Video Domain Technologies Ltd.
Digital CCTV Monitoring & Recording Systems

www.vdomain.com

USA
Tel: 201-735-0429

UK
Tel: 0870-33-00-1-66

ISRAEL
Tel: (972)3 9044 111

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Video Domain Technologies, established in 1997, specializes in Digital Video Solutions in two main areas:

Sophisticated Stand-Alone Solutions
Small units with smart technology that is reliable, user-friendly and affordable. This group includes our best-selling MemoCam Family, which is most trusted by law enforcement & government agencies and uses top-of-the-line components, including the Texas Instruments DM270 chip for video applications.

SIA and IFSEC awards for Excellence and Innovation

Next Generation Network Solutions
We have taken the award-winning MemoCam technology into the next generation with effective and affordable security solutions that communicate Video over GSM/GPRS Cellular and IP networks, so that you are kept informed through your cellphone or PC, no matter where you are. The business possibilities for these solutions are huge and endless.

STAND-ALONE SOLUTIONS

MemoCam Zorro - Covert All-in-one CCTV System
* Covert Camera + DVR + PIR with advanced Video Motion Detection. Hidden in standard sensor casing.
* Dual Technology VMD and PIR significantly decreases false alarms. It also reduces recording space required, enabling recording on a removable SD card.
Perfect for Covert Surveillance

MemoCam DV-Cop - Miniature DVR with VMD + Sleep Mode
* Integrates Advanced Video Motion Detection with selectable recording on removable SD card.
* With Sleep Mode - draws only 10mA in sleep mode, enabling prolonged battery use.
Perfect for Covert Recording

D-Cam 600 - Covert Camera + Active PIR. Microphone optional.
* Undetectable quality pinhole camera with same field of view for Camera and PIR
* Ideal as affordable covert camera addition/s for security installation
Also available with Video over UTP

NETWORK SOLUTIONS

MemoCam DV-Cop/CELL - Miniature DVR with Cellular Communications + VMD + Sleep Mode. Stand-Alone Units.
* Can operate in any site without electricity or telephone lines. Sleep mode enables prolonged battery use.
* On intrusion detection sends SMS message and e-mail with image attachment. Receives SMS commands.
Perfect for Covert Recording in Remote Sites

OVS (Offsite Visual Storage) - Remote Visual Recording & Management / Visual Alarm Verification
* Affordable and easily set up solution to manage home & business without having to be there.
* Video "events" automatically transmitted to remote, secure site. Images accessed 24/7 by internet.
Working Hours: Manage Home & Business. After Working Hours: Visual Alarm Verification.

NetiP 8 - Remote Digital Video/Audio IP Transmitter. Stand-Alone Units
* Transmits superior quality video and full duplex audio, on alarm or on demand.
* The most cost-effective system on the market today meeting the strict European standards
Remote Monitoring, Video Verification of Alarms and Virtual Guard Tours

LATEST NEWS

Video Domain’s Miniature DVR with Cellular Communications Chosen by Law Enforcement Professionals.

Video Domain Technologies is proud to announce that a distinguished panel of law enforcement professionals has chosen its next-generation miniature DVR with Cellular Communications as one of the top three surveillance products for 2007, based on its contribution to the law enforcement industry.

Judging took place within the framework of the 2007 Innovation Awards initiated by the Cygnus Law Enforcement Group, in order to recognize those outstanding companies whose products respond to law enforcement market challenges with creativity and innovation.

Since submitting the MemoCam D-V58/CELL to the awards competition, Video Domain has redesigned the outer casing and implemented new and improved features. This evolved model aptly goes by the name of DV-Cop/CELL.

New and Improved Features Include:
• Easily accessible setup & controls
• Easy installation without having to open the unit
• Reset and Factory Default achieved by simply pressing an external push-button
• Mini-SD card technology

For more info - go to www.vdomain.com

Video Domain introduces MemoCam Zorro – the Foxy New Covert Camera with Digital Video Recorder

Zorro is a Covert Camera + Digital Video Recorder with dual-detection PIR / Video Motion Detection (VMD) and other powerful features packed into a small sensor case, making Zorro a serious law-enforcement ally.

