14/07/2007
CCTV used to verify 'hole in one'
Suffolk, UK
To play the game a competitor purchases a ticket in the clubhouse, which is then registered by a ticket machine on the tee. Registering the ticket triggers recording by the digital recorder securely located in the golf buggy. Wireless technology links the ticket machine on the tee with the buggy on the fairway and with the onsite server in the clubhouse. The buggy is situated halfway down the fairway so that its cameras can see the complete hole from tee to green.
On board the golf buggy are four PTZ domes on pump-up 5m masts. PTZ control is via a drag pad unit in the front of the buggy, which also features a 7" LCD screen for configuring the domes. A steel lockable cabinet in the front passenger footwell accommodates the power supply, GPS transmission unit, wireless network and Dallmeier digital recorder (M-DMS 4).
"Mobile CCTV is often equated with adapted transit vans but there are numerous applications where our smaller and more flexible wireless mobile units would prove a more cost-effective solution. Outdoor public events in particular are a nightmare to provide surveillance cover for. Small wireless mobile units eliminate all the health and safety problems and costs associated with hardwiring a large public event, and the small buggies take up much less room than a transit van. This can prove invaluable at entrances and in car parks or in the middle of large crowds" says Jonathan Nash, operations director, CRD Synergy Ltd.