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Asyut, an egiptian city, protected by SCATI’s video surveillance solutions

Asyut, an egiptian city, protected by SCATI’s video surveillance solutions

Public Safety. Urban videosurveillance project.

With more than 350,000 citizens and located 375 kilometers from South Cairo, Asyut is the largest city in Upper Egypt.

The Administration install a smart video surveillance system to control traffic on the main roads of the city, guaranteeing the citizens safety. This solution allows detecting and preventing any incident that may occur thanks to professional management tools that allow access in real time and to the recorded video collected by video surveillance cameras.

SOLUTION

CCTV cameras for urban videosurveillance

More than a hundred of IP cameras (bullet, minidomes, PTZ domes, etc.) are installed at the critical points of the main roads.

Among the more than 100 cameras, there are more than 30 high-speed PTZ Dome IP cameras capable of collecting images with high resolution (up to 2 Mpx), with a 32x optical zoom and at a distance of up to 150 meters, stands out thanks to its long-range IR (infrared). The SID-35115NR-EXY32 model incorporates WDR (Wide Dynamic Range) feature to provide images with the best quality under deep lighting contrasts on the scene, without losing any detail of the image and solving in real time any incident that may arise.

With a built-in 1/2.8’’ Sony Progressive Scan CMOS sensor, these cameras offer an excellent performance in low-light environments thanks to their highly sensitive sensor. They are able to switch to day / night mode automatically thanks to their mechanical IR filter, supported by their infrared light.

videorecording for public safety

Up to 64 IP cameras and up to 48 TB storage, two SCATI FENIX IP platforms guarantee 24/7 centralized recording at maximum image resolution, compatible with standard compression formats (H.265/H.264/MPEG4)

The centralized management of all cameras is done through the SCATI FENIX CMS (Central Management System) server. Thanks to the scalability of the system, up to 512 cameras and 100 concurrent clients can be added without incurring additional costs.

The SCATI FENIX CMS has a redundant power supply and a redundant Giga Ethernet network interface (2 x RJ-45) and RAID capability.

BENEFITS

SCATI's video surveillance solutions, with high availability, reliability and stability, are capable of offering advanced intelligent monitoring tools to guarantee the safety of a city and respond quickly and efficiently to any incident.

SCATI CCTV systems offer a flexible and scalable solution adapted to the growth of urban environments, allowing the addition of more security devices at no additional cost as needs grow.

They allow integration with other systems for comprehensive security and also allow in-depth data storage, synthesis and analysis to aid in incident prevention and decision-making.

At the forefront of technology and with hundreds of references in Public Safety, SCATI designs and develops personalized projects adapted to the requirements of any municipality to increase the levels of security of the environment, public buildings, citizens and traffic control.

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SCATI Xperience Event Turkey. April 16 th

SCATI Xperience Event Turkey. April 16 th

SCATI XPERIENCE EVENT 4.0, Turkey is a meeting point for professionals who want to know first-hand the latest technological trends to exploit their CCTV systems to the maximum.

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During the event, we will share our vision on the state-of-the-art of Technology (Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Edge Computing, Cybersecurity, data protection, etc.) and we will know the latest trends, opportunities and risks ahead and their impact to the security market.

As experts in technology, we will offer the keys to face the “Digital Transformation Age” successfully and the advantages that “Video surveillance 4.0” systems provide, thanks to the incorporation of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.

4.0 video systems are able to solve other issues that are not linked to security and even to predict behaviors and conducts to improve the user’s experience, apart from speeding up the day-to-day operations and optimizing any business process.

Through Business Intelligence platforms, collecting “metadata” associated to images captured by video systems, simplifying and presenting those, data graphically in a customised way for facilitating decision taking has become a reality.

Our mission, as a manufacturer of IP video solutions who is committed to its customers, is to absorb the technological changes ahead to provide our customers with customised video solutions, at the forefront of technology and with the highest levels of cybersecurity.

During the “SCATI Xperience Event 4.0, Beyond Security” presentation, a cocktail-type lunch meal will be served so that visitors have the chance to exchange opinions and carry out networking in one of the best scenarios in Istanbul.

