The historic market town of Thame in Oxfordshire recently implemented a new CCTV system throughout its centre. Thame is home to twelve thousand residents including legendary Bee Gee Robin Gibb. Curtailing Saturday Night Fever will be one of the primary objectives of the system.
The Titan Heritage units are ideally suited to such an installation where the brief of the customer demanded aesthetic integration and compatibility with existing transmission and video management systems. The domes are mounted on architectural 6m columns, which, like the unit design, blend with the environment.
Manufactured in Conway's High Wycombe factory, the Titan Heritage domes are designed to be a true CCTV product as opposed to a standard CCTV dome bolted arbitrarily onto a street light. Often when clients opt for the standard combination, performance is compromised, as the components are not meant to work together.
At the opening ceremony the Mayor of Thame, David Laver, stressed that the heritage style Conway equipment has improved on the usual square, clunky columns and box housings. He said: "I'm impressed by the way the cameras have blended in with the street scenery and by the quality of the images."
Jonathan Moon is CDS's Engineering Services Manager. He said: "The Conway dome assembly suited our purposes well. The customer wanted video and control cabling to be unshielded twisted pair (UTP) and Conway included their own video baluns in the domes. These allowed seamless connections between the camera units, the Town Hall, and a subsequent fibre transmission link to the police control room."
This is the last of five major CCTV schemes in the area, the other locations being Henley, Wallingford, Abingdon and Didcot. All the sites have used the Conway Heritage domes. Other components include DVRs from Vigilant and a Synectics matrix. The value of the Thame project is £340,000. Camera locations include the High Street, the Cornmarket and a Waitrose car park.
