The Country Fire Authority (CFA) is using a thermal imaging camera to monitor hotspots in a bushfire that threatened houses at Mount Clear on New Year’s Eve.

The fire, near Ballarat, burnt 31 hectares before it was controlled by firefighters.

The CFA’s Neville Collins says crews will continue to monitor the fire and blackout hot spots during the next three days as temperatures are forecast to rise.

“It’s still burning underground in some places and it does reignite, so that’s why we’ve got these hotspots, and then we just extinguish them as they appear,” he said.

“But what we’re trying to identify with our thermal imaging camera is these hotspots before they actually come up.”

Posted Wed Jan 6, 2010 10:33am AEDT  ABC News

A thermal camera system at Incheon Airport, South Korea, monitors the body heat of passengers arriving from abroad to check for possible swine flu infections, April 26, 2009.

The theme of the Technology Road Show will be a ‘Complete IP Solution’ with VMS, hardware

and storage as the three components. The seminars will be carried out in a ‘Lunch & Learn’

format with the integrated solution from Arecont Vision, Milestone and Pivot3 demonstrated at

the venues after presentations by each and an interactive roundtable discussion.

The advantages of open platform IP video include the ability for partners and customers to build

the best security solutions for their specific needs over time. Many professionals in the industry

are looking for more information about the latest offerings, tips and tricks for getting the most for

their investment. The Technology Road Show will demonstrate how Arecont Vision, Milestone

and Pivot3 can address these requirements.

“With this road show, Milestone continues to demonstrate the value of our open platform IP

video through the ability to integrate with a choice of best-of-breed providers. Arecont Vision

megapixel cameras offer more efficient coverage of wider areas with sharp image details and

Pivot3 storage solutions are optimized for high volume video data installations. This is a ‘terrific

triad’ with the XProtect video management software at the core,” states Eric Fullerton, CSMO

Milestone Systems.

“Arecont Vision is actively ramping up our industry education initiatives in 2010, and these road

shows are a tremendous opportunity for end users to get hands-on experience with our megapixel

cameras integrated with industry leading VMS and storage solutions in a complete IP video

surveillance configuration,” said Raul Calderon, Vice President of Marketing, Arecont Vision. “By

partnering with Milestone and Pivot3 for these events, Arecont Vision will showcase how

seamlessly our megapixel cameras can be integrated into mainstream video surveillance

applications. We believe it’s an educational experience that will prove to be invaluable for all who

attend.”

“Customers are the ultimate winners when industry leaders work together to prove out the value,

simplicity and interoperability of open-systems solutions,” said Lee Caswell, founder and CMO of

Pivot3.

In just a couple of minutes, a house or apartment can be made multimedia-compatible simply and cost-effectively with the new Mobotix Mx2wire media converter, which transforms a two-wire cable that is no longer used into a network cable including power supply. For instance, a telephone line, antenna cable or bell wire can be used to connect multimedia devices like computers, network cameras, WLAN routers, Internet telephones or door intercoms without the need to lay new cables or use an additional power supply. The Mx2wire media converter from Mobotix consists of two units connected to both ends of a cable measuring up to 500 metres in length. Using patented Mobotix technology, the two Mx2wire units are automatically configured as a sender or receiver, which then makes it possible to establish network connections throughout an entire building.