Brisbane, Australia – Australian technology innovator, Moreton Bay Systems, today launched its new Digilant® security camera technology after four years of intensive research & development.
Digilant® is the first intelligent portable security camera designed to connect directly to existing alarm systems, providing clear still images of intruders.  
The Digilant® unique ultra low power video processing technology also enables it to operate as a surveillance camera for up to nine weeks on one small internal battery, compared to only six hours for its closest competitors. This opens up thousands of different applications across many fields.
Digilant® is the brainchild of David Hill, managing director of Moreton Bay Systems.  He has a 30 year background in the electronics industry and founded Moreton Bay Systems after seeing an opportunity in the digital security market.  Formerly, he was Australian general manager of Motorola Semiconductors.
According to Hill, Digilant® marks a real shift in thinking in the security industry.
“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,” Hill said.

“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.”

Moreton Bay Systems’ first Digilant® product is the stand alone version which is a first step for the householder or business to upgrade their existing alarm system to become an image based alarm system. 

“This provides an added insurance policy so that if someone does break in, you can access the images and get a full visual history leading up to the break in.

“You get very clear JPEG images from the camera, which are better for getting convictions.”
“We’ve had interest from all sorts of commercial groups – including industrial and mining, department stores, fast food chains, tourism operators, Government and small business – through to domestic household sites.”

David Sanders of Blue Light Security in Queensland and Craig Kinder of JEA Technologies in Victoria have been extensively trialling and selling the product to a large number of customers.
“We’ve had police and Neighbourhood Watch involved in trialling the system and had very good reports back from both groups”, Kinder said. 

“I’ve always thought that this type of product was needed in the security industry,” adds Sanders, “there is really nothing else out there like it.”

“Digilant can easily be moved from site to site because of its cost effective ‘no wires’ installation, which makes it great for commercial, domestic and remote applications, and for protecting high risk goods,” Saunders said.

Digilant® is available today from Blue Light Security on 07 3809 4911 and from JEA Technologies on 03 9830 6024.

It has been tested and approved to meet standards in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Europe. 
For more information about Digilant®, visit www.digilant.com.au or contact Moreton Bay Systems on 07 3488 1000.

About Moreton Bay Systems
Moreton Bay Systems was established in Brisbane in 2001 by former Motorola Semiconductors General Manager David Hill, to develop advanced, low power wireless digital-camera technologies (WDCT) for the security and home automation markets.  The R&D has been funded by its sister company TE Australia, which for 17 years has been a major Australian distributor for semiconductor manufacturers such as Toshiba and Epson.  This relationship has kept Moreton Bay Systems at the forefront of technology and it now has international patents pending in Australia, U.S., Europe and other countries based on their unique ultra low power digital camera technology.

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Customer Comments
Digilant® has been tested in the marketplace for the last 12 months.  Here are some of those applications.

Applications in Mines and Hotels

Gary Sorensen of Tropical Investigation & Security Services has been trialling Digilant® with great success in the mining and hotel industry.

“We’d been looking at setting up video surveillance for my mining clients to monitor gate access,” Gary said. “This was going to be pretty expensive to do.

“I ditched that video idea as soon as I saw the Digilant® cameras,” Sorensen said.  “I could see the use for them and bought them basically on the spot because they were much cheaper and easier to operate as a standalone item and we can leave them there for weeks at a time.

“The Digilant® cameras take up to 65,000 photos triggered by a motion detection sensor and they’re dead easy to disguise” 

Sorensen now has 12 cameras in use at mining sites and in the hospitality industry.

“We’ve put them on the gates to monitor access to the various mine sites.  This works both for when gates are accidentally left open or to detect and gather legally admissible evidence if people are doing things they shouldn’t be doing, such as taking items off site illegally.

“Some of my mining clients are also using the cameras to monitor wildlife activity at waterways and dams to fulfil their environmental duties, make sure that birds and other wildlife are returning to the areas and also detect pests such as wild pigs or goats so that appropriate action can be taken.

“In hotels and pubs, we’re using the cameras to monitor ATMs, gaming machines and high risk stock such as alcohol.  The photos we get are all date and time stamped and digitally encoded so it is admissible evidence in court if someone is caught doing the wrong thing, or if there is a violent incident in the venue.

“So for example, one of my clients had a complaint from someone using the ATM that it had swallowed $500.  Using the Digilant® photo sequence we can now see if this actually happened or if the person is trying to scam the hotel.”

Peace of Mind to Vandalism Victims

Digilant® has brought peace of mind to landscape architect Bronwyn Fry.

The Fry’s have been victims of a vicious vandalism campaign for the last twelve months and installed Digilant® cameras at their private residence, which has a 40 metre long driveway and is in a quiet, remote area.

“We’ve had sump oil thrown all over our new concrete driveway, had intruders on the property slashing our tyres and had bottles thrown over the fence on numerous occasions,” said Mrs Fry.

“We just weren’t game to go anywhere because of these incidents, and certainly didn’t feel we could go away on a holiday.”

With Digilant® in place they are able to get clear photos of intruders on the property to show to police if any damage is done.

“Now we feel more confident that we can see people coming to the house when we’re not there and even when we are there, we’ve got photographic evidence”, Mrs Fry said.  “We’ve now been able to go away for two weeks and the camera batteries lasted the whole time, recording anybody coming onto the property.  It was great for our peace of mind.”