Valletta waterfront in Malta secured by IP surveillance cameras of GVD Turnkey solution

Valletta waterfront has been secured by the IP camera surveillance provided by GVD Turnkey solution

Valletta is the capital of Malta, and its Grand Harbour is busy every day transporting thousands of passengers and tourists via cruise terminal along the way of its coast line. As an EU Member State since 2004, as well as the impact of 9/11 attack, Malta needs to provide a secure trading spot and ensure the world that it is an internationally safe region at all times. Hence, a project of implementing more than 50pcs of 3M megapixel cameras and scalable back-end support system is required and installed at the terminal gate.

Problem & Issue

For this is a cruise terminal, a place wide open 24 hours every day to tourists and lots of activities going on around Maltese ports, harbours, bays, quays and berths. It is not easy for the gate staff to control all possible situations, unless large and wide areas along the quay side of the Valletta Waterfront covered with IP cameras.

So security staff would demand immediate viewing, detailed image, critical event alerts and recording for later investigation in order to rule out any possible occurrences of crimes, as well as the capability to remotely monitor activities anytime from anywhere in order to gain control. And this cannot be achieved without megapixel IP surveillance system.

Solution & Benefit

GVD provides a scalable total solution to cover all these monitoring areas, the ability to manage high resolution and a network-based system. With successive installation in cooperation with the strong system provider Alberta, GVD empowered megapixel systems guarantee the complete monitoring of people and goods in transit in all the areas of the port, and to achieve a unified management of the region, in terms of both the hardware and software. Karim Cassar, Tenders & Technicall Research Executive at Alberta points out the benefits of GVD and said: "I selected GVD products over competitive products for its good response and support. The system is working very well to date."

GVD provides the capability to manage high resolution and network based system through efficient software

Truly megapixel back-end solution

In this case, GVD provides the best performance of megapixel surveillance, in terms of deploying megapixel cameras to cover the same physical area. In other words, it is a win to cover a wider field of view with far less installation expenditures in cabling, camera housings etc. Upon excellent integration with world leading camera vendor, Arecont Vision, GVD NVR M600 series, server class rack mount, manage to maximise video cropping capability. With provided sub-channel function, the system helps to save storage cost effectively, up to 75%.

Advanced streaming technology

Under GVD's dual codec design, the system optimises both bandwidth and storage, not only delivers live, recorded and playback video, but also high quality recording data, efficient management for large IP installation.

Smarter CCTV system

From GVD E100/E200 series, surveillance staffs manage to monitor easily with unique switching keyboard and to control multiple views by built-in virtual matrix for 24x7 long. Plus its high resolution for better viewing than standard resolution cameras, high frame rate for simultaneously detailed investigation and capability of decoding large data for long term operation etc. GVD products prove to provide the secured IP surveillance and safeguard the terminal after long time verification till now.