Security Meets The Victorian Era

Feb 1, 2003 12:00 PM

When a 140-year-old Victorian gothic building needs an updated security system, aesthetics can be as important as the system itself.

King's College, a part of the University of London, turned to Evolution Security Ltd., U.K., to design and install a modern security system for the library, which houses more than 750,000 books — including such treasures as a first edition of Darwin's “On the Origin of Species” and signed works by Samuel Beckett and T.S. Eliot.

Evolution installed dome cameras from Silent Witness and Vicon, and chose a digital CCTV system from Geutebrück, Germany. The 32-channel digital video recorders are installed throughout the building to record and control 115 different cameras.

The digital recorders are linked to the college's private TCP/IP network, so any of the system operators in the control room can select and view live or recorded images from any of the cameras inside or outside the building. The cameras have pan/tilt/zoom capability and can simultaneously record and recover footage. An advanced search engine enables video searches by time, date, camera or event.

The cameras are also equipped with motion detection devices.

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