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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX Say cheese! Today’s camera systems do more than snap pictures or videos tours of preset views and automated multistep alarm rentegrated vision systems play a legitimate role in plant sponse. The standards-based software integrates with thirdmaintenance, security and personnel safety, although some party process control software and access control systems. new surveillance technologies raise privacy concerns. When bandwidth is a concern, IVC systems can send imMaintenance inspections: Inspecting pipelines is easier ages only when requested or when an event occurs. With with a camera. ULC Robotics develops such video inspection integrated motion detection, the camera can aim where an equipment. For instance, its PRX250 Gas Camera enables alarm occurs, save the video locally and transmit a single internal inspection of live gas mains to locate sources of water image through the IVC Relay Server to the operator, who infiltration or leaks. It combines a high-resolution color camcan request additional images or view the stored video. era, ultra-bright LEDs and a motorized, operator-controlled Surveillance gone wild: Talking and lisvariable-speed feeder with a self-centering detening cameras have raised the ire of privacy vice. The camera operates in forward and readvocates. Closed-circuit television (CCTV) verse, and the image is displayed on a monitor. Talking and integrated with a speaker allows control room For sewer pipes, RapidView’s IBAK PANlistening operators to speak to those being monitored. ORAMO 3D optoscanner integrates two cameras have Towns in England are using these CCTV digital cameras with 186° wide-angle lenses raised the ire systems from Bosch Security Systems to halt into a housing and produces hemispherical littering, disperse gangs and interrupt illegal images that, when put together, form 360° of privacy or antisocial activity. Plants can stop unsafe spherical images. The scanner travels at 70 ft. advocates. practices witnessed on camera, announce per minute in forward or reverse, and transthreats or problems seen in the vicinity, or mits real-time images for analysis. The operacomfort those in distress before first responders arrive. tor can stop, turn and zoom the scanner and perform comListening CCTV devices are here. Safety Dynamics surputer-aided measurement of the position and size of objects veillance systems in urban high-crime areas have microor defects. The data can be stored on DVDs or other storage phones that recognize the sound of gunshots, triangulate media and can be shared with other information systems. the source and turn the camera on the shooter. In a plant, Plant security and safety: Surveillance cameras can this concept has a place in perimeter security or remote famonitor critical equipment and gauges, gates, parking lots, cilities to triangulate gunshots or explosions. docks and other sensitive areas. Cameras deter people from Taking the idea further, U.K.-based Safe School Techtampering, theft and unsafe behaviors, and watch for suspinologies (SST) developed ImpartialView, a CCTV camera cious activity to accelerate calls for assistance or emergencies and listening device that sees, hears and archives school should an employee become hurt or incapacitated. incidents to deter wrongdoers and preserve both sides of a Industrial Video and Control (IVC) manufactures Interstory should an incident or allegation occur. The potential net-based video devices for industrial applications, including for industrial applications of this approach to surveillance is hazardous, harsh, dusty environments. IVC camera systems debatable. As with any video or audio recording device, pricombine camera-management software with Internet protovacy is a concern, and associated laws and regulations must col (IP) cameras that authorized users can control from any be taken into account. networked PC or client device. The video can be accessed via LAN, WAN, VPN, Internet and cellular networks. IVC View Station software features customizable screens, E-mail Contributing Editor Sheila Kennedy, managing director of simultaneous view through multiple cameras, programmed Additive Communications, at Sheila@addcomm.com. For more information, see: www.ulcrobotics.com www.rapidview.com April 2008 I www.ivcco.com www.boschsecurity.com www.PLANTSERVICES.com www.safetydynamics.net www.safeschooltechnologies.com 33 http://www.ulcrobotics.com http://www.ivcco.com http://www.safetydynamics.net http://www.rapidview.com http://www.boschsecurity.com http://www.safeschooltechnologies.com http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com

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