Winners of International Awards for Security Products Announced

The winners of the 2005 Detektor International Award for security innovations.

Consulting-Specifying Engineer - November 2, 2005

The winners of this year’s Detektor International Award were honoured recently in Stockholm, Sweden. More than three hundred guests gathered at the Stockholm Globe Arena complex for the ceremony.

In total, twelve security products were nominated in the categories of CCTV, alarm and access control products. The Detektor International Award Prize was initiated to reward and encourage research and development within the field of technical security systems.

U.S. manufacturers were well represented with five nominated products. Two products were from South Korea and the Netherlands, Israel, Germany, Sweden and Great Britain were represented with one product each.

Products were divided into three groups: alarms, camera surveillance (CCTV) and access control. The overall winner in each category received the award for “Best Product,” the second received the “Highly Commended” distinction and third place was presented with the diploma for “Innovative Achievement.”

The Best Alarm Products

The Innovative Achievement in the Alarm Product category went to the control panels from the Easy-series from Bosch Security Systems (Germany) and to Video IQ Lite, a solution for alarm verification via video, from GE Security (USA).

Video IQ Lite is an ‘On-Premise Video Alarm Verification solution’ that embeds video technology into any GE Security alarm system. The concept incorporates an integrated PIR/Camera (PIRCAM) sensor and GE Security’s unique Video IQ technology.Together, these technologies verify human presence.

The Highly Commended Alarm Product prize went to the outdoor detector WatchOut from the Israeli manufacturer Rokonet Technologies.

The WatchOUT outdoor detection device has unique selective event recognition capability that allows it to differentiate between false alarms and real intrusion events using two PIR channels and two MW channels– the first detector of its kind to do this.

The winner and receiver of the Best Alarm Products Award was Dtec Detector Technologiesfrom the UK for the ingenious systems solution FireVu, with smoke detection via video over IP networks. FireVu IP has been developed to overcome many of the problems associated with smoke detection. FireVu’s embedded algorithms analyse the video images provided by standard CCTV cameras. The system automatically identifies the particular motion pattern of smoke and alerts the system operator to its presence in the shortest time possible. This enables a fast response to a potential fire, saving valuable time even in voluminous areas or where a high airflow may be present.