The Bergen County Sheriff’s Office in New Jersey is expanding its video surveillance network at its county courthouse and jail in an effort to enhance the efficiency and recording capabilities across its infrastructure. The addition of over 400 Mobotix megapixel video cameras combined with IPAS VMS and Pivot3 converged shared storage and virtual server appliances. This is the third phase of the surveillance system’s expansion and the total order represents more than 800 Mobotix cameras and over a petabyte of Pivot3 storage. IMSYS was the system integrator for the project.
The Bergen County Sheriff's Office in New Jersey is expanding its video surveillance network at its county courthouse and jail in an effort to enhance the efficiency and recording capabilities across its infrastructure. The addition of over 400 Mobotix megapixel video cameras combined with IPAS VMS and Pivot3 converged shared storage and virtual server appliances. This is the third phase of the surveillance system's expansion and the total order represents more than 800 Mobotix cameras and over a petabyte of Pivot3 storage. IMSYS was the system integrator for the project.
“Throughout the Bergen County jail and criminal justice facilities; we need clear, accurate video images in a variety of lighting situations,” said Sheriff Saudino, Bergen County Sheriff's Office. “The ability of our initial Mobotix system of 80 cameras vastly improved our video surveillance capabilities and convinced us to expand the system to cover even more areas.”
The system, which marks the third phase of the installation, extends the surveillance network to the county prosecutor's office to enable rapid sharing of video evidence as needed. Overall, the technology initiatives has provided an additional layer of security to the county facilities and deliver significant cost savings of over 20 percent due to the streamlining of processes between departments. Furthermore, multiple agencies across the county are merging practices to be more effective and simplify operations, developing further cost efficiencies across county infrastructure.
New Mobotix cameras installed include the dual lens D/N dome, which features two 3.1- megapixel resolution image sensors, and the hemispheric camera, which provides 360-degree all-around view. Bergen County is also leveraging the hemispheric intercom and the dual-lens, D/N camera. The dual-lens and hemispheric features built-in to the Mobotix cameras allow the county to monitor more than 1,000 locations with 400 cameras, providing significant cost savings to budget conscious government agencies.
IPAS VMS delivers high-quality video images in various lighting conditions to allow county officials to actively monitor video in real time, access stored video for post-event investigations and enhance situational awareness to ensure the safety of law enforcement. The county also leverages video to address liability issues such as slip-and-fall claims, and take full advantage of redundancy features and application failover to protect against natural disasters and terror attacks.