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Milestone retains leading VMS status
Copenhagen, Denmark
Milestone Systems
has main-
tained its position as the number
one vendor for total VMS global
market share in the latest report
from IMS Research.
IMS Research has recently
published the ninth edition of
its report: World Market for
CCTV and Video Surveillance
Equipment. The results are based
on data from 2011. It contains
comprehensive information on all
suppliers providing analogue and
digital video surveillance compo-
nents such as cameras, recording
solutions, video encoders and
more.
"Milestone Systems has
retained the number one global
position in the VMS software
category in 2011. In addition to
maintaining its position as the
leading vendor of VMS, Milestone
also grew faster than the total
VMS market in 2011, recording
22 percent year-over-year revenue
growth versus approximately 17
percent market growth last year,"
says Gary Wong, Senior Analyst at
IMS Research.
Milestone Systems has repeated-
ly achieved the top VMS provider
ranking in market analyses over
many years and is recognised in the
industry for its success in leading
the expansion of open platform
video surveillance software.
Lars Thinggaard, President
and CEO at Milestone Systems,
says: "Through our ambitious
strategy and execution, Milestone
continues with great progress for
our company and the industry as
a whole. We consistently listen
to market demands and explore
new ways of using open platform
video management software as
the core of security installations.
Milestone is well positioned
to further reap market share,
with additional offices opened
around the world to service
our ecosystem of partners and
customers."
Lars Thinggaard, President
and CEO at Milestone Systems.
Gas lines rely on Geutebruck
Windhagen, Germany
Gasunie
operates one of the larg-
est high pressure, gas pipeline grids
in Europe and its security relies
on Geutebruck technology. The
system is maintained by local in-
tegrators Alphatron and Strukton
Systems.
Gasunie covers over 15,000
kilometres of pipeline in the Neth-
erlands and northern Germany,
dozens of sites and around 1,300
gas receiving stations. The sites
vary in function and size so their
security infrastructure ranges from
simple fencing to sophisticated
fence systems with perimeter
detection systems and CCTV.
"The fundamental requirement
at every site is that unauthorised
intruders are always identified
as fast as possible at the perim-
eter," explains Reiner Woldring,
Gasunie's corporate security
advisor. "We need camera pictures
for verifying the alarm reports
which may need to be followed
up by the police or another
special guarding service," reports
Woldring. "For this we need good
quality cameras, reliable trans-
mission and storage of camera
pictures as well as user-friendly
functions for calling up the pic-
tures in the alarm centre."
The 25 sites monitored by
CCTV all have IP systems con-
trolled from the control centre at
Gasunie's Groningen HQ through
a Geutebruck Geviscope platform
fully integrated into the company's
own management system. "Nowa-
days we work with a lot fewer
cameras per site" explains Herman
von Hierden, from Gasunie's elec-
trotechnics, instrumentation and
process control department, "and
most of them can be remote con-
trolled from the centre." Control
centre staff call up camera images
in real time and have immediate
access to alarm recordings. Thanks
to Geutebruck's bandwidth man-
agement even remote sites with
low bandwidth now have CCTV
and automatically controlled
lighting.
Protecting internationally
critical infrastructure means being
prepared for every eventually so
Gasunie has a full back-up security
centre at an undisclosed location.
"Whenever necessary this second
centre can be used to take over all
duties," assures Woldring.
Megapixel solution improves processes and security
San Juan Capistrano, Ca (USA)
The Ellwood Group, Inc. is
deploying over 250 Iqeye HD
megapixel cameras and growing,
in order to monitor and improve
manufacturing processes, in ad-
dition to meeting security needs.
Compass Network Services is the
integrator for this on-going project.
Headquartered in Ellwood
City, Pennsylvania, EGI produces
engineered, heavy metal sections
for capital specialty equipment
manufacturers in the United States
and around the world.
"We have moved from a test
environment over five years ago
to now having megapixel cameras
deployed at about 20 different lo-
cations in our various plants," said
Eugene Spadafore, Senior Network
Administrator, EGI. "We started
out asking, `How can we improve
quality for process X?' Rather
quickly we saw the value of closely
monitoring manufacturing with
the Iqeye cameras and now it's a
standard in our environment, we
use the cameras at every facility."
Spadafore's division has devel-
oped a de facto standard, scope
of work, and set of specifications
for how to successfully deploy the
Iqeye cameras in each new location.
"All the cameras are riding on our
network, so in order to maintain
consistency and best practices, we
elected to be the overall project
manager for camera deployment. As
one location or division discovered
the benefits of this kind of manufac-
turing process monitoring both
live and post-event he, too, would
request cameras. We wanted to be
able to control the roll-out in an
organised, efficient way."
"When making a single prod-
uct that can cost tens of thousands
of dollars, it is critical that we
have the capability to record the
manufacturing process and if we
experience an issue downstream,
we're able to go back and find the
root cause," Spadafore explained.
"If we can quickly solve manufac-
turing problems, the system pays
for itself in short order."
In addition to the 10 manufac-
turing facilities that now use Iqeye
HD megapixel cameras for process
monitoring, additional cameras at
those locations are also used for
monitoring overall security as well.
"I estimate we use our cameras
75 percent for process monitor-
ing and 25 percent for general
security," said Spadafore.
EGI stores video at each loca-
tion anywhere from three days
to three months, depending on
the manufacturing process being
recorded. The majority of the
cameras are 2.1 megapixel Iqeye
Sentinel and 700-series cameras,
the newest utilising H.264 com-
pression.