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‘Posh’ surveillance for Peterborough United
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‘Posh’ surveillance for Peterborough United
Case StudyEnglish football club Peterborough United FC, nicknamed ‘The Posh’, has been helped to significantly improve safety and security at its 15,300 capacity stadium.
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ADI International a leading security and low voltage distributor teamed up recently with local installation company Sentinel Security Services to provide an 18-camera Honeywell system to keep watch over the ground.
The club had been facing increasing operational difficulties from an ageing 11-camera system that had been installed in an unsatisfactory piecemeal fashion. As a result of periodic camera failures and poor image quality, health and safety problems were threatening renewal of the club’s safety licence. Faced with an urgent need to upgrade, Sentinelle stepped in firstly as a club sponsor and subsequently won a competitive contract tender to replace the analogue cameras and recording equipment with an improved and expanded monitoring capability.
The move coincided with the award of valuable grant funding from the Football Foundation, enabling Peterborough United to implement measures to improve protection and reassurance for its staff, match day supporters, weekday visitors to the variety of functions held every week at the club, and those using the restaurants, bar, betting shop, hairdresser’s and day nursery facilities on-site.
Mat Hopwood, Sentinel’s Systems & Service Manager, explains that the company commissioned ADI International to carry out a site survey and subsequently provide a range of products, including pan/tilt/zoom cameras with 18x zoom capability, 8in external Microsphere domes and high-resolution day/night cameras fitted with LEDs for extra low-light capability. The combination of emergency lighting around the ground and the low lux capability of all the Honeywell cameras deployed meant that no additional lighting had to be fitted, helping to save costs.
The installation budget was also minimised as a result of using NVT Cat5 UTP backbone cabling in place of coaxial cable. ADI International’s Sales Executive for the site, Ed Smith, notes that the comparative advantages of NVT include improved noise resistance, cheaper unit cost of materials, easier and faster installation times, and the increased distances that can be covered as a result of the ability to boost the signal when required. Honeywell cameras are also supplied with integrated ‘NVT inside’ connections.
In the stadium control room, club staff and police have access to digital recording capacity, with the ability to ‘export’ video footage onto CD-Rom if required for evidential purposes. Additionally, the new cameras’ improved picture clarity and zoom capabilities are proving their worth in terms of crowd control both inside and outside the stadium. For instance, they allow still images of anyone suspected of causing trouble or committing an offence to be printed and quickly circulated to the 90 or so stewards employed at each match.
In addition to the surveillance system, areas within the ground and its four stands are fitted with intruder alarms, with Sentinel providing a keyholder response service from its offices located nearby. A broadband connection also allows the company to remotely view and control the cameras, which are programmed to react to alarm activations such as door contacts being broken out-of-hours.
Besides the 18-camera system, an additional four Honeywell mini domes operate on a separate system in the main (north) stand, monitoring the club shop, ticket office and reception areas.
Meanwhile, external cameras positions overlooking residential housing that backs on to one side of the club’s site are blanked off to operators’ eyes by scaleable privacy zones – ensuring compliance with the Data Protection Act. Around the ground, too, large signs have been erected to inform everyone visiting the site about the surveillance measures in place.
Peterborough United’s owner/manager, Barry Fry, is upbeat about the improvements: “We’re absolutely delighted with the Honeywell CCTV system that Sentinel has professionally installed. We now have proper security measures at the club, and we’re so pleased with the results we’ve achieved so far that plans are already in place to expand the system once further funding is available. Our supporters have been telling us how happy they are with the upgrade so far that we’d like to build on this.”
Commenting on the standard of system provided by Honeywell Security, Mat Hopwood of Sentinel is fulsome in his praise too: “ADI International has provided us with first rate service and support. We’re also pleased with the personal touch involved in the back-up we’ve had from the company and we’re more than happy to continue our relationship with ADI International into the future as a result of this positive experience.”
For more information please contact Kirsch Bowker Marketing Manager UK on 01928754000 or e mail kirsch.bowker@adi-intl.com
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