Naperville, IL July 28, 2008 Sentry 360 Security, Inc. announces the release of a breakthrough high resolution mini- vandal- resistant dome camera with on-board local recording. The InSight™ Mini-Dome is approximately 3 to 4 times the resolution of a normal CCTV or IP camera with a compact size and vandal resistant exterior. Sentry 360 created the InSight Mini-Dome series to open the market to a cost-effective megapixel camera designed for applications in the retail, government, education, corrections, healthcare, industrial and transportation vertical markets. The InSight Mini-Dome is the 1st Megapixel vandal dome of its kind with on- board recording through SD Card & with 3GPP monitoring via a 3G mobile phone.

Thomas Carnevale, Sentry 360’s President says, “We intend to sell thousands of the InSight Mini-Dome’s into major vertical markets through our system integrator installing partners. We think we’ve given the product a lot of features to go along with its simplicity. With the InSight Mini-Dome having built-in Power-Over-Ethernet (PoE) and a compact footprint, it will only take a system integrator a few minutes to install. These major features coupled with on-board recording, 1 way and 2 way audio, 3G mobile Phone monitoring, multi-stream functionality, built-in motion detection and a breakthrough price delivers a megapixel camera ready for primetime and every day applications.” Sentry 360 also has a simple SDK (Software Development Kit) for integration into any 3rd party DVR or NVR manufacturer’s system.

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Sentry 360 Security, the market leader in 360-degree technology, today announced a blockbuster launch of a new InSight Megapixel camera. The new model comes in three different flavors: 1.3MP, 3MP and 5MP; each tailored to specific applications with unique demands. This addition to a family of Sentry 360’s products completes the long awaited “Less-is-More” architectural solution: fixed megapixel cameras are used to capture high detail priority areas, while situational 360-degree cameras provide the continuous coverage with no blind spots. With this new architecture comes a new learning curve for our partners and clientele. That is why Sentry 360 Security is teaming up with integrators to provide free consulting and architectural design for any new or existing installation.

InSight Megapixel camera in not shy in options either: PoE, infrared day/night, optional analog output, digital I/O, auto DC-iris, and optional embedded video analytics are a few to point out. Whether your goal is license plates capturing, facial identification, or simply a wide angle surveillance of your parking lot, Sentry 360 Security has the right solution for you.

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As Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, Neb., has tripled in size over the last 20 years, improved electronic devices have kept the security guard detail at its current level. “Jeff and I have both been here 22 years, and it has probably doubled or tripled in that time frame,” says Tom Didier, Great Plains’ director of engineering services, about Jeff Whalen, biomed supervisor, and the growth of the medical center. One or two security guards are on duty 24/7 depending on the time of day, and increased electronic security such as video cameras and access control devices have made the difference. “It has allowed us not to have to increase the security staff as the hospital has grown in size,” Didier insists. “We’re getting offsite locations, but we’re still able to control what we need to watch, so we haven’t had to expand the number of guards.”

The latest upgrade to the hospital’s five-year-old security camera system is installation of eleven 360-degree cameras to watch primarily public areas inside and outside the medical center. “The ability to see an entire room, especially out in our atrium area, made it very advantageous,” Didier emphasizes. “It continued to enhance the whole system and give our guards an opportunity to really use the cameras as a security tool, because the clarity was there. That made a big difference. “We really didn’t have a lot of our main entrances covered with cameras when we did that project,” Whalen says of the five-year-old surveillance camera installation. “The way those entrances were facing right to the west and the sun going down, there really wasn’t any shade there, so they aimed right at the sun every day. Over those years, they got to where they weren’t very good and weren’t the highest quality of cameras, even back then five years ago.”

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