Municipal Utility Powers up Infrastructure Protection
Intransa Video and Data Management & Retention Key to Surveillance System
SAN JOSE, California and LAS VEGAS, Nevada — April 1, 2009
Intransa, the leader in video data management and retention solutions for physical security, today at ISC West, announced it has been selected by Garland Power & Light, a southwestern municipal utility, to upgrade the company's surveillance systems for physical infrastructure protection.
Since 1923, the City of Garland has been providing electric service to its citizens through Garland Power & Light (GP&L), a locally owned and controlled not-for-profit municipal utility. With nearly 68,000 customers, GP&L is the third largest municipal utility in Texas and the 41st largest in the nation.
GP&L needed to expand and enhance video surveillance protection of its wide-raging infrastructure and facilities, well beyond the capabilities of the existing IP-based CCTV system.
“The IP surveillance system is a major component in our ability to monitor and protect our critical infrastructure,” said David Grubbs, GP&L's Regulatory & Compliance Director. “The Intransa Video and Data Management and Retention platform provides scalable capacity that will allow our new surveillance solution to cost effectively meet our objectives, now and in the future.”
“Because of the design of the Intransa System, we have been able to meet the bandwidth requirements of a large number of cameras recording continuously as well as vast storage capability to meet our storage requirements of up to 90 days of recorded video,” Grubbs added.
GP&L has an extensive and widely dispersed infrastructure, and wanted to improve image quality, increase coverage, and extend video retention capacity for its video surveillance system. The utility has three gas-fired generating plants with a total of 640 megawatts of generating capacity, supported by a transmission system of 23 substations and 133 miles of transmission lines. In addition, the City of Garland is a partner in the Texas Municipal Power Agency, which operates the 462 megawatt coal-fired Gibbons Creek Power Plant. GP&L's energy distribution system has 1,007 miles of overhead lines and another 1,000 miles underground.
Preferred Technology Solutions, a member of the Intransa StorPartner integrator and dealer program, architected a complete solution for GP&L, providing Axis Communications megapixel cameras for greatly improved coverage and higher image resolution. Eventually, more than 300 IP cameras are envisioned for complete video coverage to meet GP&L's requirements.
“Working with Intransa, we have integrated the three brands of previously installed IP cameras and are able to utilize the newer technologies and cameras as they become available,” said Grubbs. “We are impressed with the ease of expanding the system and are already beginning the next phase expansion of the storage system.”
The Milestone XProtect Enterprise Video Management System, running on a commodity server, provides a new level of video management and control to meet GP&L's needs for both live stream monitoring and video archiving capabilities. Milestone Systems and Axis Communications products are among the more than 150 physical security, imaging and technology solutions that have been certified for risk-free integration by the Intransa StorAlliance Technology Labs.
Supporting the new video surveillance system is an Intransa BuildingBlock Security-Grade Video Retention platform. Intransa BuildingBlock can scale from as little as 6TB (terabytes) of non-stop video retention and instant playback. Additional capacity and performance can be modularly added, without ever halting recording or playback, providing for years of retention capacity of 1,500TB or more.
The fault-resilient Intransa BuildingBlock platform delivers advanced RAID protection to eliminate the risk of lost video that plagues analog CCTV environments. Hot-swap technology provides non-stop recording, with unattended operation supported by email alerts, and without the need for downtime for maintenance. Access to both live and recorded video as well as to system admin tasks can be performed when needed from any authorized location with IP access, providing increased flexibility and reduced administration for GP&L.
A more detailed description of the GP&L solution can also be downloaded from the Intransa case study library online.
At ISC West, attendees can view Intransa video data management and retention solutions integrated with solutions from several StorAlliance members throughout the show floor. These include AMAG Technology, Inc. (booth 14097), Exacq Technologies (booth 24135), JDS Digital Video (booth 18135), Milestone Systems (booth 10064) and Time Sight Systems (booth 8054).
VIDEOProtein and Veracity share Intransa booth, 8129, which includes three hands-on demos - a Smart CCTV DVR Upgrade with a major brand DVR, a Smart All-IP Surveillance Solution integrated with Milestone Enterprise XProtect VMS, and a Smart Hybrid Solution simultaneously supporting another major brand DVR as well as VIDEOProtein 3.0 VMS.
The exposition is April 1-3, 2009 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. To pre-schedule an appointment at ISC West with Intransa executives and technical team members or to reserve a hands-on demonstration, please call 408.678.8600 or 866.446.8726, or email .
About Intransa
Intransa, Inc. delivers installer-ready server and storage infrastructure platforms, purpose-built for the demands of physical security. Our ground-breaking technology lowers cost and eliminates the complexity and ongoing support challenges of integrating commodity servers and storage, while slashing energy consumption and increasing reliability. Customers also leverage our expertise, learned through the installation and support of thousands of our platforms in demanding physical security projects, with our unmatched services and support.
We've been named a Security Industry Association's New Product Showcase winner, a Homeland Security Award recipient, New Product of the Year at ASIS International in 2009 and 2011, and a Top 30 Technology Innovation of 2009.
Our customers deploy our optimized infrastructure platforms for their physical security needs across retail, public safety, gaming and hospitality, corrections, financial services, transportation, hospitals and medical centers, managed service providers, manufacturers, Native American organizations, colleges and school districts, utilities, and a variety of municipal, county, state and federal government users.
For more information about Intransa infrastructure platforms and services, or to locate an authorized distributor or certified integrator or dealer around the world, please visit us at www.intransa.com or www.intransablog.com.
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