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Don't ignore wireless
CCTV Handbook 2013, CCTV, Surveillance & Remote Monitoring
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, CCTV, Surveillance & Remote Monitoring, 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, CCTV, Surveillance & Remote Monitoring
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
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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A preview of iLegal 2013
February 2013, News
iLegal 2013 promises to be the leading event of the year for everybody involved in the use, operation, installation and implementation or any aspect of surveillance, from security managers, executive managers, IT leaders and technology providers and installers.
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Residential security that works
February 2013, News
We used to believe that living in a townhouse or clustered complex was more secure than living in a plain old house. Crime statistics, however, show that this is not always the case. Complex living is ...
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Surveillance that gets results at iLegal
February 2013, News
Attorney Juan Kotze will be speaking at iLegal 2013 to tell us about the latest win against a crime syndicate and CCTV’s role in it. But that is not all. Kotze will also be looking at what retailers should be doing to ensure their CCTV coverage is not simply a nice way to see what happened after the fact, but to identify people and processes used by the criminal element.
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