A case study from the US manufacturer Pelco of the CCTV installed at a Californian casino, Black Oak, in the Sierra Nevadas.
The casino and resort were looking to the physical safety of its patrons and employees. “With a property as large as the Black Oak Casino Resort and with so many various activities, keeping an eye on assets and balancing that with creating a safe environment is definitely a challenge,” said Todd Flowers, President of Surveillance Systems Integration (SSI), the installer based in Roseville, California.
Black Oak Casino Resort sought to switch to high definition cameras, enhance the virtual matrix, provide a migration strategy and the equipment to upgrade to a full internet protocol (IP)-based system, and do it in a way that would be easy for the security staff to adopt. The initial project was to be done in phases over 15 months. “We started with replacing the existing standard definition analog cameras with over 400 new high definition (HD) fixed cameras, along with HD, 1080P PTZ dome cameras,” said Flowers.
SSI removed the existing legacy analogue video matrix that provided live video and control of the analog pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) cameras and replaced it with Pelco’s Endura 2.0 Video Management System (VMS).
As part of the upgrade, the resort had to consider how the new IP-based HD video would affect their storage of surveillance footage. In the phased migration, new Pelco 36 TB network storage managers were installed to replace the legacy network video recorders (NVRs).
For the case study in full visit – http://www.pelco.com/documents/business-solutions/en/shared/gaming/black-oak-casino-case-study-pelco.pdf