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Article: Digital system helps shops get smarter. (Working Wise).(Smart Stops uses digital surveillance system at its convenience stores)(Brief Article)
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- Security Management
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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In mid-2001, the three Smart Stops convenience stores in the Lonestar State--in Waco, Midlothian, and Cedar Hill--all had camera systems in place to monitor the activities of both customers and employees. According to the CEO of Smart Stops Texas, Dennis Smart, all of the stores were using between eight and twelve cameras per store. Two of the stores, all of which are located in service stations, used a tape-based system that included a bank of 31 tapes and multiplexers, while the Waco store bad a digital system in place.
Though Smart liked the concept of the digital system and the technological and operational advantages it provided, software problems ...