Tyco Security Products has announced that Fond-du-Luth Casino in Duluth, Minn., has selected its victor video management system (VMS) as the core platform for its new fully IP-based video surveillance system, which includes hundreds of new Illustra IP-cameras and several new VideoEdge network video recorders (NVRs). With victor at the center of its new system, the casino is able to streamline its surveillance operations, drastically improve video image quality, and monitor live and recorded video faster.

With the help of Brick, N.J.-based North American Video, Fond-du-Luth Casino chose American Dynamics? victor as its new IP-based video management system because of its intuitive and powerful user interface that allows the casino to view and manage all of its video through a single user GUI interface or a Matrix switcher keyboard. Fond-du-Luth?s surveillance operators can quickly identify security issues using victor?s Command Center feature with its Virtual Matrix, which lets operators view live and recorded video, select cameras and communicate quickly between security operator workstations. Fond-du-Luth?s surveillance operators use American Dynamics? 2089 matrix keyboards to search video history in a matter of seconds and search across multiple recorders simultaneously when performing investigations.

Illustra Pro IP PTZ cameras give the casino the high-resolution video quality necessary for monitoring live and recorded activity. The cameras? fast positioning speed, up to 512