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The Sony Guide to CCTV
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Issue 3
Daewoo savings
with Sony PMS
In the face of rising manned guarding costs, Daewoo Cars has installed a new
remote surveillance alternative – a monitoring codec from Sony.
Daewoo was spending over £1 million a year on manned guarding services for its
25 forecourt and showroom sites until a remote video monitoring service
introduced a complete design, commissioning and monitoring package based
around remote CCTV surveillance.
Daewoo's brief was to protect
vehicles and premises while
allowing customers free access to
the forecourt even after showroom
hours. At the same time there had
to be an obvious deterrent and the
means to identify criminal activity
and summon assistance.
Key to the effective running of
the system has been a pilot of the
Sony PMS 400/500 at Daewoo’s
Slough showroom.
The Sony Codec is designed to
control CCTV equipment and
transmit information from any
number of remote sites, in the form
of high quality pictures and audio,
to a central point using a dial-up
ISDN telephone line. The use of the
ISDN line eliminates the
considerable costs associated with
the laying of cables for
transmission, such as fibre optics.
Any suspicious activity on a
Daewoo forecourt or in the
showroom, such as attempts to steal car radios, trim or wheels, can now be quickly
identified, confirmed and acted upon from the central monitoring station.
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