by Rebecca Walker — April 8, 2011—The University of Miami, Florida, has installed more than 350 Iqinvision megapixel security cameras throughout its main campus in order to create a safer environment for students, staff, and visitors. The University of Miami is a private research university with more than 15,000 students.
The university had maintained video surveillance for a number of years, but as Jose Ruano, Executive Director of IT Security, explained, “Our challenge was that a university is very de-centralized. We had so many legacy analogue systems, and we were looking to bring it all together into a unified system that we could manage in a centralized manner.”
In order to integrate the video systems into a single unified system, Ruano and colleague Steve Weatherly, Senior Security Engineer, knew the university needed to upgrade to IP.
Iqeye security cameras are installed wherever image quality is critical for identification purposesparking lots and areas that typically have a high density of students. The University Police also conducted an analysis to identify high crime areas. Security cameras were then installed to address pressing needs at the locations identified in the study.
As legacy analogue security cameras fail, plans call for replacing them with more Iqeye cameras. The Onssi video management software allows Campus Police to view images from all the Iqeye and other security cameras, while each school or separate department views only the cameras installed in their buildings or area.
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