Challenges of Video Surveillance in Prisons and Correctional facilities

The Vigilant digital video recording solution offers absolute integrity for high risk sites such as prisons.

The CCTV network plays a pivotal role in the overall security system in prison applications. It has to secure a vast area and protect a large number of people and as such usually includes a network of hundreds of cameras.
Prisons tend to have several control rooms, which in turn link into one central control room. These control rooms often have responsibility for other areas of the security system all of which need to be integrated, such as access control, alarms and fire detection. The security staff are not always familiar with IT-based CCTV solutions, it is therefore important that new technology is easy to use.

Vigilant's feature set meets the requirements of critical security applications:

• Scalable Systems
  Vigilant records an unlimited number of cameras at 1, 4, 6.25, 12.5 or 25 frames per second per camera in PAL. Some areas may need a higher frame rate than others. Vigilant allows you to combine its different video servers on the same network.
  
  
• Audio
  Vigilant's audio capability enables operators to hear the activity in custody suites, giving greater evidence in problematic situations.
  
  
• Maximum Data Storage
  Exceptionally efficient compression techniques enable vast amounts of data to be stored in minimal space, thus significantly reducing cost of ownership.
  
  
• System integration
  Vigilant offers seamless integration with external systems such as access control and alarm systems. This is particularly important in a prison environment where the operators need to control several security systems.
  
  
• Ease of use - even for inexperienced PC users
  Vigilant's intuitive graphical user interface, including drag and drop commands, makes it one of the easiest systems to operate in the security industry.
  
  
• Video streaming over networks
  When an event occurs in a prison environment several operators may want to view the video at the same time. Vigilant's ability to view live video in multicast mode over networks allows multiple operators to access live or recorded video simultaneously.