Diebold’s Opteva ATMs Invade Australia
Australia’s largest building society, Heritage, announced a $1.2 million refurbishment of its fleet of ATMs that includes the first-ever use of digital surveillance cameras by an Australian building society. Forty-seven new Diebold “Opteva” ATMs will be deployed throughout Heritage’s network of branches and mini branches, bringing the total number of devices in the Heritage ATM network to 82. Ten of these units will be installed in new sites. The advanced “Opteva” terminals are being deployed with digital surveillance cameras, alarms, consumer awareness mirrors and many exclusive security enhancements designed to deter such criminal activity as card-skimming, in which personal information is duplicated from transaction cards.