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Senai International Airport, one of Malaysia’s fastest growing airport hubs has installed IndigoVision’s IP Video technology to provide site-wide CCTV surveillance. The Airport is located at the southern gateway of the Malaysian Peninsula in one of the country’s strategic development zones, the newly launched Iskandar Development Region. The airport has both a passenger terminal and a separate logistics and cargo complex, with plans to handle 2 million tons of cargo a year and become a regional logistics airport for South East Asia.

A completely new surveillance system has been installed in the passenger terminal together with an upgrade to the existing analog CCTV system in the cargo complex. The airport has a good IT network infrastructure and wanted a CCTV system that would be easily expanded in the future, and IP Video was the obvious choice. The system was designed and installed by IndigoVision’s local partner ICSS Electronics Malaysia Sdn Bhd.

Commenting on the project, Mr Kennedy Ayu, Airport General Manager said, “Following an extensive in-house technical and user evaluation of competing systems, the Airport chose IndigoVision’s IP Video technology. The video quality is better than the other systems which we had reviewed, and the flexibility, ease of use and functions of the ‘Control Center’ software impressed the evaluation team.”

‘Control Center’ is IndigoVision’s video and alarm management software and is at the heart of their complete end-to-end IP Video solution. The software allows operators to view live and recorded video from any camera at any point on the network. This flexibility was exploited at Senai International Airport with the positioning of several ‘Control Center’ workstations around the airport and was one of the factors for the airport choosing the IndigoVision solution. The ‘Control Center’ software coupled with IndigoVision Networked Video Recorders (NVRs) provide Senai International Airport up to 30 days of video recording and a suite of tools for fast search and analysis of recorded footage.

Over 40 new cameras including 13 Pelco Spectra PTZ domes were added to the original analog system in the cargo complex. Each camera is connected to an IndigoVision 8000 transmitter module which converts the analog camera feed to MPEG-4 DVD quality digital video for transmission over the network. The existing cargo CCTV system was interfaced to the IP Video system via IndigoVision 8000 10-way rack-mounted transmitters connected to the network. This allowed the original investment in the cameras and local control room equipment to be maintained and at the same time allowed full control and monitoring at the passenger terminal security control room. The resulting hybrid system demonstrates that IP Video can be an ideal solution for upgrading existing analog CCTV systems with the benefits of networked video.

IndigoVision’s advanced compression technology ensures high-quality video can be streamed over the network with minimal bandwidth requirements. The existing IT network could therefore accommodate the IP Video system alongside the existing IT infrastructure without increasing network capacity. In addition ICSS installed an IP-based access control system on the same network, demonstrating that IP networks are increasingly becoming the future-proof platform for security systems.

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The movies were an affront to God, encouraging vice and Western-style decadence. So in August 1978, four Shiite revolutionaries locked the doors of the Cinema Rex in the Iranian city of Abadan and set the theater on fire. The firefighters were late, and nearby hydrants did not work. The victims’ shrieks could be heard while firefighters and police stood outside, watching helplessly. At least 377 people — perhaps many more — were burned alive.

Never heard of the Cinema Rex fire? You’re not alone. But the tragedy is more than an obscure, grisly memory from the run-up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. It’s also the second-deadliest terrorist attack in modern history — deadlier even than airline bombings such as Pan Am Flight 103 — and one that offers many lessons about the changing threat of terrorism today. Since Sept. 11, 2001, most Americans have worried about what terrorism experts call “spectaculars”: massive, ingenious and above all theatrical extravaganzas such as al-Qaida’s attack on the twin towers, its simultaneous 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and its brazen 2000 suicide-boat assault on the USS Cole in Yemen. But perhaps we should be more worried about the Cinema Rex attack.

Although Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants still dream of spectaculars, a quick glance at the terrorist acts committed since 9/11 suggests that perpetrators are going low-tech, too. As the survivors of attacks in London, Madrid and the Russian town of Beslan will confirm, such tried-and-true terrorism methods as low-tech bombs, hostage-taking and arson have tremendous appeal to jihadists. Indeed, the State Department’s annual survey on terrorism, released last week, notes that “in 2006 most attacks were perpetrated by terrorists applying conventional fighting methods that included using bombs and weapons, such as small arms.” While the United States and other countries have devoted lots of attention to bracing themselves for the big one, we’ve spent far too little time considering what we can learn from more mundane — and more repeatable — terrorist attacks that can inflict mass casualties.

