The city of Stuttgart installed video over IP for the 2006 Football World Cup being held in Germany.
The CCTV system has upgraded and extended the existing analogue CCTV to provide monitoring for the city’s transport network in a 16M/30Km radius around the football venue. CCTV inside the stadium was also updated to IP video to provide 25fps video to several control centres around the city.
The overall system is divided into three rings of surveillance covering specific areas. Each ring is monitored by different officials in separate control rooms, for example ring one monitored the inside of the main train station, controlled by police. Ring two was the FIFA area and constituted the stadium and surrounding area; this was controlled by the event organiser from the stadium and was mainly concerned with crowd control. Ring three covered the city’s roads, tunnels, airport, tram and rail network and was controlled by traffic police. Even though each ring has its own focus and infrastructure, the IP video network allows any camera to be viewed by any ring.
Control Center, IndigoVision’s enterprise alarm and video management software, provides the city’s control rooms with the ability to manage the viewing of live and recorded video over the network, from any of the cameras. Video recording is achieved using IndigoVision’s Windows based Networked Video Recorders (NVRs). User access controls can be configured in the software, to ensure video from sensitive areas controlled by the police was not available to the event organiser, for example.
The existing analogue CCTV around the city and the individual cameras within the stadium are all connected to the network using 60 IndigoVision 8000 transmitter/receiver units. These convert the analogue camera signal to MPEG-4 digital video for transmission over the network and receive PTZ control data for local camera control.
This project shows how easily an existing analogue CCTV system can be migrated to a networked IP solution, it is claimed. The system was installed in less than two weeks by the local system integrator, PKE Germany, a far shorter timeframe than required for a traditional CCTV installation, it is claimed. After the World Cup, Stuttgart City plans to expand the system further by adding additional cameras to the network for the monitoring of tunnels, roads and pedestrian areas.
