Salvador Shopping migrates its CCTV-to-IP system with Genetec

Genetec's Security Center solution has allowed Brazilian mall Salvador Shopping to migrate its security infrastructure to an IP platform. An open source solution that combines video surveillance, access control and license plate recognition.

Considered one of the ten largest in Brazil, Salvador Shopping has migrated its old CCTV system (Closed Circuit Television) analog to IP. And he has done so using the Security Center solution Genetec, a platform that combines video surveillance, access control and license plate recognition.

This project began in mid-time 2013 but it wasn't until this February when its installation has been completed. The company responsible for its implementation has been the integrator Estrela who opted for Genetec technology "to be an open platform (open source) standardized, which gives us the freedom to choose any hardware manufacturer. We look at other possibilities for video management, but we gave up because we were always forced to work with the same hardware brand. With Security Center, if we decide to switch cameras in the future we have a wide variety of solutions compatible with Genetec”, explains Alecsandro Vinicius, head of Salvador Shopping's Security Division.

Vinicius also highlights the high image quality of the Security Center solution as a determining factor for your choice, as well as its ease in finding the images and the possibility to customize the system according to the requirements of the operator.

Currently, there are installed 196 Cameras, 92 of which they are mobile and 104 Fixed, half located inside and the rest in the parking lot. Salvador Shopping Security Division staff plan to expand the project to 300 cameras for 2015.

One of the biggest challenges they faced in this project was having to change all the fiber optic wiring, necessary for the IP video surveillance system, as well as the transmission of data over this network. “Since this shopping center is very large and some cameras are more than a hundred meters from the nearest rack, making it difficult to transmit information over fiber optics”, Vinicius says.

With this migration the Salvador Shopping Center has achieved a more efficient CCTV system that "helps us to clarify the facts, allows us to identify suspects and provide the images to the police. This results in greater comfort and safety for visitors who are our biggest concern”.

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