Remote Video Surveillance System Tailored to Community Water Systems

摘要

To help community water systems deal with new security procedures, Longwatch Inc., a company providing security and threat-assessment solutions, has begun offering its Longwatch Surveillance System. Through a proprietary, patent-pending technology, the Longwatch Surveillance System can deliver video monitoring of remote facilities such as pumps, wells, and tanks using the existing commu-nications networks of most communi-ty water systems. The average community water system consists of an array of pump stations, wells, tanks, and processing sites that are often located miles apart from each other and the customers they serve. These remote locations are generally unmanned and commufti-cate with a centralized office via low-bandwidth monitoring systems and control networks. Remote locations are often fitted with some type of basic intrusion-detection system. Such systems can communicate when an alarm is triggered—but not how it is triggered.