With fears of terrorism still in the air, vendors at this week's International Security Conference touted new surveillance technologies being used in transportation and logistics to pinpoint suspicious packages, peer inside transport vehicles and positively identify people even through darkness and fog. . . .
With fears of terrorism still in the air, vendors at this week's International Security Conference touted new surveillance technologies being used in transportation and logistics to pinpoint suspicious packages, peer inside transport vehicles and positively identify people even through darkness and fog.

SerVision's new IVG-400 PDA-enabled wireless surveillance product is already being piloted in Mexico by both DHL and PepsiCo, said Oren Yehezkely, vice president for product implementation at the company.

Another test is slated to begin in about three weeks on bus lines in London, according to Gideon Tahan, president and CE0 of SerVision.

The new in-vehicle video gateway represents a new twist on SerVision's existing SVG-400 stationery gateway, which runs digital video--compressed at ratios of more than 50:1--over either wired links or narrowband cellular connections.

In a demo of the new IVG-400, SerVision officials showed a live, streaming video feed, which was beamed over a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) cellular connection from a video camera stationed outside a Los Angeles office building to a handheld PDA on the show floor in Manhattan. Alternatively, video can be streamed to PCs in control rooms.

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