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inner ring road, which connects some of the city's most important
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5 Rings Depend on 2
AMG and Gentec CSW, their Greek partner and systems
integrator, had just three months to install 210 cameras and
transmission equipment along the 65km Attiki Odos Highway.
They also had to lay down all the fibre to connect each of the
cameras with 2 control rooms, one for the Police and another for
the Transport Ministry. The twin control rooms would give the
system an additional layer of flexibility and resilience as a key part
of the brief was to build in network resilience.
From the start, we were under enormous time pressure to
succeed, says Alan Hayes, Managing Director of AMG Systems.
Nevertheless, the goal of a resilient, responsive CCTV system
that would be useful to the citizens and city authorities after the
Olympics departed had to be met.
Also, we were always conscious of the backdrop of a high level
of threat, due to the giant global profile of the Games. Therefore,
we chose a dual redundant configuration routed through each of
the 2 control rooms to 'harden' the entire installation.
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invest in its future. Housing, hotels, air links, sporting venues and
network design eliminates latency, they can also pan, tilt and
certain, key areas, may have gone down since the Games but
normal commuting and freight operations continue unabated,
comments George Kitsios. Already we have increased the camera
count, from 210 to 300, and we are now planning to expand the
network with more cameras covering an even greater area.
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Highlights
Each of the 210 cameras is linked to both control rooms
Total highway covered is 65km
Either control room can access in real time any camera
along the ring road
2 fibre optic rings were laid to provide resilient
redundancy in case of fibre breakage. If a fibre or cable
is unavailable, the system automatically switches video
signals to the other direction and a fault reporting
system advises the maintenance engineer of the problem
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