After a year, four CCTV cameras installed in the town of Devizes have had great success.
The CCTV cameras, installed on the 1st of November last year, have caused a dramatic decrease in shop windows being broken and have assisted in many arrests.
Archive for October, 2008
CCTV Success for Town of Devizes, Wiltshire
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Car Finder Technology
Monday, October 27th, 2008Heathrow Terminal 5 will be the first to trial a new technology pioneered by Siemens Building Technologies Security Solutions, called Car Finder.
The new technology will locate a car in a car park should the returning owner not remember its whereabouts. The owner can simply insert his or her parking ticket into one of the 16 ‘Car Finder’ kiosks to receive a 3D map of the cars location as well as other key information such and the exits, stairs and lifts.
Paris Set to Quadruple Number of CCTV Cameras
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to emulate the CCTV technology numbers used by London in an attempt to track criminals and terrorists.
The Paris metro and rail networks already run 9500 CCTV devices but the police only have 300 of these at their disposal. A new scheme will see 1200 new CCTV cameras installed, mostly in high risk areas.
London to Trial CCTV on Buses
Monday, October 20th, 2008London has just begun a six month trial of CCTV in select buses.
Tweny one double decker buses will be fitted with the real-time imaging technology, monitored by the Transport of London department.
Insect Inspires New CCTV Technology
Monday, October 20th, 2008Scientists have been studying insects in an atempt to better understand how they can implement video imaging using hardware on a small scale.
