The port of Vigo improves its comprehensive security plan with the installation of a video wall

The Port Authority of Vigo (APV) has installed a new video wall in the port Control Center to improve the operations and security of its infrastructure, supplied and installed by Portel Eixo Atlántico. The new audiovisual system, from which video surveillance cameras are managed and monitored, It is part of the comprehensive protection plan for all port facilities, which has become the fourth in Spain to have a comprehensive security system.

The port control center of the port of Vigo, located in the Alberto Durán maritime station of this Galician city, now has a video wall system, in configuration 2×4 with 32” screens, supplied and installed by the company Eixo Atlántico Portel, to improve the operation and security of their infrastructures.

The president of the Port Authority, Ignacio López-Chaves, has been in charge of inaugurating and showing the new video wall of the Control Center, from which the center's operators monitor (24×7 and in three shifts) the images of the 150 IP video surveillance cameras (fixed and mobile) from the company Plettac Electronics distributed throughout its facilities and perimeter, as well as access control of vehicles and license plates.

The entire port area is considered a restricted and high security area., so access to it has levels of protection 1, 2 y 3. From the Control Center, all information and services related to internal security are centrally controlled and managed. (PAV organization) and external (port users), channeling efforts to resolve any incident. The comprehensive management system is based, inter alia, in 159 IP cameras and port access control (pedestrian and road traffic), which is based on a network of photoelectric cells installed in the fence that surrounds the enclosure and supported by a fiber optic network infrastructure. Added to this is the AIS system (automatic vessel identification), which covers the entire Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula, by which the identification and exact position in real time of each vessel equipped with this system is known, permanently controlling the waters of the port and surrounding areas, as well as the integrative communications system with public emergency services (with trunking network lines and recording of communications).

At the moment, The Port Authority of Vigo is the fourth in Spain to have a comprehensive protection and security plan (Melilla, Almería and Palma de Mallorca already have it), approved in January 2013 by the Ministry of the Interior in compliance with international regulations and European directives, which contemplates coordination measures between the different forces and security bodies of the State, the constitution of committees and the control of access to the terminals (travelers and goods), of the perimeter and the maritime zone.