Gunsan Port, South Korea
Gunsan Port is a major shipping hub for South Korea
Gunsan Port's car-exclusive quay ships thousands of cars annually
Gunsan's large area is secured using COE's X-Net transmission range.
Published: 14.08.2009
Sector: Sea Ports
In a project undertaken with South Korean partner, Dong Young, COE have provided a state of the art video transmission and management solution for Gunsan Port in South Korea.
Project brief
In recent years, Gunsan Port has become a major commercial hub handling more than 20 million tones of cargo annually distributed over some 4600 meters of piers. A variety of products now pass through Gunsan, with dedicated wharfs for cement, oil & silica, and a large car-exclusive quay for shipping from local manufacturing facilities. The core requirement of the Gunsan Regional Maritime Affairs & Fisheries Office (GRMAFO) when commissioning a new video surveillance system was to heighten the security of Gunsan Port whilst gaining control over the management and response to security threats.
Analysis
Given the large physical area of Gunsan Port, COE’s superior video transmission technologies were an important factor in maintaining high quality video at the control rooms stationed throughout the port. High quality picture and sound over an extended distance was essential to the success of the installation. Prior to the installation of their surveillance system, Gunsan Port’s security measures were restricted to an alarmed fence to detect security breaches. A key challenge in designing and implementing this project was the integration of the existing alarm system for this fencing with COE’s Video Management System (VMS) enterprise software for system management.
Solution
At Gunsan Port, Dong Young implemented an IP network infastructure through using a variety of COE transmission equipment. COE’s X-Net video encoders were used at the camera source to convert analogue output from the cameras to digital, H.264 compressed video. This video signal was then passed through a number of COE X-Net Ethernet Switches. This new product from COE has seven 10/100BaseT ports and three Gigabit RJ-45/SFP optic combo ports, enabling up to seven Ethernet inputs to be transmitted via each switch. Through combined SFP Optic and Gigabit RJ-45 output ports, large and complex ring topologies may be created with maximum flexibility and minimised failsafe switching times (<5ms). At Gunsan Port, multiple X-Net Ethernet Switches were deployed, utilizing the flexibility of combo optical fibre and gigabit RJ-45 outputs to provide seamless transmission of video, PTZ control and alarms across the large network area of the site.
Additional security in Gunsan Port is provided by integration of COE’s X-Net VI video analytics package. X-Net VI, based on Agent VI technologies, distributes analytical processing between the device at the edge of the network (encoder) and the remotely based server. This unique hardware/software combination ensures that analysis is performed on highest quality uncompressed video, whilst the processing power available through utilising server based analysis is also retained. The system installed at this Phase at Gunsan Port comprises over 90 new analogue cameras, many of which have been enhanced with X-Net VI capabilities by addition of COE equipment.
Benefits
Key operational benefits met by COE:
- Heightening security whilst gaining control over observing, reporting and responding to threats to the site.
- Seamless integration with the existing technology on site - By matching PTZ camera response to alarm outputs from the existing fencing system, COE enhanced the function of both sets of technology.
- COE's X-Net VI Intelligent video analysis software was utilised to bring a new dimension to security around the site, and to provide assistance to the role of CCTV users at Gunsan Port.
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