Over the last twenty years global retail Paul Smith’s CCTV had grown in a piecemeal way as new stores were implemented. Local security installers had been hired to install low-cost and stand-alone CCTV systems with no standard blueprint or maintenance agreements to keep the systems working effectively. As a result failure rates were high and video recordings which were often too poor to use for evidential purposes. 
Paul Smith’s IT department researched the market, looking for robust, scalable IP video hardware and software.
After a painstaking evaluation process, the retailer chose Milestone XProtect Corporate video management software and Axis network cameras for their global stores. Axis video encoders were selected to bring some CCTV cameras onto the corporate network where there was an urgent requirement ahead of the full IT and IP video upgrade.
As Lee Bingham Paul Smith’s Head of IT explains: “The fact that Milestone XProtect is built on an open platform architecture using Microsoft Active Directory makes rapid roll out possible, as well as cost-effective maintenance and support. Selecting Milestone XProtect enabled us to migrate the whole CCTV estate onto a single platform to establish uniformity and consistency.”
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