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March 2nd, 2012
Until recently, fire detection primarily relied on two major devices – heat and smoke detectors. And for the most part, these two devices have provided sufficient coverage and timely detection. However, this has not always been the case. Certain areas – such as large warehouses – require a more sophisticated fire detection system, a system like video image detection (VID).
VID has evolved over the past decade to address the fire detection problems associated with warehouses and other large indoor areas.
VID for flame detection is looking in part for:
1. Flicker
2. Color
3. Size
4. Brightness
5. Dynaxmic texture analysis
VID for smoke detection, on the other hand, has algorithms for:
1. Contrast change
2. Edge lost
3. Motion
4. Color
5. Fractal encoding of the image
6. Temporal and spatial wavelet transformation
With VID, unlike heat and smoke detectors, the products of combustion are not required to travel all the way to the sensor, greatly reducing detection and response times. The only real restraints of VID are sharpness, contrast, and illumination within the field of view. Thus, items that should be considered when selecting a camera include:
1. Brightness
2. Sharpness
3. Flicker suppression
4. Color balance
There are two configurations of VID, both of which use analytical algorithms within their processors for the detection of either smoke or flame.
- The first is having multiple cameras feed into a central processor, which is then connected to the fire alarm system. In this case, the “smarts” of the system is not in the cameras, but in the processor
- The second method is by having the processor within each camera, which in turn is connected to the building’s fire alarm system.
Newer VID systems tend to utilize the second configuration.
For any further questions on Video Surveillance and Fire Application, simply contact ARK Systems at 1-800-995-0189 or click here today.
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February 24th, 2012
Atlanta, Georgia law enforcement officials have very recently begun integrating private surveillance cameras into their existing network of city-owned assets, greatly improving the scope of the city’s Video Integration Center. This unique, real-time surveillance system is actively monitored by two sergeants and six sworn officers in the city’s existing E911 Center, which utilizes analytical software to track suspicious behavior and deter crime. The Atlanta surveillance initiative – which has cost more than $1 million thus far to implement – is part of Operation Shield, a partnership between the Atlanta Police Department and various public and private entities. As a result of this partnership, the surveillance network now incorporates over 100 active cameras, both city-owned and privately owned, located throughout downtown Atlanta.
“The eventual goal is to deploy a network involving several thousand cameras,” according to an announcement from the city officials in September of 2011.
A few other cities – including Ogden and Utah – have similar surveillance systems in place, incorporating both privately held cameras and city-owned cameras.
Still, not everyone is on board with this initiative. Privacy advocates are morally opposed to the surveillance network, fearing that the city’s surveillance system could conceivably extend across the entire city with the inclusion of cameras maintained by private businesses. But city officials promise the new security initiative is just the next step in a safer Atlanta.
“Public safety has been a top priority for my administration, and the Video Integration Center is a vital investment towards a safer city,” said Mayor Kasim Reed in a statement released Monday, Sept. 19. “We must continue to seek innovative ways to fight crime, and bringing together the public and private sectors allow us to share in the responsibility of keeping our streets safe for residents, workers, tourists and visitors alike.”
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Atlanta Police Including Private Surveillance Cameras in Monitoring Center
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February 17th, 2012
In late January, Google’s not-for-profit Crisis Response division announced the release of its new emergency alerting platform, Google Public Alerts. The platform is designed to bring relevant emergency alerts – severe weather, public safety, earthquakes, tornados, and more – to the top of the Google search results.
When a major weather event is headed your way, go to Google and search for the information you need (example – “Flooding Maryland”). Google Public Alerts should be able to tell you what’s happening, where and when the severe weather will strike, how severe it will be, and what resources are available to help.
Google has integrated feeds from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Weather Service, and the US Geological Survey (USGS) with Google Maps to provide timely and in-depth emergency alerts. Google is also encouraging all authorized local public safety officials to post emergency notifications, as well.
Steps to Participate in Google Public Alerts
1. Get alerts into the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP 1.2) standard.
2. Validate that feeds are set up correctly and the CAP message is correct.
3. Subscribe alerts to Alert Hub – Google’s message aggregator – and check that they’re working.
4. Notify Google when you’re ready so it can initiate next steps.
For any further questions on the impact of Google Public Alerts, simply contact ARK Systems at 1-800-995-0189 or click here today.
