IndigoVision: integrated IP-security protects new Courthouse

IndigoVision: integrated IP-security protects new Courthouse. The technology behind an integrated security solution for the new Courthouse in the Belgian city of Ghent is built on IndigoVision’s IP Video CCTV system.

This project integrates CCTV, video-intercom and access control into a single IP-security system. The new 55,000 m2 courthouse in Ghent is operated by the Belgian Ministry of Justice and consists of a fully-secure environment that houses holding cells, court rooms, hearing rooms and offices, with public areas running throughout. The security facilities are used by the police, Ministry of Justice security staff and personnel manning the reception desk.

The system was designed and installed by local integrator Fabricom-GTI who implemented their Icaros security and building management system. Alongside access control, intruder and fire detection and other building related systems, the workstation gives the operator seamless access to all the unique alarm and video management features. This integration provides end-users with significant benefits. For example, whenever an alarm is generated, the nearest camera feed is automatically displayed on a monitor and recorded.

An alarm can be generated by CCTV camera motion detection, access control points, video-intercom units or from the intruder and fire detection systems. Operators can also manually select camera views for display and recording. Eight Windows-based Network Video Recorder (NVR) workstations are used to record the camera and intercom video at 4SIF, 25fps, as well as the two-way audio from the intercom units.

Multimedia IP Integration

The combination of video management software and the IP-network creates a ‘virtual network’ which provides unlimited camera switching combinations, overcoming the severe limitations of the traditional analogue CCTV matrix and allows future flexibility and scalability. Traditional video-intercom systems typically use a central switching matrix that requires separate cabling from each intercom unit. By fully integrating the video, audio and I/O from each intercom unit into the IP video system, this switching hardware is eliminated and the benefits of the ‘virtual matrix’ can also be applied to the video-intercom.

Video from 83 fixed and PTZ CCTV cameras and 34 video-intercom cameras, which are compact cameras built into the door intercom units, are connected to IndigoVision’s 8000 transmitter/ receiver modules. These convert the analogue feed into high-quality MPEG-4 digital video for transmission over the IP network. In addition high-quality two-way audio and I/O from the intercom units are also connected for compression and transmission. The transmitter/receiver units have built-in analytics, including motion detection, which is used to trigger an alarm when scene activity is detected.

Running real-time analytics at the camera significantly reduces bandwidth requirements on the network and ensures the system is totally scalable.

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IndigoVision Ltd,
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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