A look at the various suspects arrested in recent years for crimes linked to radical Islamic terrorism in the United States suggests that the immediate threat we face is angry amateurs, not poised, professional killers such as Mohamed Atta, the leader of al-Qaida’s 9/11 team. Most of those arrested do appear to have meant Americans harm, whether by conducting attacks on their own or by raising money for other would-be killers. But these plots were rarely well-developed, and the operators were at best enthusiastic novices.

Consider the case of one of the few Americans actually convicted of terrorism since 9/11: Iyman Faris, an Ohio truck driver and naturalized U.S. citizen born in Kashmir who pleaded guilty in 2003, plotted to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge by severing its cables with blowtorches. Scary, sure — but a completely absurd way to destroy the bridge, whose many cables are more than a foot in diameter.

These homegrown terrorists don’t necessarily share the zeal and anonymity of a seasoned professional such as Atta. Many of those arrested on terrorism charges have a prison record and thus are known to law enforcement officials.

One of the most advanced post-9/11 plots, against the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles and U.S. military facilities in the area, involved four former inmates who began their plotting while behind bars. Former prisoners rarely make ideal comrades; many would sell their own mother for a small reward.

But it’s a mistake to write off the angry amateurs. They’re not terribly skilled, but it doesn’t take that much skill to kill dozens of people — as the shootings at Virginia Tech so tragically demonstrate. Attacks such as the Cinema Rex fire are easily repeated, and they don’t take the years of onerous training and planning that spectaculars demand.

So how can we stop low-tech terrorism? Unfortunately, better defenses can solve only part of the problem. We should defend the White House, nuclear plants and other high-profile targets that would tempt terrorists to stage a spectacular. But we can’t defend every movie theater, synagogue, local government building or shopping mall without spending hundreds of billions of dollars and turning the United States into an armed camp.

That leaves offense — at home as well as abroad. The FBI has tried to penetrate cells of would-be terrorists, often opening itself to criticism for spending enormous resources on disrupting what seems to be a bunch of bungling blowhards. The bureau should keep at it. Of course, sometimes a ballyhooed terrorism arrest will look foolish when the media reveal the plotters’ amateurish plans and backgrounds. But aggressive law enforcement can help prevent these amateurs from becoming something more deadly.

Perhaps the best way to fight low-tech terrorists is through community support. For instance, the FBI began to focus on the “Lackawanna Six,” who pleaded guilty in 2003 to providing material support to al-Qaida, after receiving an anonymous letter from a member of the Yemeni community in Lackawanna, N.Y., near Buffalo. But to get these sorts of tips, Arab Americans and Muslim Americans need to see the police as protectors, not persecutors.

In this respect, Europe provides a cautionary tale. Governments there, particularly France’s, have spent more time trying to shake down their Muslim communities for intelligence than they’ve spent reassuring and integrating them. The result? An angry, unassimilated Muslim minority whose fringes produce terrorists while its mainstream often resists police efforts to find them. The U.S. government has a fine line to walk here, too. But when in doubt, we should jettison intrusive measures in favor of those likely to win sustained support from Muslim Americans. Finally, the government needs to talk coolly and calmly to the American people. Complete protection against arson, shootings and low-level bombings is impossible. Americans will have to accept a certain amount of risk in their daily lives, recognizing that effective government policies can reduce the threat but not eliminate it. Public opinion is the fulcrum of counterterrorism. Terrorists — high-tech and low-tech alike — rely on overreaction from a rattled public and government to do their dirty work. We shouldn’t indulge them.

About the author: Daniel L. Byman is director of Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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On 18 April 2007, the KPTV Fox News Channel 12 in Portland, Oregon, broadcast an evening news segment on Milestone Systems IP video solutions, as a means to help improve campus security.  The video management software provides full overview of widespread geographical locations so security officers can watch every corner of a campus at once - and respond faster.  Milestone solutions manage unlimited numbers of cameras, and can send alerts based on motion in restricted areas, or be integrated with lighting and access control systems, monitoring gates and doors, matching video with ID numbers, for example. 

Milestone IP video systems are installed in hundreds of educational institutions in many countries.  See some of these case studies in the Customers section of this website.

Eric Fullerton, President of Milestone Systems Inc. is interviewed as part of the news segment.

