CCTV Control Room

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Overview:

A Government Agency with 152 monitoring desks in 7 regional control rooms required a solution to reduce the number of monitors and keyboards on each desk. The objective was to improve the ergonomic working conditions of each operator and make the desk layout more flexible. This was achieved by removing all the PC's from the desk area and back racking them in the Comms Rooms and extending Video Keyboard, Mouse, Touch Screens and controllers out to each desk position.

The design makes it possible to switch the video source from any of the 7 PC's and Servers used by each operator to any of 3 desk top monitors and allows Keyboard and Mouse to be switched separately with a floating mouse between systems. This allows any source to be viewed on any screen while working on a different system.

The switching is achieved by a simple desk mounted 8 button pad, manufactured especially for the environment, or on screen display or keyboard hot keys.

Because of the unusual complexity of the project AIT Consultant and Director Steve Bailey worked closely with a UK manufacturer to design a number of bespoke elements of the system. Key considerations were to make the user experience simple and to ensure that excellent video quality was achieved across 100m of structured cabling. One of the systems monitored is a CCTV feed which had to be converted to VGA and switched across the system so video quality was paramount.

The solution has been trialled extensively over the 6 months in a number of control centres and will be rolled out across the country over the next few months. AIT have provided all the services for the project including design, installation, training and support for the system with 24/7 4 hour response maintenance.