OREANDA-NEWS. CROC has installed an industrial video surveillance system at one of PhosAgro Holding's enterprises, thus enabling the company to abandon outdated and expensive equipment and personnel control methods and more effectively prevent possible emergencies.

CROC deployed a high-tech video surveillance system at the Apatit plant in the Murmansk Region. The enterprise shops are located in the polar region and far away from each other. The project involved the creation of a central control room and technical video surveillance systems for the monitoring of production processes.

Before implementation of the new industrial video surveillance system, OJSC Apatit shops could only afford telephone communication with each other due to the complicated geographical distribution of the enterprise units. In order to control personnel and equipment, time and labor consuming security rounds were made on a regular basis.

CROC specialists addressed a production control challenge by implementing a complex remote online video surveillance system that includes cameras, data storage servers, and a Critical Security network for information transfer between plant shops. The fact that such systems are employed in critical military and industrial sites as well as police departments and crowded areas makes this solution the right choice for extreme polar conditions.

"The central control room was designed to unify all control rooms previously located in different plant shops and employees can now see all technological processes at the plant in real time," said Alexey Barabash, Head of Apatite-Nepheline Beneficiation Plant #3 (ANOF-3), OJSC Apatit.

The industrial video surveillance system enabled the enterprise to cease making regular security rounds. All processes, personnel, and safety within shops are now under continuous video surveillance while a video archive is available for analysis and helps prevent emergencies.

"Project activities were completed within short time-frames, without even a single second of interruption of the production process. We installed equipment in the difficult technical and extreme climate conditions of the polar region and in some cases ensured explosion protection of the equipment. This unique project helped us become more self-confident and demonstrate our high competence," said Alexander Shirokov, Director of Intelligent Building Department, CROC.

"PhosAgro Group is planning to go much further and replicate this OJSC Apatit implementation on other PhosAgro sites," said Sergey Didenko, IT Director, PhosAgro Holding.

The project featured Endura, Sarix, Pelco, Knurr, АРС, Gesan, SYSTIMAX, and Rosenberg equipment.