“SYMPHONY™ WAS THE BEST INTELLIGENT VIDEO PLATFORM WE COULD FIND; NOTHING ELSE COULD TOUCH IT.”

Steve Patterson, Manager, Systems Operations, City of Oshawa

CUSTOMER PROFILE:With a population of 145,000, Oshawa is a major logistics hub located in the Greater Toronto Area. Due largely to the General Motors opera-tions, Oshawa ranks high in Canada as a customs port-of-entry with its public shipping, rail, and airport facilities throughout the city.

VERTICAL MARKET:Government

CASE STUDY: CITY OF OSHAWA, CANADA

Operations for the City of Oshawa. By using a pure software solution, Oshawa could standardize and leverage hardware already on hand, making the system affordable to deploy and maintain. With the ability to perform a mere software upgrade to leverage video analytics, Oshawa could slowly migrate to a fully intelligent video network over time.

RESULT Increased physical security at public facilities; Support phased transition from analog to intelligent network video; Reduced administration; Reduced acquisition and maintenance costs

TECHNOLOGIES USED: Symphony™ Client & Server Software COTS hardware for Clients & Servers Windows XP Professional Axis 241Q Video Servers Existing analog cameras

(Above) Aimetis Symphony™ software tracking and classifying car entering Oshawa City Hall parking lot

SUMMARYThe Corporation of the City of Oshawa selects Aimetis Symphony™ software to analyze and record incoming video as part of a city-wide effort to increase security at its public facilities.

BUSINESS CHALLENGEWhen Oshawa decided it was time to upgrade its CCTV management platform as part of an initiative to increase physical security, they required a flexible solution which would enable analog, PTZ and mega-pixel cameras to co-exist on one platform. With video analytics gaining popularity, the City of Oshawa wanted the ability to deploy video analytics as required.

SOLUTIONAfter evaluating several different vendors, Oshawa selected Aimetis Symphony™ software as their city-wide video management platform. Symphony™ was selected for its advanced network video recording features, flexible licensing model, open architecture and robust video analytics. “Symphony™ was the best intelligent video platform we could find; nothing else could touch it” explained Steve Patterson, Manager, Systems

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Aimetis in brief:Aimetis develops video analytic and management software for physical security and business intelligence applications. Aimetis' award winning software represents a quantum leap forward in managing and analyzing video content. AImetis is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.

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About Aimetis Symphony™ software

Aimetis Symphony™ software is an advanced Open IP-Surveillance software product with integrated video analytics. Symphony™ simultaneously enables digital video recording, intelligent video analysis and remote access to live and recorded images from any networked computer.