Arbejdernes Landsbank (AL) in Denmark secures customer, employee and asset safety with a future-proof expandable solution.
Digital Video Surveillance SystemIt all started ten years ago in the local branch in Hillerød, when A.L. replaced analog videotapes with their first digital video surveillance system, based on open platform software from Milestone Systems. Since then, the solution has been installed in the bank's 66 branches spread across the country, and thus secures the safety of the bank's customers and employees.
24 hours a day, 650 cameras keep an eye on A.L's 66 branches nationwide. A.L. is one of the ten biggest banks in the country, and provides services for thousands of customers, so security has top priority to ensure their well-being along with the employees.
Like most banks, A.L. had installed analog stationary surveillance cameras in 1990. These only recorded images from the time they were activated, for instance, by an attack alarm in the bank, resulting in a lack of video from the entire course of a robbery. So in 1999, A.L. decided to replace the analog video system with a digital network-based solution from Milestone Systems. The solution still works today in all branches of the bank, and the investment proved very fast to be a wise one.
Compensations in Total Cost of Operation (TCO)
"The costs related to the purchase and nationwide installation of the IP video solution was compensated by all the advantages we gained. Handling the digital solution proved to be much less time consuming compared to the analog one, and required fewer resources. Therefore, over three or four years we replaced several analog cameras in our branches, and today all our cameras are based on the Milestones IP platform," states Henrik Krog-Meyer, Distribution & Operations Manager, responsible for the security system.
The replacement of the analog surveillance happened in phases, concurrently with the renovation of different branches. In 2005, a new law was passed to save all video recordings of incidents that took place outside banks, for example at the ATMs.
...08.07.10
(Updates with statement by Document Security Systems lawyer in sixth paragraph.)
By Karin Matussek
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- The European Central Bank won a court ruling invalidating the German part of Document Security Systems Inc.’s European patent for a method to prevent bank notes from being copied.
The Federal Court of Justice, Germany’s highest civil tribunal, said in an e-mailed statement today the patent isn’t valid for use in Germany. The ruling granted the ECB’s appeal of a lower-court ruling which the central bank had lost.
The case is part of a nine-nation battle over the patent. Rochester, New York-based Document Security’s right to the technology has so far been upheld in the Netherlands and Spain, where the Frankfurt-based bank has filed an appeal. The ECB has succeeded in revoking the patent in Austria, Belgium, France, Italy and the U.K. A case in Luxembourg is still pending.
Source: BusinessWeek
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