Like many other inner city areas Newham Council faces a complex security environment, including anti-social behaviour, drugs, criminal activity and traffic issues. High-quality CCTV images are fundamental for both the Council and the police to manage this environment and to ensure public safety.
IndigoVision was chosen to provide network video recorders to replace the existing VCRs as part of a phased project, starting with the 200 camera system in North Woolwich. As budgets become available Newham Council plans to replace all of the existing video recording with IndigoVision NVRs for its entire 800+ cameras.
Cartel on the job
Ten fault-tolerant standalone NVRs were installed by IndigoVision partner Cartel Security in the main concierge building, located at Queensland House. The recorded video can be viewed and analysed by operators in the Borough’s main CCTV control room at Folkestone Road using ‘Control Center’, IndigoVision’s IP video and alarm management software.
This provides Newham Council with a local virtual matrix that acts as a level 2 resilient control medium for the primary analogue matrix, IndigoVision says. Should the main control room become inoperative CCTV surveillance can be transferred to the local virtual matrices.
This configuration also provides the platform for the eventual migration to a total IP video solution, replacing the analogue matrices with a more flexible and scalable solution.
The NVRs record each camera continuously at 6.5fps, with spot feeds at 25fps selected by the operators, for 31 days.