| Lev Datsenko receives the MIPS innovation award on behalf of Geutebruck |
At the MIPS security show in Moscow in April, the award for the most innovative CCTV product of 2009 went to Geutebruck's GeViCentral video management system. Built in South Africa, with help from Germany and Australia, this video management system manages and controls large hybrid video networks - really, really large ones.
This new product is the result of a co-operative effort between Geutebruck's engineers in Germany, Sydney and Brisbane, and its South African software development partner Fourier Systems. They wanted an enterprise level video management system to meet the needs of an Australian transport operator and customer of Geutebruck Pacific, so they built one flexible enough to ensure optimum operation now and in the future, and flexible enough to be customised to suit other similarly large projects.
GeViCentral has now been running for some months in Australia supporting the centralised management of several thousand cameras and more than 400 video server platforms which deliver live and recorded video to a control centre from around 200 sites spread across a state. The system provides user groups like railway operations, customer services and even police, easy and controlled access to the whole video network. In South Africa work is underway customising the software for the next installation in the Middle East.