Surveillance and facilities management
This section reviews the various technologies that are used to deliver video surveillance via the Internet, remote monitoring, as well as security features in intelligent buildings and data centers.
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Digital video surveillance enables embedded image capture capabilities that allows video images or extracted information to be compressed, stored or transmitted over communication networks or digital data link.
The term homeland security refers to the broad national effort by all levels of government to protect its territory from hazards, both internal and external, natural and man-made. The term is most often used in the United States; elsewhere, national security has more usage.
Intelligent building: Use of technology and process to create a building that is safer and more productive for its occupants and more operationally efficient for its owners.
Digital video surveillance enables embedded image capture capabilities that allows video images or extracted information to be compressed, stored or transmitted over communication networks or digital data link.
Remote surveillance is the ability to view a camera image that is located remotely, where the video image is transmitted over a phone line, the Internet or wireless.
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If you're a nature enthusiast, you'd know that snakes hunt by 'seeing' the heat signature of their prey. It is probably the single most effective sense that betters the five senses combined. Similarly, thermal imaging is the technology behind a new series of surveillance cameras that will be able to detect people and incidents with greater reliability in difficult conditions, even in complete darkness.
We speak to Lee Oh Tee, regional director for South Asia Pacific at Axis Communications, who highlights the changing trends in the surveillance scene, particularly in the use of network cameras in the digital age.
Australia’s Queensland Police Service is the first police force in the country to internally adopt Gemalto’s Protiva family of solutions to provide an innovative solution that strengthens access security and enhances operation management.
Emerson Network Power has announced the merge of its Aperture and Avocent businesses as a new division that will focus on helping data center customers better manage their infrastructure.
The Bhutan Kingdom's investment arm drives economic development by adopting the SAP platform in its key subsidiaries.