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Public Alerts now on Google Maps
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February 10th, 2012
Do video cameras really help reduce crime? Chicago’s managing deputy of public safety, Jonathan Lewin, believes they do. And he has the statistics to support his belief.
Chicago’s Operation Virtual Shield, the city’s network of surveillance cameras, has played a role in more than 5,500 arrests since 2006. This network accesses more than 20,000 cameras throughout the city. The Chicago Police Department forged this extensive network by forming agreements with business and other private organizations. In fact, it is estimated that at least half of Operation Virtual Shield’s surveillance network is comprised of these private cameras.
Crime surveillance experts are able to access these private feeds directly over the Internet through a public IP address, but only during emergencies and only after owners are notified. These owners are all voluntary and sign a memorandum of understanding to link their video feeds into the unified network.
Benefits of Operation Virtual Shield
• Instead of wasting time getting an owner’s permission, a court order, or a subpoena allowing access these videos, Operation Virtual Shield provides instant access and thus substantially speeds up investigations.
• Saves a lot of time as a forensics tool
• Police department installed cameras are equipped with night vision, bulletproof exteriors, and 360-degree pan and zoom capabilities.
• In Operation Virtual Shields first year of deployment, narcotics-related calls were reduced by 76% and serious crimes by 17%.
Other cities – like New York, Atlanta, and Memphis – have also instituted real-time public-private camera agreements into their crime reduction efforts.
For any further questions on the impact of Surveillance Cameras on Crime Rates in Major Cities, simply contact ARK Systems at 1-800-995-0189 or click here today.
When you consider how crucial security can be, and when you think of all the options that you’re faced with today, one thing becomes clear. You need a contractor with experience. For assessment, design, installation, testing and service, ARK is the expert across the board.
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February 2nd, 2012
Moore’s law states that performance of computer-based hardware will double every two years. And security technology is no different. So let’s take a look at where some of these technologies may be headed in the near future.
IP Video: Currently, IP video is the best and brightest video technology around, but because its total cost of ownership (TCO) remains fairly high, IP video fails to be a viable option for small systems. These smaller systems, often found in gas stations boutiques, offices, and franchises, still rely primarily on analog video. However, that will all change in the next 15 years due to 4 factors: large on-board storage, much better image processing, better compression and a higher speed Internet.
Analytics: For the most part, analytics has been a fairly overrated technology when it comes to facial recognition and detection. However, there are still several useful ways that analytics can benefit your security efforts. These include: high quality motion detection, camera tampering detection and cross line detection. Analytics can be used in marketing and building management, as well, for such purposes as people counting, heat map generation and detection for empty shelves and product sweeps.
And analytics technology continues to grow and evolve, alongside the performance predictions of Moore’s law. The sky is the limit!
High Resolution Images: In the near future we will begin to see analog cameras being taken down as end-users opt to move to 720p HDTV and then later to 1080p.
Light Sensitive Cameras: As video surveillance camera resolution and storage continues to improve, so too does video functionality, including super-low light color cameras, improved dynamic range (WDR/HDR) and thermal/IR cameras. A perfect example of this would be a HurleyIR Thermal Imaging Camera. “HurleyIR has developed a design methodology for thermal imaging solutions that allows for custom configuration to meet spectral needs and control formats imaging systems beyond compare”
Please visit www.hurleyir.com for more information.
Hosted Video: Video-as-a-service is poised to be one of the biggest technology trends in the near future as more and more integrators are pushing hosted video. Alarm verification with video, construction site monitoring, city surveillance systems, and many more video functions will benefit from hosted solutions. The possibilities are nearly endless!
For any further questions on the Future of Security Technology, simply contact ARK Systems at 1-800-995-0189 or click here today.
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January 25th, 2012
As much as we would like to think otherwise, security systems for homes and security systems for businesses are pretty different. Both have their own goals and both have their own unique set of challenges. And then there are homeowners associations (HOA), which have completely separate security hurdles.
Perhaps the biggest challenge HOAs face is with their leadership. Have you ever heard the saying “Too many cooks spoil the broth?” While private homes and businesses have a single point of contact with a vested interest in the well being of the property, HOAs are typically governed by a board, whose members all have their own personal distractions. And when a single security concerns goes ignored, the entire security system suffers.
But there is a fairly simple solution to these security problems…Off-Site Video Monitoring and Storage.
