Bari installs an urban video surveillance system with Panasonic 4K technology

The city's new infrastructure has been renewed with more than 200 True 4K WV-SPV781L cameras and around 100 Speed Dome.

Bari is the sixth Italian metropolitan area with nearly 1,3 million inhabitants. This city has implemented a video surveillance system based on the 4K WV-SPV781L cameras from Panasonic.

'Urban security is a complex and common issue for all metropolises',. Equipping the city with an advanced video surveillance system like the one we have chosen means having images of the highest quality, which are very useful in cases of illegal acts,', comments Antonio Decaro, IT Infrastructure Manager of the Municipal Police and president of ANCI (National Association of Italian Municipalities – National Association of Italian Municipalities).

The starting point of this video surveillance project has been the renovation of the existing analog closed-circuit television system in order to overcome problems related to image quality and the way of connecting to the Municipal Police operations room.

The company Electronic’s Time has been responsible for providing the technology while OnLiCom, has been in charge of the installation.

“The city of Bari expressed the need to have a CCTV system capable of dealing with a wide variety of urban environments, that was able to handle the prevention of ordinary crime, la seguridad de las calles, la detección del abandono de desechos y mascotas, reconocimiento de matrículas y muchos otros servicios relacionados”, comenta Generoso Trisciuzzi, Area Sales Manager e Technical Engineer de Electronic’s Time.

In this way, se ha dotado a esta infraestructura de videovigilancia de unas 450 cámaras de Panasonic, including 200 bullet cameras (bullet) y cerca de cien Speed Dome.

Besides, para evitar ocupar un gran ancho de banda con imágenes de alta resolución se ha dispuesto un sistema redundante que transmite al centro de operaciones los flujos de vídeo en la calidad media/alto para ver y grabar en servidores centrales. Simultáneamente, se registra en 4K en los servidores ubicados en los puntos de visualización dentro de gabinetes blindados (tipo CED), lo que garantiza una doble grabación/visualización.

Gracias a la intervención de ETT ElettroTecnica Tranese, subsidiaria de OnLiCom, también se creó un sistema de hardware para la sala anticrisis, que interactúa directamente con la Policía Municipal a través de fibra óptica (ADSL de 512 KB a 40 MB) y puentes de radio HiperLAN (around 130 entre BTS y CPE) para la transmisión de imágenes en directo.

En cuanto a la conectividad de la sala de operaciones se colocó una línea de fibra óptica simétrica de 600 Mbps, configurando una red privada MPLS con dos servidores redundantes y dos de almacenamiento NAS para mantener registros de hasta 7 days.

Todo el sistema es accesible desde el exterior, a través smartphones o tablets proporcionadas a la policía, that operate on a private MPLS network. The police can monitor the cameras remotely, actively interact and transmit images taken by the cameras to the operations center.

The network infrastructure, interconnections between the main hub and the server, records, screens and files on storage devices are managed by the VMS Milestone XProtect Corporate platform, that monitors, records and stores videos in native resolution, locally and remotely, thanks to redundant recording systems.

This innovative setup ensures that native resolution images can be viewed when needed without the need for a high-performance local network.

One feature of 4K CCTV systems is the ability to provide optimal image quality without compromising large bandwidths.

“We have created a system that could help the police in their supervision and surveillance tasks, providing valuable support for monitoring and intervention in case of emergencies or illegal acts, clarifies Giambattista Quaranta, director of the City Police.

WV-SPV781L: 4K IP and IP66 camera

The virtual PTZ function allows certain areas of the image to be cropped while continuing to record the full area, so as not to miss any event in applications of vital importance. Besides, provides a horizontal angular field of view of 17 up to 96° with an aspect ratio of 16:9 y un campo de visión angular horizontal de 17 a 100° con una relación de aspecto de 4:3.

El revestimiento Rain wash coating permite obtener alta visibilidad en entornos de lluvia y garantiza la evacuación del agua de la superficie de la cámara sin formar gotas para no dispersar la luz y dificultar la visibilidad.