SUCCESS STORY.

INTEGRATED,INTELLIGENT SOLUTION PROTECTS BANK HEADQUARTERS

Erste Group Bank AG was founded in 1819 as "Erste österreichische Spar Casse" (first Austrian ) and has its headquarters in . In total, around 46,600 employees look after over 15.8 million customers in more than 2,700 branches in 7 countries. This makes Bank AG one of the largest financial services providers in Central and Eastern Europe.

THE CHALLENGE

Erste Group Bank AG has built a new group headquarters on the site of the former Süd- bahnhof railway station in Vienna, with con- struction work taking place from 2012 to 2016. Employees who were previously distrib- uted across 20 different locations throughout the city now all work in the same building complex.

The advantages of this new arrangement are Security was a major priority for the new clear: closer proximity and improved infrastruc- headquarters: in 2014, the Erste Group put ture strengthen cooperation and provide a out a tender based on a detailed catalogue of modern, pleasant working environment for em- requirements for an overall building security ployees. The ground-breaking, award-winning concept for the Erste Campus. Among other design concept by Vienna architects "Henke things, the requirements included video sur- Schreieck Architekten" plays a key role by veillance and intelligent video analysis. The vid- creating a feeling of openness with its curved eo technology needed to support security per- buildings and the integration of green spaces, sonnel, detect security-critical events in real producing an environment which encourages time around the clock and, when necessary, creativity. The highest construction standards raise an alarm immediately. In order to ensure were applied to the planning of the new build- smooth communication and quick responses, ing complex – which accommodates around seamless integration was required between the 4,000 employees – in order to, for example, video analysis, video management system and

ERSTE GROUP BANK AG, VIENNA, . BANK AG, ERSTE GROUP optimise cost-effectiveness by minimising all other components and systems. energy and operating costs. The Erste Campus was awarded the DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council) platinum certificate for sus- tainable building. THE SOLUTION FACTS

Kapsch BusinessCom won the tender with an Another major factor in the selection process Customer overall concept featuring video technology was ensuring that the video system complies Erste Group Bank AG based on a Cayuga video management and with the high IT standards in the banking sector CogVis GmbH video analysis system. – this was verified in advance by extensive test- Object: ing. This means that Cayuga supports encrypted Erste Campus, Vienna A key factor to the success of this solution communication between server and client, as was the close dovetailing of the two systems, well as secure connections with the cameras. Installer: made possible by the flexible architecture of The protection of customers' and employees' Kapsch BusinessCom Cayuga – which, for example, shares the image privacy is also crucial – CogVis provides algo- streams from the cameras. Alarm events from rithms to disguise people's identities in live Technology Partner: the CogVis video analysis are seamlessly trans- images by using pixelisation. CogVis GmbH ferred to Cayuga, where they are visualised and processed. Products: ▪▪ Cayuga Infinity ▪▪ Display Agent THE RESULT ▪▪ CogVis C3 Security Portfolio After several months of implementation, Display Agent in conjunction with a central con- installation and testing, the integrated overall trol room solution. Cameras: system went into live operation at the end of > 500 2015. Since then, the cameras distributed all The complete solution balances the high secu- over the campus have been protecting the rity requirements of a bank with the structural Requirements: buildings and grounds around the clock. nature of the Erste Campus – the idea of ▪▪ Seamless integration openness is continued in the design of the of VMS and analytics In order to minimise the load on the network interiors, which is why video technology is ide- ▪▪ High system security and the risk of failures, the cameras in Cayuga al as a relatively discreet security measure. The ▪▪ Equipped for future were distributed across multiple recording analysis algorithms of the C3 security portfo- requirements servers which are connected to a central lio from CogVis detect unauthorised access management server. Furthermore, the video to indoor and outdoor areas, issue warnings streams are made available to the CogVis ana- regarding left objects, and provide additional lytics directly. The CogVis C3 server is responsi- security in the field of access control. The ble for central management of the external and intelligent system uses state-of-the-art tech- internal communication with the distributed niques from the field of machine learning C3 nodes on which the video analysis is carried in order to minimise false alarms efficiently out. Cameras and alarms are visualised and as the operating time increases. Monitoring processed using the Qognify software in the functions provide security personnel with real- security control centre, which is manned 24/7. time updates about the functional state of the Camera images and views can also be displayed CogVis video analysis so that they can respond on a large-screen system using the Cayuga immediately if there is a problem.

THE CUSTOMER

Ing. Peter Hollenthoner, the Erste Group Bank possible, technically stable implementation." AG staff member responsible for the imple- mentation of the video project on the Erste Like the Erste Campus buildings, which are Campus, sums up the experience so far: "Our designed to allow changes in work processes or security concept had to meet all of the security new work area allocations to be implemented at

requirements in full without conflicting with the any point in the future without major structural open room structures which enable collaboration, work, the video system also has a flexible design flexibility and meetings with customers. The only and is therefore well-equipped for the future. way to achieve the objectives was with intelligent New video or analysis channels as well as new video surveillance and analytics which provide functions can be easily added to the existing optimal support for the security process. We were system at any time. keen to work with companies who understood our Q00x-BR-EN-01 07/2019 requirements and could provide us with the best © All rights reserved to Qognify Limited and its affiliates (“Qognify”). For the full list of Qognify’s trademarks, please visit [email protected] www.qognify.com/trademarks. All other marks used are the property of www.qognify.com their respective proprietor.