A luxury hotel and resort group has completed the first installation of IDIS DirectIP full-HD surveillance at its new resort in Phuket, Thailand, as part of a wider rollout.
Commissioned ahead of the resort’s opening in December, the project is the first of twelve across the group’s new properties in Asia and North America.
The leisure group’s security team sought a modern and HD video system that would be unobtrusive and match the resort’s luxury brand and image. It needed to ensure the safety and security of the resort’s guests and staff, and the set-up needed to meet tight deadlines ahead of the unveiling in late 2013.
In November 2013, the hotel group turned to their trusted systems integrator, Rutledge Integrated Systems (RIS). RIS worked with CCTV distributor iCenter HD to review a number of server-based products. After evaluation, the DirectIP was selected, for its performance,s capability for fast implementation, pricing and bundled IDIS Center video management, requiring no ongoing licence fees, according to the makers.
In use are 45 internal and external dome cameras and two 32-channel network video recorders (NVRs), managed through the intuitive IDIS Center video management software (VMS). The IP-enabled and vandal proof range of one and two megapixel cameras, also feature pan-tilt-zoom, low light and audio functionality. Eighteen terabytes of storage provided by the DirectIP NVRs support the resort’s requirement to store 31 days of footage all in full-HD.
The system operates like a traditional analogue DVR-based system with all the necessary accessories supplied by IDIS to build full-HD.
Andy Rutlege, Managing Director at RIS, said, “The luxury resort group are an existing prestigious and important customer for RIS, and we were determined to complete the project ahead of the inauguration. As an established systems integrator, having completed a large number of IP CCTV projects, DirectIP™ offered us a previously unseen level of seamless integration. To ensure we delivered the project on time and on budget, iCenter HD distributed the kit in record time to Thailand and remained incredibly responsive throughout the project. We are currently rolling out two similar DirectIP solutions in the Maldives and Miami with another nine scheduled over the next few months. We intend to use IDIS DirectIP combined with the services offered by iCenter HD for these and many projects.”
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