random generator ­onto a chip with a small footprint and low power consumption. Most importantly, PIC­-based devices can be integrated with traditional electronics, which could allow the random number generator to be used with the driving, reading and processing electronics necessary for computation or communications.

“We proved that quantum technologies are within practical reach by exploiting PICs,” said Pruneri.

“Quantum random number generation as well as quantum cryptography and other quantum­-based technologies will benefit from PIC-­based technology because it allows developers to build commercial and innovative products. Ours is a first demonstration.” n

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In moving from SD to HD production, the impact on capacity and performance of contribution and production networks is significant. Increasing the amount of native HD content for FOX SPORTS subscribers meant the existing FOX SPORTS delivery and contribution solutions needed a major review and Request-To-Exit critical assessment.

For program contribution, FOX SPORTS typically used a combination of one-way-satellite and telco Detector digital video network (DVN) services. However, these solutions are generally bandwidth restricted, requiring heavy video compression and encoding, which can severely impact the overall broadcast quality delivered to subscribers.

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

KT-1 KT-400 The OB units remain parked in the sports venue for the duration of the match with the Juniper EX4200 switches connecting to the FOX SPORTS network using especially rugged optical interface cable and connectors. FOX SPORTS deployed two MX240 routers in its Sydney TV center as well as the Juniper Networks Network and Security Manager solution.

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

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

In addition, FOX SPORTS also wished to deploy a converged video, data and communications solution to enable full two-way communications between the various venues and the TV station. The net result would be a huge increase in its HD capability and quality, while streamlining back-end HD broadcasting production processes. To achieve this, • SPORTS Singledecided Security System for allnetwork markets FOX to deploy its own private infrastructure over fiber carrier services and upgrade its existing network environment.

Thisare solution enables FOX • Control, Where you or Where you Go SPORTS to transmit multiple streams of HD and SD video, and voice and data content from multiple locations over a • Holistic view on your security single, homogenous network.

It is a huge amount status of data with a requirement for very high levels of quality of service (QoS) and To build its new virtual private network, FOX • reliability.

Ideal for small business; Commercial; SPORTS required a new Ethernet switching and routing layer on the existing fiberManagement network.

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Bosch

Bosch IP 5000 Bullet I WASN’T sure what to think of the Bosch IP 5000 when I unpacked it – the sunshade and the overall camera are quite light. But when it’s up and running you find that this a surprisingly good camera in the best tradition of motorised, remote autofocus bullet cameras.

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OSCH’S IP 5000 day/night bullet camera is an IP66-rated 5MP bullet camera with a motorised, varifocal, IR-corrected, boardmounted 2.7-12mm F1.4 lens offering 32-100 degrees of viewing angle and 18-53 degrees of vertical angle. The motorized zoom lens has automatic focus adjustment with 1:1-pixel mapping to ensure the camera is always accurately focused. It works extremely well in the field.

The camera has a 30m IR array comprising of 4 850nm LEDs. The sensor is a 1/2.9-inch CMOS and is claimed to offer minimum scene illuminations of 0.07 lux in colour, 0.05 lux in monochrome and 0 lux with IR activated. At sensible shutter speeds only the last figure is accurate and monochrome performance is considerably better than the .02 difference suggested when compared to colour in marginal light. Dynamic range is 76dB – that’s a modest number that belies the cameras true WDR capability. It does rather well in strong backlight.

This camera is nicely made and ships with all the relevant flying leads for PoE, DC, audio in and out, etc.

It has a microSDXC card slot (2TB capacity) for local recording. There’s an alarm input and output, audio input and output, with G.711 audio compression in duplex. Power is PoE, 24 V AC or +12 V DC SELV class 2 and consumption is around 12 W from all sources.

There’s also Auto-MDIX for straight or crossed network cabling.

Other features include intelligent Dynamic Noise Reduction to limit bandwidth and storage requirements, and H.264 compression technology, which Bosch says is 50 per cent more efficient than many competitors. There’s area-based encoding, bitrate optimised profile, multiple streams, RoI and remote ePTZ, 2-way audio and audio alarm, tamper and motion detections, storage management through Bosch Video Recording Manager. An analogue video output enables the camera to operate in hybrid mode.

This mode provides simultaneous high resolution HD video streaming and an analogue video output via an SMB connector.

The IP 5000 supports time-based or alarm-based JPEG posting to 4 different accounts. These accounts can address FTP servers or cloud-based storage facilities like Dropbox. Video clips or JPEG images can also be exported to these accounts. Alarms can be set up to trigger an e-mail or SMS notification. Password protection has 3 levels and 802.1x authentication is supported. To secure Web browser access, you set up HTTPS using an SSL certificate stored in the camera.

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Full wide showing DoF

Blur is low

Colour with 2.5 lux at the lens

Wow – this F1.4 varifocal 2.7-12mm lens supported by the camera browser has the fastest zoom and refocus I’ve met – really, it’s barnstormingly fast.

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Depth of field at 5mm is sensational and noise levels are very low in this good light and later in bad light – this is not as common a quality as you’d think.

The camera conforms to the ONVIF Profile S specification and supports Bosch Content Based Imaging Technology and Dynamic Transcoding. You can drive the camera using Bosch’s Video Security app for iOS or Android devices, or using Video Security Client software. The Bosch video security mobile App has been developed to enable access to live HD surveillance images anywhere users are connected.

The app gives complete control of cameras – in this case zoom and focus functions, and users can also tweak dynamic transcoding features to playback images over low-bandwidth connections.

Video analysis configurations include Silent VCA, Profile1/2, Scheduled and Event-triggered. There’s tamper detection, 9 default scene modes, 8 privacy zones, video authentication off, watermark, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and display stamping of name, logo and time. Mechanically, there’s 3-axis adjustment pan of 360 degrees, tilt of 90 degrees and rotation of 360 degrees. Dimensions are 271mm(H) x 90mm (W) x 90mm (D). Weight is 1.3kg and operating temperature range is strong at -30 to 60C. The camera has loads of other integrated features and capabilities, as well as comprehensive support from proprietary and third party software.

About 6.5mm in 7 lux. Good details, some noise.

Blooming decently controlled. Norman at 12m

Test driving the Bosch IP 5000 We are running this camera with a NetGear ProSafe GS108P PoE switch on our dedicated Dell Optiplex 9020 i7 server via the Bosch camera browser. There’s nothing else on the network at the moment. As soon as I power up, I hop in and run through settings one at a time. Generally, I’ll just get WDR activated and see what I think of brightness, check the shutter defaults are at 1/30th of a second and take a look at auto white balance, selecting low pressure sodium if available, as it is here.

Picture settings include contrast, saturation, brightness, white balance in 4 automatic modes and manual mode, Day/Night settings, colour and monochrome settings, automatic electronic shutter and selections, adjustable IR. Video functions allow twiddling with sharpness, backlight compensation, contrast enhancement, Bosch Intelligent Dynamic Noise Reduction with separate temporal and spatial adjustments. There’s also intelligent defog. I leave a lot of this at default or select auto settings.

With the camera hanging off the front verandah, I sit down at the monitor and set up my view. Wow – this F1.4 varifocal 2.7-12mm lens supported by the camera browser has the fastest zoom and refocus I’ve met – really, it’s barnstormingly fast. Pull the slider and refocus is right behind you – less than half a second behind – that’s exceptionally useful for real

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Bosch Switching from full wide to full tele is just so easy with this camera – that slider zoom and focus team is just brilliant.

mostly gone at 5mm – past which point it gives way to very mild moustache distortion I can still see in the block wall at 6.42mm.

Generally, WDR performance is tight, just as it was out front. In the lane I find again that although I get more distant detail of bright sky and tree branches at 100m with backlight compensation off, I lose fine detail in brickwork closer in. After some fiddling, I leave BLC on. It makes the most sense at this focal length.

Switching from full wide to full tele is just so easy with this camera – that slider zoom and auto focus is just brilliant. Full tele is 12mm which is really strong in my 70m lane application if I want to reach deeper into scenes. I get great faces and plates and I’ve lost all visible distortion and chromatic aberration long before I hit a focal length of 12mm. Colour and WDR are good when long, too. I go in and out quite a lot with this camera because it’s such a fast and easy process.

Image quality remains excellent in falling light.

Around 4pm the light softens and as usual this brings out more detail in my scene and increases depth of field. As the light fades, the quality of the detail in brickwork and besser blocks is outstanding at about 12m. I can’t help being very interested in the performance of this camera as night falls. At 5.27pm light is 7.3EV in lane – streetlights are on – the image still looks good. Noise is now creeping in - shutter speed has dropped – there’s a person fossicking in the rubbish up the lane and movements look a little ghostly. It’s 5.59pm and .05EV (around 4 lux) in the lane – things are getting yellow with auto WDR on and sodium lamp settings on but the 5000

District at 6.5mm. 70,000 lux side light.

