There is an "urgent" need for security surveillance systems at two large ports in southern Victoria, Australia. Read More

Telstra, who looking for new revenue streams that they can deliver over the new National Broadband Network are set to move into home security and automation. Read More

Emerging a few years back as logical successors to closed circuit television (CCTV) and tape-based cameras, IP cameras have since become more cost effective, capable of producing ever higher resolution images and in some instances, can serve as platforms for applications. Read More

A mayor from an Australian town has called for a security surveillance system to be installed, alongside a raft of other safety measures. Read More

IMS Research, in its latest report "The World Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment - 2010 Edition" suggested that by 2014, over 50% of the network camera shipped will be HD or megapixel resolution. Read More

Car parks at Brisbane train stations should be locked and accessed with Go Cards in a bid to improve security, a public transport lobby group has suggested in the wake of a violent attack on two young commuters. Read More

Leeds Community Safety CCTV provides and operates one of the largest CCTV camera networks in the country with a network of over 385 cameras, covering 240 square miles, helping to make Leeds city a safer place. Leeds Community Safety CCTV was the subject of the ‘CCTV Cities' programme on Channel 5 in 2008. Read More

It's one of the biggest issues in the election campaign. While Australia spends millions of dollars to stop the flow of asylum seeker boats, its efforts are constantly undermined by criminals and corrupt military and government officials. These operators have worked in secret... until now. Read More

IMS Research’s ‘World Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment Report 2010’ has placed Hikvision in the No. 1 position as a supplier of DVR products worldwide. Hikvision has also been ranked No. 5 in the CCTV & video surveillance equipment category in the world, a significant jump from last year’s ninth position. Read More

But the debate, based around the proposition ''Better more cameras than more crime'', centred not so much on the principles of privacy as it did on whether or not CCTV cameras worked in reducing crime. Read More

He is the first Indian MLA who has proposed to have his entire constituency monitored by a network of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to make it crime free. Hegde has written a letter to joint commissioner of police (crime) Himanshu Roy, proposing to bring his entire constituency under CCTV surveillance. Read More

A man has been taken into police custody over a stabbing attack on a woman bushwalker in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, last weekend. Read More

The first CCTV surveillance camera in a city was installed at Olean, New York, in 1968. In 1981, a CCTV camera was installed in a major road leading into Melbourne. Its purpose was to help with traffic during a forthcoming Commonwealth heads of government meeting. Read More

Video surveillance energy consumption is largely attributed to the electrical power required to operate the servers that are running the cameras and storing vast amounts of recorded video data. Read More

LORD Mayor Robert Doyle has described as "trivial" concerns by Victoria's privacy watchdog about the use of CCTV cameras in Melbourne. Read More

Legal action brought against the Shoalhaven council over the installation of closed-circuit TV cameras (CCTV) in Nowra has been dropped. Read More

The City of Geraldton-Greenough is confident a network of closed-circuit security cameras will be installed in the city by March. Read More

There has been a call to halt the installation of CCTV cameras in a south coast shopping centre, after concerns they invade the privacy of shoppers. A Shoalhaven resident has started a petition calling on the council to remove CCTV cameras from Nowra's CBD. Read More