Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), a subsidiary of Progress Rail Services, is a business entity in Caterpillar Group. Located in Minas Gerais, Brazil and covering 15,000 meters of built area, the factory planned to expand its capacity to be able to manufacture 100 locomotives a year with 4,000 HP power. The number of employees should reach 600 before the completion of the project.
Challenges
EMD was looking for a megapixel solution to secure its open and large property including four sheds, a storage area without coverage, three buildings (office, cafeteria and locker room), and various entrances and exits (people and vehicles). Megapixel solutions indeed offer significant benefits, but the large number of megapixel cameras and the need for 24/7 recording present many difficult issues for the system integrator: I/O performance of traditional NVRs, stable integration of storage solutions, and overall installation of a proven solution that can assure end-to-end integration. To successfully deal with all these issues, EMD adopted Surveon’s eminent end-to-end megapixel solution including cameras, SMR and enterprise VMS solutions.
Solutions:
The surveillance system is connected to the corporate data network which allows monitoring in real time the production line worker’s safety, management departments, and the status of the entire plant without compromising data transmission. Surveon’s SMR8032 desktop hardware RAID megapixel recorders were installed in the data center, while CAM1301, 2 megapixel day/night compact box cameras and CAM2321, 3 megapixel day/night WDR box cameras were connected to four network racks installed in the sheds and were interconnected via fiber optics. This configuration has created a dedicated VLAN for security equipment.
Challenges
EMD was looking for a megapixel solution to secure its open and large property including four sheds, a storage area without coverage, three buildings (office, cafeteria and locker room), and various entrances and exits (people and vehicles). Megapixel solutions indeed offer significant benefits, but the large number of megapixel cameras and the need for 24/7 recording present many difficult issues for the system integrator: I/O performance of traditional NVRs, stable integration of storage solutions, and overall installation of a proven solution that can assure end-to-end integration. To successfully deal with all these issues, EMD adopted Surveon’s eminent end-to-end megapixel solution including cameras, SMR and enterprise VMS solutions.
Solutions:
The surveillance system is connected to the corporate data network which allows monitoring in real time the production line worker’s safety, management departments, and the status of the entire plant without compromising data transmission. Surveon’s SMR8032 desktop hardware RAID megapixel recorders were installed in the data center, while CAM1301, 2 megapixel day/night compact box cameras and CAM2321, 3 megapixel day/night WDR box cameras were connected to four network racks installed in the sheds and were interconnected via fiber optics. This configuration has created a dedicated VLAN for security equipment.
