ACTi IP Cameras selected for Parking Building Surveillance in Colmar, France | 23/04/2010
The city hall of Colmar in Alsace, France, has built two new parking structures, of which each requires 60 to 70 cameras for live video surveillance, remote monitoring and control. A well-known international French electrical engineering group has been awarded the contract and has selected ACTi products to fulfill this project.
In total, there will be 130 units of ACM-7411, MPEG-4 Megapixel Day & Night Vandal Proof IP-66 PoE fixed domes, installed with a third party video management software. The first phase (70 units) has been carried out in December 2009 and the second phase (60 units), in March 2010.
Like with many new buildings, a complete network infrastructure is usually pre-planned, which makes an IP surveillance solution, a most suitable and cost-effective option in line with latest technological developments and with the advantage of easy extension in the future.
The surveillance installation at the parking lots includes 4 major areas: drive ways, stairways, cash machines and counters for payment, and entrances. IP-66 and vandal proof casing are therefore the minimum camera specification requirement. In case of incidents during night time, ACM-7411 D&N function provides good low-light visibility and 1.3 Megapixel for clear image details. 1.3 Megapixel under ACTi MPEG-4 compression adds the important benefit of high video quality without an overload of bandwidth consumption. The video footage of the two buildings is registered locally in the server room of the buildings with guards monitoring the scene from the central control room and 24/7 remote video access from the city hall in case of an emergency.