Cradle Technologies has introduced its enVigil series of networked video surveillance systems (NVSS) that not only offer a wide range of very useful features but also take advantage of the Internet to provide secure, high quality, remote access to the surveillance audio and video, from anywhere, anytime.

This surveillance system will help businesses supervise their factories, warehouses, bank branches, retail shops, offices, franchises or any remote location from anywhere in the world and enable "remote presence".

According to a company press release, the NVSS offers the following features:

1.   Secure Access, using virtual private networks
2.   Satisfactory remote viewing experience of live audio video streams in spite of Internet bandwidth variations
3.   Location independent access to all features and functions remotely or locally
4.   Support for mobile devices
5.   Local storage and Network Attached Storage (NAS)
6.   Local and remote archiving
7.   Dynamic DNS to allow use of dynamic IP addresses
8.   Variety of user classes to allow management of access authority
9.   Real time alerts with snapshots through emails and sms
10.   Integration with other IT and Security applications
11.   24x7 availability as surveillance moves into a mission critical role

Oce, which provides high end printing and photocopying systems, has now become a licensee of Legic Identsystems Ltd, which makes contactless smart card technology. Using the contactless technology from Legic in the office solutions from Oce will help the latter with  printing and copier authorisation and related cost accounting. The partnership with the copier solutions provider means that LEGIC technology now moves into the purview of office automation applications, besides areas such as time and attendance, access control and electronic payment systems.

UK retailer Tesco is planning to roll out reverse vending machines at 9 stores in Scotland in January, reports Packaging News. Reverse vending machines will help with recycling as customers can put used bottles and cans into these vending machines.  According to the report, customers will be rewarded points for depositing these used materials and using these machines; spectrometry and photography will be used for the purpose of proper identification of these objects. If the initial trial of these vending machines is successful, the retailer may be introducing it in various other stores. Source: Packaging News