9 Feb 2011

The Kentucky Exposition Centre is among the top largest public facilities in the country offering close to 1.4 million square feet of indoor space, over 300 acres of outdoor demonstration areas, and park­ing for 19,000 vehicles.

Operated by the Kentucky State Fair Board, an agency of the Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, the facility is home to the century-old Kentucky State Fair, the National Farm Machinery Show, and the North American International Livestock Exposition. It also hosts a full schedule of year-round events includ­ing conventions, trade shows, sports, concerts, and a variety of other engagements. This recently expanded multi-use facility features two indoor arenas and an outdoor stadium that can accommo­date over 73,000 people simultaneously. It also offers a 600-seat auditorium, 35 meeting rooms, and a championship-size, covered equestrian/livestock arena with over 1,000 permanent horse stalls and room for 720 additional temporary stalls.

Monitoring and patrolling such a large and diverse campus has become a challenging undertaking. To help support and strengthen security efforts, a security design expert was engaged to develop a plan for deploying a pilot surveillance system in the Centre's South Wing.

With a solid reputation for providing the state of Kentucky with many successful information infra­structure solutions, EMC was selected to supply a powerful, reliable, and highly scalable storage platform for the new video surveillance system. Recommended by EMC, and chosen for its leadership and innovation in security intelligence, Verint Systems Inc. contributed an advanced video surveil­lance and management solution flexible enough to accommodate expansion of surveillance areas and provide support for greater management and analysis capabilities as required. Verint Nextiva is a powerful, integrated IP video solution suite that features bandwidth-efficient video encoders, sophisticated video analytics, robust video management software, intelligent policy-based video distribution, automated system health monitoring, and an intuitive user interface.