More often than not, HOAs do not realize they even have a security problem until it is too late. Remote monitoring and storage offers several benefits, including:
•Low up-front cost. This is a big deal for HOAs with small budgets. While traditional systems start around $5,000, off-site monitoring offers a cost-effective security solution with many security companies offering monthly prices per camera.
• Access to the latest technology at no additional cost to the HOA.
• Traditional security systems can be difficult to learn…off-site monitoring is easy to use.
• Training is available.
•Off-site video can be accessed remotely via any Internet-connected device.
• Since everything is remotely accessible, there are no management issues for the HOA members.
• DVR and tape are subject to theft when stored on-site. With off-site storage, archived video is secure.
•At the HOA, only the network’s IP cameras and a switch are required. The video is available even if the HOA is burned down.
• Off-site monitoring leads to decrease in significant events (trespassing, destruction of property, vandalism, etc.)
• The system will send email alerts or similar notifications when problems arise.
For any further questions on Homeowners Associations, Security, and Off-Site Monitoring and Storage, simply contact ARK Systems at 1-800-995-0189 or click here today.
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January 20th, 2012
With the frequency of access points increasing across access control networks, end users will be excited to learn that fewer and fewer of those doors are required to be hardwired. This not only allows for a much for customizable network, it greatly reduces labor and materials costs, as well. A typical wireless router can support 12 to 25 access points and can be installed much faster than the associated wired door panel components. This is particularly great news for businesses in today’s tight economy.
There are currently three options for delivering centrally managed network access control.
- Wired Networks: The strengths of such a network include real-time monitoring, centralized management, constant power source, global lock down, audit reports, and more. However, of the three available networks, this typically comes with the highest total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Wireless Networks: What was once an inconsistent networking option, wireless is now an extremely valid choice. This technology has proven itself time and time again in fire intrusion and CCTV applications. And when it comes to access control networks, wireless provides the same functionality as wired networks, but at a fraction of the installation costs. Leading wireless systems also have built-in redundancy, such as mesh network, to ensure that the wireless network remains operational even if a particular router is down. Best of all, locks/readers can be easily relocated, allowing for a much more customizable network. Changing the configuration of a wired network is a very labor intensive and costly project.
- Virtual Smart Card Networks: Last but not least, a virtual smart card network is a great compromise between wired and wireless solutions. This type of network provides many of the same benefits of the first two networks, with a few additional advantages. First of all, access points never have to be updated as populations change. As users move throughout a building, updates and audit logs are regularly transferred to/from the database via online and offline access points. This is a much different philosophy than traditional wired or even wireless system design. Virtual Smart Card Networks also offer higher levels of data encryption on the card to prevent data tampering.
Of course, this is just an overview of these access control networks. For any further questions on Wired, Wireless, and Smart Card Access Control Networks, simply contact ARK Systems at 1-800-995-0189 or click here today.
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January 13th, 2012
Video and security technologies are quickly making a big splash in the fire prevention, detection, and verification industry. This is happening in several ways, which we have outlined below. These include:
The Double Life of Video Surveillance Technology: Just a decade ago, video had one purpose; it was expected to show what people were doing. Now, video has so many more functions, including alarm verification. Dispatch operators have a direct connection with one or more cameras in the vicinity of the alarm and can view real-time and recorded video to verify the validity of an alarm. This has drastically cut down on the number of false alarms and unnecessary dispatches across the United States.
Fire Detection Through Video Imaging: Not only can video technology be used to verify alarms, it can also be used to actually detect smoke or fire. This is a fairly new development that is incredibly useful, especially in large warehouses and other large structures where traditional detection methods are difficult to employ.
According to National Fire Protection Agency, there are two categories of video detection:
•Video Image Smoke Detection (VISD)
• Video Image Flame Detection (VIFD)
New Regulations and Guidelines: To accommodate this new technology and method of fire detection, the NFPA has adopted a few standards fire alarm technicians must observe when installing video-based fire detection. These new regulations include:
1. NFPA 72, 2010, under the heading, Origin and Development of NFPA 72: Some of the more significant revisions in the 2007 edition addressed protection of fire alarm control units, personnel qualification, heat detector response time, smoke detector spacing, smoke detection in ducts, detectors that use multiple sensing inputs, video image smoke and flame detection, synchronization of visible notification appliances, exit marking audible notification appliances, tactile notification appliances, different types of protected premises fire alarm system, and in-building enhancement systems for firefighter radio communications.
