Secure our Schools - SAFE System

Violence in the K12 school market is rising unfortunately. Schools are faced with trying to deter and mitigate the problems. These are the visible recent incidents at schools:

The COPS Office is pleased to announce the availability of funding under the COPS Secure Our Schools (SOS) 2011 grant program. Approximately $13 million will be available under SOS to provide funding to law enforcement agencies to assist with the development of school safety resources and provide improved security at schools and on school grounds.


Specifically, this program will fund up to 50% of the total cost to implement one or more of the following options: placement and use of metal detectors, locks, lighting, and other deterrent measures; security assessments; anti-violence initiatives; security training of personnel and students; coordination with local law enforcement; and/or any other measure that may provide a significant improvement in security. Applicants will be required to demonstrate a comprehensive approach to preventing school violence.

The SOS solicitation will open on May 2, 2011, and there will be two application deadlines for the program during the six week solicitation period. The first application deadline for priority consideration will be May 25, 2011, while the second and final deadline for all applications will be June 8, 2011.

Please let us know if we can provide help to any of your K12 clients.

Surveillance for power plants

Regulatory groups are enforcing mandates on electrical producing power stations across our great nation today. The enforcement agencies include DHS and the NRC. The mandate includes upgrades to the perimeter of the site as well as monitoring of the overall plant and all entrances and exits. Our firm has been involved with 5 stations helping them to choose the right products and migrate from analog to digital technology.

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If you have a project that you could use help with, please contact us - 1-888-297-8831 ext 902.

Easy migration from analog to IP system with existing coaxial cable

The Panasonic BY-HPE11KTA makes it easy to migrate from analog to network cameras. It is a coaxial to ethernet converter capable of implementing long distance, high speed digital data transmission on existing coaxial cabling with low setup costs.

With the built-in PoE function, the BY-HPE11KTA is able to supply power to Panasonic network cameras, which eliminates the need for installing power outlets for the cameras. The coaxial - LAN converter can be used for distances of up to 500m (1,640 feet 5 inches)*1 for PoE connections, and 2 km (6,561 feet 8 inches) for non-PoE connections. (When used with RG-6/U coaxial cable.)

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H.264 Problems - Reflection in Field of View

Notice the table surface moving. Although the table is static there is motion due to the reflection. The phenomenon of motion in the reflection of this table is known as the I frame interval. This is one downside to H264 and MPEG4 that professional video technicians need to be aware of.

The easy fix is to go to the camera menu and lower the interval to 1 second. You typically will not see it then. You can then keep decreasing it if needed. The timing of the pattern shift on the table points to a H264 phenomena sometimes call pixel shift.

Modern video compression schemes rely on a reference frame (I-Frame in H.264) and sub frames (P-Frames). The sub frames do not contain full picture data, just picture change data. The total picture gets updated at I-Frame time and any pixels that were off or changed will look like jitter or shifted on the screen I believe if you check the H.264 refresh interval setting (I-Frame refresh setting), it will correspond to the actual "pulsing" effect of the shiny random patterned table.

This effect can be reduced by setting the H.264 setting to frame rate priority and bandwidth to unlimited and making sure quality setting is set high. This utilizes the highest bandwidth because more of the picture is getting changed at each P-Frame time. If you have the bandwidth, you can try out other settings - frame rate, higher bit rate, etc.

Many systems we design have plenty of bandwidth available so the use JPEG is preferred which has many good video features and avoids some of these anomalies thus reducing tech time.

Free Exhibit Hall Pass to ISC West

Please be our guest at the International Security Conference on April 6, 7 and 8 in Las Vegas.

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If you would like a tour of the booth please email or call  us to make an appointment. Thank you.

The Price is Right!

The NV200 also features internal storage up to 4 terabytes. It is the perfect entry level product for retail or migration from analog type system. Contact us if you need assistance.

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Add the WJ-NV200 with 1, 2 or 4 Terabytes of storage and receive up to an additional $600 rebate for a 16 camera purchase totalling $1,160 in savings.