The Olympic Stadium in Berlin can seat more than 74,000 spectators for football matches, track and field events or concerts.
At the venue, the Panomera multi-sensor camera system supplied by Dallmeier not only provides a comprehensive overview, but also shows details at great distances in unprecedented resolution. Over 200 megapixels for top detail resolution, in fact.
Panomera’s most convincing feature for the decision-makers at the stadium, the police and the senate in Berlin was the way in which this solution combines the overall view with simultaneous top detail resolution.
Plans in place for system expansion
Currently, the installed multi-sensor camera systems deliver an “astounding” 200+ megapixels in real-time. Plans are already in place to expand the system to over 600 megapixels.
With Panomera, a huge area can be monitored in a highly efficient manner. From just a single location, the same area can be surveyed as with multiple HD cameras installed at several locations.
“The difference is not just that multiple HD cameras distributed in different places would not work as efficiently due to the fact that the image angle of the individual cameras cannot be ideally directed on the overall scene,” explained Dieter Dallmeier, company founder and CEO. “Since fewer camera installation locations are needed, the requirements for the infrastructure, such as cables, are substantially lower, along with expenditures for servicing and maintenance.”
Dallmeier went on to state boldly: “Today, Panomera is the most cost-effective camera system on the market.”
Panomera offers yet another major advantage. The overall picture is permanently recorded with top detail resolution. This solves the problem associated with conventional PTZ cameras, which force the operator to decide between the overview view and the detail view.
PTZ cameras have a definite disadvantage. If the operator wishes to zoom into or pan a certain area, only this part of the image is recorded. This means that, later on, no recording of the overall scene exists so that incidents in other areas may be overlooked and can no longer be reconstructed.
“Here, Panomera works differently,” explained Roland Meier, project sales manager at the CCTV specialist. “Even if you have zoomed into a certain part of the scene live, in the recording you can always reconstruct what happened in another part of the picture at the same time. In contrast to a normal PTZ camera, you won’t miss anything and can reconstruct incidents in detail even after the fact.”
Unique operating design: even from a distance
Panomera features multi-user capability. This means that, in contrast to PTZ cameras (with which only one operator can pan, tilt or zoom), with Panomera an unlimited number of operators can navigate across the entire scene independently of each other. Although all operators are connected to the same camera, each of the individual users can select their view individually and zoom or pan as they desire.
The Panomera multi-sensor systems in the Berlin Olympic Stadium will be monitored from a total of eight Control Rooms and nine workstations.
Operating the system with the SeMSy management software is very easy and intuitive. Operators see a slider with the overall scene on their respective monitors. Using ‘drag and drop’, they can then enlarge the desired area on the monitor, zoom as desired or move around the entire scene.
Reviewing of the camera images will not just take place at the stadium itself, however. The Panomera images will also be transmitted to the police and will be evaluated remotely by means of SeMSy.
Recording with the highest availability
The images are recorded on Dallmeier video servers which ensure the highest availability of the data and, in turn, meet the sophisticated demands of Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.
The video servers allow redundant recording of the image data on two hard disk drives. In addition, they work with the Linux operating system, which experts consider to be extremely reliable.
In order to further increase stability, the operating system was separated from the hard drives and stored on a Flash ROM. The power supply is also assured at all times, since the power supply units are redundant.
All-in-one solution from a single source
Dallmeier supplied the Berlin Olympic Stadium with an all-in-one video security solution from one source. For this, the Panomera surveillance concept is supplemented by full-HD DDZ4020 PTZ cameras with 20x optical zoom (which, for instance, observe throngs of visitors in the outdoor area).
In addition, numerous other already existing cameras in the outdoor areas, such as the existing thermal cameras, were integrated into the Dallmeier system via Smatrix series recording devices. The entire video system can now be operated from a single interface.
“This allows the Berlin Olympic Stadium’s management to continue using its existing technology and, at the same time, expand the system into what is one of the world’s most innovative stadium security systems,” concluded Roland Meier.
Further information on Dallmeier
Dallmeier has at its disposal more than 25 years of experience in transmission and recording as well as picture processing technology, and is a pioneer when it comes to CCTV/IP solutions on the worldwide stage.
This knowledge base is used in the development of intelligent software and high quality recorder and camera technologies, in turn enabling Dallmeier to not only offer stand-alone systems but complete network solutions up to large-scale projects with perfectly integrated components.
Right from the beginning, the company always focused on its own innovative developments with the highest quality and reliability always at the top of the agenda.
Dallmeier is the only manufacturer in Germany that develops and produces all components on its own. This includes the entire product range, from cameras to picture storage and transmission to intelligent video analysis and even individually adjusted management systems.
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