The Hospital Clínic of Barcelona relies on Lanaccess for its security infrastructure

Thanks to the VMS of Lanaccess, it can manage both real-time viewing and recordings, maintaining total control over all facilities associated with Hospital Clínic.

For more than 15 years, Lanaccess has been the reference provider for the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona in professional video surveillance solutions, valuing, both the support and closeness, as well as the robustness and high specific functionality that adapts to their needs.

With more than one hundred years of history, it is a leading public health center in the City of Barcelona with a clear commitment to excellence in its three main areas of action: care, research, and teaching. This public consortium formed by the Generalitat of Catalonia (CatSalut) and the University of Barcelona has 760 beds and 5.389 professionals. For a reference hospital like this, the safety of patients and staff is a priority.

It is a very busy center and a passage area for many citizens, where high-value equipment is also located, so having an effective video surveillance solution is vital both to prevent, to deter and to be able to investigate any illicit activity that may occur.

IP and analog video surveillance

With the video management system (VMS) by Lanaccess, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona controls more than 500 cameras, among which there are IP and analog devices. The transition from analog to IP cameras is being carried out progressively, since Lanaccess has solutions to continue working with analog cameras, In the case of the Hospital, encoders have been used, In other cases this transition has been carried out using hybrid video recorders.

Thanks to Lanaccess's VMS, they can manage both real-time viewing and recordings, keeping full control of all installations associated with the Hospital Clínic.

Cluster Video Recorders

This center has several buildings distributed across the area, including those for research and healthcare. Having centralized management that can coordinate all locations is of vital importance for the security department, as it allows managing all security more efficiently. On the one hand, there is a control center and, on the other hand, multiple operator stations distributed.

En los centros alejados se han instalado videograbadores de pequeño y mediano tamaño, mientras que en el edificio principal se cuenta con videograbadores HM Cluster.

Los videograbadores Cluster son equipos en red embebidos de alta capacidad. Están disponibles con entre 3 y 5 CPU´s independientes, extraíbles en caliente y balanceables; con discos de hasta 4 HD por CPU y hasta 20 bahías de discos, extraíbles en caliente. También cuentan son configurables en RAID y cuentan con una fuente de alimentación, redundante y extraíble en caliente.

Una funcionalidad muy apreciada por el equipo de seguridad es la monitorización del estado del parque, que dota en tiempo real y de manera sencilla el estado de los dispositivos de seguridad, mejorando así el servicio de mantenimiento. Allows monitoring of both the video recorders and the cameras, indicating in a very intuitive way when an abnormal situation is occurring. Besides, provides detailed information (model, mark, firmware, location, etc.).

Another feature that is frequently used is the scheduled or immediate execution of monitoring rounds of equipment, offering full control of the entire video surveillance system. Getting into the details of performing tasks such as capturing photographs, the status and statistics of disks, the monitoring of entries/exits, the time verification and firmware versions.

A basic point for the security department to be able to have an optimal security solution has been the flexibility to incorporate different reference solutions, and an example of this is the integration between Lanaccess' video surveillance solution with the access control of Dorlet.