International. Accompanied by Hikvision, a firm dedicated to the production of technology for electronic security, members of the Association of Merchants Friends of Cabos San Lucas, Baja California, presented to the municipal and state authorities a project to implement a state-of-the-art video surveillance system in the downtown area.
With this private initiative, an investment is sought to reduce insecurity rates. For this reason, Hikvision experts gave a presentation on the technology that would be installed there. They even developed a demonstration so that attendees knew how the cameras worked.
On this occasion, Hikvision presented the Ultra HD 4K Smart IR PTZ cameras (DS-2DF8836IV-AELW), which offers benefits such as details of Ultra HD 4K images in real time (30 fps), WDR (in Spanish Wide Dynamic Range, for use in areas of high light contrast) true, 36x optical zoom lenses, IP66 and IK10 protection ratings, and an IR range of 650 feet.
It also introduced the PanoVu camera, which provides 360-degree Ultra HD distortion-free images with 8 x 1/1.9" CMOS progressive scan sensors in a single camera. This solution makes it possible to replace multiple cameras with a single multi-sensor unit – reducing costs and technical complexity.
In its presentation, Hikvision included the cameras of the Darkfighter line designed specifically to capture color and sharp images in extreme low-light conditions and the Lightefighter cameras, which have the ability to capture high-quality images in environments where there is an intense light source.
It also included Hikvision's H.264+ high-caliber compression technology, which improves encoding efficiency by up to 50% compared to the H.264 standard, drastically reducing bitrates while maintaining high transmission quality without losing forensic details. And finally, the Hikvision IVMS-5200 platform, based on the SOA architecture, was also presented, which solves the problem of centralized management of multi-level networks, information exchange, interoperability and integration of multiple services.
"We believe that since the Marina and (the beach) El Médano are already guarded, because these people, feeling guarded, said let's go to the center, where there are also cameras, but with less surveillance. That is why we are concerned about complementing video surveillance," Carlos Tinoco, president of Amigos de Cabo San Lucas, told the local press.
The need to improve security in this area is also aimed at ensuring the tranquility of visitors in tourist areas and unifying a video surveillance system.
This initiative, according to Jesús Flores, president of the Building Commission of Civil Protection, could be presented to the Cabildo of Los Cabos. "Of course it must be raised with the Cabildo. That is the most important part of this, that together we make it possible to privilege security in a destination like Los Cabos. I believe that a world-class destination with insecurity cannot be sold as we would like it to be sold," he said.
