A case study of an IP network video system installed at a new £5m Gala Bingo hall.
Samsung Techwin Europe supplied 35 Samsung Open Platform WiseNetIII Full HD cameras to the Southampton site, the first bingo new build by the company for some years. It’s at Antelope Park in the Thornhill district of Southampton.
The club offers players a new bingo experience with two distinct areas to play; Bingo Club and Bingo Pub. The Bingo Club is aimed at traditional bingo players who want to get their eyes down; The Bingo Pub is a more relaxed area for players who like to chat and relax while still playing bingo, in a more informal way.
Kevin Willis, Risk Manager for Gala Bingo, said: “We were confident that the new club would be a great success from day one and particularly so as it is designed to appeal to a wide audience. In addition to the need to comply with local authority licensing requirements, we considered it essential therefore to provide the club’s management and our security colleagues with the best possible tools to ensure that players are kept safe.”
Design
The contract to install the video surveillance was awarded to Nottinghamshire-based Link Integrated Security Services Ltd, a Silver Partner of the Samsung STEP (Samsung Techwin Eco Partnership). That’s by the manufacturer to offer sales channel partners the resources and tools to help them in the IP network based solutions market. The IP video for the Gala hall was to cover all the public areas without having a negative impact on aesthetics of the new club.
The WiseNetIII camera models installed include SND-6084 2MP domes as well as SNO-6084R bullet cameras, pictured, which have built-in infra-red LEDs for quality images to be captured in low lit areas of the club. The cameras have the WiseNetIII DSP chipset which has the processing power to simultaneously run multiple edge based applications. This lets Gala Bingo use specialist onboard video analytics applications, such as people counting and heat mapping.
A number of SNF-7010 3MP 360 degree fisheye cameras have also been installed to cover areas of the club where a much larger number of fixed cameras might normally be required, to avoid any blind spots. Images are recorded onto a Samsung SRN-4000 Network Video Recorder (NVR). It feature a built-in RAID hard drive ‘Hot Swap’ facility which ensures that recording is not interrupted if a fault occurs. The SRN-4000 can handle the images from up to 64 cameras and so provides the ability for additional cameras to be installed at the club should there be a requirement to do so.
Link Integrated Security Services also installed Samsung Smart Viewer software to allow authorised users, such as Kevin Willis, to remotely monitor and manage the images captured by the 35 cameras.
Kevin Willis said: “I cannot praise more highly the pre- and post sales support that I received from the Link Integrated Security Services Ltd and Samsung Techwin Europe teams. Their combined technical expertise has ensured that our new club in Southampton has a video surveillance system that is more than just fit for purpose. Although the club has only been open for a short period, the system has already proved its value in terms of providing peace of mind that we have access to superb quality images should an emergency occur or an incident need investigating.”
