Industrial Safety

 & Security

Mining & Natural Resources

Natural Gas & Oil Facilities

EagleEye Camera’s video systems can be used by natural gas producers to monitor a variety of facilities in their pipeline operations including pump stations, delivery terminals and receiving terminals for an array of pre-refined crude and refined hydrocarbon products. 

Typically, one to four cameras are deployed at each of the various facilities.  The facilities, many of which are in remote locations, are monitored centrally and from various alternate sites.  The EagleEye IP addressable cameras provide an ideal architecture for these requirements.  Typical of the challenges facing EagleEye as we developed video surveillance systems for these applications, was the requirement to use existing connectivity to their remote sites.  For instance, in one application, an existing VSAT satellite hub provided 128kbs out and 33.6 kbs in, and this was to be shared with the normal data traffic. The satellite link was configured to create a TCP/IP channel, which is subordinate to the channel and this was used for the video stream.  Because limited bandwidth was available, the EagleEye’s unique system was configured to limit bandwidth consumption to the absolute minimum necessary to achieve the monitoring objectives. 

Cameras can be deployed at remote locations, along with built-in motion detection targeting gates and other sensitive areas.  The integrated motion detection application is connected to alarm inputs on the cameras (up to three sensors per camera).  Each motion detector is associated with a preset camera position. When motion is detected, the camera points to the position where the alarm occurs and saves recorded video locally in the PTZ camera.  A single image is sent over the satellite link to the operator responsible for monitoring that location.  Upon viewing the snapshot, the operator can request additional snaps or the stored video, as desired.  The net result is a remote monitoring system that uses an absolute minimum amount of the expensive satellite bandwidth available for such a purpose.

Mining

In quarries, EaqleEye cameras can record trucks leaving the weigh stations via time and date stamped snapshots diverted to online file repositories to assure that loads are being correctly recorded. When billing questions occur, a snapshot or video at the weighing station can be used to verify the truck, driver, and load weight.

 

Hazardous Material Handling

EagleEye video surveillance systems can be used by industrial clients to monitor a hazardous material facility.  Cameras can used to monitor the flow of materials through a facility, confirm the accuracy of material identification, and importantly, to assure employee safety in potentially hazardous areas.

 

EagleEye cameras have a high range optical zoom, high image quality and rugged enclosures, making them perfect for the following applications:

 

· Monitoring of a Tank Farm Area where the tops of multiple tanks are viewed to assure no personnel are “down”.

· Monitoring Truck Unloading Bays where tank trucks unload hazardous materials into holding tanks for storage. A spill in this area could be extremely dangerous and a rapid response is essential.

· Drum Conveyors (The high zoom enables a camera to read 5” x 10” labels on the drums to verify their contents as they move down the lines.

· Monitoring of Process Back End areas where normally no staff are present, to assure there are no process problems and no individuals are down.

· Monitoring Drum Unloading Areas at the front end of a process where trucks enter and drums are unloaded. This is a potentially hazardous area where immediate response is required if a drum spills or an employee is down.

· Process related areas where direct integration with a control panel will allow operators a real-time view of processes occurring out of direct field of site or where work protection procedures make it difficult to check in short order.

· When integrated with process control software, cameras can be triggered at predefined intervals by the process control application to allow for archival recording of operational segments.

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