Tyco Traffic and Transportation has installed an upgraded CCTV system that is helping the London Borough of Islington to improve safety and security.

A new, enhanced command and control room replaces the old Kings Cross control room that opened in 1997 and had run out of capacity to handle the growing number of CCTV cameras operating 24 hours a day around the borough. These include 70 existing crime and disorder cameras and 22 dual-purpose enforcement cameras plus infrastructure for an additional 30 cameras covering Kings Cross, Finsbury Park, Archway, etc, and 11 new cameras at the Emirates Stadium.

Tyco Traffic and Transportation were responsible for the installation of the complete project as prime contractor, working closely with systems designer/consultants Cognetix to make best use of existing CCTV cameras and equipment and to integrate these with the advanced new cameras and digital recording and networking systems in the new control room with least disruption.

The project included 17km of fibre-optic and data cabling, 64 monitoring screens including touch screens and video wall, and over 37TB of networked digital recording capacity with fast retrieval and replay. Live images can also be shared with the local police and Metropolitan Police as well as with operators of the Emirates stadium.

The new £650,000 control room features a monitor wall with over 160 sq ft of display area, including 48 21-inch CRT monitors for live video, three 80-inch 24-channel rear screen projection units, eight TFT screens plus five touch screens.

It provides access via a 256 x 256 video switching matrix to over 116 live CCTV cameras via a customised mapping facility for ease of use by operators and enforcement officers. There are also live links for TfL CCTV cameras where required as well as Islington's bus lane enforcement cameras. Islington Police have a dedicated monitoring area within the new facility.

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Security Installer