British construction equipment manufacturer JCB recently deployed an HD video surveillance system, consisting of 17 Axis Communications cameras and Digifort VMS, to monitor its new 50-acre factory in Sorocaba, Brazil. Betta Group, an Axis partner, designed the surveillance system for the US$100-million facility, with 9.87 acres of built area.
British construction equipment manufacturer JCB recently deployed an HD video surveillance system, consisting of 17 Axis Communications cameras and Digifort VMS , to monitor its new 50-acre factory in Sorocaba, Brazil. Betta Group, an Axis partner, designed the surveillance system for the US$100-million facility, with 9.87 acres of built area.
Ten outdoor cameras from Axis' Q-line were used, including seven PTZ domes and three outdoor network cameras. To monitor indoor areas, the system uses six HD network camera and one discreet HD dome. All 17 cameras are managed by Digifort VMS, from Axis partner Digifort.
The Betta Group video surveillance project met JCB's expectations in maintaining their standard of 100 percent IP devices in the factory, for ease of access and management. The surveillance covers all areas of the outdoor yard, parking lots, logistics facilities, the lake, and the building facade, which has minimal lighting. Images are used not only to ensure asset security but also for third-party monitoring, cargo handling, construction projects in outdoor areas, and for on-the job safety (Internal Occupational Safety Board, or CIPA, for its initials in Portuguese).
One concern that arose early in the project was in relation to data traffic on the network - and how it would reflect in system performance. To answer this question, the Betta Group conducted some simulations with the technical support of the distributor, Delta Cable. The simulated situations included items such as filming time and information aggregation.
“This simulation proved to JCB that, given the architecture of assets and the quality of materials in the optical backbone, performance would remain unchanged,” said Fabio Petrere, Technical and Sales Manager, Betta Group. Then, JCB requested a study to gauge the size of the storage needed. Betta calculated that the amount of information for up to 45 days would be one Terabyte.