Located in Campana, Buenos Aires province, next to River Paraná de las Palmas the Euroamérica is a privately held waterway terminal with refrigerated cargo operations (predominantly fruits) and dry cargo (forestry products and machinery, among others).

Due to the large number of radio signals operating simultaneously at this location, the calibration of the Airmax5 equipment was the biggest problem to be resolved. Despite this, the average bit rate gain needed to view high definition cameras was achieved. According to project managers, the result obtained through Airlive’s products was excellent, highlighting the technical support from the Airlive local team assisting throughout the whole installation.

All the IP cameras for this project (OD-600HD and OD-325HD) were connected to independent CPEs in order to be able to send video traffic to the monitoring station. In some cases, a single CPE supported two video cameras.

The base stations (Airlive Airmax DUO) were deployed at the monitoring centre site and by means of 90 degrees sector panels reached the required spectrum. Several Airmax Duos were installed in the same tower. The Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 switches managed all the video traffic flow in order to avoid any delays during the live picture stream, while the configuration of the servers provided both video storage and real time viewing.

All cameras were set in the range from 20 FPS (frames per second) up to 30 FPS (all the OD-325HD were set to 30 FPS). Non-Airlive domes were set at 20FPS. The overall bit rate was at an average of 25FPS, clearly surpassing the required average bit rate for the entire project, and therefore entirely fulfilling the original targets.

The width and extension of the area provided clear lines of sight which was a determining factor for the overall performance of all devices on this deployment. The topology used was simple: AirMax5 under client mode infrastructure linked to central nodes of AirMax Duo set to AP mode.