IndigoVision IP Video system deployed at the arc Shopping Centre
The £100m, 265,000 sq ft arc Centre opened in March 2009 and is the UK’s newest shopping complex. The Centre has 35 shops and restaurants. As with any retail environment arc has to deal with public safety, criminal activity and anti-social behaviour in and around the public areas of the Centre. It was therefore paramount to deploy a flexible and high-quality surveillance solution.
IndigoVision’s IP Video system has been deployed at the new arc Shopping Centre in Bury St Edmonds. The integrated surveillance solution interfaces 24 CCTV cameras with door entry intercoms and plant equipment, allowing the Centre’s security team to respond quickly to incidents and problems.
The design and installation of the system was completed by Essex based GES Security Services, one of IndigoVision’s approved Partners.
“We have been delighted with the IP-CCTV system installed at arc Shopping Centre,” said Centre Manager, Paul Haynes. “arc is a major asset within Bury St Edmunds town centre and the quality of the system has impressed all stakeholders involved with the scheme.”
Door Intercom units located at staff and delivery entrances are interfaced to the IP Video system via a digital input on the IndigoVision 8000 transmitter modules. When an Intercom call is made an alarm is raised in ‘Control Center’, IndigoVision’s Security Management Software, and the nearest camera is automatically panned to a preset position and displayed on the spot monitor. The location of the generated alarm is also highlighted on an interactive map of the Centre. The operator can then confirm visual identity and open the door.
“The ability to monitor other systems and equipment using the CCTV workstations has been very helpful,” continued Haynes. “We have been alerted instantly to a number of faults with water pumps that are interfaced to the IndigoVision hardware.”
The water pumps are connected to IndigoVision’s IP Alarm Panel, which allows discrete inputs to be transmitted across the network as data and displayed and logged as events or alarms in ‘Control Center’. The Alarm Panel provides 32 opto-isolated and/or supervised tamper-detect alarm inputs and 8 relay outputs, which can be activated remotely over the IP network from ‘Control Center’.
The security team use ‘Control Center’ PC workstations to view live and recorded video from the cameras. Two workstations are located in the main control room, with a third on the Centre Manager’s desk. As the IP Video system is distributed then any component, including workstations, video recorders and cameras can be located anywhere on the network. This makes the system very flexible and scalable. Continuous recording of all the cameras is achieved with 2 of IndigoVision’s standalone fault-tolerant Network Video Recorders (NVRs), which gives the Centre a minimum 31 day archive.
“The powerful features of ‘Control Center’ allow the security team to quickly analyse recorded video in the event of an incident,” added Haynes. “When requested we have exported evidential quality video for the police on a number of occasions.”
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