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S 0 CASE STUDY > s City of Hawthorne, CA, Eucalyptus Park IRON SKY e Multiplier Iron Sky surveillance solution helps Hawthorne police fight park's crime element CHALLENGE _ =lx he city of Hawthorne needed a .o.R ,� better way to decrease crime at '` '' ' ® ..' ..-0*- Recordings Preferences Help A.:,its public parks.At a size of only ° © six acres,Eucalyptus Park offered the ° ,-.••..- Eucalypt.FS.Cam,, i • community several amenities including ° *MI a walking path,picnic shelters,restrooms, ..42,I a Tot Lot,basketball courts and a skate . ' tai f1,—......._ f park.Despite the responsiveness of la .I,t IN .,1 z °` V "' i 7 V S • the police department and the vigilant ° ' efforts of the public works department, E j`_ j ? II ,.. -.az.- ®®• Eucalyptus Park led the city in calls for > o o o o w a ' police service and was a hub for narcotics n ',... activity,truancy and vandalism. to. To combat crime in the park,an 1' .._A a a <} officer was stationed in the park from ill"` " I 10am-9pm every day which pulled 1 ��,.•. *1 , 1 14 valuable officers from patrolling the I t a l streets."It was a drain on our resources," , ilk said Lt.Jim Royer of the Hawthorne a ��y � ', ® , I•' police department. i _ j lil ' 1 The police and public works _--- departments evaluated all means of Sample footage from an Iron Sky camera deterring crime and wanted a solution viewing.The city wanted to be able to Authority(SBRPCA) building,which that would allow them to be proactive train users to operate the system in less was adjacent to the Hawthorne police in how they managed their limited than five minutes and allow access to department building.The camera images resources.They decided they needed the cameras from any location in the city, are recorded using H.264 compression a video surveillance solution within the including from inside the patrol cars. and archived for one year onto a 30 park that would allow authorized users to Iron Sky designed a solution that terabyte server and storage solution view and control the cameras remotely included Axis 233D Pan/Tilt/Zoom IP located at the police department from any location in the city. Ideally,the cameras to allow officers to monitor Iron Sky installed its own video video surveillance system would increase all areas of the park,and Axis 216MFD management software which was the safety and security of the park while Megapixel IP cameras that provided developed exclusively for law reducing the number of officer man-hours. constant monitoring of key areas.To enforcement entities. Iron Sky's VMS is provide connectivity,Iron Sky utilized a thin-client non-proprietary application SOLUTION wireless mesh radios within the park that focuses on ease of use and 1110 ron Sky was chosen by the city to and point-to-point radios to transmit intuitive navigation by using an interface design and deploy a video surveillance the camera images one mile to a developed around Google Maps. All solution for Eucalyptus Park with an communications tower on top of the aspects of the VMS camera navigation, emphasis on ease of use and remote South Bay Region Public Communications camera control,live view,recording and