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Pixim-Powered Cameras Play an Important Role in Transport Security

In North America, trains most often are used to transport cargo economically. In Europe and Asia, trains play a more important role in passenger transportation, as well. But everywhere they are used, trains – and the tracks, stations, and cargo loading areas that serve them – pose particular challenges for security. Video cameras are ideal tools because they can operate 24/7 even in remote or lightly traveled areas, providing a cost-effective way to keep an eye on the rail infrastructure. Cameras located at underpasses and stations, for example, can be used to identify and monitor specific trains, which helps with the rapid and efficient movement of the trains. The round-the-clock nature of train travel, as well as the extreme lighting conditions caused by the physical layout of rail facilities, makes it difficult for traditional CCD-based security cameras to capture accurate images, especially when there’s high contrast between very bright and very dark areas of a scene.

Common security camera problems for trains include:
•    Lack of detail in high-contrast conditions, backlight, under fluorescent lights, or outdoors
•    Low clarity in shadows, such as inside or next to trains or inside stations or cargo loading areas
•    Image wash-out in glare or with reflections from glass and metal
•    Color inaccuracies in varying lighting conditions
•    Low-quality DVR recordings

Pixim's Digital Pixel System® ultra-wide dynamic range technology, a true breakthrough in imaging technology, delivers unprecedented image quality in all lighting conditions. Cameras powered by Pixim's specialized image processing chipsets can significantly enhance school and campus security through the following capabilities:

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Pixim, compared with CCD technology, enables the higher compression of images taken by security cameras, which leads to advantages for DVRs:

  • Allows the use of higher-resolution settings on the DVR without sacrificing the overall recording time (i.e., # days on a DVR).
  • Enables more frames per second to be written on the DVR without sacrificing overall recording time (i.e., # days on a DVR) or resolution.
  • Permits the connection of more cameras to each DVR, without sacrificing resolution or frame rate.
  • Provides recordings with higher image quality, for more accurate identification of people and events and more compelling evidence.
  • Makes it easier to comply with FBI and other regulations that require storage of 10 to 30 days' worth of video - without sacrificing resolution, lowering the frame rate, or reducing the number of cameras connected to each DVR.
  • Optimizes the investment in expensive DVRs.
Security cameras based on Pixim technology enable train operators to capture details of trains, passengers, and cargo in high resolution, even in variable and challenging lighting conditions and despite low DVR compression. The ability to record activities clearly and accurately makes it easier to track trains as they traverse their routes, as well as to identify criminal activity aimed at the trains themselves (e.g., vandalism) or their passengers, staff, or cargo. If incidents do occur, the images captured by Pixim-Powered security cameras can be used to determine what happened and who was responsible, so that appropriate actions can be taken.  

 

CCD Pixim
  • Lose of image details
  • Camera "blindness"
  • Superior image quality despite harsh lighting conditions

 

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