The Monumental Guido Coal Mine, which was founded in 1855, is located in the City of Zabrze in Silesia Province in southern Poland. The name of the coal mine - Guido - originates from the name of big industrialist, millionaire - Prince Guido Henkel von Donnersmarck. For more than a hundred years and now after transformations, the Guido Coal Mine, is comprised of a coal mining museum and a modern area called the "K8 zone" for leisure, business and culture - making it a place for young and old people to explore the region's mining heritage and enjoy cultural and art events.

Amazingly, the K8 zone is located 320 metres below ground in the Guido Coal Mine and consists of four huge chambers for conferences, concerts, theatrical performances, culture fairs and business meetings etc. More uniquely, the deepest place in the K8 Zone is a pub, which is also considered as one of the most iconic pubs in Silesia. The unique underground climate guarantees raw and mining decor with a brick ceiling, creating a place where people can enjoy a beer and hot snacks. The Coal Mine Guido is a worthy place to visit. With the modern zone entering into official operation in 2013, visitors to the Guido Coal Mine have increased significantly.

 The selection of cameras was the biggest challenge in this project since cameras must be able to cope with difficult lighting conditions, to deliver high quality image, and to resist from dustiness in the underground tunnels.

With serious evaluation, engineers from Guido Mine and specialists from the local professional system integrator KAZ Company decided to choose Vivotek IP8151 cameras.

The Vivotek IP8151, a 1.3 megapixel professional fixed network camera has been designed to represent the next-generation in video quality in network cameras. Featuring the utmost in picture clarity through utilisation of advanced sensor technology, the camera is able to capture exceptional details during the daytime, as well as to offer unparalleled visibility under low-light conditions through its supreme night visibility feature. In addition, designed with WDR enhancement, image details under extremely bright and dark environments can be identified clearly.

Moreover, the Vivotek IP8151 is equipped with a microphone and two-way audio track. It enables easy and direct communication and instruction, which can be a very useful function whenever there is an incident. According to the company, Vivotek’s IP8151 has fulfilled the clients’ expectations.

Krzysztof Jaromin, Technical Director of KAZ Company indicated, “Our company has been working in the market for more than a dozen years. This experience and our wide service assortment enables us to provide great flexibility and adjustments to achieve customer expectations. Therefore, we have involved our designers and teams in the realisation of this contract. The choice of Vivotek camera was not accidental. Workers had a good opinion beforehand. Those cameras were a success at the concert of the Johnny Freelance Experience Group."

Tymoteusz Rduch from the IT department of Guido Mine further commented: “The monitoring system designed with Vivotek’s network cameras IP8151 is very good and can be managed without any problems under difficult conditions in the coal mine. Cameras in external housings can perfectly cope with dust and air humidity. The museum must constantly monitor a number of people moving into the mine and moving out from mine. With the use of this camera the mine can register people who are moving around there. In the K8 Zone, where free movement is permitted between chambers, the operator can supervise people who are in the middle of the mine. Tourists can’t smoke in the mine and the operator can check this by camera. If somebody loses their way, the operator can help them. The system monitoring is very helpful for the workers too."