Zorro is the latest member of Video Domain’s award-winning MemoCam family. Like its predecessors, it looks like any standard sensor making it perfect for covert operations. But Zorro brings with it some great new features:

? Smaller and slimmer, Zorro draws less attention, with a tiny unnoticeable camera hole and LEDS invisibly situated under the front cover – better suited for covert surveillance.

• Recorded images are stored on removable mini SD cards (the most popular memory card on the market today) providing valuable benefits:

- Because the mini SD card is so small, the memory card slot is considerably smaller and hidden from
view while remaining accessible to the user.
- Zorro’s storage capacity can be upgraded simply by upgrading the mini SD card.
- Recorded images can be examined on any PC/pocket PC using a standard mini SD card reader.

• Zorro supports faster downloading / saving of images from the mini SD card onto your hard drive.

For more info - go to www.vdomain.com

Video Domain’s Solutions Secure 55 Public Medical Centers in Canary Islands.

Video Domain Technologies has been chosen to provide solutions for securing 55 Public Medical Centers spread over the Canary Islands.
When the Centro de Salud Primaria de Canarias (Primary Health Center of Canary Islands) decided to install a centralized security system including remote video monitoring for all of their 55 public medical centers spread over the islands, Video Domain’s solutions were chosen.

“Up until then, the Health Centers Administration had been using security guards to secure all of their public medical centers, some of them on a 24hr basis, and their security expenses were extremely high” said Rajiv Wadhwani, CEO of Viratel – the sole distributors for Video Domain products in the Canary Islands. “They wanted to set up a security system that would be cost-effective yet efficient”.

The security consultants to the Health Centers Administration proposed setting up one centralized control center for all 55 medical centers, located in the administrative center, and installing a system whereby the control center could monitor after-hour entry at the medical centers via remote video.

A NetiP* system was installed in each medical center to transmit video from the medical centers to the control center over an existing private IP network. In addition, four D-Cam** cameras were installed in each building: one covering the main entrance, one covering the emergency entrance, and two covering reception – public areas.

* NetiP is a stand-alone IP Remote Digital Video/Audio Transmitter that transmits high quality video and audio. It supports up to 8 color cameras, audio channels, alarm triggers and relay outputs. The MultiObserver software that comes with the NetiP supports Video Alarm Verification and Virtual Guard Tours applications.

**D-Cam cameras are inexpensive miniature covert cameras featuring integrated high-quality camera, PIR detector and very sensitive microphone. The camera and the PIR have a matching field of vision.

During work hours, the control center does routine Virtual Guard Tours of all 55 medical centers, to monitor that everything is in order.

After hours, when the D-Cam PIR sensor triggers an alarm, the NetiP automatically connects to the control center and transmits live stream video and audio, so that the operator can see exactly what is happening on site, what triggered the alarm, and dispatch a response team if necessary.

“Video Domain’s combination of NetiP and D-Cam provided a cost-effective solution not requiring complicated installations, that resulted in our winning the tender over all the competitors,” said Eli Suhareanu, Video Domain’s VP Sales & Marketing. “The Health Centers Administration is delighted with our solution, which is second to none when integrated applications are required.”

Rajiv Wadhwani, CEO of Viratel

Video Domain’s “Video Solutions” secure Holiday Island Paradise

Video Domain Technologies Signs Business Agreement with Viratel, Major CCTV Wholesaler/Retailer in Canary Islands.

Video Domain Technologies and Viratel, after working together for some time, recently decided to enter into a sole distribution agreement. “Viratel has captured the niche market for projects requiring remote surveillance systems, smart covert cameras, alarm verification and central station control & management software”, says Eli Suhareanu, Video Domain’s VP Sales & Marketing. “Apart from the local businesses & households, Canary Islands has a large tourism industry with many hotels, holiday homes etc. which need to be secured, for which our products are ideal.Read More -www.vdomain.com

VIDEO DOMAIN TECHNOLOGIES AT IIPSEC 2006: BSI Compliant Solutions for IP CCTV Security, and IP Visual Verification.

