Russian Railways (RR) + Video conference VIDEOCONFERENCING

The SPIRIT company announced in January, 2012 that the project on use of the VKS system of Video conference for creation of the situational center Russian Railway became the winner of competition of the magazine of LAN "Project of Year 2011". Detection of the most interesting solutions using modern technologies in Russia in 2011 was the purpose of tender. Projects of participants of tender had to meet the requirements of uniqueness: the first implementation of innovative technology, uncommon approach to the solution of a standard task, atypical scale of a task, etc. could concern them.

The project task, provided by SPIRIT company, consisted in creation of the all-Russian Situational Center (SC) capable to uninterruptedly control a situation on all objects of the Russian Railway and to react quickly to the arisen emergency situations. In the uniform center it is necessary to collect operational information from places and to address competent specialists for timely solving of tasks. The major requirement was consolidation of all types of connection in real time.

Thanks to implementation of the software product for the organization of multipoint video conferences VideoMost it became possible to integrate terminal equipment for video surveillance with personal computers, mobile and normal phones, hardware terminals of VIDEOCONFERENCING communication. VideoMost was integrated into the existing infrastructure and allowed to organize operational video meetings with simultaneous display of all participants and images from surveillance cameras. Thus, VideoMost provided a possibility of operational connection of all interested staff of the company from any place and by means of any device for interactive interaction and immediate reaction in case of non-staff situations.

VideoMost works both on the selected networks, and on the public Internet, doing possible operational participation in a conference without registration in a system. Thanks to it it is possible to involve in discussion of any expert, and support of the SIP protocol allows to cause in a conference of users of plain old telephone service, stationary or mobile.

"Experience of implementation of Video conference in the situational center Russian Railway allows to say with confidence that our product is easily integrated into a management system of STs and allows to implement any scenarios of the organization of calls and conference communication, – Sviridenko Andrey, the chairman of the board of SPIRIT says. – Use of Video conference in STs Russian Railway gives the chance not just to notify on emergence of an emergency situation, and to quickly carry out the multimedia report from the place of events and to involve in solution of the problem of all necessary specialists".

Among other projects which were taking part in the tender LAN in the section "multimedia solutions" – complexes of multimedia systems (MMS) in JSC Rusnano and THK-BP and also the situational center of the governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.