The analytics algorithms, which are part of IndigoVision’s complete end-to-end IP video solution, run in real time at the camera, ensuring that staff in the control room are alerted to intrusions as they are detected.
Seventeen fixed cameras cover the active airside of the airport and these are connected back to the control room via a hybrid fibre and wireless LAN. The analytics mode ‘Virtual Tripwire’ is used to designate unauthorised areas in each camera’s fields of view. Whenever a vehicle or person crosses into these areas, an alarm is automatically raised and the appropriate camera view is displayed in the control room. The system was designed and installed by GTN Systems, IndigoVision’s Dutch based approved integrator.
“It is not possible to implement such a system using traditional analogue video systems, because of the distances involved and the need to use real time analytics,” said Oliver Vellacott, IndigoVision’s CEO. “The combination of IP Video and wireless networks is opening up a whole new range of applications for CCTV, particularly for site-wide monitoring of rail networks, ports and airports.”
IndigoVision’s enterprise video and alarm management software, allows control room staff to view live and recorded video from any of the cameras. All video is recorded on two NVRs, providing up to 14 days of continuous real time recording. The operations staff can also run the same analytics on the recorded video for post event analysis.