Meiller Jewelers in Schwandorf offers exclusive watches, jewelry, and glasses from venerable, high-end, and contemporary brands and models. With their experience, exceptional service and extremely wide selection of both traditional and trendy products, the family-run company has captivated customers since 1876. Twenty employees advise customers and sell products, as well as ensure the high-quality maintenance and repair of watches and jewelry in the certified master workshop. The jewelry store’s range includes around 200 brands of watches, rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets as well as eyewear, offering over 10,000 products in total. When it comes to video security, Meiller also relies on a modern solution and has installed ten MOBOTIX cameras in the store.
Meiller Jewelers in Schwandorf offers exclusive watches, jewelry, and glasses from venerable, high-end, and contemporary brands and models. With their experience, exceptional service and extremely wide selection of both traditional and trendy products, the family-run company has captivated customers since 1876. Twenty employees advise customers and sell products, as well as ensure the high-quality maintenance and repair of watches and jewelry in the certified master workshop. The jewelry store’s range includes around 200 brands of watches, rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets as well as eyewear, offering over 10,000 products in total. When it comes to video security, Meiller also relies on a modern solution and has installed ten MOBOTIX cameras in the store.
Up until now, the jeweler had been using an analog security camera system, which was starting to show its age and no longer ran smoothly. In addition, the quality of the video images sometimes left much to be desired. “We are dealing with very small items here, such as earrings, and sometimes these were difficult to make out due to the low resolution of the analog camera,” explains Roland Meiller, owner of Meiller Jewelers.
That’s why Roland Meiller decided to install a new video solution. He called the security consultant Norbert von Breidbach-Bürresheim, Managing Director at VALEO IT Neteye. He packed the MOBOTIX cameras up and brought them to the store where he demonstrated the video systems for the jeweler. In addition, he made a number of test recordings – and the customer was more than satisfied with the results.
The ten cameras were to be installed outside of opening hours. Since shops were allowed to open on Sunday on the chosen weekend, which is not usually the case in Germany, VALEO IT Neteye began to remove the old analog system on Saturday afternoon, directly after the store was closed. Afterwards, new network cables had to be installed in the ceiling since there were only analog cables in place at the time.
The MOBOTIX cameras are based on a decentralized concept. In this decentralized concept, each camera functions as a high-performance computer. Both data and image processing as well as the encoding are performed by the camera itself. The recording can be stored to the camera’s SD card at Meiller Jewelers and transferred to a network storage device. It is only viewed in concrete cases of suspicion. Compared to a centralized system, up to ten times more cameras per server can be connected this way. Furthermore, no additional computers or software is necessary. This is another key advantage, since the old analog cameras required an expensive hard drive recorder. In the workshop separate from the store, there is a computer on which live feeds from the jewelry shop can be viewed. Employees always know what is going on in the shop. As a result, the jeweler has a video surveillance system that ideally ensures quick identification and arrest of the culprits in the case of theft or burglary.