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Accelerate: Video Surveillance

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Cities & Municipalities Security & Public Safety
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Perimeter Security & Access Control Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Traffic Monitoring
Services	System Integration Testing & Certification
Challenge	Anyang City Hall in South Korea launched a major initiative to tackle urban street crime, slash traffic congestion, and beef up the city’s disaster response capabilities. The first step was to combine the city’s crime prevention and disaster management systems into a single infrastructure, deployed and managed in the city’s brand new Integrated Operations Briefing room. The challenge was to deploy a massive intelligent video surveillance system across Anyang’s entire 23-square-mile metropolitan area, with hundreds of high-definition digital video cameras linked to scores of servers running network video recording software and sophisticated pattern recognition analytics. The system links all cameras to the video management infrastructure in the Integrated Operations Briefing room at Anyang Police Department headquarters, complementing and enhancing the city’s police presence and rapid response capabilities. Anyang City Hall uses the same surveillance infrastructure for traffic management and forest fire prevention. Read More
About Customer	Anyang is a city with a population of 620,000 located 15 miles south of Seoul, South Korea. Its City Hall houses the administrative offices of municipal government and employs approximately 100 in IT. Recently, City Hall launched a major initiative to tackle urban street crime, slash traffic congestion, and beef up the city’s disaster response capabilities. The first step was to combine the city’s crime prevention and disaster management systems into a single infrastructure, deployed and managed in the city’s brand new Integrated Operations Briefing room. Read More
Solution	After considering several high performance storage solutions, Anyang City Hall chose DDN high-performance storage system storage systems to drive its intelligent video surveillance solution. The DDN high-performance storage system is designed from the ground up for throughput-intensive applications such as streaming video and met Anyang City Hall’s goals for the highest scalable capacity available in the densest configuration in the industry. In Anyang’s configuration, each DDN high-performance storage system currently holds 460 1TB hard disks, but can scale to up to 1,200 hard disk drives in 2 racks for a massive 4.8PB, supporting output from thousands of cameras in a very small footprint. Parallel processing, distributed cache, and the largest quantity of host-side and back-end disk channels available allow the systems to ingest video from thousands of surveillance cameras at once in a single storage cluster. Each cluster provides up to 6GB/ second throughput and superior quality of service that virtually eliminates dropped frames, delays, and data corruption. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Industries

Cities & Municipalities

Security & Public Safety

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Perimeter Security & Access Control

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Traffic Monitoring

Services

System Integration

Testing & Certification

Challenge

Anyang City Hall in South Korea launched a major initiative to tackle urban street crime, slash traffic congestion, and beef up the city’s disaster response capabilities. The first step was to combine the city’s crime prevention and disaster management systems into a single infrastructure, deployed and managed in the city’s brand new Integrated Operations Briefing room. The challenge was to deploy a massive intelligent video surveillance system across Anyang’s entire 23-square-mile metropolitan area, with hundreds of high-definition digital video cameras linked to scores of servers running network video recording software and sophisticated pattern recognition analytics. The system links all cameras to the video management infrastructure in the Integrated Operations Briefing room at Anyang Police Department headquarters, complementing and enhancing the city’s police presence and rapid response capabilities. Anyang City Hall uses the same surveillance infrastructure for traffic management and forest fire prevention.

About Customer

Anyang is a city with a population of 620,000 located 15 miles south of Seoul, South Korea. Its City Hall houses the administrative offices of municipal government and employs approximately 100 in IT. Recently, City Hall launched a major initiative to tackle urban street crime, slash traffic congestion, and beef up the city’s disaster response capabilities. The first step was to combine the city’s crime prevention and disaster management systems into a single infrastructure, deployed and managed in the city’s brand new Integrated Operations Briefing room.

Solution

After considering several high performance storage solutions, Anyang City Hall chose DDN high-performance storage system storage systems to drive its intelligent video surveillance solution. The DDN high-performance storage system is designed from the ground up for throughput-intensive applications such as streaming video and met Anyang City Hall’s goals for the highest scalable capacity available in the densest configuration in the industry. In Anyang’s configuration, each DDN high-performance storage system currently holds 460 1TB hard disks, but can scale to up to 1,200 hard disk drives in 2 racks for a massive 4.8PB, supporting output from thousands of cameras in a very small footprint. Parallel processing, distributed cache, and the largest quantity of host-side and back-end disk channels available allow the systems to ingest video from thousands of surveillance cameras at once in a single storage cluster. Each cluster provides up to 6GB/ second throughput and superior quality of service that virtually eliminates dropped frames, delays, and data corruption.

Impact #1	A centralized infrastructure for emergency services across crime, traffic and disaster management that is cost effective and scales to handle years of data.
Impact #2	The performance and availability to capture, monitor and respond in real-time or after the fact.
Impact #3	Timely information to prevent and prosecute crime, protecting citizens and public property.

Impact #1

A centralized infrastructure for emergency services across crime, traffic and disaster management that is cost effective and scales to handle years of data.

Impact #2

The performance and availability to capture, monitor and respond in real-time or after the fact.

Impact #3

Timely information to prevent and prosecute crime, protecting citizens and public property.

Benefit #1	1,867 video streams investigated, 83 crimes resolved
Benefit #2	Faster response times for traffic accidents, hit and runs, and stolen vehicle recoveries
Benefit #3	Scaled to 1,300 cameras in two years with the lowest possible additional cost and capacity to spare

Benefit #1

1,867 video streams investigated, 83 crimes resolved

Benefit #2

Faster response times for traffic accidents, hit and runs, and stolen vehicle recoveries

Benefit #3

Scaled to 1,300 cameras in two years with the lowest possible additional cost and capacity to spare

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Accelerate: Video Surveillance

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