Network cameras have been installed by ClearView Communications at Beauchamps High School in Wickford, Essex as part of a security systems upgrade.
The school, which had deployed 14 Axis Communications network cameras internally, put out a โrequest for proposalโ in May 2007 to five local security installers including Chelmsford-based ClearView. The installer did a site survey and assembled a 17-page proposal. ClearView installed a total of 30 new Axis network cameras (18 of the AXIS 207, two 207Ws, eight 211s and two 213 PTZs), adding to the 14 Axis cameras already installed inside the schoolโs buildings. All network cameras are powered via Power over Ethernet (PoE) which reduced electrical work, and thus installation costs, considerably. Vandal resistant housings from the network product firm were also used to protect the two 207Ws positioned at the gated entrance, and for the 211s. Midspan routers were used to deliver PoE to the 213s and 207s.
An existing Milestone 16 license software bundle was extended to 50 licenses to cover all cameras and allow for further expansion as necessary. All cameras were set to deliver five frames per second (fps) on motion detection only, using 2CIF resolution. Bandwidth usage requirements ran to 27.3 megabits per second (Mbps) and total storage requirements for collecting 30 days of images was a maximum of 3 Tera Bytes (TB). A seven channel Network Video Recorder with a 50 Giga Byte hard disk drive was deployed for recording purposes.
ClearView is now servicing the system including looking after any software or hardware upgrades. The installer is working with several other school security installations as part of the Governmentโs Building Schools for the Future plan which will see all schools in England and Wales being rebuilt or upgraded by 2015.
What they say
Steve Gorski, managing director, Axis Communications (UK) Ltd said: We are seeing very significant growth in the UK education sector, partly stemming from investment being provided by the Governmentโs Building Schools for the Future programme. The additional drive to create cost effective, centralised remote monitoring services for schools is also great news for the network video market. Put simply, remote monitoring is much easier, more cost effective and generates higher quality output if network cameras are used in participating schools, rather than traditional CCTV cameras.โ