Same view at 12mm. A quality image.

time operations. With other cameras you are often waiting tens of seconds for auto focus functions to take place after moving focal length.

It’s just before midday and there’s strong light and deep shade out front. Notwithstanding some variable overexposure on the sunny side of the street with WDR on auto in 70,000 lux, the 5000 Bullet offers a strong and composite image at all times. I like a bit less overexposure on the bright side but the price is worth paying – I turn the WDR function on and off a few times to make sure of my choice. Yep – it’s better having it on.

Depth of field at 5mm is sensational and noise levels are very low in this good light and later in bad light – this is not as common a quality as you’d think.

Until light levels really start to drop, I can see noise only if I really look for it. Chromatic aberrations are very low at 5mm though more pronounced at 2.7mm.

Motion blur is low – I can get plates at 20kmph easily in good light – faces are a snap. Fiddling with settings is very easy via the browser. Colour rendition is very pleasing – the blues and reds really pop.

As the afternoon wears on, I take the camera out back. It’s early spring but light levels are over 75,000 lux in direct sun. I leave focal length at the same 6.42mm I was using out front. It’s longer than standard but there really isn’t much point making a change in a narrow street scene like this. Messing with the lens wizard, I notice immediately that there’s some barrel distortion at the wider end - it’s

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I push to night mode and activate IR and all that noise is gone and the image looks lovely and composite.

Monochrome – it’s so easy to underrate it.

remains in colour. Looks like we’ll have to push into monochrome. Still very high levels of detail and very low noise.

Now we are in night mode with IR activated. IR performance is very strong – the best I’ve had in the lane and I wish the street was darker so I could see how good it really is. I suspect it would give me the full 30m, which is not the normal state of affairs. The solid IR performance has support from great depth of field in monochrome all the way up towards 70 metres.

There’s now some blooming around streetlights but the image is very useful. Looking at traffic and walking people, shutter speed is 1/30th sec and I see some blur, and think I’ll see a little more of this out the front with faster moving traffic. The IP 5000 is also very good with IR off - depth of field remains strong.

IR performance internally is solid, too. The 5000’s proper IR array has no trouble brilliantly illuminating internal spaces. It’s the strongest integrated IR I’ve tested. There’s good contrast giving excellent sharpness, too. That’s very nice for those small details that more completely tell a story. Is the 5000 Bullet hands-down the best camera we have ever reviewed?

With half our test completed, it’s right up there with the leaders.

Out front the next day I benefit from sharpness, contrast, colour rendition, very good depth of field.

Things like plates and faces are spot on in good light – that’s not always the case. It’s a grey day today but I notice the tendency to over exposure on the bright side of the street. At around 4pm I can no longer get moving plates and there’s a little tone mapping surrounding cars and motorcycles as the camera system works to build the best images.

An hour later, performance is about the same – it’s been that kind of gloomy yet bright afternoon. At 5pm I still have excellent faces past 12m but plates and bodies of cars are getting ghostly and this continues in linear fashion as light falls. I decide to increase shutter speed to see if I can regain plates. At 6pm I up the shutter speed to 1/500th of a second. I lose a couple of stops of 2 of light but now have court admissible faces again – even at 20m they would convince a courtroom.

I have more detail of the moving traffic but no readable plates.

Night time performance in 7 lux in colour back at 1/30th of a second shows good depth of field but I have some noticeable noise alongside the effects of a slow shutter speed – a little blooming and some blur.

The slow shutter speed means some over exposure where headlights fall and I notice that at 16m in the Yaffa floodlights Norman is over exposed, though I have good contrast and a very readable plate. I have

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Full wide – a bit overexposed

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Norman from the C Line at 20m and enough contrast to recognise a known person quite readily.

When I put Ronnie out the front I think I have about 25 degrees of blur, which is very good. Ronnie’s faces have sufficient contrast to be seen and a pedestrian walking past allows me to confirm that within 12m, I still have court admissible face recognition. I push to night mode and activate IR and all that noise is gone and the image looks lovely and composite.

Monochrome – it’s so easy to underrate it. I have face recognition to 16m with more detail than before. This is very court admissible. I have no moving plates.

Flare is denying me plate ID directly in front of the array but oblique angles give more detail.

Next day I find WDR performance looking from a typical internal space to 78,000 lux is variable.

With the camera 14m from the backdoor, there’s a lot of blooming around Norman’s head but the internal spaces are well rendered, though perhaps a little darkly. There are CAs around light fittings at the widest focal length. I mess around with the ALC and scene modes trying to get the best performance and wind up using outdoor settings as I get closer to the door – there’s too much blooming otherwise.

My settings from here on make the internal spaces darker than they would be otherwise, but still very useable. With the camera about 7.5m from the door, WDR performance is strong. It’s not the prettiest image – there’s some noise – but it’s court admissible with decent sharpness and the colour rendition is reasonably good, too.

At this point I go full tele at 7.5m from the target and this is the best image of Norman I get in the doorway – I have good visibility behind him as well. CAs are now gone and sharpness, colour rendition and low

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noise are noteworthy. I like long focal lengths for face recognition. When I bring the camera to the kitchen door it’s exposed to the full sun and starts introducing some digital work to the image stream.

The foreground is darker as the camera works to handle the blazing sun outside. For operational facial ID in entry ways, it’s still great performance. Pulling the camera into the kitchen makes the foreground a couple of F stops darker but there’s no real difference otherwise. It’s solid facial ID. Finally, I take a look at the World Tower at 1000m with strong sidelight and an upwards tilt on the magic arm. There’s a little veiling flare and some noise as the camera does battle with all those photons but it’s good at widest angles of view, better at a focal length of about 6.6mm and best at full tele, with no CAs on powerlines of tree branches, strong sharpness, good colour rendition and very low noise.

Taken as a whole, this is a fine camera. Like many IR supported cameras there’s a point in its unassisted low light performance where blur and noise intrude but in typical street scenes it acquits itself very well, offering face recognition at 7 lux in colour inside 12m and stretching this to 16m in night mode. IR performance is very strong. Other strengths of this camera include excellent depth of field, good colour rendition, particularly during the day, and a wonderful remote zoom and focus mechanism.

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EastLink

EastLink Drives Forward EastLink Melbourne has deployed Axis’ and Citilog’s traffic surveillance solution, including Axis encoders in combination with Citilog’s Automatic Video Incident Detection System(AVID).

ASTLINK is a 39km freeway in Melbourne’s South East suburbs connecting the Eastern, Monash, Frankston and Peninsula Link freeways. It’s a vital transport corridor carrying more than 240,000 vehicles per day, a 77 per cent increase compared to the first months after opening in 2008. The freeway passes through two 1.6km tunnels, and in those tunnels EastLink has an Automatic Video Incident Detection System as part of its critical safety systems.

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This system is paramount in detecting stopped or slowing vehicles in the tunnels, enhancing road user safety and providing EastLink’s traffic control centre with vital real time information through video analytics. Originally supplied and installed by Citilog, EastLink came to Axis as its AVID system required a hardware upgrade to support the latest features required by the operation team. Citilog’s video-based Automatic Incident Detection systems identify incidents and accidents within seconds on highways, bridges and tunnels. They operate as a software application on existing cameras or directly inside smart cameras.

In this application, EastLink needed to upgrade its video detection solution, including new hardware, and migrating to an IP solution.

Axis was the first point of call for such a solution, offering its encoders.

“The video signals that EastLink gets back from its Video Incident Detection Cameras in the

We have a live tunnel so we had to build the new system in parallel to the old system as we couldn’t be without a critical safety system – for obvious reasons. tunnel are analogue, and as EastLink was looking to move to IP in the future, it was required to make sure that its system was future proof,” explains Stuart Lindsay, engineering manager at EastLink.

“We took this as the first opportunity to move into the digital IP realm.”

The completed solution offered full business continuity with a seamless switch to a digital solution without interfering with the live system.

This flexibility provided a fully functional AVID system and enabled safe operation; the system has delivered a higher reliability compared with the legacy system, and is more robust against hardware failures.

One of the main challenges faced by EastLink was that of business continuity and ensuring that there was no gap in the service delivery to customers.

“We have live tunnels so we had to build the new system in parallel to the old system as we couldn’t be without a critical safety system – for obvious

reasons,” says Lindsay. “To ensure the detection software was operating correctly, site acceptance testing was completed while only requiring a single, short, night time tunnel closure. Cut-over to the new system was seamless – it was a well planned and executed job.”

