Largest New Video Surveillance Projects 2015

140 video surveillance professionals, including integrators and manufacturers, shared the largest video surveillance projects that they have seen in the past year.

Key Patterns

The survey results revealed a number of key patterns, including:

• City surveillance, retail and transit were, by far, the top verticals for the biggest projects.
• North America lagged in mega city surveillance projects but lead in mega retail ones.
• The median largest project for integrators was ~250 cameras

Color Commentary

Professionals shared more than 100 specific examples of large projects, such as:

"A 2000 Camera deployment for the Egyptian Metro (47 stations). The project had Cameras, VMS, Video Analytics, Access Control integration, UPSes (40min backup time), Fiber, ~ 3.5 miles Trenching, Switches. The project was won with Axis & Aimetis for about $5.2 million. The competition was Hikvision. Axis cameras were cheaper than Hikvision"

BIGGEST

The biggest projects were in the 10,000+ camera range:

• "City Surveillance in Asia some more than 100K cameras."
• "Moscow district video surveillance project. 1st phase of the project integrates 10,000 already installed cameras in 76 towns of whole district. During next few years project will grow to around 100k cameras."
• "44,000 channels. Mexico. Retail. Around $500/channel."
• "We have installed 25,000 camera network in an Asian country in the public security vertical."
• "Public Safety, Mexico, +10,000 cameras, outsourced VSaaS to be provided to a Mexico State, total +USD$500 million over the next 5 years."

Integrator Largest Projects

For their own business, integrators cited largest projects ranging from 20 cameras to 6,000 cameras. The median number was 250 and the mean was 720, reflecting that a small number of integrators having projects with multiple thousands of cameras. That noted, this reflects that the largest project of a 'typical' integrator is generally in the 100 - 300 camera range.

City Surveillance

City surveillance was cited the most often:

• "In São Paulo, Brazil. The police is expanding their system with more 600 new câmeras (wihich is 500 PTZ and 100 fixed with LPR) The price was about 50,000,000.00 BRL (or 18,776,200.00 USD) The contract was make final of the last year and the will implements in 2015. They are using Genetec Security Center as VMS and Microsoft D.A.S. (or "Detecta", the Brazilian name) as PSIM"
• "Kocaeli City Surveillance Project in Kocaeli, Turkey. City Surveillance, public security, Police network. USD 25 million. Main turnkey contractor Teknotel. 2750 1080p and 3 MP IP cameras including ANPR cameras installed at around 900 locations in 3400 km2 geography."
• "We have installed 25,000 camera network in an Asian country in the public security vertical."
• "Turkey, city surveillance with 2.400 cameras. 3 and 2 megapixel cameras."
• "Underground in cities in Russia. over 8000 pcs."
• "Moscow district video surveillance project. 1st phase of the project integrates 10 000 already installed cameras in 76 towns of whole district. During next few years project will grow to around 100k cameras. Special design includes the idea to unify systems of different government departments and then offer video surveillance as service to them and to any interested private businesses. So, now any business can give their cameras (from public places of course) to this service, or get any other. We believe that this approach is something new and unique in safe city projects design."
• "Recently deployed 1800 cameras overseas with harsh conditions and temps for a city-wide deployment . Reason we won the project was due to our high temp cameras."
• "2 projects - both City Surveillance Brazil, 12.000 cameras, Analytics (mainly LPR) Guatemala, 5.000 cameras, Analytics (500 LPR , 50 Face Rec), 12Pb storage (EMC). Several special needs such as multi level monitoring, integration with Police License Plate DB."
• "Public Safety, Mexico, +10,000 cameras, outsourced VSaaS to be provided to a Mexico State, total +USD$500 million over the next 5 years."
• "Safe cities project in Guatemala, around $25M for first phase of the project."
• "Urban Security. 6000 IP CCTV camera spread across City. Main challenge was to have centralized recording with a backup via a Service Provider network. Cost of bandwidth was higher than the cost of equipment to be deployed."

Retail / Banking

Retail came next, driven by purchases that covered hundreds of stores / branches:

• "800+ retail store install, 3-7 cameras per store, video analytics, AXIS cameras."
• "Retail Chain - Acquisition of supermarket empire and complete system-wide migration to unified IP software. Multi-year, multi-hundred thousand channel project."
• "The largest multi-site project we have seen is a 450 branch customer with an average of 16 cameras per branch. It is a retail store in Canada, they are upgrading from a Pelco analog system towards a full-IP offering."
• "Retail / USA / 3000 Stores (Life of Project 5 years+) total price unknown. Integration of Video, Access Control, Intrusion Alarm Monitoring, POS Monitoring, Mobile Video"
• "44,000 channels. Mexico. Retail. Around $500/channel."
• "Big Lots was 1500 locations that deployed Video, EAS, Alarm and BI (People Counting, POS integration with Verisk/Aspect) within six months. Murphy USA purchased and deploying 1300 sites by March with Video and BI (High Level Data Mining)."

