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Southend deploys largest Mobotix all digital, megapixel CCTV system within NHS Trust

MOBOTIX Advanced Partner Check Your Security Ltd completes 150-camera installation to help protect over a million staff and visitors at Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

UK – 13th, October, 2010 – MOBOTIX AG, a leading manufacturer of complete high-resolution IP video systems have released details of a successful project at Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust creating the largest MOBOTIX all digital, hi-res CCTV system within any NHS facility to help protect over a million people.

The solution designed and implemented by Check Your Security Ltd (CYS), a MOBOTIX Advanced Partner, replaces an aging analogue system and is part of a highly integrated platform including, barrier entry help in number plate recognition and VoIP based help points across the 87,770m2 campus in Westcliff-on-Sea near Southend. The legacy CCTV system was old and offered poor image quality, especially at night, hampering the accurate identification and safety of over a million staff, patients and visitors who use the hospital every year.

As the hospital is in operation 24/7, 365 days a year, there are always people on site so the Trust looks at CCTV in a totally different way to most commercial enterprises. Rather than being installed for the prime protection of “Property”, its primary focus was on the protection of “People” and includes surveillance across the full perimeter, all entry and exit points for both vehicle and foot traffic, as well as key transit points to ensure their safety and well being. 

The selection of MOBOTIX based technology and integrator Check Your Security Ltd followed an exhaustive multi month tender and evaluation process including meetings with numerous local and national suppliers and manufacturers as well as site visits to similar environments. The 18-month project was completed in stages; initial parts have been operational across the site without any issues for seven months.

As Kevin Chinnery, Head of Security for Southend NHS trust commented, “We were impressed by MOBOTIX’s camera system with its 3 megapixel images, two way audio, PoE capability, low light performance and ability to work in any environment without the need for a housing, heaters or fans. The addition of a full surveillance software suite included with the product was also a significant cost saving for us.”

In respect to implementation, Chinnery added, “Check Your Security was chosen because of their clear, concise and unbiased representation of the products they put forward. On our site visits, we saw examples of how they had helped other organisations with very similar requirements and they came highly recommended.”

The project goes beyond simple CCTV surveillance and CYS has integrated MOBOTIX cameras into the Help Point voice call system which is a Cisco Call Manager compatible Help Point system, vehicle barriers and door access control systems to reduce the management overheads for site security staff.  With no moving parts within the camera’s and a completely digital capture and storage system, the Trust is also estimating a significant increase in reliability of the CCTV system.  “The quality of our CCTV is also reducing some of our insurance costs, especially around our car parking which has been awarded Park Mark® status,” explains Chinnery.

With a 25 strong site security team, the CCTV also needed to be easily accessible and able to deliver evidential quality images. To meet this need, CYS created integrated sitemaps to instantly pull up all cameras in an incident area at the touch of a button. Footage is stored in a highly fault tolerant and tamper proof 80TB NAS storage cluster and can be quickly searched and copied onto removable media for use by the police if needed.  “Many people think of CCTV as just a security measure,” explains Chinnery, “But we have also used it to find a confused elderly patient who wandered out of a ward, to ascertain the cause of several traffic accidents in a car park, for staffing issues and to help the police in several on-going investigations.”

With the Hospital constantly evolving, Chinnery believes the selection of MOBOTIX and CYS gives the Trust a lot of scope, “The project has been deemed a tremendous success by everybody at the hospital and gives us a solid platform to grow and adapt if and when or needs change.” He concludes.

The project uses a mixture of technologies including networking equipment from Cisco, storage appliances from Overland Technology and integration systems from Netgenium.  A full case study by CYS on its work with Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is also available and provides a detailed overview of the entire 18-month project.

About Check Your Security Ltd:
Based in the East of England Check Your Security Ltd (CYS) brings together a wide range of disciplines from Multiple systems and manufacturers including Consulting in Security system installation, Networking and Telecommunications skills and software engineering. Together these skills enable them to provide first class security systems integration and consulting service that brings together legacy systems giving customer back control and making future upgrades or site changes a lot less painful. Whether it is advice on specific IP or Analogue CCTV Cameras, Network cabling structures or software CYS are happy to advise on the most cost effective solution for your current specific requirement as well as any future needs. They will help you in putting together an IP Security strategy for not only your CCTV, but also Access Control, Intruder, Fire and Building Management Systems (BMS).

About MOBOTIX AG:
MOBOTIX AG sees itself as a software company with in-house hardware development in the area of digital, highresolution and network-based video security solutions. The company focuses on the development of user- friendly complete system solutions from a single source. The publicly-traded company with headquarters in Langmeil, Germany, is known as the leading pioneer in network camera technology since its foundation in 1999 and its decentralized concept has also made high-resolution video systems cost-efficient. From 2010 onwards, MOBOTIX will extend its product range to include intelligent home automation products that are developed in- house. Whether in embassies, airports, railway stations, ports, gas stations, hotels or highways, over one hundred thousand MOBOTIX video systems have been in operation on every continent for years.

For further details visit:- www.mobotix.com

About Mobotix AG:
At the forefront of technology, Mobotix AG is a European provider of high-resolution digital, network-based video security systems. The stock-quoted company, since its founding in Germany in 1999, has emerged as the leading pioneer in network camera technology and its decentralized concept has made cost-efficient high-resolution network video systems possible in the first place. Embassies, airports, train stations, ports, gas stations, hotels, highways – hundreds of thousands of Mobotix video systems are in use worldwide today.
For further information visit:- www.mobotix.com