Huabei Hotel is a 5-star business and conference hotel that offers various services including lodging, conference venues, restaurants and entertainment under one roof. It has a total area of 64,766 m2 and 15 stories. It is equipped with 15 high-end conference rooms catered for different types of conferences and other entertainment services. The hotel wished to build a high-definition video surveillance system for both the indoor and outdoor public areas. The system needed HD real-time display to bring a direct view of the sites through surveillance and planned control implemented at critical areas and locations.
Mission
Huabei Hotel is a 5-star business and conference hotel that offers various services including lodging, conference venues, restaurants and entertainment under one roof. It has a total area of 64,766 square meters and 15 stories. It is equipped with 15 high-end conference rooms catered for different types of conferences and other entertainment services. The hotel wished to build a HD video surveillance system for both the indoor and outdoor public areas. The system needed HD real-time display to bring a direct view of the sites through surveillance and planned control implemented at critical areas and locations.
Solution
The entire system was designed as a distributed system with an architecture that combines surveillance and storage. All 250 IP cameras used are 720P HDTV IP cameras. Effective surveillance along the hotel's corridors and other long and narrow areas normally requires coverage to be as wide as possible and yet be able to clearly identify faces at the same time. To fulfill these requirements, Axis network cameras with 9:16 aspect ratio Corridor Format are employed.
Result
Effective surveillance of the hotel's daily operations, property and the work performance and attitudes of staff are achieved through Axis IP video surveillance system. It has a significant deterrent effect on crime and theft prevention. The embedded intelligent analytics design and open architecture bring excellent flexibility and expandability to the entire system, meeting the current and future needs of the 5-star-rated hotel.
Surveillance at the main lobby, underground garage and the hotel's temporary parking area requires coverage to be as wide as possible but when incidents occur, the ability to immediately focus on detailed information is necessary.
Axis PTZ cameras are employed to meet these requirements. They allow panoramic surveillance under normal circumstances and are able to immediately turn the focus to show close-up details when an incident occurs. D/N outdoor IP cameras are employed at the hotel's outdoor entrance and exit areas to ensure excellent image quality under all lighting conditions. These IP-66 rated cameras are dustproof, waterproof, snow proof, sun proof and able to function normally under a low temperature environment of -40 °C (-40 °F).
The system uses the Aimetis management platform to centrally manage 250 HD IP network cameras. Forwarding of video stream, video retrieval and playback and equipment inspection are carried out via the Aimetis server. The Aimetis server is a data source for other clients and the most important server in the system. It is also responsible for storing the configuration of IP cameras, information of staff rights, number of users, user names, passwords, viewing rights and control rights.