Transit

• "Vertical: Transportation ( Metro ) Country: Italy Size: more than 1.500 channels Price: around 1.750 dollar per channel Needs: integration with other security systems and analytics"
• "MTA Metro North Railroad which is over 10000 cameras."
• "A mass transit application for on-board cameras within a metropolitan city rail-car system. USA. 1500 cameras (added to 3000 previous 2 years). Special power systems to adapt to the 3rd rail infrastructure and mobile wireless backbone design."
• "The largest project for 2014 was the Athens Metro (transportation) in Greece, migrating from analog to IP. The project involves a total of 1200 cameras, 50 operators, a central video wall operation room and full failover redundancy for each station. The total price for surveillance equipment and servers only was about 1.5m euros. The project did not involve almost any network infrastructure or equipment."
• "A 2000 Camera deployment for the Egyptian Metro (47 stations). The project had Cameras, VMS, Video Analytics, Access Control integration, UPSes (40min backup time), Fiber, ~ 3.5 miles Trenching, Switches. The project was won with Axis & Aiemtis for about 5.2million $. The competition was Hikvision. Axis cameras were cheaper than Hikvision... so yeah."

Latin America

• "2 projects - both City Surveillance Brazil, 12.000 cameras, Analytics (mainly LPR) Guatemala, 5.000 cameras, Analytics (500 LPR , 50 Face Rec), 12Pb storage (EMC). Several special needs such as multi level monitoring, integration with Police License Plate DB."
• "Public Safety, Mexico, +10,000 cameras, outsourced VSaaS to be provided to a Mexico State, total +USD$500 million over the next 5 years."
• "Safe cities project in Guatemala, around $25M for first phase of the project."
• "In São Paulo, Brazil. The police is expanding their system with more 600 new câmeras (wihich is 500 PTZ and 100 fixed with LPR) The price was about 50,000,000.00 BRL (or 18,776,200.00 USD) The contract was make final of the last year and the will implements in 2015. They are using Genetec Security Center as VMS and Microsoft D.A.S. (or "Detecta", the Brazilian name) as PSIM."
• "4 Municipalities, from 600 to 1200, Argentina, tried to make an effort in the density of the servers. And also tried to use a non virtualized infrastructure."
• "44,000 channels. Mexico. Retail. Around $500/channel."

Middle East

• "Military, TURKEY, 80 different location, 28MUSD
• "Several large scale projects > 1000 cameras in UAE. Mainly malls, Hotels and residential buildings. All longer retention, special requirements on redundancy and CPU, raid. Cameras mostly 120db WDR."
• "We are currently doing a project in Dubai with 1500 cameras, 800 access control doors and 96 speedlanes. Another with 350 cameras and 150 doors and another in the pipeline with 700 cameras and 250 doors. These are all commercial sector."
• "Abu Dhabi (UAE) Airport extension (Mid Field Terminal) with 100's cameras and a 7 digit dollar price. Special needs include Facial recognition and LPR."
• "Kocaeli City Surveillance Project in Kocaeli, Turkey. City Surveillance, public security, Police network. USD 25 million. Main turnkey contractor Teknotel. 2750 1080p and 3 MP IP cameras including ANPR cameras installed at around 900 locations in 3400 km2 geography. Fully redundant 750 km all fiber IP network built from scratch specifically for surveillance cameras, PolNet and Internet access of police units. The entire F/O network is built in ring topology so the system is fully redundant both in terms physical cable layout and the switching equipment. 13 control rooms/monitoring center were newly built in 13 provinces of the city. All images are streamed to the control rooms and Police buildings for recording and viewing. These can duplicate each other if one of them fails. Multicast network for load balancing, network monitoring and security to effectively manage the massive WAN."
• "A 2000 Camera deployment for the Egyptian Metro (47 stations). The project had Cameras, VMS, Video Analytics, Access Control integration, UPSes (40min backup time), Fiber, ~ 3.5 miles Trenching, Switches. The project was won with Axis & Aimetis for about 5.2million $. The competition was Hikvision. Axis cameras were cheaper than Hikvision... so yeah."

Asia

• "It is a 2000 cameras project in China, manufacturing, they need server farm, redundancy, auto-backup, auto-updates and many other IT features."
• "We have installed 25,000 camera network in an Asian country in the public security vertical."
• "City Surveillance in Asia some more than 100K cameras."
• "Urban Security. 6000 IP CCTV camera spread across City. Main challenge was to have centralized recording with a backup via a Service Provider network. Cost of bandwidth was higher than the cost of equipment to be deployed."

Other Notable Projects

• "This is a residential building, the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere with retail space on several lower floors.It will have 102 stories of luxury and security. We are using ExacQ recorders with 130+ Axis and Sony cameras. The elevator travel cables have fiber in them for the cameras. The price is almost 7 digits for the video alone."
• "NYC Housing Authority. 6000-7000 cameras, integrated access control and intercom. Genetec Security Center with Keri Systems."
• "K-12. Country - USA Size - 1100 cameras, 300-400 readers. Special needs: integrated intercom into vms (Genetec)"
• "Government United States 2,100 Cameras 220 Servers Video Analytics Video Management Control Room Professional Services $6.7M"
• "6,000 camera project in NC. K-12 School System. Approximately $8-$10M. Multi-site, centrally-managed, feeds to PD, and future expansion of intrusion, access control and other security functions in same software."