The airport has undergone a major expansion with a new runway and 250,000 square metre terminal building which has just opened ahead of 2010 Shanghai World Expo in May.
The CCTV system (which was designed and installed by IndigoVision’s local partner Shanghai Baosight Software Co Ltd) consists of 1,880 fixed and PTZ cameras. It’s integrated with access control, fire detection and other airport systems.
In use, IndigoVision’s distributed architecture delivers high quality video to multiple users located throughout the terminal building.
High quality images at minimum bandwidth
Commenting on the surveillance system, Qi Zhimin – the project director of Intelligence Business Group for Baosight – said: “With the demanding Homeland Security and operational environment in the new terminal, the airport needed an IP-networked CCTV system that was fully distributed and delivered high quality images at minimum bandwidth. IndigoVision’s system fully meets this requirement.”
Zhimin also explained that IndigoVision is the only vendor that guarantees no dropped frames, under any conditions, when transmitting full frame-rate video. “This is a very important consideration for a high security operation like an airport.”
Over 50 video management workstations running IndigoVision’s Control Center software are installed at different locations around the terminal, allowing operators to monitor the terminal operation, aircraft parking apron and perimeter fencing.
In addition to availability in the main security Control Room, live and recorded video is available to users in different departments of the airport as well as a number of law enforcement agencies. Advanced user management facilities in ‘Control Center’ ensure that only users with the correct permissions can access their own department’s video.
Reduction in overall project costs
Control Center is licensed on an unrestricted basis within the cost of IndigoVision hardware, allowing multiple workstations to be deployed for no more than the cost of the PC hardware. For the end user, this significantly reduces overall project costs.
The CCTV system is fully integrated with Tyco access control and Siemens fire systems, as well as with the luggage handling system. Alarms or events from any of these systems can be configured to automatically pan a camera to a pre-selected position, giving the operators an instant view of the incident.
“The powerful video recording capability was another reason the airport chose the IndigoVision solution,” added Zhimin. “Redundant recording configurations have been set up that allow camera images to be automatically recorded on a back-up recorder in the event of any failure. Data security is vitally important to ensure integrity during post-event analysis.”
Continuous recording from 1,880 cameras
No less than 47 servers running IndigoVision’s Windows-based NVR software with a total of 600 TB of RAID-5 storage provide the recording solution.
A number of these servers are allocated for failover back-ups, in turn allowing the airport’s security staff to record images from all 1,880 cameras continuously for anything between seven and 14 days.
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