Managementsummary
The customer required a scalable, highly available 24×7 real-time monitoring and intervention tool that integrated with a great number of external devices and systems. The new platform would allow security related incidents to be handled more efficiently and therby reduce damages by providing a unifed interface to all necessary functions of the underlying sub systems. The design is similiar to a modern IoT project.
Projektbeschreibung
The Physical Security Industry (protection of people and infrastructure) has been traditionally proprietry and consisted of many isolated solutions, e.g. Video Management, Access Control, Fire and Intrusion alarm systems. The individual systems did not (or only very limited) communicate with the other systems. This made the handling of a security related incident (e.g. fire) to be extremely complicated, uneffiicent and time consuming since the security guard would have to operate multiple systems at the same time each with different operating philosophies, logins etc.
The aim of the project was to create a unified user experience by providing a system that scaled to an enterprise solution and provided real-time monitoring and interaction with the existing physical security platforms to improve efficiency and hence overall security. The customer product won the prize for the most innovative PSIM solution from Frost & Sullivan in 2014.
The solution consisted of multiple components including web based applications for management, a rich client applications for the operator (security guard) intuitive user interface and the real-time handling of incidents, and server applications for the configuration and integrations with sub-systems (e.g. video management, alarms, etc).
Technologien:
Distributed systems from edge devices to server infrastructure, real-time monitoring, Design similiar to Internet of Things, Java and some .Net programming, Database Derby, OS independant, Cloud, Web Services, Event driven Processes.
Erfolgsfaktoren / Nutzen
The project was a success due to the consequent focus on the usability for all operative stakeholders involved, guards, adminstrators, etc. In addition, the flexible use of different technologies for components depending on the requirements allowed for a quick and efficient integration in the whole system.
Projektmanagement
Das Projekt wurde mit einem iterativen Wasserfall-Modell entwickelt. This was done in small teams (1-3 developers) that could if necessary, work independantly from each other. A clear design strategy for the architecture guaranteed a scalable enterprise solution that has proven itself in numerous installations.
Wurden Folgeprojekte abgeleitet?
The initial scope of three components has been continually expanded with new modules and tools. The current eco-system includes 3 Web applications, 1 Web Service, and several console applications, in addiiton to the original two server applications and one rich client.
