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ATM cameras furnish leads, but don't stop crimes

March 12, 2008

The News & Observer: A wide variety of technology is used in ATM surveillance, an industry executive said Monday. Traditionally, cameras are activated by the slot where a customer inserts a card, said Rob Evans, director of industry marketing for ATM manufacturer NCR Corp. That generates an image when the card is inserted and again when it's removed.
"A lot of newer camera systems just simply give you continuous surveillance," Evans said. "It depends on this particular site."
Chapel Hill police have not said which Chapel Hill-area ATM captured the image of the man trying to use Eve Carson's ATM card. Evans estimated about 40 percent of ATMs have some sort of surveillance capability. Read more

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