Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), a subsidiary of Progress Rail Services, is a business entity originated in Caterpillar Group. Located in Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil and covering 15,000 meters of built area, the factory planned to expand its capacity to be able to manufacture 100 locomotives a year with 4,000 HP power. The number of employees should reach 600 before the completion of the project.
Customer
coverage with megapixel and VCA solution
Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), a subsidiary of Progress Rail Services, is a business entity originated in Caterpillar Group. Located in Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil and covering 15,000 meters of built area, the factory planned to expand its capacity to be able to manufacture 100 locomotives a year with 4,000 HP power. The number of employees should reach 600 before the completion of the project.
Challenges
Broad and Uncovered Space
"The size of the property is about 400 x 200 meters, where four sheds, a storage area without coverage, three buildings (office, cafeteria and locker room) and two entrances (people and vehicles) are located, " said Marco Wardil, the project manager of Wimpex.. "The areas to be monitored are as follows: two corners, backyard, area in front of the sheds and the front part including concierge and the three buildings. Also, the entrances and exits of the production halls and warehouse areas have to be included."
Integration for Megapixel Solutions
Megapixel solutions offer significant benefits for surveillance operations, but the large number of megapixel cameras and the need for 24/7 recording present many difficult issues for the system integrator: I/O performance of traditional NVRs, stable integration of storage solutions, and overall installation of a proven solution that can assure end-to-end integration. To successfully deal with all these issues, Wimpex adopted Surveon's eminent end-to-end megapixel solution including cameras, SMR and enterprise VMS solutions.
Complicated Installation and Configuration
"Integrators have difficulty in installing and configuring products from different vendors. The reliability of the system comes from using cameras from a single manufacturer that are compatible with the management software," said Wardil. "All-in-one, non-COTS system and 100 percent in-house design featured in Surveon's SMR offer a highly integrated and proven solution, reducing the installation, compatibility and maintenance issues associated with traditional PC+software solutions and enable system integrators to easily upgrade to professional, small- to medium-sized megapixel surveillance."
Solutions
The first phase of the project was primarily deployed to monitor the security perimeter around the sheds and their access routes. The final project included not only to monitor the safety but also to take care of the equity for keeping excellent manufacturing process quality. The system is connected to the corporate data network which allows monitoring in real time the production line worker's safety, management departments, and the status of the entire plant without compromising data transmission. Surveon's SMR8032 was installed in the data center, while CAM1301 and CAM2321 box IP cameras were connected to four network racks installed in the sheds and were interconnected via fiber optics. This configuration has created a dedicated VLAN for security equipment and the cameras were powered via PoE.
CAM1301 offers a wide array of features including the compact size, 1920x1080 video resolution, H.264 simultaneous video streams, PoE and backend video analytics capability. CAM2321, equipped with the Sony Exmor image sensor, provides high image quality and low light performance. With maximum 2048x1536 resolution and Full HD video performance, in addition to features such as DC iris and WDR, the cameras are ideal solutions for high-level security applications.
The Smart Megapixel Recorders (SMR) are embedded with Surveon's intuitive VMS software and provide enterprise-level features such as local live viewing with megapixel quality, realtime analytics, multi-display, video bookmarking, instant playback, remote monitoring, web client, mobile client, HTML overlay and domain management. It comes with an easy-to-use desktop form factor and provides high I/O rates, large capacities, and overall system stability necessary to help system integrators easily meet Benefits
True Megapixel and Night Time Image Quality
"We chose the complete IP solutions from Surveon for EMD due to the capability of using IVA and digital zoom without loss of picture quality. The image quality and functionality exceeded expectations. Night-time images were configured to display color images even at dark and sharpness is top-notch. Handling the system is easy and retrieving recorded images is very simple. Besides, CAM1301 is in a very competitive price range but nevertheless features D/N and IR LED. That is why I consider CAM1301 as an excellent solution for upgrading from analogue to megapixel," said Wardil.
Real Time Recording
A dedicated SMR ensures recording of all the images with high resolution for a period of 7 days with stability and reliability. "With Surveon systems, it is possible to ensure the monitoring of the entire premises with limited number of guards. All images are live viewed in two monitors where the guards can see all terrains and receive intrusion alerts through real-time video analytics and therefore act more assertively and effectively," said Wardil.