Dragão Stadium is the newly-built "home" of Porto Football club in Portugal. With a capacity of 52,000 seats, it successfully hosted the 2004 European Football Championships. In a venue of this kind, security is a very important issue and needs the support of reliable technologies.
The solution
Porto Estadio, the company responsible for building the stadium had been thinking of investing in a traditional analogue CCTV system. Following discussions with Sony and its partners, the Club instead chose to equip its stadium with a modern security solution that connects cameras over an IP network and which are easily controlled using a PC. The IP cameras are connected to a Local Area Network (LAN) consisting of Cisco equipment. Alcatel took care of the supply and installation of a surveillance system to monitor the stadium and parking areas and partnered with Sony to advise the customer on the best possible technological solution for their specific requirements.
