ACTViquestPRO, the video and facility management IP platform from ACT, has been used as a safety and race directing system at Silverstone for the 2014 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix.
The ACTviquest software provided footage from 32 cameras around the 3.66-mile circuit as well as acting as a GUI to empower the decision-making of race controllers. The controllers could assess data from course marshals on potential hazards, traffic in pit lanes and general race conditions.
With ACTViquestPRO and the twin offering of ACTViquestWALL, organisers at large events who must aggregate information from multiple video feeds, digital signage, histograms and other disparate data sources, can do so from a single display wall. In this way, abnormal conditions that may have an impact on the safe running of a motor event can be pinpointed.
The variety of video used at Silverstone is illustrated by the fact that certain channels gave views of pit lanes and were fed into the F1 constructor teams to give them awareness of likely congestion while other views showed mechanics their own cars’ progress out on the track.
The high definition pan and tilt cameras, from Sony, were labelled according to some of the totemic landmarks on the Silverstone track such as Club Corner, Hangar Straight (the longest straight at 770 metres with an average speed of 145 mph) and Maggotts Curve, which exerts a lateral G force of 4.5G on the drivers.
Shay Moran, Chairman of ACT, said: “ACTviquest underpins our commitment to scalable integration of video management and data aggregation at the widest range of venues. We pride ourselves on helping clients to manage an ever-increasing range of data types and security or safety risks. The Santander British Grand Prix saw £44m being spent at the course and in the county of Northamptonshire.”
The product company says that ACTviquest is designed for all levels of safety and security risk and can be scaled according to size of application. The video management can also be paired with scene analytics that will alert the user to significant behaviour that is atypical and warrants investigation. Besides the Sony cameras, ACTviquest supports all major camera brands including Ganz, PixelPro, Vivotek, Hikvision, Bosch and Samsung.
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Photo by: Tim Carey.
