Russian café installs facial recognition on Axxonsoft platform for optimal customer experience

Retail

Boulvar is the largest café in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which is the regional hub of Kamchatka Peninsula and located in the easternmost reaches of Russia. The café is split into four distinct zones: a romantic zone (also referred to as the coffeehouse), an Italian zone, a Japanese zone, and a bar. As any restaurant or café grows and flourishes, it accumulates regular customers who require particu

US fast-food chain Chick-fil-A improves service quality with Envysion platform

Retail

Envysion, the Managed Video as a Service (MVaaS) provider, announced that Chick-fil-A has selected Envysion as a video provider. Chick-fil-A, a leading quick-service chicken restaurant with more than 1,600 locations in the United States, will use Envysion to improve operations, training and customer service.

Coeur d'Alene Casino in Idaho upgrades to digital using Pelco

Located 45 minutes outside Spokane, Washington, the Coeur d'Alene Casino started as a tribal bingo hall in the early 1990s and has since grown into a casino, hotel, golf course, and convenience store.

Oklahoma casinos opt for Axis cams

As the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma began to expand its casino operations, tribal leaders realized that many of their facilities had outgrown the limitations of their existing analog surveillance technology. In looking to modernize their security system, they sought an open IP-based solution that would provide secure, evidentia?ry-quality video recordings, operate at 30 frames per second and would b

Danish bank enhances overall security with March Networks solution

March Networks announced that Danske Bank Group, Denmark's largest financial institution and a top-100 world bank, has selected the company's video management software and hybrid recorders for advanced security at its corporate facilities in Copenhagen. The upgrade expands the March Networks solution the bank is currently using in more than 150 retail banking branches across Norway and Sweden, and

Making HD less of a gamble for casinos

Gaming

Under current economic conditions, figuring out a cost-effective and future-proof technology migration path is not easy for any industry. “Because so many operators are still using analog, it is very difficult to integrate HD into the current infrastructure,” said Scott Paul, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Pelco by Schneider Electric. “A cost-effective means of transporting the existing analog

Equip casinos with better eyes on the floor

Gaming

Casino operators will not change their entire systems simply to implement HD capability. Hybrid video solutions are the logical path to provide a phased migration from SD to HD systems. The key to any upgrade/migration starts with careful planning for the design. “If not done properly with a plan in place, you can run into quite a few problems,” said Douglas Florence, Business Development Director

Chinese auto parts group enhances work flow using Axis solution

The Weichai Industrial Park had incorporated monitoring systems from different manufacturers. Thus the entire industrial park consisted of four sets of monitoring systems operating independently, causing many problems for system maintenance and expansion. The laboratories of the industrial park required a comprehensive video surveillance system, that must be able to uniformly manage the existing m

Watching over gaming tables with HD

Gaming

Faced with challenges such as false claims, theft, game scams, money laundering and drugs, casinos are upgrading their surveillance and security systems to ensure safety for all. Many casinos, to date, are still tied to analog solutions. “Of the hundreds of thousands of cameras monitoring and recording the 700-plus gaming properties in North America, we estimate less than 10 percent are currently

Canadian electrical equipment wholesaler counters loss and vandalism with Mobotix

Mobotix announced that Graybar Canada, a wholesale distributor of electrical equipment including surveillance solutions, has deployed more than two dozen Mobotix cameras between its Markham and Halifax branches in response to loss prevention issues and vandalism. Graybar chose the Mobotix system for its ability to reduce camera counts with panoramic views, as well as its low costs and reduced band