PANASONIC SECURITY SOLUTIONS AT THE ZIGGO DOME ULTRA MODERN CONCERT VENUE RELIES ON PANASONIC CAMERA SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS 180 PANASONIC SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS ENSURE 24-HOUR SECURITY FOR THE ZIGGO DOME

THE ZIGGO DOME IS AN ULTRA MODERN For a concert venue like the Ziggo Dome, continuity is About Panasonic System Communications Company Europe CONCERT HALL IN SOUTH-EAST AMSTERDAM. essential. Even in a darkened concert hall, the control room must be able to monitor security. This is possible with the (PSCEU) Panasonic cameras, which provide excellent image quality Since its opening in 2012 the Ziggo Dome has built up a solid PSCEU is the European branch of Panasonic Systems even in minimal light. "In addition, the Panasonic cameras reputation. Big names such as , , Communications Company, the global B2B division of use embedded systems for a quick start up, such as after a and have already performed there. Panasonic. PSCEU's goal is to improve the working lives of power failure. This is essential during the live concerts and business professionals and help their organisations' The concert hall, which belongs to Live Nation (who also own other events that take place here. Moreover the disks efficiency and performance. We help organisations capture, the Amsterdam ArenA and the Heineken Music hall) can hold are connected to one another, so that if one crashes, another compute and communicate all sorts of information: image, around 17,000 concertgoers and is fully equipped for optimal one automatically takes over," says Fiolet. The Ziggo Dome voice, and textual data. Products include PBX telephone acoustics. An astounding 840,000 LED lights are used to turn is also very satisfied with the Panasonic cameras' zoom switches, document printers, professional cameras, the exterior of the building into a huge screen, enabling function and razor-sharp images. "If anyone is loitering in a projectors, large visual displays, rugged mobile PCs and fire those standing outside to also gain a sense of the restricted or high-risk area, we can immediately zoom in alarms solutions. With around 400 staff, engineering design atmosphere inside the concert hall. with the cameras on his or her location. The super-sharp expertise, global project management capability and a large images also allow us to identify the person," adds Ronald With some 100 events and more than 1 million visitors a European partner network, PSCEU offers unrivalled capability Fiolet. year, security is a key concept at the Ziggo Dome. Around 180 in its markets. But the surveillance cameras are still running even when Panasonic digital surveillance cameras record what is there is absolutely nothing to do. "At such times there are no happening at the concert venue non-stop. "Monitoring a security staff present," explains Fiolet. "Thanks to the building like the Ziggo Dome is no small task. The cameras Panasonic cameras we still have 24-hour awareness of are mainly used to support our security team of 150 everything that is going on in the Ziggo Dome." employees, which is always in direct contact with the control room," says Ronald Fiolet, Director of Operations of the Ziggo Dome. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PANASONIC SECURITY SOLUTIONS RANGE, PLEASE VISIT: A Panasonic 42" touch screen display gives the central BUSINESS.PANASONIC.EU coordinator in the control room an overview of all the surveillance cameras via a plan of the concert hall. "Thanks to the touch screen, he can quickly switch from one camera to another. If there is an incident, we have images of what is going on within seconds. Using the plan, the central coordinator can also guide security staff or emergency workers to the right place, while viewing them with live camera images." Fiolet adds: "The system is quick and easy to use. The Ziggo Dome can be a real maze, but with the Panasonic system we can be on the spot inside a minute".