Rolling Out Successful Security
Russian National Library tests intelligent platform
- By Evgenia Ostrovskaya
- May 01, 2012
The Russian National Library celebrated
its 215th anniversary in 2010. Located
in the historic center of Saint
Petersburg, the library is a cultural
bastion of the northern capital along
with the Hermitage Museum, the Russian Museum,
the Alexandrinsky and Mariinsky theaters and other
cultural centers.
The buildings that make up the library are architectural
monuments. The Russian president has ordered
that the library be recognized as an especially
valuable part of national heritage and as part of the
historical and cultural legacy of the peoples of the
Russian Federation.
The Russian National Library had planned to develop
its infrastructure and security system as part of
its general reconstruction plan. The buildings’ facilities
and rooms were paid particular attention to and
were to be outfitted with modern technological security
networks. The plan also envisioned creating an
integrated security system for staff and library stock.
In July 2010, experts from NEVISS Complex and
VIZZARA installed a digital video surveillance system
powered by AxxonSoft Intellect software in the
library for a trial run.
“The system works without any problems. The video
footage is stored for the required period of time;
you can watch the video archive from the video server
itself or from a remote computer workstation. It takes
only a couple of seconds to retrieve particular records,
which shows how convenient the Intellect system is,”
said Mikhail Gubarev, head of the library’s security
service. “I can say with confidence that the video surveillance
system based on Intellect software is suitable
for creating a technological monitoring system in the
Russian National Library.”
The system includes cameras located at the entrance
and in all reading rooms, and on the perimeter
of the building a high-performance video server,
ViServer from VIZZARA, and two
remote workstations are arranged
for video surveillance operators.
This article originally appeared in the May 2012 issue of Security Today.
About the Author
Evgenia Ostrovskaya is the global business development director at AxxonSoft.