Brisbane Markets Ltd. in Australia uses video for general surveillance, loss prevention, traffic, access control and incident investigation. The market’s previous 15-year-old analog system had been upgraded to digital recording, but never gave operators the value they required. Most video is viewed after the fact and picture quality is essential to allow for the identification of people’s faces. This large site has a wide range of environments that require cameras offering a diverse capabilities. Brisbane Markets had begun testing a small, seven-camera IP video system when the Queensland floods of 2011 submerged the market site in water and destroyed the existing DVRs along with almost all of the site’s infrastructure. In effect, the flood accelerated the transition to IP video because the entire system had to be rebuilt from the ground up. Arecont Vision megapixel cameras are the foundation of the system.
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