Whether in an urban environment or spread across larger, less-dense areas, civic authorities seeking a comprehensive surveillance and security system are confronted with the following challenges:

• Poor image quality, due to low definition videos with low frame rates, inhibits proactive prevention, post-event tracing, and timely responses
• Insufficient network bandwidth for transferring standard definition (SD) and HD videos transmitted from peripheral units (cameras) to the central platform, leading to transmission loss or failure
• Limited storage capacity, due to the increase of HD videos and IP cameras, requires a more advanced and reliable storage solution with expandable capacity
• Poor search efficiency and lack of intelligent analysis using existing systems makes it difficult to query videos, a more efficient search technology to quickly find required videos is needed
• Low data security, because public networks are vulnerable to external attacks, internal networks lack sufficient security protection, and unencrypted videos are vulnerable to theft and manipulation
• Video data cannot be shared due to multiple video surveillance subsystems with poor interlinking and multiple video encoding formats

Huawei’s Safe City Solution was designed to meet these challenges in a scalable, flexible, high-availability platform for secure, real-time surveillance, storage, search, and collaboration.

The Huawei Safe City Solution integrates public and private video surveillance resources to provide live video surveillance, historical recording query, and accurate intelligent analysis services. When connected to the command and dispatch system, the solution enables quick incident response and helps protect public security. The key components of the end-to-end solution include:

• HD Video Collection
• Surveillance Network
• Network Protection
• Intelligent Storage
• Centralized Management
• Command Center

Huawei Safe City Solution Overview Diagram

Get crisp, clear images every time using HD video collection

The foundation of the Huawei Safe City Solution is HD video collection using both 720p and 1080p HD indoor/outdoor peripheral units (IP cameras). Because of their embedded system and integrated design, these IP cameras provide intelligent analysis, real-time encoding transmission, network control, storage management, alarm management, Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) interface, and LTE wireless transmission modules all rolled into one.

HD Video Collection Diagram

Huawei HD Video Collection uses advanced recording and transmitting equipment to:

• Reduce network bandwidth required in video transmission by 50% without compromising video quality
• Take high-quality snapshots in harsh environments with fog, dust storms, low light, and heavy rain
• Allow peripheral units to take 1080p @ 60 fps images of objects that move at speeds up to 210 km/h
• Comply with Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) protocols and GB\T 28181 specifications, enabling them to run independently when accessing the IP network
• Take HD videos in any surveillance scenarios using hot spot-based video processing and gray scale equalization technologies
• Support camera access even in remote areas and adverse environments using one-stop LTE and solar supply technologies

Provide a blanket of protection using the Huawei surveillance network

Huawei’s surveillance network solution achieves wide surveillance coverage utilizing LAN, WLAN,and xPON technologies to offer diversified network access modes. These modes enable large-bandwidth and highly reliable network connection, and ensure timely and efficient transmission of live video surveillance data. For areas where a cable connection is unavailable, Huawei uses microwave, LTE, and solar power supply technologies to provide long-distance data transmission and power supply services.

Surveillance Network Diagram

Using reliable network technologies that meet industry standard network security requirements the Huawei Surveillance Network includes:

• High-speed broadband access that ensures long-term smooth backhaul for HD video using LTE and microwave networking while time-division duplexing (TDD) supports flexible adjustment for upstream-downstream bandwidth of 3:1
• LTE and hybrid energy supplies that adapt to adverse environments and eliminate surveillance blind spots
• LTE eRelay supports Point to Multipoint (P2PM) and Non Line of Sight (NLOS), which achieves huge video data de-installation at the nearest surveillance site, reducing network load
• xPON meets linear network requirements and supports middle- and long-term large-bandwidth access, effectively leveraging existing transmission resources
• Easy to deploy LAN access and Power over Ethernet (PoE) that is highly adaptable to a variety of environments. Plus the new system is compatible with the existing system
• Microwave for high bandwidth, multiple frequency spectra, and long-distance backhaul

Eliminate data theft and unauthorized access with strong network protection

Huawei, with more than 10 years of experience in protection technologies, provides an all-round solution for video information protection, physical security, access control, and network protection and isolation. The Network Protection solution supports multiple access authentication modes and authentication mode combinations and supports encryption of videos and transmission channels, which enhances protection.