2. Section 17.7.7.2, NFPA 72, 2010: Video image smoke detection systems shall comply with all of the applicable requirements of Chapters 1, 10, 14, 17, and 23 of this Code.
• NFPA 72 allows video data to be used for multiple functions, but in order to do this there must be separate connections.
3. 17.7.7.3, NFPA 72, 2010: Video signals generated by cameras that are components of video image smoke detection systems shall be permitted to be transmitted to other systems for other uses only through output connections provided specifically for that purpose by the video system manufacturer.
4. Section 17.7.7.4: All component controls and software shall be protected from unauthorized changes. All changes to the software or component settings shall be tested in accordance with Chapter 14.
For any further questions on Video Surveillance and Fire Application, simply contact ARK Systems at 1-800-995-0189 or click here today.
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January 5th, 2012
The security industry is always on the leading edge of the technological revolution. This is especially true when it comes to video surveillance or closed circuit television (CCTV), which has been around since the 1970s. Video cameras combine proven reliability, trackable success in security and operational applications, reasonable price points, exponential growth, and that all-important upside.
Over the years, video surveillance technology has continued to push the limits of technology, with such developments as IP-based systems, high definition video, and ever-increasingly sophisticated software.
Megapixel Security Cameras: High definition video, defined as a minimum resolution of 720-1,080 pixels, allows for a much clearer picture. And a clearer picture allows for better identification of individuals, the utilization of fewer cameras to cover a given area, special applications like license plate recognition (LPR), and much, much more!
HDcctv: This relatively new security innovation, which transmits uncompressed video without being encapsulated in TCP/IP, is built on technology pioneered for broadcast television. HDcctv boasts many of the same benefits as Megapixel Cameras while still permitting the use of conventional analog equipment.
High Quality Optics: The need for high quality optics is often forgotten and lost in the hype over HD video and storage capacity. But what good is a security camera without the right lens?
Video Management Systems and Software (VMS): With the expanding complexities and sophistication of video surveillance systems came the emergence of VMS, a unified user interface, and the open or nonproprietary platforms to facilitate interoperability. These solutions play an important role in several markets, including: include education, government, healthcare, transportation and even homeland security.
Storage Capacity: Today, data storage technology has finally evolved enough to meet demand. Yet, prices continue to fall.
Analytics: With the increasing and widespread use of video surveillance came the need to better track, analyze, and evaluate all the video these systems capture. Video analytics is a form of machine vision designed to eliminate the need to for human monitoring, because people are simply not capable of monitoring so much information on their own.
And this is all just the tip of the iceberg that is video surveillance technology!
For any further questions on Video Surveillance Technology, simply contact ARK Systems at 1-800-995-0189 or click here today.
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December 30th, 2011
A 2009 kidnapping incident at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s Mother Infant Unit now has the facility facing a $50,000 fine following a state oversight agency review of the unfortunate event.
Details of the 2009 Kidnapping:
Leanna Patricia Arzate took an infant from the mother’s room, while disguised as a nurse. Several hours later, the child was returned to his family, unharmed. Arzate was taken into custody and later sentenced to 11 years in prison.
“Of course we were relieved that, because of our existing security system and with the support of local law enforcement, we were able to recover the baby within hours and return it to its parents,” said Cottage Health System spokeswoman Janet O’Neill.
But the hospital realized there was still drastic room for improvement in regards to its security efforts.
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s New Security Initiative:
At the time of the 2009 kidnapping, Cottage Hospital had no dedicated security guards on the floor, leaving the screening and monitoring of visitors to the nursing staff. Following the kidnapping incident, the hospital implemented several security improvements, including a permanent security greeter in the Mother Infant unit and mandatory badges for everyone that enters the unit.
Access to visitors was has since been restricted to just two entrances, with additional security personnel posted at these locations.
California’s Reaction to the 2009 Kidnapping:
Following the above-mentioned incident, the California Department of Public Health launched a statewide review, penalizing 14 total facilities (including Cottage Hospital) for noncompliance with licensing requirements that caused, or were likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients.
For any further questions on Hospital Security Initiatives, simply contact ARK Systems at 1-800-995-0189 or click here today.
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