South Wales Police upgrades mobile CCTV vans

15 July 2024

South Wales Police has enhanced its surveillance capabilities with the upgrade of its five mobile CCTV vans, equipping them with state-of-the-art Predator Ultra Cameras, provided by Excelerate.

Powered by Excelerate’s Exstream video streaming connectivity technology, which allows multiple CCTV streams to be shared securely via the Milestone video stream sharing platform, this upgrade further enhances situational awareness, most notably at pre-planned and spontaneous events.

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Cellhire supports BBC General Election coverage with IoT

12 July 2024

Cellhire played a major role in the BBC’s coverage of the 2024 UK General Election. The company deployed its ‘Count Cam’ packages powered with Cellhire’s IoT connectivity solution to 369 vote-counting locations across the UK to allow the BBC to live-stream footage as the election results unfolded during the night of July 4-5.

As votes were tallied and results announced, thanks to Cellhire the BBC was able to provide continuous coverage throughout the night, employing a combination of reporters, crews, freelancers and state-of-the-art streaming solutions.

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GEM Environmental Building Services opts for cloud

11 July 2024

GEM Environmental Building Services has rolled-out a job management system from BigChange.

The cloud-based, 6-in-1 solution live links engineers in the field with back-office management systems providing real-time updated customer interfaces. Using the system GEM has reduced the admin resource required to manage multi-million-pound contracts by around 50% whilst improving engineer efficiency by 10%.

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Vodafone UK slices network at Glastonbury to support vendors

10 July 2024

Vodafone UK conducted another trial of Network Slicing technology on their latest 5G Standalone (SA) powered mobile broadband network at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, which despite heavy network load was able to dedicate a ‘slice’ of capacity to help drink vendors speed up card transactions.

Most existing 5G networks in the UK still have some dependencies on 4G, which slow them down and are known as Non-Standalone (NSA). 

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