19th September 2006
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PRESS RELEASE |
| 19th September 2006
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Denbigh High School in North Wales expects to save more than £5,000 per year through the use of eight Axis network cameras in a new IP-Surveillance system designed to cut vandalism and theft by intruders. The system was installed by IP-Surveillance specialist and Axis Premier Partner MCW Group during last month and has already enabled the school to catch some would-be thieves on camera and pass relevant high quality images to the police.
Denbigh High School’s new IP-Surveillance system uses three AXIS 225 Fixed Dome Network Cameras, three AXIS 216 Fixed Dome Network Cameras and two AXIS 214 PTZ Network Cameras to help secure key areas inside the school, the perimeter of the site, the playing fields and the flat roofs of its buildings.
MCW Group installed the two Axis pan/tilt/zoom network cameras in positions, so that they could scan not only the expansive grounds but also cover the school’s roofs to discourage pupils or intruders climbing up onto them.
The AXIS 216 FD cameras were deployed in the key internal areas including a corridor and two cloak rooms to tackle incidents of unacceptable behaviour. These cameras benefit from use of Power over Ethernet (PoE) so that no additional electrical cabling had to be laid to the cameras because power could reach them via the same data cable which carries images from the camera to a dedicated and secure server. High speed Ethernet is available around the whole of the main school building and was very easy to link to, for use by these Axis network cameras. It is estimated that the use of PoE cut the overall installation cost by £660. One AXIS 225 FD Network Cameras is installed at the main reception, a second in the playground and another elsewhere in the school grounds.
MCW linked these eight Axis cameras to Milestone XProtect Basis+ video management system installed on a Pentium 4 HP Workstation with a specification of 3.4GHz, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM running Microsoft Windows XP Professional. Total cost of purchase, installation, testing as well as support and maintenance for five years of all products, software and workstation was under £18,000. The school anticipates return on investment in less than three years.
In tests MCW found that nearly 90 per cent of hard disc drive capacity (approximately 140GB) is used up in the current configuration in seven days. So images are stored on the HP Workstation for seven days and then transferred to CD-R for a further 31 days before being destroyed if there is no requirement to keep any images due to investigation of a reported incident.
MCW Group tendered alongside two CCTV-focused providers and won the tender in early July. Work was completed in mid-August 2006.
Mr Ian Morris, bursar at Denbigh High School explained: “We were looking for a future-proof system and the IP-based solution that MCW proposed answered that requirement very effectively. Frankly we saw CCTV as a technology of the past and we wanted a twenty first century system that could grow with us and would not be declared obsolete or un-maintainable a few years from now. The inherent power of IP-based surveillance was clear to us.”
Ioan Jones, communications account manager, MCW Group, commented: “Denbigh High School is a large site and as such it is too expensive to completely secure its perimeter with high fences for example. As a result it was vulnerable to trespass and associated vandalism and theft problems. The surveillance system we put in enabled the school to secure the key areas of the grounds and perimeter thereby alleviating these problems almost immediately.”
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Notes to editors
1 Axis Communications is the leading player in the network camera market with 47 per cent market share in the EMEA region according to industry analyst house IMS Research in its latest market report entitled ‘The World Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment 2005 Edition’ published in October 2005. The network camera market was worth $54.7m in 2004 and is set to grow by 50 per cent per year over the next five years to reach a value of $360.6m in 2009, in EMEA alone, according to the same report.
About Axis
Axis increases the value of network solutions. The company is an innovative market leader in network video and print servers. Axis' products and solutions are focused on applications such as security surveillance, remote monitoring and document management. The products are based on in-house developed chip technology, which is also sold to third parties.
Axis was founded in 1984 and is listed on the Stockholmsbörsen (XSSE: AXIS) Attract 40-list in Sweden. Axis operates globally with offices in 17 countries and in cooperation with distributors and system integrators in 70 countries. Markets outside Sweden account for more than 95% of sales. Information about Axis can be found at
www.axis.com.
About MCW Group
MCW Group Technical IT Services Division provides complete IT technical solutions to businesses including:
· IT Technical Consultancy for IT projects - for example Microsoft Server 2003 Migrations, Citrix Technologies, System upgrades and Security reviews
· Mobile and remote access solutions
· IT Communications including the latest IP Telephony systems and Voice over IP
· IP integrated security using IP camera technology - the new generation of CCTV
· IT support - for servers, networks and desktop equipment
For more information please go to http://www.mcwgroup.co.uk/
For further information about Axis Communications in the UK and Ireland, please contact:
Steve Gorski, managing director, Axis Communications (UK) Limited
Tel: 0870 162 0047. Email: steve.gorski@axis.com
For all UK and Ireland Axis media enquiries, please contact:
Miles Clayton /Simon Bennett, Agility PR Limited
Tel: 01438 310 139/5. Email: miles@agilitypr.co.uk /
simon@agilitypr.co.uk
For all MCW Group enquiries, please contact:
Ioan Jones, communications account manager, MCW Group Limited
Tel: 01978 340 351. Email: ioan@mcwgroup.co.uk