Olympics Security

Olympics CCTV that secured a global event

Olympics CCTV has to work on the opening day, not after a year of tuning. Viseum protected the London Olympics Park during construction and sponsored the security for the River Thames Torch Relay. So governments planning a major event can study a scheme that already delivered under real pressure.

Event security teams face a hard limit. They cannot hire an operator for every camera. So our cameras find the incident themselves, zoom in, and only then call a human. In short, a small team keeps watch over a very large site.

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The appearance of the Viseum 360 Security Camera operating automatically protecting all surroundings, displays to criminals that the entire Olympics site many surveillance experts constantly watch it. 

Olympics Park Construction

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Viseum AI Situational Awareness Trailers formed a virtual fence that protected the construction of London’s Olympics Park. Our Security and Surveillance Product Solutions meet quality compliance for this event. Viseum UK AI situational awareness solutions receive many public body endorsements for delivering reassuring security to all, from the general public to the most important people and assets throughout the world.

Olympics Torch Relay – The Viseum UK Group also sponsored the Olympics security for London’s River Thames Olympic Torch Relay. Olympics security challenges for the London Olympics Torch Relay event demanded effective 360 security and surveillance camera coverage, but lacked the necessary communications and power infrastructure to support conventional video surveillance. Our Rapid Deployment Video Surveillance System was the perfect solution.

“The risk and potential adverse impact of any mishandled incident was simply too high. This made Viseum the only security solution we could trust.” (London Olympics Video Surveillance Event Security Manager)

What governments gain from Olympics CCTV

Major events expose every weakness in a security plan. They expose thin camera cover and thin staffing. Viseum answers both problems with one unit on one mast.

• 360 degree cover of a whole venue, perimeter or construction site.
• Automatic detection, so no operator has to spot the incident first.
• Close-up evidence of the moments before an alarm, ready for court.
• Deployment in hours on a trailer, with no trenching and no fixed network.
• Handover to the permanent Video Management System after the event.

Rapid deployment where there is no power or network

The Torch Relay route had no cabling and no mains supply along the river. Our Rapid Deployment trailers solved that problem on their own power and their own communications link. So the organisers gained full camera cover on a route that conventional surveillance simply could not reach.

Proving the result to ministers and auditors

Every automatic detection carries a timestamp. So an event commander can report exactly what the system caught and how fast officers responded. Governments also reuse the same equipment long after the closing ceremony, which spreads the cost across many years and many sites. This approach reflects established practice in major event management.

Planning your own Olympics CCTV requirement

In practice most event teams start with a map and a headcount. Firstly they mark the crowd routes, the perimeter and the assets that cannot be left unwatched. Secondly they count the operators they can realistically fund. So the camera plan has to match the staffing plan, not the other way round.

Meanwhile our engineers survey the site and model the cover that each mast position delivers. So you see the gaps before anything is ordered. We test the communications and power at each position, because a trailer that cannot report is a trailer that cannot help.