Event locations such as the IFEMA Exhibition Center place a high value on physical security strategy. Visitors from all over the world trust they’ll be in a safe and pleasant environment secured by systems that are state of the art and cover the entire site — indoor and outdoor areas, parking garages and logistics zones. The sheer size of the exhibition grounds and the large number of people on site — visitors, exhibitors, service providers, suppliers — require a high-performance, holistic physical security system. Adding to the challenge are the number and scale of events that take place, each entailing different setups.
IFEMA was looking for a solution to replace an analog video system that had reached end of life. IFEMA expected the new solution to provide substantial improvements in processing video footage to resolve incidents quickly. Some of the prerequisites in the new tender were state-of-the-art technology, a powerful event search capability and an open and integrated platform with easy integration of third-party solutions such as video analytics, access control and license plate recognition.
After assessing a number of options for the update of its video system, IFEMA selected Octave in partnership with Sicuralia System and the video analytics partner BriefCam as the best overall solution to meet its needs.
The powerful security functions of Octave Coda Video (formerly HxGN dC3 Video) — as well as its openness to third-party software integrations, especially with BriefCam video analytics — tipped the scales so that Octave software was chosen to be at the core of the new video-based security system. For faster and more efficient investigations, IFEMA decided to use video management software (VMS) technology that would allow for the integration of outside analytics and traffic monitoring systems.