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North Las Vegas Water Utility Division Proof of Concept

North American Video recently won a bid from the North Las Vegas Water Utility Division to provide advanced video surveillance alarm and monitoring capability for the remote water tank facilities. Triad Wireless with the S.P.I.R.I.T. system was selected as a partner to provide the wireless backhaul for the video surveillance portion of the bid.

The specifications for the wireless system involved long range, high-bandwidth, mesh, and the capacity for future support for SCADA and police with ubiquitous coverage for the entire city. Since the access points were as far away as 10 miles or more, Triad needed access points that fulfilled the following requirements:
1) range – up to 10 miles or more fixed, 2 miles or more mobile
2) bandwidth – 10mbps or more fixed and mobile
3) reliability – single access point with no external antennas reduces installation costs and improves reliability
4) Security – 4.9GHz public safety band frequency with AES encryption

Triad utilized SkyPilot equipment to meet these requirements.

The demonstration consisted of 4 remote water tank locations connecting back to the main office of the North Las Vegas Water Utility division. The SkyPilot Extenders were temporarily mounted on the water tanks, roof tops, and antenna poles of the remote water tank locations. Final installation will be at the top of the water tanks. The SkyPilot Gateway was installed on a 150’ tower located at the central office. The remote locations were between 6 and 11 Kilometers from the main tower. North American Video also installed 4 IVC IP based cameras at the remote locations. Puretech then installed the primary PureActive server at the main office to connect to the remote cameras.

On May 16th, 2006, the S.P.I.R.I.T. system successfully demonstrated it’s capability. Although the system was installed in less than 48 hours, it worked perfectly and met all bid requirements. The PureActive system was able to move data from remote cameras at speeds up to 30fps. With all four color PTZ cameras operating simultaneously, in low traffic environments at 10fps, bandwidth was consistently between 675kbps and 850kbps without sacrificing video quality.

The full deployment of the system is scheduled by the middle of July and will consist of 16 remote locations back to a central office. Expansion of the system will probably consist of 40 additional SCADA locations and mobile connectivity with both vehicle and laptop users with Padcom integration.

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