IndigoVision’s IP video technology is providing end-to-end surveillance for one of the largest integrated oil and gas projects. Sakhalin-2 was built from scratch in the harsh subarctic environment of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. Phase 1 involved oil production from an offshore platform installed at the Piltun-Astokhskoye field in 1999. Phase 2 included the installation of two further platforms, 300-kilometer offshore pipelines connecting all three platforms to the shore, more than 800-kilometer onshore oil and gas pipelines, an onshore processing facility, an oil export terminal and the construction of Russia’s first liquefied natural gas plant. Sakhalin-2 has standardized on IndigoVision’s solution, with more than 600 cameras providing remote monitoring for the entire infrastructure in what is believed to be the largest wide-area IP video surveillance system.
IndigoVision's IP video technology is providing end-to-end surveillance for one of the largest integrated oil and gas projects. Sakhalin-2 was built from scratch in the harsh subarctic environment of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. Phase 1 involved oil production from an offshore platform installed at the Piltun-Astokhskoye field in 1999. Phase 2 included the installation of two further platforms, 300-kilometer offshore pipelines connecting all three platforms to the shore, more than 800-kilometer onshore oil and gas pipelines, an onshore processing facility, an oil export terminal and the construction of Russia's first liquefied natural gas plant. Sakhalin-2 has standardized on IndigoVision's solution, with more than 600 cameras providing remote monitoring for the entire infrastructure in what is believed to be the largest wide-area IP video surveillance system.
Sakhalin-2 creates a demanding security environment with the need to protect its vast operation against a range of possible threats. The challenge was to build a reliable, fault-tolerant surveillance system that delivers high-quality live and recorded video over huge distances. The project initially installed first generation IP video systems, which suffered from unstable operation, lost frames and capacity problems. In contrast IndigoVision's solution offered a distributed serverless architecture that had no single point of failure, limitless expansion capability, guaranteed no-dropped frames and compression that reduced network load. Cameras, NVRs and workstations could be located at any point on the network, providing the flexibility and scalability needed for a project of this scale.
All of the original cameras from the first generation IP system were reused by connecting them to IndigoVision encoders. An additional 250 IndigoVision network cameras have also been connected directly to the network. More than 50 NVRs have been installed locally near clusters of cameras to reduce network loading. Multiple workstations located in 15 regional monitoring centers allow operators to monitor the entire operation. An operator with the correct permissions can view live or recorded video from any of the cameras on the system, no matter where they are located. IndigoVision's compression ensures minimum latency, an important factor when streaming video more than 800 kilometers.