Network Protection Diagram

Huawei authentication and authorization technologies ensure peripheral unit (camera) access security and provide multiple user-access and rights management functions:

• Terminal access control uses 802.1X and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) digital certificate based on the terminal MAC address and EAP-TLS authentication protocol, which ensures terminal access security and facilitates flexible terminal deployment
• Unified threat management gateway isolates the public security intranet from the video-dedicated network and offers attack defense, antivirus, and intrusion detection
• Chip Data is encrypted during transmission using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Full rights management, including digital signatures and video watermarks, ensures data security and prevents intentional damage

Archive, access and utilize valuable data with intelligent storage

The Huawei intelligent storage solution integrates cloud storage, IP Storage Area Network (IP SAN), Network Video Recorder (NVR) and Video Cloud Node (VCN). Users can select storage modes that expand smoothly and feature high reliability and open system architecture based upon onsite requirements.

Intelligent Storage Diagram

Whether using a small, medium, or large-scale network, the intelligent storage solution supports centralized or distributed video storage, backup, and management plus:

• Enhances video storage security by using cutting-edge data compression, storage sharing, and storage cluster technologies
• RAID group load balancing, cloud node backup, resumable data transfer, and direct storage of media stream files meet the requirements on different application layers and ensures data security protection
• Improves data access efficiency and lowers system investment costs with diversified storage modes, such as IP SAN and NVR + disk arrays, and service-based storage resource distribution
• Multi-level distributed storage backup and application-level remote disaster recovery center, ensuring data security

Conduct smart analysis and deliver timely responses with centralized management

The Huawei Centralized Management platform features excellent interconnection, scalability, and security protection. Huawei uses port hardening technology and open platform architecture that integrates third-party platforms and application systems using Software Development Kits (SDKs) to achieve interworking between new and existing systems.

Centralized Management Diagram

Cumbersome manual searches and incompatible devices and systems are a thing of the past with the Huawei Centralized Management solution.

• The intelligent analysis module can identify, compare, and recognize objects in HD images (with accuracy greater than 95%), and generate notification or alarms when detecting exceptions
• Leverages centralized video management and quick video index technologies to facilitate video association, case analysis, accurate video location, information sharing, and collaborative response
• The Centralized Management solution supports video storage, video stream forwarding, image recognition, feature extraction, video diagnosis, and facial detection and recognition
• The integrated eSight system provides centralized management of devices from various industries and vendors and intelligent quality evaluation to ensure network quality

Improve communications with a holistic view of resources from the command center

The Command Center controls and manages the entire video surveillance system. The command center also supports dynamic alarming, hard disk video recording, voice control, and cooperation with other systems, which helps enable pre-event prediction and warning, intra-event surveillance and command, and post-event retrospective analysis and evaluation.

Command Center Diagram

The command center incorporates data from throughout the field and turns it into actionable information by routing it to the resource best suited to handle the size and type of incident.

• Digital information display (DID) and digital light processing (DLP) screen splicing technologies provide high-speed image processing, which allows centralized management of multiple signals
• Integrated video surveillance and video conferencing enables visual dispatching and real-time onsite information control, improving incident response time
• The open platform cooperates with the ECC, call center, and alarm systems to handle various events

Safety and security for the community, and the information resources that help protect it, are provided and protected with the Huawei Safe City solution.

• Supports quick and flexible peripheral unit (camera) access in urban, rural, and hard to reach surveillance scenarios to ensure no surveillance blind spots
• Complies with 90% of all video formats. The interworking between SDKs and the existing platform (or application systems) helps build a large-scale networking system. The highly efficient video query function enhances video search efficiency by up to 70%
• Implements storage resource sharing, which reduces investment costs by up to 26%, decreases the deployment time by up to 33%, and cuts operation and maintenance costs by up to 70%
• Ensures video data security by offering security protection mechanisms throughout the process, including video browsing, transfer, storage, management, and usage
• Supports intelligent video analysis, image enhancement, video location, and video retrieval to enhance case analysis. Surveillance functions (such as behavior analysis, facial recognition, video quality diagnosis, and video abstract) help enhance work efficiency.
• Integrates command and dispatch, emergency response, and video conferencing systems with the video surveillance system through the command center to help determine emergency status

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