clients, said Van Kersbergen, with the same levels of service and innovative product development.

That also means that VDG will continue developing its growing dealer network, which now spans 14 countries across Europe. The company most recently bolstered its position in the Czech Republic, signing

on the CPE Group as a local partner there, Van Kersbergen said.

The acquisition of VDG rounded out a year of several acquisitions by TKH in the security field, which included the purchase of the Dutch video surveillance equipment manufacturer Observision and Denmark’s Klan Security. SSNE

Continued from page 10

Continued from page 1 market, where VDG has already established a very solid base, VDG’s European sales director, Marcel van Kersbergen, told Security Systems News Europe. VDG will be organized under TKH’s Building Solutions

Group, giving the company direct access to the growing market of full service solutions for the building management sector.

While VDG will be folded in to the TKH family, it will remain “business as usual” for VDG

the video and audio for transmission over the network. All the cameras are continuously recorded on an IndigoVision standalone NVR with 1TB of storage. The 8,000 modules have an Activity Controlled Framerate (ACF) function, which allows the video to be streamed at a much lower frame rate when there’s no activity. When the motion analysis software detects movement, the video is streamed at full rate, allowing the zoo to keep up to one year of recordings on a single NVR. “It was very important that they have over 25 frames with motion, to be able to analyze the animals’ movements,” explained Salzgeber.

As the zoo didn’t have the funds to do everything at once, deployment is ongoing. There are now roughly 40 cameras in place, Salzgeber said, with that number expected to rise to around 70 in the next couple of months. SSNE

 

Pristis

Continued from page 10

Our news sources

stack the odds

in your favor.

Get your free subscriptions today!

��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������

rental option over purchasing equipment,” said Kiil, adding that he expected this to continue to draw customers this year.

Pristis has also been consulting current clients, helping them to review their overall approach to security. “Where possible, we encourage them to reduce the physical presence of guards in exchange for electronic means of protection like CCTV, access control, perimeter protection, building automation and so on,” said Kiil. This, combined with mobile patrols that can respond to alarms, can provide “remarkable cost savings without compromising the level of protection, and in many cases even improving it,” Kiil said.

Pristis is expecting continued pressure from the global economic crisis this year, and with that in mind, the company is evaluating possible strategic acquisitions in the Baltic security services market in order to bolster business, according to Kiil.

In addition to its Tallinn headquarters, Pristis currently has offices in Tartu, Pärnu, Jõhvi, Riga, Liepaja, Daugavpils, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipeda. SSNE