EastLink required a way of digitally encoding the analogue system to IP, so after extensive technical research by Lindsay and Tim Hartfield, systems technician at EastLink, the combination of Axis and Citilog’s offering was considered an ideal choice, given that the original system was

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also Citilog. The latest Citilog Automatic Incident Detection System was installed, along with AXIS P7216 video encoders to take analogue data and convert it into multiple video streams for the purpose of analytics.

The AXIS P7216 video encoder is a cost-effective 16-channel video encoder with high quality video performance and excellent audio quality. It can simplify migration to network video without upgrading existing camera systems. The P7216 provides edge storage through 4 microSDHC memory card slots. The video encoder supports all types of analogue cameras including PTZ (pan/ tilt/zoom) and PTZ domes. It features both RS-422 and RS-485 for controlling analogue PTZ cameras.

“The results have been excellent with the combined solution providing the upmost confidence in reliability and safety. Everything has been fantastic,” Lindsay said.

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at how well our solution was operating and we highly recommended Axis and Citilog. What has impressed us the most was the level of technical support that was and continues to be offered.

“Encoding the video to IP also allowed us the benefit of implementing a full hot standby detection system in our disaster recovery centre,” Tim Hartfield, systems technician at EastLink says. “It was impractical to run the amount of cables necessary for analogue video to the DRC, when the AXIS P7216 video encoders allowed us access to the video streams from anywhere on the network. In the case of any failure or maintenance tasks, this work can be carried out with zero impact to operations.

“The level of support has definitely put Axis in good standing for further work as EastLink moves to upgrade its CCTV across the whole tunnel from analogue to IP. Because of the relationship we have built with Axis, especially the team in Melbourne, it’s given us confidence in Axis’ technical ability, the technical ability of Axis products and Axis’ ability to support us locally and into the future.” n

The results have been excellent with the combined solution providing the upmost confidence in reliability and safety. Everything has been fantastic.

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Access control

Trends in Access Control According to HID’s Steve Katanas, the top 5 trends in access control include the continuing shift to mobile based credentials, a focus on user experience, wearables, the convergence of physical and online authentication and the growing pressures of exposure to IoT. OBILE integration is the first trend I see. As we do more with our phones and increasingly demand anywhere/ anytime on-line access, there is the opportunity to better protect these activities while creating a more satisfying, mobile-centric security experience at home, in the office, on the road and online. Over the past several years we’ve started to turn phones into ID cards, keys and computer login tokens, while plugging security holes that mobility initially introduced. Moving forward, continuing advancements will enable a new, more secure identity lifestyle built around t h e convenience and ubiquity of our ever-present mobile devices.

Expect to see improvements in deployment, onboarding, management and professional service options will help accelerate mobile access adoption, increasing user confidence and capabilities across a growing range of applications. It will become even easier for travellers to open hotel doors, for college students to enter dorm rooms, and for online bank customers to transact with their phones. Computer and network logons will move even more seamlessly to phones, tablets and laptops.

Visiting healthcare workers, patrolling guards, field inspection teams and factory workers will touch their phones to RFID tags to log their presence and securely monitor processes in the Internet of Things (IoT). Wearables and other mobile products will join the device ecosystem, giving users even more choices and flexibility.

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Trend 2 is that security will move to a much greater focus on the user experience. Users will continue to be the most important elements and yet weakest links in any security strategy, putting themselves and the people they work and transact with at risk when they don’t do their part. Advancements in the security experience will play a vital role in closing this gap between security planning and user compliance.

Security technology will no longer define office habits and personal lifestyles but adapt to them while empowering new capabilities, making it easier – and even attractive – for users to comply with requirements. Users will have more options for presenting secure identities for authentication.

Organisations are now interested in having the choice to use any combination of ID cards, phones or other mobile devices, or biometric factors, such as a fingerprint. The coming years will bring even more options. Traditional authentication elements like passwords, challenge/response questions and logon tokens will disappear, to be replaced by better ways of securing mobile banking channels, authenticating to corporate data, apps and web services and accessing healthcare and other sensitive personal information.

Trend 3 is the advent of a new era of secure connected identities which not only make us safer but fuel innovation in how we work, shop and play. After 2 decades of advances from simple visual ID badges to smart cards, standards-based access control systems and mobile ID solutions, the industry will now enter its next chapter: connected identities for a connected world, which are used on a variety of devices for a growing range of existing and new applications.

There will be greater reliance on many digital versions of our identity, used in many different ways across all walks of life. We will connect our identities to an expanding solution ecosystem for secure access to doors, data and cloud-based services and applications, accelerating the need for unified identity management systems and processes. The more we use these connected identities to secure so many aspects of our lives, the more it will fuel innovation in everything from the way we bank and purchase items to how our businesses, hospitals, schools, manufacturing plants and other facilities are built and operated. Multi-layered security strategies will be critical for protecting these connected identities, and biometrics will offer the potential to eliminate digital identity theft, binding all of these many different digital credentials to their true owners while making security even more convenient.

Trend 4 is closer attention to privacy issues in an increasingly connected and mobile-first world.

By S t e v e K ata n a s *

A growing category of business and consumer products and services will be steadily collecting information about users, creating privacy and security vulnerabilities not only in cyberspace but in the physical world as well. The IoT will put even greater pressure on privacy. In a world where everything is connected – objects with other objects, the IoT with other networks – everything is potentially at risk. And as the IoT evolves, identity will expand beyond people and their personal identity information to the identity of objects and their authenticity.

Protecting personal information will become a critical focus area in the design, deployment and lifecycle of each and every interconnected device, service and application.

Trend 5 is that security policies and deployment best practices will be as important as technology advancements. More organisations will realise that even the most advanced technology is only as secure as the policies and deployment best practices that support them. The first U.S. digital drivers’ licenses will showcase this challenge, highlighting policy considerations that must accompany the use of secure, authenticated digital identities on mobile devices for issuing, carrying and presenting these and other government credentials.

Cost barriers that previously impeded best practices will be overcome as the value of these investment increases. For example, organisations are more likely to deploy physical access control systems if the same solution for opening doors can also be used for cafeteria purchases, computer logon, time-and-attendance systems and other applications. Vulnerability holes will be plugged as organisations move beyond older technologies to the latest solutions while also adopting best practices for policy and deployment. *Steve Katanas is sales director at HID Global.

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Monitoring

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Vision of the Future Alarm monitoring’s future is likely to leverage video considerably more than it does now.

The experiences of a major bank, which has employed video verification across 750 sites and reduced call-outs by nearly 50 per cent suggest that there’s considerable benefit in cost and efficiency.

N our Interview section this month we heard about a major Australian bank’s application of 4G video surveillance for the express purpose of video verification of alarm events using 6900 cameras installed across 750 sites nationally. According to reports, callouts and associated costs have been reduced by half since the installation and the return on investment time is a mere 18 months.

It’s impossible to read about this sort of technological application and not think immediately of the wider alarm monitoring market. Something that’s of central importance is that the bank system we were talking about is a hybrid. Globally, camera performance is not up with the latest technology in most sites across this application.

Yet despite this, the system has still managed to reduce patrols by around 50 per cent.

When you consider a 4G WAN – and 4G offers upload and download times that compare to the best synchronous links – and you combine such a network with good quality video surveillance cameras, you get a very powerful solution, indeed. Enhancing such a system is the latest generation of analytics, which is becoming more and more pervasive in the market.

Manufacturers are really leaning in when it comes to IVA. They’re not trying to offer biometric

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quality face recognition – they’re looking at actions CCTV cameras are eminently capable of viewing.

Line-crossings, bags left, unexpected direction of movement, atypical speed of movement and plenty more. And all these bits of smart functionality are well within the capacity of quality HD cameras.

One of the things I wonder about the alarm monitoring market is the integration by some manufacturers of extremely average video surveillance cameras that allow confirmation of alarm activations, yet fail to offer anything more. Are we selling the industry and its customers short?

The technology and the profit margin exist to do things in a quite different way, employing high quality cameras as IVA-powered alarm sensors able to report all kinds of events and data trends.

In domestic environments such solutions are most likely to be installed at entry points, high risk areas and

Globally, camera performance is not up with the latest technology in most sites across this application. Yet despite this, the system has still managed to reduce patrols by around 50 per cent.

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around perimeters but in commercial installations – even small ones – there’s the possibility of much more extensive applications, considerably enhanced

by IVA. Arguably, the pivot point of HD quality video monitoring is price and bandwidth. Downward pressure on prices can’t be seen to be giving customers the quality levels they want but finding the right balance is not easy for installers or monitoring companies.

It goes almost without saying that quality video streams are vital for accurate IVA performance but most the low end CCTV cameras we see are sorely compromised.

It’s here that the experience of that major Australian bank needs to be examined closely – most particularly, the bank’s justification for investing $A1 million to develop a 4G network, allowing it to examine alarm events using its existing 6900 CCTV cameras in real time. The core motivation was not an increase in security levels – it was something much more compelling – something that actually fits in with the cost-cutting tenure of the times.

