Swedish gas station helped by surveillance solution

11 Mar 10

HD megapixel cameras made by IQinVision have been fitted outside the station and are linked with a Milestone XProtect Corporate video surveillance management platform running Milestone XProtect LPR analytics. This system is then linked with integrator Niscayah which keeps a database of repeat offenders.

The move comes after store manager Ingalill Sedell decided it was time to do something about ‘drive-aways’ at her family’s 24-hour Statoil gasoline station and shop, in Örebro, Sweden.

The station has ten pumps, and serves some 900 customers each day, and as many as 1,200 during peak spring months. According to Sedell’s calculations, just one drive-off with a full tank resulted in a loss that required an entire day of fuel sales to recuperate.

After footage is captured it is sent to Niscayah’s customer service centre, where the license plate data is stored. Should a customer forget to pay a fuel bill or somebody drive off without paying, this event data is registered in the system. The next time a car with an offending license plate comes into the station, or any filling station in the country connected to the Niscayah system, the Milestone system is designed to send an alert locally to the station and remotely to Niscayah, and the pump is automatically locked.

The station is among the first 20 in the area to have installed the solution.

Hans Molin, business unit manager at Niscayah, said: “Of course our aim is to have as many filling stations as possible, which will boost the efficiency of the system. We count on getting around 100 filling stations by mid-year.”

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