Business Challenge
The city of Elche in Spain is undergoing a digital transformation, and it’s helping to solve the security challenges the city is facing. Managing security incidents using complex IT systems had been an ongoing challenge for the city’s IT staff. When the pandemic hit, city employees began working at home, and it became clear many of the systems could not be managed remotely making it difficult to quickly manage incidents.
Business Solution
The project improved security for the citizens of Elche, while also making better use of the city’s limited staff resources. Aryse Global Services, a security and communications reseller based in Madrid, Spain, reused existing cameras from different manufacturers in an Eagle Eye Networks cloud-based video surveillance system.In doing so, antiquated, disparate components were transformed into a powerful security system.
City officials decided to update their video surveillance system with the following objectives in mind:
- Ease of use
- City-wide security camera visibility
- Remote access to video
- Instant notifications and alerts of security incidents
- Capable of sharing images with police and other city departments
- Simple and inexpensive to maintain
- Flexible and scalable
Successful Results
Fortunately, the Eagle Eye Networks Cloud VMS (video management system) could repurpose the city’s existing cameras – even though they were from different manufacturers; storage retention requirements were easily met; and, different camera resolutions (depending on the camera and location) were quickly set up. In all, this project involved moving 100 cameras to the cloud.
In the next five years, the city plans to expand the system to more than 250 cameras, applying artificial intelligence (AI) to better investigate incidents. The city will use parking and traffic flow data from the system for city planning and infrastructure improvement. There will also be direct integrations with the police and fire department to accelerate incident response.
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