safety & security
Monitoring all points of entry and exit
New CCTV systems have enhanced security at eight University of London Halls of Residence buildings.
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HE SYSTEMS provide fixed static camera monitoring of all points of entry/exit and security reception
areas, with the captured high resolution images recorded in real time. These are stored at full frame rate for 31 days on digital video recorders (DVRs) supplied by Samsung. The CCTV project was driven by on-site
TFM provider, Balfour Beatty WorkPlace (BBW) which manages 31 buildings for the University, including the eight Halls of Residence buildings and a large external precinct in the Bloomsbury area, which provides access routes to several colleges, including SOAS and Birkbeck. Fourteen of these buildings and the external precinct were already covered by existing CCTV systems, and the University embarked on an improvement plan that would address shortcomings in the existing infrastructure and introduce time-saving efficiencies. Link CCTV Systems was tasked with
increasing CCTV coverage by providing fixed detailed views of all points of entry/exit and security reception areas and improving the quality of the live and recorded images. At the same time, the company was required to improve the safety and security to the Halls of Residence buildings by way of enabling building management and security staff to remotely view high quality live and recorded CCTV images. The University of London’s CCTV control
room was relocated from Senate House to Stewart House in Russell Square. The existing control room was due for refurbishment and this provided an
Real time recorded images are provided for all precinct and local building cameras
opportunity to upgrade the CCTV system and associated equipment, enabling the University to have a platform for growth whilst ensuring the needs of all stakeholders and students were met. Link CCTV designed operators’
workstations and a supervisor’s desk for the new location in Stewart House, as well as deploying a new CCTV control room monitor display. The company also migrated all the existing CCTV cameras to the new control room. Samsung Techwin high performance ‘real time’ digital recording equipment played a key role in the solution by providing real time recorded images
for all precinct and local building cameras. The SRD-1670DC DVR is able to simultaneously record in real time high quality 4CIF images across all of its 16 channels. It has the capacity for five SATA HDDs, offering the potential for 10TB of on-board storage and utilises H.264 compression to minimise bandwidth requirements whilst maintaining high image quality. It can also if required record audio across all channels and has USB ports for easy export of video.
Multi-layered maps Utilising an existing high performance site-wide LAN, the live and recorded images are available for the University’s building management teams and BWP’s security team, by using Samsung’s Net-i Ware or SmartViewer software. By simply clicking on one of the multiple layered maps, relevant camera images can be displayed on the monitor wall or local operator’s console.
Whilst the existing control room was
very enclosed and limited, the new facility is light, airy and spacious, and provides a platform for growth and the potential to move forward to 24-hour surveillance. During the relocation, Link installed more than 90 cameras in Senate House, Stewart House and the precinct areas.
www.bbworkplace.com www.linkcctv.co.uk www.samsungsecurity.com
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