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Accelerate: Video Surveillance
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Cities & Municipalities
- Security & Public Safety
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Perimeter Security & Access Control
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
- Traffic Monitoring
Services
- System Integration
- Testing & Certification
The Challenge
Anyang City Hall in South Korea launched a major initiative to tackle urban street crime, slash traffic congestion, and beef up the city’s disaster response capabilities. The first step was to combine the city’s crime prevention and disaster management systems into a single infrastructure, deployed and managed in the city’s brand new Integrated Operations Briefing room. The challenge was to deploy a massive intelligent video surveillance system across Anyang’s entire 23-square-mile metropolitan area, with hundreds of high-definition digital video cameras linked to scores of servers running network video recording software and sophisticated pattern recognition analytics. The system links all cameras to the video management infrastructure in the Integrated Operations Briefing room at Anyang Police Department headquarters, complementing and enhancing the city’s police presence and rapid response capabilities. Anyang City Hall uses the same surveillance infrastructure for traffic management and forest fire prevention.
About The Customer
Anyang is a city with a population of 620,000 located 15 miles south of Seoul, South Korea. Its City Hall houses the administrative offices of municipal government and employs approximately 100 in IT. Recently, City Hall launched a major initiative to tackle urban street crime, slash traffic congestion, and beef up the city’s disaster response capabilities. The first step was to combine the city’s crime prevention and disaster management systems into a single infrastructure, deployed and managed in the city’s brand new Integrated Operations Briefing room.
The Solution
After considering several high performance storage solutions, Anyang City Hall chose DDN high-performance storage system storage systems to drive its intelligent video surveillance solution. The DDN high-performance storage system is designed from the ground up for throughput-intensive applications such as streaming video and met Anyang City Hall’s goals for the highest scalable capacity available in the densest configuration in the industry. In Anyang’s configuration, each DDN high-performance storage system currently holds 460 1TB hard disks, but can scale to up to 1,200 hard disk drives in 2 racks for a massive 4.8PB, supporting output from thousands of cameras in a very small footprint. Parallel processing, distributed cache, and the largest quantity of host-side and back-end disk channels available allow the systems to ingest video from thousands of surveillance cameras at once in a single storage cluster. Each cluster provides up to 6GB/ second throughput and superior quality of service that virtually eliminates dropped frames, delays, and data corruption.
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