by Shane Henson — April 3, 2013—MicroPower Technologies Inc., a provider of wireless commercial surveillance solutions, recently announced that the American Airlines Center has selected the MicroPower Helios solar wireless surveillance solution for its parking lot and perimeter surveillance.
Located in Dallas, the American Airlines Center combines architecture and technology to create a beautiful, fan-friendly venue with several high-tech touches. Host to the Dallas Stars hockey team, Dallas Mavericks basketball team and countless entertainment events, the American Airlines Center is a premier sports and entertainment venue, and thus needed a premier surveillance solution to monitor 13 access points within the facility’s surrounding parking lots.
Designed to transform the surveillance industry, MicroPower’s Helios solar wireless surveillance system revolutionizes the cost of video camera deployment through patented technology that significantly improves performance and power—all without compromising video quality and reliability, the company says. The system can be deployed in a matter of hours, as no wires or trenching is required, to reduce installation times by up to 90 percent over traditional video systems, MicroPower Technologies adds.
Joe Heinlein, IT director for American Airlines Center, considered everything the parking lot required before choosing MicroPower Technologies’ product.
“We wanted greater security for both customers and venue employees, while gaining better visibility of parking collections to compare vehicle counts with parking revenues,” he says. “We needed a surveillance camera placed directly at critical points of interest to transmit real-time video back to a central monitoring location. Because the parking lots are covered in asphalt and cement, and some are as far away as a quarter mile from the center, trenching and running cables was extremely cost-prohibitive.”
Heinlein says he worked with systems integrator Global Security Integration and quickly determined that MicroPower’s solar, wireless surveillance solutions would be an ideal option for these specific requirements.
Aaron Tankersley, CEO and president of MicroPower Technologies, says the American Airlines Center is indeed an ideal use case for its surveillance solution because it significantly reduced the customer’s installation costs and time to deployment. “A significant return on investment was realized quickly, and that is the inherent value proposition of our Helios system,” he says.
