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Remotely reactive
CCTV Handbook 2013, Surveillance
One of the key growth areas in the surveillance market in South Africa is the remote monitoring industry. Many commercial and private organisations are opting to have video surveillance protecting people and assets 24x7 in the hope that cameras manned by remote operators are less likely to succumb to intimidation or collusion.
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When you want to see everything
CCTV Handbook 2013, Surveillance
What is happening in the world of fisheye/panorama cameras? What functionality do they have and do they have today’s ever-popular low light capabilities?
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Hybrid: best of both worlds?
CCTV Handbook 2013, Surveillance
Hybrid solutions are touted as the ideal middle ground solution for users who either cannot or do not wish to replace their entire analogue system with IP. Common questions that come to the fore are whether they really do offer the best of both technology worlds, or do they simply offer median performance levels?
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The platform must fit the business
CCTV Handbook 2013, Surveillance
Today, we have expensive management systems that can do almost anything, but we also have a growing number of smaller, open management systems users can obtain for little or no cost. What do users want from their management systems? What is selling today and what is being avoided?
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Don't ignore wireless
CCTV Handbook 2013, Surveillance
The networking technology chosen for surveillance projects is a crucial component of the final success of the solution. With the wireless networking solutions available today, more installations are bypassing cabling in certain instances in favour of wireless.
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The expanding role of thermals
CCTV Handbook 2013, Surveillance, Industrial (Industry), Residential Estate (Industry)
Thermal cameras are still a popular addition to the security arsenal of many organisations. Hi-Tech Security Solutions asked a few people in the know for their views on this market and where they thought it was heading.
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Human or machine?
February 2013, Security Services & Risk Management, Entertainment and Hospitality (Industry)
Hi-Tech Security Solutions posed the question of the importance of guarding within an effective security management plan. Are guards being replaced by technology? Who is the decision-maker at the end of the day?
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Doing city surveillance right
February 2013, Surveillance
CBD and city surveillance often provides the route map for residential security installations. By modelling the design of these large systems, successful elements are adapted to suit the needs of residential estates.
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The road to convergence
February 2013, Integrated Solutions
There, but not there is the best way to describe the industry’s move to physical and logical convergence.
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iLegal 2013 set for March
February 2013, News & Events
Back by popular demand, iLegal 2013 will be taking place on 14th March 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Rosebank Johannesburg (on the Gautrain route). As always, iLegal 2013 promises to be the leading edge event of the year for everybody involved in the use, operation, installation and implementation of any aspect of surveillance.
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The ghost in the identity
February 2013, Access Control & Identity Management
Often touted by the ID salesmen as the ultimate unerring manifestation of your identity on official documents, it surpasses only in some ways the drama of yore when ghosts would make friendly appearances at the theatre, and leave the audience awe-struck, by the living and the dead.
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