CTEEP selects VPON DVR for monitoring substations [BRAZIL]

CTEEP ( Paulista Electric Energy Transmission Company) select VPON DVR that is distributed by BYCON for monitoring substations and installations of the company. The CTEEP – Company of Electric Energy Transmission Paulista operates at a complex infrastructure consists of more than 11,780 kilo-meters of transmission lines that are spread out in all of the eastern portion of Sao Paulo. The company has totally 102 sub-stations.

For more than one year the company felt a strong demand that it is necessary to implement a system for monitoring property security of those stations through the headquarter building that is located at central Sao Paulo. The project was named SIM( System Integration of Monitoring) and basically, implemented through a network of variable bandwidth links from 65Kbps to 2Mbps. In addition to consume minimum bandwidth while transmitting video and audio, the solution should also fulfill some required web access functions and based on other non Windows platforms.

After analyzed many different solutions, CTEEP selected VPON DVR that is distributed by BYCON which can meet all the requirements that are established by CTEEP. Through the company’s existing network, VPON DVR never compromises the performance of the communication channels and still possible to send alarm signals, bi-directional audio, control local and remote camera moving, recording local and remote when motion detection and view images through web with small bandwidth consumption that given by the communication channels.

“The VPON system is based on Linux real time kernel stored in flash memory and uses H.263 compression protocol to make it very efficient on bandwidth and hard disk space consumption.”, explained by Edvaldo Pereira, the Technical Director of BYCON. Another point of selecting VPON as the solution was related to the IP configuration for network monitoring integration.

By implementing the VPON DVR units, CTEEP also obtained profits of cost reduction and risk diminution. ”The implementation of SIM gave CTEEP the cost reduction of displacement risks when the substations were dismissed from services.

And the reduction of accessing costs for the safety verifications of equipments operations and development to those energized areas”, declared by Mario Sergio Machado, System Security Consultant of CTEEP.

 In the reference for security business, the system reduces the number of incidents resulting from thefts and invasions in the installations. Paulista has significant profits in fast response to identification of occurrence. The SIM project is being utilized at Edificio Saliba, with 32 cameras for security, at Anhanguera substation for remote work , at CBA substation for remote operation and trail installation at at Santa Barbara d’ Oeste,Embu-Guacu, Bom Jardim and SE Oeste. And there are still some important substations such as Gerdau,Piraju, Avare Nova and Carbocloro that need to be installed.