Moscow's Domodedovo Airport border crossing is secured with Samsung IP cameras

Domodedovo International Airport, the largest in Russia, has installed more than four hundred IP cameras Samsung Techwin as a video surveillance system to monitor the daily activity of the border crossing.

Located at 42 Km. of Moscow, Domodedovo International Airport in the Russian capital and the largest in the country, has achieved for four consecutive years (the last in 2013) Recognized as Best Airport in Eastern Europe at Skytrax World Airport Awards, that recognizes the investment made in this type of facilities to achieve maximum efficiency and comfort for the traveler.

One of the requirements of Domodedovo airport, through which more than thirty million passengers pass per year, is that all of them must go through customs to ensure that import duties are paid and so that law enforcement officials can detect smuggling of restricted or prohibited goods..

Precisely with the aim of providing these officials with the best tools to prevent and detect any criminal activity, the Directorate for Construction and Operations of State Border Facilities of the Russian Federation (Rosgranstroy) decided to replace the existing analog CCTV system with a new video surveillance solution based on IP network technology, to take full advantage of state-of-the-art HD cameras.

After the Rosgranstroy tender, The contract for the installation of the new video surveillance system was awarded to Telros Integration, A benchmark in the Russian integration market, that selected the IP cameras of Samsung Techwin for this project.

This is how Alexey Savin explains it, CTO of this company: "In collaboration with Samsung Techwin Europe we have designed a competitively priced system that meets the demanding specifications indicated in the tender.. The price/performance ratio of their IP cameras is so good that we were able to demonstrate to our client that it was not necessary to lose in quality by hiring a very affordable solution".

Thanks to this new network video surveillance system, Composed of more than four hundred cameras, Security personnel monitor the images captured by the devices live and uninterrupted from the control room, Located in the border crossing area, and are also recorded in real time on a system based on an ITV server.

"The video surveillance system has been integrated with access control," says the director of Telros Integration., as well as with other alarm systems so that the customer gets the maximum benefit from the recorded images, mainly as expert evidence. When using ITV video monitoring software, Staff can quickly retrieve recordings to check who has entered restricted areas.".

The installation of IP cameras in the customs area has been carried out with PTZ domes of the SNP-5300H model, of 1,3 megapixels and with optical zoom of 30 Increases, that allow close observation and without pixelation to people and objects that are far away. The SND-7061 Full HD network minidome has also been installed (of 3 Megapixel); the SND-5061 internal dome (of 1,3 Megapixel) and the SNV-6084 WiseNetIII Full HD vandal-resistant dome (of 2 Megapixel).

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