Today, Axis Communications announced that its 233D network dome camera will include an innovative auto-tracking feature. With auto-tracking, the camera can detect a moving person or vehicle, and then follow it as it passes through the camera's field of view. This feature is especially useful for unmanned surveillance applications where it's important to capture any presence of people of vehicle moving through a particular area. Think of school or office buildings after hours, hotel corridors, or parking garages, for instance. These are places where it's typical to have an unmanned surveillance setup with automated recording.

Ghent and Antwerp, long known as centers of fine arts and diamond trading, have new fineries to brag about. But, unlike a tennis bracelet or a painting by a Dutch master, the new IP video security systems and new courthouses in the two cities will provide priceless, customizable security.

The new IP camera models from D-Link continue to pop put of the oven. The latest release is the D-Link DCS-6110, a fixed dome network camera suitable for indoor and outdoor surveillance. The camera features a built-in Samba server for NAS that enables it to save recorded video footage directly to storage without connecting to a PC.

A newly installed surveillance system will soon allow administrators and security officers to easily access video footage from cameras monitoring a pair of Illinois high schools. Romeoville and Bolingbrook high schools are now equipped with network-based surveillance systems featuring IP cameras that transmit digital video which can be viewed remotely from any network PC. This provides administrators and authorized personnel with the ability to monitor live and recorded footage even when outside the facilities.

D-Link has unveiled a new PTZ network camera designed for whole-room video surveillance in homes, offices, and small businesses. The D-Link SecuriCam Pan/Tilt/Zoom Network Camera (D-Link DCS-5610) can be mounted on the ceiling or wall, and allows users to remotely control pan, tilt, and zoom functions in order to achieve wide-area surveillance from a single camera.

This week, Exacq Technologies released the latest version of its exacqVision video surveillance software program. ExacqVision 3.0 supports a broad range of high definition, megapixel IP cameras from manufacturers such as Axis, ACTi, Arecont Vision, Sony, Vivotek, and Panasonic. This latest installment of the software is also compatible with multiple operating systems, allowing Windows, Linux, and Mac users to take advantage of its full capabilities.

In an effort to deter crime campus-wide, Grambling State University has installed an IP-based surveillance solution that utilizes 220 Axis network cameras. The system operates over a fiber optic backbone using IP video technology to deliver comprehensive surveillance footage that can be viewed remotely, and stored at a centralized recording center on campus. The new system is a major upgrade over the University's previous one, which consisted of pockets of analog cameras scattered around campus.

IndigoVision has just added a new collection of high-definition IP cameras to its product line. The IndigoVision HD 10000 series IP cameras use H.264 compression, a new technology that makes it possible for the cameras to stream high-definition video at fast frame rates, while allowing for greater amounts of storage. H.264 video compression is an improvement over previous compression technologies, and more and more manufacturers are beginning to release H.264 camera offerings.

Teddy the Pomeranian has been missing for over two months and his owner has been looking for him ever since. She came so close to be reuniting with Teddy - until he was dognapped. A surveillance camera stationed in the examining room of a veterinarian's office captured the whole affair.

The Rhode Island Convention Center is no stranger to large crowds. The facility houses numerous events and conferences throughout the year. Like any venue where a healthy amount of people gather, security is a key concern. Recently, the complex embarked on a project to upgrade its analog surveillance system to one which uses IP cameras and video management software from Milestone.

Water bureau officials in Portland, OR renewed their belief in protecting their reservoirs last week when a twenty-something couple was discovered skinny-dipping in an inactive reservoir on Mt. Tabor in late June. Security video shows the couple climbing over the fence of Mt. Tabor's reservoir 6 and taking a late-night dip.

There's been a lot of speculation about network cameras lately - that use will double by 2011, that analog video will never die, and so on. Research firm Frost & Sullivan has released a new report - "North American IT and Telecom Opportunities in the Network Video Surveillance Markets" which puts forth a much more drastic claim - that by 2013, half the surveillance cameras in North America will be IP cameras.

Here's a video surveillance success story from the streets of Newark, N.J. This is a city where the threat of violence looms large in some areas, but police are hopeful that a new surveillance system and operations center will help to change that. In the operations center, police are now able to monitor 109 security cameras that have been installed throughout an eight-mile area considered to be the city's most violent. Best of all, the system is already yielding results.