If you are a security industry professional and want to know how simple it is to transmit alarms & CCTV over IP while complying with the current standards, VDT is the stand to visit.

Not only will you receive sound advice, but you will also see in action the most complete solutions designed for the Intruder and CCTV Industries, from the detector to the Alarm Receiving Centre.

Find out about BS8418, how to comply with it and what the standard means to you the installer. Also how you can improve revenues from a DD243 system through adding visual verification capabilities.

All this can be achieved at unbelievably low prices - a fraction of the alternatives. Our competitive pricing does not mean loss of features or quality, it means more profit for theinstaller. Our solutions comprise Video Domain’s MemoCam and NETiP, which have won prestigious international security awards.

Removal of Level 2 police response effective from April 1st, opens opportunities for Visual Verification as more alarm users lose response due to over 2 false alarms a year.Clive Mason, Managing Director VDT(UK), will be delivering a paper on IP CCTV and BS8418, and invites you to attend.

Video Domain signs Distribution Agreement for North American Market with ADI.

Video Domain Technologies has signed a distribution agreement with ADI - a leading distributor of intrusion, fire alarm, access control & CCTV products - whereby ADI distributes Video Domain’s new and existing products through their numerous branches throughout North America.

Video Domain believes that this partnership will benefit both sides, offering installers, integrators and dealers our specialized range of products through ADI, which gives them the benefit of recognized excellent service and:
* A presence in over 105 locations all over North America
* One-stop shopping
* Online shopping
* Comprehensive catalogs
* Over 39 expos in the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico

Nick LaBella, Director of Product Management for ADI, says: “Video Domain’s products, offering unique solutions which complement our product range, are a valuable addition to our stock. We see enormous potential for them in North America.” “Already with the closing of our agreement, we are seeing increased sales activity with much interest in our new and existing products” says Eli Suhareanu, Video Domains VP Sales & Marketing. “We believe that through this partnership, many more potential customers will be exposed to Video Domain’s nique, high quality range of products ”.

Available immediately, Video Domain’s family of products include the award-winning MemoCam® CCTVseries, the D-CAM Camera series, and the NetEye Transmitter series.

ADI is one of North America’s largest wholesale distributors of security and low voltage products, with over 105 branch locations in the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico. ADI’s roduct lines include intrusion, fire alarm, access control, CCTV, telephony, residential and commercial A/V, wire and structured cabling and tools and hardware. For more information about ADI, please visit www.adilink.com

EXHIBITING AT: 

ISC WEST 2008
April 2 - 4, 2008
Las Vegas, USA
Booth 4144

IFSEC 2008
May 12 - 15, 2008
NEC Birmingham, UK
Booth 20195 (Hall 18)

ESX Electronic Security Expo
June 26-27, 2008
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, Tennesee
Booth #1025

NATIA 2008
July 11 - 17, 2008
San Jose, California

SECURITY CANADA CENTRAL
October 22 - 23, 2008
Toronto, Canada

Case Studies

Case Study: Video Domain’s MemoCam Helps Police Solve More Crimes

Background
This is a case study of a Police force that is responsible for providing law enforcement services within a busy city and surrounding areas. It has four divisions plus headquarters.

This Police Force has a strategic plan in place not just to reduce crime and anti-social behavior, but also to reduce the fear of these crimes amongst the population.

They recognized that many of the crimes they needed to solve requiring intelligence-led policing techniques were drug-related. They included volume crimes such as domestic burglaries, commercial burglaries, distraction burglaries and crimes to fund drug habits, as well as the actual drug dealing.

The Challenge
Some properties in the area attracted a high number of repeat break-ins. In one example, it took 20 minutes for police to arrive each time a rural building was broken into. Although this was a fairly swift response, it was not quick enough to catch the criminals at the scene.

There were simply not enough resources on duty to cover the large geographical areas, and while intelligence was being received about activities of suspected criminals, the Police simply did not have the manpower to visit each suspect or investigate all the premises.

