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New VP Europe at Sony
Basingstoke, Hampshire (UK)
Sony has appointed Katsunori
Yamanouchi as Vice President
of its Professional Solutions
Europe (PSE) business.
He replaces Naomi Climer,
who after 6 years leading the
PSE business, has been pro-
moted to a new global post
within the Sony group. Based
at the Sony Pictures studio
lot in L.A., Climer will lead the
development of a new global
business focused on the provi-
sion of media cloud services.
Yamanouchi joined Sony's
Professional Solutions Group
in 1989 and has gained in-
ternational management ex-
perience through roles in the
European, US and Asia-Pacific
regions. From 2003-09 he
successfully lead Sony's pro-
fessional business in the CIS,
MEA and German-speaking
territories. In 2009, he returned
to his native Japan, heading up
Planning & Marketing Dept.,
Content Creation Solutions
Division, a role in which he
took global responsibility for
the core product and solutions
developments underpinning
Sony's leadership in the pro-
fessional Broadcast and Media
industries.
Katsunori Yamanouchi said:
"I'm delighted to be joining the
European team and building
upon the business success
achieved by Naomi and the
PSE team. I know the passion
and dedication of our European
team to understanding our
customers and responding
with innovative technology and
services. I strongly believe we
can look forward to continuing
growth in our European B2B
business, both in our core es-
tablished markets and also new
segments including cinema,
video security and sports."
Katsunori Yamanouchi.
Indigovision aids medical clinic
Edinburgh, UK
One of Europe's most modern
health clinics in Kork, south
Germany, has commissioned
Indigovision
to incorporate the
latest surveillance technology into
its medical diagnosis system.
The new system, designed to
aid in the diagnosis and evaluation
of high dependency patients, was
jointly developed by Indigovision's
authorised partner Deininger
Elektronik GmbH and the Centre
itself.
The IP video system replaces
ageing analogue equipment that
was becoming maintenance inten-
sive and failure prone. Indigovi-
sion's ability to stream high-quality
video using minimum bandwidth
meant the clinic could install the
IP video solution on its existing IT
network. It ensures that staff are
able to provide monitoring of pa-
tients across a large suite of rooms
and carry out analysis work. As
Oliver Kiesel, Deininger's Project
Manager, explains, "Indigovision's
technology was chosen because of
its superb low-bandwidth video
quality, advanced audio capabilities
and flexible software licensing".
High dependency patients
can be carefully monitored with
high-quality, full-frame rate video
and audio; Indigovision's system
comes with a guarantee of no
dropped video frames under any
conditions, and fully synchronised
audio and video. According to
Indigovision, this ensures that the
clinicians do not miss anything
when analysing the video. Clinic
staff monitor the live cameras and
analyse recorded footage using
`Control Center', the user interface
to Indigovision's security manage-
ment solution SMS4.
Workstations can be located at
any point on the network thanks
to the fully distributed architec-
ture. `Control Center' is licensed
on an unrestricted basis, enabling
the clinic to install any number
of workstations for no more than
the cost of an entry-level PC.
Currently, eight workstations are
located at different nurse stations
around the clinic, each monitoring
eight rooms. Additional worksta-
tions are used for medical analysis.
All 64 patient rooms are
fitted with an IR-sensitive day/
night analogue PTZ camera,
with patient privacy options,
connected to the network via an
Indigovision encoder module
which converts the video feed to
digital using advanced compres-
sion techniques. Video and audio
from all the cameras is recorded on
Indigovision standalone network
video recorders (NVR-AS 3000s)
installed in the clinic's data centre.
Video clips can be easily exported
for permanent archive.
Bosch invests 310 million Euros in new R&D centre
Renningen, Germany
Following the laying of the
foundation stone in Renningen,
construction work on the Bosch
Group's
new research and advance
engineering centre has entered its
next phase.
All in all, the supplier of
technology and services is invest-
ing some 310 million euros in the
new location on the outskirts of
Stuttgart. "Renningen will be the
incubator for the innovations that
will shape the future of our com-
pany," said Dr. Volkmar Denner,
chairman of the board of manage-
ment of Robert Bosch GmbH,
and continued: "Research and
development create the technical
conditions for solving the great
challenges of our age, in line with
our strategic imperative `Invented
for life'." In his address, Win-
fried Kretschmann, the minister-
president of Baden-Württemberg,
stressed the crucial importance
of an innovative and highly
productive business sector for the
future of the state. "I believe it is
extremely important that centres
such as this one, at which highly
qualified technicians and engineers
come up with the products of
tomorrow, are located in Baden-
Württemberg," Kretschmann said.
By 2015, the Bosch Group
will have set up the new nerve
centre of its global research
network in Renningen. A total of
roughly 1,200 associates will re-
search into new materials, meth-
ods, and technologies, and de-
velop new systems, components,
and manufacturing processes.
On a plot covering some 100
hectares, 14 buildings are being
constructed. When completed,
they will offer a total floor space
of nearly 11,000 square metres.
In the current phase, following
the model of a university campus,
the buildings will be spaced gen-
erously over the northern part of
the site. In this way, Bosch wants
to create attractive workplaces
and a stimulating environment
in which creativity and collabora-
tion can flourish. "Innovations
require a functioning infrastruc-
ture, capable universities, and the
common will to doggedly pursue
new paths," Denner said. The de-
cision to build in Renningen was,
he added, a clear sign of com-
mitment to the Stuttgart region
and to Baden-Württemberg as a
technological location.
Software development for the
interconnection of devices and
systems is now a focal point of
research and advance engineering
work at Bosch. On the "internet
of things and services," more than
50 billion devices and systems
will be communicating with each
other by 2025. Bosch believes that
this interconnection is one of the
major technical and economic
developments of the future. In
light of the practically unlimited
possibilities of data exchange in
the future, Denner said: "We
stand at the threshold of a turn-
ing point in history, if not a new
industrial revolution." For Bosch,
this gives rise to a large number
of new business models, which
will form a network of extremely
diverse services. Bosch intends to
exploit this potential for growth,
Denner said.