Dahua Technology deploys its smart parking solution to secure the Santillana Building in Medellín, Colombia

MTS is a major real estate management company with a 20-year history. It has 600 employees and experts in real estate management, real estate consulting, market studies and representation of owners.

 Dahua Technology, as a globally renowned video-centric smart IoT solution and service provider, customised a comprehensive parking solution, in order to help MTS manage the Santillana Building, located in Medellín, Colombia, more intelligently.

Smart parking functions, including video surveillance

MTS faces a problem with the management of the Santillana building, as it wanted to control the parking lot with a monthly fee, but had purchased a system that was obsolete and didn’t allow them to control space occupation, parking time and easy integration with a billing system.

In addition, the Santillana Building has eight parking levels for the use of two office towers, in Medellín, Colombia. Smart parking functions, including automatic vehicle entrance control, parking guide, vehicle locating, video surveillance and the administration of all the parking lots, were needed.

Access ANPR Cameras installed

Multiple advanced products were applied with sophisticated technologies, innovated by Dahua Technology

Together with local system integrator - Miro Seguridad, Dahua installed Access ANPR Cameras for entrances (ITC215-PW6M-IRLZF), 300 units of Smart Video Parking Detectors (ITC314-PH3A-F Series) covering wide parking spaces, Indoor LED Screens (IPMPGI-AC Series), 36-HDD Enterprise Video Storage (EVS5036S-R), etc.

Multiple advanced products were applied with sophisticated technologies, innovated by Dahua Technology. The Access ANPR Camera adopts a high-performance CMOS image sensor and processor for in-depth extraction and analysis of vehicle information, 24/7. In addition, its built-in LED illuminator and motorised vari-focal lens provide ease of installation and commissioning.

Smart Video Parking Detector

The Smart Video Parking Detector can monitor 3 parking spots in real time, identify vehicles and licence plates, and display the parking spot status, with different indicator colours.

It’s capable of capturing clear details, even in strong contrast conditions, in order to ensure detection accuracy, and is ideal for parking buildings and indoor parking lots.

EVS5036S-R EVS

EVS5036S-R EVS offers unparalleled storage technology. This EVS is ideal for a wide range of applications, such as public safety, transportation stations, government institutions, hotel resorts, shopping malls, city centres, and financial institutions, which demand expansion flexibility, high reliability and centralised storage management. This EVS is compatible with numerous third-party devices, making it the perfect solution for surveillance systems with or without a video management system (VMS).

During the implementation, to achieve the optimal performance of the sensors in low parking levels, lots of tests were carried out to find the best spots for installation. To ensure smooth interconnection of various products, it was necessary to standardise configuration and organise the fibre optic link, which took the joint efforts of the Dahua team and Miro Seguridad.

Dahua parking solution based on video-centered technologies

Based on the ANPR technology, entry control becomes more efficient

The parking solution is based on video-centered technologies. ANPR, video analysis and other technologies guide the customers to park and locate vehicles quickly and easily. Based on the ANPR technology, entry control becomes more efficient, while drivers are able to locate vehicles through kiosk with display.

Automatically calculating and displaying the number of available parking spaces on the LED screen in each parking level helps drivers to find available spaces rapidly. Furthermore, when an accident happens, video surveillance can provide visual evidence, which makes management much easier.

PMS software platform

Leonardo Aragon, the Head of Security at Santillana – MTS, said “We are very happy with the project, since we received much more than we expected, the solution works perfectly and the benefits of the PMS software platform are very beneficial for our operation, for example, the reports of information on entrants’ stays, heat map, and the real-time dashboard of information and the occupancy of parking spaces in the parking lots.”

Leonardo Aragon adds, “It should be noted that the car locator helps a lot. When drivers search by the vehicle plates, it displays a live view in real time and the location of the vehicle. Our users are also satisfied with the functionality of the solution. We are very grateful to both the system integrator Miro and the manufacturer Dahua for all their support.”

Smart parking solution with advanced functionalities

Diego Garces, the Director of Special Projects of Miro Seguridad, spoke highly of the Dahua team, stating “We are very grateful to the support from Dahua Medellin team which facilitated the successful delivery of the solution with advanced functionalities. We hope to participate together in the implementation of many more projects with Dahua.”