San Borja is primarily a middle-class district of the country’s capital, Lima, covering an area of 4 square miles and with a population of more than 100,000.
The system was installed in advance of the annual meeting of the 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), which met in Lima in November 2008.
The San Borja authorities needed a surveillance system that could deliver high-quality video using wireless networks to monitor public safety and identify criminal activity in an urban environment.
Following a technical evaluation, IndigoVision was chosen and the system was designed and installed by Exprescom and their partner Netkrom Technologies.
The system is monitored by the staff of the Serenazgo, the local authority’s security force, from a Central Command Centre.
The security team use Control Center, IndigoVision’s security management software, to monitor live and recorded video and manage alarms. Control Center provides search tools for analysing recorded video and features such as maps, which coupled with alarms, ensures timely incident response to emergencies.
Evidential quality video can be exported from the system to aid the local police in investigations following an incident. The Central Command Centre has four Control Center workstations with multiple monitors and an IndigoVision Network Video Recorder for continuous recording of the video.
Andres Reyes, corporate project manager at Netkrom Technologies, said: “Control Center software is field-proven and provides the authorities with a robust and advanced solution for monitoring and analysing video and managing alarms.
“Using the thumbnails feature they can search through 24-hours of video in just a few seconds.”
San Borja deployed 43 of IndigoVision’s 8000 Series PTZ IP Domes at strategic points around the district. Each IP dome contains a high-quality camera, robust PTZ mechanism and the MPEG-4 compression hardware. DVD-quality video can be streamed directly from the camera on to the wireless network without the need for an external codec, the company says.
