From The Field

Dec 1, 2006 12:00 PM

Loyola University Chooses Megapixel Camera Technology

Loyola University of Chicago has chosen to standardize its surveillance with megapixel network cameras from IQinVision, San Clemente, Calif.

School officials chose the cameras after a trial period involving cameras from 15 different IP camera providers. James Gompers of Gompers Inc., a consultant for Loyola, helped organize and run the competition.

“Understandably, our president is deeply committed to security issues,” says Dr. Bernard Ward, the university's director of safety and security. The university maintained a number of analog CCTV cameras, but the image quality wasn't sufficient. “We could tell it was a person on the video,” Ward continued, “but not much more.”

The IQeye cameras are plug-and-play, and are connected over the university's Ethernet. They have been deployed both inside and outside Lake Shore campus buildings, covering exits and entrances, lobbies, parking areas,and other key locations.

All camera views go to a central server, via Milestone NVR software, and are then routed over the security network to each of the viewing stations.

High-Crime Area Safer With Mesh Networks

In Massachusetts, the Haverhill Police Department has selected a video surveillance system from Firetide Inc., Los Gatos, Calif., and Axis Communications, Chelmsford, Mass., to monitor one of the city's high-crime public areas.

Initially installed in a small, high-crime area downtown, the solution consists of Firetide HotPort outdoor and indoor wireless mesh nodes and AXIS pan-tilt-zoom and fixed cameras.

The cameras offer remote viewing and enable 10 days of recorded digital video. The area of coverage will continue to grow and develop. One police cruiser has a mesh node, and plans call for the installation of additional nodes into other cruisers.

“We're already seeing results and with this system we can also record evidence for the police department,” says Police Chief Alan R. DeNaro.

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