Pennine Housing 2000, the Yorkshire-based social housing manager, is now benefiting from the installation of an advanced IP-enabled CCTV monitoring system.

The solution, which took 18 months to come together, was the result of a collaboration between Pennine, consultants Faber Maunsell, integrators BBV and CCTV solutions providers Dedicated Micros.

It provides Pennine with a central control room at Mixenden, which can control and monitor seven remote sites.

The IP solution is based around a wireless network, which connects the control centre and around 780 dwellings, including some in tower blocks, across Calderdale.

The new system comprises over 130 CCTV cameras, door entry concierge systems, a large scale 82″ front projection system and Dedicated Micro’s DV-IP Servers in each of the tower blocks and Decoders in the central control room at Mixenden.

The components come together through the Pick-a-Point GUI from integrators BBV as a powerful digital matrix.

The Pick-a-Point solution provides control of multiple video servers without the need for extensive, and expensive, cabling.

It allows cameras to be displayed from the monitored sites and remotely controlled to provide anything from an aerial view of the whole area, to a view of a specific dwelling.

The IP wireless network solution is estimated to have saved around £55,000 in fibre cable installation costs.

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