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The Port Of Grays Harbor in Washington State was faced with the task of protecting over 1500 acres of port property. There was little existing communications infrastructure, a large amount of industrial equipment which created RF noise, rain, fog, salt air, and long obstructed distances to cover. The Port had received a grant Funded by the US Port Security Grant Program for a comprehensive video security system and they commissioned SiteSecurity360 to design and install a state of the art IP… Show more

The Port Of Grays Harbor in Washington State was faced with the task of protecting over 1500 acres of port property. There was little existing communications infrastructure, a large amount of industrial equipment which created RF noise, rain, fog, salt air, and long obstructed distances to cover. The Port had received a grant Funded by the US Port Security Grant Program for a comprehensive video security system and they commissioned SiteSecurity360 to design and install a state of the art IP surveillance system that would meet their immediate needs for video surveillance and provide capacity for future expansion. SiteSecurity360 partnered with HauteSpot Networks to create a wireless solution that was reliable and extensible.

Over 15 2 and 5 megapixel IP cameras were placed at key points throughout the property. In order to maximize coverage a hub and spoke design was used which placed a distribution repeater high atop a grain silo with a ½ mile backhaul link to the Port headquarters. This provided line of sight coverage to remote cameras, some as far as 3 miles away. 90% of the wireless links were over a half a mile in distance. The point to multipoint design greatly reduced the cost of installation by eliminating unnecessary mesh or repeater nodes. HauteSpot Networks’ TDMA protocol reduced jitter and stabilized video streaming over this multi hop network. HauteSpot wireless enabled over 6 miles of links around the Port, eliminating the need for trenching, allowing cameras to be placed where they needed to be, reducing the installation time, and meeting all of the objectives the Port had for providing perimeter security to this vast facility. Show less

The City of Colorado Springs was looking for a turn-key video surveillance solution for a 7-block street corridor within the city. The primary objectives of the project were to improve public safety, assist in police investigations and improve incident response. The City’s expectations were to be able to view the video feeds in real time by authorized City staff. The city had attempted a similar project utilizing Tropos wireless system with poor results. Enter HauteSpot Networks and Wizards… Show more

The City of Colorado Springs was looking for a turn-key video surveillance solution for a 7-block street corridor within the city. The primary objectives of the project were to improve public safety, assist in police investigations and improve incident response. The City’s expectations were to be able to view the video feeds in real time by authorized City staff. The city had attempted a similar project utilizing Tropos wireless system with poor results. Enter HauteSpot Networks and Wizards Works Integrations. With our combined knowledge and expertise, our companies were able to provide the requested video surveillance in all the requested areas, with High Definition Static IP cameras and steerable PTZ cameras. The video is being streamed in real-time over HauteSpot Networks latest WRAP wireless nodes with performance on par with a traditional wired system. Some distances reached nearly a mile from the furthest camera location to the head end at the police station. Even with lots of existing wireless in the area for Wi-Fi internet and microwave radios for building connectivity, HauteSpot Networks smart routers are able to reliably stream high quality video from every camera throughout the city, back to the central recording servers with minimal to no latency. Show less

The customer Wallgreens, has a large distribution center 9 rows of storage racks 100’ tall and 600’ long. At each end of the rows there is an operator station which allows an employee to control the robotic pallet picker that moves through the rows, picking up large palates of products and moving them to the front for shipping. Sometimes, a piece of palate tape would get in the way of the automatic safety kill switches and an employee would have to climb the racks to see what is in the way and… Show more

The customer Wallgreens, has a large distribution center 9 rows of storage racks 100’ tall and 600’ long. At each end of the rows there is an operator station which allows an employee to control the robotic pallet picker that moves through the rows, picking up large palates of products and moving them to the front for shipping. Sometimes, a piece of palate tape would get in the way of the automatic safety kill switches and an employee would have to climb the racks to see what is in the way and clear the obstruction. This was dangerous and time consuming. The solution was to install two cameras on each robotic pallet picker with a WRAP wireless transmitter shooting to a WRAP base station attached to a microNVR station with a keyboard and monitor at the end of the rows. This allows the operator to visually see what the obstruction is that is causing the system to stop and then either to manually override the stop or plan to remove the obstruction. This system was replicated in one other Wallgreens distribution center. Show less

The City of Malibu was mandated to dredge the Malibu lagoon in response to a NOAA study on a super strain of staph that was developing in the lagoon due to the brackish conditions of the water. The project was highly contested by local residents and surfers of the famous Malibu point break stating that the dredging would ruin the established ecosystem of the lagoon, damage the quality of the surf and hurt local tourism. When the plan was finally approved, there were several cases of vandalism… Show more

The City of Malibu was mandated to dredge the Malibu lagoon in response to a NOAA study on a super strain of staph that was developing in the lagoon due to the brackish conditions of the water. The project was highly contested by local residents and surfers of the famous Malibu point break stating that the dredging would ruin the established ecosystem of the lagoon, damage the quality of the surf and hurt local tourism. When the plan was finally approved, there were several cases of vandalism to construction equipment.

