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Oliver Vellacott, CEO of IndigoVision, describes how IP Video is addressing the petrochemical industrys surveillance needs.
The security issues facing petrochemical sites are many and complex. A plant-wide surveillance system is therefore an essential tool to monitor incidents, protect assets, manage health and safety, detect theft and combat terrorism. Petrochemical sites, which are highly volatile environments spread out over large areas, require many different operators to have access to the same CCTV images. This demands a flexible and truly distributed CCTV system that delivers the very highest quality video.
Different people from different departments, located in different offices around the site can therefore view live and recorded video from any camera or NVR via a workstation at their desk
network in the future without the need for extra cabling. The leading IP Video systems use advanced compression based on MPEG-4 or H.264 which allows high-quality video to be transmitted around the network with minimal impact on the bandwidth. This often means that a sites existing corporate LAN can accommodate the IP Video system without the need for a network upgrade. Different people from different departments, located in different offices around the site can therefore view live and recorded video from any camera or NVR via a workstation at their desk. For example, CCTV workstations can be used by: Security Operational Management Engineering Health and Safety General Management
This gives a petrochemical plant the flexibility to easily and cost-effectively integrate CCTV surveillance into their operations and establish off-site control rooms or monitor multiple sites from one central point. In fact many plants are using IP Video for operational management as well as security.
Video Performance
Petrochemical plants demand the highest standard video quality - full frame rate live viewing and review of recorded footage is essential. Any lowered frame rates, dropped frames or jerky stop-start video can hinder investigations that require intense video review. High quality IP Video systems stream and record high-resolution (4CIF) video continuously at 25/30fps, without frame dropping at very low latency. Therefore PTZ camera control over very long distances is achievable. A petrochemical site is a high motion, 24/7 operation, therefore, the surveillance system needs to be performing to these high standards at all times.
Integrated Security
Many IP Video solutions can be fully integrated with other security systems such as access control and perimeter protection and can consolidate all alarms from these systems within the Video management software. This tight integration between systems can bring significant benefits to the user. For example, when an attempted intrusion is detected at a perimeter fence, an alarm is triggered which displays a map on the IP Video workstation showing the location of the intrusion and displays video from the nearest CCTV camera that has been automatically panned to view the incident.