The electricity company has extended the use of surveillance at two of its electricity generating stations so that it now monitors process control, health and safety and logistics, as well as site-wide security.
It makes up part of a three-year process and as many projects to secure the sites.
In 2008, the original analogue CCTV equipment was replaced with an IndigoVision IP video system as part of a project to refurbish the central process control room that monitors two coal fired plants MPP1 and MPP2.
A total of three PC workstations running IndigoVision’s video management software, Control Center, were set up to monitor the process around both plants including oil-burners, coal grinders, gypsum silos, fly-ash waste containers and coal storage fields.
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Four cameras were installed with IndigoVision’s real time analytics designed to automatically detect problems at the fly-ash shoots.
E.ON then expanded the system to encompass the perimeter security surveillance around the construction site of MMP3, a new generating station that was being built alongside the existing two plants.
While PTZ and fixed cameras can be controlled and viewed from the central control room they are primarily monitored on an additional Control Center workstation in the construction site’s security office. A separate standalone network video recorder (NVR) located in the site office records video from the construction site only for evidential purposes.
A third project awarded to QCAT and IndigoVision in 2009 saw the installation of a new video system designed to monitor and secure logistics across the complex, which encompassed the movement of personnel, visitors and supply vehicles as well as delivery of coal and biomass.
Footage is accessible on the existing process control network and recorded by additional NVRs.
A spokesman for IndigoVision said: “Being able to quickly locate evidential quality video clips of a logistics incident is fundamentally important for auditing purposes and to resolve any potential disputes.”
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