Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, a hamburger chain, has deployed IP video security. It’s for human resources, staff training and security investigation in their New Zealand locations.
The biggest challenge faced by Wendy’s was human resources and investigations teams gaining access to live and recorded footage. With the existing CCTV, remote access was impossible over the network meaning people travelled to distant locations and often found the recorded video unusable.
Due to the existing CCTV being a mixture of DVRs and mostly low-cost analogue cameras, the decision was made to upgrade all recording equipment to network video recorders (NVRs) and to replace most of the cameras with IP models. As some sites had installed higher quality analogue cameras, these were to be converted via IP encoders to minimise the project cost.
The challenge was finding an IP system that would not only give live and recorded video quality, but could also be accessed from a number of remote locations. It was required that the new IP system also offered a hybrid of IP encoders and IP cameras, available in a range of form factors and resolutions.
IndigoVision products were chosen. IndigoVision’s Distributed Network Architecture (DNA) and dual processor hardware design allowed remote access to live and recorded video. IndigoVision’s video compression technology, in the company’s IP cameras and encoders, delivered live and recorded video over low bandwidth. Control Center, IndigoVision’s video management software client, reduced investigation time through its recorded video search and bookmarking.
Roy Batt, Facilities Manager at Wendy’s said: “We were impressed by just how easy it was to get access to remote video and how good the video quality was. By being able to quickly search recorded video, in multiple remote locations, and easily tagging incidents through Control Center’s bookmark feature we have dramatically reduced investigation time. Previously we would have to visit each of the locations and often the recorded video was poor. Now we can see video from anywhere and the quality is stunning. Not only is video being used by the security and investigations team, the system is being used by the Human Resources department to help identify opportunities to train staff. The IndigoVision solution has helped reduce investigation time, staff feel safer and happier as the solution is helping them with further skills development.”
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