Hikvision Surveillance System Secures UK Chicken Farm
A surveillance system provided by Hikvision and installed by UK integrator Agri-CCTV Ltd. is enhancing security for 1,500 acres of land and nine poultry sheds at Woodhouse Fields Farm in Shrewsbury, UK.
To improve efficiency and biosecurity adherence, Woodhouse Fields requested a system that delivered video from inside each poultry shed to monitor the animals remotely. The distance between the farm’s two primary sites was almost 1,000 meters, which posed a challenge.
“As a result of this distance between the sites, we couldn’t use standard cabling. We worked with Hikvision to develop a Wi-Fi-based solution, which would link-up each shed across the whole site,” said James Anstis-Smith, managing director at Agri-CCTV in the Hikvision case study. “Because the sheds are steel-clad, they don’t allow for mobile phone signal reception. With this Wi-Fi connectivity, they are able to make Internet-based calls in a mobile-unfriendly environment. This has proven to be of immense benefit to the farm staff in helping with operational communications.”
Agri-CCTV installed Hikvision 4MP HD EXIR security cameras in the poultry sheds, which provides enhanced IR coverage, and footage is recorded to a 16-channel Hikvision NVR with an 8TB hard drive. Woodhouse Fields is also testing a Hikvision thermal camera for rural applications.
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