Controlware supplies IP CCTV to NHS buildings

Controlware has supplied an IP CCTV surveillance system to Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals.

The CCTV recording system is an extension of the Borough Council's CCTV network that monitors video from more than 200 cameras.

Borough Council is committed to increasing public safety, and to help meet these aims has moved to a new purpose built 24 hour control centre.

The surveillance system at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals has been upgraded as part of Runnymede Borough Council's continuous programme of development.

The council network includes a mixture of analogue and IP cameras with numerous sites linked over Broadband.

The hospitals are connected over Ethernet via a high capacity fibre backbone that consists of four fibre pairs connected back to the central control centre.

The digital recording process eliminates the possibility of losing recordings through human error and making instances such as tapes running out or not being swapped over in time a thing of the past.

The video is digitally recorded locally at the Hospitals but there is also a connection to the control centre.

The Hospitals are able to save costs by retaining investment in their existing 64 analogue cameras by using 16 channel codec's instead of replacing their cameras.

Access to archive video is faster, more secure and it is easier to search for specific incidents.

Support for expansion of storage capacity and reliability is also assured as new cameras are added to the network and the Hospital's recording requirements evolve in the future.

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