Detection, Monitoring & Machine Vision

Product of the year award for Hikvision Darkfighter PTZ Video surveillance solutions provider Hikvision has been awarded the CCTV Product of the Year 2016 category in the PSI Premier Awards for its range of Darkfighter PTZ cameras. The ultra-low-light cameras provide clear colour images down to as low as 0.002 lux, in black and white to 0.0002 lux, and to 0 lux with IR. UK security industry magazine PSI makes its Premier Awards annually, with a reader vote honouring the products and distributors deem

Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, US is now benefiting from a state-of-the-art Parking Access and Revenue Control System (PARCS) from Designa, installed by Next Gen Parking as part of a redevelopment of airport facilities. It integrates automated entry lanes, dual-use exit lanes, licence plate recognition and commend VoIP intercom. TransCore automatic vehicle identification and an HID proximity card access complete the high technology solution.

UK professional services company Capita is to integrate Morphean’s software into its CloudVision platform, a hosted video surveillance and analytics service using automated technology to simplify security management and intelligence gathering. The system’s sophisticated analytics include cross line detection, which detects moving objects that cross a virtual line, and digital auto tracking, which automatically detects and follows moving objects such as people and vehicles. CloudVision also offers intrusi

Commuters heading north on Wellington’s urban motorway will now get a smoother trip as the new lane is fully opened and New Zealand’s first smart motorway is turned on in the northbound direction. Using variable speed limits, which will be adjusted in real time in response to changing traffic conditions, the smart motorway will pace vehicles to smooth the traffic flow. Officials say this will result in safer journeys with more predictable travel times. It will also free up nearby roads for better public

Siemens is to supply all the traffic control and monitoring systems for the twin-bore Liantang tunnel, which will link Hong Kong to the new Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai border crossing with mainland China. The five kilometre long tunnel forms part of a four-lane freeway link, extending to around eleven kilometres in total, and is intended to provide a direct connection for cross-border freight and passenger vehicle traffic between the Northeast New Territories and the Eastern part of Shenzhen on the Chinese

Vehicle flows and traffic issues across the West of Norway are now being controlled with the help of a video wall installed in Leikanger by Germany company Eyevis. The project, for Norway’s Public Roads Administration, uses 24 LED-lit 70-inch rear projection cubes with the split-controller netPIX and eyeCON software. Eyevis DLP-rear projection cubes provide HD resolution in 16:9 aspect ratio and are designed for 24/7 operation.

Videalert’s automated school safety system automates the enforcement of parking contraventions on keep clear zones outside schools, utilising a single digital high definition PTZ camera to automatically capture offending vehicles without requiring any manual intervention.

The new range of full HD number plate recognition cameras and controllers from UK company Vista CCTV now uses IP transmission rather than the traditional coax and grabber cards. This gives the advantage of plate recognition on wider lanes, higher quality images and increased read rates, providing a more flexible infrastructure to the system, says the company.