About the Port Botany expansion project:
The Sydney Ports Corporation is expanding its container port facilities at Port Botany to augment long-term trade growth. Involving the reclamation of 60 hectares of land, this is the largest port project to be undertaken in Australia in over three decades. The Sydney Ports Corporation mission is to add value to all aspects of Sydney's port operations by managing and developing port facilities and services to meet existing and future trade needs and deliver profitable business growth.
About Orion Integration:
Orion Integration is an industry-leading security systems integration and development concern operating in Australia and the U.S. The company specialises in innovative, cost-effective solutions based on integrated research and development, manufacturing, installation and ongoing support, to provide tailored solutions to its diverse client base.
The challenge:
In order to monitor the progress of this ambitious project, the Sydney Ports Authority needed to deploy a CCTV system that would expand as the project progressed. With cameras positioned at heights of over 25 metres in the marine environment, the wireless infrastructure and cameras would be exposed to extremely harsh climactic conditions. In addition, the fact that the Port Botany expansion is located just 200 metres from a Sydney Airport runway and the entire Port vicinity is subject to unprecedented heavy RF congestion, the license-exempt wireless infrastructure had to be extremely directional and narrow. Coupled with this was the need to overcome obstacles on-the-fly, such as moving shipping containers.
The solution:
Alvarion's surveillance solution enables deployment of expandable CCTV system at Port Botany
6 Jan 2012
