IQinVision claims that the use of megapixel camera technology allowed the hospital to reduce by more than 50 per cent the number of cameras needed to accomplish their surveillance objectives.
Bonifacio is Corsica’s newest hospital, specialising in maternity and Alzheimer treatment services.
Located in the countryside, the hospital is very high-tech, with a strong emphasis on security and video surveillance.
Francoise Bigue, director of the Hospital, established the goal that any upgraded video surveillance system had to be able to recognise anyone entering the facility, unlike the previous analogue system.
For Laurent Guidi, head of the hospital’s IT system, system priorities included image quality and the discreet positioning of all cameras. To meet the hospital’s demands, a Viseox VXCore system was installed at the hospital to manage video from 23 high definition megapixel IQeye cameras.
IQeye Sentinel cameras are deployed outside the hospital and IQeye Alliance domes throughout the hospital interior.
Cameras are recorded at eight frames per second to the Viseox server with eight terabytes of storage in a RAID 5 configuration. This allows for 15 days of 24-hour storage of all camera data onto the dedicated server with full security.
IQeye megapixel technology enabled the hospital to reduce to 23 from the 50 cameras initially planned for the facility, the company says.
Video footage can be monitored at all times by security personnel and the camera feeds are also accessible to the heads of each medical ward via the hospital network, depending on access rights.
“Here is a great example where the hospital achieved its surveillance objectives,” said Ramon Grado, IQinVision EMEA managing director, “while cutting the number of cameras it needed by more than half. That’s better technology and better results at a highly affordable level of investment.”
