Shannon Airport, one of the Republic of Ireland’s three primary airports and the third busiest airport in the Republic with more than 3 million passengers per year, had an outdated analogue CCTV solution which had to be upgraded to a full IP digital solution in order to make it more available to key airport services and staff including the police, fire services, baggage handling and Customs & Excise. Each group needed to access the system for different reasons at different places and all at the same time.

The new system had to be highly flexible and capable of growing with the airport. It also needed to deliver significant cost savings and organisational benefits. Re-use of existing camera hardware and much of the Airport’s existing cabling infrastructure were key to keeping installation and hardware costs down.

The system consisting of approximately 200 cameras, runs on Visual Management System's internal converged LAN with little or no impact and is easy to administer. Operations and Security staff can easily access and view any camera on the airport network whilst at the same time the system is recording in real time at a high resolution. When required recordings can be burned to disk for archiving.

Shannon required total situational awareness for this location, but it had to be discrete and customised while the costs had to be as low as possible. With the 360-degree cameras, customers like Shannon Airport save money by reducing camera counts for any location. The technology allows for retrospection, which means that owners can go back to any event and go inside an image to find a person or an incident because the camera gives them 24/7/365 situational awareness, and the de-warping software makes an image taken with a fisheye lens smooth and readily discernible.

"Overall we are pleased with the performance of the system to date and the quality of support provided by Titan Vision.”  said Richard Leahy, IT Service Delivery Manager, Dublin Airport Authority.