Some of the surveillance tech upgrades at 1.4 m sq foot mall in NJ:
- Existing NTSC cameras were re-homed and encoded by both internal encoder cards in selected servers and Axis H.264 blade servers. New outdoor NTSC cameras were encoded at the closest IDF with external H.264 encoders. The remaining cameras are IP, configured as both VGA and megapixel HD cameras depending on placement, located throughout the facility. As wiring was a major cost, MTS relied heavily on dual sensor Mobotix IP cameras. In many cases, one Mobotix dome camera with two lenses (like in photo below) essentially did the work of two cameras, thus drastically reducing the wiring and licensing costs.
- A Pivot3 RAIGE storage subsystem was configured as a network-attached storage array and is used for secondary storage. The NAS is configured as a RAID 6e platform, with 96 TB of storage, fully managed through an SNMP platform at MTS. On a typical day, over 2 TB of video are written to disk.
- Remote access is achieved through a dedicated Apache Tomcat webserver with an ISS webview module that provides full functionality through web browser access.
- Finally, MTS designed and built a command center for 24/7 operations that includes multiple large screen displays, an interactive map that allows users to choose camera views based on a map model of the mall, and a dedicated system for the production of optical disk evidence
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