Paveletskaya Plaza, which is constructed in the same architectural style as the adjacent railway station, comprises two 12 storey and one 27 storey towers. Together the buildings offer 65,000 m² of office accommodation fully fitted with the most modern technologies to provide tenants with comfortable and stress-free working conditions. On site there are also several bank branches, a translation bureau, a printing center and a travel agency as well as shops, boutiques and restaurants for the benefit of office staff and visitors. Samsung Techwin cameras are at the heart of a network video surveillance system installed at the prestigious Paveletskaya Plaza business center in Moscow.

Despite tough worldwide trading conditions, Russia is enjoying strong growth in its economy and this is reflected in the increasing demand for office accommodation from international organizations, as well as locally-based businesses in Moscow. Developers have responded to the shortfall in the availability of high quality commercial space with a dramatic acceleration in the number of building projects. By the end of 2014, Russia's capital is expected to be able to boast four of the five tallest buildings in Europe, whilst many prestigious projects have already been completed.

Electronic security and network specialists Yecons Technology Solutions, who were awarded the contract to install the video surveillance system, said: "It is perhaps not surprising that there was no shortage of installation companies keen to be invited to tender for this very important project," said Yusuf Yesilova, General Director of the Moscow based company. "However, although it was a very price competitive tendering process, the owners of Paveletskaya Plaza, Enka, made it clear from the outset that there should be no compromise in respect of the coverage and quality of the video surveillance solution."

Single Source

Having already successfully installed Samsung Techwin professional video surveillance equipments at a number of other large projects, it gave Yecons the confidence to single source all the required components of the video surveillance system from one of the fastest growing electronic security manufacturers in Russia. Working closely with the manufacturer's locally based pre-sales support team, the Yecons engineering design team took a close look at every location where a camera needed to be installed and subsequently recommended what their research had led them to believe was the best model for what it was expected to do. As a result of that, 228 cameras together with Samsung Techwin network video recorders and monitors have been installed to enable security personnel to monitor all activity within the Paveletskaya Plaza buildings and the surrounding areas 24/7.

"At certain locations, where positive identification of unwanted visitors needed to be achieved, we recommended the installation of 3MB Full HD camera models that could deliver evidence grade images, as well as technically advanced features such as intelligent video analytics and face detection," said Yusuf Yesilova. "In the majority of locations however, 1.3 megapixel cameras were more than sufficient to capture high definition images of a quality which easily met the client's requirements. We were therefore able to deliver a competitively priced solution that took full advantage of Samsung Techwin's product portfolio that includes both extremely high specification cameras and models which, although competitively priced, deliver a high level of performance."

Analytics in Action

The cameras have been installed on all floors of the three buildings, as well as in elevators and at reception and parking areas. 124 of the 228 cameras are SND-5010s. Measuring just 100 x 115 x 42 mm and part of the Litenet camera series, these Onvif compliant 1.3 megapixel cameras are designed to provide an affordable HD video surveillance solution for environments where there may be limited space. There are also 89 SNB-5000 cameras which are equipped with built-in license-free intelligent video analytics capability, which includes a scene change tampering function as well as optical tripwire, enter/ exit direction detection and an appear/disappear function to detect the movement of objects. Of the remaining cameras, eight are SNB-6004s and seven are SNB-7080s. With the ability to capture superb quality 2MP Full HD (1080P) images, the SNB-6004 is part of Samsung Techwin's popular Wisenet III camera range, whilst the SND-7080 is a 3 megapixel Full HD network dome camera with 3-8mm motorized vari-focal lens.

Images from all the cameras are transmitted over a LAN to a central control room where they are monitored live 24/7 by Paveletskaya Plaza operators who are able to direct patrolling security personnel to the precise location where an incident or suspicious activity may be taking place. At the same time the images are recorded onto one of eight SRN-1000 NVRs which are able to work in harmony to provide a seamless server style video recording solution. Each recorder provides up to 24TB of on-board video storage capacity with the potential of an additional 24TB of storage via two external e-SATA direct storage devices. It also features support for Raid 5 storage.

"The video surveillance system plays a crucial role ensuring that our tenants can go about their daily work activities in a secure environment and that their staff, visitors and customers feel safe whilst taking advantage of Paveletskaya Plaza's facilities," said Zihni Coskun, Facility Management Director of Enka. "The partnership between installer and manufacturer has been a great success. It has resulted in a system that is working extremely well and the feedback from our operators is that it is highly reliable and easy to use."