With our many years’ experience in security, combined with our expertise in IP technologies, we designed and installed a highly sophisticated and cost-effective IP-based CCTV system.
A total of forty-five CCTV cameras were installed across the site. These would monitor the facility’s perimeter fence, loading bays, and car parks, as well as its production lines, warehouses, and offices. Three 16-channel digital video monitoring systems were installed, all capable of supporting both IP and analogue cameras. The monitoring system also provided superior motion detection, frame progression technology and advanced search facilities. This enabled the company to record video footage as and when needed, and review footage quickly and efficiently.
Remote Monitoring Centre software was installed on specific network PCs across the site to provide key staff a flexible front-end application for viewing both real-time and recorded footage. As the security guard’s hut was not already connected to the network, we linked it via a wireless network connection.
The back-end software that drives this CCTV system is fully programmable. This grants the ability to control which members of staff can access footage from specific cameras.
In addition, it provides a particularly user-friendly interface so very little training is required and users can become proficient very quickly. The system interface presents users with a graphical overview of the site. They need only click on a specific location to view live or recorded images from those cameras.
The cameras on-site are set to permanently detect and record motion and activity is plotted into tables and graphs within the system’s front end. This graphical output means management staff can track movement across their entire site and compare results to identify circumstances where incidents may have occurred. Recorded footage can then be reviewed to determine exactly what happened.
As this system is software-based, it does not require a complex video matrix and is therefore extremely cost-effective. CCTV footage can be relayed easily through monitors as well as plasma screens and is a highly viable solution for control rooms and situations where multi-image displays are used.
