Installers Acsyss fitted a city-wide mesh system with 50Mbps throughput supplied by wireless vendor Luceor, using 9000 IP PTZ domes, fixed domes and fixed cameras.
It followed the installation of an IndigoVision system at a local school.
Positive results as soon as system was deployed
“Positive results were seen as soon as the system was deployed,” a spokesman said.
“Even though the school has its own surveillance system, areas outside the school were causing problems for the authorities, with graffiti and assaults being a particular issue. As the director of the school commented, “placing a camera monitored by the police at the exits of the school has deterred many offenders and we have seen a significant reduction in the violence and graffiti.”‘
IndigoVision’s distributed architecture has been designed to allows any component, such as camera, video workstation and video recorder, to be located at any point on the wireless network.
Both the local municipal police and the Gendarmerie monitor and control the system from their own video workstations.
“The flexibility of the system means that it can be expanded to cover other areas of the city cost-effectively in the future,” IndigoVision said. “Expansion can also be temporary, allowing the city to install additional cameras during special events such as the annual City Party festival.”
Real-time analytics
“Real-time analytics and ACF can be enabled in the cameras. ACF controls the framerate of the video stream based on the amount of motion in the scene. When there is no activity, video is streamed at minimal bandwidth; the instant any motion is detected, video is simultaneously transmitted at maximum configured framerate. This feature, unique to IndigoVision, significantly reduces the bandwidth and video storage requirement for cameras monitoring generally static scenes or during quiet periods, such as at night.”
The city is also looking to deploy analytics in some cameras to automatically detect illegally parked cars.
IndigoVision’s standalone Network Video Recorders, located in the police headquarters, store video from all of the cameras in the city-wide system for a minimum of 30 days. Analysis tools in Control Center, IndigoVision’s video management software, have been set up to allow operators to locate relevant footage in the event of an incident.