The council is using a wide area network (WAN) to connect together CCTV systems that were isolated within various neighbouring towns.
Such an installation would have been cost-prohibitive using traditional analogue fibre transmission. The VideoBridge 8000 units convert analogue signals to very high quality digital video for transmission over an IP network at a guaranteed 25 frames per second.
This allows VideoBridge technology to capture and record video from complex fast moving scenes without dropping frames – a specification that currently cannot be matched by any other IP-based video system.
Scott Young, of Monmouthshire County Council, said: “In our opinion, IndigoVision’s MPEG4 offers the highest available standard of motion capture, resolution and telemetry over an IP Network allowing us to achieve our operational requirements.
“The economies we have achieved through monitoring several town centres from one site have allowed us to justify the deployment of CCTV over Monmouthshire County Council’s WAN. By utilising IP we are able to run CCTV alongside various other public service applications, significantly reducing ongoing running costs.”
