Local authority CCTV control centres act as the collection and monitoring hub of CCTV feeds within their area. CCTV and associated services are designed to improve safety within the community, with many objectives including;
- Reducing the fear of crime;
- Helping to secure a safer environment;
- Detecting, deterring, and preventing crime by proactive surveillance;
- Helping in the identification, apprehension and prosecution of offenders;
- Providing evidence to support criminal prosecutions; and
- Helping to maintain public order.
The installation and maintenance cost of CCTV systems is high, and local authorities are under increasing pressure to extract more value from the existing infrastructure. That’s where essentialVision technology comes in.
For a fraction of the cost of fixed cameras and fibre networks, the addition of the essentialVision encoder to an existing analogue CCTV system is an effective way of extending the system, allowing the distribution of high quality video streams to multiple users for viewing on their PC, laptop or even PDA. And by also enabling the transmission of video back to the control room from mobile CCTV vans, essentialVision provides a flexible, cost effective alternative to currently deployed CCTV solutions.
And it’s not just the extension of public space CCTV systems – essentialVision can also provide an easily-deployable, semi-permanent method of dealing with a wide range of public order problems from anti social behaviour to fly tipping in remote areas.