On October 13th the Yahoo news site revealed, 'The rescue was planned with extreme care. The miners were monitored by video on the way up for any sign of panic. They had oxygen masks, dark glasses to protect their eyes from unfamiliar light and sweaters for the jarring transition from subterranean swelter to chilly desert air.'
It is worth noting that the video was taken via Vivotek's latest Megapixel camera with it's night vision function. The FD8134 fixed dome network camera was chosen because of its superb HD video quality and compact size for the rescue capsule, called 'Phoenix'--13 feet tall and barely wider than their shoulders, to provide operators working at ground level a clear, real-time view of the conditions in and around the capsule as it made its descent to retrieve each miner and then return to the surface.
Vivotek is proud to have done its part to bring this amazing 23-hour rescue effort to a happy conclusion.
21/10/2010
Vivotek serves as "eye" for Chilean miner rescue capsule
San Jose Mine, Chile
Last Thursday people around the world were breathing a collective sigh of relief with the news that the rescue of the trapped Chilean mine workers had been successful. Vivotek, a leading brand of IP surveillance based in Taiwan, played an important part in this world-watching rescue event, as their FD8134 fixed dome network camera served as an electronic eye in the rescue capsule, which was to go deep beneath the Chilean soil and hoist the 33 miners through 2,000 feet of rock out of the collapsed mine.
Global
