Overview
The recent growth of CCTV in the UK has led to the centralisation of facilities to watch/record camera footage. This has led to a range of often proprietary and analogue solutions to deal with the viewing and recording of CCTV video footage.
Even today it’s a commonplace to view CCTV streams on CRT monitors and record/store valuable footage – which may be later relied on in court – on VHS tape. As a result, these CCTV Control Rooms lack resilience and can produce video footage which is inadmissible in court.
Recording CCTV footage onto DVD still has its challenges, as there are often 1000’s of DVD’s to handle. Also, HOSDB and ACPO guidelines suggest that the quality of video recorded to DVD media may denigrate within a very short time frame, rendering it useless in court.
The Tellemachus CCTV Control Room solution brings a new and cost effective approach. Our secure networking experience and knowledge of IP means we can design or re-engineer the CCTV Control Centre. Incoming video and audio streams can then be re-encoded and delivered to a dedicated and secure IP network.
This video/audio footage then becomes a network resource which can be viewed/reviewed using none proprietary equipment. What’s more, video/audio streams can be securely shared and distributed to Police and other Emergency Services as and when appropriate.
Live video/audio footage can then be stored for the short, medium or long term using Tellemachus’ innovative recording and archiving solutions; all of which meet ACPO and HOSDB guidelines for the handling of evidential video and audio.
Using secure virtual matrix technologies rather than traditional and expensive hardware matrix, we can guarantee these incoming streams are viewed wherever they’re required, both inside and outside the CCTV Control Room, providing a degree of resilience normally only associated with data networks.
In addition, Tellemachus has a range of Rapid Deployable CCTV cameras which can transmit video/audio across a range of wireless networks. These can be integrated into existing matrix within CCTV Control Centre to be viewed and controlled in the same way as ‘wired’ cameras.
Applications
Replace traditional video matrix systems which are often expensive to procure and expensive to maintain
Replace existing VHS and/or DVD recording and long term storage of evidential video evidence
To allow existing CCTV Control Rooms to take over responsibility of monitoring CCTV systems owned by others.
