Saurashtra Cricket Association’s newest possession is spread over 29.48 acres, it is hosting close to 30,000 cricket fans from all over Rajkot & other neighboring places in Saurashtra.
Saurashtra Cricket Association wanted to establish electronic safety security surveillance system with day & night camera system with locations of cameras identified by Proeyetech Elektrotekniks Pvt Ltd., and approved by BCCI authorities.
As the majority of locations were long distances from the Central Monitoring Station room, a traditional wired co-axial video system was cost prohibitive and impractical to implement.
Thanks to Proeyetech Elektrotekniks Pvt. Ltd. who designed the solution with Fiber Optic Ring network & Wireless Point 2 Point connectivity technology to ensure 0% down time, the decision was made to use real time crispy and sharp High Definition (HD) fixed day & night video cameras, including High Definition (HD) Pan Tilt Zoom cameras which can be moved manual as well as automatically to monitor a single person or in a group to cover complete stadium with a 500 meters of distance, complete 360o of continuous rotation, and 90o from ground to top can be covered within day as well as in night time.
A well-organized user oriented CCTV Monitoring and Surveillance System which is established with help of senior & expertize personals, which helps the supervisors of SCA & authorities of BCCI to monitor & control the public during cricket match.
With heightened internal security issues facing many organizations, the demands for cost-effective and reliable CCTV surveillance in and around large sites, such as cricket stadiums has never been higher. The need for remote surveillance and central control of large site operations is increasingly important to ensure a rapid, co-ordinate response in the event of an incident. Viewing multiple HD cameras in a central security control room from around a sprawling complex requires vast amounts of cable and equipment. IP-HD Video has established itself as a reliable, high-quality cost-efficient alternative technology for CCTV surveillance, replacing multiple runs of video cable with a single Fiber Optic cable & Power-Over-Ethernet technology. But when IP-HD Video is combined with the latest wireless broadband technology it provides an unbeatable solution for remote site monitoring.
Responsibility to manage 30,000 cricketers fan on the site by instructing the police officers who are managing from Central Monitoring Station.
Being a daily use for monitoring thousands of cricketers fan and lots of issues, the site incharge will obviously need the Monitoring and Surveillance CCTV System implemented on the premises, which can help authorities reduce the mental pain and increase the workability.
Etrovision High Definition (HD) Fixed Day & Night Cameras & High Definition (HD) Pan Tilt Zoom Camera, Alnet Systems Netstation used to record all the Network based HD cameras on one platform with capability to compress with DJPEG1 and transmit on local network as well as internet with highest authentication on Alnet and firewall on IBM, IBM Video Server with RAID technology to protect and conserve recording for multiple days. CISCO Gigabit Managed Power-Over-Ethernet Switches are used to provide High Quality Video Stream, Power, Controlling cameras through one cable.
The CISCO Network Switches were then connected from cameras to an IBM Video Server with a capacity to record 200 days of video footage and secured recording was made on RAID storage IBM Hard Disks.
All the High Definition (HD) based CCTV Video Cameras got merged on one CCTV Recording Server for Network Video recorder i.e. ALNET SYSTEMS Netstation PC-Based Recorder, by which it can record individual cameras with motion recording for 200 days, which can transmit locally through the internal network with advanced authentication user rights. This provided a connection to the IP network for the security team’s suite of computers and monitoring equipment. This enabled monitoring and control of CCTV cameras locally, as well as the cameras at a Rajkot head office over 20 kilometers away via a secure Intranet connection. And through the Internet they can view it from anywhere in the world on the client pc/laptop/ or even mobile phone. Each equipment are powered through uninterruptible power supply backup for 24hours on battery backup, ensuring CCTV coverage even when the power is down, an Ethernet switch, IBM Video Server, a Alnet Systems Netstation, surge suppressor. This provided a self-contained CCTV surveillance point that was immune to the environment and could be fully controlled by the remote security team without using any interconnecting cable!
Unmanned sites, such as stadium require 24 hours real time CCTV monitoring and surveillance to prevent damage or attack. The solutions provided by Alnet Systems CCTV enable 7 days a week, 24 hours a day standalone and remote operation with real time monitoring and recording which can be operated from Security Authorities, Rajkot Head office and other authorized users also from anywhere within in the Intranet or by Internet also by staying anywhere in the world. Its professional event handling and visual alarm identification can quickly response to a wide range of events which can be taken on immediate action.
The Fiber to RJ45 transmitter/receiver units also provides a full duplex 1000MBps Gigabit network and a serial interface for control of the camera PTZ functions, and handling events directly from camera itself.
“The surveillance system has been extremely useful during our scheduled outage periods,” Will continues. “Every power supplier has a designated offline period for maintenance and during these periods we can have a large amount of third party contractors’ onsite. With the new surveillance technology at our fingertips we can ensure health and safeties procedures are adhered to at all times and check on service progress, in respect to human and vehicular traffic around the stadium. We can even observe maintenance right down to individual service engineer level.”
In the annals of history of cricket, role, contribution, achievements and spirit of Saurashtrians have carved a glorious niche. Those were the days when Amarsinh and Ramji, though from an ordinary background, made an extraordinary contribution to cricket with an extraordinary game. Princely stalwarts Jam Ranjitsingh and Duleepsingh and thereafter Vinoo Mankad earned name and fame internationally. They were legendary cricketers and had added colourful feathers to the glory of national and international cricket.
It is a matter of pride, pleasure and privilege that even after the decades of that legendary era, Saurashtrians still continue to contribute significantly to the prestige and popularity of Indian cricket. In fact, cricket is the soul and spirit, a matter of pride and passion for Saurashtrians and enjoys a central place in their love for sports. It captivates the zeal and interest of the people of every age.
The regional body Saurashtra Cricket Association has explored fully such spirit, such interest, such passion and an admirable talent to promote and popularise cricket at local, regional, national and international levels. SCA is fully committed to promote cricket and the budding cricketers in the best possible manner and to strengthen infra-structural facilities of all affiliated associations.
Niranjan Shah was first elected as Hony. Secretary of SCA in 1972-73 and thereafter has been reelected continuously unchallenged for said office. He has been instrumental in enhancing the prestige and popularity of cricket of Saurashtra region.
With the efforts and endeavour of Niranjan Shah and with the help, support and co-operation of the members of governing body, SCA has successfully and efficiently hosted and managed prestigious One Day International matches at Rajkot. Besides, SCA has been managing effectively on a regular basis several popular domestic tournaments and league matches.
With an ardent zeal of Niranjan Shah and his colleagues, SCA now looks forward towards realisation of a long cherished dream. SCA’s dream project, an ultra-modern and state-of-theart Cricket Stadium of international standard and Sports Complex is a unique and a very special gift to the sports loving people of Saurashtra.