Video Security and Surveillance Solutions

With more and more of the world’s population moving to urban areas, crime, congestion and other challenges are increasing. Infrastructure managers across small towns, cities, and public venues are required to ensure safety and security, more effectively manage assets, and improve quality of life. Video-centric IoT systems, combining a wide variety of video feeds and real-time IoT data, can provide the foundation for a safer and smarter city.

Video and sensor data have become a strategic asset in generating critical insights to city management and operations. Video surveillance and data collection systems combined with intelligent analytics can provide faster response time for emergency personnel and provide better situational awareness. Video analysis can assist law enforcement in the apprehension of suspects and gather necessary evidence.

Well-designed IoT infrastructure can also leverage video to provide benefits such as traffic management to reduce congestion and recognize pedestrian patterns. This can also apply to building management systems that must provide an environment that keeps occupants safe and buildings operating efficiently. Smart IT infrastructure helps city managers plan around events, or improve response to disasters and emergencies.

As these requirements continue to grow, city managers will need to expand existing IT systems. A scalable solution allows for additional applications to be added such as electronic signage, access controls, crowd and traffic management, or allowing additional cameras and sensors to be added in new venues or more areas where Edge computing might be required.

Implementation Challenges

Industries such as transportation, government, health care, gaming, education, manufacturing, and hospitality are adding video surveillance capabilities, but are struggling with how to implement solutions. How to handle the massive size of projects, brownfield integration, and security are all top of mind. Current systems often cannot handle future growth which leaves IT owners choosing between overspending today or delaying upgrades. Scalability is key. They need a partner they can count on to help them scope, implement, and manage such a solution.

Lenovo and Pivot3, along with surveillance industry leaders, deliver an enterprise-class smart city infrastructure that is easy to manage, simple to deploy, and scales as needs grow.

Purpose-Built Solution for Demanding Video Applications

Together, Lenovo and Pivot3 provide a solution that allows IT administrators to consolidate streaming data management (including video), access controls, and IoT applications on a single solution, eliminating the need for separate systems. This provides higher levels of resiliency and fault tolerance, and lowers management and solution costs for the entire application suite.

Lenovo and Pivot3 leverage a broad partner ecosystem to deliver enterprise-class video surveillance infrastructure and IoT integration in an easy-to-manage, simple-to-deploy, scale-out solution. Lenovo and Pivot3’s optimized solutions serve major customers in demanding video environments including transportation, government, health care, gaming, education, manufacturing and hospitality.

Primary Benefits

Customer Success

In a recent case study in Bogotá, Colombia, the solution provided the following multiple benefits to city operators and government:

• Improved effectiveness by allowing operators at all control centers to view citywide video data
• Reduced risk and liabilities by eliminating data loss and downtime
• Enabled future expansion of camera and sensor counts through a scalable solution
• Reduced power and cooling needs using a high-density solution that fit into limited floor space
• Reduced response times by properly routing emergency response vehicles

Visit Bogotá case study for more details.

For More Information

To learn more about Video Security and Surveillance Solutions, contact your Lenovo representative or Business Partner.