The system monitors a series of automated bollards that regulate traffic on a number of the city’s streets, alerting the Antwerp Police to malfunctions, accidents and acts of vandalism.
The bollards can be lowered automatically during pre-determined hours or when buses and trams pass using on-board transponders.
Local residents and authorised others can gain access using a smart card reader or entering a pin code on a keypad.
The access control system shares the same network as the IP video for communication back to the local traffic centre that is the hub for the project.
The video is then relayed to the Antwerp Police over a fibre IP network some 10km away, where it is monitored and recorded.
Recording of the traffic bollard camera footage is achieved using five standalone IndigoVision network video recorders installed at the police control centre. These record all cameras simultaneously at 4CIF for up to seven days. The cameras are IndigoVision’s high-end external IP domes, connected directly to the network.