To thank the attendance to the Xperience Events, SCATI will raffle a trip to Spain (*), with all expenses covered, including a visit to the Factory and attendance to our most exclusive Xperience Event, which will be held in Madrid on 21 May 2020.

SCATI Xperience Event, Turkey will be held on 16 April 2020 in the Point Hotel Barbaros (Istanbul, Turkey), from 9 to 1 pm.

SCATI Xperience Events are free events aimed at professionals of the sector. To confirm your attendance, it is necessary to be registered in advance at this link. Your attendance will be confirmed by the Marketing Department (marketing@scati.com).

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SCATI WATCHER, video management software

SCATI WATCHER, video management software

SCATI is committed to offering advanced video solutions for its customers and develops new functionalities to completely exploit its CCTV video system.

Increased power and new interface

In our search for improving the User Experience and offering more and more powerful video systems, our R&D department has developed and incorporated to our SCATI WATCHER a system able to decompress and display high resolution images by GPU.

This software development is based on an efficient painting technology allowing using fewer resources and consequently, making the best of the processor to make management easier and view more cameras at the same time or higher resolution images up to 12 Mpx.

To locate a camera in the searcher more rapidly, the cameras can be labelled in the configurator according to the user’s needs. It also allows displaying the information you want on the cameras (name of the video-recorder, date and time, image-display level of quality allowing to use less bandwidth, etc).

With version 6.6 individual snapshots can be made and even of all the cameras at the same time with improved image resolution.

All these functions that make video surveillance operators’ daily work easier are linked to a new, intuitive and simpler interface with the latest trends in graphic design.

Completely configurable and customisable, the new interface of the SCATI WATCHER real time window improves our Users’ Experience.

Managing facial recognition lists in Scati WATCHER

SCATI VISION version 6.6 features functions allowing for centralised management of faces, captured by the facial recognition systems.

From SCATI, photos and data of persons, which the facial recognition system will work with, are massively loaded and associated to lists. Then, these lists are distributed to the appropriate facial recognition cameras; all this, from a single point.

When a device detects a suspect, the facial recognition system recognises them, sends an alarm to the control centre automatically and activates the corresponding action protocol.

At business level, this system allows obtaining relevant information for decision-making in other business areas. Thanks to SCATI REKON, our users can obtain data on the type of customers, who are anonymously classified by the facial recognition systems (gender, age, etc.).

Centralised management of thousands of faces, generated by the facial recognition systems, allow our users to recognise possible offenders when going into their facilities and avoid their illegals actions.

With the highest cyber-security levels

At the forefront of technology, SCATI solutions are designed with the highest cyber-security levels.

That is the why all our video-recorders and customer applications feature current operating systems like Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18 (LTS distribution with extended support) to ensure that the appropriate security patches will be available when a new vulnerability or threat is detected.

In our commitment to comply with good security practices, SCATI removes all services or applications of the Operating System that are not strictly necessary for the operation of the recorder in order to reduce its vulnerability.

SCATI opts for video systems offering an added value for users. Consequently, SCATI develops advanced and smart solutions allowing the complete exploitation of its CCTV systems.

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NACEX, leading company in the Courier sector thanks to its commitment to innovation and technology

NACEX, leading company in the Courier sector thanks to its commitment to innovation and technology

From its logistics platform in Coslada (Madrid, Spain) NACEX centrally manages the images of all its logistics centres.

NACEX, which belongs to the Grupo Logista, is a leading company in the express courier sector in Spain, Andorra and Portugal. Currently, it has 31 logistics platforms and more than 300 franchises.

In order to consolidate its position as “one of the most advanced courier companies”, its logistics platforms are provided with the latest technological developments in recording, goods traceability and security.

Its objective is its customers’ satisfaction thanks to the delivery of their orders in the time scheduled with them, with full reliability.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

NACEX cross docking platform

Opened in November 2018, with con 12,140 square meters (equivalent to two football stadiums), it is the largest cross-docking platform that has been built it Spain in the last 10 years.

Located in the Polígono Industrial (industrial estate) in Coslada, the town with more logistics companies (706) in Spain, the plant has been designed to manage 26,000 deliveries/hours, meeting the necessary time guarantee.

The platform has 114 bays for vans and lorries to load and unload simultaneously at high speed.

