Linden Airport in the New York City metro area is home to light aircraft traffic. Just three miles away from Newark Airport and home for around 100 aircraft, Linden Airport covers 188 acres, and handles about 120 flight operations a day. It’s a base for helicopters ready to fly out to the next story, for many of New York’s radio and TV news channels.
Using a grant from the Department of Homeland Security, Linden Airport management recently upgraded the airport’s security. Installed were numerous IP cameras and associated video analytics, and an access control system with badging and biometrics.
The security systems installer, Technocality Inc, says that it worked with Linden administration staff. The touch points of the upgrade included fence entry points, public areas, fuel storage farm, hangars, runways and airport staff offices. As for the IP surveillance, some of these locations were at signal transmission distances well beyond normal IEEE 100m Category 5 cable standards. This extended transmission distance meant the installer sought an IP transmission product that would be able to meet this requirement.
After a review of manufacturers’ products and transmission technologies, Network Video Technologies’ (NVT) TBus Ethernet over UTP/ Coax transmission technology was selected. The installer says that NVT’s TBus was chosen because it was the only product that could meet the requirement, not just for performance but also reliability and support.
Paul Dudley, Linden Airport’s Administrator, says: “NVT’s equipment enabled us to increase the spread of security enhancements, due to the overall cost savings made via reduced cabling time and materials.”
The cable cost savings were made by NVT TBus affording the re-use of many existing cables within the site for IP and PoE transmission, with distances ranging from 50 to 1000 feet via RG6 and RG59U coax and Cat3 voice grade cable.
The installer adds that Linden plans more IP cameras, which will be connected and powered by NVT’s TBus Ethernet and PoE products.
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