A case study of CCTV at the newly refurbished Park Grand Paddington, in London, part of the Shaftesbury Hotels property group. The installer, Rukey Solutions Limited, completed the 64-camera system on time and budget.
The refurbishment gave hotel management the chance to upgrade the security system to meet the requirements of a busy hotel with high visitor turnover. Increasingly cumbersome to operate, the existing analogue CCTV had become difficult to use and required external support and maintenance to keep it running, while ageing cameras could not provide reliable evidence in the event of an incident. The hotel owners wanted to switch to what the product manufacturer termed a user-friendly solution with proven capacity for HD monitoring, flexibility to integrate extra functions and scope to extend monitoring to multiple locations.
Rukey Solutions delivered a centralised IDIS DirectIP HD surveillance solution with two 32-channel network recorders, 64 full-HD domes, multiple refuge call points, integrated alarms, network equipment and IDIS client software as an integrated package. The DirectIP plug-and-play and auto-configuration cut installation time, for a migration to a surveillance system that offers improved coverage, superior image quality and reporting, the installers say.
Every IP camera can be controlled without individual configuration, while supporting simultaneous live-view, record, playback, remote access and audio-video back-up. Shaftesbury Hotels is already extending the IDIS solution to a second site.
Darren Morrison of Rukey Solutions Ltd, said: “We had no doubt that IDIS DirectIP offered the optimum combination of quality, reliability and usability to meet all the immediate security challenges, while offering the scalability to support Shaftesbury Hotels’ long-term requirements.”
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