CCTV
VSI CASH REGISTER PROTECTION FOR PREMIER LONDON CLUB
The
Coliseum night-club in Southwark, London, has commissioned
an integrated CCTV system, incorporating VSI (Video Serial
Interface) technology
from AVE (UK), to ensure high-level management supervision,
promote customer safety, and assist staff training.
CCTV
UK Ltd, in consultation with local Police advisors, installed
multiplexers and 25 security cameras at the 1500-people
venue, which features six bars, including a café and dance
area.
The
CCTV system includes 12 VSI units from AVE to enable venue
management to record details of cash register transactions
directly to the CCTV system, for simultaneous viewing of
till data and filmed events.
In
addition to the security benefits, this offers an excellent
training resource, according to AVE. Details of transactions are recorded as on-screen
text onto VCR tape – which can then be reviewed for
later analysis.
Till
data logged by AVE’s VSI can include the price of
each item, the total cost, the customer payment and change
due for each transaction - as well as the time, date, till
number and operator name and number.
The
VSI offers ease of installation and use, with direct connection
to the CCTV system and to an industry-standard RS-232 board
on the register. There
is a simple, menu-driven set-up program, automatic Baud
rate detection for good connectivity, and built-in test
and demonstration modes to check the installation and train
staff using the system.
The
AVE VSI offers 24 programmable fields, with between 1 and
9 lines of text displayed on-screen and a 20 character
caption titler. The
fields are fully user-definable for ‘no sales’ and
other exceptions, which can be pre-programmed within specific
numeric ranges - such as for values over a fixed cash sum
- and flagged on-screen and later printed through a serial
printer.
AVE
offers an ‘EX Option’, which automatically triggers
the CCTV system to switch to a camera or move it to a pre-set
position so as to monitor a particular cash register when
exceptional transactions are detected. |
