Background

Delta Electronics’ Pingzhen Plant in Taiwan houses valuable energy storage cabinets and related equipment. Protecting these assets in large-scale energy storage systems requires comprehensive, system-wide operation and meticulous monitoring. These assets, crucial to the company's business operations, are stored remotely and require vigilant protection. The company sought an efficient solution for instant intrusion detection and surveillance of suspicious behavior to secure its assets.

The Challenge

Delta Electronics’ energy storage systems, although indispensable, posed substantial security challenges. Energy storage cabinets are typically located in remote, sparsely populated areas or places with limited human and vehicular traffic. The isolation of these sites and the criticality of the equipment they house emphasized the need to address the potential for man-made damage and unlawful intrusion. Such incidents could result in substantial economic losses and pose serious risks to lives and property. This complex challenge called for a security solution capable of providing proactive and responsive security measures to counteract these potential threats.

The Solution

The answer to Delta Electronics’ security challenge came in the form of VIVOTEK's VSaaS (cloud-based Video Surveillance as a Service) solution - VORTEX. This choice was driven by the following key features:

• AI-Powered Intrusion Detection and Real-Time Alarm: This advanced technology significantly reduces false alarms by distinguishing between genuine security threats and common triggers, such us stray animals or minor intrusions, by identifying individuals, vehicles, and other objects. This precision ensures that the system only alerts for real security breaches, enabling swift and effective responses to potential threats while minimizing unnecessary disruptions.
• Effortless Event Identification of Video Investigation: VIVOTEK's powerful investigation feature, Deep Search, enables operators to rapidly search through a precise footprint digest with moving-path capabilities. This eliminates the need for time-consuming video scanning when searching for specific targets among numerous images.
• Remote Access Anywhere and Stay Ahead: VORTEX offers remote access to camera diagnostics, enabling real-time troubleshooting and issue resolution. This remote capability significantly reduces downtime resulted from camera malfunctions, eliminating the need for on-site technician visit. With rapid development iteration, automated OTA updates also ensure future readiness with continuous delivery.

Results and Customer Feedback

The implementation of VIVOTEK VORTEX has brought about a transformative change in how Delta Electronics safeguards its assets and Streamlined operations:

• Proactive Risk Mitigation: The AI-driven intrusion detection system, combined with real-time monitoring, empowers Delta Electronics to proactively respond to potential risks, ensuring secure and uninterrupted operation of its energy system. Swift detection and alerting of intrusions and suspicious activities people enable a proactive action to damage control.
• Simplicity and Accessibility: The introduction of remote monitoring offers comprehensive oversight of equipment, including people and vehicles, as well as meticulous monitoring of entry and exit points. This turns passive monitoring into active alarms, reducing the time and resources needed for human intervention.
• Ease of management, operational efficiency and Reliability: As a result, the security surveillance system eliminates all blind spots in monitoring, allowing for rapid and effective responses to anomalies. It enhances detection accuracy, including real-time detection and post-search functionality. This newfound efficiency translates into significant operational advantages for Delta Electronics, promoting safety, security, and peace of mind.

Delta Electronics’ experience with the VIVOTEK VORTEX solution serves as a prime example of how innovative technology can enhance both asset security and operational efficiency, leading to a safer and more productive industrial environment.

Background

Solution

As the building project progressed, the organization planned to continuously expand the surveillance system in the coming months, thus incorporating VORTEX camera models including FE931-EHV, FD837-HTV, and IB837-HTV. These cameras were primarily installed in outdoor areas and on the rooftop to provide the necessary comprehensive monitoring coverage.

The VORTEX system features advanced smart functionalities, including human-based intrusion detection, loitering detection, and line-crossing detection. This allows for the rapid location of relevant footage when required. Additionally, the system could trigger network horn speakers in specific areas once people loitering being detected and play pre-recorded audio to deter suspicious individuals.

VORTEX seamlessly integrates deep-learning-based network cameras with cloud video management software to solve these security surveillance solution requirements.

VORTEX provides intelligent and easy-to-use data analysis services. What’s more, its hybrid cloud architecture allows it to transcend conventional storage frameworks. No longer is dedicated video management software or centralized management systems required to manage and process video data. Now, video data can be stored and analyzed via edge computing directly within the camera and backup in the cloud, significantly reducing time, cost, and bandwidth limitations of the past.

VORTEX allows for receiving push notifications of deep-learning-based events on a smart device in real-time to never miss important messages again. With VORTEX, managing a surveillance system is more effective and easier than ever before with wide camera selection, crystal clear image quality, Edge AI analytics, hassle-free, zero configuration, and, like all VIVOTEK products, it is trustworthy and reliable.

