CICLOPE™ is a surveillance system developed by a team of highly qualified engineers and researchers, in the area of monitoring and remote control.

Due to inherent characteristics of its equipment, CICLOPE™ remotely monitors wide landscape areas resulting in a very low cost per area rate.
With any weather conditions CICLOPE™ provides night and day video surveillance, by using infrared or visible spectrum cameras.
CICLOPE™ was conceived for remote operation in very inhospitable places, is provided with autonomous power supply systems and communication equipments, and is a stand-alone independent system, usually placed in isolated places.
Cameras and associated equipment, namely control and positioning systems, are commonly installed in towers known as TVAD.
A common architecture for CICLOPE™ includes several Towers, (TVAD) and a central interconnected Management Control Centre (CGC). All video images captured by remote (in tower) cameras are transmitted to the control centre that gathers all information and operates using the software tools provided to the human operator. The CGC, with its powerful software tools, allows the user to manipulate and use all systems in a simple and intuitive way, using some of the innovative and patented INOV solutions.
In order to increase the number of options of the system, CICLOPE™ can also be supplied with data acquisition meteorological stations, inside/outside facilities security surveillance systems or fire automatic detection, all together integrated in the same information system platform.
CICLOPE™ has a client/server concept and can offer, for different users, the control and monitoring of a TVAD to a different Control Centre, for example a Fire Department, Civil Protection Directorate or a Police Department, which is able to actively or passively access specific image information provided by another control centre.
With a strong positioning in the video surveillance area, INOV is developing new system facilities and functionalities: one example is the (currently under development) module for automatic intrusion detection.
For the installation procedure, planning and dimensioning of the CICLOPE™ system, INOV has developed and improved several geographical planning tools that are used to simulate and test the several possible scenarios in terms of communications equipments, placements and surveillance coverage distances, leading to an optimisation of the architectural solution provided.

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