The complete renovation of one of Cork’s largest shopping centers gave Douglas Village perfect opportunity to reconsider its surveillance requirement. It wanted a system that could assist with the day-to-day management of the busy shopping center and to ensure health and safety levels were maintained at all times. The management team’s ultimate priority was to provide a safe and secure environment for its tenants and customers and a new surveillance system would certainly enable this.
The complete renovation of one of Cork's largest shopping centers gave Douglas Village perfect opportunity to reconsider its surveillance requirement. It wanted a system that could assist with the day-to-day management of the busy shopping center and to ensure health and safety levels were maintained at all times. The management team's ultimate priority was to provide a safe and secure environment for its tenants and customers and a new surveillance system would certainly enable this.
Douglas Village's owners, Shipton Group, consulted with Axis' partners Masterclass Security and RPC Consultants to design and install a new IP-based surveillance system which in addition to being used for security purposes could be used to help with the daily management of the shopping center. Masterclass Security turned to Axis Communications to provide 180 cameras both internally and externally. Milestone VMS is used to manage, store, record and view footage from the cameras.
One of the IP-based surveillance system's first purposes was to oversee the building work during the center's refurbishment. The cameras were used to ensure that the building contractors complied with health and safety regulations and to manage the flow of vehicles in and out of the site. With the refurbishment complete, the system now supports the day-to-day running of the site like managing traffic flow as visitors arrive and keeps watch on the emergency exits to ensure they are kept clear at all times.