Avigilon have won another award for their market leading High Definition IP Video solutions.

This latest award is for Best Terrestrial Surveillance Technology, and was presented at the International Global Border Security Conference and Expo in Austin, Texas.

Avigilon have put together a very informative screencast presentation to explain their leading-edge camera and recording technology. If you’re considering an IP CCTV solution then this is certainly worth ten minutes viewing.

If you would then like any further information on Avigilon’s solutions, or help in designing an Avigilon solution to meet your requirements, please call us now on 01304 827 609.

I’ve just read a 25 page guide on IP video from a large network company.

It was a good guide, well written, it provided good explanations on ethernet, IP, POE, cat5/6, etc.

The bizarre thing was, it never once referred to image quality or resolution.

It is all about the image – please keep that in mind!!

Well, I bet you didn’t know this was possible:

You use this SD card in your digital camera, it works like a normal SD card for storing photos.

However, it also connects automatically to wireless hot-spots. It grabs a geotag from the first one it sees after you take photos, and uses the wi-fi connection to upload your photos to your online service and thence your PC.

Those photos will automatically have the geotag attached, showing where in the world they were taken.

All from a £60 memory card!

Click the card to read more.

Another new IP product to catch my eye at IFSEC was this fully IP video door entry system from Australian company Bellon.

It looks really classy, think Bang & Olufsen style …..

It’s fully IP; outdoor panels and indoor handsets & monitors.

POE ready.

Colour video, audio, and access control.

No PCs or servers required, even the configuration is completed via the devices.

They claim that you can have an unlimited number of entry and apartment units.

A really nice IP networked product!

It was really interesting to wander the halls at IFSEC this year with a new hat on; for years I had viewed the show from the viewpoint of somebody only interested in traditional analogue CCTV solutions. This year I had a new brief – all things IP!

I was keen to see what other peripheral devices could be simply added to a company’s network.

This Time & Attendance system from Singular-Tech of Barcelona caught my eye.

It certainly looks good.

The ‘clocking-in’ stations (CST Terminals) have been designed for them by SPEC and have a very pleasing look.

You simply add the CST Terminals to your LAN at appropriate locations.

They have Biometric (fingerprint), proximity (RFID tokens) and magnetic swipe card reader versions.

You can then add additional discrete readers as and where required.

The software Graphical User Interface looks very contemporary.

It can run on either a server (server 2003) or a Windows XP or Vista PC (network connected, 200MB HDD space, 512MB RAM). The software installs as a web server and runs a SQL database engine.

You can start very simply with a single unit, but can scale the system to 100s of users, 100s of readers, 10s of administrators.

They also have a software integration kit that allows you to share the data with other systems.

You can learn more at their website at www.singular-tech.com

They’re not represented in the UK yet, but if you’re interested I might be ……. especially as we’ll definitely need to visit Barcelona to check it out properly!!!