3D LiDAR Security Solutions for Water and Wastewater Utilities
3D Proactive Awareness for Extremely Accurate Threat Intelligence in Real-Time
Protecting one of the world’s most precious resources
Clean water is one of the world’s most precious resources, directly impacting public health, environmental stability, and the economy. Physical attacks on waterworks and wastewater treatment facilities threaten the integrity of municipalities with significant risks and liabilities ranging from contamination to complete loss of system control. The security of water and wastewater utilities is of paramount importance to every municipality’s critical infrastructure.
Historically, cost and performance efficacy have been limiting factors for many public works in the search of effective security solutions. Video security systems are similarly cost prohibitive, restricted in their field of view and subject to frequent false alarms, and guard services are costly and largely ineffective in monitoring large outdoor areas.
Quanergy’s leading 3D LiDAR security solution, Q-TRACK, resolves many if not all of these challenges, providing critical water utilities with hyper-accurate 3D situational awareness to proactively mitigate risk and reduce false alarms.
“We like Quanergy, we love the LiDAR technology because it’s serving a strong purpose of alarm reduction and alarm accuracy”Matt Larue, Enterprise Business Development Manager, Convergint
Applications of Q-TRACK at water and wastewater utilities
To discover the potential applications of Q-TRACK within water and wastewater utilities, select an area below for more information.
Perimeter
Perimeter security for water treatment plants must be air-tight, as any breach poses a threat to the local water supply. Accordingly, the security solutions for water utility perimeters need to detect a wide range of potential internal and external threats such as unauthorized entry, vandalism, and more. The real-time alerts generated by Q-TRACK ensure that security personnel can react quickly and swiftly to proactively prevent events from happening or escalating.
Q-TRACK also allows water and wastewater security teams to leverage their existing investments by augmenting camera-based perimeter intrusion detection (PID) systems, enabling them to locate with unprecedented accuracy the exact location of a potential intruder, even in total darkness or through suboptimal weather conditions. Such accuracy reduces costly false alarms and dangerous alarm fatigue that plague many security operations.
“What’s important to understand is the low errors rate and the object classification that allows your operational picture to be better understood with a high degree of confidence. What Quanergy provides is what the customer demands”Mark Hatcher, Physical Infrastructure Security Leader, San Jose Water
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Parking Lot
Parking lots may be overlooked as a security imperative for many water facilities, however there are still many risks and potential liabilities for water utilities associated with these high-traffic areas. This includes vehicle ramming incidents, pedestrian involved crashes, hit and runs, slip and falls, etc. The 3D spatial awareness provided by Q-TRACK in these areas allows for a fast emergency response in the event of such an event.
Surveillance systems installed in water utility parking lots may do the same, but keep in mind that Q-TRACK’s 3D LiDAR sensors provide 360° 3D coverage at up to 15,000 square meters of coverage per single sensor, delivering far more coverage than traditional surveillance systems. Hardware, software, cabling, networking, and installation requirements are also significantly less than traditional systems, significantly reducing the overall cost of system ownership.
“Quanergy has a very strong, unique solution in the market. When we get an alarm, we know it’s a true alarm.”Mark Heintzman, Head of Technical Partnerships, Hanwha Vision
Detect. Track. Classify. Alert.
Quanergy 3D LiDAR measures millions of 3D points per second. QORTEX DTC perception software detects, tracks and classifies every object, then sends alerts your existing security stack can act on.
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Detect
360° 3D LiDAR covers wide areas with minimal blind spots, in any light or weather, including total darkness.
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Track
QORTEX DTC follows every object with centimeter-level position, speed and direction, tracking up to 1,000 objects at once.
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Classify
People and vehicles are classified by size and movement. Anything else is reported as an unclassified object, so alarms can be set on people and vehicles only.
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Alert
Configurable 3D zones trigger real-time alerts and PTZ slew-to-cue, sent to your VMS and security operations center.
Fits the security stack you already run
Q-TRACK integrates with leading video management and security management platforms, so you upgrade detection without replacing your control room.
- Advancis
- Bosch/IQSIGHT BVMS
- exacqVision
- Genetec Security Center
- Hirsch Velocity
- IntelliCene / Symphia Control
- Milestone XProtect
- Motorola Avigilon Unity
- Network Optix
- Salient CompleteView
- Teledyne FLIR
Q-TRACK supports many more VMS and security platforms not listed here; confirm the integration for your platform and version during the assessment.
Securing Utility Infrastructure with LiDAR & Integrated Sensor Solutions
Advanced Perimeter Protection. 57 minutes.
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