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The decision to proceed was based entirely on the ability of the system to significantly reduce the bank’s costs in other areas with the added benefit of being kind to the environment.

What’s interesting here, too, is that the bank had planned to take its time with the roll-out, to defray the installation costs over multiple financial years. But once the ability of the system to carve huge slices off call-out costs became clear, the application was turbocharged and all 6900 cameras across all 750 sites were brought online as quickly as possible.

That’s the thing about video monitoring we’ve discussed many times before. It’s very easy to think of a CCTV system as a static network of devices that has a purely defensive focus, as if watching vulnerable points intensely somehow renders them more secure and as if this total focus on securing vulnerabilities is the ultimate expression of CCTV’s capability – the sort of application to which video surveillance manufacturers and installers, and alarm monitoring

It goes almost without saying that quality video streams are vital for accurate IVA performance but most the low end CCTV cameras we see are sorely compromised. companies should always aspire.

Thinking this way is a limitation.

Video surveillance can be applied to any operational aspect of any organisation, whether that be process control, verification of alarm events, management of stock and deliveries, remote training, sharing of ideas between research or sales teams, assessing marketing campaigns on retail floors, tailoring advertising to the drivers of particular cars driving on freeways.

The lateral applications are endless and they are shaped by a single parameter – cost efficiency.

This is nothing that security people have not considered before – cameras have been used to expand the reach of small security teams for decades.

But they’ve never been able to expand the reach of anyone in any way from anywhere for any purpose in quite the way we see today. And it’s this exponential lateral potential that’s most exciting – especially when you bring high quality image streams, 4G wireless WANS and increasingly pervasive IVA into play.

For alarm installers and their monitoring providers, there are serious opportunities afoot. Limiting a sales teams’ collective imagination to security applications is going to be a mistake as we move forward. n

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Video Management Nothing is so central to a surveillance solution as the video management system that drives it. Whether you’re an end user or an installer, there’s plenty to think about when it comes to VMS and more and more products tout their ability to meet ever more complicated operational requirements.

HEN you start thinking about VMS it’s hard to know where to start. Keeping things simple is beneficial – end users and integrators should think operationally while taking into account those aspects of the system that will best allow them to support the needs of their business.

As well as being highly functional and easy to install, you want the system to be easy to maintain, with loads of troubleshooting and maintenance functions built into the system that allow you to an immediate overview of system health, as well as allowing you to drill into specific aspects of functionality. Automatic upgrades are a good thing. Having integrated help capabilities, and tutorials, will make installers lives easier, as will remote servicing capacity. Integrators love systems they can tune up from the back deck on an idle Sunday afternoon while keeping a weather eye on the kids in the backyard. Seek fingertip control, the ability to securely manage a system almost as part of your consciousness stream from wherever it is you or your techs happen to be.

Other things to look for include the security level of the solution – it’s ability to support encryption, including encryption of camera signals using HTTPS. Clever camera drivers will allow the support of spanking new cameras without having to wait months for overworked software developers to bring VMS platforms up to speed. Licensing is another issue. There’s nothing wrong with licensing fees – they pay for teams of talented developers. But you don’t want to pay too much, either, or be constrained not by architecture or technology but by a spiderweb of licensing regulations. Although many developers are simplifying licensing programs, some are complicated and many are too expensive. You need to find a supplier who doesn’t prey on I/O devices connection, or try to charge for the connection of each individual coaxial input. Instead, you want a license per digital stream, no matter how many legacy cameras you’ve woven in. An holistic approach to

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licensing will make things less complicated when you’re building integrated solutions.

If your system is server-based, then pay attention to the number of inputs each server can support. So long as you can retain full functionality, fewer servers will be less expensive. Think about storage, too. Look for compatibility with affordable storage options all the way down to the drives the system can manage and keep an eye out for the ability to direct storage of video streams to locations anywhere on a network.

You want multi-layered integration capability, whether the user needs it now or not. You don’t want your ability to support a system hamstrung by its inability to communicate with other systems. Think about the usual things – access and intrusion detection, lifts, lights, air conditioning and automation. Think about IVA, too. More and more, end users want their surveillance system to present them with valuable data.

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In the foreseeable future, video management systems will change from passive reactive systems to dynamic and active solutions.

commissioning, doing away with Mac addressing using auto camera finders and undertaking HDD setup without the integrator getting involved – these are appealing qualities that will reduce installation time and complexity. You should look for a VMS that requires integrators get professional training – this will filter out lower end competition, increase the distributor and manufacturer investment in the integrator, as well as ensuring solutions are best fit for purpose.

According to David Keidar of Conceptual Technology Solutions, what makes one VMS better than another sheets home to a number of functionalities.

“Obviously the more supported devices (cameras, networked I/O devices, control keyboard, etc), the better,” he explains. “Customers of hardware agnostic VMS expect to have minimal restrictions in their choice of supported and compatible hardware. It is an advantage to support current hardware shortly after

it is released to the market while support of legacy equipment will guarantee suitability to established CCTV systems that are being gradually upgraded and have a mix of old and new devices.”

According to Keidar, device integration ‘depth’ is very important so as to unleash connected devices’ full potential.

“While ONVIF or basic RTSP support will enable connection of most cameras, customers often want to have access to unique features such as edge analytics and recording, de-warping of 360 degrees cameras and more,” Keidar says. “Having the majority of a cameras’ configuration available via the VMS (rather than via the camera’s web interface or a dedicated application), simplifies the configuration and ongoing maintenance.

“Key VMS considerations for installers include things like ease of software install process, minimal prerequisites, a simple and efficient configuration tool and good license management, including easy support of system expansion and hardware platform changes. You also want a quick device exchange process.”

Something else that’s important is high level interface-ability to integrate with other electronic security systems.

“Larger electronic security systems typically require exchange of event information between different electronic security systems as well as central logging capability,” Keidar says. “Typically, these would comprise of access control, alarm, intercom/ emergency call points, etc.

“Capabilities such as associating video image with an emergency call point and intercom calls, or access-related security breaches are a common requirement. Linking recorded video footage to the event log of an access control system, for example, will save significant time in post event analysis.”

Keidar says an intuitive user interface will improve operators’ efficiency and will reduce response time, while good, readily available phone and onsite technical support is a necessity. And when it comes to the future, he argues there’s a lot to take into account.

“The key current trends in VMS development include things like cloud-based services and support, support for complex, federated architectures, the ability to handle video acquisition and distribution to mobile devices and advanced incident management and reporting tools,” Keidar says.

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example, does the system suit the needs of the organisation? Is the system capable of working in conjunction with the company’s standard operational procedures? What problems are you trying to solve? And what is it that the client is trying to achieve with the system?

“From my experience, finding the answers to these questions assists in the decision making process when faced with the myriad of choices that one now has in the VMS landscape,” Myles says.

“One of the key drivers that makes one system better than the other is intuitiveness - having a system that is easy for operators to learn and use is of utmost importance when considering the effectiveness of newly deployed systems.

“Other important factors include reliability, or more importantly, choosing a system that is fit for the client’s operational needs. In many instances, mainly due to a lack of investigation and cost saving influences, systems that do not provide the required viewing and infrastructure platforms have been chosen instead of opting for a solution with enterprise capabilities.

“Integration with cameras and edge devices, as well as integration into third-party systems such as access control, intercoms and other BMS systems, is also very important. Having the ability to support a wide variety of camera brands and models creates choice in an application and leverages competitiveness in the marketplace, as does a solution’s ability to exploit interoperability between sub-systems.”

Myles says key current trends in VMS development relate to automation in support of operational procedures.

“Traditionally, video management systems have been designed to show multiple cameras on several monitors - this can become problematic as the

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attention span of operators and their ability to be able to comprehend and identify certain behaviours across multiple images is limited,” he explains.

“I argue the way we look at video needs to change.

Video analytics is becoming a more reliable and affordable technology and now integrates with many tier 1 enterprise applications. This gives us the ability to start the process of automation so as to take away the need for user intervention.

“In the foreseeable future, video management systems will change from passive reactive systems to dynamic and active solutions providing real benefits when extreme events occur,” says Myles. “Instead of having a whole video wall of cameras on display, new systems will show video that is activated by certain behaviours, running in a shopping mall, a person travelling in the wrong direction at an airport, a vehicle parked too long in a loading zone, a person of interest entering a building. As these events occur operators will be able to assess each situation and address them in real-time.”

Myles says other trends in VMS development he is seeing include the unification of access control and business analytics, with many manufacturers now offering solutions that are engineered to work within a single platform. And when it comes to considerations that should govern VMS choice for users, Myles keeps his operational focus.

