Remote Video Surveillance
Remote video surveillance offers cost, efficiency benefits South African organisations
are starting to migrate towards low bit-rate video surveillance products that have
turned remote and centralised video surveillance across the corporate wide area
network (WAN) into an affordable and practical reality.
That’s the word from Mark Chertkow, managing director at Graphic Image
Technologies, local distributor of the SerVision video monitoring systems. He says
that South African companies are moving towards such solutions because they offer
significant cost and productivity benefits.
"CCTV surveillance video was typically run on a separate network or over ISDN in the
past, as it tends to interfere with normal data traffic by causing data and transaction
loss. However, more companies are now adopting solutions allow them to leverage
the existing WAN infrastructure without the historical drawbacks of such an approach,
which means that there are no additional monthly costs for remote surveillance,"
Chertkow says.
The SerVision product, for example, is a true narrowband solution capable of
delivering video at rates from 6Kbps to 2Mbps. These systems allow operators to
deliver up to ten live video feeds over a standard 64Kbps link, finally making
centralised and remote monitoring an affordable reality.
It becomes simple and affordable, for example, for a control room in Johannesburg to
watch over video feeds from Sandton, Durban, Pretoria, and Cape Town. The value
proposition of centralised, off-site monitoring includes saving on control room staff
and better facilities management.
These state-of-the art mobile video CCTV monitoring solutions really do take the
security industry into its next phase. Apart from standard Diginet links, companies that
use this technology can access remote CCTV video monitoring over cellphone
(GPRS or 3G), ADSL, MyWireless, or any other IP-based WAN link," says Chertkow.
Benefits associated with remote monitoring include alarm verification, improved
productivity, improved security management as well as improved management of
armed response services. By allowing management to access remote sites on alarm,
CCTV becomes a proactive response tool instead of a post event investigative
solution.
“With real-time access to CCTV video motion detection (VMD) signalling and video
streaming via PDA, cellphone and PC, one can accurately verify images and data
immediately, ensuring that you don’t waste time responding to false alarms, which
account for over 90% of alarms,” notes Chertkow.
Chertkow points out that this technology has already been used for a range of
applications in South Africa and other parts of the world. A major bank in South Africa
has already tested the SerVision SVG400 on its 64k WAN infrastructure and
approved its use in a shared-data environment.
SerVision’s SVG1000- 16 channel video monitoring system is also being used by
European observers and Israeli security officers to monitor border crossings at the
Rafah border crossing between the Palestinian Authority controlled Gaza and Egypt.
European Union monitors who, under the command of Italian Major-General Pietro
Pistolese, will oversee security at the border crossing on SerVision?s real-time
advanced and fully integrated video monitoring systems. In addition, Israeli security
officers will be closely monitoring who and what goes back and forth across this
border via a live video-link from a nearby control post in southern Israel.
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