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Intelligent video for health centre

by Mark Rowe

Whitby Mental Health Centre, Canada, is a specialist psychiatric facility. It provides in-patient and out-patient services for a population of 2.8 million people in and around Toronto.

Use and occupancy of the site has increased over the last eight years. This placed increased demand on the site’s security system, which needed upgrading. Most of the site was fitted with analogue cameras, providing limited management options.

The mental health centre chose to use Aimetis Symphony integrated, intelligent, Video Management System software as a video platform. This allowed the site to expand its CCTV coverage, make use of existing analogue cameras and add IP mega-pixel cameras to areas of high risk. It was also essential that a broad range of networked cameras could be used in the upgraded system and Aimetis Symphony™ was able to integrate with Axis, Panasonic and IQinvision.

The large site required intelligent, PTZ tracking, as manual control was not always feasible. The Aimetis solution was configured to automatically zoom in on people in restricted areas; detect missing persons; and identify violent and dangerous behaviour. It also allowed existing analogue cameras to operate within the same system using encoders.

The security system contains many of the site’s existing analogue cameras, alongside the IP mega-pixel cameras. The centre includes an 85 bed medium to minimum security detention facility for people held under the Canadian Mental Health Act and the Criminal Code of Canada, as well as specialised out-patient services.

For more on Aimetis products and services, contact the Security Buying Group on 0161 480 5922 or visit www.securitybuyinggroup.co.uk

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