Agartala Medical College.
- Agartala, Tripura
- Handover 2022
- NCC Limited
- Government medical college and teaching campus — LAN + IP-CCTV scope
· The brief
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, 50 Honeywell IP cameras feeding a multi-NVR VMS, an LG professional display in the operator room and a Lenovo workstation — engineered to operate as a single low-voltage layer across academic, clinical and administrative blocks.
· Engagement note
The kind of building
this actually is.
A healthcare brief is rarely a brief about technology. It is a brief about the operating reality the building will inhabit on its busiest day — the rota, the audit, the inspection, the regulator, the family, the night shift. We engineer to that day, not to a brochure. The systems below were designed against the worst-case load and tuned to feel effortless against it for everyday use.
On a project of this type, the discipline is in the seams: where the cause-and-effect from one panel has to read cleanly into another, where the cabling pathway is shared by three trades, where the commissioning calendar needs to clear before the operator’s calendar opens. We hold all of that under one contract — design through commissioning — so that when something is asked of the building three years from now, there is one accountable hand to ask.
The scope below is the measurable output. The unwritten output is a documentation pack the operator can hand to a successor without losing a year of institutional knowledge.
· What we delivered
7 disciplines,
one contract.
A single integrated stack — design, procurement, installation, commissioning and AMC by a single accountable contractor. Each line carries its own drawing pack, cause-and-effect and commissioning sign-off.
- D-Link L3 + L2 + PoE managed switch backbone on single-mode fibre and CAT6 distribution
- 50 Honeywell IP cameras — 12 dome + 38 bullet — across academic, clinical and external zones
- Honeywell HEN16104 16-channel 8 TB NVR with multi-NVR VMS
- LG 49SE3KD 46-inch professional LED display panel for the operator room
- Lenovo workstation for VMS client operation
- 9U wall-mounted equipment rack with structured patch and documented elevations
- Medium-class PVC conduit and CAT6 cable distribution
· Systems integrated
The named systems,
not the trade-list.
Each system was engineered as a coordinated layer — its own controllers, commissioning report and AMC inclusion — and stitched into the cause-and-effect that runs across all of them.
- D-Link DGS-3630-28SC L3 managed stackable switch with DPS-500A redundant power + DGS-1510-28X L2 stackable switches × 10 + DGS-1510-28P 24-port PoE managed switch × 4
- D-Link single-mode fibre backbone (NCB-FS09O-AUHD-06 6-core 375 m) with DEM-310GT 1000Base-LX transceivers, SC-LC patch chords and 6-port / 24-port LIUs
- D-Link CAT6 distribution — NCB-C6UGRYR-305 cable (5,000 m + 1,000 m), NPP-C61BLK241 24-port patch panels, NFP-0WHI11 wall plates with NKJ-C6WHI1B21 jacks
- 12× Honeywell HIE2PIV 1/3.2" IP dome PoE cameras (H.264, 1080p, 3-9 mm varifocal, ONVIF)
- 38× Honeywell HIB2PIV 1/3" IP bullet PoE cameras (H.264, 1080p, 3-9 mm varifocal, ONVIF)
- 4× Honeywell HEN16104 16-channel NVRs with 8 TB HDD; VMS supporting up to 6 NVRs and 20 live + 4 playback tiles per operator screen
- LG 49SE3KD 46-inch FHD LED professional display panel (350 NITS)
- Lenovo i5 workstation (8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD, 21.5" FHD monitor) for VMS client operation
- D-Link NWR-9U-5045-GR 9U wall-mounted equipment rack
- Digital PoE keyphone for operator desk — 4-line LCD, 24 flexible keys, Bluetooth, speaker, headset, EHS, AC adapter
· Engineering challenges solved
The hard problems,
not the press release.
Below is what actually had to be engineered through — written by the team that solved each one, not by the team that wrote the brochure.
- 01
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 DGS-1510-28X stack and tied back to the central DGS-3630-28SC L3 core only at final commissioning.
- 02
Specifying 50 IP cameras (12 dome + 38 bullet) across lecture halls, lobbies, perimeter, parking and clinical-block corridors with 8 TB of recording per NVR — sizing the storage envelope against the academic council's retention expectations for examination halls and the hospital's clinical-zone needs separately, then consolidating onto a 4-NVR VMS.
- 03
Coordinating CCTV camera coverage with the academic schedule's privacy expectations: lecture halls covered for invigilation only during exam windows, with software-scheduled recording rather than physical lens-cover discipline.
- 04
Holding the 9U wall-mounted rack to a small operator-room footprint while still landing every patch panel, every LIU, the L3 core, the L2 stack head and the PoE switch in a single elevation that the campus IT lead can troubleshoot from a printed schedule.
· Integration summary
How the disciplines
were stitched.
The academic, clinical and administrative blocks were engineered as one coordinated LAN-and-surveillance layer despite their different operating cadences. The D-Link L3 core (DGS-3630-28SC) sits at the centre with redundant DPS-500A power; ten DGS-1510-28X L2 stacks serve the IDFs; four DGS-1510-28P 24-port PoE switches feed the 50 Honeywell IP cameras directly over CAT6 with no separate camera-power infrastructure. The four Honeywell HEN16104 NVRs share storage and surface on a multi-NVR Honeywell VMS, with the operator running a Lenovo workstation and an LG 49SE3KD reference display.
· Operational impact
What changed for the
day-two team.
A handover is not a milestone — it is the day the operations team starts running the building without us. These are the changes they inherit.
- Single supervisory layer for academic-clinical-admin operations — the registrar and the principal share one Honeywell VMS and one operator workstation, instead of three separate vendor handovers.
- Examination-period CCTV coverage that the academic council can audit against the schedule, with 8 TB per NVR retention sized to UGC requirements.
- PoE-powered camera fleet on the DGS-1510-28P switches — a single CAT6 run carries data and power to each camera, simplifying every install and every replacement.
- Documented as-built drawings and patch schedule — the campus IT lead can find any port from the architect's floor plan, not from someone's memory.
· Standards & compliance context
The codes the work
was held to.
Each standard is the framework an inspector or auditor would check our work against. Deliverables sized to satisfy each one in writing, not in conversation.
- 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
- UGC and AICTE infrastructure norms — applicable to academic blocks
· Documentation handed over
What our client received
on day one.
As-built architectural-coordination drawings
Single-line diagrams + panel schedules
Rack and patch labelling schedules
Controller configuration files (offline baseline)
Calibration reports for AV and life-safety
Cause-and-effect matrix (signed by AHJ)
Software-licence registers
AMC enrolment with response SLA
Operations manual in plain English
· Why it mattered
A building is not commissioned on the day the contractor leaves. It is commissioned on the first ordinary morning the operators run it without us in the room.
We design every project with that morning in mind — the panel labelled in the operator’s own language, the documentation legible to a successor we will never meet, the AMC programme already calendared, the spares already in our Lachit Nagar office. A healthcare engagement of this scale is judged not on handover day but in year three. That is the standard the brief was held to.
/ On site
A frame from the engagement.
Photographs from the working installation. Permitted by the client; published with redactions where the brief required.
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in our practice.
We hold a GST registration in Agartala for inter-state work; engineering, project management and AMC are controlled from Guwahati with site teams rotating to Tripura's capital on a project-led schedule.
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