SPIRIT MOUNTAIN CASINO

Spirit Mountain Casino was built to serve the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, its members, and surrounding communities by promoting economic diversity through improved housing, educational investment, and cultural programs. And like so many gaming facilities around the world, the Spirit Mountain Casino campus has a need to grow. Their “South Expansion Project” began in early 2007 to add more than 130,000 square feet of space to include an events / entertainment center, conference rooms, administrative offices, and their Youth Activity Center.1 This growth had a significant effect on their network of more than 1000 surveillance cameras, so Spirit Mountain chose to work with Technical Security Integration (TSI), Optelecom-NKF, and a number of other vendors to help meet the challenge.

Network Challenge

Using video surveillance technology is one of the primary tools Spirit Mountain Casino depends on to secure their facility. With their recent expansion, there were a number of network challenges they needed to meet:

1. Finding a Strong Integration Partner — Spirit Mountain made a concerted effort to find an integration company that would act as a true partner seeing the project through to its full completion while minimizing last-minute, expensive changes.
2. Moving Surveillance Room — There was a requirement to move the video/audio/data information on their existing video network from the original Surveillance Room location to a new Surveillance Room in the South Expansion facility over a distance of 800 feet.
3. Cabling Challenges — Over this 800 feet distance there was a need to solve the problems that coaxial and/or twisted pair cable introduce: signal degradation, ground loops, and large cable bundles.
4. Integrate Existing Network with New Network Components — Spirit Mountain needed to seamlessly integrate new video surveillance elements (cameras, access control, etc.) for the new facilities into their existing network.
   

Customer
Spirit Mountain Casino
www.spiritmountain.com

Integrator
Technical Security
Integration
www.technicalsecurityinc.com

Technology
Video over Fiber

Market Vertical
Industrial / Commercial
Security, Gaming

Challenge
Completely move Surveillance
Room Network from Phase 1
Building to New Wing

Solution
Optelecom-NKF 9000 Series

• 9225-MMH
• 9252-MMH
• 9341DR
• 9622-MM
• 9971-C
  

Dynalectric Sumitomo
Airblown Fiber
Honeywell PTZ Cameras
Synetics Digital Recording

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