17 Jun 2016
A high
profile client – with business interests in retail, hotels, property and
transportation amongst others – wanted to replace an ageing analogue
CCTV system at one of his residences in the UK.
The existing site consisted of 17
analogue PTZ cameras and multiple fixed cameras located around the vast
acres of private land on the owner’s estate. All of the cameras were
cabled with coax and twisted pair for data where required. The system
provided D1 resolution images which were recorded on traditional
analogue DVR’s and displayed real time on two 50” display monitors.
The main requirement by the estates
head of security was to upgrade the system to improve the image quality
to HD resolution while retaining the ability of real time live
monitoring. This was imperative to the operation of the 24/7 manned
control room as any incidents needed immediate reaction and resolution.
The Challenge
Having
ascertained the client’s requirements, the challenge was to provide a
state of the art HD surveillance system that would retain the most
important requirement of real time HD video. This would enable the
estate security to quickly and easily deal with any security threats.
Additionally, the system needed to be
future proof, to enable the ability to upgrade the entire system in the
advent in advances of video technology.
All except
for 3 local cameras were cabled with a new fibre backbone utilising
Genie’s HD-SDI to Fibre converters. This allowed the system to transmit
Real-time (30FPS) HD-SDI images back to the control room which
terminates in a Genie Fibre to HD-SDI receiver rack. The native HD-SDI
connected via RG6 coax to two 16 channel Genie HD-SDI Digital recorders (WHDSDI188).
Each recorder offered 32TB HDD recording to enable the required footage
retention period as well as user friendly search and replay
functionality.
The video
from all the cameras is displayed in real time via HDMI connections from
the DVR’s on two new 50” professional display monitors. This in
conjunction with two 21.5” desktop “control” monitors connected to a PC
installed with Genie’s Central Monitoring Station software. This allows
for the operators to monitor specific camera groups from both DVR’s over
then LAN, while having overall control of the Estates camera system via
eMap.
The Result
With the
system installed and commissioned, reports from the Control room
operators were not only positive but favorably approving of the new HD
image quality, while retaining aspects of control that are were familiar
and most importantly the entire system offering real time video
monitoring.
The Head of Security commented:
“We are so impressed with the
HD-SDI Full HD surveillance system and Genie’s involvement as a
specifier and supplier from start to finish that we have nominated Genie
CCTV Ltd to specify another 100+ camera system and again use the HD-SDI
CCTV products.”
John Boorman, Sales and Marketing Director at Genie CCTV Ltd commented –
“Our suggestion on moving forward with HD-SDI was based on the
customers’ requirements for real time video and Full HD 1080P image
quality. Our HD-SDI to Fibre transmission kit offered the future
proofing the site required, all on a single mode fibre cable
infrastructure. More importantly, this guaranteed the customers’ need
for real time Full HD video surveillance. None of the cameras suffer
from compression lag, meaning the camera records at the highest quality
with the clearest of footage in accurate real time, day or night.”
“Should
the customer wish to add any further cameras at any point throughout
the site, it will now be very easy. And if they need to add IP video
cameras, the Fibre transmission can easily handle Ethernet/Fibre
transmission units as part of the existing installation”
“In
all my years involved in the CCTV manufacturing industry, I have never
seen a real time, full HD surveillance system work so efficiently. I am
very honoured to have been chosen by the end user to provide our Genie
solution and see it work so well”.
Genie CCTV Ltd
Website
T: 01707 330541
CCTV House, City Park
Watchmead
AL7 1LT
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
United Kingdom
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