Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – Security Centralisation

Leeds, UK

Project outline

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust security department commissioned Faber Maunsell to provide design and project management for the centralisation and upgrade of the existing security systems at Leeds General Infirmary, St James’s, Chapel Allerton, Wharfedale, and Seacroft back to a centralised control room located within the newly constructed Bexley wing within St James’s hospital site
 
The control room provides a central monitoring facility for security systems and building alarms. The control room Operators monitor the CCTV, Access Control, Intruder Detection, Car parking and building alarms using a central management system which has a graphical mapping interface to aid the operators in locating alarms or security devices. From the management system the operators can control individual devices within the security systems and review logs and images for various events, effortlessly and seamlessly.

The control room is equipped with ergonomically designed control workstations and full length monitor wall made up of five 80” displays. The individual workstations house desk mount TFT monitors and joystick controls to enable the Operators to independently view images, control CCTV and control other associated systems linked to an event directly.

As part of the centralisation project, two dedicated security equipment rooms have been built, one at Leeds General Infirmary Jubilee Wing and the second at St James’s Hospital Beckett Wing. These rooms have been designed and built for the purpose of housing all the head end control and recording equipment. Each room houses twelve 42u 19” equipment racks, and has been provided with containment, mains and UPS support. A wall of each room has been dedicated for all wall mounted equipment and has been equipped with high level data containment and mains provisions.

Key features

• £2.5 Million Security Project – Design and Project Management.
• CCTV video matrices, digital recording and extended Storage to accommodate 1,024 CCTV cameras.
• Full length Monitor wall incorporating five 80” Barco monitor cubes.
• Associated CCTV Telemetry, Alarm Interfaces, Engineering Monitors and Keyboards.
• Reconfiguration and upgrade of the Access Control System which included upgrade of head end out stations and system servers
• Reissue of 16,000 Mifare access control cards.
• Centralised Security Management System complete with site wide workstations and servers.
• Provision of cross city communication links utilising third party vendor EES Circuits and interconnecting these communication links with each individual site wide fibre optic infrastructure complete with Fibre Optic video and data transmission equipment.
• Provision of cross city video links utilising  IP Video codec’s
• Cross city and individual site wide Intercom system for car parking, help points and building entrances.
• Reconfiguration of individual hospital wings video cabling infrastructure utilising Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable and active video transceivers.
• Provision of a cross city and individual site secure IP network including managed Cisco IP Switches.
• Structured Cabling Infrastructure and Patching.
• Reconfiguration of Intruder Detection System to provide site wide infrastructure to pick up legacy systems. The intruder detection system has been fully integrated into the central management and mapping system. 
• Provision of cross city and site wide radio system including reconfiguration and upgrade of existing legacy radio systems

Trust Wide control room currently monitors and controls the following

• 750 Access Control points for 16,000 users
• 750 CCTV Camera System Incorporating Digital Recording for 31 days
• 500 Intruder and Panic Alarm points
• 125 Intercom handsets