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Okay so there were some posts here/there about this project i've been working on. So I decided since we're basically done with the project i'd go over it with you guys.
We were contracted by a local town (now when I say town, its a town that basically has 5-6 other towns within it, so keep that in mind) to do surveillance. They wanted their public safety officers to be able to monitor all the parks/beaches from one location. They also wanted to be able to control cameras and talk into a microphone to yell at kids causing trouble to scare them off. They monitor a lot of parks and also monitor a few town beaches right on the water (good place for a beach right, duhhhh)....
DVR Devices:33 (combination of full-blow DVR systems and little mini IP camera servers that feed into a DVR server)
We put two 42U racks in with 28 computers total at the main facility. 1 of those is a 4U DVR (32 channels of video, 2 TB of storage) for their own facility. Then there are 27 other computers that monitor various things. Of those 27 id say 24 are monitoring different locations,1 is for audio control (microphone), 1 is for PTZ control, and 1 is to monitor alarms at each building (so if a door alarm goes off, it pops up letting them know)...
Since they are arleady downloading over 150GB a day, we have it set on motion activation (yes thats 150GB a day displaying only cameras with motion)...so what happens is when motion is detected it shows on the screen and then after the motion is gone, it waits 10 seconds then disapears. they can lock cameras in.
They also have a map of each facility on a monitor. So they click the facility name, see a map (sometimes a CAD drawing, sometimes a google earth picture) and can see the cameras on the map where they actually are. They blink if there is motion and soon we'll give them the option to have an alarm sound if need be.
What else can i say.... uhhhhh, well that kind of says a lot, without going into too much exact details. I want to wait till they put out their own press release to say who they are and all that, but here are some photos of the rack today (its 99% finished, i need a few blank covers and im missing 1 wire manager)
We still have some audio mixers to install in the rack and a few monitors to finish up with our programming. We wrote some custom software to do a few things with the audio/etc...
But whats cool is we have these keyboards, they press a facility name on the keyboard (not a regular keyboard, a usb style macro keyboard) and it shows the camera on the screen, they can then control the camera via ptz or talk via the microphone.
Well thats it for now... when i take some more pics of the new monitors i'll post, the monitor photo above is a week old and we finished it up earlier this week.
We were contracted by a local town (now when I say town, its a town that basically has 5-6 other towns within it, so keep that in mind) to do surveillance. They wanted their public safety officers to be able to monitor all the parks/beaches from one location. They also wanted to be able to control cameras and talk into a microphone to yell at kids causing trouble to scare them off. They monitor a lot of parks and also monitor a few town beaches right on the water (good place for a beach right, duhhhh)....
DVR Devices:33 (combination of full-blow DVR systems and little mini IP camera servers that feed into a DVR server)
We put two 42U racks in with 28 computers total at the main facility. 1 of those is a 4U DVR (32 channels of video, 2 TB of storage) for their own facility. Then there are 27 other computers that monitor various things. Of those 27 id say 24 are monitoring different locations,1 is for audio control (microphone), 1 is for PTZ control, and 1 is to monitor alarms at each building (so if a door alarm goes off, it pops up letting them know)...
Since they are arleady downloading over 150GB a day, we have it set on motion activation (yes thats 150GB a day displaying only cameras with motion)...so what happens is when motion is detected it shows on the screen and then after the motion is gone, it waits 10 seconds then disapears. they can lock cameras in.
They also have a map of each facility on a monitor. So they click the facility name, see a map (sometimes a CAD drawing, sometimes a google earth picture) and can see the cameras on the map where they actually are. They blink if there is motion and soon we'll give them the option to have an alarm sound if need be.
What else can i say.... uhhhhh, well that kind of says a lot, without going into too much exact details. I want to wait till they put out their own press release to say who they are and all that, but here are some photos of the rack today (its 99% finished, i need a few blank covers and im missing 1 wire manager)
We still have some audio mixers to install in the rack and a few monitors to finish up with our programming. We wrote some custom software to do a few things with the audio/etc...
But whats cool is we have these keyboards, they press a facility name on the keyboard (not a regular keyboard, a usb style macro keyboard) and it shows the camera on the screen, they can then control the camera via ptz or talk via the microphone.
Well thats it for now... when i take some more pics of the new monitors i'll post, the monitor photo above is a week old and we finished it up earlier this week.
