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Aeroports de Paris Group are Europe’s second largest airport group, managing 14 airports and aerodromes including Paris-Orly, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Le Bourget. (Photo by Controlware Communications) |
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THE CHALLENGE
Aeroports de Paris Group are Europe’s second largest airport group, managing 14 airports and aerodromes including Paris-Orly, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Le Bourget. In 2003 Aeroports de Paris embarked on an ambitious CCTV upgrade program to improve the level of security throughout their airports. To upgrade its analogue CCTV systems to IP, Aeroports de Paris needed a solution.
THE SOLUTION
As part of this huge project Controlware supplied Aeroports de Paris Group video codecs that enable video from analogue cameras to be streamed over IP networks, thus helped create one of the largest ever integrated IP CCTV networks in Europe. |
GROWING RELIANCE ON IP
In recent years, installations of CCTV surveillance systems have increased dramatically. The Police and other law enforcement agencies have found CCTV an invaluable weapon to combat rising crime figures and the war against global terrorism while private sector organizations ranging from retail to manufacturing businesses have also benefited from its crime deterrent and management capabilities. From city centers and airports, to the home, CCTV is now so widespread that there is at least 1 CCTV camera for every 14 people in London and statistically, in a journey across London you could be caught on camera up to 300 times.1)
The increased demand for surveillance and the need to share video information more easily has led to the development of IP-based solutions. As increased reliance upon information and security grows, it becomes necessary to make video accessible to more people. For example, in most organizations it was only the responsibility of security staff to monitor the premises but today additional departments such as the IT department need to know who is accessing their secure areas. Simultaneously, the increasing availability of broadband technology, mobile communication devices and other high bandwidth networking connections has made the transmission of video images and more importantly real time video, more viable.
THE BENEFITS
Many organizations are beginning to recognize the enhanced flexibility that an integrated and networked video solution can deliver. By using a single infrastructure costs can be saved, multiple operators are able to access, share and view live and recorded video without having to be onsite, remote control of PTZ cameras provides increased flexibility and there is virtually unlimited storage capacity for archived video. Also the integration opportunities are much greater for IP solutions. By integrating the surveillance platform with access control or building management systems the creation of a single unified management and control platform is possible.
CODECS TO THE RESCUE
Analogue CCTV systems are also able to take advantage of a networked IP solution without having to replace costly equipment. Through installing codecs between the coaxial cable network (connecting the cameras) and the Ethernet network, organizations can quickly and easily upgrade their system to IP. The codecs convert the video from the analogue cameras to IP for transport across the local or wide area network. One organization to benefit in this way is Aeroports de Paris. Aeroports de Paris have been upgrading CCTV systems at Paris-Orly and Paris-Charles de Gaulle airports with codecs from Controlware to create one of the largest ever integrated IP CCTV networks in Europe.
AEROPORTS DE PARIS
Aeroports de Paris Group are Europe’s second largest airport group, managing 14 airports and aerodromes including Paris-Orly, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Le Bourget. As the airport authority for the Paris region, Aeroports de Paris view security operations as an integral part of their customer services and ensure a high level of security to safeguard passengers, airline companies and partners. A record 78.7 million passengers passed through Paris-Orly and Paris-Charles de Gaulle in 2005 making Aeroports de Paris the second largest European airport group in terms of growth.
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Figure 1. Video surveillance software market: revenue forecasts (world), 2001-2011 (Source: Frost & Sullivan) |
UPGRADE PROGRAM
In 2003 Aeroports de Paris embarked on an ambitious CCTV upgrade program to improve the level of security throughout their airports. As part of this huge project Controlware was selected to supply video codecs that enable video from analogue cameras to be streamed over IP networks. The superior video quality that the codecs deliver and an extensive technical service and support network were key reasons for Aeroports de Paris to establish a long-term partnership with Controlware. Since then Controlware have assisted Aeroports de Paris with the evolution and expansion of their surveillance network and to date have supplied over 2000 video codecs.
The Aeroports de Paris IP CCTV solution provides state-of-the-art video surveillance encompassing both airside and passenger areas including; luggage sorting, check in desks, access to restricted areas, ATM cash machines, car parks and perimeter monitoring applications. The integrated IP CCTV system enables Aeroports de Paris to constantly monitor, record and manage video from thousands of analogue cameras at any location on their network and to operate a crisis centre that can be used in case of emergencies.
As the number of cameras connected to surveillance networks increase, management platforms have to become more sophisticated to help operators manage the huge number of cameras and the increasing amount of video information they generate. Given this it is no surprise that Frost & Sullivan forecasts the world video surveillance market to grow from US$206 million in 2006 to US$607.7 million in 2011.2)
STATE-OF-THE-ART OPERATIONS & SECURITY
Many management platforms now incorporate behavioral, tracking or biometric technologies to aid operator’s workload. Intelligent Video Analysis is one technology that represents a cost-efficient way to help prevent and improve responses to crime while maintaining a proactive level of surveillance. Video Analysis automatically detects, tracks, zooms in on and records all target activity from any camera without operator intervention. People, events and vehicles are automatically classified to determine activities or behaviors that might be considered suspicious and alarms are generated when rules the user has applied are violated. All unauthorized activity in pre-defined target zones is monitored including unattended objects, loitering objects/people falling, trespassing and fence climbing, vehicles speeding or stopping in restricted zones and vehicles/people moving in the wrong direction. An intelligent search tool revolutionizes retrieval of specific information through image searches based upon time, location and alarm activity. For example, a search for all activity around a door entrance for the last 24 hours that necessitates a long manual search when using a conventional system is completed and complied into a mini compilation movie in seconds when using an Intelligent Video Analysis system. Responding to events as they happen and enabling fast retrieval of specific video data automatically maintains a high level of security, improving surveillance operations while reducing costs and saving valuable time.
IP solutions enable organizations like Aeroports de Paris to be able to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of security personnel and resources while increasing the probability of preventing security threats and false alarms, maintaining a secure and safe environment. Through the adoption of advanced and sophisticated IP surveillance solutions operators benefit from fast access to real-time and archive video information while technologies like Intelligent Video Analysis make surveillance more proactive than ever before.
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1) BBC “Watching your every move” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1789157.stm
2) Frost & Sullivan “World Video Surveillance Software Markets 2005”
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