“There are many things to consider when considering a VMS for your organisation,” he explains. “There’s the size of the business and how the system will fit within the company’s operational procedures. Will the system predominately be used for post-event analysis, or will the system be actively used as a crime prevention tool? Either way, many considerations need to be investigated to ensure the choice will grow with the business and provide required functionality into the future. As part of this, you need to ask whether the organisation requires all the functionality a video management software product provides, or whether an appliance-based NVR might be more practical to the client’s needs?

“When it comes to licensing and software maintenance agreements, most VMS vendors have upfront and ongoing licensing fees, however, there is an increasing trend from a collective of vendors that do not charge ongoing maintenance fees,” he says. “Another consideration is integration with third-party systems, is it important to choose a VMS that integrates with the existing access control and security system?

“Operationally, having an intuitive user interface with tools such as layered site maps or 3-D Mapping, which provide operators with the exact location of the camera within the facility, makes it much easier to learn the system and track activity between cameras. Other features for consideration are mobility, the ability to be able to push or pull video clips or still images to and from on-site guard’s smart devices. This can play an essential role in assisting on-the-ground staff with crime prevention.”

Something else Myles argues must be taken into account is incident evidence gathering.

“Having a system that can easily find the relative video clips is an important consideration when selecting a VMS,” he says. “Most systems offer single and multi-camera playback with some having smart search functions, such as searching areas of interest within the scene, or searching for objects based on size, shape, direction and colour parameters.

“Additionally, it’s important to have a system that allows for the inclusion of extra cameras during a multi-view synchronised playback session. This allows operators to include new cameras on the fly without the instigation of a new session.”

Key VMS considerations for installers and integrators take into account meeting the operational needs of end users, while also covering the requirements of an integration business.

“For installers, the key considerations include reliability, ease of installation, support and training,” says Myles. “Having a provider that is considerate of all these factors is of the upmost importance.

Choosing a product distributor that has tiered levels of support backed by the vendor will assist in all phases from design, implementation and final commissioning. It is important for installers to operate in partnership with the provider to ensure

Having the majority of cameras’ configuration available via the VMS... simplifies the configuration and ongoing maintenance.

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that assistance is available if and when required.

Ultimately as the buck usually stops with the customer-facing installer, having strong support mechanisms when things go wrong will ensure that your reputation remains intact.” n

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film school Force Security has installed a Bosch video surveillance solution to protect the Australian Collection of Physical Education (ACPE). The system incorporates a range of Bosch’s surveillance cameras supported by Bosch BVMS video management system.

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HE Australian College of Physical Education (ACPE) is Australia’s leading provider of specialist undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the related disciplines of sport, dance, and physical education. One of Australia’s oldest higher education institutions, ACPE was founded in 1917 as a physical education training institute for young women, and was purchased by global education provider, Study Group, in 2009. As an independent tertiary institution, ACPE attracts individuals from around Australia and the world who wish to launch or further their careers in the sports sector and its related professions. Over 900 students per year enrol with ACPE, and in February 2016, the college moved into its new state-of-the-art campus at 10 Parkview Drive at Sydney Olympic Park.

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After much research, we decided on Bosch due to value for money, aesthetics, ease of use, network impact, support and the reputation of the Bosch brand.

When it came to designing the security camera system, Sharon Marlow, operations manager and Brian Nook, Dean and Head of College, were actively involved and knew from previous experience what they needed and wanted. Their former site featured an analogue system that was slow and dated, so IP was the natural product choice. Marlow identified the locations where cameras were required in conjunction with the architects at the building design stage.

Particular focus was given to being able to view key areas for the purposes of health & safety of the students and facilitators, public liability, and for possible theft and property damage. The building access points and car park were also significant to monitor for unlawful entry and vehicle damage.

A minimum of 30 days of video storage was also specified as part of the recording brief.

Marlow and ACPE had a solid history of

working with Force Professional Security Services for more than 10 years, and nominated Force as their preferred contractor. Force Security was provided with the pre-determined camera locations and asked to recommend a 5MP camera solution that best suited the site requirements.

After investigating what the market had to offer, Force Security selected and proposed Bosch FLEXIDOME IP 5000 MP cameras. Key deciding factors were the FLEXIDOMEs’ ability to provide the best overall coverage and the quality of image that the college desired. An equally important element for the architecturally designed facility was that the housings were aesthetically pleasing and did not detract from the modern structure. “ACPE left the decision-making entirely up to Force Security as to the brand of video surveillance system to be installed into their new premises�, says Dave Sutherland, director of Force Security.

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“After much research, we decided on Bosch due to value for money, aesthetics, ease of use, network impact, support and the reputation of the Bosch brand. It turned out to be a sound choice as we were not left wanting in any area.”

According to Sutherland, there were a number of key challenges to the application, which was led by project manager Adam Waterford and took 6 months to complete.

“The fact that the project was staged presented logistical challenges,” he explains. “One of the requirements was to set up and maintain some

Dave Sutherland, Force Security

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Particular focus was given to being able to view key areas for the purposes of health & safety of the students and facilitators, public liability, and for possible theft and property damage security during the construction process. Dealing with the many variations presented some design alteration challenges. Providing a head end from the start that could cope with 30 per cent expansion proved to be a sound choice.”

Importantly, the topology of the network is simple and robust. The CCTV system is connected to dedicated network switches and communicates via a dedicated VPN. Sutherland says there are 3 workstations with multiple screen layouts, including perimeter areas, common areas and floor-by-floor displays.

Force Security installed more than 40 FLEXIDOME IP 5000 MP indoor and vandalresistant outdoor cameras into the premises, teamed with a DIVAR IP 7000 recorder running Bosch Video Management System (BVMS) software. With a workstation client for the main security guard front desk, all cameras are visible from this location, with key cameras permanently displayed on-screen. Domes have been positioned in all the main thoroughfares and inside learning areas on each level, as well as 2 in the working gym, and 6 in the basketball court.

The exterior of the premises features vandal-

resistant domes at the building entry, external doors, and at the car park entry boom gate. All staff have been trained on video retrieval and have found access and control of the cameras very simple.

“We chose the Bosch product for a few reasons – image quality, camera aesthetics, budget and ease of use”, says Marlow. “Bosch was the system recommended by Force Security, and it ticked all the boxes. The image quality of the cameras is amazing, especially compared to our old analogue system. The Bosch Video Management System is intuitive and easy to use. Retrieval of recorded footage is very fast, and my staff have learned how to use the system very quickly.”

Meanwhile, campus coordinator, Elizabeth Gray, observed how important the system was for her in tracking the movements of students and staff, including after-hours services like cleaners.

Having the ability to quickly review video data in the event of an incident on-site from her desk made things very efficient. Gray said she was also impressed with the storage capacity of the DIVAR IP 7000 recorder, noting that it exceeded the 30 days required and provided up to 50 per cent more, with 45 days of storage. She said the ability to transfer images easily onto USB was also extremely handy. n

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Samsung SNV-8081RP IR Dome

Samsung’s SNV-8081RP IR dome has been at the SEN office for some months awaiting testing. I liked the Samsung SNO, the bullet version of this camera engine a lot. Would I warm to the fixed dome version of the camera?

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ETTING up Samsung cameras is easy and once I get everything sorted out, I’m very pleased with the Samsung SNV-8081RP dome – it doesn’t hit me immediately but after a time I realise that this camera does a lot of things very well, indeed. The standout feature is the huge resolution – there’s so much detail I can’t see it all at once on my 1080p screen – I really only get the benefit with digital zooming. For street work, this performance is great.

You use optical zoom to get to the focal length you want and then rez up the image stream with digital zoom – it takes a long time to get to pixellation with the Samsung. You never have the feeling you often get with 1080p domes that past a certain point – between 12 and 16m at wider angles of view – there’s no hope of getting worthwhile details. With 5MP of available resolution up your sleeve, no matter where you are in the varifocal there’s always bags more detail in the mouse wheel.

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The Samsung SNV-8081RP is a vandal resistant IR dome with a maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels (5MP).

This group is 22m from lens

Before we get on, let’s take a run through the specifications of the camera. The Samsung SNV8081RP is a vandal resistant IR dome with a maximum resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels (5MP). The progressive scan sensor is a 1/1.8-inch 5MP CMOS with an S/N ratio of 50dB. The 8081R is fitted with a fast F1.3 3.6-9.4mm motorised varifocal lens, giving the equivalent of 2.4x optical zoom. Horizontal angle of view is 93.4 degrees at the wide end and 39.2 at the long end. Vertical viewing angle is 68 wide and 29.3 long. Hyperfocal distance is half a metre.

