Command Center and Physical Security Solutions: Global Company uses Premise Security technology to optimize work process and reduce costs

A global business leader involved in earth invasive operations recognized that growth was limited by communication between process operations—the company has requested to remain anonymous. Each of the functional groups in the process were operating in silos requiring continual pauses while waiting for information, product or a combination of both from the proceeding or following processing group. Company management had a concept of how operations could be improved but sought out the expertise and creativity of the NIC Total Solution team.
 

NIC’s solution experts worked with the company’s team to understand their business processes, challenges and desired improvements. With this knowledge, NIC’s team developed a solution concept that centered around a Military-grade, command center concept leveraging the site’s existing Cisco IP network.   “Involving NIC's expertise in Project Management and Technology Integration in the design phase allowed the customer to cut cost and eliminate mistakes, which created a successful project implementation,“ explains a customer representative. To determine the solution details, NIC also engaged the expertise of Barco, FLIR, Panasonic and Winsted.   Barco is the best-in-class manufacturer of Command Center video walls that provides government grade visibility to camera feeds coming from Panasonic high resolution and FLIR infrared thermal cameras in the field.

The operational improvement solution centralizes all process operation management in one facility enabling seamless communications between processes. Operations dispatchers have visibility into the field via Panasonic IP high-resolution cameras during the day and FLIR IP-based, infrared cameras during day or night. The combination of cameras maximized the original project budget by using Panasonic cameras where the thermal imagery was not immediately required. A portion of the cameras are completely mobile using wireless mesh connectivity to transfer video feeds to the command center. The cameras are mounted securely to strategic field vehicles providing detail views that the fixed cameras may not be able to share. Camera mobility was a required element for the constantly changing terrain of an earth invasive operation.

Camera feeds are sent to the 26ft by 4ft Barco video wall located in the Command Center. The wall is composed of 5 DLP rear-projection screens that can display one continuous image across the entire wall or as 5 separate screens with an infinite number of fractional divisions within those screens. Images can be scaled to any size required, and can be placed in any configuration on the screen. From the front, the screens are seamlessly one continuous screen so there are no cracks or sight losses in the display. Barco’s Apollo software manages the display projection.

Barco has developed its rear-projected display cubes to enhance the operator’s comfort within a 24/7 environment. The display wall allows constantly optimizing brightness and contrasting while maintaining excellent color, to eliminate operator fatigue as much as possible.

Network Infrastructure Corporation was founded in 1994 in Tempe, Arizona. NIC provides a “Total Solution” approach to network technology planning and implementation.  The company has offices in Tempe and Tucson, Arizona and serves customers throughout the United States.  NIC provides consulting, implementation and support services for converged IP solutions inclusive of, wireless, data, voice, video and security for education; state and local governments; hospitality and gaming; and commercial businesses.    Committed to providing our customers the best, NIC has the highest technology credentials available in the industry.