National Car Parks (NCP)
Case study
Barco's I-Surveillance for NML: efficiency and scalability
NCP Manchester Ltd (NML) a joint venture between NCP and the Manchester City Council, provides an integrated parking system within Manchester’s City Centre Management Plan, Local Transport Plan, and Community Safety Plan. NML was developed in response to the changing city environment and increased customer demands. The joint venture has provided investment in over 40 car parks including installation of digital CCTV, a state of the art 24 hour control center, variable message signage on routes and the installation of modern control equipment.
Future-Proof Visual Performance
In the control room of NML, Barco installed 6 Atlas 84” display walls with 6 Hydra controllers offering a powerful overview tool to control all incoming images. Two different operations are used side by side: on the right hand side, the displays in the control room are used for event-driven car park control (control of 19 car parks), whereas the left hand side is used by the local authorities and the Greater Manchester Police to control the city center enabling them a swifter transfer of real-time information to officers on the ground. 412 colour camera’s are operational in the city center and the car parks; about 100 images are displayed simultaneously. The layout of the control room allows for additional projection modules to be added in the future with minimal impact. Barco’s rear-projection solution is less space consuming than 16 monitors in a console and also more ergonomic as the projected images are much easier on the eyes then old CRT monitors.
NML chose Barco’s solution for cost efficiency reasons, for its scalability and upgradable technology allowing a simple and graceful migration to eventual deployment of a digital network used to support multi-user and interfunctional cooperation (e.g. City Surveillance, Local Transport Management and Parking Surveillance).
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| Date | October, 2001 | |||||||||
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