Minimum scene illumination is quoted at 0.15 lux in colour, even less in monochrome with no IR and 0 lux in monochrome with the 30m IR activated. The low light numbers for colour are more realistic than most and while we don’t get below about 2 lux at the lens in the back lane, the Samsung outperforms many competitors thanks to its low noise characteristics

Here’s the digital zoom of the same group

Easy faces at 12m

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and good colour rendition in low light. I have to shunt the camera into night mode manually.

Compression options include H.265, H.264 and MJPEG Video Compression Format H.265 in main, baseline and high options. WDR is 120dB and there’s simple focus, P-Iris, tampering alarm, audio detection, SD/SDHC/SDXC memory slot, NAS, local PC support, hallway view (rotation 90/270 degrees) and lens distortion correction. The camera is IP66rated for weather and IK10 for vandalism and it’s nicely made. It’s just the right size for a camera of this performance level, at 160mm (W) x 118.5mm (H) and weight is a relatively svelte 955g. Current draw is 12-13W and when it comes to temperature, the camera can handle -30C to 60C. While moving the camera around during the test, I can hear the wee fan running inside the dome housing to keep things cool.

There’s an alarm input/output, alarm events can triggered by motion detection, tampering, audio detection and network disconnect. Alarm events can send tiles to FTP and E-mail, local storage (SD/ SDHC/SDXC) or NAS recording There are loads of resolution and frame rate options. There’s CBR or VBR bitrate control, you can stream up to 3 profiles, there’s audio-in selectable and audio out line out with audio compression formats including G.711 u-law/G.726 and others at selectable bandwidths.

Test driving the Samsung 8081R IR Dome

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We are running this camera with the same old NetGear ProSafe GS108P PoE switch on our dedicated Dell Optiplex 9020 i7 server via the iPolis camera browser. Installation is as easy as pie.

The camera is very nicely made – typical Samsung.

There are many thoughtful features and it comes with stuff to help installers get it into place. As usual, I go through settings to get things as I want them. It’s all simple enough. I put Day and Night to auto, BLC to auto, WDR to auto, turn on Contrast Enhancement SSDR (Samsung Super Dynamic Range, turn on Digital Noise Reduction SSNR (2D+3D noise filter), leave motion detection off, leave privacy masking alone. I leave the Flip and IVA functions alone. I put gain control to medium, white balance to outdoor, I leave LDC off to start with and turn it on later. I twiddle with shutter speed throughout. During the night it’s at 1/30th but during the afternoon out front I set it to 120th of a second to improve detail.

With all this done, it’s time to play with the

camera. I sit down and drive things through the iPolis Network Camera Webviewer. The camera is mounted over the back lane, with strong sidelight and a 70m depth of field. There are plenty of walls around to look at distortion characteristics.

Distortion at the wide end is very strong. It’s complex moustache distortion comprising primarily barrel distortion that looks up towards 18 per cent, giving way to mild pin cushion distortion at the edges of the lens. Importantly, the camera has distortion correction, which I later deploy – you need it at full wide but at anything longer than 5mm, it’s not an issue. I spend some time at full tele, too, and have no issues with distortion there. Levels of detail with this camera are very high. Court admissible evidence in good light at beyond typical ranges is a piece of cake – this is an unusually powerful fixed dome camera.

Distortion at wide angle

I come back later on and run through the night tests in the back lane for a change. The camera holds colour with 2.5 lux at the lens. I’m still at full wide.

There’s noise in the image but surprisingly little.

Using digital zoom I even have the A line. Norman’s face is not completely clear, mind you. I have the B line at 16m. Colour rendition is excellent. There are some CAs but overall, it’s very nice work, indeed.

Motion blur seems low, too. I push the camera into night mode in the lane. It’s quite a dark image – I can see the IR is on and I check to confirm I have it set to full power – yes, I do.

Out the front next day in good light with trees and traffic flying about I can see some stepping of the image stream. Resolution is relentlessly excellent.

Contrast and colour rendition are very strong and backlight performance is very good on the

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street, with extremely consistent dark-into-light transitions without any sign of over exposure – this is a real strength and one we don’t often see.

There’s a lack of flare and ghosting. Zoom and focus are a bit slow for challenging live work but useable once you’re proficient and excellent for recommissioning.

At wider lens settings there are latitudinal and longitudinal chromatic aberrations in scenes that are 6-7 pixels deep, so there are some compromises with the lens at the wide end. The CAs are most noticeable in situations of intense light – entrance ways and outside with objects close to the hyperfocal distance. I get them on the back of a crow sitting on the fence.

Depth of field is always very strong. There’s no visible noise in the daylight image, which is great performance, too. You often see a pulsing of digital image streams – not with this Samsung. Noise increases as light levels fall in the evening but they are very well controlled.

Out front I can’t get plates at traffic speeds even in good light – the high res sensor means the processing load is too great for that. But I can get them under about 10kmph. As well as blur, there’s some tone mapping artefacts in evidence.

At all times the level of detail with pedestrians and scene details is simply enormous and it runs very deep into the scene. I find that in the shadows between the towers around us, it’s not that shadowy mind you, I start getting blurry faces with pedestrians from about 4pm. After a while, I wick the shutter speed up to 1/60 of a second. The camera winds up brightness to compensate but the slight extra noise is a price worth paying for more detail. Blooming is well handled out the front in low light at 6pm, even with the slower shutter. I find I have court admissible faces to about 12m and very recognisable performance deeper still.

Playing around I find the quick focus takes about 15 seconds to refocus after a zoom change.

Not super quick but not too bad, either. The camera handles the falling light very nicely and uniformly and then surprises me by going smoothly into night mode at 6.12pm. Again, night mode is a disappointment. The performance was much better in colour and I waste no time going into settings and locking myself back into colour in order to confirm my suspicions. I’m right. This camera is too gloomy in monochrome. In colour,

I go back to 1/30th and things are good – a bit more blur but I still get faces and the camera does well with the ambient light in my 7 lux street application. It may be possible to enhance black and white performance but at default, monochrome is too dark. On the street I note IR is mild in strength. Even at full power, it doesn’t have much penetration past about 14m but later on I find it does well enough inside, providing plenty of contrasty detail.

I notice I still have chromatic aberrations on bright points and planes of light out front at night.

For general surveillance it’s not a deal breaker – I’m at a mid-zoom point of around 6mm. I spend quite a while mucking about with the camera at night and discover digital zoom is still very useful and the huge resolution contrives to give me more detail than I am ever expecting. Noise levels remain well controlled at night, too.

This Samsung SNV-8081R dome is a good camera. The high resolution sensor can blur faster moving objects in low levels of light but you can work around it and even so, the huge levels of detail make the price worth paying in applications with light levels between 5-10 lux. The distortion correction works well, the ability to handle variables of light is exemplary – the camera has no tendency towards over exposure on the street, resolution is excellent, colour work in low light is great with low noise and WDR performance is decent, too.

On the downside, the big sensor means no plates with fast moving traffic, loss of face ID if you leave default shutter speed at 1/30th of a second or less in failing light, weak performance in monochrome and chromatic aberrations in very strong light. None of these would stop me installing this extremely powerful fixed dome camera in applications that suit it – applications with some light (5-10 lux minimum) to give useful colour, lots of walking people, huge angles of view and a complex environment. n

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Editor’s choice Brocade ICX 7250 PoE Switch l BROCADE ICX 7250 from Hills offers full PoE+ for wireless access

points, video surveillance and video conferencing equipment, VDI terminals, and HD displays directly from the switch. With 10G uplink ports, the ICX 7250 meets the increasing throughput demands of edge switching for high performance Wi Fi and CCTV networks.

Full Layer 3 support is standard on delivery meaning you no longer need to compromise performance and features for price. The Brocade ICX 7250 switch is manageable via open standards as well as via standard CLI and BNA enterprise management tools.

With market-leading stackability, you can achieve up to 12 switches per stack, with up to 80 Gbps of stacking bandwidth. The Brocade ICX 7250 is also future proof, with OpenFlow support for network programmability.

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What’s new in the industry.

NEW Panasonic E-Series from BGW Technologies l BGWT reports it has just taken delivery of Panasonic’s new E-Series 1080p camera range and Rob Meachem, GM for BGW Technologies, says the camera is a sight to see.

“Panasonic E-Series 1080P range has just landed in Australia and this product is hot,” Meachem said. “Not only is it featurerich with 1080p resolution, wide dynamic range, integrated IR, Onvif compliance and a price that will get some attention, but it’s Panasonic – the brand the end users know and trust.

“We are thrilled to have this new 1080p camera line up in our range” Meachem said. “Our customers tell us they are always seeking a technology brand that end customers recognise and it doesn’t get much more recognisable or trusted than Panasonic.”

According to Meachem, technical information, brochures and prices are all available from BGWT and the new cameras are in stock now.

