Video: so much more than security

摘要

When the topic of video surveillance is brought up, the first application that usually comes to mind is security. Often referred to as CCTV, traditional video systems have been a mainstay in protecting water and wastewater facility and perimeter activity for decades. But as recording technology has improved over the last five years, so has videos capabilities. Thermal video cameras, in particular, have great potential for enhancing operational efficiency. The technology adds infrared imaging to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), programmable logic controllers (PLC), and human machine interface (HMI) systems as possible visual interfaces for monitoring and tweaking collection, treatment, and distribution functions. Water and wastewater utility managers can integrate the data from one or all of these systems to provide a single, comprehensive overview called a video management system (VMS).