Of course the Olympic Games come to London later this month and this mega-event comes with several, significant terror alerts. The police and military are primed for the biggest security operation since the Second World War and the government and forces are also turning to technology to detect potential threats on the capital’s roads.

NDI-RS is also working with a number of London boroughs in the run up to the Olympic Games and has deployed camera networks based on their NDI-RS-C320 cameras to monitor routes in and out of the games’ home in Stratford.

At the heart of NDI-RS’s cameras systems are two high resolution Sony FCB block cameras, these output images to the Metropolitan Police in both infrared – for ANPR capture – and colour – for evidential overview imaging.

Images from the cameras are sent to the Metropolitan Police data centre at New Scotland Yard, which runs the NDI-RS’ TALON ANPR software and the resulting data is compared with a number of databases – including police, customs, DVLA and border agencies - to detect potential threats, as well as stolen, uninsured or untaxed vehicles.

Adrian Cadd, Sales Director of NDI-RS said: “The Ring of Steel has been in operation for approximately 15 years and we’ve constantly upgraded its hardware to exploit improvements in sensor technology as image quality is vital in such mission critical situations.”

Stéphane Clauss, of Sony Europe’s Image Sensing Solutions division said: “There has been a rapid increase in complexity of automatic analysis software during recent years and to get great data out, you need exceptional image quality. We’ve therefore worked closely with the sensor division at Sony to get the best possible image for our customers.”