Nortronics updates security system for Upper East Side apartment building.The residents of the 132 apartments at the Upper East Side co-op known as Tower East can sleep better at night now. Nortronics Corp., a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of designer, installer and maintainer of security systems for residential, office and institutional clients, has upgraded the systems that protect the building and its residents from crime and vandalism. "Tower East, like many residential buildings throughout the City, was relying on out-dated technology," said Maria Gonzalez, vice president and president-in-waiting of Nortronics. "The latest technology is not only superior in its ease-of-use and ability to detect crime, but it can be cost advantageous as well." During the upgrade at the 34-story coop COOP See Banks for Cooperatives (COOP). at 190 East 72nd Street, Nortronics replaced the building's existing VCR-driven system with a 16-camera network video recorder See DVR, DVD-R and DVD drives. (NVR NVR Never NVR Network Video Recorder NVR Novgorod (Russia) NVR Naval Vessel Register (US Navy) NVR Nene Valley Railway (UK) NVR Non Volatile Residue NVR Non-Volatile RAM ). It added two 15-inch color flat screen monitors in the lobby, and one 17-inch color flat screen monitor in the manager's office. The company also added 13 new color cameras, which monitor the service entrance and ramp, second floor deck, gym, rooftop sundeck and the stairwell stair·well n. A vertical shaft around which a staircase has been built. stairwell Noun a vertical shaft in a building that contains a staircase Noun 1. leading to the roof. The new NVR is far superior to the old DVR (1) (Digital Video Recorder) A device that records video onto a hard disk from one or more ceiling mounted video cameras. Part of a security system, the DVR typically supports 4, 8 or 16 separate camera channels. because it can record video from almost any number of networked cameras. The NVR also has more hard drive space than the DVR, allowing more digital footage to be stored. Although none have been installed yet, it can also accommodate IP cameras, which can be controlled via the Internet. The networked system allows the building manager to view the camera images over the Internet from any remote location. Video images can be watched in real-time, or recorded and saved on the computer hard drive or a DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. to be viewed later. Nortronics used open architecture in the upgrade, giving the building long-term cost advantages and ease-of-use superiority over single-provider systems. By reusing some of the building's existing wiring, Nortronics was also able to cut the cost of the new system. |
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