Agartala Medical College.
The shape of the deployment.
Structured engineering tagging — deployment archetype, infrastructure complexity, operational class and the named protocols the integration runs on.
- Infrastructure complexity
- Multi Block
- Operational class
- Education
- Deployment archetypes
- multi block campus elvcampus cctv fabricacademic clinical coordinated
- Protocols referenced
- ONVIF Profile SCat6 structured cabling (TIA-568)Single-mode fibre 1000Base-LX backboneIEEE 802.3at PoE+L3 OSPF + L2 stack uplink
What we were asked to deliver.
A coordinated LAN and IP-CCTV deployment for a state-government medical college campus, delivered for NCC Limited. The scope covered a D-Link L3 + L2 managed switch backbone on single-mode fibre and CAT6 distribution, Honeywell IP cameras (dome and bullet) feeding a multi-NVR Honeywell video-management system, an LG professional display in the operator room and a Lenovo workstation — engineered to operate as one low-voltage layer across the academic, clinical and administrative blocks.
The academic, clinical and administrative blocks were engineered as one coordinated LAN-and-surveillance layer despite their different operating cadences. A D-Link L3 core with redundant power sits at the centre; L2 stacks serve the IDFs; PoE switches feed the Honeywell IP cameras directly over CAT6 with no separate camera-power infrastructure. The Honeywell NVRs surface on a multi-NVR Honeywell VMS, with the operator running a Lenovo workstation and an LG professional display.
A frame from the engagement.
Photographs from the completed installation. Commercial documents and BOQ details remain private.
Signal & system architecture.
Systems integrated: 5 disciplines, one contract.
Pro audio
Video wall
Signal distribution
Network backbone
Surveillance
- ↳Threading the single-mode fibre and CAT6 backbone across three architecturally distinct blocks (academic, clinical, admin) built on different commissioning calendars — solved through staged installation phased by block, with each block's IDF brought online on its own L2 stack and tied back to the central L3 core only at final commissioning.
- ↳Specifying the IP-camera fleet across lecture halls, lobbies, perimeter, parking and clinical-block corridors — sizing the recording envelope against the academic council's examination-hall retention expectations and the hospital's clinical-zone needs separately, then consolidating onto a multi-NVR VMS.
- ↳Coordinating CCTV coverage with the academic schedule's privacy expectations: lecture halls covered for invigilation only during examination windows, with software-scheduled recording rather than physical lens-cover discipline.
- ↳Holding the wall-mounted rack to a small operator-room footprint while still landing every patch panel, LIU, the L3 core, the L2 stack head and the PoE switch in a single elevation the campus IT lead can troubleshoot from a printed schedule.
- ·A single supervisory layer for academic, clinical and administrative operations — the registrar and the principal share one Honeywell VMS and one operator workstation instead of separate vendor handovers.
- ·Examination-period CCTV coverage the academic council can audit against the schedule, with recording retention sized to UGC requirements.
- ·A PoE-powered camera fleet on the D-Link switches — a single CAT6 run carries data and power to each camera, simplifying every install and replacement.
- ·Documented as-built drawings and a patch schedule — the campus IT lead can find any port from the architect's floor plan, not from memory.
What the floor told us when work started.
Academic, clinical and admin blocks live on different clocks.
The academic wing's commissioning calendar is the academic council's; the clinical block's is the hospital director's; the admin block's is the registrar's. Each block was brought online on its own L2 stack and tied to the L3 core only at final commissioning.
Lecture-hall CCTV is invigilation surveillance, not security surveillance.
The academic council's expectation for lecture-hall cameras is recording during examination windows only — solved with software-scheduled VMS recording gated by the exam calendar rather than physical lens-cover discipline.
One PoE switch class powers and watches every camera.
The PoE switches deliver data and power on a single CAT6 run to each camera — there is no separate camera-power infrastructure to maintain, so every camera replacement is one cable, one port and one VMS re-discovery.
What this engagement taught us, on the record.
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Staged-by-block commissioning beats one synchronised cutover on a multi-block campus.
Every multi-block campus engagement since this handover treats per-block IDF cutover as the default — no synchronised cutover across blocks built on different calendars.
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Privacy-bound CCTV is calendar-driven, not lens-cover-driven.
Every academic / institutional CCTV deployment runs calendar-bound recording for privacy-sensitive zones — exam halls, residential hostels, examination rooms — without compromising live-camera availability for emergency review.
- 03
Patch-panel labels in architectural-drawing form are the moves-adds-changes contract.
Every campus engagement labels patch panels and IDF rack elevations against the architect's floor plan — every future moves-adds-changes cycle starts from the architectural drawing, not an internal naming convention.
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Engineering pages
- NBC 2016 — fire and life-safety provisions for educational and healthcare occupancies
- TIA-568 / TIA-942 — structured cabling and equipment-room standards
- ONVIF profile S — IP-camera interoperability across the Honeywell fleet
- IEEE 802.3af / 802.3at — PoE power delivery on the D-Link DGS-1510-28P switches
The systems and sectors behind Agartala Medical College.
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