by Ana María Restrepo
Security is an issue that cannot be left aside, especially when the economic situation of the world falters; for this reason, different industries are looking for the best way to protect themselves from criminal acts that threaten people and their assets.
The awareness of protection that has multiplied in the world has reached companies that never thought of using electronic security systems to secure their facilities.
Today there are security cameras that monitor streets, parks, taxis, buses, mass transport systems, subway and subway stations, electronic eyes are also found in banks, government buildings, supermarkets, shopping centers and in some companies and factories, which not only seek to protect their employees and their facilities but also improve their production processes.
An example of the latter case is the Brazilian company Bivik, one of the largest manufacturers of jeans, as well as shirts, pants, shorts, jackets and skirts in denim and twill fabrics.
A textile country
Within Latin America, Brazil is the country that manages the largest economy, and within Mercosur (a trade bloc whose purposes are to promote the free exchange and movement of goods, people and capital between Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil), it is the largest and most industrialized country.
The news portal LR21 of Uruguay, states that Brazil has crops of cotton, silk, jute, ramie and wool, as well as the production of all kinds of artificial and synthetic fibers: nylon, polyester, acrylic, oleofinic fibers, elastomer derivatives, etc.
In the Mercosur countries, the textile sector moves (2008 data) more than 35 billion dollars annually. In Brazil, 80% of the garments are sold, in Argentina 17% and the remaining 3% in Paraguay and Uruguay.
According to figures presented by ABIT (Brazilian Association of the Textile and Clothing Industry), the country's textile chain is made up of more than 30,000 companies (ranging from the production of natural and industrial fibers to clothing) that generate 1.65 million jobs.
Brazil is the sixth largest textile park in the world, the second largest producer of jeans and the world's largest supplier of indigo. It is the third largest producer of fabrics, the seventh in apparel processing and in the production of textile fibers and spinning worldwide. It is also the eighth market for filament threads and fabrics. The country's textile industry produces 1.3 million tons of cotton and manufactures just over 6.6 billion garments a year, and in 2007 this sector generated more than $33 billion in business.
Denim moves the company
According to the data presented in the specialized portal Datamyne, in 2008 Brazil exported about 9 million dollars in denim, with Argentina being its main consumer with 57.76%, followed by Colombia with 15.16% and the third place is occupied by Mexico with a percentage of 12.17%.
Within this panorama of exports is Bivik, since this is one of the jeans manufacturing companies that has customers in the United States, Venezuela, Italy, Switzerland, Puerto Rico and Angola, in addition to consumers in their own country.
Due to the importance of the company in the textile and clothing sector, and the high number of products it manufactures and markets, the company decided to install in 2007 an IP surveillance system to protect its facilities, its more than 250 employees, 1,200 indirect officials who answer for laundry services, sewing and finishing workshops, as well as visitors and buyers of the headquarters located in the Brás sector of São Paulo.
The CCTV project, installed by Eletroseg, Electronic Security, consists of 160 Axis cameras that monitor 24 hours a day, 365 days a year the property of almost 45 thousand m² of built area and where two thousand people circulate per day, between Bivik officials and consumers of the store.
This surveillance solution is supported by Digifort software, which is dedicated to the monitoring and recording of THE CAMERAS OF A CCTV based on TCP / IP and the control and visualization of the images of IP or analog cameras connected by video servers or encoders. The recordings made by the system allow the images to be subsequently analyzed or retrieved selectively.
The property protected by the cameras is comprised of four floors within which there is a parking lot, the factory, the main store and three smaller ones located in the same neighborhood.
Integration in the fashion sector
The secured facilities of Bivik, which has not more than three years of construction, are located in a sector of the city where different manufacturers of clothing and clothing converge.
Denis Henrique Perdigão, commercial director of Electroseg, explains that this is a very old neighborhood and has an unfriendly appearance. "That's why Axis cameras and Digifort software were chosen for monitoring and control." Additionally, the fact that the integrating company is located in the same neighborhood was a point in favor in the process of analyzing the place, since they know all the difficulties of this space.
He also comments that the implementation of surveillance systems in this sector is very common and that around 600 projects have been developed.
Apart from the camera system over IP, the company has an automation system with technology for wireless data transmission and GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), which streamlines logistics, internal and external sales processes, warehouse maintenance and keeps the team integrated.
The vast majority of the equipment implemented were the Axis 207, Axis 232D+, Axis 214PTZ and Axis 233D cameras. All of them have 30 days of recording, and each camera records at different frames.
These Axis solutions were chosen for their characteristics, also because the company has reliable products for the use of the network and with superior image quality guaranteed by a processor dedicated to the compression of video type ASIC, of own manufacture called Artpec, in addition the cameras have the ETRAX processors for their functions and the RISC 32 bits, also of own manufacture.
According to perdigão, each camera has its own power source that allows it to operate continuously.
Views from the same place
The monitoring system of the images recorded by the cameras is carried out from the same control room. The customer also has the advantage of being able to access the system from anywhere on the business network and the Internet, and can export video quickly and easily. All the transmission of the video and the information handled between the control center and the cameras is carried out by optical fiber.
For the management of the cameras, the Digifort software was installed in the Bivik monitoring center, which facilitates the management and recording of images, access control and automation of alarms. It is also worth noting that the cameras have an alarm system that is activated in case of an attempt to cover the lens to prevent the visusualization of the place.
This security system also has five servers and digital video recorders with 24TB of storage capacity
The events that are generated in the monitoring center are reported to an external central that manages all the alarms and notifies the corresponding agencies to take the necessary measures.
Good results
The R$600,000 invested in this security implementation has been recovered in terms of protection and quality of the system. In the three years that it has been operating, there have been no failures or breakdowns, on the other hand, if several benefits have been obtained, among which are the reduction of losses in the warehouse due to theft, monitoring of the loading and unloading of raw materials and products; automatic recording and recording of events previously configured in the cameras.
In addition, thanks to the integration of the software, effective monitoring of the people who circulate in the store area has been achieved, the access control of the officials on the premises together with the registration of schedules so that people do not transit in the production area and the warehouse outside their established hours.
But Axis cameras not only monitor and protect the company but also allow the manufacturing process of almost 200,000 garments per month to be tracked.
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