Taipei Zoo, with more than 90 years history, covers an area of 165 hectares and small hills and valleys adjacent to the zoo. There are six main buildings and eight exhibition areas for indoor and outdoor display. The zoo covers a vast area and includes numerous display buildings, as a result stability, 24/7 operation, high performance and mobility are particularly significant in terms of security.

Optimising the user of Intel architecture, the 16CH Huperlab system delivers high quality video display and recording consuming less CPU power compared to some other systems on the market. In addition, the Huperlab Smartfile management technology avoids disk fragmentation and increases system stability for long term recording while its database auto fix function can stabilise a recording database after an abnormal shutdown.

For optimum use of the recording database, the smart search feature can also define the size of searched targets to save time whilst searching from a large recording database. "The DVR performance and reliability are the key points we were considering, and Huperlab’s surveillance system can fully fulfill our requirements. Relying on this system, the staff in the zoo do not need to worry about blurred image problems or heavy workloads in searching video data stored on a large database. The system installed in the Taipei Zoo has been in operation running smoothly and normally for more than five years," said Roger Chen, the system installer for the Taipei Zoo project.

The surveillance system integrates client programmes that allow security personnel or users to easily access multiple sites via different internet browsers, including IE browsers, Firefox, Google Chrome or any flash-based browser, or through a wide range of mobile phones that cover iPhone, Android phones, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Symbian phones while they are away from the monitoring centre.

Meanwhile, the surveillance system Hupervision supports HD-SDI video inputs that provide 1080p/720p video without latency over coaxial cable, and better FOV (field of vision) for large scale surveillance. Its Tribrid feature that allows any combination of HD-SDI CCTV, CCTV and IP camera connections in one system. The Hupervision HD-SDI capture card is able to be stacked with other Huperlab SD DVR cards or NVR license keys in one system to separately monitor different areas and scenarios dependent upon the user demand.