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100+ Camera HD Surveillance Network

A wide-area HD camera network with control rooms, video walls and remote tower sites, run on our SVMS software

  • 2016–2017
  • Delivered by SciFlair
100+HD cameras on one network
4link types: microwave, satellite, fibre, WiMax
2016–17delivered in two years
1video management system for every site

System Life Cycle Delivered

  1. Concept – delivered
  2. Development – delivered
  3. Production – delivered
  4. Utilisation – delivered
  5. Support – delivered
  6. Retirement

Mission and Need

The client needed live HD video from more than 100 cameras spread over a wide area, brought into control rooms over whatever link each site could get: microwave, satellite, fibre or WiMax.

Remote tower sites had to be powered and controlled without staff on site, and each operator had to see only the cameras they were authorised to view.

Our Role

A follow-on project from the command-and-control programme. SciFlair directed the programme: requirements, system design and integration, vendor management, factory acceptance and client sign-off, with SVMS, our own video management software, at its core.

What We Built

  • More than 100 HD PTZ cameras on towers and rooftops, each with its own wireless or wired link
  • A mixed backhaul over microwave, satellite, fibre and WiMax, carrying every stream to the control rooms
  • CCTV control rooms with video walls driven by SVMS wall players
  • Remote power and control of tower camera sites, so faults are handled without a site visit
  • SVMS video management: live and recorded viewing, PTZ control, recording and per-operator camera rights

Fixed tower and rooftop sites, control rooms and video walls, all on one SVMS system.

How It Was Delivered

  1. Requirements and design

    Camera sites, link types and control-room needs captured and turned into one system architecture.

  2. Vendor management and integration

    Cameras, radios and control-room equipment from several vendors integrated under SVMS.

  3. Verification

    Factory acceptance testing before deployment.

  4. Validation and transition

    Installation at height, commissioning and client sign-off, handed over with administrator and operator manuals.

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