Vidilanz is the first intelligent portable video security camera designed to connect directly to existing alarm systems, providing a far less expensive alternative to CCTV and greater clarity of still images. The Vidilanz's unique ultra low power video processing technology, also enables it to operate as a standalone surveillance camera for up to nine weeks on one small internal battery. This opens up thousands of different applications across many fields.

Vidilanz is the brainchild of David Hill, managing director of Moreton Bay Systems. He has many years of experience in the electronics industry and founded Moreton Bay Systems after seeing an opportunity in the digital security and surveillance camera market. Formerly, he was Australian general manager of Motorola Semiconductors.

"It revolutionises the digital video security market by offering a different technical approach to capturing and processing images, and a longer battery life than anything else on the market," says David Hill "Our concept was to take digital still images at whatever frame rate is necessary for the particular application or environment, and we have developed our own video processing engine to do that at a very low power level"

A lower cost variant of the Vidilanz surveillance camera is the security system version which is a first step for the householder or business to upgrade their existing alarm system to become an image based alarm system. The camera is simply a drop-in replacement for existing motion detectors and takes only minutes to setup.

"This is an exciting opportunity to grow our security offering with a unique technology-there's nothing that really comes near it. The camera basically has unlimited possibilities of use. For instance, because of its portability and cost effective 'no wires' installation, businesses such as large retailers can use the product to complement their existing CCTV by shadowing high risk goods on the move," says Jason McCreanney, MD, VUK "High resolution JPEG images from the camera mean that retailers get very distinct still images of perpetrators, which are better for getting convictions"

A recent product orientation day, hosted by Moreton Bay Systems and Vidilanz UK gave distributors and clients the opportunity to see the range and discuss future developments.