In Moscow, the VTB Arena Park was built on the site of the old Dynamo Stadium. At an estimated cost of US$ 1.5 billion, the new VTB Arena Park combines sports and entertainment – besides the Dynamo Central Stadium, home to FC Dynamo Moscow football club, indoor ice hockey matches, basketball games and rock concerts; and commerce – retail, a five-star hotel and 1,600-car parking garage; and residences.
Considering the wide range of very purposes served by various buildings, the project would have many vendors. From the security manager’s perspective, the main challenge was to ensure that disparate systems would function together and allowed for central management of an array of functions: access control for tens of thousands of football fans entering the stadium on match days, monitoring the perimeter with its park zones, and protecting residential areas against intrusion.
VTB Arena Park was looking for integration of all parts into one platform, and chose Bosch as its provider of end-to-end video security and access control. Aside from the project’s technical side, there was a system design challenge: residents of the Arena Park had to feel at home, while the area also had to handle the influx of thousands of visitors for matches. The multi-purpose character of VTB Park meant different security needs among its users.
Bosch installed a total of more than 2,000 video cameras, fixed as well as moving cameras, indoors and outdoors, to cover the perimeter, and secure the homes and offices. One of the camera types installed for perimeter protection is the Autodome IP starlight 7000 HD. This high-definition camera offers low-light images thanks to starlight technology and also features ‘Intelligent Video Analytics’. The video analytics function automatically detects deviations from standard moving patterns, such as a person entering a restricted area, and triggers an alarm that is sent to the control rooms where security staff can then zoom into a scene. As required by VTB Arena, all 2,000 cameras and connected video storage on Bosch recording units are managed centrally via the Bosch Video Management System (BVMS).
Also required was aligning three access control systems of the stadium running at the same time. The ticketing system is the first layer of access control, managing the turnstiles that permit entry of thousands of visitors to events with paper tickets. This access system needed to integrate with the employee access control, that uses proximity cards (the Access Engine provided by Bosch), plus a third, offline access control system used at specific stadium facilities. As Bosch found out, such an integration was without precedent. Because no standard solution existed, the company devised a customised set-up managed centrally on the Building Integration System (BIS) from Bosch.
Alexander Kravchenkov, Deputy Head of Security Systems Maintenance Group IT Department at VTB Arena said: “We were fully aware that the multi-functional character of the VTB Arena Park would lead to complexity that could hardly be topped. We needed integration power, a partner who knew how to bind all loose ends into one solution that had never existed before. Creating this one integrated security system catering to all the various purposes has made Bosch our main security partner.”
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