Money Exchange centralizes its video surveillance system with Synology Surveillance Station

This multinational company for sending and receiving transfers and currencies has replaced its traditional video surveillance system with a centralized one to protect all its establishments.

With more than twenty years of activity in the currency market, as well as in the sending and receiving of international transfers, Money Exchange has a network of twenty-two offices in Spain, to which another twenty establishments are added internationally.

Since it mainly works with cash, security during transactions for Money Exchange is a vital issue, both for its clients and its employees. In addition, al disponer de una variada red de locales, sus responsables querían instalar un nuevo sistema de videovigilancia centralizado, estable y más seguro para proteger todos sus locales frente a daños materiales o robos.

Also, la compañía necesitaba configurar el sistema de copias de seguridad de su oficina central en Madrid y la solución a estos requerimientos la encontraron en Synology y en su variada gama de productos para diferentes aplicaciones, como la de videovigilancia, ya que en todos se puede descargar la solución Surveillance Station e incluyen dos licencias de cámaras IP gratuitas, además de su uso para realizar copias de seguridad.

Gracias a Synology Surveillance Station, la empresa Money Exchange ha construido una estructura centralizada CMScon un servidor principal RS812+, which acts as a host for sixteen NAS devices from this manufacturer, which are distributed throughout Spain and include three also located in other European countries (Noruega, Suiza, Suecia).

These NAS act as video surveillance servers (with Surveillance Station) and as repositories for backup copies. With the Central Management System application, Money Exchange has access to all the NAS located in these locations, in addition to decentralizing all live views of the cameras in all its offices.

Also, Money Exchange operators can access recordings from several remote servers, with an efficient and cost-effective solution that allows managing all the cameras and video streams from their offices from a single location, specifically, desde su sede en Madrid.

Como señala Fabricio Suárez, responsable IT en Money Exchange, “antes de implantar Synology debía descargar horas y horas de grabaciones para comprobar el estado y calidad de los vídeos, lo que implicaba un gran coste en términos de tiempo. Now, con Surveillance Station Client para Windows puedo conectarme al instante y visualizar las grabaciones de todas las oficinas, sin necesidad de descargármelas, gracias a Live View”.

Besides, Central Management Systems proporciona acceso a información relevante y a la configuración de todos y cada uno de los NAS, por lo que cualquier alerta detectada se puede reparar inmediatamente. De igual manera, es posible cambiar la configuración de un NAS remoto desde el servidor central.

Synology advised the managers of Money Exchange to create E-maps for each and every one of their offices, and in this way help them in the live visualization of all events that may occur in real time. An E-map is an electronic map, for example an office, which can be edited by adding and configuring cameras to more quickly identify which is being viewed at any given moment.

Among other functionalities that this company has implemented thanks to Surveillance Station is motion detection, especially for indoor areas, which sets up an alert to notify when one of the cameras detects motion in the area it focuses on.

'Security is vital', and even more so in our business, ya que manejamos dinero y datos sensibles de clientes, así como transacciones de divisas internacionales -recalca Suárez-. Synology nos recomendó un producto muy versátil que nos permitió diseñar un nuevo sistema de videovigilancia mucho más rentable, completo y flexible que nuestra estructura anterior”.