SECURITY

Safer Cities in Brazil
Dahua Video Surveillance Provides Peace
of Mind in over 100 Brazilian Cities
Brazil, the fifth largest country in the
world, is known for its vitality and passion.
As a member of the BRIC countries,
it has become one of the fastest
growing major economies. The country
is now the home to more and
more international events, don’t even
to mention that Brazil is one of the
dream destinations to the tourists around
the world. However, all the signs
that demonstrate its strength and
ever-lasting developing also lead to a
reality — the fast urbanization and expansion
brings security issues, so how
to deal with them is a question laid
before the authorities.
As a matter of fact, the Brazil government
started to launch a national safe
city project years ago, and Dahua was
one of the brand that used in the security
deployment in over 100 cities,
which are lying across the coast from
southern part all the way up to the
north, from the state Santa Catarina to
Roraima, including cities such as Florianópolis,
São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
and etc.; over tens of thousands pieces
of Dahua devices have been adopted
in the whole project, and below
is an example with safe city project in
Florianópolis.
Florianópolis, the capital city of Santa
Catarina, is known for its beautiful
beach scenery and high quality life; its
pillar economies are information technology,
tourism and services. Although
it is revealed as one of the highest
economic well-being city in Brazil, lessdeveloped
region does exist as well,
just like any city elsewhere in the
world. Naturally, the products and deployment
are required to be different
and to-the-actual-condition under the
goal of two “M”s — to minimize crimes
and maximize citizens’ safety.
For the rich zone, cameras are mainly
installed at the crossroads, public entrances,
schools gates and elsewhere
with high traffic flow, though you
need to pay more attention to the privacy
in the area, and privacy masking
function provided in Dahua DVR is
perfect for the region, which allows to
set maximum four masking areas of
each channel. As for the less well-ordered
areas, such as shabby town,
more focus are put on the key observation
sectors, according to the data
provided by police; thus, domes and
fixed cameras are used as combination
to better fix and follow the target.
Moreover, the data are processed in
Dahua DVR, and the volume is transmitted
to its higher platform for overall
management. The whole system runs
Dahua comprehensive central management
software and some customized
functions are integrated to CMS
to make it more timely responsive.
Meanwhile, a series of customization
are offered in this case. Dahua redesigned
user interface and added USB
and wireless WIFI modules; in addition,
a network wizard in judging errors
was built into the device to help
technicians to diagnose the problem
in a more effective way. As for cameras,
image parameters and switching
time (day/night) were customized as
well. Moreover, Dahua prepared a lot
of special materials in this case, such
as special printing, color packaging, labels,
specifications and CD, all the
work were carefully double-checked
and received with pretty good feedbacks.
“It is noteworthy that we successfully
accomplished a large project like
this,” said Thomas Ma, Sales Manager
of Latin-America and Africa at
Dahua Technology. “Actually, we see
this project as an immersive safe city
experience accumulator, during
which, we spent a lot of time in
communication and gave quite a
strong support to make sure everything
goes right.” “We reinforced
our strength in an all-around way,
and learned to have more alternatives
and approaches to deal with a
problem and then take care of it, finally
work out with a solution in a
both time and money saving way,
and that is why experience matters,”
Ma added.
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