A WARRINGTON-based company has won a prestigious security industry award for a revolutionary CCTV facility.
Dedicated Micros – part of AD Group at Daresbury – received theIntegrated Security Product of the Year award for a feature which transforms its NetVu Connected CCTV solutions into an emergency messaging and mass notification system.
The award was announced at a high prfile ceremony in Birmingham in conjunction with the IFSEC 2009 exhibition.
When deployed the award-winning Emergency Messaging System (EMS) provides authorities, police and end-users with situational awareness and a two-way communication capability with specified assets should a major incident or a disaster occur.
There is also the potential to generate revenue through a Mass Notification System (MNS) and, simultaneously, to continue to perform the surveillance tasks required to secure any facility.
The system takes advantage of the inherent ability of all NetVu Connected systems to support a local display output and communicate over an IP network. Normally this is used by an operator to view scenes from a CCTV system or, if positioned in a public area, to provide a sense of security that they are being monitored and to act as a deterrent to criminals.
Now it is possible to offer the police, authorities and other users, through the already established CCTV infrastructure, a two-way communication system unlike any other mass market system.
As all of these NetVu Connected systems are addressable, the solution allows operators to identify all units in a given geographical area and pinpoint them for precise, directed, communications.
AD Group chief executive officer Mike Newton, who founded Dedicated Micros, said: “This is yet another accolade for our emergency messaging and notification capability, which first came to prominence when it won the Best Software Product category in the IP in Security Innovation Awards in January, and reflects the genuinely groundbreaking nature of this solution.”
Pictured, left to right are Guy Combrinck, of sponsors Panasonic, Mike Newton and broadcaster John Sargent.
CCTV company wins award
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