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Matrix control and switching systems from Vicon Industries are about to be installed at 17 of the largest railways stations in Holland including Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Breda and Utrecht.
The Dutch railway system is currently seeing investment of £2.7 bn in an attempt to create high-speed links and alleviate flight congestion at Schipol Airport. A core part of this investment is the HSL Zuid project, a series of projected links which promise speeds of 180 miles per hour and a journey time of 25 minutes between Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
The installer and systems integrator is GTN of Weesp near Amsterdam. According to the individual needs of the railways stations, GTN will install Vicon's super-high density matrices configured to different numbers of camera inputs. All of the matrices have 32 outputs and this uniformity facilitates programming.
Vicon's Nova VPS1466 matrix unit is a full-featured control and switcher for systems with up to 256 cameras offering extensive guard tour sequence support. The units consist of one or two Matrix 66 card cages with internal CPU, time/date/titler, switcher cards and output amplifier. They can be controlled by a host computer over an RS-232 interface.
An additional RS-232 port provides an output to a printer for printing alarm incident records. Manual and sequential switching options are supported, including ascending order and random order switching.
The HSL Zuid project entails the construction of 100 km of new line and extensive upgrading of existing track so that it can accommodate the new higher speeds. A centrepiece of the project is a new tunnel to be built under the Netherlands' "Green Heart" or Randstad. This area of comparatively open country is situated between Holland's four largest cities, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. It is envisaged that 6.6 million passengers will use the HSL Zuid in its first year of operation, with 1.5 million of these being won from competing airlines.
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