by Brianna Crandall — April 13, 2015—The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has selected unobtrusive Scallop Imaging security cameras to help secure its campus, recently reaching 150 cameras installed.
Steve Gorski, Scallop Imaging chief sales officer, called the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “a very loyal customer” that has increased the number of Scallop cameras over the past three years.
Scallop Imaging specializes in providing clear, 180-degree video through connecting images from multiple sensors for better situational awareness.
The 1,800-acre campus installed 50 Scallop D7-180 cameras in early 2012, Gorski said. It now has a mix of D7-180s and Scallop’s low-light camera, the M6-200.
The D7-180 is a seven-megapixel surveillance camera that records in full-color high resolution throughout its 180° field of view, without fish-eye distortion. At all times the D7-180 Vision System is processing over 100 megapixels per second providing a 180° full situational awareness image, plus up to four zoom windows.
The 6 megapixel Scallop Imaging M6-200 video surveillance camera is said to be the first distributed image panoramic camera specifically designed to provide outstanding image quality under very low light conditions.
Scallop cameras provide the wide field of view and the low-light capabilities that campus officials wanted, he said. The school also liked that Scallop’s cameras do not “look” like a camera, Gorski said.
The cameras’ solid-state technology camera—no moving parts—is very durable, he said. “I think they’ve been extremely satisfied with the quality of the product, and the longevity of the product.”
Education is a key vertical market for Scallop, said Gorski, due to the cameras’ appearance and the low-light capabilities.
About 16 percent of the campus’ cameras are from Scallop Imaging. The campus uses Milestone’s VMS and installs in-house, notes Scallop.
