Article ID: GV5-13-11-14-t
Released Date: 11/14/2013
Applied to
GV-Hot Swap System V5
GV-DVR / NVR
1. Case Brief
The client needed a surveillance solution to ensure the safety of a multi-story building. Floors 3 to 4 are parking lots, the second floor is retail area, and the first floor includes retail area and restaurants and a security guard room. Located in the basement is the security control room and office area for employees.
2 GV-SD220-S and 4 GV-BL2410 were installed on the 4th floors to monitor the activities in the parking lots. The PTZ capability of GV-SD220-S makes them ideal for tracking movements in the parking lot. The parking lot on the 3rd floor is set up the same way with 2 GV-SD220-S and 4 GV-BL2410.
A retail store occupies the entire 2nd floor and part of the 1st floor, and the retail areas are covered by 32 GV-BX2400. An additional 9 GV-BX2400 were mounted to record the transactions at the 9 cash registers on the 1st floor, and each cash register has a POS system installed with GeoVision’s POS Text Sender. Also on the ground floor are 10 GV-BL2410 to cover the loading zone at the back door, elevator entrances, and parking lot entrances. At the main entrance, a GV-FE4301 fisheye camera was mounted on the ceiling to monitor all angles. In addition, 3 GV-3D People Counters and Asus Xtion Pro Live were set up to count the number of customers entering and exiting.
In the basement, a security control room was set up to house 2 20-bay GV-Hot Swap NVR System V5, which receive and record all 64 IP cameras installed in the building, and can send videos to the GV-Center V2. The GV-Center V2 is located in a security guard room on the 1st floor, and during closed hours, the security guard can receive live videos and alert messages upon motion detection on the GV-Center V2. During business hours, the staff in the basement office can monitor all 64 IP channels on the GV-Hot Swap NVR System V5. If the 2 GV-Hot Swap NVR System V5 fail to record for whatever reason, the GV-Failover Server in B1 will take over and make sure the videos are recorded properly.
Alarm buttons were mounted in the restroom stalls on floors 1 to 4, and each floor uses an 8-port GV-I/O Box to relay the alert to the GV-Hot Swap NVR System V5. When the alarm button is pushed in the event of an emergency, the B1 and 1F security staff will be notified and the E-Map on the GV-Hot Swap NVR System V5 allows staff to quickly locate the alarm button pushed.
2. Suggested Installation
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3. Purchase List for the Suggested Installation
3.1 GeoVision Products
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3.2 Non-GeoVision Products
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4.1 Suggested Hard Disk Arrangement
The table below shows how to arrange 40 2TB hard disks for recording in two 20-bay GV-Hot Swap NVR System V5 and the number of days you can record under Round-the-Clock (RTC) Mode and Motion Detection Mode. Each GV-Hot Swap NVR System V5 will record 32 channels. You can divide the 32 channels into 4 storage groups and assign 5 hard disks to each storage group. The GV-IP Cameras are set to VBR (Variable Bit Rate) mode.
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- For Motion Detection mode, It is assumed that there are 500 motion events per day that each lasts 1 minute.
- The number of hard disks assigned for a storage group may depend on the actual environments. Under Motion Detection Mode, You may assign more hard disks to the group that would have more motion events.
4.2 Recommended Hard Disk Brand
To maintain system stability and to keep your recordings safe when using GeoVision software, we advise you to use any of the recommended and/or the tested hard disk drives listed below.
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4.3 Suggested Network Arrangement
GV-Hot Swap NVR System V5 has two built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports. In the recommended installation illustrated above, each of the two GV-Hot Swap NVR System V5 receives video from 32 GV-IP Cameras installed in the building, and then transmits the 32 IP channels to GV-Center V2. In this case, set one Gigabit Ethernet for the incoming 32 channels and one Gigabit Ethernet port for the outgoing 32 channels.
Two Gigabit switches are installed to avoid network bottleneck. You will need to use one Gigabit switch for the incoming 64 channels and one Gigabit switch for the outdoing 64 channels by organizing the channels into two different segments.
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5. Ethernet Cable Requirements
When installing, each Ethernet cable cannot exceed 100 meters. In order for the PoE switches to deliver power without problem, it is recommended to use Cat 5 / 5e and Cat 6 cables. The high quality Ethernet cable reduces lost during power transmission. The wiring cable types are as below:
10BaseT: 2-pair UTP/STP Cat. 3, 4, 5 cable, EIA / TIA-568 100-ohm (Max. 100 m)
100BaseTX: 2-pair UTP/STP Cat. 5 cable, EIA / TIA-568 100-ohm (Max. 100 m)
1000BaseT: 4-pair UTP/STP Cat. 6 cable, EIA / TIA-568 100-ohm (Max. 100 m)
6. Appendix
You can refer to the following user manuals to see how to set up the GeoVision products required.
GV-DVR User's Manual
- Connecting IP Cameras to GV-Hot Swap NVR System V5: Section 2.5 IP Channel Setup
- Integrating GV-POS Text Sender: Section 7.1 Windows-Based Direct POS Integration
GV-3D People Counter User’s Manual
- Installing GV-3D People Counter: Section 2.1 Connecting the Device
- Configuring counting conditions: Section 4.2.2 People Counter Settings
- Connecting GV-System: Section 3.2 Connecting to GV-System / GV-VMS
- Connecting to GV-System: Section 1.5 Connecting to Center V2