Loyola University Standardizes on IQinVision Megapixel Technology

October 01 2006
IQinVision, market leader in high performance megapixel network cameras, smart IP cameras, and network video recording systems, today announced that Loyola University, Chicago, has chosen to standardize on IQeye cameras, based on a heavily-contested “shoot-out” between 15 leading IP camera models.

“Our selection committee was looking for image and cost performance,” said Frank Dale, Loyola University’s Manager of Electronic Security. “Among the 15 different camera models, our committee felt the IQeye was the best camera for the cost, but it also had the best image quality overall.” James Gompers, of Gompers Inc., a consultant for Loyola helped organize and run the competition among the different IP camera providers.

“Understandably, our President is deeply committed to security issues,” said Dr. Bernard Ward, 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.”

Recently, the Loyola Security office received a mandate from the Vice President’s office to upgrade security at the Lake Shore campus, and that’s when the committee got to work finding the right technology.

But it wasn’t only image quality the committee was looking for. “The IQeye cameras give us a number of important benefits: they are ‘plug and play’, and we have power over Ethernet, so not only do we minimize our coax cable runs, we don’t have to provide power to every camera,” said Dale.

IQinVision cameras are deployed both inside and outside Lake Shore campus buildings, covering exits and entrances, lobbies, parking areas, and other key locations. Cameras have also been installed to create a perimeter of the campus, so security has views up and down the public throughways.

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. Loyola can also send camera views to satellite monitoring stations at both their Lake Shore and Water Tower campuses and they can shift monitoring to whichever station is open and staffed.

The Lake Shore campus installation and a future upgrade of Water Tower campus security involve cooperation between the security and the IT departments. “Initially, IT was apprehensive about camera stability and reliability and about bandwidth usage,” said Dale. “It took some convincing, but once they saw the IQeye technology in action, and they understood bandwidth was not an issue, they got on board.”

“Many of the companies in the Loyola competition have a long history of reliable CCTV products,” said Pete DeAngelis, IQinVision President and CEO, “however, their network cameras did not bring the same level of maturity and stability and many of them were eliminated early in the testing. Ultimately, the IQeye was chosen due to its reliability, picture quality, and the ability to recover from a variety of network and power failures without manual reset.”


About IQinVision
IQinVision designs, manufactures and markets high performance, multi-megapixel IP cameras, intelligent video processing platforms and network-video-recording systems. Established in 1998, IQinVision has helped shape the surveillance and industrial video markets as the first to introduce HDTV resolution network security cameras, multi-megapixel IP video systems and multi-user digital pan/tilt/zoom. IQeye network cameras offer superior image quality with high speed, low light and intelligent video options and are used in a wide variety of government and commercial applications. The IQeye can run in stand-alone mode or can be integrated with other systems via our complete Software Developer’s Kit and API.

IQinVision is privately held and headquartered in California with regional offices in Pennsylvania and Utrecht, Netherlands. The company's products are available as IQeye-branded, private-labeled and custom OEM models. IQinVision's management is committed to exceeding the expectations of its partners and customers.

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