The Police decided to investigate the use of security cameras for covert surveillance and to build evidence for drug-related crimes.

In the past, the only solutions available for surveillance operations were using a car with microwave-linked cameras or using officers on the ground. These options were expensive: using officers on the ground for a 24-hour operation could cost upwards of $6,000.

The Police knew that while a camera could not prevent the crime, it could be used to gather intelligence that would accelerate the identification of criminals, support forensic evidence and ultimately speed-up their arrest.

The Solution

The Police chose Video Domain’s MemoCam® * for their covert surveillance operations as it provides a plug and play solution that can be deployed quickly & easily, requires minimal training before-hand, and could remain in the field for long periods without the need for ongoing maintenance. The low cost of MemoCam® allowed them to purchase a number of cameras for the same cost as just one surveillance operation.

* A MemoCam® is a covert hand-sized stand-alone CCTV system integrating high-quality Camera, DVR, Video Motion Detection (VMD) and PIR. Recording is triggered by dual-technology VMD and/or PIR, or external dry contact. “Events” are recorded on removable SD cards which can be read on any PC/pocket PC. MemoCam® has received prestigious security awards for excellence and innovation and is used by many Law Enforcement & Government agencies in USA and UK.

Following a successful trial of eight MemoCam® units, the Police invested in an additional 50 units, that are all in use at any one time on jobs that normally wouldn’t be dealt with because of lack of resources. Due to their success and efficiency, even more cameras are scheduled for deployment.

One of the divisional Technical Support Units has a team of four people trained to set up and use the MemoCam® units, which can be set up and fully operational in about half an hour.

A divisional Technical Support Unit officer said: “If I had 200 cameras, I could have them all out on operations immediately. It doesn’t matter how many MemoCam® units I received - they still wouldn’t satisfy the demand.”

The Benefits

A large amount of intelligence needs to be gathered before dedicating costly resources to a case. This process is always expensive and time-consuming. But with the MemoCam®, sufficient evidence can be gathered relatively quickly and cheaply, and on many more jobs.

For example, if the team suspects that a property is being used for dealing drugs, then a camera can be quickly & easily set up to record whether the property is being visited by an out-of-the-ordinary number of people.

The MemoCam® is often used to see where a criminal has been inside a property in order to show forensic officers where to look to get the most reliable evidence such as fingerprints, clothing samples or DNA. This intelligence is then used to make a positive identification that can be used to issue a warrant for arrest.

The MemoCam® is also used following the receipt of intelligence. They can be used to cost-effectively prove (or not) that there is something worth investigating. If there is, then resources can be deployed to investigate further, and if not, then no resources need be wasted.

A member of one of the Technical Support Units explains: “MemoCam® equipment is doing a job that police officers should be doing but can’t. In essence, they are a form of very cheap labor. They also help us to narrow down the intelligence we have so that we can put our valuable police officers onto working on the most reliable investigations.”

Two further benefits of MemoCam® are that they are easy to maintain and adapt to different requirements. Once deployed, a MemoCam® can be left to monitor a site for several months without having to be touched. If special requirements are needed, such as a long-range lens etc, then the team can easily make this option available.

“The cameras are easy to set up, have a simple memory card system and are straightforward to use,” says a member of one of the Technical Support Units. “If an area is known to have a lot of repeat burglaries, MemoCam® units can be installed and left for several weeks.”

He continues: “The inconspicuous design of the MemoCam® also means that they are difficult to spot. No cameras have been lost or damaged so far, and their simplicity and reliability have led to excellent results.”

“There have been dozens of successful jobs that have resulted in quality intelligence leading to arrests. One example is when car keys were stolen from a house during a burglary. We set up a camera, and saw pictures of the burglar when he returned to take the car the next day. Our Force was notified of the theft, and they matched the pictures to a known criminal – who was arrested the following afternoon.”

