UniArgus Recommended by China Telecom to Help Combat Test Fraud in China's National College Entrance Exam

To defense against test fraud and protect the benefits of testers in the national college entrance examination, the examination administration of Yanguan City adopted UniSVR's new generation digital surveillance solution to monitor and record test sites when the national examination was taken place. The solution was recommended by Shanxi Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom. It successfully reduced the administration's efforts as well as increased its effectiveness in attacking the test fraud problem forcefully. Video monitoring was conducted locally in the test sites and in the central administration center. Video records could also be retrieved after the examination.

It comes again the test season! In this June, the college entrance examination administration of Yanguan City, Shanxi Providence adopted the digital surveillance technology to watch over the national examination. Its key requirements included high reliability as well as distributed and central monitoring and recording capabilities.

UniArgus was introduced and implemented by Shanxi Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom. The central administration center was located in Yanguan's city hall and four major test sites were setup in local high schools. There were total of 463 cameras installed in four major test sites and minimum two cameras were installed in each classroom . The administration personnel in the city hall also watched over the activities of testers in each classroom of the sites through UniSVR's UniArgus central server.

Central management and distributed processing were two keys to bring to the success of the project.

• Distributed processing
  Five servers were provided for local recording in four major test sites. The numbers of IP cameras connected to the five servers were 129, 114, 60, 80 and 80 respectively. 25 fps were configured in each camera.
  
  
• Central management
  One central server was installed in Yangquan City's college entrance examination administration center. Five sub-servers located in four major test sites were managed through the central server. The central server allows the administrators of the center to get to any videos of any classroom in any test site. User privileges could also be defined to limit the access of video to serve the management purposes.

UniArgus was also chosen as Yangquan's digital surveillance solution in the upcoming high school entrance examination. The solution reduces the examination administration's efforts as well as increases its effectiveness in attacking and preventing the test fraud problem. The solution also provides the flexibility and scalability to add more cameras, more servers and more test sites based on the administration's future requirements.

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