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October 5, 2006 |
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Dallmeier Electronic announced last week
that it had secured a multi-million-dollar contract to provide the
Venetian Macau Resort Casino with a complete digital casino
surveillance system. The first installation phase of the system
consists of both fixed and PTZ cameras to monitor the casino,
restaurants and the hotel. The system will also monitor cameras
installed in 2004 at the nearby Sands Macao Casino. Later phases of
the project will see additional video systems from nearby hotels on
Macau’s Cotai Strip tied in to the system.
The $1.8 billion Venetian Macau is a 10.5 million-square-foot property, with 3,000 suites and a 546,000-square-foot casino featuring 6,000 slot machines and 700 table games. “Given the size and scope of the project, the Dallmeier casino team designed a fully Digital Matrix (system) that provides high-resolution real-time video combined with the best possible data security and decentralized recording,” said Andy Birchner, vice president of sales for Dallmeier USA. Dallmeier said the Venetian chose its decentralized recording and archiving solution because it didn’t require peripherals and network components. The system’s decentralized recording is carried out by Dallmeier’s DIS-2/M modular audio/video recording and transmission systems. These units allow the resort to simultaneously record and transmit live video signals and replay recorded video without restriction and with full redundancy. Meanwhile, another security and surveillance firm, the Toshiba Surveillance & IP Video Products Group, is getting a technology boost in the form of a partnership with Cernium Corp. Cernium Corporation, a leader in intelligent video analytics, will collaborate with Toshiba on the development of software that integrates Toshiba’s IP cameras with Cernium’s advanced video analysis solutions for physical security. “Toshiba and Cernium jointly now offer to the marketplace integrated security systems solutions powered by Toshiba’s superb IP camera technology and Cernium’s dynamic software that provides much more effective and precise video surveillance information to maximize the value of each of our companies’ hardware and software components,” said Sergio Collazo, national sales & marketing manager, Toshiba Surveillance & IP Video Products Group. The first product of this alliance is a new Application Programming Interface (API) software module that adds powerful new video verification and consolidated security management control for Toshiba’s IP cameras to Cernium’s intelligent video analytics solutions including its Perceptrak and CheckVideo applications. The API module integrates technologies so that video surveillance, recording, storage, search and playback become a dynamic, integral component for instantaneous identification of potentially “suspicious” activity. This functionality not only enables the live viewing of video images, but also the recall of video data to be evaluated within the video analytics software. Event-activated stored video data, such as motion detection or contact closure, can also be recalled and searched within this application solution. The video analytics assists monitoring, detecting, reporting and recording people, vehicles and objects, and giving visual on-screen alarms based upon predetermined safety and security parameters that the system is programmed to recognize and highlight. “This brings video surveillance information into a more easy-to-use, management effective, fully-integrated system with superior capabilities,” Collazo said. “This is an important milestone for Cernium and Toshiba, and our customers, and the distributors, integrators and dealers who have the confidence in us and recommend our products.” —Andy Holtmann |
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