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Norbain provides cost-effective surveillance for Repton Prep School
Hidden away in the quiet Derbyshire countryside, Repton Preparatory School has recently benefitted from a CCTV solution to support its Access Control system - both supplied by Norbain and installed by Spectre UK Ltd.
A boarding and day school for 450 boys and girls aged 3 to 13, Repton School enjoys an enviable reputation. Providing a comfortable and reassuring environment in which to learn, Repton Preparatory School had previously deployed a Paxton Access Control system, to ensure controlled access to the school's buildings.
Installed by Spectre UK Ltd, the system proved so successful that the school was keen to complement it with a CCTV camera network, to provide additional security and further reassurance for both pupils and staff.
"Having experienced their expertise and professionalism with the Access Control project, we once again turned to Spectre UK Ltd," explains Richard Fletcher, Bursar for Repton Preparatory School. "After technical liaison and site visits, Spectre specified a package of the latest CCTV technology,
Codestuff helps Manchester Airport to go digital
CCTV upgrade to 1000 camera site helps airport to improve efficiency, reduce complexity and cut maintenance cost
Codestuff, a leading provider of innovative video management systems, has announced a project helping Manchester Airport to upgrade its aging analogue CCTV system to a fully digital core. The 8 month project will improve a wide range of CCTV related tasks from baggage system monitoring, car park customer service, aircraft stands and pedestrian safety management across a 625 hectare site used by over 18 million passengers and staff each year.
Keen to update its existing CCTV network, Manchester Airport chose the Quorum platform for video recording, playback, management and archiving alongside a new fully digital core.
Quorum was selected based on its scalability and depth of features as well as Codestuff’s ability to provide custom modification to allow the existing management and control systems to interface directly into the upgraded CCTV system.
“The new digital core and Quorum platform will provide the airport with many more capabilities and give us the flexibility to simply deploy new monitoring PC workstations, simplified architecture and the ability to upgrade to IP cameras in the future,” explains Geoff Densham, Project Manager at Manchester Airport. “We originally ran into difficulties working with a third party supplier so we approached Codestuff directly and this has accelerated the design and implementation phase and the first stage will go live in May.”
Manchester Airport is the only global gateway to Northern England. Over 75 airlines offer direct flights to over 190 destinations worldwide and employs around 19,000 people on-site.
The new Quorum platform will allow the airport to improve the management groups of the 100 users within the user groups across the site. The system will allow new PC based monitoring stations to be simply deployed and will share the existing data network to transport video data around as well as for archival procedures which
designed to meet our security and budget requirements."
"With a 54-acre site consisting of listed buildings, vast grounds and a public right of way running through it, specifying and installing the correct technology was a technical challenge," adds Judith Clarke, Operations Manager for Spectre UK Ltd. "One of the toughest challenges was finding the best solution to transmit images from cameras situated across a road, to the main school building.
"Providing the solution, we used NVT UTP video
transmission equipment, employing NVT NV-214A-M transceivers at the camera end to transmit video over Cat5 UTP cable, routed via a span over the roadway. This delivers interference-free high-quality video to the school's Dedicated Micros SD 8 Channel DVR, via a NVT NV-1672 DigitalEQTM receiver hub - all sourced through Norbain.
"Delivering the correct mix of the latest security technology has been the key to the success of both the Access Control and CCTV systems at the school," explains Judith Clarke. "With access to the best performing products in the vast security market place via Norbain, we have supplied an economical and high-performance CCTV camera network that benefits the school on a daily basis, and will continue to do so for years to come."
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“This is one of the largest projects of its kind in the UK,” explains James Ritchie, Managing Director of Codestuff, “and is a great example of how organisations can use Quorum to retain their investment in older analogue cameras while gaining many of the benefits of newer digital technology for transmission, control and recording.”
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