From Time-Lapse To Digital

Feb 1, 2003 12:00 PM

Exel Corp's one-million-square-foot Technology Facility in Houston has implemented a NiceVision Pro digital video recording system.

“Our previous CCTV system comprised 48 cameras with time-lapse recording to VCRs,” says Exel Site Security Manager Tim Trieschmann. “We had an incident where I needed to track a suspect from one end of the building to the other to verify what happened, and I ended up paying our security contractor for 240 man-hours to view all the video to determine what happened. It became pretty clear that I needed a more efficient system.”

Trieschmann turned to Ra'anana, Israel-based NICE Systems to cover more than 80 loading bays for the facility, which serves as one of the primary global distribution centers for HP Corp.

The NiceVision system includes more than 100 cameras for on-site and remote monitoring. “Some of our biggest losses result from mis-loading trucks or some kind of insider theft,” Trischmann says. “On one occasion, I learned that a $10,000 server was missing. I pulled up the cameras that showed the server's last position in the loading area, and in the time it took to get a cup of coffee, I tracked down exactly what had happened.”

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