The Overview:
Simply Fresh Fruit is a leader in quality, ready-to-eat, fresh cut fruit that processes over one million pounds of fresh fruit each week. They provide customized solutions for airlines, hotels, casinos, restaurants, colleges, hospitals, and extended care facilities. Simply Fresh Fruit requested our services for structured cabling and video surveillance systems to improve their employees and customers’ experience through a safer and connected workplace.
The main challenges of this project were covering the complete building area, and leaving no blind spots for video surveillance cameras. We tackled this by running over 15000 ft of video and network cabling through the building.
Approach and Technology Used:
In order to help Simply Fresh Fruit to achieve their goals, this project focused on two main points:
- Upgrading and extending the structured cabling of the building
- Deploying 32 ultra high definition video surveillance cameras all over the place they work, including high speed PTZ domes for the production quality control.
15000 ft of video and network cabling were deployed and 32 ultra high definition video surveillance cameras were carefully distributed all over the building, including high speed PTZ domes. These types of cameras fitted perfectly because they not only capture high-resolution video up to 4K, they can also be remotely controlled to perform pan, tilt, and zoom operations using IR remote control or by using a separate serial PTZ controller. Thus, production Quality Control was assured.
Additionally, our team implemented EX-SDI (Extended Serial Digital Interface) high definition technology for long distances. These video surveillance devices can transmit at up to 4K Ultra HD resolution for compressed video over coaxial cable; which allows us to upgrade the CCTV system to 3840×2160 resolution. There was also existing fiber to which we integrate 99% copper cat 6 for better performance of the IT services installed.
Results:
We installed all the devices required to meet Simply Fresh Fruit’s cabling and security goals. The benefits of the job started to show in no time:
- Simply Fresh Fruit’s Employees feel in a safer workplace, while its customer feel the same way.
- Now, Simply Fresh Fruit’s employees and customers can be connected to the network and, therefore, to be in touch always.
- A better experience at monitoring and recording business activity for analysis.
Conclusion:
Structured cabling and video surveillance systems are worthy investments for any business.
If we just consider the security aspect, we are excluding a lot of advantages video surveillance systems offer. For example, real time quality control, improving business productivity, and others.