Adrian Mealing, Chairman of the Security Equipment Manufacturers’ Section of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), explores the issue of pan-European certification and how the advent of new European legislation would signal a new era for the UK’s intruder alarms market.

IDF Aluminium has installed transom closers, hook locks and armoured keeps from Alpro at a new-build Asda store in Wealdstone, north London.

Bristol Zoo has used Xvision’s IP infrared bullet and dome cameras to observe a range of mammals, birds and reptiles as part of a BBC documentary.

IQCCTV, a Y3K company, has supplied over 100 of its dome cameras to the Park City Grand Plaza Kensington in central London.

Working with building services engineers JH Shouksmith & Sons Ltd, Comelit has supplied an IP door entry system to The Edge, a £15 million development in Leeds that provides luxury boutique hotel-style accommodation to the city’s university students.

Based in the Wicklow Mountains of Co. Wicklow, Ireland, Powerscourt Estate is a leading visitor attraction with approximately 500,000 visitors every year to the house, estate and golf club

Dante Group has installed ACTviquest, an integrated access control and video management solution, at the £100m Manchester Arndale shopping mall

Working with installers Beta Security, Comelit has supplied its IPvideo entry system for access control and resident messaging at New Atlas Wharf in the Surrey Quays area of London’s Docklands

The Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children in Kings Cross, London, has installed a two-way IP audio-video intercom designed and manufactured by Castel

An extensive Bosch security solution protects the famous Roman and Byzantine mosaics and other antique art treasures in the Hatay Archaeology museum in Antakya, Turkey

The Paxton Flyers are a team of cyclists of all abilities representing Paxton, the UK market leader of electronic IP access control and door entry equipment, at the Chestnut Sussex 100 Cycle Ride

Urmet has added to its range of residential door entry monitors with the release of the Miro hands-free video entry phone