To meet the commitments acquired with their customers, Nacex invests in the latest technological developments ensuring delivery of any parcel within 24 hours.

CHALLENGE

Crossbelt automated clasification systems

NACEX provides its facilities with a smart video system ensuring traceability and monitoring of parcels inside the platforms, through the recording of the sorting processes.

Investment in sorters with CrossBelt Technology, a modern system for accurate, quick and safe automatic sorting, minimise the mechanical impact to parcels through motorised belts ensuring the exact position and orientation of parcels throughout the entire sorting process.

SOLUTION

NACEX, the technological leader in the logistics sector, has been trusting SCATI for more than 15 years because of its capacity to develop customised video solution for each of its 31 logistics platform.

SCATI video solution is a customised solution fully integrated with its warehouse management system (ERP). This ensures traceability of every parcel in the automatic sorting systems and solves any incidence, through direct and quick access to a visual check of the recorded video associated to that parcel.

More than 140 cameras installed strategically display the travel of each parcel paying special attention to three key points of the process: Induction areas (loading of the goods on the belt), measurement (the point where parcels are weighted, measured, sorted and distributed automatically), and ramps (exit point of the warehouse to their corresponding destinations).

SCATI solution allows to view the travel of each parcel and envelopes 100% ensuring solving incidences.

Logistics processes supervision thanks to video system

Logistics process supervision through video systems

RECORDING CAMERAS AND EQUIPMENT

Cameras for logistics platforms

The video system consists of 117 3-Mpx IP bullet SCATI EYE cameras with infrared rays up to 30 meters offering a high image quality under low luminosity conditions. These cameras feature WDR (Wide Dynamic Range) functionalities able to manage backlighting and/or sudden luminosity changes when the outside doors of the warehouse open.

As a support to these cameras, the platform has 13 6-Mpx fisheye cameras offering 360º view on all what is happening in the platform.

License Plate recognition

Accesses have 6 LPR (License Plate Recognition) cameras allowing license plates to be recognised and managed through blacklists and whitelists defined by the security managers.

To ensure the recording of images 24/7, only four SCATI VISION recording platforms, with high image availability, are needed.

SCATI PARCEL, VIDEO SOLUTION FOR PARCEL TRACEABILITY

SCATI PARCEL is a customised solution integrating the video with NACEX management system for the goods monitoring. This ensures traceability of every parcel in the automatic sorting systems and solves any incidence, through direct and quick access to a visual check of the recorded video associated to that parcel.

This solution consists of high definition cameras displaying the complete travel of parcels, from going into the induction areas, going through the automatic measuring and sorting points and going out on the corresponding exit ramps.

Together with the image capture, the system is able to collect information associated to each parcel (tracking No., origin, destination, dimensions), and stores these data together with the visual recording of the parcel in each control point of its travel. In this way, traceability is ensured.

Thanks to SCATI PARCEL, searches by tracking No., origin, destination, etc. can be made, the travel of each parcel displayed and the exact time of losing track of the parcel in any of the distribution centres it goes through.

CONTROL CENTRE. CENTRALISED MANAGEMENT FOR LOGISTICS PLATFORMS

From the Control Centre in Coslada, eight operators monitor movements, through an 8-screen SCATI WALL, in its 31 distribution centres NACEX has in Spain and Portugal.

Thanks to SCATI WALL, up to 64 cameras can be viewed simultaneously, enabling the setting up of scenarios for automatic display.

Integration of customised plans allows this process to be faster and solve incidences in real time.

This systems allows for the centralised management of all the company’s logistics centres. This allows for searches for a specific warehouse, for all the platforms or for groups of them, being those groups customised, too.

Centralised management of video surveillance systems

Integration of customised plans

ADVANTAGES

Thanks to technology, NACEX is a leading company in the most demanding express courier sector. Any incidence is solved in record time therefore, all orders reach their customers within the guarantee delivery time.

The brand image is improved exponentially becoming the most technologically advanced company and differentiating from its competitors.

“When there is an incidence, the security managers are able to locate and view the travel of each parcel where it was tracked lost. SCATI solution, as it is multi-platform able to centralise recordings of all the logistics platforms, allows any incidence to be 100% solved, regardless the platform where it happened”, Edgar Otero, Nacex Engineering Manager, says.

