Manchester International Airport

 

Manchester International Airport

Manchester International Airport

Published: 25.11.2010

Sector: Airports

COE has been selected as a preferred supplier for a major surveillance upgrade at Manchester International Airport.

Project brief

As part of an ongoing £1m+ upgrade scheme, COE Limited has been chosen as a major supplier for an upgrade of Manchester Airport’s CCTV network. 

Analysis

Recognising the very important role that video information plays at international airports, the necessity to provide high quality and reliable video transmission at such sites is paramount. At Manchester Airport, COE’s X-Stream range of video encoders has been selected by main contractor, Advanced Integrated Systems (AIS) to provide IP encoding of analogue video for digital transmission around the airport’s local area network. Superior video quality and very low latency were key decision factors which led to the decision to integrate COE equipment.

Solution

X-Stream 400 multi-channel video encoders (also known as video servers) will provide digital encoding at the H.264 Main Profile standard to convert four channels of analogue video to compressed IP digital video for transmission across an Ethernet network.  X-Stream encoders can convert up to 4 channels of analogue video each if box mounted or up to 56 channels if rack mounted. At Manchester Airport, 246 X-Stream encoders will be installed to provide as many as 984 channels of analogue video encoding and transmission for the airport, enhancing the functionality of existing analogue cameras, and providing a high performance, yet cost effective IP upgrade path. 

Benefits

Key operational benefits met by COE:

• Digital transmission introduced into an analogue video system – enables gradual upgrade to newer technology at the choice of the User.
• Single managed video infrastructure – reduced maintenance and training..
• Surveillance of any area from any of the control locations – incident management under evacuation scenarios where control locations may have to be vacated.
• Potential for future expansion and upgrade, introducing technologies such as video analytics