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Bristol ops centre passes 25,000 hours

by Mark Rowe

Video walls installed in Bristol City Council’s security operations centre have completed 25,000 hours of continuous operation. The three video walls from visual display firm Ultimate Visual Solutions (UVS) are each made up of 55-inch 24/7 grade LCD displays with narrow bezels and are part of a multi-purpose centre which brings together some of the city’s critical support services and acts as a control centre in the event of a major incident. The operations centre, pictured, has been operating since February 2017. It houses what used to be the council’s Emergency Control Centre, Traffic Control Centre and Community Safety (CCTV) Control Rooms in a single space. These teams provide public safety services and use around 700 CCTV cameras in the city.

UVS installed a curved video wall made up of 12 displays for monitoring a range of data; mapping, traffic monitoring and live CCTV images. The firm also installed a conference/incident video wall made up of four display, with access to the same data, and a smaller police incident monitoring video wall.

Peter Anderson, Head of Connected City Service at Bristol City Council, said: “Having a high quality and resilient monitoring wall is essential in providing a world class service that’s help keep the city safe, moving and healthy. The monitoring wall provides the technology and framework for effective public space surveillance which is an integral element to provide first class images which can be used to help bring offenders to justice.”

UVS Managing Director Steve Murphy said: “The control centre was hailed as world class when it opened and obviously seamless 24/7 operation is of paramount importance. We are delighted to have hit the 25,000 hours milestone and to be part of such an important project, helping to keep the people of Bristol safe.”

UVS also installed two video wall controllers and inputs to allow operational staff and visitors to display tablet and mobile device data on the displays. It also provides an annual maintenance contract. Steve Murphy added: “The project was won after very detailed technical and commercial evaluation by the end client and their consultants (IBI) including detailed demonstration of the required system functionality. All video wall control is fully integrated to the Synectics Synergy VMS platform. UVS have worked closely with Synectics during the past 12 years, which ensured the seamless integration.”

About UVS

Formerly eyevis UK, it’s based at Business First Burnley Business Centre. It has also opened a new London demonstration venue at Woburn Place, a short walk from Euston Station. eyevis UK changed its name to Ultimate Visual Solutions (UVS) last September after the acquisition of eyevis GmbH by the Leyard group. Go to www.ultimatevs.co.uk.

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