Day: January 3, 2022

Introduction Sterling and Wilson, established in 1927, is currently having its corporate office in Mumbai, India. It is one of the leading turnkey MEP (mechanical, electrical & plumbing) services company with 60% of its business coming from electro-mechanical projects. Just as the company has been instrumental in pioneering MEP services in India, it has also executed several prestigious MEP projects internationally. Sterling and Wilson are expanding with approximately 10,000 employees located at various regional and branch offices and project sites.   Challenges It was a herculean task for corporate HR to process staff salary and overtime from manually record ed attendance collected from all project sites. Managing the attendance of 10,000 employees distributed among regional/ branch offices and remote sites from a central location was a tedious task.   Replacement of the existing manual attendance mechanism with automatic attendance marking functionality was the major requirement. Additionally, they wanted a wireless connectivity solution for managing remote project sites for error-free tracking and management of employee attendance. Solution Matrix comprehensive solution offered centralized time-attendance solution to Sterling and Wilson connected all project sites with regional and branch offices and these offices to corporate head office. Matrix offered solution provides wireless connectivity option to the server through 3G Internet dongle to prevent loss of data from remote locations. This ensures efficient data management in case of emergency like, internet connectivity failure during which all the events are stored in the device. Hence, the events can be restored easily as soon as it recovers its connection back to the server. The solution from Matrix offered integrations with third-party resource planning software-SAP to the client. Results Buddy punching or fraudulent time-keeping is eliminated. Capturing the biometric attendance of all employees has smoothened HR’s task. Corporate HR can get real-time attendance of all employees at a central location. Accurate in/ out time of each employee is acquired. Monthly salary and overtime are paid only when fingerprint-based in/out time for each. The working day of every employee is obtained. Any delay in projects due to employee attendance gets easily identified.  

Bosch has equipped the new Chinese mega-airport Chengdu Tianfu International with video security, a PA and voice alarm system, and a conferencing solution, ensuring safety and security for passengers and airport staff as well as enhancing comfort and ease-of-use for travellers. Chengdu Tianfu International, in Sichuan province, serves China’s quickly booming ‘garden’ megacity Chengdu, an emerging hub for commerce, culture, and finance – with the new airport pegged to be the third-busiest for airport traffic following Beijing and Shanghai. Customized installation matching architectural requirements The installation of the audio and video technology was customized for the unique architectural requirements of the airport complex, which opened this June, including two terminal buildings that reference the ancient Golden Sun Bird totem unearthed in 2001 from Chengdu City’s Jinsha Ruins. Due to the unique design of the terminal buildings, ‘standard’ security cameras were not appropriate for installation as the ceilings were far too high for traditional solutions. Placing regular cameras on this ceiling would drastically reduce the quality of their image feed and produce a poor viewing angle. Instead, Bosch Flexidome panoramic cameras were integrated into the interior design of the building and were either installed on walls or concealed within information boards. Each panoramic camera is able to monitor a semi-circle area with a radius of 25 meters, a detection range of 25 meters in distance, and with a 180-degree viewing angle. This allowed the airport to install far fewer cameras, cutting the total number down by 75% from 4,000 standard cameras for a typical project of this scale to 1,000 panoramic cameras – thus saving costs on the cameras as well as on wiring and installation. Additionally, competitors’ panoramic cameras usually use four lenses, reducing the image quality. Bosch Flexidome cameras, however, use just one lens – improving brightness, color, and clarity. The precision tracking capabilities and high-quality video stream of the cameras ultimately frees up human resources for the airport and allows incidents or events to be followed without additional staff on the ground. In the flight area, the airport deployed four 4K-resolution Dinion IP cameras to monitor the runway. As this area of the airport is very long, stitching software is used to combine the images of these four cameras into one complete image, covering the entire runway and allowing Chengdu Tianfu to monitor the whole take-off and landing process. Guaranteeing seamless customer experience with superior acoustics As the interiors of the terminal buildings feature many glass surfaces, which cause sound reflections, Chengdu Tianfu needed to determine how to deliver a high level of speech intelligibility with minimal distortion, no matter where the passengers were located. The design team ran acoustic simulation software to ascertain how many loudspeakers were needed for the terminal areas as well as the placement of the arrays. For flight announcements as well as voice alarm and evacuation more than 9,000 loudspeakers were installed, covering 700 broadcasting zones and integrated via a Bosch Praesideo system, assuring passengers can clearly hear announcements in all parts of the terminal. Additionally, announcements can be broadcast with accuracy to passengers travelling through other areas of the airport complex, such as the adjoining hotel. Bosch also provided the Dicentis Wireless Conferencing System for the adjoining supporting airport offices. Meanwhile, the Praesensa public address and voice alarm system deployed at the airport hotel is integrated with the rest of the site, so passengers staying at the hotel can be alerted to ongoing events in the airport. Due to these integrated sound and video systems, the airport is able to guarantee security and safety for passengers while also providing a seamless experience for customers and staff. Also Read:- Bosch Equips IncarPalm Cardboard Factory in Ecuador with Video-Based Fire Detection

The newly released IDIS Cloud Manager gives users enhanced control of their surveillance operations from any location, using their chosen web browser on mobile devices, laptops, and desktops for secure cloud access. Making it simple and safe to manage sites remotely, the IDIS Cloud Manager allows more flexible, centralised management of surveillance for every level of authorised user, including senior managers, general administrators and front-line security officers. IDIS Cloud Manager comes with an intuitive interface that makes configuration and network changes hassle-free, enabling more responsive, efficient and flexible operations, as demonstrated in the short IDIS Cloud Manager video. Organisations using end-to-end IDIS video can connect their individual facilities or branches to the cloud with just four simple steps, at no additional cost, and benefit from automatic updates including new features and functions. Once the system is in the IDIS Cloud Manager, users can remotely setup recorders and cameras and check the status of network access for sites and devices, all from an intuitive dashboard. Authorised operators can then securely access the system to view live, playback, receive alarms and push notifications, quickly screen print or backup, and export video clips. They can search up to 64 channels simultaneously via time lapse, event, text-in or simple time movement. Users also benefit from smooth fisheye dewarping and IDIS Smart UX Controls including ‘sling shot’ and ‘rubber band’ functions which allow users to easily follow moving objects with high accuracy, panning images at different speeds and in different directions, with an option to pre-set up to 10 layouts and utilise twoway audio. “IDIS Cloud Manager gives customers a new level of operating flexibility, making it easy for authorised operators to use and manage their sites and take advantage IDIS’s powerful video functions anytime and anywhere,” said James Min, Managing Director, IDIS Europe. Also Read:- Latest Idis Vms Improves Visual Awareness, Incident Response and Investigation