12/09/2010
Indigovision provides solution for large urban area in Belgium
Koekelberg, Belgium
“IndigoVision’s security system has provided the town with an excellent CCTV solution, delivering superb image quality and a robust and flexible platform for future expansion,” said Laurent Mertens, Koekelberg’s Head of Security. “We were also impressed with how easily and cost-effectively the security system could be upgraded in the future as new technology becomes available.”
The Town’s original digital CCTV system was becoming unreliable and difficult to expand, but still represented a large investment. It was therefore important to re-use as much of the existing equipment as possible. The flexibility of distributed IP video allows fast and cost-effective upgrades to existing CCTV security systems, as original equipment can be re-used - as was the case in Koekelberg, where all the original cameras and network infrastructure were kept.
The security surveillance operators, based in the Town Hall, use ‘Control Center’, Indigovision’s IP video and alarm management software to view live and recorded video from all the cameras. Fifteen days of continuous recording is achieved using Indigovision’s network video recorders (NVRs).
“The video management software provides our security team with a set of professional tools to quickly and easily search and retrieve recorded footage, using a simple and logical interface,” added Mertens. “We have already helped in many prosecutions by exporting evidential video for the Police.”
The system is soon to be expanded to allow the local Police direct access to the CCTV video. As Indigovision’s system is truly distributed, this is simply achieved by extending the network to the police station and installing a ‘Control Center’ workstation. As ‘Control Center’ software is licensed on a per seat basis free of charge, this can be achieved for just the cost of an entry level PC.