Apartment complexes can have IP video on site at much lower costs thanks to wireless networking. The Seabury Apartment Complex of three apartment blocks and one maintenance building is in the seaside village of Sandymount in Dublin Bay. The property management company responsible for the site proposed CCTV to protect residences and deter criminals.
The management company approached B-Secure, a local security installer in south Dublin. The installer and IP distributor GVD did a joint site survey in Seabury. Afterwards, they devised a IP video management plan, based on the budget available from the clients.
As there is only one entrance and exit into and out of the complex, B-Secure recommended that an IQinVision Sentinel 2 Megapixel camera be mounted on the building near the front entrance giving wide coverage of the front of the complex with the ability to zoom in on vehicle registration plates. To cover the three apartment blocks, there are a number of ACTi ACM-1231 1.3 Megapixel Bullet cameras at each building. These cameras are fully PoE, IP66 rated and have in built IR to provide day and night images. Rather than running coaxial cables from building to building and burying cable in ducts, GVD devised two point to point wireless links from two of the blocks back to the maintenance building where the Milestone XProtect Essential Server does all the recording. The wireless links transmit the data from each of the cameras back to the server providing the security firms say a much cleaner, cost effective and efficient alternative to traditional analogue. The maintenance building was already connected to one of the blocks by coaxial cable. To retain the investment and use the existing infrastructure, GVD recommended using Planet RJ45 convertors to convert the coaxial cable to RJ45.
The property managers have able to search for evidence of fly tipping at the bin area and using the time stamp link back to the IQinVision camera to get registration plates for the offending vehicles. This can be exported as a PDF snapshot or .AVI file and sent to the Gardaí (Irish police). Kevin OโBrennan, Managing Director of B-Secure says: โThe system was pre-configured by GVD, so was ready to go โout of the boxโ. This saved us time on site and meant we were assured that the system had been fully bench tested beforehand. The property management company is delighted with the picture quality and especially the cost savings using the wireless system. They are set to roll this out in many of their other properties in the near future.โ
