First staged in 1950, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo is the largest show of its kind in the world, attracting over 200,000 visitors each year and an international TV audience of around 100 million.
As with any high-profile event the Tattoo is a demanding security environment, in which CCTV plays a very important role.
Colonel Richard Hambleton, Managing Director, The Edinburgh Military Tattoo, said: “We have a terrific CCTV surveillance system that now provides the Tattoo with a really flexible solution for this year’s event and the future. The video quality is fantastic and the distributed nature of the system means we can easily deploy and relocate cameras as necessary without expensive re-cabling.”
Easily viewed
The event controller and security staff use ‘Control Center’, IndigoVision’s IP video and alarm management software, running on a dual-monitor PC, to view live and recorded video from any of the cameras located throughout the event. The cameras are IndigoVision’s high-end external PTZ IP Domes, which only require a single CAT-5 connection to the network.
The cameras are recorded at 4CIF, 25fps for a minimum of 31 days using IndigoVision’s standalone Network Video Recorders, which each have a removable disk drive. This allows video footage to be easily reviewed by external agencies in the event of an incident.
The Tattoo has chosen to deploy three NVRs, with a total storage of 2.25TB, in a redundant fault-tolerant configuration. Two NVRs continually record video, with the third unit acting as a failover back-up. In the event of a failure the back-up NVR will automatically start recording the video from the failed unit.
