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NVT accommodates the Scandic Hotel

The 204-bedroomed, four-star Scandic Hotel Group’s flagship Antwerp hotel underwent a comprehensive update to its CCTV surveillance system.

To fulfil their vision, Scandic management demanded a discreet, high-performance surveillance solution that could track people through the hotel, if necessary. This required cameras to be installed in each corridor of the eight-floor hotel, main lobby, lift areas, emergency exits and the hotel’s car park.

Using traditional coax cable transmission in the hotel would have meant a lengthy and labour intensive installation process, with masses of coax cable needed to connect each camera installed.

Alain Sarteel, of ARAS Indusec explains: “It was clear from the beginning of the project that the high-level of system performance the hotel management demanded, coupled with the installation issues presented by a traditional, bulky coax transmission method made the project a candidate for the use of NVT’s UTP video transmission technology. The team had not used NVT transmission equipment before, but we were able to promote the benefits an NVT UTP-based transmission system would bring, and train their installation engineers to fit the products quickly and easily.”

Transmitting images from the 20 speed dome cameras via NVT technology allowed the team to use less cabling than would have been the case using a traditional coax system, resulting in a quicker and easier installation. This also required less disturbance to the opulent decor of the hotel. As Kris De Boeck of Electro Zwijsen explains, “With technical cooperation from ARAS Indusec and NVT we were able to employ 8-channel NVT receiver hubs, located on every second floor of the hotel. UTP spurs feed camera video from the adjacent two floors to their relative hub, which are in-turn, linked via a UTP backbone to two 16-channel DVR recorders in the hotel’s reception area on the ground floor, where a control workstation is also located.”

Francis Mallentjer, chief engineer for Safety and Security at the hotel continues, “From this control point, our staff can monitor the entire hotel, easily locating a guest throughout the large building. In addition to the benefit of 24-hour security surveillance being provided for both staff and guests, the images provide a key tool in the daily management of the hotel, allowing up-to-the-minute progress updates of daily procedures, such the servicing of rooms and other general daily servicing of the hotel.”

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