Salt Lake media center boosts security with surveillance from Axis
Axis Communications has delivered network surveillance system products to the Salt Palace Convention Center, the main media center during the winter games in Salt Lake City. The new system allows security staff to survey and monitor the media center and helps ensure the safety of the 10,000 international journalists who will cover the games.
The Salt Palace Convention Center has improved its existing closed-circuit television (CCTV) system by deploying Axis video servers and network cameras. The digital video servers from Axis enable the Palace's security staff to view all images from its analog cameras on or off site, and create duplicate copies of the recorded images in case the on-site copy is destroyed. The Palace has also extended the capabilities of the system through software that can illuminate dark pictures via infrared light. For example, the software utilizes infrared light to illuminate the image of a car driving through the parking lot at night so that the license plate is clearly visible. Network cameras and video servers allow facilities such as convention centers to make better use of security and surveillance equipment by optimizing existing infrastructure and lowering the total cost of ownership. Unlike cameras used in CCTV systems that require special cabling infrastructures, network camerasplug directly into existing data networks and easily make images accessible to appropriate persons, even at remote sites. Video servers digitize images from analog cameras, allowing users to more cost effectively and efficiently record, transfer and manage images. * Media interested in seeing actual security video feeds from Axis cameras in and around the Salt Palace will be provided with the Web address and login information at their request. (ylva.blomquist@axis.com)* For further information, please contact: Anne Rhenman, Director Investor Relations and Corporate Communications, Axis Communications Phone: + 46 708-90 18 29, E-mail: anne.rhenman@axis.com Bart Allen, Director of Operations, The Salt Palace Convention Center Phone: + 1 801 534 6340, E-mail: barta@saltpalace.com