07/09/2013
Major disaster recovery exercise monitored by Grundig
Remscheid, Germany
The company responsible for Operation Taranis and its organisation was Excon. They appointed Laboe Security OG to provide remote viewing, transmission and monitoring of all the incidents and the responses.
Despite the huge scale of the operation, each of the 22 incidents was monitored in real-time. full HD, IP cameras from Grundig provided the images and VMS software from Alnet Systems provided control. The cameras were mounted on hydraulic, telescopic masts and powered by batteries. Their HD images were transmitted using wireless IP technology, by fibre optic network or by a 3G mobile network. A walk-in observation room contained many Grundig full HD monitors along with three video walls. Each incident was also remotely monitored by the EU commission in Brussels, the Red Cross headquarters in Salzburg and at Excon’s HQ.
Exercise Director and Salzburg’s “security commissioner”, Anton Holzer, concluded, “All the teams have excelled in providing an outstanding emergency response. They demonstrated a high level of competence and effective, cooperative communications. They not only carried out their difficult tasks with great professionalism and competence, but also with passion and enthusiasm”.
The exercises were a great success and provided reassurance that the emergency response to any unprecedented EU disaster would be fast, highly competent and effective. Grundig IP cameras and monitors impressed all the agencies involved with their image quality, both day and night.