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l ACCORDING to QSS, the garage door is one of the most overlooked yet frequently used entrances to your customer’s home. Aeotec’s Garage Door Controller brings the intelligence of the connected-home and Z-Wave to that vital entry point. The Aeotec Garage Door Controller is a smart and wireless garage door control system that allows users to open, close, or pause their garage door using a wireless signal at the gateway, via a client or using a phone application. Users can also control garage doors using an external switch when their controller or mobile phone is not to hand. Easily connected to a door’s existing motor, the Garage Door Controller has a suite of security and safety sensors, and it’s now available from Q Security Systems.

l JUST released by Inner Range is the Prisma-SIFER Terminal for the Integriti integrated access and security system.

It incorporates a SIFER card reader that can be used for general access control or for high-security card and PIN code authentication as well as all the standard security options provided by the Prisma Terminal. It features 8 status LEDs, a colour LCD screen and inbuilt temperature sensor. The user interface comprises an easy to read text and icon display with user control achieved with a simple scroll wheel and function key based navigation system. The colour and intensity of the keypad backlighting and screen colour schemes are configurable and feature auto-dimming. Audible indications are provided by sophisticated 8-bit digital sound tones and options are provided for date/time and temperature on the display.

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Axis Introduces M31 Compact Network Cameras l AXIS has released the new Axis M31 Series, consisting of 3 indoor and 3 outdoor models. These new compact network cameras adapt automatically to changing light conditions, with builtin infrared (IR) illumination allowing them to capture images in darkness.

“We see a strong market demand for small and affordable fixed domes with built-in IR and WDR capabilities,” says Petra Bennermark, global product manager, Axis Communications. “This demand comes from cost-conscious customers that want video surveillance they can rely on without having to worry about changing light conditions.”

Axis M31 Series has a stylish and compact flat-faced design that suppresses reflections from the IR illumination. The casing is optionally available in black, and can be easily repainted for the camera to blend in with any environment, with an integrated microSDXC memory card slot enabling edge storage applications.

The series offers flexibility in field of view and resolution. The indoor Axis M3106-L and outdoor Axis M3106-LVE provide a wide field of view of 130 degrees in 4MP resolution. The indoor Axis M3105-L and outdoor Axis M3105LVE give HDTV 1080p video with a field of view of 115 degrees; and the HDTV 720p cameras Axis M3104-L and Axis M3104-LVE provide a field of view of 80 degrees. All models provide frame rates up to 30 fps and feature Axis’ Zipstream technology that significantly reduces bandwidth and storage requirements.

Bosch Introduces Next-Gen Starlight l BOSCH starlight cameras will be even further enhanced with improved light sensitivity, front and backlight compensation; higher frames rates as well as a wider choice of resolutions and form factors. All Bosch IP 6000, 7000 and 8000 starlight cameras will also now feature Bosch video analytics at the edge as standard.

The complete IP starlight camera portfolio from Bosch offers a wider selection of resolutions (720p, 1080p, 5 megapixel) and form factors including fixed box, fixed dome or moving dome cameras; as well as extremely rugged moving cameras for when conditions get tough. The starlight portfolio also offers higher dynamic ranges of up to 120 dB for perfect exposure in all lighting conditions regardless of front and backlight, as well as frame rates of up to 60 frames per second to easily capture fast moving objects.

In addition, the latest sensor technology, combined with sophisticated noise suppression, results in a light sensitivity of 0.0069 lux in colour and 0.0008 lux in monochrome for the 1080p models. This enables starlight cameras to produce full colour images in the dark beyond the point where other cameras have switched to monochrome.

A full suite of Essential Video Analytics will be provided as standard without additional license fees on the DINION IP starlight 6000 fixed box and FLEXIDOME IP starlight 6000 fixed dome cameras at competitive price points. All IP 7000 and IP 8000 starlight cameras will come equipped with the state-of –the-art Intelligent Video Analytics from Bosch; a full suite of robust video analytics algorithms offering highest accuracy for the ultimate in video analytics.

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Hikvision 4K Technology Setting Standards l HIKVISION’S 4K Total Surveillance Solution leverages the power of 8 million pixels to provide the highest levels of clarity for surveillance footage. Hikvision’s 4K range incorporates H.264+ optimized compression technology which allow users to more efficiently manage ultra-high definition video footage. H.264+ smart compression saves bandwidth resources and decreases storage requirements by up to 50 per cent when compared to the conventional H.264 compression. From network video recorders that are designed to support native 4K monitoring, recording, and playback to the award winning 4K PTZ, Hikvision’s 4K family offers a true end-to-end 4K ultra-high-resolution solution.

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What’s new in the industry.

PACOM Professional PPRO-DR-960H-32Hybrid l PACOM Professional PPRO-DR-960H-32Hybrid from Hills is a fully featured, high performance hybrid DVR, optimised for Full HD surveillance. Combining 2MP realtime recording on all 32 channels with the ability to record 16 analogue cameras and 16 IP cameras in real-time or 32 IP cameras in real-time, this DVR is perfect for applications where megapixel cameras can be utilised to provide higher resolution images in key areas of interest. With its high quality, intuitive graphic user interface, both installers and operators will be impressed by its accessibility, making the PPRODR-960H-32Hybrid the best choice for security professionals demanding ease of use and Full HD quality.

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Tyco C.Cure 9000 v2.50 l TYCO Security Products says its Software House C•CURE 9000 v2.50 event

management platform now supports Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP), developed by the Security Industry Association (SIA) to allow for enhanced interoperability among security devices, such as reader-to-panel communications.

OSDP is supported on Tyco Security Products’ iSTAR Ultra series controllers and has been initially tested and certified to interface with HID Global iCLASS SE platform readers, providing a two-way encrypted link using OSDP Secure Channel. The OSDP specification handles a full range of access control and security commands including LED and buzzer control, text display, tamper and communications status and firmware status for a complete interoperable experience.

“Getting onboard with initiatives such as OSDP means greater flexibility through standards-based interoperability for Tyco Security Products,” said Rafael Schrijvers, access control product marketing manager, EMEA, Tyco Security Products.

“OSDP is both highly secure and intelligent, and we’re excited to support it and continue to build on our portfolio of OSDP compatible products.”

HID Global’s iCLASS SE reader platform, including iCLASS SE and multiCLASS SE brands, enables highly secure, adaptable and interoperable physical access control. These intelligent readers support a wide variety of traditional 13.56MHz contactless smart cards, 125kHz proximity credentials and magnetic stripe cards, as well as Bluetooth and NFC-enabled smartphones and other smart devices used for opening doors and gates via HID Mobile Access.

Distributor: Tyco Security Products Contact: +61 4 6776 3544

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l INTEGRITI security management platform now includes a powerful bidirectional interface to the Salto Sallis wireless locking system. The Salto system connects into the Integriti hardware platform via a dedicated port on the Integriti-Sallis/intelligent LAN access module. Managing Sallis wireless doors just like any other access controlled door, this integration allows for a cardholder to present their card at the Sallis lock and in a fraction of a second the lock will send the request to the Sallis node and the node will then relay the request via the Sallis router through to the Integriti ISC controller.

Distributor: Central Security Distribution Contact: 1300 319 499

Dahua Pro Series PTZ

Samsung Wisenet P & X Series

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l WISENET P series camera and X series NVR from Samsung offers a 4K image stream from an H.265 Codec. The Wisenet P series is equipped with a 1/1.7-inch 12.4MP CMOS sensor, in-built IR, motorized lens, 120dB WDR, and P-iris mode allows installers to use the camera in many challenging environments. Bullet and vandal dome models are IP66 rated with IK10 rating and an indoor dome model is also available. The Wisenet X series NVR is designed to record both H.264 and H.265 codec which allows the NVR to be used in any application. In addition, it supports a 4K HDMI output from the NVR and allows up to 32 channels to be displayed from the local monitor output. Currently, the 1st release of Wisenet X series NVR is only available in 32CH with RAID and without RAID version.

optical zoom, auto tracking and face detection capabilities, Dahua’s new Pro series PTZ camera brings a new range of performance and efficiency features for demanding video surveillance. It will significantly expand the use of mid-range PTZ cameras in the market.

Dahua’s starlight feature, combining high-performance ISP and the SONY STARVIS Sensor with an advanced Dahua algorithm, enables the new Pro series PTZ camera to provide high quality, low noise image streams in challenging light conditions. Other features include a WDR of 120dB, IR performance of 150m, auto-tracking, H.265 compatible compression technology that reduces bandwidth and storage costs by up to 50 percent, and a high frame rate of 60fps at 1080p.

Dahua new Pro series PTZ Camera, which is designed with more additional value to expand users’ choice, is ideal for outdoor arenas, such as city surveillance, shopping mall, airports, railway stations and harbours.

