Banking and finance organisations often require to manage business critical CCTV systems remotely across networks where bandwidth between sites can be limited or variable. A digital video surveillance system offers easier management of multiple locations, involving fewer personnel. It also eliminates the prospect of degraded tape quality or out-of-focus camera views. With a rich set of interfaces to ATMs, Verint's NetDVR™ range of embedded Video Recorders is an ideal solution for banking branch networks.
Liberty Bank and Trust is one such organisation, serving more than 40,000 customers across 10 locations in Louisiana and Mississippi in the USA. The bank network comprises 11 branch locations and 19 ATMs, including remote locations.
The Verint network video solution chosen by Liberty Bank and Trust automatically captures, digitises and compresses high-resolution video images of various types of transactions and events. The images are stored on hard disk, where they are accessed either on-site or remotely via a point-and-click Windows interface. The remote capability allows retrieved images to be enhanced, printed, faxed and emailed and it is of great advantage that the taped images can be made available to law enforcement in a timely manner.
Liberty Bank and Trust recognised the value of a system, which offered greater flexibility, improved picture quality, and easier management of video data. "It is in investigations where the system has helped us 
the most," says Aaron McDonald, assistant vice president and director of corporate security. "Now we can review video remotely and we don't have to go through a whole tape looking for a particular sequence of events."
The Verint solution integrates software with typical banking systems such as ATMs and cashier operations and can accommodate multiple camera inputs from positions at critical points around each facility, both inside and outside. Images can be emailed to other branches and to the police. Says McDonald, "This can mean a saving in man-hours for the bank and can also mean the difference between apprehending a criminal suspect and recovering stolen property or allowing too much time to pass after an incident."
NetDVR-II uses the latest MPEG-4/SM4 compression technology, offers storage of up to 3TB and is configurable for RAID disc redundancy. It is a fully scalable platform which is shipped with an advanced but easy-to-use client user interface programme and optional enterprise management software utility that provides for system status, device diagnostics and firmware upgrades.
With over 500,000 shipments of NetDVR-based products, the system is well proven in the typical banking/finance environment - distributed locations with either central or regional management.