The VSaaS features powerful AI video analysis technologies, upgraded real-time detection and post search functionality, state-of-the-art deep search algorithms to convert metadata into searchable and quantifiable information and refine people, vehicle, and environment detection accuracy over time. In addition to real-time alerts, VORTEX is capable of sieving through big data to identify or follow past events, and its hybrid cloud architecture allows for unlimited cloud archive, automatic backup, event management and instant sharing. All of these features are merged seamlessly to maximize operational efficiency and storage reliability while minimizing network interruptions and downtime.

Customer Feedback

The organization expressed a high level of satisfaction with VIVOTEK's VORTEX solution, as it not only improved building security but also enhanced surveillance efficiency, enabling them to effectively manage the facility’s security.

As a result, this case underscores how VIVOTEK's surveillance technology provides clients with comprehensive solutions to meet their evolving needs.

Background

Olson Seed Service LLC in Perry, Iowa provides AG consulting and Pioneer Seeds and nutrients to local farmers. The company has a large investment in equipment and supplies that it has stored inside its facility along with AG equipment and vehicles parked outside. Theft in rural Iowa has risen 60 percent over the past five years, causing concern for companies such as Olson Seed Service. Many rural businesses do not have technology-based solutions driving their day-to-day operations, so finding a video surveillance system that is effective yet easy to manage in these challenging times has become crucial.

Challenge

Businesses in such rural communities that are not used to the necessity of such video surveillance in the past are quickly becoming aware that these security measures are becoming vital, no matter the size and scope of the operation itself. Basic surveillance equipment, such as NVRs (network video recorders) and even computer hard drives are still popular choices for security professionals, but are becoming dated and harder to manage in today’s world. The cost of continually maintaining and even replacing these types of equipment is never ending, and remote monitoring and video retrieval is either difficult or not possible in many cases, especially in real time.

Olson Seed Service needed both a company with camera placement design and equipment experience that was local to support it, and an extensive yet easy-to-use overall solution.

VIVOTEK’s new cloud-based video surveillance as a service (VSaaS), VORTEX, eliminates these challenges and met Olson Seed Service’s needs.

Solution

After Central Iowa’s own system integrator Tech Zone’s on-site visit, they came up with a design to cover Olson Seed Service’s doors, outside parking, and equipment on its lot with three cameras, along with two cameras inside covering production and inventory.

Tech Zone chose VIVOTEK’s new VSaaS, VORTEX, a comprehensive end-to-end AI surveillance solution that seamlessly integrates deep-learning-based network cameras with cloud video management software to solve Olson Seed Service’s security surveillance solution requirements, for its indoor and outdoor security needs.

VORTEX provides intelligent and easy-to-use data analysis services. What’s more, its hybrid cloud architecture allows it to transcend conventional storage frameworks. No longer is dedicated video management software or centralized management systems required to manage and process video data. Now, video data can be stored and analyzed via edge computing directly within the camera and backup in the cloud, significantly reducing time, cost, and bandwidth limitations of the past.

VORTEX allows for receiving push notifications of deep-learning-based events on a smart device in real-time to never miss important messages again. With VORTEX, managing a surveillance system is more effective and easier than ever before with wide camera selection, crystal clear image quality, Edge AI analytics, hassle-free, zero configuration, and, like all VIVOTEK products, it is trustworthy and reliable.

The VSaaS features powerful AI video analysis technologies, upgraded real-time detection and post-hoc search functionality, state-of-the-art deep search algorithms to convert metadata into searchable and quantifiable information and refine people, vehicle, and environment detection accuracy over time. In addition to real-time alerts, VORTEX is capable of sieving through big data to identify or follow past events, and its hybrid cloud architecture allows for unlimited cloud archive, automatic backup, event management and instant sharing. All of these features are merged seamlessly to maximize operational efficiency and storage reliability while minimizing network interruptions and downtime.
Overall, Tech Zone installed five VORTEX cameras throughout the interior and exterior of the business…three FD837-HTV 5-Megapixel, IP66/IK10-rated, remote focus, zoom lense dome cameras, and two FD839-EHV five-megapixel, fixed lense IP66/IK10-rated outdoor dome cameras ideal for VORTEX applications.

Customer Feedback

During off hours Paul Olson, owner of Olson Seed now has easy access to his cameras and activity around his property. VORTEX allows him to monitor his facility wherever he is, whether he is working or taking time to relax. Olson chose the VORTEX platform for the simplicity of operation and its ease of expanding to additional cameras. This is his first experience with security cameras, so simplicity was a must and VORTEX along with Tech Zone has accomplished this for him.

“Thanks to VORTEX and Tech Zone for giving us peace-of-mind,” said Olson. “Ownership today has changed in so many ways. This is another way to manage my business while protecting my assets.”