Integration design and acceptance for security systems at sensitive sites
Tomer Mizrahi is an independent consultant. He specifies how video surveillance, access control and intrusion detection systems work together, then writes and witnesses the acceptance tests the delivered system must pass. His delivery record, more than 15 years, is in video surveillance and recording. No equipment sales, no supplier commissions.
Ask for a 20-minute call01 · The gap
Who designs the interfaces when each supplier quotes its own system?
On many projects the company that will supply the system is also the one that describes it. The quote becomes the specification, and the buyer has nothing of its own to measure the delivery against.
Each quote covers one scope. The links between scopes (which events cross, in what format, and what each system does when the other fails) are written down by no one unless the owner asks for them.
Axialy writes the requirements and the interface specifications first, in terms that can be tested. The tender asks suppliers to meet them, and factory and site acceptance tests check each one.
02 · Scope
What the work covers
For owners of sensitive sites in government, defense and critical infrastructure such as energy, water and transport, and for the prime contractors who deliver to them. Design comes first, then procurement and delivery.
Design
- Video surveillance and recording design
- Integration architecture and interface specification
- Access control design
- Intrusion detection and alarm handling design
Procurement
- Specification and tender support
- Bid support for primes and integrators
Delivery
- Delivery oversight and acceptance testing
- Embedded architect or program manager
03 · Method
From the first call to system handover
1
First call
Twenty minutes on the facility, the systems and the timing. No drawings or sensitive details are needed for this call.
2
Requirements
What operators must see and do in each area, written so that every line can be tested.
3
Tender
A technical specification, evaluation criteria and a comparison of the bids that come back.
4
Acceptance and handover
Factory and site tests run against the requirements and every interface specification. The client accepts the system when it passes, with any open defects listed and dated.
Example · one requirement, followed to handover
R-07 · Requirement
Recorded video from every camera shall be retrievable for 30 days at the resolution and frame rate set for that camera in the camera schedule, with no reduction of either during that period.
Tested by AT-07
T-07 · Tender clause
Bidders shall state the usable storage capacity offered, after RAID and file-system overhead, and for each camera profile (resolution, frame rate, codec and compression setting) the average bitrate assumed and the calculation behind the capacity.
Answers R-07
AT-07 · Acceptance test
On day 31 after recording starts, check in the VMS that every camera holds 30 days with the settings in its camera schedule. On ten cameras the client picks, play back one hour from the oldest day. Pass: every camera holds 30 days, the ten play at the scheduled resolution and frame rate, and no camera profile averages above the bitrate stated in the bid.
Verifies R-07
04 · Track record
Thirteen years delivering and bidding video systems at an integrator
Axialy is Tomer Mizrahi's one-person practice. His record is in video surveillance and recording.
- 15+ years
- in video surveillance, video management and recording, for defense, government and enterprise customers.
- 13 years
- at a systems integrator: six years leading a delivery team, then seven in pre-sales preparing bids and solution designs.
Years, sectors and scale quoted on this site refer to video surveillance and recording work.
05 · Engagement
Start with a review of a proposal you already hold
Four ways to engage, smallest first.
1
Proposal or design review
An independent review of an integrator's proposal or an existing design.
One to two weeks
2
Bid support
The technical volume and solution design for a prime contractor or integrator bidding on a tender.
Per bid
3
Requirements and tender package
From the requirements to the comparison of bids, for a new system or a replacement.
By phase
4
Embedded architect or program manager
Inside the owner's or the prime contractor's team for the length of a program.
Part time or full time
One side per procurement
Axialy works for owners and for prime contractors, never for both on the same procurement. When Axialy writes a specification or evaluates bids, it does no work on that procurement for any bidder, from the tender until twelve months after its own contract ends. When it supports a bidder, it takes no role for the owner on that procurement. Past business ties are disclosed to every client.
Paid by the client only
Axialy is paid only by the client it works for. Manufacturers and distributors pay it nothing: no commissions, referral fees or rebates.
06 · Contact
Ask for a 20-minute call
Write with the facility, the systems and the timing. Axialy replies within one business day.
Write to contact@axialy.co.il- Keep site-sensitive details out of the first message.
- Supplier documents are sent on request.