by Rebecca Walker — October 22, 2010—Vivotek, a leading brand of IP surveillance based in Taiwan, played an important part in the successful rescue of the trapped Chilean mine workers. The company’s FD8134 fixed dome network camera served as an electronic eye in the rescue capsule, which was to go deep beneath the Chilean soil and hoist the 33 miners through 2,000 feet of rock out of the collapsed mine.
Also, video was taken via Vivotek’s latest Megapixel camera, which has a night vision function. The FD8134 fixed dome network camera was chosen because of its superb HD video quality and compact size, which was needed for the rescue capsule. It gave operators working at ground level a clear, real-time view of the conditions in and around the capsule as it made its descent to retrieve each miner and then return to the surface.
For more information, see the Vivotek Web site.