Distributor: Dahua Contact: overseas@dahuatech. com

Distributor: EOS Australia Contact: +61 2 9749 5888

Genetec Mission Control l GENETEC has announced Mission Control, a new Decision Support System (DSS) that provides security professionals with new levels of situational intelligence, system visualization, and incident management. Designed to work seamlessly with Security Center, the company’s unified security platform that combines video surveillance, access control, automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) and communications management, Mission Control aims to simplify the operator’s tasks and decisionmaking process when handling routine activities and undesirable situations.

Mission Control gives operators an holistic, unified, and map-centric view of their entire security infrastructure. Mission Control will also move beyond the capabilities of traditional security platforms, enabling organizations to manage the entire lifecycle of incidents and situations, from monitoring incoming sensor data and detecting incidents, all the way through to resolution and auditing.

With Mission Control, organizations can define their response strategy and contingency plans in advance. Based on their unique needs and environment, security and operations departments will be able to create incident categories, the multi-layered rules that trigger each, and automate system actions to address them. They can further assign automated workflows and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to incident categories, which are triggered when an incident is detected to guide response.

Distributor: Hills Contact: 1800 685 487

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Q: We are having trouble with a camera that with strong backlight is showing people walking through an entrance as silhouettes for a couple of hours each afternoon. Is there something we can do to resolve this issue or must we install a camera with better WDR performance?

A: It depends.

Poor WDR performance isn’t a great quality for an entrance camera and there are compact and full body cameras that do beautiful work in entranceways.

We’d be thinking about moving the camera further from the entrance so when set to auto it exposes for the internal environment instead of the external. Fast shutter speeds are usually the issue with the light at the end of the tunnel effect – a faster shutter means the sensor won’t bloom with 70,000 lux or more in its face. But a fast shutter will render a 500 lux internal environment gloomily at best and dark at worst.

Exposing for an internal view won’t come without a price – the external view is going to be overexposed – it will be blown out because excessive light levels are reaching the sensor.

Alternatively, you could also hop into manual mode in camera settings and try to select shutter speed, WDR and brightness that give you the best balance – a slightly darker than ideal internal view and a slight brighter than ideal external view without losing one or the other. Obviously, you need to think about what the client needs from the camera before

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you do this. Adding a directional lamp to the mix is another worthwhile option. Use a torch to check if this helps – adding a little direct light can do the trick in backlit entranceways.

Something else to consider in entrances is lensing. Many installers will use a low cost compact camera with a large WDR number and leave WDR at default auto, assuming the problem is solved. Our experience is that harsh entrance environment need the best lenses – it makes a real difference.

A plastic lens with an additional front element in the form of an IK10-rated sheet of polymer of unknown quality and clarity, and an aesthetic not an optical shape, is guaranteed to flare in the presence of direct sunlight.

Q: Can we reduce motion blur at night by setting shutter speed higher – at 1/60th, 1/120th, 1/250th, 1/500th?

Will there be any impact on camera performance? What operational price will we pay for this selection?

A: Yes, you can and yes, there is a tradeoff. You’ll definitely get more detail with a 1/500th shutter but you will also get more noise as the processing engine works to balance the image with less light reaching the sensor. The difference in terms of the image’s appearance is not as large as you’d expect but it’s hard to best the laws of physics. Using 1/500th in a bid to get plates at night doesn’t work that well – you won’t get plates but you will get a percentage more detail closer in. Moving plates in low light are tough. Faster shutter speeds work best where there is some

light say – 7-10 lux minimum - and you are looking for faces to about 12m. Past this point, amplification noise starts to make an impact. Monochrome is a good option for face recognition in very low light.

Don’t be shy about using it. If the end user grumbles, show them comparisons – they will almost always be indisputable.

Q: We’ve been called in to check out an old false alarming hardwired system.

Our first instinct was to pull everything out and replace with wireless but the hardware is good quality and the installation was well done. What sorts of things do you think could be causing an issue with this system? The false alarms are seemingly random.

A: You’d be isolating the false alarming zone for a start. It’s worth undoing a termination at the sensor and redoing it, then undoing the zone at the panel and redoing it to see if terminations are the issue. Check the continuity of the zone loop. Check the battery - it could be low on power, or dead.

Also look at battery terminals and AC terminals and check everywhere for wire whiskers that could be causing shorts. All terminations need to be clean. Don’t take it for granted that the installer who put the system in and maintained it had the high standards you maintain. When checking cable runs look for broken or cut wires it’s an awful job but proper measurements taken at both panel and sensor should mean you only need to check 1 cable run, not all of them. Make sure wires aren’t grounded and check for simple things like doors or windows jammed open.

Slow shutter, no plate.

Next, check for corroded, burned out or broken door switches. Check reed magnets. They nearly last forever but you might have got the one that didn’t. It’s also possible for particles of iron to get caught in the armature gaps of relays so the relays won’t meet when they should. Again, it’s rare, but it happens. Now look for potential on the system that shouldn’t be there and search carefully for shoddy soldering or for shrink tubing that doesn’t quite cover all of a connection in a busy and hard to reach corner of the panel. Other trouble spots will be found in damp places where moisture causes current leakage.

Q: We’re having trouble with a fibre run and think we need to add amplification – can we add amplifiers mid-run, or must we replace transmitters altogether?

A: When you’re working on fibre optic runs and you need amplification just rushing in could see you messing up the quality of the signal you have with no improvement of signal strength. For example, it’s a mistake to crank up amplification of a low power transmitter if original signals are too weak to give expected performance - the result is likely to be signal attenuation at the transmitter output. It’s smarter to locate an amp after the low power transmitter in order to buffer up a clean signal.

Post-amplification allows signal power to be significantly increased in order to allow low powered transmission hardware to support applications they weren’t designed to handle. You’d use post amp techniques if it were found that a particular piece of equipment in the system induced significant loss into a video stream. It’s always vital to offset any attenuation if there’s optical coupling of a signal path.

Should a signal be ported to 10 inputs, it would be reduced by 6.5dB in total (each split signal takes an output signal 3dB

below the original input signal). In such cases, the idea is to strengthen the signal with pre-amping before the couplers, then buffer the output signal after the coupling equipment with post-amplification.

Q: Could you recommend a long range vehicle reader for a typical 2-lane carpark entry? How reliable are these readers? Is the current draw of long range readers significant?

A: We’d be looking at solutions like HID’s iCLASS SE R90 contactless smartcard reader, which is designed for vehicle access applications requiring an extended read range. There’s support for high frequency ISO 15693 and ISO 14443A/B credential technologies, and UHF with encryption technology means secure

comms. Read range is up to 5m, which is plenty for a double lane entry. This reader uses UHF ISO 18000-6C compliant credentials containing Secure Identity Object (SIO) encryption technology and will integrate with any existing access control system.

Q: Are there any tips to covering entrance ways from the outside that are not subjected to extremes of WDR? We want to see people using the emergency exit and tripping the alarm system.

A: You want to use a focal length that gives you good coverage of the entry – typically the cameras will be installed close, so you’ll need a wide angle. You want some light – natural light in the day and some external directional light at night so you can see faces with artificial backlight. If you don’t have directional light and there’s very little ambient light at night, you’ll get silhouettes, not face recognition. People are naughty creatures, so make sure someone responsible is in charge of keeping an eye on camera positioning if you use the common external bullets. Staff or people wanting to sleep in exit wells will often push adjustable bullet cameras off to one side in order to keep using emergency exits undisturbed. n

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

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Security and Government Expo Canberra

Date: November 3, 2016 Venue: The Realm Hotel, Canberra Contact: Monique +61 2 9280 4425 Security and Government Expo is a one-day expo with space for 20 companies to promote their technologies and products in the nation’s capital. SAGE brings together government and commercial end users, consultants, integrators and installers in Canberra and the ACT to see the latest security solutions in a relaxed and informal atmosphere. Expo partner ASIS ACT presents Luke Williams, chief security officer, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade speaking on International Security Challenges: A DFAT Perspective inside the expo.

SecTech Roadshow 2017 Date: May 4-18, 2017 Contact: Monique Keatinge on 612 9280 4425 SecTech Roadshow takes up to 20 of Australia’s leading distributors and manufacturers on a national tour – a simple and highly targeted touring tradeshow covering 5 state capitals over 2 weeks during the month of May. In 2017, SecTech Roadshow will visit Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

2017 Security Conference and Exhibition

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Date: July 2017 Venue: Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour Contact: +61 3 9261 4500 Next year we’re heading back to Sydney to the brand new International Convention Centre in Darling Harbour and the anticipation is palpable! Our whole team is looking forward to reuniting the industry in sunny Sydney, we look forward to seeing you there in 2017.

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