Monthly Archives: October 2011

Hardened Server

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This is an impressive find in a hardened server and storage solution.
Operational Temperature is -15°C to +55°C with a +71°C Option and with a Solid State Drive you can get to -55°C to 85°C w/humidity kit! Can work at 12,500ft and includes a vibration kit for SSD.
You have a choice of Intel® CPU architecture options from Intel embedded long-life with room for fifteen (15) removable SATA or SAS 2.5” or 3.5” HDDs and/or thirty (30) 2.5” rugged drives mounted in pairs. Rugged Drivepacks (RDp) offer 48 hot-swappable 2.5″ HDDs.

You can expect to pay almost double for a standard high-end server and storage, which considering the specs isn’t really that bad.

http://www.crystalrugged.com/products/rugged-storage-systems.aspx

New Version of IP Video System Design Tool

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Although I did get the name wrong when suggesting this little app in my book, I find it a valuable tool that simplifies many aspects of the architectural process. I use it to decide what lens to use for License Plate Recognition (LPR), what the storage requirements are for projects that include a multitude of different cameras, frame rates and codecs and even for height and area-of-coverage requirements. Hey, anything that makes the math easier is fine with me! Here’s a peak at the new version where they greatly improved the 3D component.

http://www.jvsg.com/ip-video-system-design-tool/

http://www.jvsg.com/ip-video-system-design-tool/

IP Video System Design Tool v7

Fiber for Intrusion Detection

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Working on a project that includes intrusion detection along a fence perimeter. Fiber Sensys uses multimode fiber installed onto the fence as a media to sense vibrations at various levels.

FiberSensys uses a single strand of multimode sensing fiber installed onto the fence as a designated “Zone” (up to 25 zones with the FD525). This single strand is fusion spliced onto a fiber trunk (singlemode or multimode – doesn’t matter) and then must be terminated using either ST/APC, SC/APC or LC/APC connectors (color coded green) at the patch panel. APC jumpers connect from the fiber patch panel to the Fiber Sensys fiber splitter and then connected via a single SC/APC jumper into the FD 525 Fiber Sensys Alarm Processing Unit (APU) which will include an I/O module to be wired into an alarm system and VMS system via I/O interfaces.

The moment someone tries to climb the fence, configured PTZ cameras in that area turn to that zone’s preset and begins recording and auto tracking. Slick!

Fiber Sensys on the fence or underground