Heatherwood Hospital Case Study

Heatherwood Hospital

Heatherwood Hospital - Ascot

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A brand new hospital with large car parks, brand new wards and state-of-the-art treatment equipment, demands and requires brand new state-of-the-art security to protect it and its staff and patients. Protecting the safety of the medical staff, contractors, patients and visitors is paramount and that is why it is important to ensure the entire hospital has adequate surveillance so that Building Managers are able to have eyes on the ground.

What can make environments such as this even more complex, is the fact that in addition to site requiring the ability to survey as a whole, each department has its own vested interests and requirements to protect their own vicinities. Therefore having a suitable system that can allow such a de-centralised approach without compromising performance, where system users can be spread across an entire estate, is crucial.

Client:

Heatherwood Heatherwood Hospital

Date:

29 Apr 2020

This is why Infinity was chosen. Being able to deplopy a large number of High Definition (HD) cameras that are comfortable with copper or fibre networks and boast excellent bandwidth utillisation was one main advantage of selecting Infinity.

Another key component is that Infinity offers flexible hardware on a backend and front end basis. Servers and Network Video Recorders (NVRs) can be deployed in such a way that they can provide secure, closed viewing of cameras in a giving vicinity, but can also form a larger system so that Business/Site Managers can view the whole system as one.

Protecting wards and corridors in such a manner is one challenge, coupling this with external areas such as busy entrances/exits, car parks and main thoroughways that lead onto public highways, this is another parallel challenge. Fortunately by using Infinity, the hospital had chosen a solution to deal with all problems. Infinity is open ended enough to be able to add functionality such as Video Analytics and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) to detect and record license plates or be able to accurately detect potential threats via Humand Detection analytics.

Functionality can be added via cameras of choice and the NVRs and servers they connect to. Functionality can be enabled and configured in a very lineal manner, so if the hospital identified potentially vulnerable areas, or potential 'hot spots' they could deploy additional cameras with added functionality such as Video Analytics to detect and alert when a human, vehicle, particular face or similar detection occured.

The value of being able to have an enormous range of camera types, analytics and functionalities is of great benefit and value to the hospital as the system can grow and develop with the premises. All the while, these features maintain the ability to have closed systems on given wards and allowing centralised access for senior members of staff....with excellent bandwidth utlisation meaning streaming and managing is never an issue.