Sports location.

The Golf Club had a four camera analogue system, but required further coverage, especially of the valuable equipment area.

DCTV installed a 16-camera system, and used one channel to continue to continuously record the four cameras on the time lapse analogue cameras. The Club plan to replace these cameras when they have the budget, but will make do with them for now, and are pleased to lose the administrative overhead of daily tape changes, logging and erasing etc.

The Car Park was covered with 3 main cameras, one of which was arranged to record the number plates of incoming and outgoing cars.  The number plate camera was black and white, for enhanced definition, whereas the area cameras were colour by day, switching to infra-red black and white at night.

The equipment yard was also covered with two cameras, switching to infra-red at night, one of which was backed up by an infra-red floodlight. An occasional overflow car park at the back, that could be accessed from a footpath, was covered by a high level camera.

Subsequently two further areas were identified, one where members left their bags, and the other a rear entrance to the club.  Because the range was relatively limited these were covered with two smaller wide angle cameras, again colour with infra-red switching at night.

Business premises

The client had used view-only monitoring cameras, mainly to see where staff were within a range of warehouses.  When these became troublesome, he decided to install a proper security system.

The survey identified 5 camera locations, and suggested ways of dealing with the complication of concrete floors.  An 8-channel system was selected to allow for future expansion.

As with all our applications the camera views were networked across all workers PC's, so that any member of staff could locate anybody else in the premises. This includes remote access from the Internet.

Country house

This large country house also controls access to (and has ownership of) the road leading to a small group of similar high value houses.  The front door was out of sight of the two areas where the husband and wife worked at home, in separate rooms.

The brief was to set up a camera that would use motion detection to record all movement on the road, and also to show anybody arriving at the front door.  By networking the camera onto the existing domestic network, the front door could now be monitored from the workstations.

The system chosen supports 4 cameras, yet only one was required for the prime purpose.  Two further wireless cameras were provided, and these are used for occasional monitoring needs, such as when their grandchild comes to stay. The second is applied when the swimming pool is in use.