Moscow Metro Choose CellStack for its State-of-the-Art Video Surveillance Solution
17 May 2005 16:18
With growing concerns of terrorist attacks, the Moscow Metro made the decision to upgrade its existing non-coordinated analogue security system with the latest CellStack surveillance technology from Telindus Surveillance Solutions Ltd. Moscow Metro has over 200km of track used by approximately 9 million people every day, creating the largest surveillance installation, to date, in Russia, covering 170 stations and ten control rooms.
Following the successful introduction of the video surveillance system, Moscow Metro now plan to use a similar Telindus Surveillance Solution based system to drive video-based passenger help points, (for bi-directional audio & video communications). By the end of 2005, 250 help points will be positioned on every platform of the five main lines, and controlled by operators in the main control room.
The system was built around 60 CellStack Centauri video hubs, (increasing to 81 by the end of 2005) a modular system consisting of a centralised control module responsible for all system activity and video encoder modules using M-JPEG compression format, which provide high quality video and fully configurable profiles over the ATM network.
The CellStack Centauri system allows Moscow Metro to integrate existing conventional CCTV equipment into an advanced Cisco digital network incorporating up to 1,000 cameras in the first phase alone. The next phase of the update was to install the CellStack Centinel networked video recorder (NVR) to allow the compressed video to be recorded directly from the network in M-JPEG compression formats. This enables an authorised security guard to then playback / review the recorded digital video on the same analogue monitors as live images.
Additionally, they can send any received real-time video stream over a wireless network to an authorised Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) client, such as a handheld PC, allowing a roving security guard to view both live and stored video.
“After testing products from over ten competitors, we chose Telindus because they had the expertise and track-record to put together the best and most reliable surveillance solution for us,” says Ivan Evdokimov, General Director of AMT Group, Russia’s largest integrator. “With Telindus we have achieved our objectives and on top of that received excellent commercial and technical support. The project has also generated interest from the Moscow City Council and throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)," he added.
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