Case Studies

Tens of millions of eyes will be focused on the world’s top-ranked football stars battling for supremacy at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, but behind the scenes, March Networks video surveillance technology will be playing an important supporting role.

Steve Welk’s job as director of Loss Prevention at Barnes & Noble College Booksellers got a lot easier when the company began rolling out March Networks video surveillance systems to its stores at colleges and universities in 2008.

Planning for a video surveillance system at Wellington International Airport on the outskirts of New Zealand’s capital required systems integrator Nedax Systems (NZ) Ltd. to take into account the region’s notorious wet and
windy weather.

Residents of a social housing community in Veenendaal, a Dutch city 60 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam, are breathing a sigh of relief following the deployment of a state-of-the-art March Networks video surveillance system.

A major attraction like the Seattle Aquarium can’t afford to take safety for granted. With 850,000 visitors a year – many of them parents struggling to keep an eye on their children – aquarium management required a video surveillance system they could rely on to keep guests, staff and marine life safe and secure.

Operating video surveillance systems in isolated locations like Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost community in the United States, requires more than the usual confidence in hardware reliability. Given the sheer distance from supply centers, the howling winds, blowing snow and temperatures exceeding minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit, equipment problems can be very expensive.

Two of Canada’s most important repositories of culture and history – the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum – faced a unique challenge several years ago when security and IT executives from the Crown Corporation responsible for the two facilities began discussions with March Networks about a new video surveillance system.

Security staff at Synovus, a financial services holding company with 31 banks and more than 400 branches in the U.S. Southeast, are all too familiar with the pros and cons of competing video surveillance products. With parallel systems in place following a decision in 2007 to begin upgrading to March Networks technology, the first step in any investigation is to determine which system to access.

The University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Science, one of Europe’s premier centers of higher learning and scientific research, is preparing for a new milestone in its long and illustrious history. Later this year, it will begin moving into a new 300,000-square meter state-of-the art building that will serve as a showcase of advanced technology, housing 10 research institutes and laboratories, 2,000 students and 1,200 researchers and lecturers.

Tens of millions of Americans applauded vice-presidential candidates Joseph Biden and Sarah Palin following their historic debate at Washington University in St. Louis October 3rd, but behind the scenes, representatives of more than a dozen law enforcement agencies were relieved that there were no security breaches to mar the event.