The area, which was built by real estate company Bahria Town, is set alongside the Lahore Canal and consists of high specification housing, health facilities, schools, community centre, entertainment and a business district.
“With threats from terrorism, vandalism and burglary, security is of prime importance to our residents. Investing in the very best surveillance technology was therefore a priority,” said Babar Rustam Tanoli, general manager of the development.
“IndigoVision’s system gives us amazing video quality and intuitive video management software enables our security team to quickly identify potential problems and respond accordingly. Forensic analysis of the archived video has already led to a number of arrests. Knowing the community has a state-of-the-art surveillance system is in itself a deterrence.”
The project was designed and installed by Votel Solutions, who deployed the system using a point-to-multipoint wireless network with 10 access points and two backhaul links.
Watching schools, hospitals and community centres
A mix of IndigoVision’s day/night fixed and PTZ IP cameras have been deployed to monitor critical public areas such as schools, hospitals and community centres. Fixed HD cameras have been fitted at all the entry and exit points to record vehicle licence plates and for facial recognition. Currently they are archived for later analysis, however Votel Solutions have deployed an in-house developed forensic analysis application, designed to integrate with the IP video system and enable real-time authentication.
Control Center, IndigoVision’s security management software, has been integrated into the system to allow the operators to view live video and analyse post-incident recorded video. Features such as thumbnail motion search, interactive maps, sequences and guard tours have “helped Bahria Town to improve operator efficiency and incident response, all with fewer security personnel,” according to IndigoVision.
Video from all the cameras is set up to be recorded on an IndigoVision Windows Network Video Recorder server with one terabyte of storage for seven days. It is then archived onto NetApp FAS 2020 storage for a further 30 days. Evidential quality video clips are then exported for use by the police, who view them on IndigoVision’s standalone Incident Player application.
Qasim Abbas, Votel Solutions’ associate director said, “IndigoVision’s excellent H.264 compression technology, flexible distributed architecture and unique motion analytics were all features that set the company ahead of the competition. The ability to stream high-quality video, including from HD cameras, across the wireless mesh has made this project viable and cost effective for Bahria Town.”
