Aerohub selects Mobotix technology to secure enterprise zone
The south west of England is home to the largest aerospace cluster in Europe with more than 900 aerospace related companies in operation. Aerospace contributes £3.2 billion to the south west economy and Aerohub @ Newquay Cornwall Airport is England’s only aerospace focused Enterprise Zone, with significant development land and access to investment.
The Aerohub is based on the Newquay Cornwall Airport site and is planned to include hangars, aircraft hardstanding, secure outside storage and office buildings, as well as a new Aerospace Learning Centre. Newquay Cornwall Airport is already home to AgustaWestland, British International Helicopters, and Skybus.
The Airport already has a number of high profile clients but with 280-acre site, Aerohub @ Newquay Cornwall Airport has ample capacity to grow. So a key security consideration was the ability to add CCTV to individual hangars, workshops and offices across the site as it expands. In some cases, these CCTV systems may need to be privately monitored by the security teams of site tenants as well as centralised control rooms.
Cormac, principal contractor for the new southern access route, which will provide road access to both the airport south side and aerohub, approached Voicepath, a security and networking specialist for assistance. Based on the requirements of the project, Voicepath recommended a Mobotix-based solution and a core fibre infrastructure with ethernet end points to allow additional cameras to be deployed at key sites. Voicepath also sited high resolution Mobotix M24, day and night capable cameras to cover the perimeter and key points of the access road.
The system has additional cameras and dual monitoring stations at both the gatehouse and central security control centre, based at the Airport Terminal. In addition, the gatehouse uses Mobotix MxEasy software offering an intuitively designed user interface offering quick access to all the main camera functions and potential to integrate with access control systems.
To meet privacy requirements, the Mobotix system has a masking capability to allow sections of the video to be obscured so MoD land cannot be monitored. The masking capability also allows individual tenants to ensure their privacy across more sensitive areas.
The Mobotix solution uses a decentralized architecture, which places intelligence within each device and allows new cameras to be set-up into private monitoring zones and the rapid creation of additional monitoring centres as the needs of clients demand.
