Cancun Airport has six hundred network cameras to ensure security in the new Terminal 4

The authorities have also selected Bosch technology to deploy a single, integrated security platform to the other terminals.

The Cancun Airport, the second busiest in the country after Mexico City, although the first in terms of international passenger traffic that come to know the Mayan heritage and the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, with about 23 million passengers you receive annually.

To handle this growing traffic, authorities recently launched a fourth terminal, making it the only airport in Mexico with four terminals, and where the safety and protection of passengers and the implementation of a new comprehensive safety system is a key factor.

To do this, the airport operator Asur decided to redesign video security in order to have a single, integrated security platform operating on all four terminals, for which the technology of Bosch, not just to equip the new Terminal 4 with video surveillance devices, but also to integrate the video security systems of the rest of the terminals.

The project carried out in the new Terminal 4 is based on the installation of about six hundred surveillance cameras, of different series and types of this security manufacturer, to meet the specific needs of the different areas, both inside and outside the terminal.

These devices are used for different applications: inside the terminal are used to monitor the safety and control of luggage; waiting areas, stores, the offices and the contros tower, while outside they are used for perimeter surveillance of the venue and all access points to the airport, including the airfield and the tracks.

Bosch Video Management System is used to efficiently and securely manage the large volumes of data received (BVMS), which serves as a joint platform to centrally manage a total of almost 1.800 cameras in all four terminals, including his recordings.

Video streams from all devices are securely stored on various Bosch Divar IP digital recording units, with a total of 92 terabytes of available storage capacity.

This allows cameras to transmit video data directly to this manufacturer's Divar IP storage devices, no need for network servers.

To this cost and maintenance savings, more balanced management of available storage capacity is added, VRMs automatically balance video streaming load with storage volumes.

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