TECHINICAL REPORT ON THE CCTV INSTRASTRUCTURE AT

River Valley Estate, Ojodu Berger, Lagos.

Presented

By

Securivision LTd
INTRODUCTION

Following the request by the RVRA management to carry out a more comprehensive check on
the CCTV infrastructure in the estate, our technical team came to the estate on Thursday 7 th
and Friday 8th April to perform the exercise. Below our the findings as related to the project.

POWER SUPPLY
1. There is no more power supply to any of the Outdoor power cabinet (ODU) installed for
the CCTV system at the various locations. Power to the outdoor cabinets is supplied
from a 3.5kva inverter installed inside the estate secretariat, we noticed that the mains
switch that control power supply to the ODU is burnt probably due to a short circuit.
We replaced the burnt switch and connected back to the supply, but the inverter system
tripped off and the display screen shows OVERLOAD / SHORT CIRCUIT.

We started tracing the fault by isolating the power ODU one by one and finally
discovered the cause of the problem at the second gate where one of the ODU was not
professionally decommissioned.

Poorly decommissioned ODU and RF Antenna

 The ODU was dismantled during the construction and renovation of the gate and the
power cable was cut without properly isolating the LIVE AND NEUTRAL CABLE. We met
the two cables partially connected and this is the cause of the initial blowout of the
mains control switch.

See attached

Short Circuited Cable Damaged Feedhorn and Dish

ODU DEVICES
The ODU device includes

 POE (Power Over Ethernet) injector

 5 ports Switches
 12volts DC power Adaptor

The CCTV infrastructure has a total of 5 pieces POE injectors, 6 pieces of 5 port Ports and a total
of 14 pieces of 12votls DC power adaptors. some of these devices have gone bad because of
cable bridge / short circuits which occur in the power transmission cable.
CAMERA
There are total of 22 IP cameras installed, 20 cameras were decommissioned and tested inside
the control room. 12 out of the cameras are good while 8 are bad. The 2 cameras connected
directly to the NVR inside the control room are still working. These two working cameras
captures the main gate footage. This implies that 14 cameras are still in good working condition
and can be reinstalled as soon as the fiber transmission is installed.

SUMMARY
 NVR (Network Video Recorder) is in good working condition and its recording the
footages of two working cameras
 Inverter system is in good working condition, power backup test was carried out for
about 5hour 20min.
 Total of eight (8) IP cameras are bad due to either power spike or lighting surge
 Total of three (3) units of POE injectors are bad
 One unit of Dish and Feedhorn got bad during decommission at the second gate
 Three (3) units of switches and six (6) units of 12volts DC power pack are equally bad
 All bad devices are kept in a carton inside the estate secretariat
CONCLUSION
As previously advised in the preliminary survey, we strongly recommend upgrading the data
and video transmission over a fiber optics cable. Using fiber optics as the medium of
propagation eliminates
1. Problem of microwave signal interferences and obstruction to good line-of- site due to
the springing up of high-rise buildings inside the estate.

2. Fiber optics eliminate bandwidth congestion as video transmission requires more

bandwidth for seamless transmission.
3. Fiber optics eliminate issues arising from establishing a connection between the Access
point and the cluster station.
4. Fiber optics overcome latency issues that causes video footage to lag with microwave
propagation
5. Fiber optics network is much easier to expand and cover every location within the estate
irrespective of the topography. This consequently allow easy expansion of the CCTV
infrastructure.

We await the approval of the fiber optics installation so that we can provide the cost
estimate to deploy the system and have the CCTV system operational and more effective
than before.
The second document contain the proposed fiber ring Topology for the CCTV system which
consist of 28 IP cameras