Megapixel Edge Solution for Dispatch Facilities The New York City Department of Environmental Protection manages a number of locations where vehicles and equipment are stored and dispatched. These locations also provide fueling facilities for city owned cars and trucks. The properties are generally a large fenced yard with a garage building and attached offices. There is also a pump island for fuel. The buildings are older industrial structures with no network or structured cable infrastructure. The DEP needed a cost effective video surveillance solution that would provide monitoring and recording of the activities in the yard. License plate recognition and the ability to read vehicle markings for identification of vehicles at the pumps was also a requirement. The DEP also wanted to have the option of centralizing the management of the video from the locations, when planned WAN links are installed.  IPVideo Corporation designed a solution for the DEP built around DynaView/Edge NVR and Mobotix megapixel cameras. Each DEP location has 2-3 Mobotix MX-M12D-SE3D135C-D4 cameras installed, covering the desired field of view.   The Mobotix camera is a weatherproof (certified temperature tolerance from -30 °C to +60 °C (-22 to +140 °F), dual network camera with megapixel resolution and one telephoto and super-wide-angle lens each for simultaneous recording from two different perspectives. The cameras are connected via a small network switch to a DynaView/Edge NVR that can support up to eight cameras. The NVR supports a 27” monitor and is located in the supervisor’s office. A separate viewing client supports another large monitor that is displayed on the main dispatch area. DynaView supports megapixel resolution and can capture both video sources from the Mobotix camera. This feature allows the system to monitor two fields of view from one camera. An overall wide angle shot of the work yard and a megapixel telephoto shot of the entrances and gas pumps. The cameras are set to record on motion. DynaView/Edge NVR has a digital PTZ function in the recorded archives that allows for high quality forensic analysis of the video, including identification of license plates. Incidents can be transferred to various standard file formats for distribution throughout the organization. Two locations had existing analog cameras that were in working order. Axis 240Q video servers were used to convert the video to digital and incorporate these cameras into the edge NVR system. At one of the sites there were multiple structures and a wireless bridge was used to connect cameras at three buildings to the NVR. DynaView/Edge NVR supports a number of remote viewing options which will be available to the DEP when WAN links are installed.