The administration of Ukraine’s largest iron ore processor and exporter, Poltavsky GOK, recently deployed an IP-based video surveillance system, consisting of Axis Communications network cameras to enforce safety regulations, improve labor management, and prevent fraud. Local distributors IQ Trading and OJSC Kazatskaya Strela supplied the video surveillance system.
The administration of Ukraine's largest iron ore processor and exporter, Poltavsky GOK, recently deployed an IP-based video surveillance system, consisting of Axis Communications network cameras to enforce safety regulations, improve labor management, and prevent fraud. Local distributors IQ Trading and OJSC Kazatskaya Strela supplied the video surveillance system.
The combine of complementary industrial plants is located in Komsomolsk, Poltava Region. The manufacturing complex consists of a crushing and ore-dressing plants as well as an iron-ore pellet workshop. The raw materials base of the combine – two deposits located in the Krementshug magnetic anomaly: Gorishne-Plavninskoye and Lavrikovskoye developed by the single open pit of the Dnieper Mining Plant which is currently the largest in Europe.
Operating troubles and violations of labor discipline and safety rules, petty stealing and grand larceny – these are problems accompanying the activity of any large manufacturing outfit. The notorious human factor is capable of inflicting multimillion losses on business without mentioning a potential danger to life and health of people working at the enterprise. Therefore, in daily proceedings, effective control allows for detection of problems and incidents but also provides deterrence for repetition. The optimal framework for such control is a video surveillance and technological system giving the possibility to control the following:
- Unauthorized entry and access
- Breakdown in the technological process
- Violation of labor discipline and safety rules
- Abusive action of personnel and other persons
Apart from a real-time video surveillance system, qualitative image recording from cameras is a very important factor, not only for security staff but also for engineering services. A qualitative image is an important support device during “blamestorming” related to any incident.
In the beginning of the project, the customer tested several Axis cameras in normal job mode. Such testing brought to light the applicability and border conditions of practical application of particular devices as well as provided the basis for enterprise safety concept development. The next step was development of a system working project which took into account all technological and business processes within the combine of complementary industrial plants. For each work station and for each area requiring special control, not only camera placement locations but also functionality was calculated.
The basic arguments in favor of selection of network cameras were high functionality meeting the project requirements; ease of installation of network cameras and perfect quality of the products. Axis equipment allowed for building a complex geographically-distributed video surveillance system with minimum labor effort. The wide range of technical solutions, ease of installation and simplicity of operation of cameras became the determinant for the customer.
The implemented system solved the assigned tasks completely. Due to the carefully specified project, the entire enterprise territory is now under control, at that the IP system customization allows for correction of installations depending on relevant objectives. As a consequence, each production process is under continual overview.