News & Events
Downtown camera system catches burglar in the act
February 18, 2012
OTTUMWA, IOWA — Ottumwa Police Chief Jim Clark released a statement late Friday evening concerning a burglary that took place at Appanoose Rapids Brewing Company in downtown Ottumwa.
Chief Clark states that on Thursday, February 16th, his department investigated a burglary that happened at 9:30 a.m. on February 15th at the downtown restaurant. The owner of Appanoose Rapids reported to the department that an unknown person entered the front of the building through an unlocked door, took money from the cash register, then left.
The Ottumwa Police Department utilized the city’s downtown camera system to find the suspect allegedly entering the business. Officers then identified Pollard and took him into custody. Read Full Story >
University of Illinois standardizes with Milestone XProtect® platform
February 15, 2012
“If security is decentralized on a major university then police cannot use that system to its maximum capacity. Making the argument for surveillance cameras can be particularly tough in the higher education environment, but the efficacy of the Milestone system helped to make the case to campus administrators.”
- Chief of Police Barbara O’Connor, Executive Director of the University of Illinois Department of Public Safety
Current Technologies’ President Steve Daugherty receives 2012 Business Man of the Year Award from the Illinois State Crime Commission
January 6, 2012
The Illinois State Crime Commission is the largest organization committed to combating public corruption and strengthening the Illinois criminal justice system in this state. The membership and board of directors comprise many of the state’s most influential leaders in government, law enforcement, education, labor, business, and in public policy.
The organization has selected Steve Daugherty of Current Technologies to receive the 2012 Business Man of the Year Award. Read Full Story >
Current Technologies works with the City of Ottumwa, IA to deploy 30 surveillance cameras
September 9, 2011
OTTUMWA, Iowa — Ottumwa is adding a new system of cameras, but they are not designed to stop red-light runners or speeders, reported the Ottumwa Courier newspaper.
“We used it just the other evening when a burglary alarm went off at a business on Church Street,” Clark told the newspaper. Officials said Ottumwa’s camera system won’t focus on traffic, but instead will battle crime to make downtown safer and help support local businesses. Police received a $375,000 federal grant to put about 30 cameras downtown and near Quincy Place Mall. The funds also will be used to install computers in squad cars.
Clark said studies have shown the cameras and their warning signs reduce crime significantly. He said that’s exactly what downtown Ottumwa needs. “What I would like this to help is for this to revitalize the downtown so we have investors come back downtown and invest in the downtown area,” said Clark. Read Full Story >
Current Technologies leverages partnership with Dell to help the nation’s fastest-growing county bring backups up to speed
January 1, 2011
In the event of a server failure, Kendall County, Illinois would have lost as much as 24 hours’ worth of data and required at least three days to recover. The county needed better disaster recovery capabilities, so it turned to Current Technologies Corporation, its longtime service provider and a Dell™ Certified Partner.
Current Technologies worked with Dell to craft a solution whereby Kendall County virtualized all of its servers and moved all data storage to Dell EqualLogic™ iSCSI SANs, which back up among themselves using built-in snapshotting and replication functionality. Now if a server fails, the county can recover the machine in one hour and lose 30 minutes’ worth of data at most. Read Full Story >
Motorola’s Wireless Network Solution Helps Village of Maywood Protect the Safety of Businesses and
Residents
August 30, 2010
The Motorola Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) announced that Current Technologies, a full-service IT consulting firm and member of Motorola’s PartnerEmpower™ channel program, has deployed its wireless video security solution in the Village of Maywood, Ill. to help local law enforcement better protect the safety of businesses and residents. Combining wireless broadband connectivity with state-of-the-art video surveillance technology, Motorola’s cost-effective and flexible solution offers real-time access to footage from more than 80 locations across the village to increase situational awareness, improve incident response times and provide deterrence against criminal activity. Read Full Story >
Leading Chicago IT Services Provider Current Technologies attains Dell Enterprise Architecture Certified Partner Status
January 26, 2010
Current Technologies, a leading Chicago IT Services provider, has announced that it has recently joined Dell’s PartnerDirect program as a Certified Dell Partner. The PartnerDirect program is built on three main tenets of simplified IT, less complexity, and the advantages offered by the Dell business model this will create a lasting and mutually beneficial relationship between Dell and Current Technologies. As a Certified Dell Partner specializing in Enterprise Architecture, Current Technologies gains additional expertise in key enterprise products and solutions, including servers, storage, virtualization, computing flexibility and energy efficiency. Current Technologies VP of IT Solutions, Mark Rhodes, commented, “The decision to Partner with Dell will allow us to provide industry leading solutions to satisfy client requirements – especially in the areas of storage, disaster recovery and server virtualization.” Read Full Story >
Governor Announces $563,000 to Four High-Tech, Chicago Area Companies
August 8, 2006
Current Technologies Corporation (CTC), an IP-service provider based in Naperville will use this $100,000 IPG grant to further develop its wireless surveillance system, which combines outdoor wireless transmission with networked video surveillance, for the homeland security market. The system has been successfully piloted in Bellwood in which 22 cameras installed in high crime areas with feeds connecting them to the Bellwood Police Department contributed to a 15 percent crime reduction. CTC is working with several other municipalities as well. The grant will help the company create 12 new jobs over the next two years and retain 16 jobs. For more information on the company visit www.currenttech.net – Steve Daugherty 630.388.0240. Read Full Story >
CTC Delivers State of the Art Crime Fighting Tool
February 3, 2005
World events and organizational demands have hastened our search for better more cost effective security applications. Current Technologies Corporation (CTC) has successfully integrated the best of two distinct industries — the security industry and the computer industry — to deliver Wireless IP-Surveillance and Monitoring. CTC offers customers in the local government, education, and small enterprise arenas a cost effective alternative that allows them to quickly and easily deploy security cameras in any terrain and potentially save thousands of dollars in installation costs. In addition, wireless cameras can be deployed virtually anywhere, giving companies more flexibility in the design and installation of security and surveillance systems. Read Full Story >
Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo Turns to Milestone IP Video Surveillance
November 4, 2005
Integrator Current Technologies Corporation uses Milestone network surveillance software in zoo installation OCTOBER 2005 – The Brookfield Zoo is using the newest technology with an IP network video surveillance system, installed by Current Technology Corporation, to ensure safety and security throughout the grounds. Crowd control, accidents, and other security-related incidences are all issues that this large metropolitan zoo manages. Widespread areas have to be covered, and an older analog surveillance system was not practical for planned expansions. That is why the Brookfield Zoo decided to use their IT network backbone to run Milestone IP-based surveillance software, which allows easy scalability and the flexibility to add or move cameras around for different exhibits and events. Read Full Story >
