Customer
The City Hospital 8th September was built in early 1970s as a major regional
military hospital for the former Yugoslavia. The total area of the facility is
approximately 40,000 square meters. Located about 2.5 km from the city center,
the City Hospital provides secondary and tertiary medical care with first-class,
efficient and cost-effective services for the city of Skopje and Macedonia.
Challenges
Complex Application Environment and Sensitive Operations
“Security in and around hospitals is always a major concern due to the open nature
of these institutions and the sensitivity of hospital operations”, said Nakev Slavco
of NIK Sistemi, the project integrator. Looking specifically at the City Hospital,
every day more than 1,000 people visit the hospital, including patients and their
families, medical professionals, as well as hospital suppliers. In addition, security
requirements for many areas in the hospital, such as patient rooms and supply
rooms, are much more stringent than in regular surveillance applications. For
these reasons, the fact that megapixel cameras can cover an area six times larger
than traditional CCTV cameras can be especially beneficial to hospital security
in spacious locations like the lobby and parking lots. Furthermore, for some
specific operation scenarios, such as payment handling and medicine pickup,
the megapixel cameras are used to provide six time better detail.
Solution Stability and I/O Performance
“Many years of experience in the surveillance industry have taught us that the
key aspects of a stable security surveillance system are the back-end storage and
software/hardware integration of the overall management system”, said Slavco. These aspects also affect the integration and compatibility of front-end IP
cameras. For the system integrator, the 32 channel megapixel project seemed
pretty straightforward, but in terms of CCTV systems this would equal 256
CIF camera recording, and the high bandwidth and storage demand of these
cameras could generate major challenges in terms of overall application quality
and stability.
System Integration Risks
“Most NVR solutions are purely software–based and require SIs
to integrate the software and hardware themselves”, said Slavco.
“The level of integration in these solutions is often low. With weak
system compatibility and integration, the SI has to spend much time
on certification and control. In addition, I/O and storage system
integration, as well as concerns related to performance and stability,
often give SIs pause when working with megapixel solutions.”
Solutions
NIK Sistemi, an experienced integrator in the security industry,
preferred comprehensive end-to-end megapixel solutions
due to their high level of integration and certification. Many
leading security companies, such as Bosch, Honeywell, Siemens,
IndigoVision, and Nice Vision all offered these types of solutions.
However, due to limited budgets and without a need for complex
software, NIK Sistemi started looking for a cost-effective, yet reliable
solution that could meet the customer’s requirements.
For the hospital project, NIK Sistemi adopted two Surveon SMR5016 smart megapixel recorders, 30 megapixel vari-focal dome CAM4220 cameras and two IP66 outdoor CAM3260 cameras with D/N and IR LED for installation in different areas of the hospital. Besides the embedded display function of the SMR5016, with Surveon’s VMS client server structure users can also easily monitor images from a remote site by installing a client program. This structure greatly enhances surveillance management efficiency for the hospital.
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