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Sky and Sun Towers project in Abu Dhabi
 An artist's impression of the Sky and Sun Towers project in Abu Dhabi
The Sky Tower, the tallest building on Abu Dhabi’s fast changing skyline and among the five tallest in the UAE, has chosen to install smart electronic access control products from Salto Systems to handle its security requirements.
The project, which is due for completion in March 2010, is just five minutes from downtown Abu Dhabi and consists of luxurious state-of-the-art residential and commercial accommodation as well as a podium. There is a choice of one to four bedroom apartments and luxury penthouses exclusively designed to provide a home in the sky, and offering breathtaking views of the Gulf and Reem Island of Abu Dhabi. There is also an adjacent 18,000 square metre sports and leisure centre and a community mall with shops and restaurants.
Victor Hage, Salto Systems ME regional manager, said: “As a mixed use project, Sky Tower consists of two large buildings – one purely for residential use while the second will be a mix of half residential and half office space.
Salto through their strategic partner in the UAE has won phase one of the project, installing 1,265 XS4 electronic locks using Mifare technology and 65 Salto Virtual Network (SVN) control units to handle secure access control for the two buildings, their parking areas and back-of-house operations.
The XS4 handle sets will enable the Sky Tower’s owners to control and manage a greater range of access control applications than ever before.
They need no hard wiring and provide a totally wire free networked electronic locking environment while our SVN product allows the standalone locks to read, receive and write information via their operating smart cards whilst its on-line wall readers are able to update (and . receive information from) the cards at any time anywhere in the buildings. And in addition, Salto through their new SVN modular wall readers has also enabled a major interface with the vertical transportation facilities (elevators) to be made in the buildings.
Dubai's iconic new tower selects 1000 CCTV cameras for its new security system
The Burj Dubai Tower in Dubai
KBC Networks has been chosen to supply equipment for a security system of over 1000 cameras within the Burj Dubai Tower. The tower, which has already exceeded the height of the world’s tallest building, is in the heart of the Gulf region’s most prestigious urban development to date.
KBC Networks has been involved with a number of projects within the Middle East and will be supplying video and data, fibre optic transmission equipment for this security system. According to KBC, the equipment was subject to several rounds of rigorous approvals and because of its design, had the advantage of saving a considerable amount of rack space within the equipment rooms.
Owen Price, head of KBC Networks EMEA sales commented: “This is one of the most ambitious construction projects in the world and we’re very proud to have been chosen to supply the development.”
A flagship project of Emaar Properties, the Burj Dubai Tower is the centrepiece of the downtown Burj Dubai development and standing at 629 metres is now officially the world’s tallest manmade structure with the tip of the
spire visible from 60 miles away. Once completed, the 500- acre development will combine over 30,000 homes; one of the world’s largest shopping malls; luxury hotels and restaurants and a wealth of leisure facilities.
Key security players come together to create new standard for network video
Axis Communications, Bosch Security Systems and Sony Corporation are to create an open forum aimed at developing a standard for the interface of network video products.
Currently, there is no global standard defining how network video products such as cameras, video encoders and video management systems should communicate with each other. The new standard is expected to comprise interfaces for specifications such as video streaming, device discovery, intelligence metadata, etc. The framework of the standard, incorporating the key elements of network video product interoperability, will be released in October 2008 at the Security Show in Essen, Germany.
The main goal of this new standard is to facilitate the integration of various brands of network video equipment and to help manufacturers, software developers and independent software vendors ensure product interoperability. A unified open standard will also offer end-users greater flexibility of choice, enabling them to select products from different vendors in order to develop systems that fully meet their needs. This standardisation initiative demonstrates the strong commitment of Axis, Bosch and Sony to supporting the ongoing shift from analogue to digital surveillance in the security market.
A forum set up by the three companies will be open for all companies and interest groups who would like to participate in the standardisation work. The forum will be established in the fourth quarter of 2008, and will work on further development of the standard and on reaching agreement on how the new technology should be implemented.
“We are very pleased to announce this cooperation between our companies,” says Ray Mauritsson, president of Axis Communications. “An open standard will make it even easier for integrators and end-users to benefit from the many possibilities offered by IP-based video surveillance technology.
“This cooperation represents a great leap forward in establishing an international open forum focusing on network video surveillance,” says Gert van Iperen, executive vice president at Bosch. “For manufacturers of network video hardware and software, the forum and its standard will be an efficient way to ensure product interoperability.”
“We entered this discussion based on our common belief that an open standard will provide great benefits for users and everyone involved in the security industry,” says Yoshinori Onoue, SVP, corporate executive, Sony Corporation. “Representatives from Axis, Bosch and Sony are now working intensively to develop a framework for the standard and to establish the guidelines for the standardisation forum.”
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