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Chicago Transit Authority Using Cameras And Lawsuits To Fight Vandalism
The Chicago Transit Authority is stepping up its battle against vandalism. The city’s public transportation system said it has expanded its network of security cameras at train stations and on train cars. And most importantly, it is using the information obtained from that expanded security network to arrest those responsible for vandalizing CTA property. Also […]
Oakmont PA Councilman Pushes For Answers In Vandalism Of Surveillance Cameras
An Oakmont PA councilman has questioned whether Allegheny County police have fully investigated a vandalism incident last summer that disabled borough surveillance cameras. Councilman Tim Favo raised his doubts about the investigation at a council meeting April 14. According to Police Chief David DiSanti, the incident in question occurred last July when someone apparently cut […]
Tokyo Airport Security Loses Top-Secret Memo Before Obama Visit
Security codes for Tokyo’s main airport had to be changed just days before President Obama arrived, after an employee dropped a memo containing the top-secret details. The Skymark Airlines employee mislaid the list of every security code on the departure lobby floor of Haneda Airport, an official revealed. While the details were only missing for […]
ELERTS Lock It Down And ELERTS Campus Apps Drive School Safety Program At Dennis-Yarmouth
ELERTS Corporation, a leader in emergency response communication, joins the Yarmouth Police Department and Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District in launching a comprehensive program that uses mobile technology to improve school security. ELERTS Lock It Down™ is a communication platform that lets school personnel use their smartphones to report threatening or suspicious activities directly to local […]
Schlage Electronic Locks Help TCU Bolster Campus Security
Allegion PLC (NYSE: ALLE), a leading global provider of security products and solutions, today announced that Texas Christian University (TCU) partnered with Allegion to help enhance security for its students by installing Schlage electronic locks in new residence halls and upgrading access control in existing buildings. A major factor in deciding on the lock selection […]
Heartland App Creates A Single Point Of Access To Campus Life
With the contemporary college student and their smart phone attached at the hip, the use of mobile apps to fulfill daily tasks like door access, laundry, and vending has become the new trend. Heartland Campus Solutions is trying to provide solution to match this trend its OneCard Mobile app. The new app represents the consolidation […]
Teen Stowaway Walked Right Through San Jose Airport Security Gap
Surveillance video at two airports shows how a 16-year-old boy managed to stow away in the wheel well of a flight from California to Hawaii — He simply climbed a fence without anyone stopping him, authorities told NBC News on Monday. The boy from Santa Clara, Calif., who is believed to have run away after […]
Public Schools In Saudi Arabia Going Biometric To Thwart Class Cutting
Several public schools across the Kingdom have implemented a biometric fingerprinting system to improve attendance. The new system is linked with an electronic software device to keep parents informed of absence and delays. The move comes despite the ministry?s assertion that it has not endorsed the fingerprinting system for teachers, although employees at several ministry […]
1.8 Gigapixel ARGUS Is World’s Highest Resolution Video Surveillance Platform By DARPA
Video: duration is 4 mins 40 secs. Author: Weed Worxs Welcome to the new world where everything you do will be on surveillance. As the public worries about invasion of privacy issues from small remote controlled aircraft, here’s a real drone —you’ll never see— with a much better view of everything you do. This is […]
Tyco Security Eyes Indian Hospitals Get Tagged With RFID & RLTS Elpas Location Based Tracking
Tyco Security is on an aggressive mode to tap the Indian healthcare space to provide advanced Elpas Location Based Tracking solutions to trace not just people but medical assets. Elpas is a brand of Tyco Security Products known for location-based tracking and intrusion solutions in the security industry. In fact Tyco’s portfolio is one of […]
School Lockdown And More With One Push Of A Button
The superintendent of the Plainedge School District is confident in the effectiveness of a one-button lockdown system that will soon go live in the high school here. He should be. He helped develop it. Superintendent Edward Salina worked alongside Lee Mandel, owner of Long Island-based systems integrator and manufacturer IntraLogic Solutions, to create the add-on […]
Unwiring City Wide Video Surveillance
Coupled with the steep growth of population, ever increasing area of a city, and the severely outnumbered police and security officials, a city not only becomes a near impossible task to “watch over” but also cost-prohibitive to man every corner and street of a city. Eventually making the city unsafe for its residents and susceptible […]
Sacramento County Sheriff Creates Voluntary Registry For Surveillance Camera Footage
Sacramento County authorities are asking residents and business owners to provide video-surveillance footage to law enforcement investigators. Officials are encouraging property owners with surveillance cameras to sign up for the Sheriff’s Electronic Eye program, the Sacramento Bee reported. The new voluntary registry would alert law enforcement agencies when there are any privately owned surveillance cameras […]
VideoSurveillance.com Launches Crowdsourced Security Camera Map In Boston
VideoSurveillance.com, a virtual security integrator, today announced the expansion of its CommunityCam initiative to Boston in time for the 2014 Boston Marathon. CommunityCam is a free, crowdsourced security camera map that creates consumer benefit in the network of privately placed cameras like the Lord & Taylor camera that captured footage of the Boston Marathon bombers […]
Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Donates Surveillance Cameras To City Of Pittsburgh
Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful said they have donated high-tech surveillance cameras to the City of Pittsburgh to support enhanced enforcement efforts surrounding the act of illegal dumping within the City limits. The high quality, motion activated, covert security cameras provide instant wireless transmission of site activity, photo documentation of license plates at speeds of up to […]
The FBI Is Adding Facial Recognition To Its Fingerprint Database
New documents released by the FBI show that the Bureau is well on its way toward its goal of a fully operational face recognition database by this summer. The EFF received these records in response to our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for information on Next Generation Identification (NGI)?the FBI?s massive biometric database that may […]
AirLive IVS Face Detection Surveillance System For Casinos
Casino surveillance system requires the ability to respond rapidly to incidents at low levels of lighting, which is one of the most technical-demanding requirements for surveillance systems with diverse operational requirements. Gearing video surveillance needs to focus on the activities at the gaming tables and slot machines in order to settle disputes, prevent and detect […]
Claremont, NH’s Stevens High Renovation Project Includes Security Cameras
The multi-million dollar renovation of Stevens High School now includes $43,000 in security cameras. The committee overseeing the renovation voted Wednesday to use money from a contingency fund for the project to pay for interior video cameras that will monitor common areas including hallways, classrooms, the gymnasium, and the auditorium. The decision brings the total […]
How To Get More From Police Self-Surveillance: Don’t Turn It Off
Who watches the watchers when they aren’t wearing their lapel cameras? That’s the tech-centric question at the heart of a scandal that’s been raging in New Mexico since federal investigators accused Albuquerque police officers of routinely using excessive force and violating suspects’ civil rights. Cops in the city are supposed to wear small video cameras […]
GCR Introduces “AirportIQ Secure Credentials” – A Biometric Security And Continuous Credentialing Solution
GCR introduces "AirportIQ Secure Credentials," a biometric security and continuous credentialing solution for the aviation and airport industry. AirportIQ Secure Credentials provides a comprehensive and trusted, biometrically-enabled security credential. Features include the continuous validation of background; verification of the identity of aviation workers; binding of biometric and biographic information to the individual; and improving the […]