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Client Profile & Background
A large-scale manufacturing company in Bekasi, West Java, operates a 50,000 sqm warehouse facility storing high-value electronic components and finished goods. The facility runs 24/7 with over 500 employees and 100 delivery trucks daily. Prior to the upgrade, the company relied on a legacy analog CCTV system with 32 cameras, DVRs with limited storage (7-day retention), and no remote access. The security team struggled with poor image quality (480p) and frequent system crashes, leading to blind spots and delayed incident response. The company's IT department, managing a mix of on-premise servers and network switches, needed a scalable solution that could integrate with their existing networking and server and storage infrastructure. The goal was to achieve 90-day video retention, support 200+ IP cameras, and enable real-time monitoring from a central control room and mobile devices.
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Technical Challenge
The legacy system had multiple critical failures: 1) Storage capacity was only 10TB, providing just 7 days of footage for 32 cameras at CIF resolution. To meet the new requirement of 200 cameras at 4K resolution with 90-day retention, the storage needed to scale to 1.2PB. 2) The DVRs had a 12-hour backup failure rate of 15%, meaning that every week, at least 2 DVRs would crash, losing footage. 3) Network bandwidth was insufficient: the existing 100Mbps backbone could not handle 200 cameras streaming 4K video (each requiring 20Mbps), causing packet loss and frame drops. 4) No failover mechanism: if the single NVR failed, all recording stopped. 5) Compliance issues: the company faced fines from insurers due to inability to produce footage for claims. The technical challenge was to design a system with 99.99% uptime, sub-second latency, and centralized management across three separate buildings.
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Implemented Solution
The solution deployed a tiered architecture using enterprise-grade components. For cameras, 200 units of HP 4K IP cameras (HPE Aruba) with H.265 compression were installed, reducing bandwidth usage by 50%. Video was streamed over a dedicated 10GbE fiber backbone with Cisco switches and Ruijie access points. For storage, two Synology RackStation RS3617RPxs NVRs were deployed in a high-availability cluster, each with 24x12TB SAS drives (288TB raw) configured in RAID 6, providing 240TB usable per unit. The cluster ran Synology Surveillance Station with a 200-camera license. For disaster recovery, Veeam Backup & Replication was configured to replicate video footage to a secondary site with a QNAP TS-1685 NAS. The system integrated with cybersecurity tools via API for motion-based alerts. A hyperconverged infrastructure from Lenovo (ThinkAgile HX) hosted the video management software and analytics engine.
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Results & ROI
Post-deployment, the system achieved 99.99% uptime over 12 months with zero data loss. Video retention was extended to 90 days for all 200 cameras at 4K resolution, meeting compliance requirements. Theft incidents dropped by 95% due to visible cameras and real-time alerts. The legacy 12-hour backup failure issue was eliminated; the new system had a recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes and recovery point objective (RPO) of 1 hour. Bandwidth utilization was optimized to 30% of the 10GbE backbone, leaving room for expansion. The security team reduced false alarms by 80% using AI analytics. Financially, the company saved $50,000 annually in insurance premiums and avoided $200,000 in potential theft losses. The total cost of ownership (TCO) over 5 years was 30% lower than the legacy system due to reduced maintenance and energy efficiency. The solution also enabled remote monitoring from the company's headquarters in Jakarta, improving management oversight.
