Case Study - James Hornsby School
James Hornsby School is a large secondary school in Laindon, Essex with over 1300 pupils.
The school had been experiencing problems with their existing 17 camera digital CCTV system and asked ClearView's staff to provide them with the companies free risk assessment and analysis of the existing system and their needs.
The results of the extensive survey showed that the best solution would be to replace the existing central recording system with a distributed system where recorders are situated locally to the cameras. This philosophy suited the fragmented layout of the school which comprised a mix of old and new buildings.
A variety of methods were used to connect cameras and networked recorders, including the school’s fibre-optic computer network, video coaxial and CAT5 data cable.
By converting analogue CCTV camera pictures to digital IP signals and compressing the data, use of school’s computer network to transmit video was not a problem.
Live and recorded camera images can be viewed by any authorised PC on the network, when accessed by passwords which govern the user’s system rights.
Dan Oliver, the School's facilities manager was happy with ClearView's design and on going maintenance service. "ClearView's knowledge of the technology was impressive and their engineers worked with us allowing the new system to be installed during term time."