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A biometric-based airport access control system for airport employees and officials is soon going to be a reality at major airports in the country. In a bid to remove possibilities of human error in monitoring movement of airport staff within airport premises, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has laid down basic minimum specifications for a biometric-based access control system and has directed major airports to put it in place. “We have fixed the basic minimum specifications for these equipment and have asked around 17-18 big airports to have them in place. The respective airport operators will procure these systems and install them at their own cost,” BCAS Commissioner of Security S R Mehra said. Under the system, BCAS has proposed a Secure Contactless Card having a biometric template stored within, allowing multi-factor authentication. The card will have details like the fingerprints or iris of an individual and will ensure that only authorised personnel get access inside airports. “The doors and access points will be open only to authorised personnel after they have been identified by the system. Each entry and exit would be logged centrally for future reference and the system would also be able to generate any level of information required on the persons available in the building at any given point of time,” a BCAS official said, adding that the system would provide comprehensive historical data of all personnel who have visited the building. Currently, entry and exit gates are manned by CISF officials, and IDs of all personnel entering airport buildings are physically checked. Personnel working at airports are currently issued simple plastic ID cards for accessing the secured areas in the airport, using a colour-coding scheme. BCAS officials said that the current system ensures that there is no mechanism to monitor the movement of personnel inside the premises and no means of knowing whether an individual is on duty. Further, there is the possibility of unauthorised individuals entering the premises using forged, stolen, or expired identification cards or gaining access because of their familiarity with the security procedures, they added.

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A law protecting library records’ confidentiality has hamstrung officials pursuing a man who reportedly masturbated among the books at the Neenah Public Library earlier this month. City Attorney James Godlewski said the library can’t turn a surveillance video of the man over to police without a court order.

“That is state law,” Godlewski said Monday. “The library is merely following what state law says.”

The Wisconsin attorney general’s office said in a Nov. 27 opinion that library surveillance videos fall under the state’s public library records confidentiality law. The law prevents libraries from releasing records that indicate a library user’s identity unless someone’s life or safety is at risk.

A library patron saw the April 2 incident and reported it to a reference librarian, who called police. But the suspect left before he was identified. He was described as 25 to 30 years old, 5 feet, 10 inches tall and about 200 pounds with short blond or brown hair.

Library Director Stephen Proces said he wants the suspect caught. He has shown the surveillance video to library employees and directed them to call police if they see the man enter the library again.

“We think that this guy has been here before doing something similar but not as graphic,” Proces said. “This may be someone who is going from library to library doing this.”

Police Chief Ray Appel said investigators would seek a court order to view the surveillance tapes.

But he also said the offense might amount to an ordinance violation, not a criminal charge handled by the district attorney’s office and heard by a circuit court judge. If that’s the case, it’s not clear whether a municipal court judge would have the authority to order the video released, Appel said.

“This is the first time we have ever run across this,” the chief said.

Alan Lee, the assistant attorney general who wrote the Nov. 27 opinion, said he would recommend the confidentiality law be amended to allow library staff to provide surveillance tapes to police when criminal activity is suspected or witnessed.

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Hoboken, New Jersey-based IP Video systems manufacturer IndigoVision is providing the technology behind a new Homeland Security system for New London in Connecticut. New London is a thriving coastal city with a number of important and sensitive military, nuclear power generation and industrial sites. Local security is therefore of prime importance to the Police Department, who are working in partnership with the Coast Guard and other agencies to ensure the community remains secure and to enable timely emergency response.

The CCTV system, designed and installed by IndigoVision’s local partner New England Communications Systems, covers an area of 6.5 square miles and uses a wireless IP network based on Motorola’s Canopy system. ‘Control Center’, IndigoVision’s enterprise video and alarm management software, allows CCTV operators to view live and recorded video from any of the remote cameras. The flexibility of the IP Video technology means that any component in the system can be located at any point on the network – this provides a scalable and redundant solution. The New London system has exploited this flexibility by locating ‘Control Center’ workstations around the town and waterfront, creating three independent control rooms all with the ability to view live or recorded video from any camera. Recording is achieved using IndigoVision’s Network Video Recorders (NVRs) which are again distributed around the network to minimize bandwidth use and provide a fault tolerant recording solution with automatic backup in the event of an NVR failure.

Commenting on the flexibility of the IP Video system, Captain Edwards of New London Police said “Last July we hosted the East Coast’s largest fireworks display with over 200,000 people attending. We set up a temporary command center at the Fire HQ using the ‘Control Center’ software on a laptop, with the video feeds projected onto a large screen. This simple set up worked very well and helped us to monitor the event locally.”

Each camera is connected to an IndigoVision 8000 transmitter/receiver module. The 8000 converts the camera signal to high-quality digital video for transmission over the wireless network. IndigoVision’s advanced compression technology ensures minimum bandwidth usage and helps maximize the available NVR storage.

There are currently plans to extend the system further to cover more of the waterfront and to share the video feeds with other agencies. As the system is based on a wireless IP network adding additional remote cameras and ‘Control Center’ workstations is simple and cost-effective due to the scalability of the overall solution implemented at New London.

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