Since January 2022 we have worked with National Highways to develop a feasibility study to investigate various options for National Highways to procure and install roadside Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) converters for their legacy non-standard cameras. This is to enable the transformation of their new IP anywhere-to-anywhere transmission network and their new back-office control system which would not work with legacy cameras.
The feasibility study looks at the current and future CCTV architecture to determine the viability of installing a roadside converter. This study also had to review at all other dependencies that used the legacy CCTV system and cameras as these also had to work with the new back-office system and vice-versa.
In order to complete the feasibility study, we had to liaise with stakeholders from across National Highways business, these stakeholders ranged from the very technical e.g., networking engineers, solution designers for various systems through to service managers and operations.
Health & Safety
CDM Regulations
Technical fit
Standards
Cost
Delivery time
Strategic fit
In addition, a risk register, and dependency register were also developed in order to inform the next stage. The client also requested we develop a use-case register for utilising the new standard based system in combination with video analytics. This was developed through coordination with the business, and we also looked at other camera technology such as infra-red, thermal cameras and wearable cameras.