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Case study: oil firm’s office

by Mark Rowe

In the Littoral region in Cameroon, the city of Douala is the biggest and wealthiest city in the west African country. Many of Africa’s biggest companies are represented; and among them is Libya Oil.

Libya Oil contacted Ernest Kindakong, Sales Executive and Presales Engineer at Servitel, a Cameroon-based security installer, to develop a new security system for the head office in Douala, pictured. Mr Kindakong designed a system that would:

– provide perimeter security for areas of high employee concentration;

– allow Libya Oil administrators access for up to 90 days of recorded video footage as per company policy;

– and develop the overall solution with IT in mind, so as to provide the easiest design for the IT users charged with monitoring security.

As for video storage, Mr Kindakong chose Hikvision’s DS-9632NI-ST Embedded NVR. As he said, this model’s 8 SATA interfaces fitted one of the key NVR requirements – storage capacity. The up-to 5 Megapixel (2560×1920) of recording resolution guarantees that these images will be clear, regardless of when accessed. He said: “It is really a synthesis between required recording capacity and quality images. Another nice bonus is that the DS-9632NI-ST’s 32 channels provide excess camera capacity … therefore should this head office choose to later install additional cameras, the upgrade will be simple and mess-free, from an NVR standpoint.”

To cover the head office’s front and main entrance, as well as the building’s rear exit area (and larger back surrounding area) is the Hikvision DS-2CD7353F-E(I) 2MP outdoor network camera.

This fixed camera provides, Mr Kindakong said, “a great choice for general surveillance for these areas. What I mean by this is, both the front and back areas are rather large, so by placing this DS-2CD7353F-E(I) in both areas, we get excellent 2MP resolution for specific clarity on objects – such as the entrance. We also have excellent coverage of wide-open areas, such as the employee parking facility located behind the head office”.

Since both the office’s front, and rear, have good 24-7 lighting, this model’s IR functionality is not generally needed, but does provide back-up should night-time lighting fail.

In the open-air parking area, the decision was made to add a bit more coverage. The DS-2DF7274 Series 1.3MP IR Network Speed Dome was placed on the building’s back outer wall to capture the parking entrance. Using Hikvision’s iVMS software, Libya Oil’s IT staff use this camera’s 20x optical zoom and 1.3MP resolution to view office visitors and car details, such as number plates, to see who is entering the premises.

Keyboard

Mr Kindakong added: “Again, this office facility does not employ a full-time, dedicated, security staff. Instead, IT is largely charged with the administration of day-to-day security issues.” Hence the DS-1002KI RS-485 keyboard was chosen for use with PTZ cameras. In this setting, IT personnel only need concern themselves with possible issues, rather than trying to figure out how to observe possible issues on their monitors.

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