Introduction Dream Mall, located in Kaohsiung, is the largest multi-functional shopping center in Taiwan and one of the top large-scale shopping centers in Asia. With over 2,000 stores and restaurants, a movie theater, and an amazing roof-top amusement park, the mall occupies an area of 50,000 square meters with a to
Introduction
Dream Mall, located in Kaohsiung, is the largest multi-functional shopping center in Taiwan and one of the top large-scale shopping centers in Asia. With over 2,000 stores and restaurants, a movie theater, and an amazing roof-top amusement park, the mall occupies an area of 50,000 square meters with a total floor area of almost 400,000 square meters, including a massive parking lot with 3,000 parking spaces.
Challenges
With tens of thousands of customers visiting each day, Dream Mall management desired a large-scale surveillance system to prevent crime, enhance customer safety, and monitor and record the activities in the mall. Their primary challenge is the need to deploy a security system capable of monitoring hundreds of security cameras simultaneously in the extensive areas in and around the shopping center. Traditional CCTV surveillance systems are too costly to implement as the length of coaxial cables required would be about 87 San Francisco Golden Gate bridges long! Their secondary challenge is that the security system has to be highly flexible and expandable, allowing addition of new cameras and recorders easily to be fit into the security system.