2012 will be a great year for the UK when it comes to attention and publicity. The London 2012 Olympics 27th july – 12th August is expected to create 75,000 business opportunities. Games-related contracts won by more than 1,500 UK companies are valued to £5 billion. 800,000 people are expected to use public transport to travel to the Games on the busiest day and more than one million people will visit the Olympic Stadium.

The security industry is moving towards a business model where services become more important than products; Security-as-a-Service. Hosted video is at the forefront of this evolution – the market for video surveillance as a service is set to double over the next three years – but both access control and intruder alarms are expected to follow.

Transportation is part of nearly everybody's daily life; people use vehicles for work and leisure travel, schools dispatch buses to pick up students and send them home, logistics companies use vehicles to deliver goods. we can say the very fabric of society – people and assets – are being transported from one place to another every minute of every day. Securing them is obviously extremely important. A mobile DVR has one of its prime roles in helping to secure such situations, protecting people flow and assets and ensuring the safety of traffic environments.

With the introduction of IP cameras, and especially through the development of megapixel- and HDTV cameras, a need for a new way to determine how to fulfill operational requirements has emerged. In the following text, I will propose a model to bridge operational requirements to modern surveillance video and IP cameras.

Solar power is becoming increasingly popular and more and more solar power plants are installed every year, but solar panels are a costly and vulnerable commodity. Good security is therefore a must, but more often than not these parks are located in isolated areas, making perimeter protection a challenge. To protect their investment many solar park owners opt for a security system based on thermal imaging cameras.