AXIS 214 PTZ Network Camera

September 9th, 2009

AXIS 214 PTZ Network Camera is a high performance camera for professional surveillance and remote monitoring. It combines a high quality color camera with the flexibility of remote pan/tilt/zoom operations. The 18x optical motorized lens with auto focus allows the user to zoom in on a small or distant object with exceptional clarity.

Quite expensive PTZ camera, but what you get is way superior the competitions. The camera can easily pump 30FPS at 640×480. The PTZ is very fast and easy to control (I’m not using their software). It seems also very robust comparing to other cameras.

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System has an effect, even if the stats don’t show it

February 20th, 2009

If you’re looking for evidence of how Ripon’s state-of-the-art video surveillance systems has affected crime, you won’t find it in the city’s crime statistics.

Recently released numbers show crime hasn’t taken a drastic hit since the cameras were installed in 2005. Overall, major crimes have risen slightly.

But Police Chief Richard Bull says the $500,000 camera system was well worth the investment. Ripon’s population has jumped about 30 percent since 2003, but its major crimes climbed only 4 percent during that period. By comparison, as Patterson’s population swelled 54 percent, major crimes rose 32 percent.

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Mandatory CCTV Cameras In Pubs

February 18th, 2009

Britain already has one-fifth of the world’s CCTV cameras and an average person in the UK is caught on camera hundreds of times a day. And now, if police get their way, we’ll be filmed going in and out of our local pubs.

Nick Gibson is attempting to re-open The Draper’s Arms on Barnsbury Street, a former Evening Standard pub of the year winner that shut its doors last August. But to regain a licence, he’s been told he must fit CCTV cameras that capture the head and shoulders of everyone entering the pub, and be willing to hand over footage whenever the police ask for it.

cctv security camera system

cctv security camera system

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February 18th, 2009

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