Vandal-resistant ceiling and wall-mounted camera housings from the UK manufacturer Conway Security Products are in use with the Dutch railway network, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), at underground and overland stations across large areas of the country….
Stations already fitted with the equipment include hubs such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Breda. Conway’s units were specified and installed by the company’s Dutch partner, Hacousto Videotechniek, who have also fitted Bosch IP cameras and a video management system from Canadian product company Genetec.
The Conway housings and Bosch cameras are being used for monitoring of passenger flow and volume at station concourses, and use of smartcard electronic ticketing similar to the London ‘Oyster’ card and Hong Kong ‘Octopus’ card. Much of the video monitoring is retrospective event-driven analysis.
Chris Newman, a director of Conway, said: “Anyone using the UK rail and underground network will be familiar with the EHC4 and EHW4 camera housings as they have been used extensively for many years and were recently installed on the Stockholm Metro. It is this kind of pedigree which attracted Hacousto and their client.”
Installers working on railway applications both above and below ground are often limited in the scope for camera locations and must choose products that are adaptable. The EHC4 can be mounted both on the surface of a concrete wall or be part of a recess application if the station infrastructure has fascias.
Similarly, the standard EHC4 can be mounted on a wall to deliver a ‘portrait’ angle of view along a corridor, for example. On applications such as railways, minimising installation and ‘downtime’ is critical, and if a universal solution is available to the installer it will save engineering hours and money by reducing disruption to a site.
The units being supplied to Hacousto are painted yellow to suit their customer’s strong corporate identity. The whole manufacturing process is at Conway’s factory in the UK, and the firm is able to finish products in colours to meet site applications or corporate identities.
Conway’s EHC4 and EHW4 camera housings (the codes indicate ceiling and wall-mounted variants) are manufactured from 1.4003 grade stainless steel and are securely closed in two positions. They feature a cast acrylic screen. The housings have been designed to deter vandals and can be used with most major camera brands. A screen demister option (12-36v or 110-240v) is available.
With headquarters at Berkel en Rodenrijs in western Holland, Hacousto is an international contractor and consultant who work in video, public address and voice alarm (PA/VA), biometrics and fire alarms.
