In central Spain, Toledo has one of three great 13th-century High Gothic cathedrals. The building managers sought to upgrade its CCTV to ensure proper maintenance and prevent accidents.
In the control centre of the cathedral, administrators can have a full-aspect monitoring of each area of the site, as well as a tapestry museum, through Dahua cameras. A hybrid HDCVI and IP solution was chosen by the cathedral management. Besides the basic functions of recording and real time live-view, the system has built-in heat detection, magnetic detection, intruder detection and fire detection functions. Dahua says that it provided technical support for the integration with the rest of the security systems in the cathedral, such as Agora’s PSIM (physical security information management) software. High resolution 5 Megapixels IP cameras and 2 Megapixel HDCVI cameras were deployed. The same coaxial cable from the previous analogue CCTV system was re-used to install the HDCVI cameras. That saved on cabling work and reduced the risk of damaging the historical structure.
Cameras are positioned to be unnoticed by churchgoers and tourists. Dahua’s official distributor IPTECNO, and engineering installer ITSA Seguridad, were the main products and solution providers.
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