Redesigning a Control Room

[koolmer 0]

Exacq may be one of the few that make their own, they grew out of the data acquisition business... look at http://www.exacqdaq.com/ , their other company.

 

The technical specs on this page are confusing. They are not even mentioning that I can connect any type of video signal. Could I use these cards in a standard PC and then access the video with the Exaqc Software? Did anyone try these cards?

[hardwired 0]

Exacq may be one of the few that make their own, they grew out of the data acquisition business... look at http://www.exacqdaq.com/ , their other company.

 

The technical specs on this page are confusing. They are not even mentioning that I can connect any type of video signal. Could I use these cards in a standard PC and then access the video with the Exaq Software? Did anyone try these cards?

 

The link I gave was for a separate business of theirs, for other purposes. As far as I know they will not sell their capture cards separately (I've asked, really nicely, no luck )

[dapry 0]

@ thewireguys

 

Is there no way to get Exacq Software to work with Hikvision or similar DVR cards? What cards are used in the Exacq DVRs?

 

I called exacq and they told they are on the way to support HIKVISION but no schedule.

[hardwired 0]

@ thewireguys

 

Is there no way to get Exacq Software to work with Hikvision or similar DVR cards? What cards are used in the Exacq DVRs?

 

I called exacq and they told they are on the way to support HIKVISION but no schedule.

I'm fairly certain that Exacq meant that they were going to support Hikvision IP cameras, not the Hikvision analog capture cards.

[Guest]

I am currently working on getting a Control Room equipped with new screens. We have more than 50 cameras displayed on several screens.

 

Currently there are some CCTV CRTs and normal CRT TVs. I have also tried a 21" LCD together with a composite to VGA converter. The quality is not too nice and you can see the difference between the CRT and LCD pretty easy.

 

The new screens MUST be LCDs. I had two ideas how to get that done, but I am also open for any suggestions you might have.

 

1. Getting several 21" LCD and converters that would just replace the current CRT. Downside of this is the lower image quality. It just doesn't look as nice as it looks on a CRT. Also specialized CCTV LCDs don't seem to have a better picture. I have 3 of those and the quality is similar/same as on the LCD with converter. The good thing: This is cheap.

 

2. Digitalize all cameras and display them on 4 or 6 26" widescreen LCDs. This seems to be a real nice solution. I would anyway need new DVR cards, but I have no idea how to do this exactly. Lets say I have four 26" LCDs and two computers for that (each computer has two screens). I would still need a DVR card with realtime (25 Frames per camera) at D1 or CIF4. Then the supplied software needs to be able to handle two 26" screen @ 1920 x 1080 pixels. Also it is unclear to me how the image quality would be. With my current DVR card at D1 resoltion the quality isn't anywhere near the image on the CRTs. Besides that the Software should also be Hybrid. Then I could finally get some IP cameras.

 

So these were my two ideas. I really like the idea of having four 26" LCDs to display the cameras. I see this constantly on pictures of other control rooms - they have nice big widescreens and display many cameras on them.

 

Any suggestions?

 

As part pf our work on town centre CCTV systems we have designed and support many CCTV Control Rooms.

 

The besrt approach for your application is to use a display manufacturer specialist such as Barco (based in Belgium).

 

They will have oofer solutions that include rear projection and professional LCD with all video and computer inputs up to 4HD resolution and with all aspect ratios.

 

The larger system manufacturers such as Synectics, Pelco, Vigilant, etc all have virtual video wall solutions driven from their recording systems.

 

Hope this helps

 

Ilkie