The city hired SOV Security to install a wireless IP video surveillance system around the lagoon. SOV utilized HauteSpot Networks HauteWRAP wireless routers and the HauteSHOT microNVR as the central recording server. 4 Innovative Security Design 2 megapixel IP cameras were mounted on two poles located on opposite ends of the lagoon along with HauteWRAP wireless routers. The HauteWRAP routers then communicated wirelessly back to the microNVR located it in the California State Parks entry/guard booth. The microNVR ran Exacq VMS software and reliably recorded the video from the camera and made it accessible in real time over the Internet to the Malibu Police.

The project has been up and functional for many months and all of the components have been very reliable. Show less

Northridge Cooperative Homes (NCH) is a $55 million non-profit corporation set up for the purpose of providing affordable ownership housing for its members. The project received a Safe Neighborhood Grant (SNG) from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to build a community wide solution to crime, violence and illegal drug activity, and target areas in and around federally subsidized, low-income housing.

NCH is located in Bayview-Hunters Point in San Francisco, next… Show more

Northridge Cooperative Homes (NCH) is a $55 million non-profit corporation set up for the purpose of providing affordable ownership housing for its members. The project received a Safe Neighborhood Grant (SNG) from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to build a community wide solution to crime, violence and illegal drug activity, and target areas in and around federally subsidized, low-income housing.

NCH is located in Bayview-Hunters Point in San Francisco, next to the decommissioned Hunters Point naval shipyard and around some of San Francisco’s rougher neighborhoods. In order to implement their SNG project, NCH enlisted the expertise of Applied Video Solutions. From their analysis of the project and the client’s needs, it was determined that a traditional wired network was not an option, for it would entail tearing up many newly laid concrete and asphalt to run data and power cabling.

The main goals of NCH’s video surveillance were to have coverage of every vehicle entry point into the properties with the ability to capture license plate numbers as well as the occupants inside. Applied Video Solutions partnered with HauteSpot Networks to develop a wireless point to multipoint network which linked all of the buildings in the property and IP cameras back to a central monitoring location.

Many of the cameras used employed Pan-Tilt-Zoom technology (PTZ), high frame rate, and in some cases megapixel resolution. The wireless network needed to provide low latency for steering these cameras, while not interrupting the constant stream of high bandwidth video from each camera.

What made the project especially difficult were the extreme variances in topography. Many mature trees dotted the landscape, making it difficult to establish clear line-of-sight for the wireless shots, and owing to the proximity of the bay, fishing and transportation vessels generated high RF interference from their radar and communication systems. Show less

The Port of Miami is located in Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida. It is the eleventh largest American seaport. The Port annually passes 7.8 million tons of cargo and employs roughly 176,000 people

The Port was using an analog CCTV video surveillance system which did not meet the evolving needs for higher resolution and greater coverage. The project involved replacing the analog connectivity with IP connectivity. The Port wanted to retain it’s investment in analog equipment to the greatest… Show more

The Port of Miami is located in Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida. It is the eleventh largest American seaport. The Port annually passes 7.8 million tons of cargo and employs roughly 176,000 people

The Port was using an analog CCTV video surveillance system which did not meet the evolving needs for higher resolution and greater coverage. The project involved replacing the analog connectivity with IP connectivity. The Port wanted to retain it’s investment in analog equipment to the greatest extent possible, so IP encoders were used to adapt the analog PTZ cameras for IP. The project required a wireless network that could meet the Ports demanding requirements for PTZ responsiveness and delivered the bandwidth necessary to support the current and future cameras. Another challenge was the Port’s radar and weather tracking systems which ran right in the middle of the 5GHz band, creating wireless interference for surveillance links. In addition, the equipment needed to be weather resistant, waterproof, and salt/corrosion resistant due to the damp, humid Florida climate and air particulates from ship exhaust.

HauteSpot’s wireless routers are equipped with integrated Spectral Analysis. This allowed HauteSpot technicians to remotely access the routers, analyze the airwaves and determine the source of the interference from radar. In addition, HauteSpot routers are designed with HS Configurator, a network management and configuration tool. Using these aids, coupled with configuration suggestions from HauteSpot technicians, SecureComm, the installer, were able to overcome the interference issues.

The low latency of HauteSpot Network’s TDMA protocol also fully support PTZ functionality. When combined with Quality of Service (QoS) settings which allowed for time priority for PTZ commands over video acknowledgements, the Port was able to steer their cameras with the same speed and accuracy that they had with their old analog system, but with the added capabilities that IP provides Show less