VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/17/09 -- Avigilon today announced that Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center (EGSMC), a 500,000 square feet health care facility that is connected to two independent facilities, has deployed the Avigilon High Definition (HD) surveillance system to monitor both the interior and exterior of the facility, the parking lot, entrances, and other high-risk areas to help protect patients, visitors, and staff.

At 500,000 square feet, EGSMC faces the same level of security risk as a small municipality. EGSMC also faces another key challenge: it is connected to two separate facilities that are monitored by independent security systems, making access control and patron monitoring particularly difficult. To monitor both the interior and exterior of the facility, the parking lot, entrances, and other high-risk areas, EGSMC installed 48 Avigilon cameras ranging from one to five megapixels and eight Avigilon Analog Video Encoders to leverage the existing assets and improve performance of its legacy analog cameras. With one workstation and two monitors located in the security office, security officers manage the system using Avigilon Control Center software with HD Stream Management and store five terabytes of surveillance data on each of its three Avigilon Network Video Recorders for 30 to 60 days of continuous footage.

"We need a surveillance system that is cost-effective, scalable, high performing, user-friendly, and well supported," said Eric Rowland, security program manager at Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center. "Avigilon easily delivers on all fronts."

By improving the image quality of existing analog cameras, Avigilon Analog Video Encoders have enabled EGSMC to leverage the investment in its existing surveillance system. EGSMC can also now monitor multiple cameras at once, and playback and review footage while maintaining a live view from the same camera, resulting in a 75 percent reduction in investigation times. The EGSMC has also been able to double their productivity and reduce frustration levels due to Avigilon's ease-of-use. The Avigilon solution has also resulted in a 20 percent saving in up-front costs compared to other vendors.

"Healthcare providers across the country are stepping up security efforts to help ensure the safety of patients, visitors, and staff," said Dave Tynan, vice president of global sales at Avigilon. "By implementing an advanced, high definition surveillance system, healthcare providers at Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center are illustrating their commitment to caring for patients like they would their own family members and measuring their success by their ability to provide safe, timely, and accurate care."

Avigilon Control Center with HDSM

Avigilon Control Center is the award winning high definition network video management software with High Definition Stream Management (HDSM) that delivers full situational awareness and detail, leading to faster response times, reduced investigation times, and superior overall protection. Offering the industry's greatest choice in HD cameras from one to 16 megapixels, Avigilon Control Center is available as stand alone software or pre-installed and configured on Avigilon HD NVRs. Avigilon Control Center is a secure distributed network platform with enterprise class reliability for capturing, managing, and storing high definition surveillance video while efficiently managing bandwidth and storage.

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