Improving CCTV standards in facilities

Until recently, CCTV monitoring systems used within aquatic, fitness and recreation facilities have provided fairly low resolution standards, some as low as 420 lines - resulting in poor to average video images, making identification of people difficult or simply impossible.

Recent technology has now taken this resolution to full high definition (1080 lines) resulting in the same clarity and image quality as can be experienced when watching a blueray movie at home on a flat screen TV - with additional CCTV features in the package.

AV Media Systems have been applying significant and total upgrades to CCTV systems for a number of aquatic, fitness and recreation centres in Victoria, resulting in a state-of-the-art full 1080P high-definition monitoring system.

For one client, the upgrade involved the replacement of the old coaxial cable with Cat 6 data cabling and deploying world-renowned DallmeierHybrid recorders and weatherproof full high-definition cameras.

This system now delivers an impressive 1080P @ 30 frames per second, placing this facility at the forefront of CCTV technology in Australia.

According to AV Media Systems' Paul Smith "what makes these systems unique is the ability to use a hybrid recorder that is capable of accepting both traditional (existing) analogue cameras, new digital IP cameras, or a combination of both.

"This enables facilities managers to perform a gradual and systematic upgrade over time utilising existing cameras opposed to an overall upgrade which from a financial perspective may need to be spread across time due to budgeting requirements, thus installing only the high-definition cameras in areas of greater concern such as locker areas, reception, entry foyers and change room entry/exit points."

The Dallmeier CCTV system from AV Media Systems offers five times greater resolution than traditional analogue cameras, operate on a stable Linux operating system, and remote ' real-time' viewing and monitoring of cameras is available via iPhone, Android or remote PC applications.

For further information click here to contact AV Media Systems via their entry in the Australasian Leisure Management Supplier Directory.