by Rebecca Walker — May 29, 2009—The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has enhanced security in three of its largest parking lots with the addition of video surveillance systems from ADT Security Services.
The installation includes cameras, transmitted via a wireless mesh system, which monitor a 600-space remote parking lot about a quarter-mile from the university’s main campus.
The ADT system has already helped solve several break-ins and auto theft cases, according to campus police. The success of the wireless mesh system, which has been operational since early 2007, led the university to recently install more wired cameras in two other parking lots. Due to the remote location of the 600-space lot 13, ADT chose a wireless mesh system as a reliable, less expensive means of transmitting the video to the campus police office.
The wireless cameras allow the security team to capture video as cars come and go from the university’s largest parking lot. The team looks for suspicious activity such as cars circling past open spaces and people lingering near parked vehicles. If a suspicious activity is identified, cameras allow officers to zoom in and capture license plate numbers of cars entering and exiting the lot. The cameras have also helped campus police identify suspects.
ADT is also completing installation of video, access control and emergency intercom systems in the university’s college of business.
ADT Security Services is a unit of Tyco International and part of ADT Worldwide. In North America, ADT provides electronic security services to nearly five million commercial, government and residential customers. For more information, see the Web site.
