- Solves the “last mile” problem by enabling a path for video data from remote sites
- Enables water operators to avoid costly and distracting response to false alarms
- Integrates with SCADA avoiding two separate systems to monitor assets
- Enables rapid identification and characterization of threats
- Is fully scalable to take full advantage of existing low and high bandwidth networks
- Easy to install, operate and maintain
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Protecting Water Supplies
Water System Operators recognize the need to provide protection against vandalism, sabotage and attack to their water supplies and remote water facilities. For many years operators have acknowledged video surveillance as the best method for improving security and reducing vulnerability. Video provides the visual information needed to effectively monitor and manage remote facilities. However, until now installing video surveillance has required a new and expensive communications network to incorporate available technology.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Bioterrorism Act required all drinking water utilities serving more than 3,300 people to conduct vulnerability assessments. Upon completion of these assessments most water utilities recognized the need for additional security at remote locations. Video surveillance provides water supply operators with the critical visual information needed to verify alarms and respond to unwanted intrusions. For more information on the E.P.A. Vulnerability Assessment program click here to go to the EPA website.
Longwatch Surveillance System
The Longwatch system provides a video surveillance solution that works with existing, low or high bandwidth environments. This powerful and effective solution augments existing SCADA systems by adding real-time, motion video over the communications lines that already exist in thousands of remote water sites, like wells, pumping stations and storage tanks.
Longwatch enables operators to efficiently monitor and manage both SCADA system alarms and security alarms on the same system.
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