Shopping Mall Security in Kansai Japan
Taipei Taiwan, May 18, 2007 - Most Japan cities have them - a covered passageway with shops on each side known as arcade or shopping mall where people enjoy the convenience of shopping and dining on their way commuting back and forth into cities. Some arcades are built underground, combined diverse functions of walkways, shops, parking lots and subway entrances.
Disaster and crime prevention of underground arcades is important in ensuring that the security of underground facilities and the connecting buildings is strictly maintained. Among all the underground arcades in Japan featured with the largest floor areas is the arcade located in Osaka, where GeoVision's GV-1480/1240 Combo digital surveillance solutions have been selected for installation. The underground arcade, extending 730m and covering 81,765m2, has approximately 100 shops and restaurants and 1,030 parking spaces underground. The Osaka arcade introduced new surveillance systems and equipments in an upgrade project which has employed GeoVision's GV-1480/1240 Combo digital surveillance systems for the idea of security.
More than 120 fixed and PTZ cameras are installed in the Osaka arcade to ensure the arcade security and the safety of commuters, shoppers and shop owners. The arcade set up a control room that is functioned as a crime and disaster control and parking management center. The control room is equipped with a customized Main Monitor to view, control and manage all live video feeds, archived recorded video, emergency alarms and elevator intercom systems.
The Main Monitor commands real-time video to be displayed based on different types of events including motion-triggered video pop-ups, interphone activation, and emergency buttons activation. Even when the security staff is temporarily away from the control room, the Main Monitor will invoke alarm sound or send a cell phone email to notify the staff of the events, should an emergency alarm or elevator intercom is triggered.
The entire e-map of the Osaka arcade will be displayed on the Main Monitor interface which provides management and control of all the icons of cameras, emergency interphones, and elevator intercom systems installed. By clicking on the camera icon, the live image will be displayed accordingly. The e-map is changed based on the selection of floor areas. The interface on the upper right side displays the emergency event lists, such as intruder alarm, event time and date, incident location. All of the emergency alarms and alarm-triggered video clips captured from GeoVision's GV-1480/1240 Combo digital surveillance systems will be recorded in a center server called MDS in the arcade. Recorded video clips and live video can be switched on the Main Monitor via a simple click on the interface.
Each of 120 cameras in the Osaka arcade is connected to GV-1480/1240 Combo digital surveillance systems. All of the analog video feeds captured by the GV-1480/1240 Combo digital surveillance systems will be compressed in digital codecs Geo-MPEG4 or Geo-MPEG4 ASP at a full frame rate of 30 per second. The Geo-MPEG4 compression technologies, developed by GeoVision, will not only ensure video quality at full frame rate but also reduce server's CPU usage. The video feeds then will be transmitted via the fiber network cable from the center server MDS to the Main Monitor in the control room, with a total transmission distance of 2.3km. All the 120 channels of digital video will be displayed on the 20 LCD monitors in the control room.
"With the set up of GV-1480/1240 Combo digital surveillance systems, the surveillance of the arcade area is now an easy task," said Mr. Shiotani, the President of Complanning Inc., the company that conducted the video surveillance upgrade project for the Osaka arcade. "The security in the arcade is complicated due to the facts that the surveillance area is huge, the operation time is long, and a good number of equipments need to be well maintained," added Mr. Shiotani. "GeoVision's GV-1480/1240 Combo digital surveillance systems provides a feasible solution that can combine and integrate security equipments of analog and IP cameras, emergency interphones, and intercom systems in a customized Main Monitor interface."
Press contact: Jean Chen, marketing@geovision.com.tw
About GeoVision Inc.
GeoVision Inc., one of the security 50 companies, is a professional manufacturer of intelligent video surveillance systems. Known by the brand name GeoVision, we manufacture and distribute security surveillance systems to customers in more than 70 countries. GeoVision's distinct products and innovative technologies are USA and Taiwan patented.
GeoVision holds technical edges in state-of-the-art surveillance software, video/audio compression techniques, intelligent video analysis, and hardware enhancements. GeoVision's award-winning GV series surveillance products provide total security solutions for point-of-sale systems, license plate recognition systems, and central monitoring systems. With our advantages in video surveillance techniques, we are forging ahead to new fields of IP surveillance, video server, network video storage, access-control DVR, and video security service. For more information, visit www.geovision.com.tw.