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How to fight phishing?

How to fight phishing?

SCATI video solution features functionalities that centrally manage lists of facial recognition

Phishing is one of the main security challenges to which financial entities are facing, after their branches and ATMs being robbed and cybercrime.

Phishing crimes are increasing day by day and is illegally used to open credit accounts, get loans, take out and cash out life and health insurances and pension schemes, etc. , which results in damage to reputation of banks, and a serious economic damage to the victims.

Claims by fishing in Mexico

Over the last year identity thefts have sharply increased worldwide.

In the case of Mexico, 8th in the world ranking (source: Banco de México (Bank of Mexico)), during the first quarter this year almost 1.5 million USD have been claimed according to the National Commission for the Protection and Defence of Financial Services Users (Condusef),

Aware of this problem, SCATI, specialising in designing advanced video solutions for the banking sector, features functionalities that allow for face centralised management, captured by facial recognition systems.

When a suspicious person goes in a branch, the facial recognition system recognises them, sends an alarm to the control centre automatically and activates the corresponding protocol of action.

face centralised management, captured by facial recognition systems.

From WATCHER, SCATI professional tool for exploiting and managing videos, photos and data of persons, which the facial recognition system will work with, are massively loaded and associated to numerous lists so that, depending on the person going into the branch, the entity activates the corresponding protocol of action.

At business level, this system allows for obtaining relevant information for decision-making in other business areas. Thanks to SCATI RECKON, the bank obtains data on the typology of customers who are anonymously classified by the facial recognition systems (gender, age, etc.) and even, it is able to detect when VIP customers access the branch to offer them a more personalised service.

The centralised management of hundreds of thousands of faces, generated by the facial recognition systems, allows the entity to be able to recognise potential offenders when they access the bank branches and avoid their illicit acts.

About SCATI

With more than 50 clients in banking, SCATI, manufacturer of video management systems, is consolidating itself as a reference in offering comprehensive solutions in video-surveillance in Spain and Latin America for financial institutions.

Our differential value? Offering our clients a comprehensive and specialised security platform which can be adapted to the specific requirements of each bank, and to the demands and regulations of the environment (standards and legislation, corporate changes, etc.)

SCATI RECKON is a solution capable of analyzing a large amount of data, apparently unrelated, generating correlated information, simplified and organized. It allows a clear interpretation of data, improving your decision-making at a business level.

Based on video business intelligence, RECKON decreases management procedures time, speeds up the daily system operation and optimizes the business process maximizing the profitability.

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Mi Teleférico (My Cable car). La Paz – El Alto (Bolivia)

Mi Teleférico (My Cable car). La Paz – El Alto (Bolivia)

Protecting the largest air cable system in the world

EETC – “Mi Teleférico (My Cable car)”, conforms the largest collective air cable transport system in the world connecting various points in the cities of La Paz and El Alto (Bolivia).

Its first line started operating on 30 May 2014. Currently, there are 8 operating lines and the opening of 3 additional lines remains pending through 23 stations.

Currently, EETC – “Mi Teleférico (My Cable car)” receives 180,000 passengers per day and generates 250 million bolivianos (36M USD) in collections, apart from creating 2,000 direct employment and 5.500 indirect employment.

EETC – “Mi Teleférico (My Cable car)” solves the mobility problems of the population in La Paz, due to the orographic complexity of the city and the increasing demand from public land transport users, which produces high levels of environmental and sound pollution.

This system offers coverage through cameras installed at various control points of “Mi Teleférico (My Cable car)” collective air transport network, a total of 23 stations.

Likewise, local operators in each of the 23 stations and the Monitoring and Control Centre, from where access to any element of the CCTV system installed in the 23 stations is available, were provided with all necessary managing elements.

The objective of the project was to ensure the users’ security and support the authorities in the public security of the city by integrating various sub-systems, which act together providing an automatic response before events.

Scati was the manufacturer selected by Empresa Estatal de Transporte por Cable “Mi Teleférico” ( State Company of Cable car Transport “My Cable car” (hereinafter referred to as EETC) to implement its video solution as a security system.

This project has been awarded as the “Best Public Security Project in Latin America” given by ALAS (Latin American Security Association).

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