The International Media Center (IMC), located at Rusutsu Resort, near Kyoto, Japan, provided various services to the media during the 2008 G8 Foreign Ministers' Summit, an annual meeting attended by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and, the European Commission. The Japanese security company ALSOK (Tokyo, Japan) was responsible for security at the G8 Summit press conferences at the IMC.

ALSOK selected ioimage (Herzliya, Israel) to provide a reliable and cost-efficient solution for monitoring the dark, heavily forested terrain surrounding the facility. "A precondition for the IMC's security system was to limit the number of guards that would be needed to monitor many cameras," said Mr. Yoshinori Nakaya, deputy manager of ALSOK. "This was due to a rational fear that the human eye could overlook suspicious objects and also the difficulty security guards have in maintaining constant vigilance under challenging conditions, in which tight, 24-hour security was crucial."

The video-analytics solution from ioimage, a pioneer in intelligent video appliances, can detect all levels of intruders. This offers a new approach to video security, transforming surveillance into a proactive, event-driven process. By using thermal imaging cameras and ioimage intelligent video devices, ALSOK secured the area without the need for additional outdoor lighting.

"ioimage is proud to have been selected to help protect the G8 Summit's Media Center," said Maoz Tenenbaum, senior sales director, Asia Pacific for ioimage. "Our video-analytics solution is being increasingly adopted by high-security installations to monitor vulnerable perimeters and proactively identify security breaches before they cause serious damage."

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