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In today’s uncertain times, many organizations in banking, retail, transportation, public safety/law enforcement, and education want to take advantage of technologies that can enhance safety and protect their people, assets, and facilities.

Digital surveillance systems can effectively provide organizations with a safer environment and address security issues such as:

•	Staff Safety
•	Risk Management
•	Operations Management
•	Loss Prevention Investigation
•	Vandalism Deterrence
•	Liability Defense
•	Access Control
•	Customer Safety
•	Marketing & Merchandising

Marco offers state-of-the-art digital video surveillance systems from March Networks – a leader in advanced video technology. March Networks provides advanced video systems and software to the world’s leading financial and retail organizations. Marco’s 20+ years of expertise in data networking, combined with our expert knowledge in digital video systems, gives us the technical expertise to implement and support both Ethernet and IP video applications.

Why Digital?
Not so long ago, when a business owner/security officer needed to find a piece of video as the result of an alarm trigger or an incident report, he or she had to go to a different location and spend hours, possibly days searching for the relevant segment of tape. Once found, analog recording gave no guarantees on the quality of the images on that segment. This meant organizations wasted tremendous amounts of time and often had little to show for their investment.

Today’s digital surveillance systems are much more advanced. Digital security devices which were once separate are now networked together into a single, seamless system, operated from a desktop PC, giving companies the ability to remotely access live and archived video over their corporate networks and over the Internet.

Integrated Video Environment
Digital security devices that were once separate are now networked together into a single, seamless system, operated from a desktop PC, giving companies the ability to remotely access live and archived video over their corporate networks.

A networked digital surveillance system records camera images on a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) and relays them through the network to a PC monitor for observation. Digital Video Surveillance systems offer high quality, flexible security features such as:

Off-site Monitoring — CCTV technology allows remote monitoring of locations thousands of miles away—say at a branch office. Digital video cameras let users observe from any PC within a network or any PC anywhere (with the client software and high speed Internet), eliminating the expense of high-end dedicated phone lines.

Image Capture — Digital images and the related ability to control the viewing experience through software configuration greatly enhances visual recording quality. For instance, the camera can be set to record only when it detects motion—saving on playback time and hard drive space. Additionally, when incidents occur, high quality individual snapshots or video clips of a suspect can easily be pulled and given to police on a CD or via email.

Archiving/Storage — Most companies desire the ability to play back the tape when conducting video surveillance to view incidents in greater detail, or discern patterns. With digital video surveillance, media is saved on hard disk and easily searched. Advanced search capabilities allow the user to quickly get to relevant areas of the video, greatly reducing time spent viewing video clips.

Applications
Marco provides industry leading March Networks DVRs to help virtually any market improve their video surveillance, monitoring, and security operations, such as:

	Retail Environments — Retailers of all sizes are recognizing the value digital video systems bring to improving employee and customer safety, reducing employee and customer theft, improving risk management and increasing operational efficiencies. Each year, these issues deprive the retail community of many millions of dollars, and research indicates employee theft, customer shoplifting and point-of-sale fraud will not only continue, but is expected to increase over the coming years. March Networks’ digital video recorders are designed to help address these important security and operational exposures. They help improve and extend video coverage, expedite investigations and resolutions, and reduce operational costs. Systems vary from convenience store and franchise monitoring to enterprise surveillance to integrated Point-of-Sale (POS) Transaction Monitoring. These networked systems are easy to use, provide highly efficient video transmission and very extensive storage.
	Facilities — Be it corporate enterprises, government institutions, office complexes, local or remote utilities or other harsh environments, security and operations personnel at these establishments must manage the facility, protect the property and assets, and mitigate threats to staff, customers, tenants and other guests. Networked video from local and remote structures, centralized for easy access and management, allows these personnel to monitor activity more effectively, respond to incidents more rapidly, improve control and security, all while lowering cost of operations. March Networks’ DVRs from Marco deliver these benefits. Systems vary from all-in-one branch security to extensive enterprise monitoring to video-enabling remote or industrial environments. They provide highly efficient video transmission and very extensive storage, while providing more cost-effective verification of remote alarms and better deterrence of vandalism and theft. They also allow multi-site organizations to centralize resources and exercise efficient remote control over their entire network of DVRs.
	Mobile Environments — Mobile Digital Video Recorders (MDVRs) address issues such as crime prevention and passenger/staff safety for bus transit authorities and other fleet operators, as well as security and safety for first responder teams (police, fire, medical and other emergency professionals). March Networks’ MDVRs extend the highly-reliable video surveillance and monitoring features of their fixed-facilities systems beyond the confines of the fleet operation’s facility. They can help improve situation awareness, deter vandalism, theft or other crime, accelerate response and management decisions, provide better risk management, provide reliable video evidence of events, and increase overall public and staff safety. Marco can assist by implementing an MDVR system with complete networking features as well as optional enhancements for GPS vehicle location and speed tracking (synchronized with in-vehicle video) and wireless network access for streaming of video on alarm or on demand to a central station.
	ATM Security — Many banks today still use time-lapse VCRs or first-generation DVRs for lobby, teller line, and ATM surveillance and monitoring. Inconsistent recording, questionable reliability, limited remote access, VCR and tape maintenance/management, and time consuming searches are just some of the issues faced when trying to use this video evidence for important functions like dispute resolution and security investigations. March Networks DVRs can improve and extend banks’ video coverage, expedite their investigations and resolutions, and reduce operational costs. Systems varying from ATM integration to monitoring of cash-counting to video-enabling cash-in-transit vehicles. They provide highly efficient video transmission and very extensive storage and enhance ATM and teller transactions with synchronized video evidence.

DVR Features and Benefits
Here are just some of the reasons Marco provides digital video surveillance systems from March Networks – a leader in advanced video technology. March Networks’ Digital Video Records feature:

•	A Linux based vs. Windows based operating system which resides in flash and not on disk for reliability and security.
•	Innovative hard drive features flexible and standard mirroring so if your hard drive crashes, you will not lose the video. Up to 600 MB can be mirrored as a backup system, which is expandable to RAID 5 for no downtime. March Networks’ DVRs have up to 1.2 Terabyte internal storage (4 – 300 GB drives).
•	Record, retrieve, and review video all simultaneously.
•	System flexibility allows you to have a different frame rate, recording schedule, and record on motion for each per camera.
•	The DVR is a secure and dedicated unit, whereas other applications cannot be added to the DVR, which eliminate crashes, resets, and lockups.
•	Controls bandwidth over the WAN.
•	Only uses network bandwidth when reviewing video clips.
•	March Networks software upgrades are at no charge!
•	Customer Care Service available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
•	DVRs come with a docking station so service calls require no cables to be unhooked or labeled. The DVR docking station contains all scheduling and programming data. A different spare DVR may be placed in the docking station without loss of configurations.
•	DVRs have built-in internal Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS)
•	Advanced search capabilities allow the user to quickly get to critical areas of the video, greatly reducing time spent viewing video clips.
•	DVR system integrates with alarm and card access systems for added security.
•	Common Software used across the entire DVR product family.
•	Audio recording capabilities.
•	Mobile viewer for roaming staff.
•	Free third-party player for clip/image review.