Meadow Hall, located in Sheffield is the UK’s largest shopping centre, containing hundreds of stores. The centre heavily relies on business CCTV systems to protect it’s staff and customers from potential crime. As the centre has expanded over the years and as it sees more and more customers visit each year, the CCTV surveillance has undergone an upgrade to further assist the security team.
Meadowhall recently upgraded it’s CCTV systems to IP video technology. The security department wanted a scalable, modular and flexible solution to to replace the existing hardware that was expensive and time consuming to upgrade.
IP Video technology was chosen for the system because it is ideal for adding on to the top of an existing system and allows for older technology to carry on operating on the new network. Infact, this allowed for the existing 180 cameras to carry on operating.
The control room has received a software upgrade that now offers features such as system alerts and quick footage analysis.
