Protecting one of the best places to live

Longmont, Colorado expands surveillance system city-wide to safeguard citizens and critical facilities

"Once we successfully established the IP video solution from DETEXI and Axis, at the water treatment plant, business owners in Longmont realized how compelling surveillance video was for actively protecting their own places of business, staff, and visitors from any unforeseen accidents or incidents."Christopher Volpe, President and CEO of Volpe Industries

Mission

Driven by the events of 9/11 and concerns for homeland defense, officials at Longmont, Colorado’s water treatment facility decided that deploying a video surveillance system at the city’s two plants would give citizens peace of mind that their critical public utility was secure. This was a critical first step in guarding the city’s coveted reputation as one of Money Magazine’s Top 100 Best Places to Live in the United States. With a network video solution, the city could leverage its existing network infrastructure, making it easy to add key at-risk sites and eventually create a city-wide surveillance system over multiple years without overtaxing its annual budget.

Solution

Volpe Industries, a Seekonk, MA-based leader in intelligent IP-based surveillance, designed and installed a complete security system using an array of indoor/outdoor network cameras from Axis Communications and DETEXI Network Video Recorders (NVR) running Eagle Eye software. Staff at the water treatment plant uses the surveillance solution to constantly monitor the perimeters of the two facilities and visualize water supplies throughout the Longmont area. The video stream can also be securely accessed remotely at the police department’s command center.

Result

Water treatment plant personnel can simultaneously monitor operations at the two plants instead of making the five-minute drive between the two facilities to ensure everything is operating correctly. Kurt Headrick, senior network analyst for the City of Longmont noted that since the water treatment plant surveillance system went live, his organization has been able to quickly respond to security issues and directly involve the police department in review of archive video from any of its security cameras.

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