IP CCTV

Keeping an eye on things

Every business serious about safety needs reliable Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) installations to watch over their premises. If you're interested in CCTV for your business you’ve come to the right place because we’re incredibly experienced in this area, working with local boroughs, councils and businesses across the UK. By providing the best products and services around, we’ve simply changed the way surveillance video is accessed, controlled and stored.

Key features

• Relax, knowing that our experience covers a number of high profile public and corporate sector deployments.
• Our solutions are delivered over a converged IP network capable of delivering physical security, data and communication solutions on a single platform.
• Your IP CCTV solution will be designed, installed and proactively managed by specialists of both CCTV and IP networks. They know their stuff inside out.

Fighting crime and protecting your business

CCTV monitoring has really helped to cut crime and vandalism in town and city centres, retail outlets, public car parks, construction sites, hospitals, transport links and other potential 'hot spots'. We’ve been at the forefront of this, helping corporate and public sector organisations, like the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary and UCE Birmingham, to implement and manage effective CCTV networks.

More to IP CCTV than meets the eye

IP CCTV is a smart technology: beyond capturing images, it also handles automatic number plate recognition, proactive face recognition and object analysis, allowing for the fast analysis of recorded images. IP CCTV monitoring can be centralised, allowing your staff to focus on business critical areas. And with more and more organisations interested in introducing intelligent building control, IP CCTV has a huge role to play in this arena. And because it can transmit images from potentially thousands of cameras over a single fibre, your future requirements are already catered for. What's more, since IP CCTV stores video in a digital format, you can save space by waving goodbye to tape storage.

A fully managed service

Managed IP CCTV monitoring revolutionises the way video is accessed, controlled and stored. We fully manage and maintain the service 24/7, which means your IT and security team can concentrate on core tasks while we look after proactive fault management and remote diagnostics.

Through the convergence of CCTV with Metro Ethernet VPN or IPVPN, we provide flexibility and resilience to ensure live and recorded video images can be stored and viewed securely anywhere on your network. This makes remote CCTV monitoring easy. Our IP CCTV solution also includes transmission, management and recording solutions, as well as offering a clear route for the convergence of your communications and security needs onto a single network.

Project management and managed services

IP CCTV is more than just a technology. We’re ready to help you put it to work, from inception and design to installation and maintenance. We’ll collaborate with your camera and power suppliers and other third parties to give you the service you expect. Nothing less.

Features & benefits

IP CCTV

The camera never lies

Features

• Added value applications - digital video supports the use of 'smart' software-based applications that deliver enhanced effectiveness compared to traditional CCTV solutions, including Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), face recognition and object analysis. IP CCTV becomes a starting point, not a dead end.
  
• Bandwidth - we use MPEG2 and MPEG4 compression technologies to limit bandwidth usage while delivering 25fps images of comparable quality to your existing analogue solution. Intelligent frame rates further reduce bandwidth demands by changing to suit the amount of activity detected at the scene.
  
• Ubiquitous access - you can view, control and distribute live and recorded images from/to any point on the network. Images can be viewed via a PC or traditional CCTV monitors, even via a laptop or mobile device.
  
• Digital storage - video is stored in a digital format on hard disc, offering rapid user-definable search options.
  
• Flexibility - you can adjust your bandwidth as your needs change and easily add sites to the core network. With our Business Metro Ethernet VPN platform, there’s the flexibility to manage the size of any VLAN across the network.
  
• Multiple camera feeds - you and your security team can view images remotely and in multiple locations simultaneously.
  
• Interactive applications - including email, mobile text and images, can be used to alert, inform and update onsite personnel.
  
• Resilience - our core network is inherently resilient with multiple paths available for data. The network is designed to automatically re-route around any failures. In addition, the IP CCTV platform offers local storage that can be used to replenish footage in the event of an outage.
  
• Viewing options - management software allows multiple cameras to be viewed instantaneously or we can build custom point-and-click map based virtual tours.
  
• Robust SLA - we offer a six-hour SLA (unique within the industry). We’ll deal with the maintenance, configuration and management of your IP CCTV solution for you. The SLA has key metrics against fault response & resolution and service credits against availability. In many cases, we’ll have fixed a fault before you even know about it.

Benefits

• Scalability - IP CCTV runs over our Metro Ethernet VPN and IPVPN networks, offering the associated networking and management capabilities that lead to improved flexibility, functionality and scalability compared to traditional CCTV.
  
• Backwards compatibility - as IP CCTV can be used in conjunction with, or as an upgrade to, traditional CCTV, organisations can continue to fully exploit their existing network infrastructure.
  
• Centralisation - monitoring facilities can be centralised with remote CCTV monitoring, leading to cost reduction and resource rationalisation.
  
• Cost savings - cost and footprint requirements are dramatically reduced over traditional tape based storage solutions.
  
• Fully managed network service - IP CCTV is fully managed and maintained 24/7 by us, which means your IT staff can concentrate on your core business while we look after proactive fault management and remote diagnostics.
  
• Configurable - a software front end allows you to tailor the solution to your own requirements and increase the effectiveness of security personnel.
  
• Remote monitoring - live and recorded video images are stored and viewed securely anywhere on your network.

There, that’s covered it.

Detailed Info

IP CCTV

A view to safety

IP CCTV

The use of CCTV has grown dramatically over the last decade and is set to continue, with IP quickly becoming the dominant market technology.

We’re a proven provider of IP networking solutions and have an established track record of supplying, installing and maintaining a range of flexible, cost effective CCTV solutions to address specific security surveillance needs.

Our IP CCTV solution is offered as a managed service that operates over the Virgin Media Business IP enabled networks, and will benefit from many of the networking and management capabilities associated with these platforms.

Network Solution

IP CCTV is offered as a converged service over both our Ethernet and IPVPN platforms. Dedicated VLANs and a video quality of service (QoS) and class of service (CoS), ensure that your other voice and business critical applications are unaffected even though the infrastructure is shared.

The flexibility of our IP network platforms also allows numerous access technologies to be used, including wireless, ADSL, and traditional fibre solutions, to provide the most cost effective solution possible.

Elements of an IP CCTV system

• CODEC - CODECs perform the compression (encoding) into MPEG 2 or MPEG 4 formats of the analogue camera output, and decompression (decoding) at the viewing point.
  
• Web Browser - Each CODEC can be accessed via web browser for viewing, recording, setup and management.
  
• VIDOS - VIDOS is the central video management software solution for all IP CCTV network-connected CODECS and NVRs. It interfaces with both PC and CCTV monitors, provides a customisable interface for point and click virtual tours, manages alarms and can be used to provide the same functionality as a matrix switch, allowing multiple cameras to be viewed at once, if required.
  
• NVR - NVR is software that runs on a server. It can be configured to record video and audio to hard disk directly from the CODEC or remotely over the network platform.
  
• Media converters - These are used to convert the RF output of the CODEC (encoder) into an optical signal for transmission over fibre. They are also used to convert the optical signal back to RF as required.

Where remote functions are required, control pads featuring joysticks, microphones, keyboards etc. are available, featuring interfaces such as RS232. Contact closures and bi-directional audio, for example, are also supported to provide remote access and concierge solutions..

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