Conclusion

MemoCam® is allowing this Police Force to achieve its objective not only to solve more crimes, but also to reduce fear in the community about volume crimes such as burglary. It is able to deploy its resources in the best possible direction, to use intelligence more effectively and to get closer to meeting its goals.

As summed up by one of the Police Officers: “MemoCam® has delivered a massive amount of intelligence, has been used in numerous operations, and has led to many arrests.”

Case Study: How Condominium Board used MemoCam Solution to enforce Security and Cleanliness.

BACKGROUND
The residents of a 40-unit apartment coop on the Upper West Side, New York, realized that their mailroom was being confused with a men’s room several nights a month. Their board decided to install a surveillance system to monitor the area 24 hours a day, and they sought professional security advice.

As in so many other properties, their decision to install security cameras was, in the industry jargon, “event-driven”.

CHALLENGES
As in many buildings of their size, with only 40 units, when they started looking for surveillance systems, they soon found that it was easier to put the problem on the backburner and hope the annoyances will eventually go away.

The reason? The systems being offered seem to be aimed more at single-family home setups or at larger buildings with larger budgets.

The basic recommendation for the mailroom problem was to install a covert camera of some kind, together with a VCR and a monitor located in a nearby secure location. Quotes for this simple set-up run from $1,500 to $3,500.

Another problem is that the superintendent or board member has to be responsible for replacing tapes at regular intervals and checking that the tapes were still recording properly.

With a DVR machine, the images are recorded on a hard drive, there are no tapes to change, and huge amounts of data can be captured. In addition, since the system is digital, it is easier to find a specific event. But a DVR is more expensive than a VCR by several hundred dollars, and it wouldn’t eliminate the cost of linking up the camera to the recording device.

Although going wireless could greatly reduce the cost of installation, it was generally regarded as not being reliable or powerful enough to use for building-wide security systems (such equipment could be adequate for home installation, however).

For buildings that have access to high-speed internet connections, there are other solutions. However, smaller buildings are unlikely to have the infrastructure in place. While many residents may have individual high-speed internet links, there is no connection point for the building itself.

A more radical solution to eliminate the cost of cabling is to “piggyback” on the electrical wiring already in a building. But they couldn’t find a company that installs this broadband-over-power-lines equipment, that was interested in working with buildings with less than 100 units.

SOLUTION
The solution found for the mailroom problem in the 40-unit building was a unique piece of equipment that eliminated cabling and complications by putting everything together into one small, hand-sized unit called a MemoCam.

The user-friendly nature of the MemoCam stems from the fact that the whole surveillance system is built into the one small unit, with an operation that is very familiar to anyone who has used a digital camera.

Instead of transmitting images to a separate recording device, the pictures are stored on a removable memory card up to 2GB. That’s where the similarity ends, however, the device looks nothing like a camera: its invisible pinhole lens and lack of a viewing screen make it ideal for covert installations.

What transforms this camera into such an effective security-monitoring unit is its ability to link image-recording to selected events. With a combination of advanced video motion-detection and infrared heat detection, the unit can be very precisely configured.

The area being monitored can be as specific as an entranceway or a telephone on a desktop.It can be set to monitor movements in front of a window and to completely ignore any movements going on outside. The unit comes with a mounting device, a 64MB SD card and a power supply with 15ft cable. One needs only to connect it to a power supply.

When there is an event to investigate, the memory card is removed and the images can be viewed on a computer screen by usilng a card reader, which can be purchased together with the MemoCam, attached to the computer.

Someone in the building still has to be computer-savvy enough to be able to install the software and use a card reader, but it’s a procedure that has become so standard now for viewing images from digital cameras that it’s unlikely to be a stumbling block. The images, which are time- and date-stamped to clearly identify an event, can be downloaded and stored on a computer hard drive or e-mailed.

For convenience, they can also be viewed on a pocket PC, making it possible, for example, to provide the building’s super with a viewing facility without needing to set up a monitoring station.

Models that record in black and white are available for around $500 on the internet. For another $100 or so, you can add color and a new resolution technology that allows you to zoom in on a 1.2 megapixel image to see the finest detail.

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