Genie's advanced HD-SDI Solution is used to secure a High Porfile Clients property.

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”.